Monday, December 17, 2007
"[W]e happy few, we band of brothers ..."
"A small group of US experts stubbornly insist that, contrary to what the vast majority of their colleagues believe, humans may not be responsible for the warming of the planet Earth," Yahoo! News reports.
"These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say supports their assertions.
"These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data."
I can just hear the response from Al Gore's sycophants: "The operative word, Django, is 'small.' The consensus in the scientific community is that global warming is caused by human activity."
Sixty years ago, the consensus amongst economists and social scientists was that collectivism and statism were inevitable, and that what was happening in the Soviet Union was the wave of the future. Hundreds of scholarly articles were trotted out to support these claims. Critics of socialist planning, such as Freidrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, were ridiculed for daring to question what the Al Gores of the day said was unequivocally true.
We all know what happened to the Soviet Union; and nobody, except for the editors of the Nation and the members of the Communist Party-USA, actually thinks that allowing the government to control the means of production is good idea.
So, the next time you see Al Gore on the boob tube prattling on and on about "consensus," remember where we heard that one before ...
"These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say supports their assertions.
"These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data."
I can just hear the response from Al Gore's sycophants: "The operative word, Django, is 'small.' The consensus in the scientific community is that global warming is caused by human activity."
Sixty years ago, the consensus amongst economists and social scientists was that collectivism and statism were inevitable, and that what was happening in the Soviet Union was the wave of the future. Hundreds of scholarly articles were trotted out to support these claims. Critics of socialist planning, such as Freidrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, were ridiculed for daring to question what the Al Gores of the day said was unequivocally true.
We all know what happened to the Soviet Union; and nobody, except for the editors of the Nation and the members of the Communist Party-USA, actually thinks that allowing the government to control the means of production is good idea.
So, the next time you see Al Gore on the boob tube prattling on and on about "consensus," remember where we heard that one before ...
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Monday, December 17, 2007 
