The conservoweboconspirosphere this week is all wound up about hacked emails that purport to prove that scientists are part of a vast conspiracy to convince us the earth is warming.

Scientists.

You know, the people that invented the computer, the rocket engine, the iphone, GPS, roller coasters, the Internet and artificial hearts. They are part of a CONSPIRACY!!!

They will sit around in their sciencey clothes and cackle with glee as they pull a big one on the world! "HA HA HA YOU STUPID MORONS! WE'RE SCIENTISTS! NOW YOU HAVE TO DRIVE SISSY ELECTRIC CARS CAUSE WE TOTALLY SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!

HA! YOU ALL LOOK SO GAY WITH YOUR SOLAR PANELS!

Members of Congress, especially whores like Sen. James Inhofe who has been deep throating oil company campaign money, are trumpeting the lines their pimps have been providing them, furthering their ridiculous line of reasoning that 1. Scientists are idiots or 2. Scientists are trying to fool us.

The rest of the first world(which by the way has universal health insurance) has accepted that climate change is real and that we need to do something about it. Here in the United States people look like babies throwing tantrums cause they're scared of change.

It's really simple actually. If you put a bunch of people in a room, pretty soon it gets hot and stuffy. If everyone in a football dome holds up a lighter, eventually it will get really hot in there. Welcome to the concept that billions of people on the earth burning shit makes it get hot. Not a hard concept to grasp.

And why would anyone want to spend their life's work proving that we're fucked? "Hey guys, I was right, i've done 30 years of climate research, and we're fucked. Isn't that awesome?"

Nobody seems to explain what rationale or motive there would be for scientists to hoodwink everyone on the planet. There isn't profit to be made. Strangely, or not so strangely, the ones spreading the most amount of disinformation about global warming are the ones making billions burning fossil fuels.

posted by lazlow at 1:38 PM  on Tuesday, November 24, 2009