Summary: The history of science provides a vital perspective for anyone watching our time’s high stakes climate science debate. Look at Twitter and you will see the theories of the great Thomas Kuhn at work, helping us better understand the public policy debate. {1st of 2 posts today.}
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
— Speech by union leader Nicholas Klein (1918). This applies just as well to paradigm challenges in science.
Contents
- The nature of science.
- The structure of real science.
- The structure of scientific revolutions.
- The state of climate science.
- What happens next?
- For More Information.
(1) The nature of science
Much of the debate among laypeople about climate science (the only rational foundation for public policy debates about climate change) revolves around misunderstandings of how science works. There…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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