Climate change, the idea that humankind is having a negative impact on the planet, and what’s more that there will be an extinction-level event if we do not radically change our behaviour, has become one of the most feverishly guarded orthodoxies of our age. You query it at your peril. It is one of the few beliefs for which an entire new grammar of censorship has been created to protect it from interrogation.
As Glenn writes, now we will know who they are for the inevitable lawsuit.
It’s worth pointing out that if anyone should be suing me for what I wrote eleven years ago, it should be Penn State, not Michael Mann. They were the real target of the op-ed.