Posted on 07/30/2023 3:35:20 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Esteemed physicist Dr. John Clauser, who holds multiple degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Columbia University, won Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022.
As a scientific expert, Clauser does not believe there is a man-made global warming crisis. This doesn’t sit well with left-wing climate activists.
“I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” Clauser explained. “The world we live in today is filled with misinformation. It is up to each of you to serve as judges, distinguishing truth from falsehood based on accurate observations of phenomena.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The climate has always changed. It changed before the existence of humans and will change long after the existence of mankind.
Settling science by censorship.
What the hell is MSN doing publishing an article like this on their site??? They better watch out, or they are going to get cancelled!
Maybe even burned at the stake.
One day a comet, asteroid, or large meteor will hit the earth. Instantly climate will change worldwide, wiping out many species possibly including mankind. Even if Earth is able to escape this type of extinction event, at some point in the future the sun will expand and the heat will wipe out our planet.
Those who believe they can manage climate change through government edicts and policies are fools.
He is cancelled and MSN is letting everyone know that he should be cancelled for being a climate denier.
They bully, demonetize and deplatform any scientist who contradicts the climate narrative and then point to the fact that so remaining few are willing to speak out in order to prop up their “consensus” narrative.
Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda....
And most all of it is emanating from the evil corrupt running government.
Forget the comet asteroid or meteor, yellowstone eruption will wipe us out nicely over about a decade, and we’re due.
more need to speak up
cuz they are going to declare a climate emergency
to install tyranny
It never was.
And it sure isn't now.
The history of science is littered with "no wait....that's wrong...THIS is right..." going through the rinse and repeat cycle endlessly.
And that's ok. Inquiry and challenge and "being a science heretic" is, in many ways, how mankind learns more and can fix more problems.
One of my favorite sagas regarding "accuracy" and "settled science" is ulcers.
In 1981 Barry Marshall began working with Robin Warren, the Royal Perth Hospital pathologist who, two years earlier, discovered the gut could be overrun by hardy, corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Helicobacter pylori. Biopsying ulcer patients and culturing the organisms in the lab, Marshall traced not just ulcers but also stomach cancer to this gut infection. The cure, he realized, was readily available: antibiotics. But mainstream gastroenterologists were dismissive, holding on to the old idea that ulcers were caused by stress.
Unable to make his case in studies with lab mice (because H. pylori affects only primates) and prohibited from experimenting on people, Marshall... ran an experiment on ...himself. He took some H. pylori from the gut of an ailing patient, stirred it into a broth, and drank it....Back in the lab, he biopsied his own gut, culturing H. pylori and proving unequivocally that bacteria were the underlying cause of ulcers.
For their work on H. pylori, Marshall and Warren shared a 2005 Nobel Prize. Today the standard of care for an ulcer is treatment with an antibiotic.
But science isn't math. Your checking account balance is the sum of deposits less sum of withdrawals. Always. Forever.
The problem arises when people try to equate science with math...usually they call it "settled science." And, to be sure, robust inquiry and disciplined application of the scientific method usually gives you clear and distinct results. Then, science is settled...until we get new data or better techniques, and then we get "wait a minute..".
For example, there was a most excellent article posted on how "settled science" wasn't so settled, wherein:
seems that Earth has been misplaced. According to a new map of the Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System's position isn't where we thought it was. Not only is it closer to the galactic centre - and the supermassive hole therein, Sagittarius A* - it's orbiting at a faster clip.
It further noted other "errors" in SCIENCE:
A good recent example of this is the red giant star Betelgeuse, which turned out to be closer to Earth than previous measurements suggested. This means that it's neither as large nor as bright as we thought. Another is the object CK Vulpeculae, a star that exploded 350 years ago. It's actually much farther away, which means that the explosion was brighter and more energetic, and requires a new explanation, since previous analyses were performed under the assumption it was relatively low energy
The other problem arises when Certain Powers work overtime to suppress assiduous inquiry. Which, is what we have today as well. It's a bad double whammy.
In the interest of full disclosure, my "science isn't math" quote came from a recent post on social sciences, that featured this brilliant give and take involving a Harvard faculty member critical of Charles Murray from the original article, that is worth reprinting - it is with regard to the "certainty of SCIENCE":
"so why should we let someone teach social science that we know to be wrong in our social science courses?"
Because it is possible that you are wrong.
Science is not mathematics. Newtonian physics was wrong. And social science is a further three rungs down in certainty from science.
Your level of certainty and arrogance about what can be said, and probably thought, smacks of religion, and not science. This is a political religion that permeates academia at the moment. And which I am fairly sure you will swear does not infect you, while the rest of us can see the symptoms quite plainly.
Only religions ban heretics from speaking because of the wrong-think they might cause. Real science loves a good heretic. In fact, honestly, the entire goal of science is to be a heretic. To have an idea that no other person ever had. Science is the pretty much the antithesis of your thought-police approach.
And most of academia used to be the antithesis of your thought police approach as well, until the religion of leftism took it over, with the direct help of people like you.
Control the message, control the sheeple.
To say it is Orwellian has become cliche but it is also even worse than Orwell portrayed.
“Climate change is not happening. There is no significant manmade global warming now, there hasn’t been any int he past, and there’s no reason to expect any in the future. There’s a whole lot of baloney,” he continued.
“Hello everybody, there is no global warming,” he said to CNN viewers.
The Dark Ages: Science is stunted. Stray from the accepted beliefs, and there’s hell to pay. (You don’t want to burned at the stake for heresy, do you?)
The Renaissance: Science advances. Freedom of thought is encouraged. It is acceptable to debate, and to challenge conventional wisdom.
Hmm. I wonder which situation better describes our world today.
“Observation of phenomena”, I hope he means scientific measurable and not observable phenomena by the eye, which are completely different. People today are ascribing weather evens as evidential.
He has his Nobel Prize and probably doesn’t give a damn. Good for him for speaking out.
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