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Originally Posted by zeek

Bret Stephens: "...much else that passes as accepted fact is really a matter of probabilities."

So we should go with improbabilities? That guy would fit right in on LCD. When the probabilities in question become certainties it will be too late. We are near the tipping point now. That's why we don't have time for Trump's anti-science agenda in the White House.

Obviously you are not interested in how real science differs from today's pseudo-science promoted by progressives.

Here's just a few comments to Bret Stevens' many bashers ..

What, though, had Stephens actually said wrong to deserve all this hate? (Read the comment thread below his tweet. The Times’s Red Guard shows no mercy).

In short: nothing.

Such facts as there were in his comment piece – it was opinion, not a science report – were pretty unimpeachable, not to say uncontroversial. He quoted the IPCC – generally used by liberals as the gold standard of climate science.

He quoted another (more acceptably green/left-wing) New York Times columnist Andrew Revkin: “I saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.”

But there was really nothing in the piece that was shockingly contentious or factually dubious. Why then this brutal monstering?

Because climate change is a religion where heretics must burn. At least that’s how progressives think – and it’s the progressives who still dictate the terms of the debate: they’ve hijacked the seats of learning, the newspapers, the TV, the schools, the political arena, the corporations, Wall Street…

Any form of dissent from the Green Religion, however trivial, has to be punished with fire and brimstone as a dread warning to anyone else tempted to diverge from the True Path.

This is not the first time this has happened.

Stephens’s experiences are strikingly similar to that of another very moderate skeptic, Roger Pielke Jr, who was recruited as a columnist for Nate Silver’s website 538 but was then ditched when readers objected to his non-alarmist views and his unhelpful references to data, truth and real-world evidence.

Facts are very important to progressive journalists and readers. But only when they are the right sort of facts. Otherwise they’re WrongThink.

It's so sad to see my ultra-liberal friends here, having long chucked the truths of the Gospel along with the rest of the Recovery, only to embrace a radical Green Religion far more pernicious than the one they left. Their new religion worships Mother Earth, having replaced that of Father God, and has all the same trappings of LC exclusivity in the name of "science," their new holy "bible."