Tuesday, June 17, 2003


GLOBAL CYNICISM

See here for a translation of the National Academy of Science’s report on global-warming into more honest English. And Nobel prizewinner Kary Mullis explains it REALLY simply: “Environmentalists predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple." There is a review of Mullis’s book here. Mullis recommends the "Public Choice" ideas of James Buchanan, 1986 Nobel prizewinning economist, to anyone trying to find out how publicly funded big science actually works. Interestingly, research in the field is increasingly labelled 'climate change' rather than global warming. A code word for hedged bets?

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