A Scientific discussion on Climate Change

The bride and I have a new inside joke.  Someone makes an authoritative claim and one whispers the question to the other, "science or not science?" We've both heard too many people try to dress their biases or fears in the authority of science.  It is a bigger problem today than those who project their fears or biases onto the divine. 

We homo sapiens often want to believe we are on the side of settled truth, whether we choose a narrow

reading of revelation or science for our confidence is almost academic, the same psychological compensation against ambiguity is at work.  Both instances claim to know more than the text or the experimentation actually contains.  Both lead to a destructive fundamentalism.

Yet it is possible, if infrequent, to have an adult conversation about what we do and do not yet know about climate change (or theology for that matter).  This podcast is 64 minutes of just that.  Both parties are humble and respectful.  Both parties find themselves embarrassed, at times, by the claims made by members of their own tribe.  Both speak soberly about what does or does not concern them about the problems we face.  I do not think either will change too many minds on the issue.  I do believe both are models on how we should discuss the issue going forward.  Both take seriously my concern, the tyranny of "settled truth."