Opinion: Victor Davis Hanson: On climate and economy, the 'experts' are great at blather - San Jose Mercury News

In classical sophistic fashion, rhetoric is never far from personal profit. Multimillionaire Al Gore convinced the governments of the Western world that they were facing a global-warming Armageddon, then hired out his services to address the hysteria that he helped create.

How many climate Cassandras have well-funded research positions predicated on grants and subsidies that depend on convincing the public and government of impending disasters that they then can be hired to monitor and address? Are there no green antitrust laws? In contrast, how many of our climate theorists run irrigated farms and energy-intensive businesses at the mercy of new regulations that emanate from distant theorizing?
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Are we to wonder why an angry, grass roots tea party spread -- or why it was instantly derided by our experts and technocrats as ill-informed or worse?