When French people go bad!

Claude Allegre was on the bleeding edge of the climate warming debate way back when it was fringe liberal talk. This guy is no kook, he's one of France's most celebrated scientist and whose voice shaped the climate change debate to what it is today. Dr. Allegre was convinced twenty years ago that man was the cause of climate change. In fact, he was among 1500 scientist worldwide that signed the "World Scientists Warning to Humanity." Scientist just love doing this shit, don't they?!


So after billions of dollars, and nearly twenty years of evidence gathering, Dr. Allegre has recanted. So what made this Frenchman do an about face? Simple, the evidence hasn't proven that global warming is man made, in fact he's relegate the whole debate to "over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank."


Of course the dogmatic "Global Warmers" can't have any of that, so in typical socialist fashion, Dr. Allegre was chided by his collegues as a heretic. However, it is apprently hard to discredit

"the architect of isotope geodynamics, which showed that the atmosphere was primarily formed early in the history of the Earth, and the geochemical modeller of the early solar system." Ummm..as we say in the gaming community - PWNED!


But let's let Dr. Allegre speak for himself...


Calling the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change "simplistic and obscuring the true dangers," Dr. Allegre especially despairs at "the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man's role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters."


Let's hope Al Gore, and his ilk are listening.




Allegre's Second Thoughts

LAWRENCE SOLOMON, Financial Post
Published: Friday, March 02, 2007