Red-shifting the oceans | Watts Up With That?

The trend is to paint the world redder.

What Happened to Claims The Gulf Stream Is Going To Stop?

Computer anomalies trigger unjustified panics and too often lead to alarmist statements. There’s a desperate desire to blame humans for any natural changes. To speculate beyond known facts or reason to keep the public in constant fear so they can be controlled. All this is another measure of the exploitation of natural sciences for political gain. H. L. Mencken provides the motive.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”