Aliens Cause Global Warming.

Michael Crichton.Com ^ | January 17, 2003 | Michael Crichton

[Leisler]

"....found in the response to criticism. Although Richard Feynman was characteristically blunt, saying, "I really don't think these guys know what they're talking about," other prominent scientists were noticeably reticent. Freeman Dyson was quoted as saying "It's an absolutely atrocious piece of science but...who wants to be accused of being in favor of nuclear war?" And Victor Weisskopf said, "The science is terrible but---perhaps the psychology is good." The nuclear winter team followed up the publication of such comments with letters to the editors denying that these statements were ever made, though the scientists since then have subsequently confirmed their views.

At the time, there was a concerted desire on the part of lots of people to avoid nuclear war. If nuclear winter looked awful, why investigate too closely? Who wanted to disagree? Only people like Edward Teller, the "father of the H bomb."

Teller said, "While it is generally recognized that details are still uncertain and deserve much more study, Dr. Sagan nevertheless has taken the position that the whole scenario is so robust that there can be little doubt about its main conclusions." Yet for most people, the fact that nuclear winter was a scenario riddled with uncertainties did not seem to be relevant.

I say it is hugely relevant. Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends. ........"

[RatsDawg]

All the loyal Elve thugs in the SEIU will be dispatched to beat up the Tea Partying Elves outside who are pissed that their jobs went to India.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I always thought that alien spacecraft was carbon neutral.

That is just what they want you to think. Don't believe it. They are pure CO2 and if the trees didn't eat them they would destroy the earth. But because the trees do eat them they become carbon neutral and are exhaled as oxygen.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT