These Aren't The Scientific Results You Want To Publish

In today's environmental news of the bizarre, Al Gore rushed to a rally in Berkeley, California. ``I'm here to change peoples' minds on the climate crisis and to support Prop 87,'' Gore called to a group of reporters after he emerged from the ``100 miles per gallon'' Toyota Prius that brought him to a noontime rally in a sun-drenched park behind Berkeley's City Hall. What did he leave out of his environmental zeal? The fact that the three motorcycles, two limousines and Dodge Ram 1500 light duty truck in his motorcade emitted enough noxious fumes for a regular working stiff to drive back and forth to his job for three weeks. Prop. 87 is an additional tax on California gas production - already the highest in America - so that California poor people can subsidize research on alternative fuels everywhere else in the world. It's kind of like the Queen Of Holland owning a vineyard in Tuscany and getting a government subsidy paid for by Italy's working poor, only funnier. Elsewhere, Newsweek admitted it was wrong about global cooling in the 1970s but is sure they are right about global warming today. Sayeth Newsweek, "In April, 1975 ... NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster" and then says, "More than 30 years later, that little story is still being quoted regularly—as recently as last month on the floor of the Senate by Republican Sen. James Inhofe, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee and the self-proclaimed scourge of climate alarmists" Their contention is that this article was small and insignificant so it shouldn't be used as evidence that they are clueless today. Except, no Newsweek reporter ever had an original thought in their entire lives. They were writing about this after it was well-established hysteria and TIME had already done the same article. Sorry, NEWSWEEK. I doubt your reporters are all that much better now. If you say the sun will shine tomorrow, I am bringing an umbrella.