Climate policy

Dogmatism or science?

Abstract

The article criticizes the Mexican federal policy on climate change because it lacks of scientific foundation, in spite of what is said by its advocates, which make us argue, following the disctintion of the systems of ideas made by Edgar Morin, that this theme is addressed as a doctrine that responds to the ideology of environmentalism, not as a theory inside the conceptual frame of climatology. The article emphasizes the wrong definition of the phenomenon that presents the General Climate Change Law and the bad influence that makes on other federal laws, particularly, the General Education Law. It also highlights the necessity of opening the scientific debate considering the theories that point the various factors that conform the natural climate variability (oceanic oscillations, cloudiness, solar activity) as causes of the increase of the average global temperature recorded since the last years of the 20th century; increase, notwithsanding, that has not been constant during the 21st century.