Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition By William F. Buckley

"The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable columnist (Thomas Friedman of The New York Times) opened his essay last week by writing, 'Sometimes you read something about this administration that's just so shameful it takes your breath away.'
What asphyxiated this critic was the discovery that a White House official had edited 'government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming.' The correspondent advises that the culprit had been an oil-industry lobbyist before joining the administration, and on leaving it he took a job with Exxon Mobil.
For those with addled reflexes, here is the story compressed: (1) Anyone who speaks discriminatingly about global warming is conspiring to belittle the threat. Such people end up (2) working for Exxon Mobil, a perpetrator of the great threat the malefactor sought to distract us from."

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