As reported in Think Progress, Fox News analyst Jonathan Hoenig reported this weekend that global warming was “bogus,” and “dreamed up” by environmentalists to stop economic development. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/29/global-warming-bogus/ [1]
There’s no scientific proof that global warming even exists. To be honest, it’s a bogus consensus dreamed up by Greens because they hate industry. They hate advancement. They hate technology…Greens will lead us back to the stone ages.
As Think Progress also points out, the National Academy of Sciences recently surveyed refereed 928 articles from scientific journals (published from 1993 to 2003) that concerned climate change. [2] The “consensus statement” considered by the survey was the following: “Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise.”
The results? Zero out of 928 refereed scientific journals published between 1993 and 2003 disagreed with the consensus position.
What’s more disturbing? The intelligence vaccuum in which FOX operates or the vicious derision aimed toward disciplined science that follows evidence where it leads? It’s difficult enough to communicate these ideas, even by evidence-based news providers (by the way, check out this post (“Framing climate change”)on more effective frames for communicating climate issues [3]). But now, back to FOX’s Jonathan Hoenig . . .
“They hate advancement. They hate technology. Greens will lead us back to the stone ages”?
Gee . . .I guess he’s right. Maybe it’s time to put away my abacus and it’s time to feed peanuts to the hamsters that power my computer. Or, perhaps, my concern is that I don’t want to see my children, friends, neighbors and fellow citizens left jobless and then poisoned by those whose short-sighted minds have been narrowed to the point of vanishing by their zealous pursuit of wealth.
To wind up this post . . .who should we trust more on climate change, Hoenig (who is managing member at Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC, a markets columnist for Smartmoney.com and a guest on FNC’s business program Cashin’ In [4] ) or 928 scientists?
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