Man-made Global Warming - So What If It’s a Hoax?
A truly wonderful article, combining truth and humor. Do read the whole thing.
A small forest of pulpwood has been clear-cut and thousands of keystrokes have been exhausted by the indispensable media heralds warning us about the looming catastrophe from manmade CO2. While in fact the global warming science is rather dubious and legitimate skeptics appear to be thinning (according to MIT professor Richard Lindzen WSJ Opinion Journal 4/12/06)-- intimidated, muzzled and shunned if they dare speak up-- how can serious debunkers of this new junk science get an audience? Well, don’t bother. It doesn’t really matter.
Unlike some previous hysterical screeds, such as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, long on deceptive compelling rhetoric but short on facts, which actually tolled millions of lives lost to malaria over 35 years as DDT was banned around the globe, this latest science fiction isn’t likely to create such a tragic legacy. Curbing our appetite for burning fossil fuels may be a “good thing”. No doubt Martha Stewart agrees.
As hoaxes, deceptions and hyperbole go, this one may be the biggest and hardest to shake. Following a pattern from other panics, clever entrepreneurs and global corporations alike will make a handsome profit, some even obscene, employing the 16th century idiom “a fool and his money are soon parted.” Of course government bureaucrats, never actually in danger of a recession or natural devastation affecting their lifetime employment, will have found another justification for tenure.
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But what about having to endure the endless intellectual dishonesty from the global warming doomsayers? Look, don’t let it ruin a good martini. Get over it. Besides, now that Peyton Manning has finally won a Super Bowl, what else would we talk about?
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