"Post Normal" Science - Forget the Truth

God help us.  Now there's the "Post-Normal" Science of Climate Change

Professor Mike Hulme, founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change apparently is willing to toss out the scientific process, the truth of facts as he writes in the Guardian
Self-evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking,

Melanie Philips writes
So the true battleground has now been illuminated for us. The real fight is between scientists who believe in empirical observation and the truth, and ‘post-normal’ scientists who believe in ideology and lies. It’s a battle between Enlightenment values of rationality and those who wish to return us to a pre-rational era where thought was controlled and truth was a heresy. The stakes could not have been delineated more clearly.

I'm for both religion, science and legacy of the Enlightenment which separated the two realms.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised in this post-modern world where more and more believe that truth is relative that eventually scientists would be infected with the toxic meme, but still, it's shocking they would welcome it.

UPDATE: Others commenting on Post Normal Science are much better than I and  include The Belmont Club where Wretchard writes
Post-normal science is nothing but a cheap and lying term for a political diktat; for the rule of the self-appointed over everyone else. Whatever truth "Global Warming" may contain it has surely been damaged by its association with this disreputable and vile concept which brazenly casts aside the need for any factual basis and declares in the most unambiguous terms that whatever values it chooses to promote constitutes a truth unimpeachable by reality and a set of values that none dare challenge. Until "post-normal science" is repudiated as a method of proving "global warming" then both must share the same reputation.

Over at One Cosmos, Gaghdad Bob writes
Instead of unity and truth, they substitute solidarity and commitment, which is to say exterior or "top-down" order and coercive action, for the lie is always coercive whereas the truth "attracts."

He cites Al Gore's
own acknowledgment (in numerous interviews he has admitted that the main point of his impropaganda film was to frighten people into action, not to dispassionately inform them). ...

What is so objectionable about Gore's film is that, like all post-normal science, its intention is to coerce one into action before one even knows the truth -- not just any action, but probably the most massive and cataclysmic economanical actions ever undertaken by mankind, actions that will kill and/or ruin the lives of millions. There are undoubtedly "accuracies" in any post-normal science, including Gore's film, but the accuracies are not there to serve truth but to spur action. It is science for the limbic system -- the emotional center of the brain -- not the cerebellum, which is capable of disinterested objectivity, which is the foundation of the human capacity for truth.