Mendolonium

On the 20th anniversary of James Hansen’s first warnings to Congress that global warming is upon us he testified yesterday saying that “We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path“.

One of the highlights of the article is that when Hansen first testified twenty years ago in 1988, it was the hottest year ever recorded. Now in 2008, NOAA has recorded that fourteen of the past twenty years have been even hotter.

My favorite quote from the article is from “longtime global warming skeptic” Senator James Inhofe (Republican, Oklahoma) who cited a recent poll when he said in a statement, “Hansen, Gore, and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since the 1980s. But Americans are not buying it.”

Ah, well that changes everything. A poll says that anthropogenic (man-made) global warming isn’t occurring. Science by poll. I sure wish that we had known about this concept sooner. If we had, Jeff simply could have conducted a poll to get his Ph.D. in environmental science. That would have saved him a number of years in grad school. He could have just done a poll. I am sure that if he uses this new technique he will be on the fast-track to tenure at an excellent institution.

When I read something that preposterous I don’t know whether to scream in frustration or to laugh. Every reputable scientist in the world believes that global warming is occurring and that it is directly caused with the anthropogenic burning of fossil fuels. Coming soon: a series of posts from our own resident environmental scientist on global warming 101.