“She is willing, however, to appear alongside politicians and pundits who flatly reject the basic tenets of climate change that she embraces.”
“Basic tenets?” Since when is the product of multiple computer models, using estimated, kriged, pseudo data a “basic tenet of climate science?”
Even if the incredibly poor temperature reports, based on sparse data, limited global coverage, and more than a,little guess work, do come close to reflecting an actual increase in “global average temperature (oh please!), that is not a “basic tenet of climate science.”
Now, CAGW is a basic tenet of progressive politics. It is a central factor in the dogma of the Church of Global Warming. It is the foundation from which western governments are seeking centralization of control over the energy economy. But “global warming”, and its poor step-brother, climate sensitivity, are at best the end products of a scientific process, not a tenet, basic or otherwise, of that science.