Hockey Stick on Ice

Politicizing the science of global warming.

The editors at The Wall Street Journal take a look at the politicization of science in the name of environmentalism. In this case we dwell a bit on the Kyoto "treaty" and the junk science behind it. For there is plenty of reason to doubt the contention of the global warming fanatics that Man, and only Man, is responsible for climate change on the Earth. Never mind that climate change has been occurring as long as the Earth itself has existed and that fluctuations in temperature can be explained by pointing at the energy output of the sun, rather than at human activity. But none of this matters to the environmentalists who hold their views with the same ferocity as religious fanatics and who demand that heretics be punished for questioning the received wisdom of the age.