(Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew) Conservative columnist Bret Stephens ignited a firestorm Friday when his debut op-ed for the New York Times tried to conflate pollsters’ confidence in Hillary Clinton winning the election to climate scientists’ assurances that global warming is a dangerous reality. The former Wall Street Journal columnist argued that faulty polling data during the 2016 election proves that science can be wrong in other areas. “There’s a lesson here,” the new Times columnist wrote about Clinton’s flawed polling numbers.