I'm generally a Trump critic, but it's hard to blame him for this, because the climate change position is a fast-moving target. This is why I stopped identifying as a climate change believer and started identifying as a climate change agnostic.
When it's hot, people blame climate change. When it's cold, people blame climate change. When there's a drought, people blame climate change. When there's a flood, people blame climate change. When there's terrorism, at least the nuttiest advocates blame climate change.
Back when I was doing the Work of the Lord, there was a question that I used to ask of every defense expert. "What set of facts, if true, would discredit your opinion?" He would answer, and then I would go through a list of my own facts that I thought should discredit his opinion and force him to take a position on them. The purpose of this line of questioning is to avoid the "moving target" and force a degree of intellectual honesty. For example, when Al Gore and the alarmists were claiming that we wouldn't have polar ice caps by now, somebody should have been saying, "so if that doesn't happen, then people should doubt your theories, correct?" Nobody did.
In 25 years of hearing people talk about the phenomenon formerly known as global warming and previously known as the greenhouse effect, I've never heard anyone ask that question, or frankly, any question that wasn't entirely deferential.
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