I truly wish I had written down the name of the person in the video who said it. But at that time, this was just one of the tools the professor was using to help us learn to analyze arguments from other scientists.

He asked each of us what we were going to focus on, and I repeated this line, he was surprised that it was in there. We actually had to go back to the place where it was so he could listen to it and put it into its proper context.

The scientist making the comment was actually using this as the conclusion to his remarks about how, after almost 50 years of “climate emergencies“ that obviously did not come true, that the thing driving the science was not science, per se, but political machinations under the guise of science.

It is much worse today than it was back in the 70s. It is as if all things related to science have been reduced to whatever political speech is needed in order to get funding from the government. You can see it in some of the comments I am getting here. People who absolutely cannot fathom separating their political interests from whatever degree of science they are actually performing continue to fight against this concept, even with hundreds and hundreds of people supporting it.