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Newsflash…

This is conspicuously absent from the MSM, as we hear daily cries about the “concensus” on the “scientific fact” that is purportedly global warming. (I lay aside here the very obvious argument against science as determined by “concensus.” If science were determined by concensus, Galileo would be laughed at for his solar-centric cosmology, and rats would be thought to be generated by garbage waste).

I digress.

What we have here is a leading French socialist and scientist who years ago was among the first to decry global warming as the foremost burgeoning threat to the very fabric of civilization. Today, however, the prominent and respected Dr. Claude Allegre is voicing strong opinion to the contrary of his equally vocal former allies.

His [Dr. Allegre's] break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in l’ Express, the French weekly. His article cited evidence that Antarctica is gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro’s retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, come from natural causes. “The cause of this climate change is unknown,” he states matter of factly. There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the “science is settled.”

This blog asks wonderingly, did we who depend daily upon the MSM for our very outlook on life hear of Dr. Allegre’s very provocotive anti-concensus comments? What did we hear about global warming at this time? Quite a bit, if you look at it. Was any of it really anti-concensus? Hmmm….Nope. Was there anything that spoke of leading scientists who conscientiously objected to the politicalization of a hopelessly fantastic theory? Hmmm….Nope again. Was there any positive coverage of a “global-warming denier” during this time? Again, not a chance.

Do you believe everything that you see on TV or hear on the radio? Do you think that because it’s in a scholarly article that it must be the truth?

Annoy a liberal and think for yourself.