Another scientist gets blackballed for his skepticism about global warming.
On Monday, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson took a tilt at climate skeptics. “The assumption that the vast majority in a scientific field is engaged in fraud or corruption is frankly conspiratorial,” Gerson wrote. As a non-scientist, he decided that the answer to the question of whether humans had warmed the planet was to trust scientists.
The article’s timing was unfortunate. Three weeks ago, Lennart Bengtsson, a leading Swedish meteorologist approaching his 80s, announced that he was joining the avowedly skeptical Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank. In an interview with Spiegel Online, Bengtsson spoke of the need for climate-model predictions to be validated against observations. “Since the end of the 20th century, the warming of the Earth has been much weaker than what climate models show,” he said.
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The whole AGW and PC environments are frighteningly reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda in the 30's. If you don't believe that our enemies are your enemies, you are our enemy and this administration is more than happy to fuel the campaign to Kristallnacht.
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Michael Gerson need to take the advice of the late Mark Felt AKA Deep Throat given to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate break ins, "Follow the money".
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