Skepticism Under Attack in new movie: “Greedy Lying Bastards”
Dr. Pierre R. Latour, noted for his engineering prowess in helping design and develop the docking system for NASA’s Apollo space mission, turns film critic to lambast the latest film sold in the name of junk science. Latour’s eagle eye has landed on the new science-free climate movie: “Greedy Lying Bastards” (PG-13, 90 min) that trumpets alarmist fears over man-made global warming in the shrillest and most despairing tones.
Here is Dr. Latour’s round up:
If you find any physics linking CO2 to temperature here, please advise.
If you discover ways to earn a living from global warming hysteria, you are smart.
If you discover glacial cycles have a period of about 100,000 years with an interglacial period of about 15,000, your discovery has been made already.
If you realize Chicago is covered by an ice sheet >1 mile thick 85{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the time, you get it.
If you realize humanity prospers during interglacials, not glacials, you get it.
If you discover Earth’s temperature has stabilized at a local high since 1998, you can expect it to begin cooling soon. Maybe -15C. Because a new glacial has begun.
If you accept Lucy walked around Kenya 3 million years ago, you can conclude your ancestors survived 3,000,000/100,000 = 30 glacials.
Her ancestors appeared about 7 million years ago so they survived 4,000,000/100,000 = 40 more glacials. 30 + 40 = 70.
If you have enough faith in current humanity to believe we will survive at least one more = 100,000 years, year 102,013, you are a Greedy Lying Bastard, like me, with a new movie named after you.
Remedy? Invest in property near the Equator. This is not good or bad news, it’s just news.
Don’t be provocative. Have a fabulous day. Breathe your CO2 easy.
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