Posted on 08/30/2011 10:48:51 AM PDT by cruise_missile
If Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to State of Fear, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top secret, state of the art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists finally discover the true cause of “global warming”. It’s the sun, stupid. More specifically – as the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has long postulated – it’s the result of cosmic rays which act as a seed for cloud formation. The scientists working on the project are naturally euphoric: this is a major breakthrough which will not only overturn decades of misguided conjecture on so-called Man Made Global Warming but will spare the global economy trillions of dollars which might otherwise have been squandered on utterly pointless efforts to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, these scientists have failed to realise just how many people – alarmist scientists, huckster politicians, rent-seeking landowners like (the late Michael Crichton’s brilliant and, of course, entirely fictional creation) the absurd, pompous Sir Reginald Leeds Bt, green activists, eco-fund managers, EU technocrats, MSM environmental correspondents – stand to gain from the Man Made “Climate Change” industry.
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Racist
That’s right. Al Gore said it the other day. If you are talking to one of these CERN scientists and they say the Sun causes most Global Warming, you need tell them, “You know, you should be ashamed of yourself saying that. People just don’t talk that way anymore.”
I've been a believer of this for years; it is the only idea that makes sense and tracks real historic data.
Please. This modern day Lysenkoism is not going to be persuaded with “facts” there’s too much at stake for them.
The left-stream media will never report this.
I don’t know. This sounds pretty cosmic.
Oh the huge manatee!
ping
-- Fat Al
It’s settled. We must extinguish the sun.
I would really like to believe that this would put a stake through the heart of the Global Warming Scam, but the left has invested too much political currency into it to just let it go. I fear that it will be just like DDT... Silent Spring was published in 1962... by 1972 essentially every claim in the book made about DDT had been shown to be based on “flawed science” by an army of amateur environmentalists. But over 40 years later nearly all laypeople still shudder in fear when you mention DDT.
Long after every serious scientist has realized the whole anthropogenic global warming theory was a politically motivated farce from beginning to end... there will still be legions of true believers.
I meant to mention that 1972 was the year that the EPA banned DDT for use in the USA, despite their knowledge that the publics fears were based mostly on bad science and lies.
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