It has long been recognized that science is the pursuit of
knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is political. However, the
fantasy of science being apolitical is a hallmark legacy of the
enlightenment era, an era that romanticized pursuit of knowledge,
disconnected from the baggage of power, politics, and dogmatic
assertions. Yet, while the age of information has exponentially
increased our access to knowledge, we can see, as clearly as ever,
that scientific knowledge is neither apolitical nor dogma-free, and
it certainly is not disconnected from power. It is hard to imagine
another era when the separation between science and politics has
been this blurred as it is today. At the same time, it is true that
no other topic than climate change has been so politically charged,
with one side dominating the scientific narration and branding
anyone opposing the mainstream as a "climate change denier," and
the other standing in staunch defiance that climate change exists.
In an age of political and scientific turmoil, how can we navigate
out way to coming towards a more objective understanding of the
scientific issues surrounding the climate change debate? This book
presents the current debate of climate change as scientifically
futile, on both sides of the scientific, and often, political,
spectrum. The climate change debate has become like obesity,
cancer, diabetes or opioid addiction, which is to say that the
debate should not be if these maladies exist, but rather, what
causes them. Instead of looking for the cause and making
adjustments to remove those causes from our lifestyle, a
combination of the capitalist drive towards mass production and a
lack of identifying the roots of the problems, new solutions, or
substitutes, have been proposed as "quick fixes" to the problems.
This book identifies the root causes of climate change and shows
that climate change is real and it is also preventable, but that it
can be reversed only if we stop introducing pollutants in the
ensuing greenhouse gases. The book brings back common sense and
grounds scientists to the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer,
while at the same time disconnecting politicking and hysteria from
true scientific analysis of the phenomenon of global climate.
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