Everyone knows of Greta Thunberg, 18 year old Swedish advocate of the theory that man-made CO2 is unequivocally responsible for the Global Warming we have been experiencing over the last few decades. Having no advanced degree in science, she has clearly been exploited by her parents and the radical environmental movement as a sympathetic symbol of the dangers posed to future generations by the continued production of greenhouse gases.
But how many have heard of Judith Curry, accomplished climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology? Her story is sadly typical of the degenerate state of Academia these “progressive” days. You see her studies as a Scholar rather than a narrow-minded Advocate brought her face to face with what she calls the “uncertainty monster” hovering over every aspect of her field. Leaving her post at the Georgia Institute in 2017, she claimed that the “poisonous” atmosphere within her discipline utterly discouraged those such as she from expressing the view that the anthropogenic explanation for contemporary climate patterns is no more than a Hypothesis as opposed to hard scientific Fact.
Of course if you have not done your homework, if you have simply swallowed the oft repeated lie that 97% of the scientific community is on board with the anthropogenic theory, then Curry and those like her become mere “deniers,” ludicrous facsimiles of those who would argue the historical reality of the Holocaust. But I have done my homework and the notion of a 97% consensus within the scientific community is a fiction promulgated in a 2004 article in Science magazine by one Naomi Oreskes. Indeed thousands of scientists have put their names on petitions challenging the supposedly irrefutable facts of what is actually but another article of faith of the contemporary Religious Left.
This is no place for an examination of the science. My aforementioned book, which exists as a Word document read thus far by a few friends, includes a chapter entitled “Environmental Fascism” which explores some of the hard scientific evidence feeding the skepticism of Judith Curry and others. It is not my intention to belittle Greta Thunberg whose heart is clearly in the right place. But that she, afflicted with Asperger’s, is known and admired internationally for her opinions while accredited scientists familiar with the geological record as well as the enormous impact of solar and oceanic activity are dismissed as crackpots if they do not spew the “progressive” party line, is a perfect example of the truly sorry state of our contemporary culture.
I know many passionate “green” advocates. When I ask them which books or scientific journals they have consulted in validating their views, I am invariably met with the same blank stare.
I am certainly not promoting environmental irresponsibility, but what the Left has slyly done is conflate the legitimate problem of pollution with something that very well may be a mere fiction. This makes perfect sense, of course, when you consider that its fundamental tenet, informed by the primitivism of Marx, is that Human Intelligence, Effort and Achievement as unleashed by Capitalism are inherently oppressive, that “science” and “technology” are in fact diseases of Western Man.
Nothing better expresses the Left’s loathing for what used to be considered the wonderful accomplishments of our Civilization than a June, 2015 article in the Toronto Star by Rick Salutin in which he congratulated the Indigenous of the Americas for their failure to develop any significant amount of technology whatsoever, suggesting they may actually have been “prescient” in their respect for the environment. Really Rick? Were America’s Indians not yet exploiting the practical applications of the wheel when Columbus arrived because they knew it would ultimately lead to the automobile and the desolation of the planet. Is that your argument, Rick? Is ignorance actually a form of wisdom?
A book is mentioned, I like to read this. How do I find it?