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Two blogs that are better than mine take up the order of business about all the latest. Michael Flynn does a wonderful job<\/a> explaining for us novices why we should be skeptical about the latest \u2018this proves we\u2019re right\u2019 study that supports what MMGW advocates want to believe. Meanwhile, Thomas McDonald uses common sense<\/a> to point out that all of this near record breaking heat in the summer was once understood as being part of summer. Notice the emphasis on near<\/em> record breaking when we hear it discussed. So far, it\u2019s not record breaking. The worst since the 50s. Not even close to the Dust Bowl yet. And yet, the beat goes on.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but by now you have to have faith in the purity of humanity not to smell a rat. Many advocates of MMGW rush and say I don\u2019t know the science so shut up. They\u2019re right. I don\u2019t know the science. So I can only rely on scientists to explain it to me. But when those scientists exhibit the same characteristics of a used car salesman standing beside a Buick and insisting that it\u2019s no big deal that it has an oil leak the size of a small wading pool, forgive me for being cautious. Especially when so much of the frenzy and hysteria fits with the modern \u2018We\u2019re all going to feakin\u2019 die!\u2019, when the solutions range from \u2018give us more billions to research this\u2019 to \u2018vote for more government control of your lives\u2019, to \u2018there\u2019s just too damn many people in the world and it\u2019s time we start thinning the herds\u2019, I\u2019m going to take a second look. <\/p>\n

More and more, as I hear scientists change what they said a month ago, rename what they named a year ago, and tell me it\u2019s time to pay attention to what\u2019s happening outside my window again (despite saying the opposite a few years ago), I think less of clear scientific reasoning and theorizing, and more about a desperate attempt to ignore any pesky data that could show they are wrong:<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"