The Greenhouse Effect vs. The Ultimo Effect

One of the most intelligent and insightful humans to have ever walked the face of the earth is American economist and social commentator Thomas Sowell.  It was Sowell who first identified the Greenhouse Effect. 

Sowell’s Greenhouse Effect has nothing to do with carbon emissions or climate change.  It is rather the observation that, over time, conservative US Supreme Court Justices tend to move to the left because they are influenced by and seek the approval of the left-leaning mainstream media.  The effect is named for Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist who wrote about the US Supreme Court for 40 years. 

Washington D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman, in a speech in 1992,…