Believe it or not, that’s the headline of an article in the left-leaning German magazine, Der Spiegel. Even more unbelievable is the subhead: “Emotionalizing climate change.” As I noted last week, the temptation to emotionalize climate change for political advantage is rampant at the local level, too.
John Locke Foundation friend Richard Lindzen makes a prominent appearance in this article, as does Al Gore. Lindzen is called “the only one who, in the struggle for dominance in the climate debate, can compete in the same weight class as his opponents.”
In the end, Der Spiegel says:
The problem is that the IPCC is not a political group whose goal is to exert pressure, but a scientific institution and panel of experts. Its members ought to present their results and analyses dispassionately, the way pathologists or psychiatrists do when serving as expert witnesses in court, no matter how horrible the victim’s injuries and how deviant the perpetrator’s psyche are.
The politicization of the IPCC has been pointed out by the JLF’s Roy Cordato, but Roy would surely amend Der Spiegel‘s assessment to say: The IPCC is not supposed to be a political group.
Someday, far in the future, this period of Chicken Little global climate change panic will be studied as a textbook case of mass insanity, like we laugh at the Malthusians today. I would love to be there 50 years from now to see all the things that didn’t happen as a result of global warming.
(Link via Instapundit)
