When Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, one of the world’s leading meteorologists who had for years warned people of dangerous, manmade global warming, began to publish his doubts because observed temperatures weren’t rising anywhere near as fast as the computer climate models predicted, some of his former “comrades in alarms” got upset.
 
When the veteran Swedish climate scientist agreed to serve as an advisor to a major think tank that calls for balanced research and reporting about climate, they went from upset to angry.
 
They showered him with hundreds of angry emails, interfering with his work and even giving him reason to fear for his health and safety. A journal refused to publish one of his major research papers because it wouldn’t be “helpful” to the global warming alarmist cause. A co-author of a research paper refused to have his name listed with Bengtsson’s unless Bengtsson did what they all were demanding: resign from the think tank.
 
Intimidated, fearful for his health, longing to get back to his important research, Bengtsson gave in and resigned. For more on this sad affair click here.
 
That, my friend, is the sorry state of “climate science” today. Unlike real science, “climate science”—as it’s practiced by global warming alarmists—is now all about power. About fear. About intimidation.
 
Those things are the very opposite of reason, which is supposed to be the basis of real science.
 
Real scientists don’t have to resort to power, fear, or intimidation. They persuade. They persuade by presenting solid, empirical evidence that other scientists can observe, too.
 
But the treason against real science by climate alarmists should be no surprise to anyone who’s aware of the extent to which the environmental movement is riddled with “nature religion,” a mystical approach to nature that turns its back on the Biblical worldview that is the foundation of real science and embraces pantheistic, animistic, neo-pagan, and secularist naturalist worldviews instead.
 
Yes, that’s right. Even secularist naturalism, which boasts of its rationalism, is really irrationalism, because, as C.S. Lewis explained in the chapter “Naturalism” in the book Miracles, naturalism—which says matter and energy in motion is all that exists—has no basis for reason. Atoms and molecules colliding with each other don’t reason. So naturalism is, as Lewis put it, an argument that there is no such thing as argument—and so it is self-refuting.
 
We’re seeing the fruit of that mindset in the bitter, angry, power-wielding reactions of climate alarmists to those who dare question their views. And the only thing that will ultimately win the day in response is a return to that Christian worldview, founded on rational revelation from a rational, God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—that gave birth to science and technology in the first place.
 
That’s part of what the Cornwall Alliance is striving to do—restore that Biblical worldview, and with it real, sound science, to environmental dialogue. And you can help us!