To the editor:
In response to Ms. Yurenka’s Feb. 6 letter, not only do “all of the scientists in the world” not endorse the climate “crisis,” scientists don’t have exclusive domain over science in the first place. “Scientists,” in common parlance, do research and the real ones apply the “Scientific Method” to attain valid conclusions. However, there are many professions in the “applied sciences” where established scientific principles are utilized to solve problems or build things in everyday life. Relevant to the question of what the temperature trends are at the surface of the Earth are physicists and engineers practicing in thermodynamics.
Mr. Huberman’s letters have referred, with interesting historical perspective, to some of the principles of heat transfer. Heat transfer science is where the answer to the big question can only be found, not tree rings and hockey sticks, which is why it was worth challenging him on his details and conclusions. In contrast, Ms. Yurenka’s letter typifies the commentary both of those with a political or financial axe to grind and the many scientifically illiterate dupes of their propaganda, such as Time Magazine’s 17 year-old “2019 Person of the Year” dropout from Sweden: lies, slander, shaming, hysteria, and false/unsubstantiated scientific claims.
Among the lies is the oft repeated claim that 97% of climate scientists agree the Earth is warming and mankind is largely to blame. This claim originated by subjective interpretations, opportune to bias, of technical papers, rather than actual or direct expressions of the authors themselves. Other reviews have yielded widely differing results. But what if it were true? “Climate scientists” are almost all on the government dole thanks to conspiring politicians seeking their own advantages. So climate scientists have a financial incentive to deceive, just as those “scientists” at the University of East Anglia actually did.
Ross Wilkinson
Wilton