Achenbach's "Tempest" and the Global-Warming Skeptics: Quote: >>Last Sunday in the Washington Post Magazine, Joel Achenbach published "The Tempest" (registration may be required) which profiles the global-warming skeptic community through some of its most vocal and prominent members: hurricane expert William Gray, climatologist Richard Lindzen, Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and others. I thought that as a piece of magazine feature writing, it did a fine job of capturing the various flavors of contrarianism (simple crankiness, desire for attention, political cunning and so on) that motivate the movement, and I walked away from the article assuming that most readers would recognize these skeptics as the loopy misfits that Achenbach perceives them to be.<< Link
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