Al Gore
and his traveling medicine show is back in town with his new, improved snake
oil, guaranteed to grow hair, improve digestion, promote regularity and kill
roaches, rats and bedbugs. Al and his wagon rumbled into
town on the eve of “a major forthcoming report” from the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, which is a panel of scientists affiliated with the United Nations.
Their report is expected to buck up the spirits of the tycoons of the snake-oil
industry.
A snake-oil salesman’s lot, like a policeman’s, is not a
happy one. There’s always a skeptic or two (or three) standing at the back of
the wagon, eager to scoff and jeer. The global-warming scam would have been
right up Gilbert and Sullivan’s street. Would Al and the U.N.
deceive us? No! Never! What! Never? Weeeell, hardly ever.
The New York
Times, a faithful shill for Al’s snake-oil elixir,
following the wagon from town to town, got an advance copy of the U.N.
report and gives out with the “good” news: It’s a “near certainty” that humans
are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades, and warns that
by the end of the century all the little people — small children, midgets and
others whose growth was stunted by drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes at an
early age — will be up to their belly buttons in salt water. The seas will rise
by more than three feet....Dr. Kimimori Itoh, a Japanese physical chemist, calls the phenomenon “the worst
scientific scandal in history. When people come to know what the truth is, they
will feel deceived by science and scientists.”.......To Read More....
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