The issue of climate change has gotten the most attention in the past 10 or so years. This attention is correlated to the fact that the long term effects of climate change have started to appear now more than it ever has before. Many on the opposing side claim that the issue of climate change is overblown and does not warrant the massive amount of attention that it’s getting. What they fail to see however is that the overblown nature of climate change is absolutely purposeful, but not in the way they think. Charles Krauthammer’s essay serves to question whether science is firmly settles, in particular whether the scientific analysis of climate change is accurate. He claims that “there is nothing more anti scientific than the very idea that