“Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.” [Miguel de Unamuno, “Essays and Soliloquies,” 1924, referenced from Etymology Online]
Well, go tell that to climate change skeptics. Here is the question: who exactly is perpetuating the global conspiracy to fool us into believing that the world is heating up? I agree that it’s possible, sure. Anything is. But it would be an elaborate conspiracy, if it existed. Expensive and complicated and time consuming and all of that, and we would need a motive. We would need a motive for such a cynical gesture, the big Chicken Little in the sky. Plucking everyone’s heart strings about orphaned penguins and polar bears, by people who have it in for our plastic way of life.
Why, climate change scientists and activists and the people who believe them are just like…Osama bin Laden.
Now that the timing is apparent, the recent release of the ‘climategate’ memos, the ones supposedly revealing that the world is really cooling off (which to any competent scientists who made it past 4th grade explains the ice caps melting) is starting to look like the work of the Yes Men’s evil twins. However, we don’t know who they are. Hacked private emails? Posted to some other climatologist’s website?