Human-Induced Global Warming Is Where One Camp Attempts to Demolish Basic Principles of Science in order to Install a New Order based on Political and Sociological Collectivism

When science was born, the consensus at that time was driven by religion, politics, prejudice, mysticism and self-interested power. From Galileo to Newton and through the centuries, science debunked the consensus by experiment, calculation, observation, measurement, repeated validation, falsification and reason. Appeals to consensus are not new. The methodology of science allows problems to be solved, whereas the science of the global warmers is designed to confirm a political opinion. There is a consensus regarding the science of global warming but only amongst ascientific environmental activists.

Scientific fact now no longer seems to be necessary. Human-induced global warming is one such example, where one camp attempts to demolish the basic principles of science and install a new order based on political and sociological collectivism. Science is becoming a belief system wherein the belief with the greatest number of followers becomes the established fact and received knowledge. This belief is sustained by consensus and authority. With this new authoritarian science based on consensus and espoused by UN’s IPCC and other agencies as authorities, it appears that true science does not matter any more. If Mann’s “hockey stick” chart showing rising global temperature is based on fraud and invalid statistical methods, it just does not matter because we still have a consensus.

--Ian Plimer, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming; The Missing Science (Ballan, AU: Connor Court Publishing, 2009), e-book.