Posted by
Doctor Demex on Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:54:51 PM
I ended the last entry with a reference to people with more than half a brain. It seems they are the ones profiting from those with less than half a brain. The "halfs" versus the "half-nots." The half-wits are the useful idiots of the big-government smarty-pants elite. Al Gore is not a halfwit, for if he were, he would sincerely believe that he's not cynically trying to perpetrate one of the biggest hoaxes ever conceived. No, sir, Mr. Gore is no halfwit, but he holds the whisk that's whipping the halfwits into a frenzy, made extra frothy with lots of hot air. The hysterical global-warming crowd displays characteristics of a religious cult. I'm not the first to notice this, so I'll leave the obvious cult characteristics for others to explain.
Last February we were treated to another report that said that many scientists were more certain than ever that the contribution of human activity to data indicating a pattern of global warming was "discernable." This wasn't really saying much, other than that we had adjusted our computer models and had refined our measurement techniques to detect things we didn't claim to detect before. There's nothing wrong with improving our investigatory skills, and so the report went on to say that under various sets of assumptions the data indicated that a human contribution to global warming was "likely."
But what the report said didn't really matter. On its face it asserted that there was a consensus among "scientists" that humans are likely to be partially to blame for global warming, but this was a far cry from the language used in the media to tout the report as proof beyond a reasonable doubt that humans were the cause of global warming. If that's what the report meant to say, it would have. It did not say so, because such an assertion could not be justified by real scientists, even those who politically wished it so.
As some of those involved in the writing of the report observed in the Associated Press story accompanying its release, the document was a political document designed to get policymakers to act.
Supporters of the report say it proves that we have to do something now to avoid catastrophe. The report says nothing of the kind. In fact, it makes a counterintuitive assertion that even though humans have had a hand in global warming there is nothing we can do to prevent it. If that's the case, then reversing the industrial revolution, perhaps also reversing the trend in human life expectancy that went along with it, would have no benefit. We owe it to ourselves not to think in sound-bites. But our choices are limited in times of crises, such as when an armed assailant demands "your money or your life." Al Gore is holding his whisk to our throat and demanding that we be whipped into submission or stand accused of something akin to denying the holocaust of World War Two. That's some choice, isn't it? It's one that fewer and fewer thoughtful people are willing to accept.