Antiscience Is an Existential Threat- Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez Time Mag article linked here: Heating Planet blog

"Humanity now faces the existential threat of a leviathan with three heads: a steadily worsening climate crisis, increasingly deadly pandemics, and an unprecedented weaponization of antiscience that renders us helpless in our collective efforts to address any of the great challenges we face. The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all. Climate change is generating devastating heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods and superstorms. Last month, Philadelphia had code orange air quality alerts thanks to wildfires burning out of control in Canada. A month earlier, Texas experienced the deadliest floods in a generation thanks in substantial part to human-caused warming. And these were just two examples of the devastating weather extremes that are being made more extreme by human-caused climate change. Another force is lurking: a massive wave of social media weaponized by bots and troll armies, books, articles, podcasts, and cable news broadcasts which downplay or dismiss the warnings, portray the scientists as enemies or villains, harass them, and even make death threats. We know this because we’ve both been at the receiving end of threats against us and our families.- https://time.com/7317436/science-threat-climate-change-public-health-rfk-jr/