New crime against humanity

Uh huh. And guess who is guilty? Why, it's the climate realists who look at the evidence that Nature presents and find that it does not match that expected if CO2 was truly the switch controlling the climate. But Dr Brown starts from the premise that CAGW is true and then indicts those who disagree with a crime against humanity. Apparently, it is not a crime against humanity to waste resources on solutions to a non-problem. It is also not worth commenting on all the BS (Bad Science) that has led to the adoption of these wasteful and expensive policies of which Dr Brown must be aware unless he has been living in his imagination only. And when panels are formed to discuss the ethics of climate change the deck is stacked with warmists which is, of course, the perfect way to reach an unbiased conclusion. Unhampered maybe.

Climategate is not mentioned as an ethical excursion into debauchery.

We won't mention other instances of misbehavior by alarmist scientists because warmists are above reproach because they preach science that supports valued ideological proclivities.

They don't manipulate temperature data. This would be exposed.

Data adjustments are necessary and valid.

No lying involved.

Adjusted data only in the USA. Not

No mention of coverups

Where is the condemnation of NOAA?

Falsify data. No mention.

Dr Brown has a problem with ethics in the climate change debate but it is never with the people who are dishonest about the data or their transparency or their coverups. Instead, it is those who disagree with the fakers and liars that are eulogized and protected with neglect.

As an ethicist Dr Brown operates on confirmation bias and ignores instances of cognitive dissonance. This is ethically questionable to say the least. But we know about this kind of behavior:

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts -- Bertrand Russell

Dr Brown: we must all learn to question our own certainty. It is the interplay between confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance that leads to the distillation of the truth. We should never be afraid of the truth. But we should never try to manufacture it either.


Dedication to a political ideology can lead us into dark alleys and cause harm to our fellow human beings. And that is not ethical.