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The publication of a recent US Department of Energy report, which evaluates the impact of greenhouse gases on the American climate, has triggered a debate that has long been whispered outside Western capitals but rarely acknowledged within them: How reliable is climate science and how wise has it been to entrust such an important subject to the shifting trends in Western politics and academia?
In recent decades, climate change has been treated not simply as a scientific challenge but as a moral crusade. International conferences, sweeping pledges and grand declarations have often run far ahead of financial feasibility. Policymakers, particularly in the West, pushed ambitious timelines for “energy transition” and “net zero,” mostly based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s warning with very high confidence that anthropogenic warming is the primary driver of observed warming.
However, there is uncertainty concerning the exact magnitude, pace and regional effects. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which uses the most rigorous climate science for its periodic reports, admits that attributing short-lived weather events to climate change is difficult.
