According to the United States Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, “The Science is unambiguous.” Now this completely unqualified, failed mayor of a small city in Indiana, entered the 2020 Presidential primaries and won the Iowa Democrat Caucus but dropped out later to endorse Joe Biden. As his reward, he was selected to the Biden cabinet because he was a gay man and fit the Diversity litmus test. Now he is speaking with scientific authority on something he knows nothing about. In his “unambiguous” statement he is referring to the Global Warming-Climate Change debate that according to other catastrophe alarmists (Al Gore et. al), “The Science is settled.” Secretary Buttigieg is currently failing at his job of heading the Department of Transportation, now he wants to enter the scientific debate by saying the debate is over.
No, it is not over. Science is never settled. By definition, Science is the continuous investigation of physical phenomena, the development of hypotheses, theories and proofs. With respect to the contribution of fossil fuels and CO2 to catastrophic climate change, first, you have to have a catastrophe. There isn’t one. A one degree C increase in global average temperature in a hundred years isn’t a catastrophe, it’s a good thing. We need to use more fossil fuel or there will be a real human catastrophe.
I would like to tell Secretary Buttigieg to stay in his lane, but he doesn’t have a lane that he has entered with any degree of practical success. He did graduate from Harvard and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. I appreciate that he served in uniform as a Naval intelligence officer, but that still doesn’t provide scientific credentials. I do think he is an intelligent man with a big ego—but also with a desire to serve his country.
What I suggest is that he read Alex Epstein’s two books, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and Fossil Future, then have a chat with Princeton Emeritus Professor Will Happer and Greg Wrightstone at the CO2 Coalition. Then get out of Washington DC. Perhaps visit with Andy May in the Woodlands, Texas. That is just north of Houston and a good place to talk with Oil and Gas industry folks. After that, to cool off, take a trip up to Canada to visit with Dr. John Robson. Maybe then the good Secretary will discover that “The Science is not Unambiguous.” If he doesn’t reach that conclusion, then that would be SAD.
Typical rhetoric from that don't know , but are SME.