James Taranto: “Settled Science? Computer hackers reveal corruption behind the global-warming ‘consensus.’
James Taranto:”… This is downright Orewellian. What the Post describes is not a vigorous debate but an attempt to SUPPRESS debate — to politicize the process of scientific inquiry so that it yields a predetermined result. This does not, in itself, prove the global warmists wrong. But it raises a glaring question: IF THEY HAVE THE FACTS ON THEIR SIDE, WHY DO THEY NEED TO RESORT TO TACTICS OF SUPPRESSION AND INTIMIDATION?”
“It is hard to see how this is anything less than a definitive refutation of the popular press’s contention that global warmism is settled science…”
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“The press’s view on global warming rests on an appeal to authority: the consensus among scientists that it is real, dangerous and man-cause. But the authority of scientists rests on the integrity of the scientific process, and A ‘CONSENSUS’ BASED ON THE SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES IS, QUITE SIMPLY, A FRAUDULENT ONE.”