Friday, June 06, 2008

Monkeying With Climate: Science Playing God

Scientists think they're qualified to monkey with the world climate by proposing pseudo-volcanic eruptions.

HUBRIS ALERT! This is an insane proposal. It presumes that world climate needs monkeying with in the first place (pause while all the global warming advocates scream IT DOES!), which isn't settled. Second, science needs to prove an ability to manipulate weather before presuming to manipulate climate.

I think we need some sort of mechanism whereby a scientist proposing such world-changing ideas is slapped repeatedly in the face by a Capuchin monkey.

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