Sunday, June 8, 2008

LAT puts lipstick on legislative pig

The LAT argues that the defeat Friday in the Senate of cap and trade legislation was actually a victory because fewer Senators opposed it this time than last. Your position on that legislation, assuming you are not a politician, depends on your belief in the god of global warming, for global warming is more a religion than anything else. If you believe, if you have faith, then facts don't matter. All that matters is that you propagate the faith.

To others, belief in global warming is like television evangelism. Routine fluctuations in temperature are presented as evidence of future catastrophic climate change. Fanciful assumptions are plugged into computer climate models developed by true believers. The debate is over, they argue, citing such eminent climate scientists as Al Gore, lawyer and politician.

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