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An “expert” record
Climate change experts want Trump to sign the Paris Accord. Let’s look at the record of establishment experts.
Up to the 17th century the experts believed Earth was flat. Ptolemy and Aristotle taught that Earth was the center around which the sun, moon and planets all orbited. In 1883, Lord Kelvin said x-rays were a hoax.
In 1936, the New York Times said rockets will never leave Earth’s atmosphere. Up until the 1940s and ‘50s, industrial psychologists said blacks and women were incapable of holding responsible jobs. In 1954, WC Heuper of the National Cancer Institute said smoking plays a minor role in lung cancer production. John Coleman, co-founder of the Weather Channel and some 30,000 scientists believe global warming and climate change are a hoax—a Democratic Party ruse to raise fuel taxes and pass socialist laws, as seen with the riots in France in December 2018.
Sorry Gore, Inslee and Little, I’m not buying the snake oil that you’re selling.
Larry Treffry
Spokane