April 10, 2013

Not Yet Time to Declare Victory over Climate Anti-Capitalists

By Peter Wilson
Some climate change skeptics have begun to express optimism recently, based in part on a mildly skeptical article in the normally true-believer Economist magazine.  On AT, for example, Jonathon Moseley argued in "The Coming Global Warming Voter Backlash" that the planet hasn't been warming since 1998, and global warming zealots can prevaricate for only so long before voters rise up and throw the bums out. Mr. Moseley's article was well-written, but it has one fatal flaw: it appeals to rational argument and scientific facts.  Global warming activists, for all their appeals to "Science," have a religious conviction that won't be swayed by such arguments. Consider the following: 1. That Economist article, the so-called final nail in the coffin -- ends with several paragraphs warning about how "the world has pumped out half a trillion tonnes of carbon since 1750," concluding: "Despite all the work on sensitivity, no one really knows how the climate would react if...(Read Full Article)