A new slant on global warming
I despair about the state of the general public’s knowledge of technology. Here is an example of why:
On Friday, an asteroid will come within 17,000 miles of the Earth—“a very close shave” by space standards, as my colleague Phil Plait puts it on Bad Astronomy. Recently, Bill Nye the Science Guy went on CNN to discuss the phenomenon—and anchor Deb Feyerick opened with a rather odd question: “Is this an effect of perhaps global warming?”
I presume Deb Feyerick is of above avearge intelligence. She has had the “benefit” of American higher education (BA in English Literature from Barnard) and still thinks there might be a direct connection between global warming and the orbit of a small asteroid.
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She has had the “benefit” of American higher education…
You know, I’m beginning to think there’s something to this whole idea that our educational system might have something wrong with it.
This their news anchor? If I was her I’d be ashamed to show my face in public….
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I think Ms. Feyerick’s statement is less an example of technology ignorance and more so an example of two things: (1) the professional and intellectual collapse of the mainstream media, and (2) the absurd lengths global-warming fanatics will go to to promulgate this theory.
Is global warming real? Maybe. Is it a malignant outcome of mankind’s industrialization (if, in fact, global warming is real)? Nope, not in my opinion. For eons there have warming and cooling cycles of our planet. I remain unconvinced we have anything to do with those. What drives the global warming debate is much more political than scientific. (And I’m sure I’ll be lambasted for saying so.)