Climate Legislation: Push for This Year or Wait for Next?

Key excerpt from this post:

All social and political movement in the last few years has been in one direction -- greater concern, greater priority. We're supposed to think it's going to just drop off the radar if politicians wait until next year?

I think that the alarmists vastly overestimate public support for their position. If everyone in your own social circles seems to agree with your alarmism, I think it's easy to wrongly extrapolate that you've got a mandate from voters.

Some reasons to think that the "high water mark" of the current hysteria has already passed:

1. Public support seems to have already peaked.

Gore may have won over the most gullible quarter of the American public, but expanding that number will be very difficult.

2. The idea of "scientific consensus" seems to be fading.

3. Support from the media also seems to be waning.