Earth has had, for most of the time that we could measure such things, 400 miles of atmosphere between ground level and the Absolute Zero temperatures of outer space. We’re down to 250 miles. As the science writer of the Telegraph put it, we are 150 miles closer to outer space than we were at the dawn of the Space Age.
If there were a rationale to blame this on Bush and Cheney, it would be reported in the press and everyone would know about it. Just like the "doomed" polar bears. And the "disappearing" bees. And the melting glaciers. Yada yada.
We believe it highly likely that the temperate zones of the world— where most people and most grains come from—will experience notably cooler weather this year, which could imperil key crops. Last year, according to some preliminary climatological surveys, the world temperature fell one degree Fahrenheit, the biggest one-drop for which we have authoritative records apart from the short-term cooling after Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991.
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the global warmists have such control over the universities, politics and media, that discussion of the possibility of a new period of global cooling is treated as something between hysteria and voodoo. Therefore, farmers and agricultural planners are making no provision for the possibility that this growing season could be far more challenging than last year. And, based on the historical evidence, cooling is cumulative: if the spots don’t return, next year is likely to be more problematic for farmers than this year.
Our science establishment is about as politically controlled as the former Soviet Union's was. At least there are some signs most people have stopped believing.
One of Galileo’s contemporaries, Montaigne, expressed his exasperation about the way science was treated. “We parrot whatever opinions are commonly held, accepting them as truths, with all the paraphernalia of supporting arguments and proofs, as thought they were something firm and solid…Thus the world is pickled in stupidity and brimming over with lies.” That could describe today’s situation whenever the subject of global warming is discussed publicly.
Boy, that still applies today. |
