One wonders whether Newsweek‘s Sharon Begley has read any of the damning Climategate e-mails.
If she has read them, how can she with a straight face contend in her latest column that the alarmist side of the global-warming debate is tanking solely because of a dearth of public relations skills among its advocates?
You might be able to make a better argument that global-warming alarmism is a phenomenon that has flourished only because of public relations acumen and willing toadies like Begley.
Here’s what Richard Lindzen of MIT said about the topic in 2007, long before the Climategate e-mail messages came to light:
