Mansion-dwelling, high-flying non-scientist Tom Friedman pitches climate hoax to 2,000 scientists

Ohio Farmer - 'Flat, Hot, Crowded' Author Sets Tone for Science Meeting

The three science groups - The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America - got their meeting going in the direction of the event's main theme: "Green Revolution 2.0: Food+Energy and Environmental Security."
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He laid out the challenges ahead noting that there's a correlation between the market and nature and in 2008 they both hit the wall. Acknowledging the climate change deniers, he takes an interesting perspective on the idea. "I call it the Cheney perspective," Friedman says. "Vice President Dick Cheney talked about Iraq and said that if there was even the smallest chance that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction we needed to act decisively to stop them. That's exactly the way I feel about the climate. If there's a one percent chance that greenhouse gases could cause a problem, we need to act decisively."
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On that tone, to a room filled with more than 2,000 scientists, Friedman kicked off the 2010 conference.