Chicken Little

Jim Hansen, a leading NASA scientist has been crying wolf about Global Warming since 1988. His latest warning (see The Sky Is Falling) is particularly shrill and doomsday predicting. Now Herr Hensen might be right in his dire warnings but, then again, the tone of his rhetoric suggests to me a bit of panic in that there has been a decided public opinion shift toward the doubters … perhaps due to the spate of very cold weather we have had lately. (Also, perhaps because global temperatures have not increased since 1999 and, many scientists say, are falling back to levels more normal to the last century.) I chose to believe that it is cognitive dissonance that is driving the Chicken Littles of the Global Warming Cult to up the heat-level of their public pronouncements … from the sanctity of their Gore-created-and-protected Mount Olympus.

If we could only package all this bluster and shoot it off into space, we surely could delay the possibility of real global warming for another century.