Climate Debate Needs Philosophers’ Unbiased Insights

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Heartland:

At stake in the climate debate are billions of dollars, countless jobs, and, if President Obama was right, the fate of the environment. We need leaders in climate science, economics, engineering, and public policy to contribute to the discussion without fear of retribution.

 

Sadly, the opposite is happening. The debate is riddled with censorship, logical fallacies, defamation, and even death threats. As a result, many of the world’s leading experts will not comment publicly. If today’s discourse on global warming is an indication of the state of science-based policymaking, the world is in big trouble.

 

Ideally, opinion leaders in government, academia, and the press would call for an open debate on climate, inviting well-informed opinion from specialists on all sides of the issue, and would condemn anyone who tries to block them. Unfortunately, Obama, most university spokespeople, and the mainstream media instead fan the flames of intolerance, intentionally or otherwise, encouraging suppression, if not outright aggression, toward anyone who disagrees with politically correct climate dogma.

 

We urgently need scholars who specialize in rational argumentation to point out the fallacies sabotaging the discussion.