Greenhouse Bananas

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This is a column from February's Scientific American, but it is worth reading for the first paragraph alone. The rest is pretty good, too.

From the February 2010 Scientific American Magazine | 78 comments
Greenhouse Bananas: Non-Science Smear Campaigns
Two men tout stuff you didn't learn in school, if you went to a good school

By Steve Mirsky

Here’s my conclusion: the only strong evidence we have that Oklahoma Senator James M. Inhofe isn’t a clown is that his car isn’t small enough. As I write in early December, the Copenhagen climate change conference has just begun. And Inhofe, that gleeful anarchist, says he is going to Copenhagen to try to sabotage the affair.

Inhofe has famously called climate change “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” (Actually, the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people was Lord Amherst’s distribution of smallpox-ridden blankets, but I digress.) But he has also called global warming the “second largest hoax ever played on the American people after the separation of church and state.” Well, it’s good to know that the senator is capable of revising his theories after he acquires new information, a necessary condition for a truly scientific worldview.
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