Even that title of my blog taken from a song from the '50s has caused a political issue.
My new home (Kansas City, MO) and my old hometown (Arlington, TX) are in single-digit temperatures and covered in snow. So much for global warming. Global warming has been changed to climate change when the science and the political narrative didn't match up.
My topic for this article is that science, politics, media, and education must stay in their lanes. We have seen with COVID that these lanes get blurred, mixed up, and conflated. Although at some point they are necessary for each other, they also need to see the lines of intersection where one area can co-opt and even corrupt the other.
The topic of the weather and what we can do about it is much too broad to cover here. But my view from here is that the overlap is tied too much to money and politics. When one side uses the media, science, and education to push a particular political position, corruption erupts in all the arenas, as mentioned earlier. The overlap is ripe for manipulation.
Can we ascertain the truth? Can we keep the partisan interests from cross-pollination? I don't see how unless a bi-partisan grassroots effort can impact all of these groups' income to the point they operate independently.
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