More climate realism from Tom Wilkinson of GM

General Motors Continues to Send Mixed Messages on Global Warming

Second, I perceive a critical misunderstanding here of what “established science” is. Yes, the theory that human activity contributes to climate change is widely accepted by the scientific community — and by many at GM. However, as Thomas Kuhn notes in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” this theory is only a paradigm. Even within science, paradigms need to be challenged, and they are, every day. When an environmentalist (or anyone else) assumes that what we know today will be the same forever, they show a high-school-level understanding of science. In fact, they are behaving more like religious believers than scientists. They could benefit from a good Philosophy of Science course.