Every reader of this site knows the moment. You’re three sentences into a
reasonable question about energy policy, the cost of it, the pace of
it, whether anyone has actually done the sums, and someone says the
word. Denier. The conversation is over. You have been moved from the
category of people with an argument into the category of people with a
condition.
The word works because the fight until now has been
staged on climate science, and that’s ground the other side owns: the
journals, the institutions, the broadcasters, the referee and his
whistle. It doesn’t matter what you know about physics or engineering or
just common sense. Question the models and you have diagnosed yourself.....<<<Read More>>>...
