The Inquisition of Climate Science

Abstract

This book is about another question: why, when the scientific evi-dence for global warming is unequivocal, does only half the public ac-cept that evidence? What has caused so many to doubt the conclusions of scientists, whom the public usually trusts, on such an important is-sue? In trying to answer that question, I have come to believe that in the denial of global warming, we are witnessing the most vicious, and so far most successful, attack on science in history. Never were the words of Thomas Jefferson more apt: “If a nation expects to be igno-rant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”