The eco-cult, having established that both the invention of the wheel and harnessing of fire were unfortunate and ideally reversible events in the history of mankind, now have their sights firmly set on science at large. 
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So they want everyone to trust the science, but only if the science doesn’t need energy.
Indeed. So many of our civilizational issues boil down to energy flows. Ascend the Kardashev scale or retreat and wither to irrelevance and extinction. Carbon dioxide was always a proxy (attitude toward nuclear the bellwether).