April 10, 2007
Strangling Chicken Little

Hey man, nobody's perfect:

What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare. Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature—a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.

Ron gets a no-prize that'll throw rocks at hippies for bringing us this all-too-often ignored counterpoint to the Al Gorians of the world.

Posted by scott at April 10, 2007 09:26 AM

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