What ever happened to the "non-skeptic heretic"?

Cute:

I confess: I am prepared to acknowledge that Mr. McIntyre's discovery amounts to what a New York Times reporter calls a "statistically meaningless" rearrangement of data.

I confesss: I've consistently been proven wrong in my assumptions and conclusions over the years. But what the hey, you throw enough rocks at something you'll eventually come up with something the media didn't cover but maybe would have had it been the other way around but they didn't so therefore most of this is hype and I just can't trust what I hear anymore. Therefore, you should take me seriously.

I confess: I am prepared to acknowledge that the world has been and will be getting warmer thanks in some part to an increase in man-made atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. [...]

I confess: It's easy to be indifferent to far-off and diffuse threats. It's hard to work toward solutions the benefits of which will not be felt in our lifetime.

I confess: In order to make my point I contradict myself...

I confess: I understand that global warming may have negative consequences. Heat waves, droughts and coastal flooding may become more intense. Temperature-sensitive viruses such as malaria could become more widespread. Lakes may be depleted by evaporation. Animal life will suffer. [...]

I confess: Though it may surprise those who use the term "denier" so as to put me on a moral plane with Holocaust deniers, I have children for whom I would not wish an environmental apocalypse.

...a lot.

Some might argue it is immoral to think this way. Maybe they are the ones living in denial.

Some say carbon dioxide is life! Some may argue that Bret Stephens is the climate change policy equivalent of the lazy couch potato who knows that putting down the beer and pork rinds to get a little exercise every so often is the right thing to do. It's just so damned difficult. Hey: 24 is on!