Satirical contest for debunking climate change

From the April 20 Chronicle of Higher Education:

Two months ago, the American Enterprise Institute staged a nifty contest, offering $10,000 for articles "that emphasize the shortcomings" of the landmark report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (The Chronicle, March 2). We, too, love contests, so we held one of our own: Send us your silliest arguments against the findings of the IPCC's report, we told readers. And the readers responded.

Here are a few of the top entries:

Mother Earth is middle-aged. This is not global warming; she is merely experiencing hot flashes. Give her a few hundred thousand years and she will get over it.

Lisa Roetzel
Associate director
Campuswide Honors Program
U. of California at Irvine

The IPCC report about global warming has to be wrong because students and others are catching more and more colds.

Allen Zimmerman,
Professor of engineering technology and technical physics
Ohio State University

If humans are responsible for global warming, then how did the Ice Age end?

Anonymous

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