The memo defined “victory” as making “uncertainties in climate science part of the conventional wisdom for average citizens” and “promoters of curbs on fossil fuel emissions seen as ‘out of touch with reality,’ ” to the point where “ ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue and”—Dr. Evil had just been invented—“there are no further initiatives to thwart the threat of climate change.” Thus a generation after the big 1980 victory and a decade after John Sununu did his crucial dirty work in Washington, the Establishment right moved definitively beyond legitimate policy argument to a dangerous new
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