Over 17,000 scientists have reached a consensus about global warming. They say it’s no big deal. [Update: More info on the 17,000 scientists here. The petition is disputed. It's just as much hype as the global warming reporting.]
Do I care about consensus? No. Science should be based on facts, not groupthink. (At one point there was consensus that the world was flat, remember.) But this is one consensus the media is not going to talk about, so it’s worth pointing out.
When a dog urinates on a fire hydrant, we don’t arrest him. He’s just being a dog. And when journalists write scaremongering hysterical climate change stories, they’re just doing what they’ve been doing for over a hundred years. All we need to do is wait it out, without letting these imbeciles and the sheep who follow them wreck the economy, and before long they’ll start up with the global cooling again.
Doesn’t anybody else get the feeling that we’re stuck in the Matrix on this issue? Some information that will help you break free is here.
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Excellent article, Laura. You are so right, it should be based on scientific research. But, that would harm the cause of global warming as caused by mankind, and restrict the cash flow coming to those that push it.
I agree, it is a money game. Now that we have better methods to research and track this stuff, maybe we can break the cycle. I was shocked to learn that this is the fourth, not the second, cycle of scaremongering. I remembered the global cooling and population bomb scares of the 70s but to learn that this was going on in 1895 was just amazing. We can’t let them get by with it anymore.