Global warming duds…
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy represented an article from the Melbourne Herald Sun entitled Top 10 Dud Global Warming Predictions.
While I would rank myself as a skeptic of global warming, especially of the histrionic man-bear-pig Al Gore variety, articles like this entertain me for reasons other than the debunking.
Global Warming, or Climate Change as many would have us call it, attracts grand standers like any other fad. Tim Flannery, as mentioned in the above article, is a look-at-me-look-at-me kind of proselytizer. The more outlandish, and entirely verfiable, his predictions are, the more press he seems to have received. He joins such prediction luminaries as the inestimably stupid Paul Ehrlich.
The reasons that global warming activists generally get on my nerves and do not move me to action tend to fall in these areas:
- The activists themselves are often scientifically illiterate. It’s tough to take the clueless seriously.
- Hyperbole is very regularly used and justified because it furthers a righteous agenda.
- Morality is mostly the fall back position when the point being made is shown to be contradictory with the larger thesis of global warming, with the resounding idea, “it’s better to do something than nothing.”
If the global warming experts, i.e. the scientists that have this stuff down cold, and are willing to back their theories up publically, would vociferously distance themselves from the grandstanders and morons I would be more inclined to trust their motivations and their predictions. To date, I haven’t seen many that would do so.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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