Global-warming alarmists take it for granted that they have the "scientific consensus" on their side. The truth is that their views can be as much an article of faith that avoids or elides basic facts. I was reminded of this recently after suggesting on our weekly television show -- The Journal Editorial Report on Fox News Channel -- that "everyone agrees there has been some warming over the past century, but most of it happened before 1940." "Not true," declared a subsequent editorial in the New Republic magazine. "The last three decades have seen the sharpest rise." TNR suggested I...
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