Saturday, August 2, 2008

Jellyfish Predict End of the World

You've got to admire the tenacity of the Church of Global Warming acolytes. They just keep throwing anything and everything at the wall, hoping something sticks. The New York Times dutifully reports this latest bit of hysteria with the dying newspaper's now painfully obvious agenda driven reporting.

From Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are
becoming more numerous and more widespread, and they are showing up in places
where they have rarely been seen before, scientists say.

While no good global database exists on jellyfish populations, the
increasing reports from around the world have convinced scientists that the
trend is real, serious and climate-related
, although they caution that
jellyfish populations in any one place undergo year-to-year variation.


So, once again we have a "scientific" conclusion based on nothing more than anecdotal evidence. A conclusion that refuses to even investigate any of numerous alternative causes for this phenomenon, if it exists at all. Notice also that the NYT tells us that all of this has "convinced" not some, most or just one scientist, but implies that this too is beyond debate.

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