Professors routinely lecture on the imminent threat of global warming/climate change, and take for granted that every student sitting before them is drinking their liberal Koolade. I, for one, am sick of it. The “general consensus” among the scientific community that your all-knowing college teachers and the leftist media love to tout doesn’t exist. Global warming is the biggest farce of our time, and if President Obama and the sycophant Democrats in congress have anything to do with it, we’ll all pay dearly for it.

According to the Heritage Foundation, if a cap-and-trade measure is signed into law, like the one the House of Representatives passed in 2009, by 2035 the average family of four would pay an additional $6,800 in annual taxes. By the way, dinosaur Representative Edward Markey, who has held his congressional seat in Massachusetts’ seventh district since “Lavern and Shirley” were on the airwaves, co-sponsored the bill titled the Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act.” He’s up for reelection on Nov. 2, which means those of you in the seventh district have the opportunity to vote him out, and save yourselves and your fellow Americans tens of thousands of future tax dollars. The con-artists congressmen behind this bill know nothing about science, and refuse to listen to those who do, such as Climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball.

Dr. Ball wrote in the Canada Free Press in 2007, “…I insist on saying that there is no evidence that we [humans] are, or could ever cause global climate change.” That’s not something you hear at the University of Massachusetts everyday. Furthermore, as recently as the 1970s, Time magazine reported the Earth was heading toward another ice age. Dr. Ball confirms many of his peers held this scientific view during this time. Twenty years later, however, all the liberal media outlets reported the planet was melting. How is it that in such a short span the Earth managed to change course so drastically? Answer: it hasn’t. Think about it. Fact: The Earth exhibited at least five ice ages before the Industrial Revolution. Fact: Ice, at one time, almost reached the equator. Therefore, I pose the question to you, Global Warming Zealots. How did planet Earth emerge from five ice ages without hundreds of millions of “greenhouse gas producing” cars on the road like there are today? Or hundreds of millions of methane-producing cows? Or jet engine planes (of which Madame Speaker, Nancy Pelosi is so fond), and every other thing the libs attribute to the world’s eventual demise? Answer: Mother Nature. Dr. Michael Savage’s New York Times best selling book “Trickle Up Poverty”, which debuted earlier this month, devotes an entire chapter to the subject.

Still don’t believe me? Log on to petitionproject.org. Professor of chemistry Arthur Robinson has compiled a list of signatures of more than 31,000 scientists – 9,000 of whom hold Ph.D’s – who are convinced that, “the human-caused global warming hypothesis is without scientific validity and that government action on the basis of this hypothesis would unnecessarily and counterproductively damage both human prosperity and the natural environment of the Earth.”

If you can’t come to terms with the fact that human-caused global warming is an utter lie, certainly you must agree that if 31,000 scientists disbelieve it, it is worth doing some of your own research.

This is what Kevin Knobloch told me when I questioned some of his talking points yesterday at his “Climate Change: Profiles in Paralysis” lecture. Knobloch, who is the President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, spoke of nothing we haven’t heard before to a large audience in the Student Union Ballroom. No one was impressed when he warned of planet Earth literally melting before our eyes. Nor did many of them buy the “It’s up to Barack Obama and the Democrats to save us all from the evil Republicans” routine. The talk was utterly unspectacular. It certainly didn’t have the theatrics of “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Therefore, at the end of the lecture, I couldn’t help but to get my two cents in at the question and answer segment. Most of the crowd immediately cleared out before I had my turn at the microphone, but I feel confident that my remarks nudged a few brain cells. And so I asked Mr. Knobloch, “If the world is warming, how is it that snow fell in all 50 states last winter including in the mountains of Hawaii?” He answered with a rehearsed statement before informing me that, “this is the hottest year on record.” I’m sure that’s what the residents of Wylie, Texas were thinking when they awoke on the morning of Feb. 23, 2010 to find their community covered in snow.

Walking out of the room after asking my question, a voice called out to me. “Good question.” It was a student who also attended the lecture. We chatted for a few moments, and I shared where I got my information on global warming. I was glad someone in there was paying attention. Being a climate change “denier” isn’t easy. Many scientists who disbelieve the theory remain silent. They fear repercussions from their colleagues – especially in the university setting. Well I won’t be silenced. I won’t tailor papers to compliment some zealot professor’s views, and neither should you.

Shane Cronin is a Collegian columnist. He can be reached at [email protected].