The scientists who have been agitating for measures to prevent global warming have become literally legendary.  In one of Aesop's fables, a host throws out a traveler for first blowing on his hands to warm them and then blowing on his soup to cool it.  After incessant warnings that our use of fossil fuels will cause an intolerable heating of our planet, climatologists have suddenly switched their tune and are now predicting that this warming will create a new ice age by altering the North Atlantic current. Maybe they’re right, but I’m a bit skeptical.  As Randall Jarrell said, “acumen deserts intelligent men least when they are in the wrong.”  As a journal editor and reviewer of technical papers, I have marveled at how often scientists, when confronted with data that contradicts their theory, adroitly explain the offending data away or adjust the theory to suit the data.  And that’s what seems to be happening...(Read Full Post)