Saving us from ourselves

THE AGE OF CHICKEN LITTLE

Just to give some context to this quote.  It was made by Dr Kary Mullis, the brilliant biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993 for his work on developing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

The quote comes from the final chapter of his book ‘Dancing Naked in the Mind Field’, called “The Age of Chicken Little”.  Dr Mullis is speaking in relation to Global Warming and Climate scientists.

Other quotes in the chapter include:

“The global warmers—the climate simulation programmers, the so-called general circulation modelers, the computer jocks who hardly go outside even on nice days—write the programs for their bosses at IPCC.

They predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing.  If we aren’t worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries.  It’s that simple.”

“But this business of intergovernmental panels on climate change is not just mad—it’s embarrassing. Furthermore, it smacks of what the Greeks used to call hubris when one of their number decided he, and not the gods, could control his own life, the weather, or something equally impossible to control.”

“No one has ever been able to predict long-term weather better than a tossed coin.”

“WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO PAY A VAST CADRE OF SCIENTISTS AND BUREAUCRATS WHO PRETEND TO SPEAK FOR THE PLANET?”

Here’s few excellent clips from interviews with Dr Mullis, in which he talks about the state of science today, which are also very interesting.

Watch: Dr Karry Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize for his work in developing the PCR Test. He died on 7 August 2019.