If it's unstoppable, why bother trying to stop it?
The History Channel ran a show this morning on LBJ's secret tapes in which journalist David Brinkley tells Jack Valenti that no one reads the New York Times editorials, not even the New York Times' editorial writers!
Well, as you know, Kevin and I do often read the Houston Chronicle's editorials, gluttons for punishment that we are, and the one the other day on the UN report on global warming (we're all DOOMED!) was great fun. There was nary a dissenting thought to be found. Why, global warming "science" is settled (it's all man's fault) and we had just better deal with it, according to the echo chamber that is the Chron's editorial board. They even cite as evidence the correlation between rising sea temperatures and severe hurricanes, à la 2005, although they conveniently fail to mention 2006's hurricane season.
Never mind that there are serious problems with the "settled science" that says global warming is caused by man. Our planet has had a history of climate changes, including the warming period that occurred between 900 and 1200 AD, and the subsequent cooling period that lasted until the mid-1800s. It would seem that yes, we are in a warming period, because we just finished a cooling period! Did man cause the earlier warming period?
Anyway, since we are all doomed and "man-made" global warming is unstoppable, why should we kill our economy trying to fix it? And can Mexicans now have their corn back for tortillas?
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Posted by Anne Linehan @ 02/04/07 09:01 AM | Houston Chronicle | Print | Comments (25)
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