Gene Cottrell wrote:

http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263746

Amazing. Where to start? I'm not sure I've seen so many strawmen
erected and knocked down since the last time I listened to Rush
Limbaugh. (And much of that article sounds like it could have been
gleaned directly from the drug-addled one himself.)

He jumps from: "From 1895 until the 1930’s the media pedaled a
coming ice age" straight to the present without even considering that
scientific research may have discovered a thing or two in the
intervening years. (And of course the media doesn't "pedal" unless
they're on bikes.) "After more than a century of alternating between
global cooling and warming" is then offered up without the slightest bit
of evidence.

This little gem is almost charming in its ignorance of the
scientific process: "After all, there was a so-called scientific
“consensus” that there were nine planets in our solar system until Pluto
was recently demoted."

And then there's: "We have all heard the dire predictions about the
threat of overpopulation, resource scarcity, mass starvation, and the
projected death of our oceans. None of these predictions came true, yet
it never stopped the doomsayers from continuing to predict a dire
environmental future. None of these predictions came true, yet it never
stopped the doomsayers from continuing to predict a dire environmental
future."

No threats from overpopulation or resource scarcity? No threats to
the oceans?

First of all, if he really believes that, he's so far out of touch
that he's hopeless. Secondly, is it just possible that because of the
recognition of some of these threats that the world's powers have
undertaken measures to mitigate some of these problems?

Or perhaps he prefers that we just ignore any and all scientific
evidence and make no attempt to preserve our resources?

"Eco-doomsayers ... alarmist media ... alarmism ... propaganda ...
alarmists ... left-wing ... alarmism ..."

And of course the obligatory Hollywood kook is mentioned as if she's
representative of "many environmentalists".

Absolutely hilarious piece of work ... if it was intended as a satire.


Chuck Vance (but somehow, I don't think this chap has much of a
sense of humor)