It is easy for non-scientists to see that climate scientists have become distracted from reality.
What? Aren’t scientists supposed to be studying reality?
Sometimes
scientists get emotionally attached to their pet theories and fail to
accept that reality does not support their conjectures. They see and
seek only confirming instances of their theory. They are human. It
happens.
Take the case of Daniel Shechtman,
an Israeli chemist, who refused to bow to the conventional wisdom, the
settled science, the consensus in his profession that believed that
quasicrystals did not exist in Nature. Guess who won the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry in 2011?
Sometimes the consensus is blind. Admittance of cognitive dissonance is denied by the gatekeeper of the mind. It happens.
Are
climate scientists who tell us the world is warming and that human
emissions of CO2 is the culprit ignoring reality? You be the judge.
A
pet theory steadfastly adhered to in the face of contradictory evidence
presented by Mother Nature will soon be relegated to the dustbin of
history. Kinda like the ‘flat earthers’.
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