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Another TALE OF TWO HEADLINES!

January 26, 2009 - 7:54 am - by Roger Kimball
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2009-01-26 16:04:13

North America has been under glaciers 20 times in the last epoch and nobody got their carbon taxed when those ice ages warmed up. Global warming, like the Chicken Little story about the sky falling is the perfect political scam. That is:invent a problem and promise to solve it. Chicken Little made it back to his coop but his friends were all eaten.
Politicians blended with grant hungry scientists and new data can create the perfect storm. The rally cry for politicians is, “Give us your money and we will make your world better.”
A single volcano can throw off more carbon than the entire accumulated history of mankind. Wait until they try to tax one of those babies.
No one should like toxic pollutants or toxic loans and those should be shut out immediately. It is too bad for science that they can not exist independently of politics. Realiable information would be a mainstay of civilization unless some partial person finds a way to pollute it.