“Beginning
in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere
to melt the
polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores
and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries,” the Times reported.“Storm
patterns will change, drying out some areas, swamping others and generally throwing agriculture
into turmoil.”
Scary, isn't
it? Maybe, my cavalier attitude toward
Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Kerry,and others
insisting that manmade global warming is a serious and deadly problem - the most deadly
problem the world faces - is boneheaded on my part. Who am I to question the
consensus of the world's climate scientists?
They have been stating the reality of manmade
climate change since the 1970s. Why
would these well-educated scientists push a false
theory for close to 45 years? Al Gore
said the debate is over, and for 45 years the news media has reported that a consensus of
climate scientists agree.
Perhaps I
should remain open to the possibility that manmade climate change is real, at least for
another decade or two (if I live that long) and see if the Times report above
comes true. I would do that. I would!
EXCEPT THE TIMES REPORTED THAT IN 1985.
Miami-ans should have been experiencing an epidemic of crotch rot
since 1995.
Manmade
climate change is the modern day equivalent of the Piltdown man. In 1912,bone
fragments consisting of a cranium and a lower jaw were found in the Piltdown quarry in
East Sussex, England. Trained scientists
identified the bones as fossilized remains of a
"missing link" between apes and modern man. Eoanthropus dawsoni was discovered to be an
elaborate hoax consisting of an orangutan's lower jaw and the skull of a modern
human stained to appear ancient in 1953. For 41 years, paleontologists were dupes to a
prank.
Today's
paleontologists should be extremely happy that climate scientists have broken
their record. The debate is settled and we know everyone
who pushed the prank. But, who created the hoax?
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