Yes, but what do you really think?
Paul Krugman in the NYT:
the scientific consensus about man-made global warming — which includes 97 percent to 98 percent of researchers in the field, according to the National Academy of Sciences — is getting stronger, not weaker, as the evidence for climate change just keeps mounting.
In fact, if you follow climate science at all you know that the main development over the past few years has been growing concern that projections of future climate are underestimating the likely amount of warming. Warnings that we may face civilization-threatening temperature change by the end of the century, once considered outlandish, are now coming out of mainstream research groups…
multiple investigations into charges of intellectual malpractice on the part of climate scientists have ended up exonerating the accused researchers of all accusations…
only 21 percent of Republican voters in Iowa believe in global warming…one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge. And, in a time of severe challenges — environmental, economic, and more — that’s a terrifying prospect.
So very sure of himself and his superiority to many of us. He’s fairly dripping with contempt for those who dare disagree with him. (And he shops for his statistics at the same store as Richard Cohen.) Final point: if this is what they say in public about those who disagree with them, what do you suppose they say in private?
August 30th, 2011 at 7:01 am
Science is not based on consensus. It’s based on facts. If global warming were really a fact, then Paul wouldn’t have to squak so hard about people who don’t “believe” the hype.
Plus this:
The real challenge in our time is getting people to understand that what Paul and his ilk are producing is called propaganda.
August 30th, 2011 at 10:27 am
If you have real facts, you don’t have to preface paragraphs with statements like this:
In fact, if you follow climate science at all you know …
Al Gore is the High Priest for the AGW religion. His factually challenged movie turned idiots on science into instant savants, quoting Gore’s movie like it was scripture. Now Rev. Gore has condemned all skeptics to hell, calling them “today’s racists”.
The only people or companies aligning themselves with this new religion are surely in one way or another, positioned to gain competitive advantage, if not direct funding.
Of course Democrat demagogues have long used squishy environmental claims as a weapon. What they can’t push through congress, they do with some endangered salamander or by claiming CO2 is a pollutant.
oh … and those scientists were not exonerated, just because they weren’t fired or imprisoned.