Bad science is worse than none at all, especially when it is forced down people’s throats.

As the Biden administration and governments worldwide make massive commitments to rapidly decarbonize the global economy, the persistent effort to silence climate change skeptics is intensifying – and the critics keep pushing back. 

This summer the International Monetary Fund summarily canceled a presentation by John Clauser, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who publicly disavows the existence of a climate “crisis.” The head of the nonprofit with which Clauser is affiliated, the CO2 Coalition, has said he and other members have been delisted from LinkedIn for their dissident views.  

Meanwhile, a top academic journal retracted published research doubting a climate emergency after negative coverage in legacy media. The move was decried by another prominent climate dissenter, Roger Pielke Jr., as “one of the most egregious failures of scientific publishing that I have seen” – criticism muffled because the academic says he has been blocked on Twitter (now X) by reporters on the climate beat. 

Real Clear Investigations (RCI) points out that climate dissenters or skeptics (like Roger Pielke Jr., Dr. Judith Curry, and John Clausen) don’t agree on every point. However, they are all united in wanting to de-politicize climate science. The dissidents allege that there is a kind of omerta (i.e. code of silence) in the climate science field that also results in squelching most (if not all) kinds of dissent in the climate science field.

What is most telling are countries who are finding out they cannot meet their carbon emissions goals, including targets to achieve net-zero. Changing existing infrastructures over several years in order to achieve carbon targets will result in only a fraction of necessary energy consumption. In short, policy makers who wish to throw out the baby with the bathwater are in for a rude awakening especially since, according to RCI, investment in oil exploration and extraction have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Like it or not, fossil fuels are necessary not only for economic growth but to maintain the kind of civilization we in the West enjoy.

The entire issue of global warming, climate change, global boiling, etc. comes down to trying to accomplish the near impossible in order to achieve the establishment’s idealistic vision. What is also shocking is if it means censoring the opposition and people losing their ability to have their own means of transportation along with reduced access to affordable energy, the elites are willing to do it and they pay no price for being wrong.