Progressive climate science

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Progressive ideology has solidly controlled environmental science at least since the publication of Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” in 1962. But, somehow, one of the environmental sciences — climatology — managed to escape ideological pollution for some years. This brief liberty for climatology likely occurred because the profession was populated with field scientists, who brought a real-world perspective that at least balanced out more theoretical and ideological views.

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