{"id":248,"date":"2006-02-03T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-08-31T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:10:21","slug":"wall-street-journal-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/02\/wall-street-journal-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wall Street Journal has published another fair and balanced critique of climate change science and negotiations, in a Business World commentary by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr, here<\/a>. A summary of the arguments is as follows:<\/p>\n

1. It will never be possible to prove that global warming is real. In the same way, we point out, it will never be possible to prove that anybody died from lung cancer because of smoking. Did you actually witness that first DNA mutation?<\/p>\n

2. The reasonable lay person cannot be expected to read a scientific paper, so the rational response is to ignore the issue.<\/p>\n

3. A paper about frogs did not argue convincingly that people cause global warming.<\/p>\n

4. People sometimes distort the truth (truly a shocking charge coming from the WSJ).<\/p>\n

5. Global change negotiations are stalled in politics, so the science must be wrong. <\/p>\n

Final thought: When climate does change, we’ll be able to fix it anyway.<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal has published another fair and balanced critique of climate change science and negotiations, in a Business World commentary by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr, here. A summary of the arguments is as follows: 1. It will never be possible to prove that global warming is real. In the same way, we point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-climate-science","category-reporting-on-climate","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t