Climategate: We’re winning!

James Delingpole
London Telegraph
Monday , January 11th, 2010

But only in a Crecy (1346) way rather than an Agincourt (1415) way – which is to say we’ve got an awful long way to go before this war’s over.

Still, I do think we evil Climate Change Deniers can take heart from this characteristically incisive piece by Brian Micklethwait at the libertarian/classical liberal website Samizdata. (Hat tip: Richard North).

Micklethwait draws parallels between “climate change” and the Cold War.

Meanwhile, the AGW debate has arrived at the same position that the Cold War argument had arrived at in or around about 1970 to 1980. An informed minority of pro-economic-progress critics had won the academic argument against the pro-economic-derangement academics, and word of this victory was spreading. And a particular thing that happened then is starting to happen now, which is that even intelligent layman critics of the John Redwood (and Brian Micklethwait) variety are starting to understand the details of the argument better than even the very smartest of the pro-derangement scientists, of the sort who are still advising governments, or who are still receiving and still trying still to believe this advice.

Micklethwait is right. We sceptics have started to wipe the floor with our opponents in a way that just wasn’t possible twelve months ago. The “smoking gun” evidence kindly provided by the Climategate leakster has been a huge help of course. As too has Mother Nature (I call her Clima-tor). But the real boost has been the following wind provided by shifting public opinion.

Full article here

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