Scientists get things wrong all the time. After all, scientists are only people, too.

The rigor of the scientific method application is introduced to limit the error. Yet, errors happen, research gets debunked, and over the years, I've been witnessing so much rushed research that I could speculate there is less and less rigor, and hence, more and more erroneous conclusions. Then, if you account for PR, activism and sense of self-righteousness creeping into our academic institutions, one is even afraid to speculate all that went in a background of some scientific publications just to get them out.

Now, you may ask yourselves: "Why do we care?"

Well, to start, you should: some of the bad "research" is most likely underlying a lot of public policies that are making your life a living hell.

For example, let us take Houston - so-called energy capital of the world. How is energy grid in Houston dealing with little bit of snow storm these days? (see image below).

Well, now, one could argue about the cold, snow, weather, but let us remind ourselves that - for example - Moscow has both snow, cold (16F average between Jan and Feb) and all sorts of weather, yet their energy grid sustains "a little bit of snow storm".

The way I see it, for a last several decades, energy grids have been destroyed based on the speculation and hypotheses related to the anthropogenic climate change. Billions and billions of taxpayers money, plus increase in the cost of energy, have been invested without proper evaluation of risks and rewards. We are constantly being bombarded about some abstract catastrophe in 2055 or later, only to experience absolute and preventable catastrophe now.

For a moment let us imagine, there is even a 100% consensus that Earth will warm thanks to human activity (there is not even 90% one, but let us imagine). What if "the weather happens", and weather - such a snow storm - always happens? Will so-called clean energy be sufficient? Well, clearly, it won't.

Even worse, let us imagine, that Earth warming thanks to human activity is bollocks, that all these scientists for this or that reasons are getting it wrong. That means that the cold weather will occur more often as part of the natural climate change. Will so-called clean energy be sufficient? Well, judging by a one snowstorm - it won't.

In short, do not allow yourselves to be fooled with promises of some abstract future. Having a plan is a wonderful thing, but wonderful future never happens by ignoring now. It just allows politicians to promise abstraction, so they do not have to promise and deliver on the reality.