Like the vagaries of the weather itself, true believers in man-caused global warming twist with the wind as challenges to their beliefs blow by.  For example, I recently pointed out to a graduate of a large, well-respected university that one of the highly credentialed, long-time professors in the university’s atmospheric sciences department was an outspoken skeptic of disastrous anthropogenic global climate change.  The graduate promptly responded by informing me that it was well-known that this professor was off  medication, literally “nuts,” and this is why the professor was outspoken (even to the point of maintaining a popular contrarian website) regarding the fantasy that humans are not likely to have much culpability for cataclysmic climate change. So, doing some twisting myself, I suddenly realized how much sense this argument made.  Professors who believe that they can confidently predict the global climate decades from now are on...(Read Full Post)