It really seems to have helped stave off that grim reality. It might help us all to step back for a minute, read a short history of climate change histerics, and realize that Al Gore might go down in history for merely being a fiercely agenda-driven Nobel award winner. My prediction? We’ve already seen the media shift from the inconveniently rigid term “global warming” to the more flexible “climate change.” I’d put money down that within 5-10 years, we’ll see the media start touting the horrors that will befall us if our government fails to do something to combat the impending ice age.
Perhaps we need to think about this rationally. Historians can easily tell you about the mini ice age the world experienced between 1600 and 1900. And since then, we’ve gone back and forth on our predictions of doom. Might the Earth’s temperatures naturally fluctuate, regardless of the existence of man? And shouldn’t the fact that the media has issued no less than four dire warnings of alternating nature in a century tell us that even our own effect on nature is inconclusive? I think it’s about time we start thinking reasonably about it all. Of course we need to be good stewards of our environment. But when we start mindlessly legislating and subsidizing specific industries and fuels as the result of a movie? Stuff like this starts to happen to the rainforests. (And yes, that last article is published by the NY Times, one of the major pushers of every “climate change” scare. Hmm… perhaps they’re just in it for the sensational effect rather than solid journalism…)
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April 12th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
gasp! how dare you substitute common sense for ideological purity. if the party line is that climate change is our fault, then you better damn well toe it. daily beratings will continue until morale approves.