Global Warming - a convenient lie?
Posted by Andrew Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:00 GMT
NOTE: if the embedded movie below does not function due to political correctness or some other reason, you can download it here.
The following is part 1 of 8 on youtube. Go there to watch parts 2-7.
Consider also this lecture given by Michael Crichton on Janaury 17, 2003 at the California Institute of Technology.
Aliens Cause Global Warming
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.
Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy.
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