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There was a time, fifteen or twenty years ago, when I was a global warming skeptic. I thought a lot of the postulates were open. There was a lot yet to be determined. I might even have swung back and forth once or twice, as good arguments were made, for and against. But for me, maybe because I follow the science somewhat closely, things really settled down about five years ago. By then a great deal of the missing data had come in. Ice cores, tree rings, ocean sediments, etc., etc., all pointed in the same direction.

Some rational people remained skeptics. That’s understandable. In the public sphere arguments were still pointing back and forth. And some bad data was being pushed by less honest sources, prolonging the confusion. At some point though, I could see a pattern. I warned some skeptics that they better watch out, because if global warming was broadly true, they didn’t want to be the last skeptics.

The last skeptics, I told them, were sure to be the craziest.

Recent news provides an illustration:

In this weekend’s Washington Post magazine, meteorologist Bill Gray – one of the most prominent climate skeptics – directly compared Al Gore to Adolf Hitler:

“Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.”

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