Yes, Extreme Weather IS Related To Climate Change

"CNN's Natasha Chen reports on why many climate scientists say that climate crisis and rising global temperatures are leading to more wildfires and stronger storms."

Click on the link below for the latest science of how extreme weather is related to climate change:

Why scientists are blaming climate change for extreme weather 

Science Denial Is Not New

Science denial has been ubiquitous since the dawn of modern science several hundred years ago. One would think that NOW, with what we know about science, history, and psychology, that society would wake up to the value of scientific findings. But, sadly, we know how that goes.

Click on the link below for a 300-year history of the problem:

From Onesimus to Fauci, scoffing at the experts has sent many a bonehead to the boneyard

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Memo To USA: Ignore Science At Your Peril

"From America's inception, there has always been a rebellious, anti-establishment mentality. That way of thinking has become more reckless now that the entire world is interconnected and there are added layers of verification (or repudiation) of facts. "As the great minds in this video can attest, there are systems and mechanisms in place to discern between opinion and truth. By making conscious efforts to undermine and ignore those systems at every turn (climate change, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, politics, etc.), America has compromised its position of power and effectively stunted its own growth. "A part of the problem, according to writer and radio host Kurt Andersen, is a new media infrastructure that allows for false opinions to persist and spread to others. Is it the beginning of the end of the American empire?"

Click on the link below for an extremely important 25-minute video.

Will America's disregard for science be the end of its reign?

Science Is NOT Like Faith

"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved."

"Science changing its mind (scientific community altering its views) is a good thing. It's a sign of remarkable humility and it should increase trust in science."

"Einstein's Theories didn't invalidate Newton's, they superseded them. They accounted for the same observations and they accounted for the observations that Newton's did not. Einstein comes along, comes up with his Theory of Motion, and his Theory of Gravity, the Special and General Theory of Relativity."

"If you have an experimentally-determined result, and it's verified, and doubled-checked, and tripled-checked, that will not later be determined to be false. What you can find is a deeper understanding of the world that encloses that understanding."

"Science changed its interpretations, not their observations."

Science finding out that dinosaurs weren't reptiles but were more closely related to birds is another example.

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"Science changes its mind" debunked

THE Problem in the USA

"When you have people who don't know much about science standing in denial of it, and rising to power, that is a recipe for the complete dismantling of our informed democracy."

"Science is an entire exercise in finding what is true."

"Out of this rising, new emergent truth, science is better than anything else we have come up with as human beings."

"When you have an established, emergent scientific truth, it is true whether or not you believe in it, and as soon as you understand that, the faster we can get on with the political conversation about how to solve the problems that face us."

"Science in America" (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

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Using Climate Change As A Scientific Model To Educate Science Deniers

"Cox does an excellent job emphasizing the model building nature of science. I think “scientific model” is the best term to use when discussing the nature of science (and here are three scientific words everyone should stop using).

What Climate Change Skeptics Aren’t Getting About Science

The Harm Of The Republican Party

Following are representative links in support of my contention that the Republican party is harmful.  In essence, my opinion is based on its anti-science and pro-fundamentalist Christian character:

Criminalizing Science Denial

Anyone who has an open mind and is paying attention knows that there is a history of intentional denial of science by some corporations and individuals.  However, what about those who have been indoctrinated into an erroneous opinion?

The question is, "Did they knowingly do harm?"

Debunking The “Mistakes Science Made” Tropes

One of the best summaries on what science is and is not.

This is where the science deniers get it all wrong.

Activists Can Be Science Deniers

"Environmentalists hoping to have a “smoking gun” for a health effect due to the hydraulic fracturing – fracking – process in obtaining fossil fuels were disappointed that a three-year investigation yielded nothing."

" - - - unlike the University of Cincinnati, we separate health threats from health scares, we don’t bury studies that exonerate science and technology from blame."

Science Is Not Just Another Opinion

How many times have you heard someone who is denying a finding of science say, "Science is just another opinion?"  This is indicative of either ignorance of science or a delusion created by religion, alternatives to medicine or other pseudoscience indoctrination.

The Culture Of Fact Is Lost

“'The culture of fact': the idea that an observed or witnessed act or thing—the substance, the matter, of fact—is the basis of truth and the only kind of evidence that’s admissible not only in court but also in other realms where truth is arbitrated."

How All Science Deniers Are Similar

I have been posting against a wide spectrum of anti-science thought.  Included in such thinking are the areas of religion, alternative medicine, parapsychology, right-wing politics, anti-vaccination, anti-GMO and various other pseudosciences.  What is one common trait in all of those who hold such positions?