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It's
hard to calculate the damage to our free society the New York Times is
responsible for. Whatever curbs on the paper's Liberal political bent
once existed, they've disappeared under Pinch Sulzberger's
stewardship. Mention the NYT, and my mind's eye summons a steam engined train, racing across a frozen landscape, carrying an
army of Bolsheviks looking for reactionaries to murder. Really.
Today John Broder used some of what's left of his employer's influence to shovel up a steaming heap of Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze.
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Skeptics
of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who
warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like
global cooling, they taunt.
Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are
consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more
frequent and more intense weather events.
As an illustration of their point of view, the family of Senator James
M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, a leading climate skeptic in
Congress, built a six-foot-tall igloo on Capitol Hill and put a
cardboard sign on top that read “Al Gore’s New Home.”
The extreme weather, Mr. Inhofe said by e-mail, reinforced doubts about
scientists’ conclusion that global warming was “unequivocal” and most
likely caused by human activity.
Nonsense, responded Joseph Romm, a climate-change expert and former
Energy Department official who writes about climate issues at the
liberal Center for American Progress.
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Broder is selling AGW using populist political
rhetoric, when hard science is called for. Inhofe cannot be
faulted for poking a stick in the eye of Progressives,still intent on trumping the Bill of Rights with legerdemain;
everyone is doing it. Rather than ridicule Inhofe, who has done
more than anyone in congress to introduce science into the
debate, if Broder was interested in advancing AGW he'd take on
the likes of Anthony Watts. His blog Watts Up With That?
has a global reputation for practicing good science, and blowing the
whistle on the bad. Broder's ilk won't, because they
cannot. It's been so easy influencing the dull witted Joy Behars of the world, for so long, with phony science and Al Gore movies, that intellectual muscle is atrophied.
Disclosure: I am not a scientist, but I had a Gilbert chemistry set when I was 9. I have a AA battery recharger too. And a keen smell for the odor of bullshit.
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