Industry Shills

This is great! We received a comment from one David Wojick on our recent post about global warming. David comments that the industry shill I complained about being quoted in WaPo was "right, as usual."

Since we happen to know most of our commenters, Max googled our friend David. Turns out that David himself is an industry shill! Does it get any more pathetic? If David has nothing better to do than post comments on minor blogs arguing against global warming, shouldn't he at least use a false name so he has some hope of being considered an authentic voice? Or does David want us to google him and find his stuff on the web, in the hopes that we'll read it and be convinced. And is he aware of how very few readers we get here at Biscuit?

For the LAST TIME, people: not a single peer-reviewed scientific article in the last gazillion years disputes the fact of global warming caused by humans.Credible scientists argue about the meaning of particular studies, and critique the methods of results of one another's studies, because that is how science is done. No studies are perfect. But at the end of the day, all the people studying this stuff (and not being paid, in some fashion, by the fossil fuel industry) agree on the basic facts about global warming: It is real, and it is serious.

I am sorry this gets in the way of some people's free market utopias, but that doesn't make it any less true. The data about global warming are not based on just a few studies, over just a few years, but over many studies spanning many years, and research from ice cores going back for hundreds of thousands of years. Michael Crichton does not count as a credible scientist on global warming, by the way.

Okay? So if you want to dispute whether global warming is actually happening, please take your comments to some other blog where people want to hear your bullshit. If you want to argue about the best way to deal with it, feel free to stay and share.

And oh, those of you who think that Greenland got its name because a thousand years ago it was beautiful and green and warm, just like it will be again someday (and that's a Good Thing): the name was, according to Norse legend, a marketing ploy to encourage immigrants. It is true that things were a bit warmer in Europe then than they are now, but overall the island was still pretty seriously iced up. (One small part of the island does now and did then get very green and beautiful in the summer).

For more information, start here:
Jim Hansen of NASA talks about global warming and reviews Al Gore's movie and other resources on global warming in the New York Review of Books.