I used to ignore climate change alarmists (read morons.) When I was a kid these jokers told us we would all either freeze to death or starve to death sometime in the 1980's. Gosh, what happened with that?
But the level of idiocy has been rising exponentially in the last few years. There are two things that concern me here. First is the assault on one of the cornerstones of our civilization, namely the scientific method. Secondly, is the use of this Chicken Little scenario to scare all of the half-wits out there who are looking for any reason to believe their pathetic little lives are in danger. These people will gladly march over the cliff if they think it will benefit Gaia. The problem is that they don't realize they're going to fall to their deaths. They think they're going to float of into some kind of hippie heaven. Talk about "useful fools."
Something has to be done to stop all this foolishness. We have the web for propagating information. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to check the veracity of info found in a web-site.
The scientific community is going to have to take a hand here and create a central database of facts, hypothesis, theories, etc. They're will have to make it clear that politicians and their ilk can not corrupt it.
Without something of this sort, the continued degradation of science will adversely affect us all.
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I used to ignore climate change alarmists (read morons.) When I was a kid these jokers told us we would all either freeze to death or starve to death sometime in the 1980's. Gosh, what happened with that?
But the level of idiocy has been rising exponentially in the last few years. There are two things that concern me here. First is the assault on one of the cornerstones of our civilization, namely the scientific method. Secondly, is the use of this Chicken Little scenario to scare all of the half-wits out there who are looking for any reason to believe their pathetic little lives are in danger. These people will gladly march over the cliff if they think it will benefit Gaia. The problem is that they don't realize they're going to fall to their deaths. They think they're going to float of into some kind of hippie heaven. Talk about "useful fools."
Something has to be done to stop all this foolishness. We have the web for propagating information. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to check the veracity of info found in a web-site.
The scientific community is going to have to take a hand here and create a central database of facts, hypothesis, theories, etc. They're will have to make it clear that politicians and their ilk can not corrupt it.
Without something of this sort, the continued degradation of science will adversely affect us all.