What didn’t they know and when didn’t they know it? It’s becoming harder and harder to find scientists with an ounce of common sense. After scaring the entire Pacific Rim out of their homes over the weekend with dire warnings of a massive tsunami that never materialized…
Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground Saturday in a panic that circled the Pacific Rim after scientists warned 53 nations and territories that a tsunami had been generated by the massive Chilean quake.
It was the largest-scale evacuation in Hawaii in years, if not decades. Emergency sirens blared throughout the day, the Navy moved ships out of Pearl Harbor, and residents hoarded gasoline, food and water in anticipation of a major disaster. Some supermarkets even placed limits on items like Spam because of the panic buying.
… the oceanographers responsible for the uproar are circling the wagons, insisting they will do it again next time because (not unlike a certain group of global warming alarmists) they just can’t help themselves.
It’s a pretty sure bet that a scientist named “Dai Lin Wang” is not familiar with the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But what about King You of Zhou, the Chinese emperor who made a habit of amusing his favourite queen by lighting warning beacons and fooling his nobles into thinking that nomads were about to attack? Judging from this statement reported by AP and ABCNews, King You did not figure in Dai Lin’s education, either:
“It’s a key point to remember that we cannot under-warn. Failure to warn is not an option for us,” said Dai Lin Wang, an oceanographer at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. “We cannot have a situation that we thought was no problem and then it’s devastating. That just cannot happen.”
Dr. Dai, you and King You are a pair. We’ll keep this in mind the next time you broadcast a tsunami warning. Global warmists, take note.
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It is better to run from a possible danger and find out later it was a non-event than to ignore it and be destroyed. Sure the scientists got that one wrong, but they are doing their best. If they had not warned and thousands of people had been killed, they would have been criticized.