[skylan_q]

But science isn't about someone agreeing with a theory.

Those who advocate blocking dissent with theories in the name of science would disagree. Apparently, it's more important that people agree with a body of work that is largely impenetrable than it is to question it or disagree with it.

[icebraining]

But who is talking about blocking dissent? Not giving airtime on the BBC is blocking dissent, now? Should they also give airtime to the flat-earth society?

The BBC is not a scientific journal, it's a mass-media organization. It's not its job to promote every little scientific theory.

[muuh-gnu]

There is no time left to debate any more, we now have to act or we're all gonna die.

Suppressing dissent by a Soviet style thought police is a small price to pay if the future of the human species is at stake.

I for one, fully and sincerely and deeply believe in climate change, and I welcome our new bolsheviks in lab coats overlords.