Deltoid?

It's been a while since I've used Michelle Malkin's blogroll to get to other wingnut sites, but here I was last Thursday doing just that when out of the corner of my eye pops:



I mean, maybe Orac or Kevin, but of all the Scienceblogs she links to Tim Lambert's? Was he being too nice?

Sure is weird coming from somone who just today linked to this post. Malkin writes:

Melanie Phillips looks at global warming hysteria and "airconomics" across the pond.

Hysteria! OK, so what does the linked post have to say about hysteria?

If these were implemented, drivers would be forced off the roads by swingeing increases in taxes and fuel duties. Cheap air flights would become as distant a memory as Concorde. Household goods, from washing machines to lightbulbs, would be priced off the shelves. In other words, we would be taxed back to an earlier, less prosperous age, and those on modest incomes would be hit the hardest. ...

After all, Britain accounts for a mere 2 per cent of the world’s energy demand. If we garaged every car, grounded every plane and rationed families to one lightbulb apiece, it would make virtually no difference. China alone — which is opening a new power station every day — would make up our carbon emissions in 13 months. In short, whatever we do to curb our carbon emissions is all but irrelevant to the future of the planet. ...

Sir Nicholas, Mr Miliband, the Royal Society, the Government’s chief scientific adviser Sir David King, and a host of other terrifically grand panjandrums all claim there is no longer any scientific debate about whether man-made global warming is happening. It’s a settled fact. Argument over.

Phooey. They are all simply playing green politics.

Put on those tinfoil hats folks, because that doesn't sound the least bit hysterical. Nowhere near as hysterical as those unhinged greenies.

The great satirist Jonathan Swift mocked scientists by inventing a scheme by which they made sunbeams out of cucumbers. Making money out of the air, on the back of a scientifically unproven panic, would surely defy even the powers of a Swift to invent a more preposterous fiction.

Did someone mention Jon Swift?