Heh!

This word is Glenn Reynolds’ laugh at the absurdities of his political opponents. Here and here are a couple items connected with global warming. The first is about a supposed conspiracy in which three scientists investigating Arctic ice were murdered. One death was definitely a fall down some steep steps, and we may presume this happened because he was drunk (since it was New Year’s Eve). A second seems to have been struck by lightning, while the third, who was hit by a truck while riding a bike in London, is the only one that I would count as a possible murder, and one of three deaths being a murder is not enough to persuade me that there is a conspiracy against global warming scientists. While someone in the comments observes that the guy is a professor and is therefore smarter than all the commenters, in fact his being a professor is what has allowed us to hear about this nuttiness, since if he were a nobody, the media would have ignored him.

The second article reports that a scientific team hoping to investigate arctic ice this summer was derailed when their ship, an icebreaker, had to be returned to Hudson Bay to help commercial ships break through the heaviest ice in twenty years.

Why bother assassinating warmists investigating arctic ice when nature is doing a good job of thwarting them?

And here is another silly article. I imagine lots of young men would be happy to be assaulted in this way. Why complain about it?

Comments

[Charles N. Steele]

This is actually quite serious. Lightning killed one, gravity killed another. And then unusual amounts of ice derail an expedition to investigate and document dwindling ice. There's a pattern here.

I am actually a believer in global warming, but if nature is going to start killing us, or humiliating us by getting colder, I will be intimidated into silence.

Something must be done!