It is a long way from Science to the Federal Register, Mencius Moldbug says, but not as far as many think:
Think of this leg of the decision process — from hockey stick to cap-n-trade — as a slow, arduous, but essentially automatic mechanism, like colonic peristalsis. The various political glands in the pipeline, including Public Opinion Itself, can exert resistance, but not insert independent input. They are brakes, but not motors. They can stall the process, but not stop it, and certainly not turn the wheel and do something else instead.