Time To Laugh

Unfortunately for the members therein, it's the world's scientific community that is now the butt of jokes.  Not that they don't deserve it:

Warming will 'wipe out billions'
By Jenny Fyall, The Scotsman

Most of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree [on] a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientists has warned.

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet's population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.

Anderson's warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.

Anderson, who advises the government on climate change, said the consequences were "terrifying". [link]

To think: Bullshit like this actually played well not long ago.  (It reminds me of that movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," in which global warming brings freezing temperatures to North America the likes of which had never been recorded before.  Huh?  Warming brings about freezing ...?  OK.  Don't think too hard on it.  Just accept the premise and cower.)

But this doomsday silliness no longer works.  The world now knows the kind of "scientists" who are trying to foster such skulduggery.  The deceitful kind.  The political kind.  The Nobel Prize winning Professor Al Gore kind.

The global warming kind.

Sorry, fellas.  To quote Melvin Udall: "Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."

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Paul Tortland:

Over the years, science and the rigors of scientific inquiry have been held up as shining examples of the pursuit of truth unsullied by the vagaries of political discourse or influence. People learned to trust scientists for this very reason. What was deemed to be supported by science was held aloft as truth — after all, the science "proved" it!

However, once the scientists are revealed to be nothing more than the "wizards" behind the curtain, mere charlatans passing off parlor tricks as "science," the veil of impartiality is torn asunder, along with the trust that we had learned to place in them.

Science.  "Saturday Night Live."  There once was a difference.