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Science Quote by Javier Cuadros

"I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation"

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The line isn’t trying to settle the climate question; it’s trying to delegitimize the people who claim to have settled it. Cuadros frames himself as the lone honest scientist peering through a haze of groupthink, then pivots to a sharper accusation: that “man-made global warming” has become an unfalsifiable story, a theory elastic enough to swallow any outcome and still call it proof.

That’s why the quote leans so hard on the rhetorical trap of “every fact confirms it.” In science, a claim that can’t be meaningfully threatened by counterevidence isn’t just wrong; it’s suspicious. Cuadros is borrowing that Popperian instinct (falsifiability) and translating it into a common-sense indictment: heads I win, tails you lose. The word “curiously” does extra work here, signaling that the real scandal is not a dataset but a sociology of knowledge: colleagues allegedly enforcing consensus, models allegedly serving as post-hoc rationalizers, explanation masquerading as prediction.

The subtext is less about temperature curves than about authority. “Supposed scientific consensus” is a direct strike at institutional credibility, inviting readers to see climate science as a closed shop that confuses agreement with truth. “No matter what the weather” collapses climate (long-term patterns) into weather (short-term experience), a move that’s rhetorically potent because it recruits daily intuition against statistical reasoning.

Contextually, this fits a familiar culture-war posture: expertise presented as self-sealing, dissent cast as courageous, and models painted as narrative machines rather than tools with explicit uncertainties, error bars, and track records. Whether or not Cuadros is right, the intent is clear: shift the debate from evidence to trust, and from physics to power.

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