Video games and public policy.

So I was playing Paradox's Hearts of Iron 2 and while playing Germany I was able to conquer Britain and throw the allies out of Europe. So, naturally, the Germans need to be given control over Europe...I did it in a simulation, so it must be true.

What? Don't think they'll go for it?

Yeah, probably not. Which is why I see the game-style simulations being used to scare children about 'Man Made Global Warming' so infuriating. Sadly, MMGW is perhaps the greatest con-job of modern times, a modern Piltdown Man.

The rallying cry from Gore's hypeumentary was about a concensus of scientists agree on man being the cause to climate change. There's a problem though, the data says no, we're not.

An ideologue like Gore doesn't want you to understand that. After all, the concensus of scientists felt the space between planets was filled with luminiferous aether, that women couldn't handle tasks like men, and that there was no continent at the south pole. And those are just in the past 200 years.

Data killed them all, as it killed Gore's hypeumentary long before his handlers started forcing it down the throats of innocent kids.

If you care about the environment, the BBC documentary Great Global Warming Swindle is a must watch. And the comments are a hoot, as for the most part they show the failure of science education.