Goldilocks and the Climate Change Bugbears
Once upon a time, there was a little girl in Hollywood we’ll call Goldilocks. (I know she’s got dark hair . . . work with me on this one.) Goldilocks came across an issue that would make her feel important. Whenever there was any kind of unusual weather, she’d say it was the fault of global warming.
In 2006 she said, “This summer is tooooo hot. It’s because of global warming.”
And then in 2007, when snow canceled many of planned climate change meetings, she grumbled, “This winter was tooooo cold. It’s that darn global warming.”
At different times during the year, it was too wet in Florida, and too dry in California; there were too many glaciers in Alaska and not enough glaciers in India; there were too many mosquitoes and not enough polar bears; and too many hurricanes in the Atlantic and not enough storms in Africa.
So, Goldilocks made a movie and told everyone who would listen that there was total agreement on the science behind the issue . . . yet she maintained there were too many skeptics.
And try as she might to demand a single view . . . Goldilocks found that science kept intruding.
So, she decided, if she could only distract people with some music and Hollywood star power, everything would be fine.
But just to be sure, Goldilocks enlisted the aid of politicians and lawyers to demand that any questioning of the “consensus” be silenced.
“Ahhhhhh,” said Goldilocks at last, “that level of political control is juuuuuust right.”
. . . . Sorry to scare the kids. -MJ
global warming, climate change, Laurie David, Al Gore, Inconvenient Truth, global warming consensus, Goldilocks, fairy tale, Sheryl Crow
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