Neil Winton: "When I Covered Climate Change for Reuters, I Thought CO2 Was Certainly to Blame for Climate Change. I Was Wrong."

This seems right on the money to me. 

That's to say: though I obviously didn't cover climate change for a major news organization, I simply accepted the prevailing story. Once I started actually looking into it, my mind changed. Now I think people like Koonin and Lomborg and Judith Curry are likely right. That's to say: my own arc is just like Winton's. I'm the furthest thing from an expert on the subject, but, were I forced to bet, I'd bet a fair amount of money that we're being railroaded. 

   One reason I think this is that I know we're being railroaded with respect to some issues I do understand well or fairly well: gender ideology, various kinds of "social constructionism," race and CRT, Trump, "diversity"/DEI. Doxastic/epistemic railroading is one of the progressive left's M.O.s. And I've learned enough about the climate change debate to recognize significant similarities. I'd say the same about COVID, though perhaps with somewhat less certainty: left and right took opposing sides on the severity of COVID and on the vax, masks, and lockdowns. Progressivism adopted its standard approach: fabricate or exaggerate a crisis, then argue that only leftist policy preferences constitute rational responses--in fact, they're essential. Without them, we'll ahve real wrath of God type stuff--fire and brimstone coming down from the skies...rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness...earthquakes. Volcanoes. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!

   Anyway. I say that Winton's right on target.