On Global Warming

I like this paragraph from the American Spectator about Michael Crichton's latest book on the fraud that is global warming:

The message is that global warming is a hoax of Piltdown proportions brought to us by hysterical Chicken Little environmental groups, by careerist "scientists" prepared to produce the answers their patrons want in order to keep the grants and the publications coming, by gullible and scientifically illiterate journalists who wouldn't know the scientific method from the rhythm method, by limousine liberals and preposterously rich Gulfstream enviro-wackos (Hollywood branch) trying to pump meaning into their otherwise pointless lives, and by politicians desperate to find threats to appear to save their constituents from (or to at least get some good moral posing out of) in return for votes.

Folks with their eyes even halfway on the ball already know that global warming is quackery gone to town and belongs on the dumb-idea ash-heap with previous enviro-alarums -- see Alar, DDT, acid rain, asbestos, African killer bees, holes in the ozone layer, et al. -- all whooped up as threats to life as we know it and all, in due course, proven to be either totally harmless or of not much account.

I really liked the part about journalists who wouldn't know the scientific method from the rhythm method.