unfortunately it is no longer science it is a religion.
If you remember back in the 80’s all the no nuke people lost their identity when the cold war ended and Reagan started eliminating nukes...These people lived and breathed nuke protests.
So they needed a place for these lost hippies to park their empty souls....
They tried “Save the whales” Then all the whales got saved... so that didnt work, so they had to devise a religion that was so large that it would affect everyone and so large that it was near impossible for the common man to know all the measureables.
So the Save the planet shtick started. Fairly easy to do, just put out the word that their is big research grant money for those that can find ( read manufacture) evidence on global warming. Guess what happens, nerdy researchers start to fudge here fudge there, then other researchers then base their research on fudged stats and TAH DAH!
you got yourself a secular religion where the “scientists” are the priests and the politicians are the Secular vatican.
If you dont play along as a scientist you do not get into a graduate program,or get grant money or make it out of your comps. Now you have locked in the subordination control.
You only have to yank a very few chains in order for the chorus to sing the song you want them to sing.
You see the same thing in communism, islam and Amway... Sorry couldnt resist that last one.... I mean cults. Although I could be redundant.
You nailed it very well. The secular progressives/ liberals/ envirofreaks have taken every scientific concern, no matter how remotely sensible or non-sensical to use as a baseball bat on everyone else as a control-freak thing, as well as a reason to tax everybody to pay for more government with more of their liberal employees running everything- as in the school systems for example. Many possibly valid concerns are probably being resisted just because the general public instinctually knows the tree-huggers want to use all issues for control reasons.
Great line. fh