How about letting a Nobel laureate in physics do so?:
Per Wikipedia:
Pseudoscience consists of statements,
beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the
scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or
unfalsifiable claims; reliance on
confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; and absence of systematic practices when developing theories, and continued adherence long after they have been experimentally discredited.
Wikipedia goes on to list indicators of pseudoscience:
- Use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims
- Over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation
- Lack of openness to testing by other experts
- Absence of progress
- Personalization of issues
- Use of misleading language.
Climate alarmism fits every characteristic and indicator above. To top it off, the social justice warriors at Wikipedia use "climate change denial" as an example of a pseudoscience (
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience).
Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist and mathematician of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has on more rational, science-based perspective on global warming. Here is an interview of him on the topic (it starts about 3:00):
His lengthy Wikipedia entry summarizes his view on global warming:
Dyson agrees that
anthropogenic global warming exists and that one of its main causes is the increase of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from the burning of
fossil fuels. He has said that in many ways increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is beneficial, and that it is increasing biological growth, agricultural yields and forests. He believes that existing
simulation models of
climate change fail to account for some important factors, and that the results thus contain too great a margin of error to reliably predict future trends.
Dyson's views on global warming have been criticized. Climate scientist
James Hansen said that Dyson "doesn't know what he's talking about.... If he's going to wander into something with major consequences for humanity and other life on the planet, then he should first do his homework—which he obviously has not done on global warming." Dyson replied that "[m]y objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it's rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have."
In 2008 Dyson endorsed the now common usage of "global warming" as synonymous with global anthropogenic climate change, but argued that political efforts to reduce the causes of climate change distract from other global problems that should take priority.
Since originally taking interest in climate studies in the 1970s, Dyson has suggested that
carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could be controlled by planting fast-growing trees. He calculates that it would take a trillion trees to remove all carbon from the atmosphere. In a 2014 interview he said, "What I'm convinced of is that we don't understand climate ... It will take a lot of very hard work before that question is settled."
Dyson is a member of the academic advisory council of the
Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate sceptic think tank chaired by
Nigel Lawson.
