Earth Day 2010: Our Own Worst Enemy…

In honor of the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day I thought I should point out that a second bipartisan inquiry into the so-called climate-gate non-scandal has been released with (as I’ve come to expect) virtually no media coverage – surprise, surprise, surprise…

This inquiry, similar to the first, noted that, “the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, has largely been misplaced,” and that Dr. Jones’s actions were “in line with common practice in the climate science community,” and the CRU’s “analyses have been repeated and the conclusions have been verified.”

What does this mean to the average citizen? It means that there are forces at work that are deliberately trying to obfuscate and deny the critically important work being done by scientists around the world. In a stunning example of irony deficiency they feign outrage, incredulously claiming that scientists are reaching these conclusions based on a profit motive. The narrative being that the bigger the problem, the more money for research. Let’s see, who is making more money, climate scientists or oil companies? As if any scientist in the world picked science as a profession because it was so immensely lucrative.

That has to be the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard in my entire life. I work in the science field and I can tell you from experience that no one goes into science with the delusion that they will somehow become rich. No ethical scientist would ever purposefully falsify data for profit, especially in academia, that is the quickest way to getting your ass fired. This slanderous anti-intellectual fervor has one goal in mind. To preserve the enormous profits of the dirty energy industry regardless of the impact on the whole of humanity.

We can do a lot individually to minimize our impacts on the environment, but it is not enough to do it only one day a year. Everyday should be Earth Day! It is also no longer enough to just act individually. We must act collectively, or we are all royally fucking screwed. That is not hyperbole, the impact of  seven billion people and counting can no longer be ignored. We have to stop kicking the can down the road. We have to act now!