jorgietom predicts “The fight will go on unabated.”
jorgietom, what we are seeing here on Climate Etc is not the continuation of the Steyn/Mann hockey-stick fight, but rather its ending.
• For millions of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers, the main open question nowadays is not Mann’s old hockey-stick blade of accelerating temperature rise, but rather Hansen’s new hockey-stick blade of accelerating sea-level rise.
• For billions of practicing Catholics, the main social question nowadays is not Steyn’s old hockey-stick blade of stale politics-as-usual rhetoric, but rather Francis’ new hockey-stick blade of enlightening economic and moral activism.
Prediction Few citizens, and even fewer mathematicians, scientists and engineers, will have much regard for the eventual outcome of Steyn-vs-Mann (except for Steyn and Mann, that is).
Advice Mark Steyn would be well-advised to personally apologize to Michael Mann, and Michael Mann would be well-advised to accept that personal apology.
Because apology or not, soon it will be “game over, well-ended, and good riddance” … to a Steyn/Mann circus that has always been more about juvenile terms-of-abuse than scientific substance.
Meanwhile atmospheric CO2 is increasing, the oceans are heating, the land is baking, the waters are acidifying, the mountain glaciers are melting, the ice-caps are sliding, and the sea-levels are rising … while the land and the communities on that land suffer ongoing ecological, economic, and social devastation.
Conclusion Nowadays fewer-and-fewer citizens, mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and religious leaders are quibbling about these amalgamated realities.
