democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
hudson river in manhattan will be under water. under water. we checked tonight. actually, it s congested, but still a road. in march of 2000, the independent newspaper ran a piece explaining that snowfalls are now just a thing of the past. we re quoting. snow is starting to disappear from our lives. the piece quote add climate expert claiming that children just are not going to know what snow is. no idea what snow is. it will be a relic not of the ice age but of the great inferno of global warming. then in 2004, civilization still existed. the guardian predicted that major european cities will be sunk under rising seas is britain is plunged into a siberian climate. it was around this time that they decided hey, we don t want
the hudson river, manhattan, will be underwater. underwater. we checked tonight and actually it s congested, but still a road that in march of two thousand the independent newspaper in a piece explaining that snow falls are now just a thing of the past. and we re quoting snow is starting to disappear from our lives. the piece quoted a climate expert claiming it, quote, children just aren t going to know what snow is . no idea what snow is . it ll be a relic done if the ice age. but of the great inferno of global warming, then in 2004, amazingly, civilization still existed. the guardian predicted the , quote, major european cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as britain is plunged into a siberian climate by twenty, twenty , which is a little confusing because global warming doesn t typically produce a siberian climate. it was around this time that they decided, hey, we don t
"If you believe that manmade carbon dioxide is the climate control knob, nothing I can say in this short column is going to change your mind," writes columnist Bette Grande. "You can show me your studies and your experts and I can do the same. Time will tell."