Climate Change Weekly # 559 — Research Continues to Undermine Unusual, Catastrophic Nature of Present Climate Change
By H. Sterling Burnett
Published October 17, 2025
IN THIS ISSUE:
Research Continues to Undermine Unusual, Catastrophic Nature of Present Climate Change
Climate Lawsuits Continue to Fizzle Out
Research Continues to Undermine Unusual, Catastrophic Nature of Present Climate Change
For two decades or more various politically connected researchers and the mainstream media outlets have proclaimed to the world some variation of, “the science is settled, humans are causing catastrophic climate change through our use of fossil fuels.” This claim is almost always accompanied by the assertion that “a consensus exists, 97 percent or more of scientists believe humans are causing dangerous climate change.”
These related claims are of themselves unscientific in the extreme. There is no “the science,” rather science is a method or systematic approach to coming to knowledge and is never “settled,” in the sense that it is possible and has happened quite often that new discoveries have overturned what were previously believed to be established or “settled” truths. Second, consensus is a political term, not a scientific one. Agreement of a vast majority of experts in any field may or may not correspond to the truth, but such agreement does not establish any truth. Historically, the “consensus” on key scientific matters has been wrong as or more often than it has been right. The peer reviewed research that has supposedly established the existence of a consensus has been deconstructed and refuted by Heartland each time a new paper making the claim is released. Philosophers of science Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn addressed this fact effectively and dispositively, in my opinion.
https://heartland.org/opinion/climate-change-weekly-559-more-research-undermines-climate-catastrophe-consensus-claims/
