Jordan Peterson: climate change denier and faux science-lover

Peterson claims to be an empiricist yet denies the empirical reality of climate science

Jordan Peterson is many things. He’s a best-selling author, although not in France, unsurprisingly. He’s a former Professor at the University of Toronto, now on likely permanent leave. He’s famous for refusing to use the gender pronouns preferred by his students for reasons he claimed were related to freedom of speech. He’s been adopted by the alt-right and incels as one of their preferred intellectuals, over his very faint protests.

And he’s a climate change denier.

What’s the evidence for that? Well, his own words, as quoted in Wikipedia with full references.

Peterson doubts the scientific consensus on climate change. Peterson has said he is “very skeptical of the models that are used to predict climate change”, He has also said, “You can’t trust the data because too much ideology is involved”. In a 2018 Cambridge Union address, Peterson said that climate…