For years now, I have been afraid to talk about my burden in public. I’ve lived in constant fear that around every corner one of Al Gore’s hooded cronies would be there to beat me with the tire iron of environmentalism.
But in the shadow of an 18-percent budget cut and unparalleled corruption within the University, I think I can actually fly under the radar and sneak my self-righteous beliefs past you.
And so the time has come, today I’m going to do it. I feel safe enough to come out of the closet and declare that I don’t believe in the Global Warming fraud.
Now before you reach for the ground and pick up a stone, let me clarify my position. I am against the media propagation of the scientifically unproven ills of climate change.
The planet is getting warmer in certain locations — any chimp with a thermometer can figure that out. What I want, what I feel the American populous deserves, is to receive unbiased and fair coverage of a recent and evolving issue.
In a perceptive expose in The New York Times Magazine, Nicholas Dawidoff wrote about the scientific views of the renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson.
Dyson made much of his fame as a researcher in quantum field theory and other advanced physics — notably through his work on unifying quantum and electrodynamic theory.
In later life he has delved deeply into all modes of science and public policy.
Despite a lifetime of groundbreaking and historic contributions, he is now being ridiculed as a heretic for denying many of the dangers of global warming.
James Hansen, the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Al Gore have relied so much on models and atmospheric physics that they fail to address basic biology. The question we should be asking is: why is global warming bad?
In “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore seems to enjoy relishing in the melting snows of Kilimanjaro, the thawing Peruvian glaciers and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Gore is great at showing off his whiz-bang charts but fails to ponder if more carbon dioxide and warmth will destroy the world’s eco-systems or simply make the Earth warmer (since when was warmth a bad thing, Florida sure does seem to get some love.)
Glaciers have receded and grown for millions of years, for us to think we have the power or the right to stop them the way they are today is illogical.
Basic biology teaches us that carbon dioxide is fundamental for the life cycles of most of the vegetation on this planet. Why then would it be heretical to query that a warmer climate and higher levels of carbon dioxide would lead to increased vegetation, as Dyson has?
I’m not saying that global warming is good, nor am I saying that we should send excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to save the planet. But the media has no right to dictate either way.
In the words of the great Malcolm X, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
The media has declared war on free thinkers like Freeman Dyson, exerting populist rage over the death of polar bears and the rising oceans.
Perhaps we as a society should demand that the media stop telling us about the impending doom of a real life “Waterworld” and instead address why so many in our own nation are homeless and without insurance during this recession.
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