In today’s The Hill, a newspaper directed at the Washington political class, Michael Mann, of hockey-stick fame, writes:
“The era of climate change denial is over. Rejection of the unequivocal scientific evidence that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are warming the planet and changing our climate is no longer socially acceptable,” Professor Mann said.
“Only the most fringe of politicians now disputes the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and human-caused, and they are largely ignored.”
Not merely wrong but socially unacceptable!
When will the denial of Trump’s election be over, and be no longer socially acceptable?
When will these people admit they were beaten? When will they start to learn? Probably never.
But back to Michael Mann
“We scientists are, in general, a reticent lot who would much rather spend our time in the lab, out in the field, teaching and doing research. It is only the most unusual of circumstances that gets us marching in the streets. Trump’s assault on science is just such a circumstance. And we are seeing a rebellion continue to mount.”
Michael Mann has for decades been conducting a political campaign through assertions of climate science, the effects of which involve economic distress to tens of millions if not billions of people, by raising energy prices, putting us off fossil fuels, wasting wealth on inefficient wind turbines, all on the basis of a dubious assertion that human activities are the principal cause of global warming. The Ontario government’s windmill and coal policies are direct results of the political climate of ideas created by the likes of Professor Mann.
A reticent lot, indeed. More likely, accustomed to wielding power over the fate of humanity, and now angry that the sceptre of power has been abruptly ripped from their hands by Trump and his appointees.