Despite Contradictory Science, Academia’s Climate Groupthink Persists

President Trump is standing up to academia’s CO2 groupthink. Unfortunately, academics and the leftist media have published papers and articles that contradict each other. Their trail of destructive regulations continues, and is growing.

For instance, California’s cap-and-trade rule to report and reduce CO2 (CO2) is still closing factories, and now, it is closing refineries. Perhaps the correct science will help.

My weights-and-measures gas-physics test facility proved CO2 causes no warming. The test is repeatable, but true science has been muted by most of the media.

The CO2 groupthink began in 1994 as a political movement to ban fossil fuels at our country’s first climate-change bureaucracy, the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).

A local professor wrote a rule for them that became known as cap-and-trade. It required factories to reduce natural gas combustion by an average of 75 percent over five years.

The air quality district chose my company to test the factories’ gas-physics instruments for accuracy once a year.

We witnessed the closing of over 1,200 factories because of that rule.

We were skeptical of the rule’s assumptions, so we tested CO2. It cools twenty degrees in less than four minutes. It cannot possibly retain heat from day to day (global warming). It causes no warming.

In 2014, I took the lab results and a plumbing diagram of the test to Heartland Institute’s climate change conference in Las Vegas. But by that time, the groupthink had spread through all of academia, including the professors who claimed to be on our side.

I offered to build the test bench for a respected professor who told me, “We believe CO2 causes warming, we just don’t know exactly how or how much.” I walked away thinking, “That is the most unscientific statement I have ever heard.”

I gave up, not wanting to confront all of academia.

They spin erroneous theories trying to prove a falsehood to be true. I marvel at the might of groupthink. In academia, it is powered by peer review.

There is no such thing as peer review in the private sector, where we were trained by factory engineers who manufacture gas-physics instruments. At the factories, something either works or it does not, and everything is tested as science demands.

The only curriculum for gas physics exists at these factories, where engineers must test and be correct, or their instruments will not work.

Academia supplies 100- to 400-year-old theories that factory engineers long ago proved useless. Apparently, academia is too arrogant to ask the private sector for help.

In 2024, Dr. Michael Rectenwald learned of our tests, and I sent him our 14-page science paper. He published our testing in his new book, The Great Reset. Lew Rockwell wrote the foreword, where he featured our testing. Lew Rockwell then published our tests at the Mises Institute. Since then, our tests have been published in numerous outlets.

A year ago, I mailed the test results to Lee Zelden along with my description of the economic damage to our factories.

My holding company, which owned the weights-and-measures test facility, was a large distributor of gas-physics instruments. Our territory was the entire Southwest. Every college and university was in our company database.

Not once in thirteen years that I owned the company did a professor call to purchase any gas-physics instrument.

Had they built a laboratory like ours or Thomas Edison’s, they would have called us for training or calibration. I believe they have offices where they write papers. Once they publish, they lock their conclusion.

I say to academics, prove it—or stop encouraging destructive regulations. Test it like real scientists. It is a simple test. We used precision instruments, but this is a repeatable test that anyone can conduct with hardware store equipment.

A condensed version of the author’s paper “Three Proofs CO2 Causes No Warming in the Atmosphere — No Gas Causes Warming,” is in his book The Ladder Out of Poverty (Ch. 11). The book also has a chapter (Ch 4) about the cap-and-trade process and details the extensive economic damage it is causing.