As time goes on it is becoming clearer that the entire premise upon which Anthropogenic Global Warming is based, namely the so-called "Greenhouse Effect," is in fact nonsense. (QandO has a nice post looking at some of the new research concerning a decrease in solar winds and their possible effects on climate.)
My concern here is not the progress of science, but how the press will present the inevitable re-ordering of scientific thought towards actual reality. In other words, what has to happen before the press will acknowledge the AGW hysteria they promoted was dead wrong?
My guess is we will have to wait for this generation of media types to retire.
I'm not joking.
Even if we went into a decades long cooling trend (a possibility given the dearth of sunspot activity), I do not think the media could "give up" on their old beliefs. The reason is obvious. Their original motivations were ideological, not scientific. They wanted to believe in AGW because it confirms their worldview, and presents the liberal/capitalistic political/economic order as the villain. Just as we had old time communists singing the praises of "Good ol' Uncle Joe" even after they were presented the millions of corpses of the gulags, we will find these media types refusing to bow to the actual reality of climate.
It will be a sad spectacle.
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