By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 10, 2021 It has been awhile since "Climate Change" has occupied much in the way of the current hysteria that resides in White House. It is almost as if common sense and critical thinking have left that building. But what is new about that. With the stroke of his pen, Biden has set the course of the federal government careening down a path of full on climate extremism, without bothering to see if anyone can afford it let alone accomplish anything meaningful to replace what has gone before. In an earlier article, I gave a brief glimpse into what it would be like without our current dependence on fossil fuels and without a suitable alternative not only for energy, but all the products that could be eliminated from our daily life. The simple matter of fact is that we are considerably short of the technology to replace fossil fuels in all but the most meager amounts. We are decades if not further away or ever from the changes necessary to be independent of fossil fuels. We have spent trillions of dollars so to speak tilting at windmills in the vain hope that CO2 emissions can be reduced in any significant amount instead of spending those resources on things we can control. This is the message Dr. Judith Curry has been trying to pass on to most notably the younger generation of America's future citizens, only to be branded "heretic" in every sense of the word by the "Climate Change" world where consensus has taken over in a field where uncertainty is still a major component. Dr. Curry has for decades been a well recognized member of the Climate studies community with over one hundred peer reviewed papers and books on a wide variety of climate topics. Once a strong supporter of the UN's IPCC, Dr Curry has found the courage to begin questioning the absolute certainty that we are doomed by human fascination with cheap fossil fuel energy. Having retired in 2017, primarily due to the "Toxic Nature" of rhetoric from climate extremists, including both scientist and non scientist, Dr. Curry began to listen to those not certain about the inevitability the earth would succumb to the catastrophe being broadcast in classrooms, in media circles, and through out academia. Her initial objections were that forecasts of rapidly increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, and raging state wide wild fires were assumed to be the fate of the world in the very near future. The fact that many predictive models of conditions in the future beginning with Michael Mann's "hockey stick theory" in 1995 have proven to be some what exaggerated have not helped quell the uncertainty and fear by the public. Continued stumbling when it came to real time data compared to theory, did not cause the public to be reassured that the proverbial end was near. What Dr. Curry has said, which has awarded her the wrath of the extreme climate change community, is that whatever the out come, people should continue to live life to the fullest. There are things, other than the complete halt to the fossil fuel industry that can be done which will allow for life on earth to continue. There are way too many unknowns to be jumping from one horse to another when it comes to the difference of climate variability natural, or man made. Curry points to the fact that even Green House Gas theory is not a completely locked down undisputed theory. There are considerable gaps in the science of Climate. While many do not see Dr. Curry as the voice of reason when it comes to Climate and future disaster, her idea that because there are so many uncertainties that many climatologists refuse to acknowledge it is important to keep an open mind before a monomaniacal response to fossil fuels prevents actual mitigation should a worst case scenario arrive at our door step. The toxic atmosphere where consensus science has circled the wagons, dismissing any possibility that they could learn from the heretics, deniers and cranks of the scientific world, insider or outsider, would be well to consider all of the historical examples of consensus science that has crashed and burned. Dr. Judith Curry a true voice in the wilderness of a science in its infancy that has gotten too sure of itself.