Top Five Science Claims We’re Not Supposed to Question

5. Global Warming

Global Warming is the hot button issue of our time, and I infer from the fact that The March for Science is taking place on Earth Day that the organizers’ main concern are evil climate deniers. If saying “global warming” sounds passé, it’s because after we experienced a cessation of actual global warming the nomenclature was updated to “Climate Change.” Well, no shit, Sherlock! The earth’s climate has been changing since the dawn of time. Hey, I learned that in Geology 101!

You must realize that in order to be fully vetted by the Climate Change crowd, you must accept all of their conclusions without question, as well as all of their policy goals to purportedly save the planet from pesky human industry. Many of the so-called climate deniers are simply asking good science questions: Is there a mathematical relationship between carbon emissions and temperature rise? Have you controlled for other factors, such as sunspot activity, that might indicate a non-causal correlation (if there is one)? Scientists have made many dire predictions, none of which have come true. Why is that? Given the protracted nature of geological time, and the many climate changes that have taken place over millennia and eons, how can you be so sure that the warming is the result of human actions?

These aren’t silly questions, yet despite the revelations of data manipulation and questionable surface temperature readings, the Anthropogenic Global Warming crowd will just call you stupid and anti-science if you question anything at all.