{"id":387982,"date":"2025-07-10T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387982"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:37:34","slug":"high-priests-of-consensus-panic-the-nyts-meltdown-over-scientific-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387982","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHigh Priests of Consensus Panic: The NYT\u2019s Meltdown Over Scientific Skepticism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Rotter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times is at it again\u2014clutching pearls and reaching for the fainting couch as the Trump administration dares to let a little oxygen into the musty, tightly sealed room of government climate \u201cconsensus.\u201d If the tone of their latest lament, \u201cTrump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change,<\/a>\u201d is any indication, you\u2019d think the barbarians had just sacked Rome with nothing but peer-reviewed papers and calculators.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Right out of the gate, the Times wrings its hands over the shocking spectacle of scientists\u2014yes, actual scientists\u2014who \u201creject the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change\u201d being allowed anywhere near the Energy Department. If you detect a note of moral panic, you\u2019re not wrong. \u201cThe three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country,\u201d they warn, as though these dismissed \u201cexperts\u201d were the last line of defense against an onrushing climate apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s talk about these dangerous contrarians\u2014and, for a moment, let\u2019s try something radical: list their actual credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up: Steven E. Koonin<\/strong>. The Times notes he\u2019s a physicist and author but doesn\u2019t dwell on the fact that he was Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy during the Obama administration<\/em>. Yes, that Obama administration. Koonin is also a former professor at Caltech, a former chief scientist at BP (one of the world\u2019s largest energy companies), and a fellow at the Hoover Institution. His 2021 book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn\u2019t and Why It Matters<\/em>, challenged the prevailing doomsday narrative by calmly pointing out that, yes, climate science remains rife with uncertainty and debate\u2014a statement so inflammatory to consensus enforcers that it might as well have been a call to heresy. Koonin\u2019s influence is such that even Energy Secretary Chris Wright, before his current post, reached out to Koonin to say, \u201c\u2018This is great,\u2019\u201d and later, \u201cChris and I have talked quite a bit over the last couple years, and I think he is well aligned with what I wrote in the book\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next: John Christy<\/strong>. The Times breathlessly warns that he \u201cdoubts that human activity has caused global warming\u201d and is \u201ca vocal critic of climate models,\u201d as if criticizing the most speculative outputs of computer simulations were akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater. But Christy is a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Alabama\u2019s State Climatologist. He\u2019s published extensively on atmospheric measurement, and\u2014crucially\u2014he is one of the principal researchers behind the satellite temperature record, a global data set widely cited by both sides of the debate. He\u2019s not a crank; he\u2019s the scientist whose data are routinely invoked even by those who disagree with his conclusions. When asked about his Energy Department role, Christy replied he was \u201can unpaid person who\u2019s available to them if they need it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there\u2019s Roy Spencer<\/strong>. The article describes him as a meteorologist \u201cwho believes that clouds have had a greater influence on warming than humans have,\u201d making it sound as if he\u2019s howling at the moon from his weather station. In reality, Spencer is a former NASA scientist and, like Christy, a principal investigator for the U.S. Science Team on the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) satellite temperature monitoring program. He spent years as a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center, with a long track record of peer-reviewed publications in atmospheric physics. Not content to stop there, the Times quickly labels him a \u201cpolicy adviser at the Heartland Institute, a conservative group that rejects mainstream climate science,\u201d and \u201ca visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing group responsible for creating Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for the new administration\u201d. All the correct code words are deployed\u2014\u201cconservative,\u201d \u201cright-wing\u201d\u2014to ensure readers know these are not the sort of people you should trust with a Bunsen burner, let alone the levers of climate policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But don\u2019t take my word for it\u2014let\u2019s watch the NYT clutch those pearls:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA vast majority of scientists around the world agree that human activities\u2014primarily the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal\u2014are dangerously heating the Earth. That has increased the frequency and intensity of heat waves, droughts and colossal bursts of rain like the storm that caused the deadly flooding now devastating central Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As always, the Times presents every weather event as a sign of planetary judgment. Doubt the models? You\u2019re a heretic. Question the regulatory scaffolding erected by unelected technocrats? Prepare for excommunication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about those \u201chundreds of experts\u201d who were dismissed? The implication is clear: technocratic rule must never be questioned. If you replace the \u201cright\u201d experts with the \u201cwrong\u201d ones, civilization itself is imperiled. The bureaucratic caste system is alive and well at the NYT, and woe to any outsider who doesn\u2019t chant the right slogans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, no alarmist screed would be complete without the ritual invocation of Michael Mann and Andrew Dessler. Mann\u2014famous for his hockey stick graph and near-ubiquitous presence in any article lamenting insufficient climate alarm\u2014pronounces with customary gravitas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhat this says is that the administration has no respect for the actual science, which overwhelmingly points in the direction of a growing crisis as we continue to warm the planet through fossil-fuel burning, the consequences of which we\u2019ve seen play out in recent weeks in the form of deadly heat domes and floods here in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Every weather event is, once again, both evidence and sermon. Dessler chimes in, warning darkly that it \u201cwould be troubling if these three scientists were involved in repealing the 2009 endangerment finding,\u201d which gave bureaucrats sweeping power to regulate just about every engine, factory, and appliance in the country. \u201cTroubling,\u201d in this context, means \u201cpotentially allowing actual debate and reconsideration of a policy linchpin upon which billions in regulatory costs rest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reinforce the narrative, the article even notes that Spencer \u201chas accused federal climate researchers of being biased because they receive taxpayer money.\u201d The implication is that bias can only possibly exist on one side of the debate, never among those whose livelihoods depend on perpetual climate crisis. Spencer\u2019s actual words, in his book The Great Global Warming Blunder<\/em>: \u201cThe popular opinion that government-funded research is unbiased must be considered quite na\u00efve\u201d. Apparently, calling for a little scientific humility is a bridge too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No critique is leveled at the climate establishment for its own potential conflicts of interest, for its tendency to brand every policy as an existential necessity, or for the repeated failures of its models to accurately predict climate sensitivity, extreme weather, or even the behavior of clouds\u2014one of the core uncertainties highlighted by the very scientists now being vilified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real story here is not the hiring of three scientists who are willing to question received wisdom. The real story is the media\u2019s all-consuming need to delegitimize dissent, their relentless efforts to police the boundaries of acceptable thought, and the spectacle of credentialed \u201cexperts\u201d howling in protest whenever their authority is challenged. That is the consensus the New York Times truly cares about: consensus as power, not as science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of these men is an outsider to science. None is a failed academic, a YouTube crank, or a \u201cdenialist\u201d with an axe to grind. Each has spent decades at the pinnacle of his field, shaping the very scientific instruments and records on which the current debate supposedly rests. This, perhaps, is what most unsettles the New York Times and its preferred \u201cconsensus\u201d enforcers. For all the talk of \u201coverwhelming agreement,\u201d they must now contend with the uncomfortable reality that some of the most qualified experts on the planet\u2014not politicians, not lobbyists, but the very people who built and interpreted the satellites and models\u2014don\u2019t share their narrative or their urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let the caterwauling continue. If this is what a crisis of \u201cclimate consensus\u201d looks like, perhaps we should welcome a little more of it. The public deserves an open debate, not another sermon from the high priests of the apocalypse. If even these men see room for doubt, perhaps the real question isn\u2019t why they\u2019re being hired, but why anyone is still pretending there\u2019s nothing left to debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\/T David D, Dr. Roy Spencer, Chris Martz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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