Posted 22 November 2016
"These same sneer-and-smear techniques predominate in the debate over climate change. President Obama promotes his green agenda by announcing that 'the debate is settled', and he denounces 'climate deniers' by claiming that 97 percent of scientists believe that global warming is dangerous. HIs statements are false. While the greenhouse effect is undeniably real, and while most scientists agree that there has been a rise in global temperatures caused in some part by human emissions of carbon dioxide, no one knows how much more warming will occur this century or whether it will be dangerous." An extract from a wide-ranging paper in which John Tierney explains that the political Left has set back science far more than the Right.
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