Climate scientists and smear campaigns

The article exclusive to CNN by Michael Mann details the more than decade-long assault on reputable scientists as they work their way through the research on climate change. The science is solid and scary: we are in for a very long rough ride. The klaxon has been sounded warning of the role human activity plays in the process.

Still there are people, mostly industrialists and politicians who insist that the problem isn’t real, or isn’t our fault (so don’t do anything about it) or is a “natural” event (so don’t do anything about it again). Anything but agreeing we have screwed up the world and now are poised to totally ruin it. And they have a receptive audience for their ravings. Not surprisingly the majority of this audience are Americans in the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Many of them also conservative religious followers. The logic and reasons for this are obvious but fodder for another essay later.

My point here is this: The people who expound on the falsity of the climate science will suffer just as much as the rest of us, and they, their children and grandchildren, along with the rest of us will be ruined by the coming avalanche of destructive global climate changes. By denying the process they are not gaining immunity to the outcome. On the contrary they are guaranteeing a swifter and deeper crisis.

I wish I would be around to see them wringing their hands and screaming “SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!!

And Who Might That Be?

CNN citation: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/28/opinion/mann-climate-change-email-attacks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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