Thomas Sowell on AGW and Science

The wise and astute Thomas Sowell has had a few words to say on the subject of the global warming hysteria in a recent commentary.

There are a number of comments of interest in his piece, but I especially like these:

People who talk about the corrupting influence of money seem to automatically assume that it is only private money that is corrupting. But, when governments have billions of dollars invested in the global warming crusade, massive programs underway and whole political careers at risk if that crusade gets undermined, do not expect the disinterested search for truth.

Among the intelligentsia, there have always been many who are ready to jump on virtually any bandwagon that will take them to the promised land, where the wise and noble few-- like themselves-- can take the rest of us poor dummies in hand and tell us how we had better change the way we live our lives.