The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
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“Quebec Content in Canada”–headline, Guelph (Ontario) Mercury, May 21
New Scientific Discovery: Sun Is Hot!
Lawrence Solomon of Canada’s National Post has an astonishing report on the stage of climate science:
Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming skeptics, I soon learned two things: Solar scientists were overwhelmingly skeptical that humans caused climate change and, overwhelmingly, they were reluctant to go public with their views. Often, they refused to be quoted at all, saying they feared for their funding, or they feared other recriminations from climate scientists in the doomsayer camp. When the skeptics agreed to be quoted at all, they often hedged their statements, to give themselves wiggle room if accused of being a global warming denier. Scant few were outspoken about their skepticism.
No longer.
Scientists, and especially solar scientists, are becoming assertive. Maybe their newfound confidence stems from the Climategate emails, which cast doomsayer-scientists as frauds and diminished their standing within academia. Maybe their confidence stems from the avalanche of errors recently found in the reports of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, destroying its reputation as a gold standard in climate science. Maybe the solar scientists are becoming assertive because the public no longer buys the doomsayer thesis, as seen in public opinion polls throughout the developed world. Whatever it was, solar scientists are increasingly conveying a clear message on the chief cause of climate change: It’s the Sun, Stupid.
Think about this: The global warmists’ hold on the debate was so strong that until recently, scientists were afraid to say the sun was hot. One day, maybe soon, historians will study the global-warming scare as a case of mass delusion.
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