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The global warming orthodoxy is the result of groupthink enforced by cancel culture, not independent thinkers coming to the same conclusion

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/ideas/2022/05/02/the-fake-scientific-consensus-on-climate-change/

>Consider the case of an Italian scientific conference last year that had to be canceled, not because of the pandemic, but because participants withdrew en masse after an Italian newspaper whipped up a crusade over one of the papers to be presented—a paper that expressed skepticism about the size of the human role in global warming. Rumors swirled that one of its authors was a “denier,” and everyone stampeded toward the exits. (See another report on an academic conference that got a similar reception.) This is “cancel culture” in climate science.

>Or consider a recent book by Obama-administration official Steve Koonin—former undersecretary of science for the Department of Energy—which questioned some of the conclusions of the established view. In a letter to Scientific American signed by a dozen other scientists, he was promptly denounced as a “crank” and a “disinformation peddler,” with plenty of insinuations that he must be bought and paid for by Big Oil.

>I think we’re starting to get an idea of how we got that “consensus.”

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>>14968315
>That’s demonstrably false.
So you're saying that Earth had no CO2 before humans made it?
>The radiative forcing of CO2 radiating back IR to the planet has been measured and quantified as a function of increased CO2 from fossil fuels, ad confirmed by its isotopic signature
Mars has no measurable greenhouse effect and Mars has 2000% more CO2 per unit area than Earth, does physics just work differently on Mars or something?

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Environmentalists ruining the environment?
How unusual

>In 2016, a research expedition looked at the chemical makeup of crustacean scavengers collected from the range of7,841–10,250 metres (25,725–33,629 ft) within the trench. Within these organisms, the researchers found extremely elevated concentrations of PCBs, a chemical toxin banned in the 1970s for its environmental harm, concentrated at all depths within the sediment of the trench.[50] Further research has found that amphipods also ingest microplastics, with 100% of amphipods having at least one piece of synthetic material in their stomachs.[51][52]

>In 2019, Victor Vescovo reported finding a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the trench.[53] That year, Scientific American also reported that carbon-14 from nuclear bomb testing has been found in the bodies of aquatic animals found in the trench.[54]

How come science never cleans up after itself? Why are scientists always insisting its everyone else's responsibility to pay for cleaning up the scientists' messes?

>i'm gonna save the world from global warming
>then i'll be a big hero and everyone will know how important i really am!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_complex

picrel is how people who claim that they are environmentalists treat their irl environments. putting self-proclaimed environmentalists in charge of the environment is surely the fastest way to ruin it for everyone.