In her on-air dismemberment of the disingenuous National Post columnist Lawrence Solomon last week, Anna Maria Tremonti, host of the CBC radio show, The Current, asked Solomonย this:
โIn your book (The Deniers), you write that the scientist you talk about are not actually deniers, that most of them quibble with some of the details but not with the fundamental question of whether climate change is happening or whether it is caused by human activity. Do I have thatย right?โ
Solomon responded: โNo, you donโt have that right atย all.โ
Yet, on Page 45 of his book, Solomon says: โโAs these dramatic reversals for the doomsday view mounted, I noticed something striking about my growing cast ofย deniers.
โNone of them wereย deniers.โ
Solomon then spends a page going over quibbles and concludes that the people in his book are โAffirmers in general. Deniers inย particular.โ
Which is to say that Tremonti had it absolutely right, regardless of Solomonโs willingness – against evidence committed by his own hand – to try to sayย otherwise.
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