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Today is the last day of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in NYC, made up of over 200 scientists from around the world who believe that — to make a long story short — Al Gore is full of polar bear doodies. Here’s how CNN’s Miles O’Brien capped off his report about the conference on last night’s Anderson Cooper 360°, which was the latest installment in their not-at-all-fearmongering “Planet in Peril” series (courtesy of Newsbusters):
“Even the Flat Earth Society didn’t fold its tent in 1493.”
That’s right: If you dare to be skeptical that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING!!!, you’re just like the people who still thought the Earth was flat a whole year after Columbus came to America.
Has O’Brien always been so convinced that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING!!!? Possibly not. Here’s what he had to say on CNN 15 years ago (courtesy of News Hounds):
“If the Gulf Stream were to shift again, the British Isles could be engulfed in polar ice and Europe’s climate could become frigid.”
Hot, cold, whatever! I guess I’m not smart enough to understand how Global Warming is going to plunge Europe into another ice age. O’Brien uses the movie The Day After Tomorrow to reconcile the two. I don’t really get that, but then, I’m no scientist. And even if I was, disbelief in Global Warming is heresy! Hey, man, that’s science for you. You gotta have faith.
Actually it`s very simple and not a tad bit hypocritical.
Global warming -> Earth`s ice caps begin to melt -> more water coming to the ocean -> change of ocean currents` directions -> Gulf stream, currently keeping British isles warmer than they should be because of their geografic position, changes direction -> British Isles no longer warmer than they should be -> polar ice and stuff. Oh, and Netherlands get drowned. There would be other consequences, but that`s the first wave.
Ya know he’s right. It’s actually getting warmer around here. Peaking sometime in August. Then of course we have to deal with all that cooling again.
The U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions, nerve agents, and radio active material–and they’re turning a certain desert region into a depleted uranium paradise, but lets focus on global warming. Lets attempt to enforce a global tax as a panacea and quell any real scientific debate. We should follow this plan because the plebes won’t know what to think and we can ignore all the real environmental problems that we’re creating! If any dare to question, look mortified at their ignorance and arrogantly declare that the time for debate is over, because the science is in. We should always strive to create a closed rhetorical loop and appeal to their pedestrian hive mind, by religiously adhering to this blueprint, the masses will always rally around us.
It’s a much overlooked irony that so many on the left use the Flat Earth Society as analog for anyone who questions the alarmism on global warming. In fact, those who believed the Earth was flat, like those who insisted the Sun orbits the Earth, were driven by catechismal doctrine, unwilling to have anyone question their unproven assertions, and blind to any objective, disciplined view of emerging scientific facts –the exact characteristics of Global Warming Alarmists around the world, and exactly opposite the skeptics!
Al Gore said over a year ago that the debate is over. And here you are still debating. Al is going to be really pissed at you.