Hopefully this article will have an impact on the cap-and-trade legislation now being rammed through Congress. To enact such enormously expensive measures, when the science is so unconvincing and the economy so fragile, seems nothing short of reckless to this observer. We cannot let ideology, in the form of scientific orthodoxy, blind us to the evidence.

Science is not democracy. What is right is right regardless of how many or few scientists hold a particular opinion. Science history is full of cases in which the minority turned out to be correct. It might be more useful to look at the consequensis of being wrong. If we believe in sudden catastrophic climate change and we are wrong, we will have taken some useful steps to, for instance, reduce our use of fossil fuels which quite frankly are far to valuable to burn. If we don't ... More »