Hold on. I thought 99 percent of Scientist agree: Mankind is destroying the planet! What did you do, go to a deniers conference?

Now let us say Scientists are spending 20 Billion dollars building a mega Particle Accelerator. And that Accelerator may produce micro “black holes” that may eat planet Earth — and all its whales and pandas, too. Instead of earth in the Balance it is Earth off to the Crusher. Is that reason for concern? Perhaps, but the French are involved so (insert shrug here). And when fellowship and tenured positions are on the line, we will just have to take our chances with planet earth.

I always thought that a large portion of the “Consensus Scientists” in the surveys are involved in something like “science” part of the day and teach gym class or Home Economics the rest. The trick is to just hone your survey population until you get the result you want. It’s like some of those think tank studies: “Here are your conclusions now go write the report.”

A few years back my relatives forced the Curmudgeon (me) to watch an Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore came across like a Side Show Barker in the Carnivals that used to pass through the Midwest. The difference was instead of wanting all your quarters he wanted 45 trillion dollars. That was just sort of, you know, a down payment.