Here's The Climate Dissent You're Not Hearing About Because It's Muffled By Society's Top Institutions

The move was decried by another prominent climate dissenter, Roger Pielke Jr., as "One of the most egregious failures of scientific publishing that I have seen" – criticism muffled because the academic says he has been blocked on Twitter by reporters on the climate beat.

The climate dissenters are pressing their case as President Biden, United Nations officials, and climate action advocates in media and academia argue that the "Settled science" demands a wholesale societal transformation.

In response last month, more than 1,600 scientists, among them two Nobel physics laureates, Clauser and Ivar Giaever of Norway, signed a declaration stating that there is no climate emergency, and that climate advocacy has devolved into mass hysteria.

"What advocates of climate action are trying to do is scare the bejesus out of the public so they'll think we need to [act] fast," said Steven Koonin, author of "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters.”

Some say mitigation decrees – such as phasing out the combustion engine and banning gas stoves – are not likely to prevent climate change because humans play a minor role in global climate trends.

No less an authority than the newly appointed head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has urged the climate community to cool its jets: "If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change," Jim Skea recently said to German media.

Koonin's book suggests that some computer models may be "Cooking the books" to achieve desired outcomes, while Pielke has decried faulty scenarios as "One of the most significant failures of scientific integrity in the twenty-first century thus far." Curry writes in her book that the primary inadequacy of climate models is their limited ability to predict the kinds of natural climate fluctuations that cause ice ages and warming periods, and play out over decades, centuries, or even millennia.

Another critique is the use of computer models to correlate extreme weather events to multi-decade climate trends in an attempt to show that the weather was caused by climate, a branch of climate science called climate attribution studies.

One question looms: Does a warming climate contribute to heat records and heat waves, such as those that were widely reported in July as the hottest month on record and taken as overwhelming proof that humans are overheating the planet? The United States experienced extreme heat waves in the 1930s, and the recent spikes are not without precedent, climate dissenters say.

Climate dissent comes with the occupational hazard of being tarred as a propagandist and stooge for "Big Oil." Pielke was one of seven academics investigated by a U.S. Congressman in 2015 for allegedly failing to report funding from fossil fuel interests.

Climate advocates see climate skepticism as so dangerous that Ben Santer, one of the world's leading climate scientists, publicly cut ties with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory two years ago after the federal research facility invited Koonin to discuss his skeptical book, "Unsettled." Santer, a MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient, said allowing Koonin's views to go unchallenged undermined the credibility and integrity of climate science research.

That's what climate scientist Patrick Brown said he had to do to get published in the prestigious journal Nature, by attributing wildfires to climate change and ignoring other factors, like poor forest management and the startling fact that over 80% of wildfires are ignited by humans.