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And wow again. If you gag your way through that article Stephan linked, about WC and Wikipedia, you'll get to where it says:

"... the skeptics needed time to recover their more detached sense of what is really going on with the weather. So the warmists enjoyed a head start thanks to their political zeal and their lack of scrupulosity."

Wossat? Huh? He thinks "warmists" lack whaaaat?
Let's lookitup:

Definitions of scrupulosity on the Web:

Wikipedia:

Scrupulosity is pathological concern with one's personal sins, including "sinful" acts or thoughts usually considered minor or trivial within their religious tradition. The term is derived from the Latin scrupulum, a sharp stone, implying a stabbing pain on the conscience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity

Oh, that can't possibly be what he meant, can it? He thinks this is lacking in "warmists" so presumably is amply supplied in the people he agrees with? Weeelllll....

* Anxious over-attentiveness to the details of moral or religious requirements (Wulff).
www.jesuits.ca/orientations/glossary3.html

Well, I guess that's what he meant.

Ah, what a pleasure it is to see the rhetoricist hoist on his own petulance.