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Catastrophe!
Passed on by Rich Matarese
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Special to L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise

This is a single post provided by one David M. Hoffer (a regular commenter) on a recent Watts Up With That? Web board. WUWT? focuses primarily on the great giddy "man-made global climate change" fraud.

Alarmist: Look! Look! That car is traveling 100 km/hr straight toward a wall that it will strike with catastrophic consequences.

Skeptic: Uhm... the wall is 100 km away and the car is decelerating.

Alarmist: Do you not understand what happens when a car hits a wall at 100 km/hr?

Skeptic: Uhm... yes I do, but the car is decelerating.

Alarmist: Look! Look! That car is traveling 1400 meters/minute and is headed straight for that wall! Catastrophe!

Skeptic: Uhm... the wall is about 99 km away and the car is decelerating...

Alarmist: Do you know what happens when a car hits a wall at 1400 meters/minute?

Skeptic: Uhm... yes, somewhat less than what would happen at 100 km/hr, but the point is the car is decelerating.

Alarmist: Look! Look! That car is traveling 10,000 mm/S and is headed straight for that wall! Catastrophe!

Skeptic: Uhm... the wall is about 98.5 km away and the car is decelerating.

Alarmist: Graph those data points! 100! 1400! 10,000! Do you not see what is happening here? Catastrophe! Catastrophe!

Skeptic: Uhm... the car has come to a stop. Ooops, he got rear ended. OK, now we have a problem.

Alarmist: See? I TOLD you that car was headed for catastrophe! And LOOK! After being hit from behind by that semi-trailer, the car is now skidding down the road toward that wall again! MORE catastrophe! When are you skeptics going to learn something about science?

Skeptic: Uhm.... I've got some land for sale. Not worth much right now but in a hundred years it will be beach front property. Speculators are going wild. You want in on the ground floor?

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