"It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as 'deniers.' The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N.—13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers."
-- Amanda Carey, on what, for me, was a not-quite-obvious (but still expected) development, because I deal in Reason.
And, when spreading the blame around, let's not forget the "scientists". Many of them, if not most, are culturally Liberal NewAgers, though (like most NewAgers) they'd be loathe to admit, or investigate, what's happened to them - because it happened to them - and they're (also like most NewAgers) too arrogant and/or cowardly to admit the horrible truth of that: To accept that, maybe without even knowing it, they drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago. That they've been made fools of - and used as pawns and mouthpieces by - a bunch of flakey "spiritual" megalomaniacs. Considering how highly they cherish their view of themselves, as educated, that's gotta hurt.
I mean, if one self-educated atheist black conservative artist is smarter than they are at figuring this nonsense out - and they ain't even as smart as a bunch of pseudoscience-loving loonies - something's very, very wrong, right?
