Sunday, September 25, 2005
UNKNOWABLE FUTURE KNOWN
In his latest “the sky is falling, and the sky is on fire, and the whole damn sky is full of depleted uranium!” book, environmentaloid extremist Tim Flannery allows that:
Science is about hypotheses, not truths, and no one can absolutely know the future.
Go tell it to Sir John Lawton, pal:
Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the “smoking gun” of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists believes ...
In a series of outspoken comments—a thinly veiled attack on the Bush administration—Sir John hit out at neoconservatives in the US who still deny the reality of climate change.
Referring to the arrival of Hurricane Rita he said: “If this makes the climate loonies in the States realise we’ve got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation.”
Asked what conclusion the Bush administration should draw from two hurricanes of such high intensity hitting the US in quick succession, Sir John said: “If what looks like is going to be a horrible mess causes the extreme sceptics about climate change in the US to reconsider their opinion, that would be an extremely valuable outcome.”
Climate loonies? How impolite. I’m a climate dissident, and I’ll thank you not to crush my dissent.