WAITING FOR SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: A crime against humanity? It’s not enough to have scientific consensus, you have to have it when the politicians think you should have it.

UPDATE: Related item here:

In his new book, “The Assault on Reason,” Gore denounces what he sees as today’s politics of fear. Yet his own campaign of mass persuasion — any such campaign — is not amenable to contradiction and uncertainty. It’s about fright and absolutes.

Yes, even the scientific consensus isn’t consensus-y enough for Gore.