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A Climate Convert Roils the Waters

Explore the changing views in the climate change debate, where skeptics confront the realities of anthropogenic global warming.

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This is an interesting and peculiar "conversion story" of a climate skeptic who is

now persuaded that anthropogenic global warming is real.

The piece offers some excellent advice to the left and right sides of the debate, but it also contains standard conservative hyperbole about Al Gore ("He's clearly looking to ride global warming to greater wealth and power"), the supposed climate change stalking horse ("The Left has seized on it as an opportunity to dismantle free markets and grow government"), and a certain flawed global institution ("The UN is a systemically-corrupt, left-wing political organization"). Forget the climate change conversion, what does it take for a "skeptic" to realize he is viewing the world through an exaggerated ideological lens? All in all, the piece is a mixed bag for those who would co-opt it for their side in the climate wars. Right now, it seems to have mostly rankled climate ...

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