Just days after CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano practically spoke heresy by stating "There are definitely some inaccuracies" in soon-to-be-Nobel Laureate Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth," a British nature-loving journalist said "I wish we could grow up about" global warming.
You gotta love it.
As reported by the British Telegraph Saturday (emphasis added throughout, h/t Marc Morano):
One subject gets [Alan] Titchmarsh more worked up than accusations of blandness, though. Perhaps, coming from a man who loves nature, it's a slightly surprising one: our obsession with global warming.
‘I wish we could grow up about it,' he says. ‘I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of ‘Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.'
You really gotta love it:
Surely he worries that global warming may threaten some of the species in his series. But this doesn't seem to bother him too much. ‘We'll lose some, we'll gain others,' he says. ‘Wildlife is remarkably tenacious. Nature always copes.'
He gives the example of otters, whose numbers in Britain are on the rise. ‘When I was a lad, you had to go to the Otter Trust in Suffolk to see them. For the series, I went to the river near where I grew up, where I used to fish for tiddlers. And on the banks were otter footprints. If I'd seen those when I was a lad, I'd have died and gone to heaven.'
How refreshing: a journalist with a realistic view of nature rather than the typically alarmist one.
I've said for a while that the tide on this issue would change if we had a second year in a row of sub-average hurricane numbers and strength. Now that this has occurred, more and more media members are going to feel comfortable exposing this charade for what it really is.
Sadly, this probably won't prevent bespectacled, bearded Swedes from giving the Global Warmingist-in-Chief a prize he certainly doesn't deserve. However, maybe it will encourage press members to mock this occurrence when it happens rather than celebrate it.
As always, we will know in the fullness of time.
