Indictment of credulous doomsayers
David Looser wrote:
"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, who had his
career ruined for exposing the lies of the environmental lobby.
Or the man who gained fame and book sales from telling businessmen,
politicians and the public what they wanted to hear.
The man who pointed out that the official statistics do not support
the doomsaying of the environmentalists, that therefore they have no
right to claim that global warming is a scientifically based fear.
One simple example. If you have the Gore video, check where he stands
in front of a stage-length graph and tells us how CO2 emissions cause
global warming. Except the graph, and all the official statistics from
the IPCC, show that global warming precedes CO2 emissions. That's all
the proof we need that we had a lucky escape that the moron Gore
wasn't elected to the hot seat in Washington. (It's even worse if he
lies knowingly and is making money out of his carbon trading credits
scheme. One is reminded of a fantasy by Richard Condon that
Prohibition was a huge wheeze by a guy who had laid in enough booze to
get very rich out of illegally supplying the illegal substance...) On
that sort of "science" I don't want a single buck of my tax money
spent. That is the point Lomborg made again and again and again,
roundabout 800 pages of a review of the literature of the "scientific"
doomsayers, with the slt every time: they lied about the numbers.
I first called the bull**** of these people bull**** when still in my
teens I wrote a newspaper column that never failed to mention the hole
in the ozone layer -- that they then earnestly assured us would cause
the world to FREEZE. Nobody ever explained why the same hysterical
dumbos next hysterically misinterpreted some shortterm trends in
temperature rise and started forecasting that we would all die in the
HEATSTORM. In 1973 in the middle of the Oil Recession, I pointed out
that the world had 440 years of oil left, double the 220 years since
the the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (the inference is that
those who think we won't find a new source of energy in so much time
must think we're all stupid),and that all the price increase meant was
that more oil already known about could be economically recovered.
Today there are more known oil reserves at $100 a barrel than there
was a generation ago at $35 a barrel and vastly more than there was a
half-century ago at $10 a barrel. Look it up: you will be amazed.
That's what Lomborg did. He looked it up instead of just being an
impressionable, credulous fool like you.
Andre "Show me the numbers" Jute
God, I love statistics (for separating the fools from the survivors)
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