Bruce Bartlett has written an article on climate change, but he forgets to add all the hype and hyperbole. Instead he focuses on the history of climate change, as recorded by scholars:

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who lived from 427 B.C. to 347 B.C., wrote about major climate changes that were known in his day. In the dialogue “Timaeus,” he argued that global warming occurs at regular intervals, often leading to great floods. Said Plato: “When … the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors … are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains. But those who … live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea.”

In the dialogue “Critias,” Plato wrote about weather-related geological changes. He referred to “formidable deluges” that washed away all the topsoil, turning the land into a “skeleton of a body wasted by disease.” What were now plains had once been covered with rich soil, Plato said, and barren mountains were once covered with trees. The yearly “water from Zeus” had been lost, he went on, creating deserts where the land was once productive.

Aristotle also noted changes in the climate:

He noted that in the time of the Trojan War, the land of Argos was marshy and unarable, while that of Mycenae was temperate and fertile.

“But now the opposite is the case,” Aristotle wrote. “The land of Mycenae has become completely dry and barren, while the Argive land that was formerly barren, owing to the water, has now become fruitful.” He observed the same phenomenon elsewhere covering large regions and nations.

I wonder if the members of the Church of Global Warming would have ex-communicated these two like they are the scholars of today who disagree with their doctrine. The debate they claim to be over is being debated every day. But the zealots from the Church have a pronged attack to defend against dissent. They get the politicians in their pockets. And they try to disgrace the heretics.

Facts need not apply at the Church of Global Warming.