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Robert Manne, although admitting Lindzen’s scientific eminence, then dismissed him as “the fanatically anti-communist Lindzen.”
Huh? There IS NO Climate Science (unless it's a specialty within Political "Science"). Only scientists working to develop one (if they can).
Climate Science hasn't been defeated, it hasn't been invented yet. (Their predictions made in the past as evaluated by the facts of today, are to be laughed out of the room.)
“The hockey stick was used as a reredos at the launch of the 2001 IPCC’s third assessment report in Shanghai, “
“A reredos or raredos is an altarpiece, or a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.” https://www.google.com/search?q=reredos&ie=UTF-8
“Reredos” is a new word for me and very apropos! AGW is truly a religion.
The idea that the world would ever actually remake itself in order to stop the warming was always an illusion.
Various groups were glad to get together and assemble plans whereby others would pay the price of implementing it, and lots of people were happy to go along on the theory that it wouldn’t hurt them personally. All this happened during a period of significant (though largely illusory) global prosperity.
With the economy crashed or crashing, the notion that any democratic polity will implement these plans is just idiotic. They may agree to and try to get others to, but no countries will actually implement them at the cost of their own people.
The global warming policies the radicals dream about could only ever be implemented by a global totalitarian government.