From The Research Notes
The Real Events Behind the Fiction of Chapter 4 - Part I - The Carthage Cure in ∆ THE CARTHAGE CYCLE
∆ The Carthage Cycle — A Scholarly Companion
Chapter Four: The Mockery of Climate Science
The Real Events Behind the Fiction
Dear Paid Subscriber,
Chapter Four opened with a report buried on the Department of Energy’s website, timed to coincide with a presidential rally—a document making sweeping claims: that extreme weather wasn’t increasing, that CO₂ would benefit agriculture, that ocean acidification wasn’t a threat. We watched Dr. Alan Davies, a climate scientist at Texas A&M, type words that would make him a target: “This report makes a mockery of science.” We followed him through weeks of work, the anonymous texts, the warning to check the South Atlantic. And we traveled back in time to meet Dr. Thomas Winthrop, watching the iceberg die—and discovering that its death was not an accident.
It sounds like something I invented.
It wasn’t.
Today, I pull back the curtain on the real events behind this chapter—the government report that ignored decades of science, the 85 scientists who fought back, and the iceberg that became a warning for the world.
