Has Climate Science Drifted into Pseudoscience?

Stamp Collecting or Science? The Perils of Unquestionable Truth - Dr. Matthew Wielicki

The scientific method is the cornerstone of discovery and advancement in every branch of science...

• But what if a branch of inquiry strays from these standards, becoming more dogmatic than inquisitive? What if, rather than hypotheses being tested, they become axioms that cannot be challenged? 
• In such cases, science risks devolving into something else… a pseudo-scientific enterprise propped up by consensus of ideology rather than robust empirical evidence.

Nowhere is this shift more apparent than in climate science. 

• We are constantly told that the science is settled. 
• That there is no debate. 
• That anyone who dares to challenge the dominant narrative, no matter how qualified, no matter how data-driven, is dismissed as a "denier," lumped in with conspiracy theorists and flat-earthers.

I’ve watched this transformation unfold in real time. 

Over the years, funding institutions, professional societies, and journals have moved away from fostering inquiry and toward enforcing ideological boundaries. 

• If you’ve ever wondered why dissenting voices in climate science seem to have disappeared, it’s not because they’ve been proven wrong.
• It’s because they’ve been systematically excluded.

And that raises an uncomfortable question:
Is climate science still science? 

Or has it become something else entirely?...