Global Warming

Ah, my personal favorite scientific topic, only because it is in and of itself a political one.
global warming as declared by "the vast majority of scientists" is a regeneration of the hippy cry evolved into some allegedly sensible scientific arguments but before I continue I need to address the real problem which is that the populace regards scientific consensus as fact. It also follows that if the populace believes in scientific consensus then the journalist also does without a doubt. Several journalists refuse to allow arguments against global warming on their articles citing that "... global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future."

I wish to address the serious question of the purity of scientists. Scientists, like any other profession interact with market forces. A scientist who says that the apocalypse is nigh get funding while a scientist who does not preach the end of the world gets nothing. By definition the government creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. It goes something like this:

1. Government asks if need to check if there is a threat against our existence.
2. Scientists who believe there is a threat against our existence are funded for research.
   
3. Studies by paranoid scientists conclude that the world is going to end and call for more research
   
4. Funding is not given to other scientists who do not believe that the end is eminent in order to pay for the funding for apocalyptic scientists.
5. Scientists who believe that life is good make a decision between moving out of their discipline or moving towards the now forming consensus of eminent apocalypse.

Left wing think tanks are now trying something that they never succeed at doing: rebranding. Some worrisome leftists, who wish to push a conservationist agenda, are trying to change the terminology from global warming to global climate change. This is the saddest action I have ever seen taken. If the global climate goes up they say that we need to decrease our emissions, If the global climate goes down then we need to decrease our emissions. They are hedging their bet by using a catch all phrase. The only conceivable manner to disprove global warming is for the climate to stay constant, although that can be "proven" by dictating that climate cycles have been stopped because of human activity.

Global Warming has become unfalsifiable, the only way to disprove global warming is to detonate an earth sized EMP and discover that global climate change, surprise surprise, still happens.

Thankfully Americans have wizened up to global warming

Chalk one more for the rightist conspiracy