re: #18 Moe Jerome and Larry

I’m sorry, I think by “Al Gore” you meant “98.5% of the publishing climatologists in the world”.

Obdictut, do you see the admission your making? The whole point of the column is that using the term “settle science” betrays a lack of understanding of “how science works.” If 98.5% of publishing climatologists use the phrase to defend AGW, then according to the author, they have a lack of understanding of “how science works.”

And, indeed, they do…as does Al Gore.

The author of this column doesn’t realize that it’s Al Gore who uses this phrase, and the Wall Street Journal and the Globe and Mail only use it to show the ridiculousness of Gore’s position.

Charles, I don’t think this column means what you think it means.