James Delingpole
London Telegraph
Monday , January 11th, 2010
But only in a Crecy (1346) way rather than an Agincourt (1415) way
– which is to say we’ve got an awful long way to go before
this war’s over.
Still, I do think we evil Climate Change Deniers can take heart from this characteristically incisive piece by Brian Micklethwait at the libertarian/classical liberal website Samizdata. (Hat tip: Richard North).
Micklethwait draws parallels between “climate change” and the Cold War.
Meanwhile, the AGW debate has arrived at the same
position that the Cold War argument had arrived at in or around about
1970 to 1980. An informed minority of pro-economic-progress critics had
won the academic argument against the pro-economic-derangement
academics, and word of this victory was spreading. And a particular
thing that happened then is starting to happen now, which is that even
intelligent layman critics of the John Redwood (and Brian Micklethwait)
variety are starting to understand the details of the argument better
than even the very smartest of the pro-derangement scientists, of the
sort who are still advising governments, or who are still receiving and
still trying still to believe this advice.
Micklethwait is right. We sceptics have started to wipe the floor
with our opponents in a way that just wasn’t possible twelve
months ago. The “smoking gun” evidence kindly provided by
the Climategate leakster has been a huge help of course. As too has Mother Nature (I call her Clima-tor). But the real boost has been the following wind provided by shifting public opinion.
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