What's with CalCon's wood for Crichton this week? This is like the third or fourth time CalCon's cited him. Either he's the only critic of global warming out there, or Gary has some strange fascination with this guy who is best known for works of fiction, thinks that he's had paranormal experiences, and uses characters in his books to mock his critics. Nevermind that his rationale for criticizing global warming is based on an assumption that he is the Galileo of our era. What he fails to address (and by extension, CalCon too) is a very basic question: whom does our current use of fossil fuels benefit, and who does it harm? Do we want to send our dollars to Iran and Venezuela, or do we want to put our resources behind developing alternative, clean fuel that can be grown or made right here in the USA? And what about the potential for our enemies to do it first? Talk about homeland insecurity!
Imagine if the Middle East didn't matter to us. Let 'em fight amongst themselves. Imagine if Hugo Chavez's funding dried up, and he no longer had a world stage to stand upon and castigate us. Imagine the money to be made if the US developed a fuel that could be sold to the rest of the world, making our trade deficit disappear and ensuring American dominance for the next hundred years.
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