I have been skeptical of the claims about global warming and environmental crisis for some time, not because I have any scientific insight, but because so many adherents act like religious fanatics rather than skeptical scientists.

A position doesn’t magically become true because its proponents yell louder or humiliate the opponents with greater disrespect. Moral crusades and political jihads do not make for good science.

As more scientific evidence casts serious questions about the certainty of global warming, the proponents act more like scorned religious fanatics than concerned scientists. They act more like their faith has been challenged than their facts or their methods.

There are serious questions whether global warming exists. If it does, and there is some evidence of it, there are serious questions whether it is caused by man or a part of a natural cycle. There is a question whether global warming is a bad thing; what is supposed to be the correct temperature?

But most of all there is serious damage to human life if we respond uncritically to a fear that may be unfounded. It is the developing countries that stand to lose the most from policies that restrain growth. We can help humanity much more by putting those resources into clean drinking water, curing AIDS, and eliminating polio than we can by adopting policies that are hugely expensive and may have an impact in 50 years….

… if we are right.

Politics and science seem to go together as well as politics and religion.

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