She’s at it again. Sheryl Crow, the one-woman crusader against hygienic rear-ends, has written in her blog crying about how the media spun her words and how she was the butt of jokes on late night TV. Sheryl, baby, what did you expect? You know the world we live in; if you are in the public eye and make a stupid statement, you can expect to called out for it.
But wait, Sheryl now says that when she proposed a limitation on the number of squares of toilet paper we should be allowed to use she was only making a joke. That may well be true, but it was a pretty bad one and a lot of folks did not take it that way on initial reading.
In her rant, posted to her blog Friday, May 4, she goes on to talk about how the media is out of control and that news stories are spun with little or no fact-checking. I must say, I am one of those who read her blog and on first reading thought she was just another tree-hugging liberal activist with an agenda (which, of course, she is) who is riding the global warming bus (bio-fueled, of course) to get into the spotlight a little more.
It is a bit naïve in today’s society to think that the news outlets will slow down to check facts. In the age of instant news it’s all about who breaks the story first not about who gets it right. The global warming issue is a prime example, as soon as Al Gore jumped onto the wagon and made his little movie the issue got bigger. Pundits lined up along partisan lines to extol the sage wisdom of the movie and warn the rest of us to change our ways or they simply looked at the material for what it was, a big bucket of hooey (that’s a technical term).
If all these lemmings would stop to check the facts, they would see that there are many scientists who debunk the idea of global warming. Michael Crichton, the best selling author known to meticulous research his novels so that the science is accurate, wrote an entire novel, State of Fear based on the sham of global warming. His stance is that the politicization of science is never a good thing and he cites several cautionary tales to prove it. One concerned the theory of eugenics which postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded." This theory was endorsed by Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill among many others. Theodore Roosevelt said that "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind."
Does this type of political adoption of a scientific issue sound familiar? Let’s go back to the esteemed Al Gore, in An Inconvenient Truth he says, “My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it’s not a political issue, it’s a moral issue.” Funny, Sheryl Crow says it’s a moral issue, too. That must make it true!
In an article from October 2006 the website for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, it is reported that
Claude Allegre, one of the most decorated French geophysicists, wrote that the “cause of climate change remains unknown” and pointed out that Kilimanjaro is not losing snow due to global warming, but to local land use and precipitation changes. Allegre also pointed out that studies show that Antarctic snowfall rate has been stable over the past 30 years and the continent is actually gaining ice.
And this is just one account, there are many more.
So, in conclusion I say this:
Ms. Crow, stick to your breezy pop songs and keep your nose out of things you know little or nothing about. And for Pete’s sake, keep your hands off of my toilet paper.
But wait, Sheryl now says that when she proposed a limitation on the number of squares of toilet paper we should be allowed to use she was only making a joke. That may well be true, but it was a pretty bad one and a lot of folks did not take it that way on initial reading.
In her rant, posted to her blog Friday, May 4, she goes on to talk about how the media is out of control and that news stories are spun with little or no fact-checking. I must say, I am one of those who read her blog and on first reading thought she was just another tree-hugging liberal activist with an agenda (which, of course, she is) who is riding the global warming bus (bio-fueled, of course) to get into the spotlight a little more.
It is a bit naïve in today’s society to think that the news outlets will slow down to check facts. In the age of instant news it’s all about who breaks the story first not about who gets it right. The global warming issue is a prime example, as soon as Al Gore jumped onto the wagon and made his little movie the issue got bigger. Pundits lined up along partisan lines to extol the sage wisdom of the movie and warn the rest of us to change our ways or they simply looked at the material for what it was, a big bucket of hooey (that’s a technical term).
If all these lemmings would stop to check the facts, they would see that there are many scientists who debunk the idea of global warming. Michael Crichton, the best selling author known to meticulous research his novels so that the science is accurate, wrote an entire novel, State of Fear based on the sham of global warming. His stance is that the politicization of science is never a good thing and he cites several cautionary tales to prove it. One concerned the theory of eugenics which postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded." This theory was endorsed by Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill among many others. Theodore Roosevelt said that "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind."
Does this type of political adoption of a scientific issue sound familiar? Let’s go back to the esteemed Al Gore, in An Inconvenient Truth he says, “My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it’s not a political issue, it’s a moral issue.” Funny, Sheryl Crow says it’s a moral issue, too. That must make it true!
In an article from October 2006 the website for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, it is reported that
Claude Allegre, one of the most decorated French geophysicists, wrote that the “cause of climate change remains unknown” and pointed out that Kilimanjaro is not losing snow due to global warming, but to local land use and precipitation changes. Allegre also pointed out that studies show that Antarctic snowfall rate has been stable over the past 30 years and the continent is actually gaining ice.
And this is just one account, there are many more.
So, in conclusion I say this:
Ms. Crow, stick to your breezy pop songs and keep your nose out of things you know little or nothing about. And for Pete’s sake, keep your hands off of my toilet paper.
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