El Opinador Compulsivo

Relacionado con la decisión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de EEUU sobre el “calentamiento global", Holman W. Jenkins se pregunta por qué tanta gente cree en el “cambio climático”. Por supuesto, la palabra clave es "creer". Se trata de una cuestión de fe:

Al Gore will have no trouble finding in Monday's Supreme Court ruling more evidence that global warming is a reality, indeed a dire threat.

He will soon say--you can take this to the bank--words like: "Now, even a majority of the Supreme Court has recognized the danger of global warming." And he'll be right in the sense that the Court invokes the magic word "consensus" for a physical fact that itself is unproven, unprovable and exists purely in the realm of speculation.

Al Gore has made himself, in his curious way, the personification of a society's impulse to manufacture political certainty out of irresolvable scientific uncertainty, of which the Supreme Court is the latest culprit/victim. You can see this by arranging the questions related to global warming in descending order of urgency.