Attacking Global Warming Science:
Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way

From Think Progress courtesy of the Daily Kos:

There is no scientific debate about whether human activity is contributing to global warming. Science Magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003. Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus the earth’s temperature is rising due to human activity. In 2002, the Bush administration’s EPA concluded that global warming the the last 20 years was “due mostly to human activity.”

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I posted recently about a friendly little argument I had with a conservative buddy: he proudly proclaimed that there is no scientific consensus that global warming is happening or that it is being caused by human activity. I figured that he read such bullshit in the National Review or some such right-wing rag, and I'm sure they're pushing this fictional point of view out the butt, but, to be honest, because I cannot bear the sewer-bathing that it would take to find out, I'm not sure who all is advocating this global warming lie. Apparently, George Will, the most muppet-like of conservative commentators, is one of the more well known global warming skeptics. I suppose it's all well and good for right-wing journals to just make shit up to support their crackpot points of view, but Will works for the Washington Post, ostensibly a reputable newspaper of record. They really ought to dismiss him right now for spewing this crap. I mean, Will is a conservative, and it's just fine for him to offer conservative opinions, but global warming is not an opinion. It's a fact. There is no debate anymore about whether it exists, about whether mankind is causing it. We are facing very dire circumstances if we don't do something about it right now, and casting doubt on the facts, simply to support an ideology, is the height of irresponsibility. Will has no place in the public square. Of course, the Washington Post obviously doesn't give a shit--Will already bears severe ethical baggage, and, apparently, that's just fine with the paper that broke the Watergate story three decades ago.

I often wonder if human civilization will still exist a century from now.

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