"Hope in the Age of Climate Change"

This morning I notice a poster on the bulletin board at Gordon college. The poster announces an upcoming lecture: "Hope in the Age of Climate Change". Couple of things. It first of all assumes that "Climate Change" is (what we are continuously being told) is "settled science". I find it telling the poster doesn't read "The pro and cons of the Climate Change debate" which I think would be more indicative of open intellectual inquiry. Instead it seems as though colleges (not just this one) have adopted what I see as closed and slavishly unquestioned agenda driven movements and more and more abandoning the intellectual freedom places of higher learning once espoused. It is almost as if we are seeking to shut up the boy who in the face of societal and political ridicule was the only one to point out the Emporer's lack of clothes. All you have to do it seems these days is call the clothes, "new", and you have unquestioned allegiance to the new science, unquestioned as if it was emperically verified in a petri dish on the laboratory bench.