The piece goes on to say that the contents of the emails from UEA do ot upset “two hundred years” of science. Revelations shock me by the minute. I had no idea that people have been studying “climate change” for 200 years, nor did I realize that there was any data more than 50 years old that might support such a claim.
The obvious inference is that I’m just a silly, little peasant. Otherwise we’d have to conclude that they’re lying again.
I’ve seen the old science arguments more than once. Apparently, discovery and discussions on the “greenhouse effect” by famous scientists 200 years ago is part of the absolute scientific proof that we’ll all die horrible horrible deaths if we don’t start paying higher taxes and tithing to Al Gore immediately.
As soon as someone takes the time to prove it ain’t so (it’s just too silly for anyone to bother, without any evidence that it has any real propaganda value), they’ll likely go back farther and cite humanoids looking up at the skies as further proof.
But anyways - you can see how it works. Warming propagandists characterize “skeptics” as people who “deny climate” etc. - more to the point, as people who don’t believe the “greenhouse effect” SCIENCE is real, along with not believing that climate changes, etc. So, there are some kids out there trying to convince people that there really is a greenhouse effect - some of them really convinced that it’s an important part of the public discussion - to put the “deniers” in their place.
And never the two shall meet.