A few days before Senator JD Vance’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on energy policy and “net zero” dropped, his billionaire backer Peter Thiel was asked if climate science was real. Thiel, an investor and entrepreneur, ummed and erred extensively on Joe Rogan’s podcast before reiterating that he thought climate science wasn’t real because any science with a modifier ahead of it isn’t real (watch it here). This novel textual take sits oddly with the actual practice of climate science, which involves a lot of those old lab fakers, chemistry and physics. Sadly, it suggests Vance may need to look elsewhere for help fixing the glaring flaws in ...
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