It's long, but it's worth a scan, and then a read, and a re-read, and another re-read to fully grasp and remember the points.

One thing that I took from the article is to explain that people of lower intelligence, i.e. liberals, are considered "knee-jerk" for misunderstanding that cause-and-effect is more complex than their minds can conceive, so they jump on the simple, but incorrect, conclusion.

Another point is that there can be intelligent liberals (almost an oxymoron) who intentionally misuse information to alarm and arise the ignorant masses to further their political aims with whatever "crisis" of the moment helps them. Ususally, these crises turn out to be phony, but as Ann Coulter once noted, the left picked up on the global warming one because it will be hundreds of years before people can witness that they were wrong.

Great find, G.M.

Posted by Woody at December 29, 2005 09:07 AM

When I was a little kid the Global cooling crowd had me hook line and sinker.

When I was in college the Global warming crowd was really doing a good job of scaring folks.

This happened when I was a little kid and when I was in college. Simply put, this tripe is for the simple minded. A tip of the big white hat to Crichton.

Hey, I found you blog when you put up the Texas Connection Blogroll and picked me up as a straggler. Glad to be here.
bigwhitehat

Posted by bigwhitehat at December 29, 2005 08:40 PM

When he said he would get to the crux of the matter in a non-linear fashion, he meant it.

There's about a hundred acre alcove of marshland behind my house that I've had the pleasure of observing for nine years now. Every winter the grasses and plant life die back and every spring new things appear where something else thrived the year before. There's nothing static about our environment. One year wild pigs appeared sloshing through the muck, the next year raccoons were back en-force and the next the barred owls cleaned up all the rodents that had proliferated the previous two years.

Funny how it seems to take care of itself.

Posted by Oyster at December 31, 2005 09:02 AM