The 10 worst "science" stories of 2006

[Don Corleone]

Interesting article, Xiahou. John Stossel himself couldn't have said it any better.

My personal favorite, being in New England this winter, is global warming. By the most extreme accounts, global warming is supposed to cause an average increase in temperature of about 4 degrees Farrenheit. Yet every night, on every news broadcast, we hear about how the unseasonably warm winter we've had thus far 'just must' be caused by global warming. (For the record, our daily temperatures are approximately 15 degrees above average). To these folks, I have two questions:

1) If global warming is pretty much caused my mankind, did we quadruple our CO2 emissions in the past year without anybody noticing?

2) Did Denver and Nebraska reduce their Carbon emissions, hence all the snow?

In reality, the culprit is a well-known phenomenon, a weather pattern that was recorded by Spanish explorers 200 years before the invention of the combustion engine, known popularly as 'El Nino'.

But if we could only force the USA to adhere to Kyoto protocols... then we'd get some snow!!!