(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Why did he change his mind? Here are some things he considered:
- Worst-case estimates of how high Earth's temperature may rise this century have gone down from earlier estimates . . and yet activists haven't calmed their rhetoric (photo).
- Global deaths from weather extremes (thought to be caused by climate change) have declined by 96% over the last century. "Climate change is contributing very little to present-day disasters."
- Ice sheet and permafrost melting due to warming climate would not operate in decades but rather in centuries. It's not time to panic.
"Why do so many smart people get the science of climate risk so badly wrong? . . . The capture of . . progressive politics over the last generation has been close to total. . . Highly educated people are often more likely to hold stubbornly onto erroneous beliefs because they are adept at rationalizing their ideological commitments."
from The Free Press
(cont'd tomorrow)
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