posted June 07, 2006 09:47 AM         

Forget Gregg Easterbrook's confession on Slate that he has finally been persuaded by the science. Never mind Michael Shermer's "cognitive flip" at Scientific American . All the many recent conversions of global warming skeptics to global warming believers pale in comparison to this one: The latest climate contrarian to come around is pollster Frank Luntz.

You read that right. The author of the infamous memo coaching the Republicans to exploit whatever uncertainties remained in the science of global warming now tells the BBC that he accepts the scientific consensus. (It comes just a few minutes into the video.)

Luntz: "It's now 2006. I think most people would conclude that there is global warming taking place and that the behavior of humans are (sic) affecting the climate."

BBC: "But the administration has continued taking your advice. They're still questioning the science."

Luntz: "That's up to the administration. I'm not the administration. What they want to do is their business. It has nothing to do with what I write. It has nothing to do with what I believe."

Nice how he can just walk away from it like that, eh?