Climate Change: Inquiring Skepticism at Stanford

Glenn Ricketts

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  • February 17, 2010

It appears as if the deepening skepticism about the once-invincible global warming "consensus" has shaken loose from what was until very recently strictly taboo. This piece by an undergraduate writer in the Stanford student paper is useful simply for the fact that it's been written, but also for its description of the "consensus" on campus prior to "climategate" and subsequent revelations. It's good to see, but also another ominous ilustration of the extent to which ideology had completely overpowered genuine science. Write on, students.

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