The Extinction of Honest Science

Tony Thomas

Warmists' predictions of climate doom haven't come to pass or anything like it, but give them credit for agility and perseverance in always concocting a fresh scare. The latest meme to keep grants flowing and careers on track: the purported mass die-off of species large and small.

With no significant warming for 20 years, the climate alarmists need better scares. The temperature rise of about 0.8 degC in more than 100 years is not only non-scary, it’s been immensely beneficial for feeding the globe’s burgeoning population. Now the “extreme weather” furphy is at work, with any storm or flood attributed by Al Gore and the Climate Council to fossil fuel emissions. There’s the purported “ocean acidification” but I’m yet to see evidence that it has hurt a solitary crab, let alone a species………….

There are two handy scares still slithering around: “The Anthropocene” and “The Sixth Mass Extinction”. Both are fakes. Both are foisted on kids by green/Left educators. Both require as supposed remedies a supra-national enforcement agency run by the Left/liberal crowd, along with a roll-back of capitalist progress.

Here’s an example………… To Read More.....

My Take -One of the things those who've followed all this stuff and written about it understand: There's no scare that won't be recycled by these misanthropic misfits. Once they've gotten all the money and emotion they can out of a scare that's been debunked - they merely put it on the back burner for future use - since most will have forgotten when the last time it was used it turned out to be nothing more than a "furphy". We can blame the media who should know better and government bureaucrats who do know better.

FYI: A "furphy" is an Aussie slang word for a rumor, or an erroneous or improbable story, but usually claimed to be absolute fact".