![]() They were the ones who said we were running out of energy, food and farmland, and we were headed to a Malthusian nightmarish future. They were the ones who said the Earth was cooling and that we were headed into another Ice Age. These were the people who peddled the “population bomb,” which fizzled. The irony of the modern-day inquisitionists is that they are the very people who were the doomsayers of the 1970s who have been so consistently wrong about the future. History’s greatest minds and inventors were people who challenged the conventional wisdom of the day. This idea of a scientific consensus is, of course, the diametric opposite of what scientific inquiry is all about. Doubters will be denounced as science deniers and stripped of their science credentials and muzzled by the speech police. ![]() The “scientific consensus” had been reached, as if sent down on tablets from God, that mankind was causing the rapid warming of the planet. ![]() ![]() It was about eight to 10 years ago that the left made a unilateral decision to shut down all opposition and any skepticism about climate change by pronouncing that the debate was over. ![]()
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