Node, well over 95% of climate scientists support anthropogenic global warming. Structural failure causing progressive collapse of the Twin Towers is completely mainstream among mechanical engineers. Here are some references you can look up:
The World Trade Center 9/11 Disaster and Progressive Collapse of Tall Buildings, Edinburgh University
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10694-012-0283-8
Asif Usmani, Y. C. Chung, Jose L Torero, Graeme Flint, Allan Jowsey, Charlotte Roben, Dr Luke Bisby, Mark Lamster, Guillermo Rein…
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1216
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/
http://edinburghfireresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/inexcusable-omission.html
Kajima Corporation, G Charles Clifton, Dr Frank Greening…
Honored members of our Professional Advisory Panel of nationally renowned experts include:
Chief Andrew Casper (Ret.) former Fire Commissioner of San Francisco, CA
Prof. Glenn Corbett, Fire Protection Engineer & Asst. Prof. of Fire Science, John Jay College, NYC
Deputy Chief Vincent Dunn (FDNY Ret.) Acclaimed expert in fire safety & high rise building collapse
Roger Morse, AIA, Architect & Forensic Building Investigator
Jack Murphy of The Fire Safety Directors Association of Greater New York
Jake Pauls, CPE, High-Rise Evacuations Specialist
Dr. Jim Quintiere, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland
Norman Siegel, eminent civil rights attorney
Michael Trencher, RA, Prof. of Architecture, Pratt Institute, NYC
and many other valued professionals.
http://www.skyscrapersafety.org/
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed
A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
http://vincentdunn.com/wtc.html
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These, and and their departments and graduate students, and all the references those papers lead to, and all the papers that cite them; these are the “sly few” you referred to, are they? This lot work for “the elite”, and all the other engineers just play “follow the leader”, right?