Rush Limbaugh commented on an announcement from the scientific community that global warming due to human activity may have become irreversible. His assertion is that if we cannot fix it, how could we have caused it? As if political pundits and uninformed blowhards like Limbaugh don't rant loudly enough to a willfully blind, lethargic, and accepting populace in a successful attempt to confuse the issue, Michael Crichton has entered his rather gargantuan frame into the picture (can a frame enter a picture?) to give his "expert testimony" before congress.
Crichton riddles merrily that nearly unanimous consensus amongst the scientific community regarding the apparently volutile subject of global warming is not enough to consider the conclusions compelling. He also states that the major problem with climate studies that suggest global warming is that they are not peer reviewed and often very secretive about their data. He conveniently forgets about the international review of scientific papers produced by the IPCC that states there exists a large variety of peer reviewed studies that suggest human activities have enduced an unnatural warming trend.
This hasn't stopped Crichton from writing his novel "State of Fear" that has become a favorite amongst the right-wing unbelievers who, apparently, find belief in something they cannot see more compelling than mounds of evidence pointing to something about to run them over. Crichton's book follows a group of fearmongering scientists who actually conspire to cause global weather catastrophies to scare folks into believing in global warming.
A conspiracy to fool the peoples of the world?
I want to comment on Senator James Inhofe who says that "...With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phoney science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it." Considering the global support for the Kyoto protocol and the vast crowd of scientists who believe the data are compelling, he must be speaking of a vast global conspiracy to defraud the American public. More vast than "The DaVinci Code" and "National Treasure" (starring Nicholas Cage) put together! Thank you, Senator and Dr. Crichton for opening our eyes to this diabolical global scheme to selfishly and insidiously ensure the continuance of life on this planet! Perhaps we will one day capture the masterminds and find out what their motives for this scheme could possibly be. Likely, we will never understand the depths of evil that could push a community to such limits.
But, perhaps they are actually referring to the small cadre of skeptics within the scientific community that are actually funded by large corporations like Exxon with something to lose (money) by ratification of the Kyoto Protocol?
I'm certain that the Senator and his supporters are too busy creating smokescreens to bother with simple details like that.
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Wow, I can't tell if that was a compliment or spam.
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