{"id":392963,"date":"2010-03-05T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f21\/global-warming-plan-could-leave-humans-extinct-40414\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:18:24","slug":"global-warming-plan-could-leave-humans-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392963","title":{"rendered":"Global warming plan could leave humans extinct"},"content":{"rendered":"
Global warming plan could leave humans extinct<\/p>\n

<\/b>Forget climate change — the real threat to the planet and all of us riding on it comes from screwball scientists and their schemes to "save" us from nonexistent threats. <\/p>\n

The latest plot sounds like it might have been hatched by a Bond villain: a series of simulated volcanic explosions to fill the atmosphere with a manmade chemical sunblock that would shield the entire planet. <\/p>\n

Can you imagine anyone saying this stuff with a straight face? Yet that’s just one of a number of dead-serious proposals in the growing field of "geoengineering." <\/p>\n

Another scheme involves spraying seawater into the sky around the planet to create more clouds, lowering the global temperature. I hope you’ve invested in a good umbrella. <\/p>\n

What’s even more disturbing is that our government is actually taking this nonsense seriously. The National Science Foundation just awarded $382,000 of YOUR money to University of Montana researchers just to study the ethics of geoengineering. <\/p>\n

They should have asked me — I could solve that one for free: Ethics won’t matter one whit if we’re all dead after scientists blow their volcanic loads and dump the sea into the sky. <\/p>\n

I wasn’t around when the dinosaurs got wiped out — I’m not that old — but the leading theory says it started with a meteor impact. The space rock itself didn’t kill off the creatures…instead, the real culprit was a massive cloud of dust kicked up by the impact, blocking out the sun. <\/p>\n

Sound familiar? <\/p>\n

I’m not convinced the climate is changing in the first place — and even if it is, it’s certainly not because of anything we’ve done. The planet’s a lot older and stronger than us. <\/p>\n

But if we give in to this manufactured panic and let the mad scientists engineer the environment for us, we’ll go the way of the dinosaurs ourselves. <\/p>\n

Hoping common sense isn’t extinct,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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