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En Cato:

A scientific hypothesis that's essentially unfalsifiable -- cold corroborates "global warming," heat corroborates it, nothing really falsifies it -- is worse than useless. It's a scientific poseur, properly classified as a belief system, like religion. And the implication that there's an optimal earth temperature, or range of temperatures, or that global warming is destructive, not possibly beneficial, is just further evidence that there's more going on here than pure science.

Throw in beliefs about the human contributions to "global warming" and the policy recommendations that follow -- massive shifts toward wildly expensive command-and-control energy systems, the effect on the world's poor notwithstanding -- and the politics of the matter come into view.

Pero bueno, se sabe desde un principio que gran parte del atractivo de la teoría del global calenting por la acción humana radica en el hecho de que brinda un nuevo justificativo a los colectivistas de siempre. Antes era la lucha contra la “explotación capitalista”, ahora es la “salvación del planeta”.