OpinionJournal - Climate of Fear

It's probably named for Michael Crichton's latest novel State of Fear. But this is no less true. Global warming is turning out to be a lot of hot air--but it's hot air with a lot of granting authority behind it. The Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT now denounces the system of fraud and intimidation that keep the global warming controversy, zombie-like, still jerking.