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Extraterrestrial edition! A bunch of bozo “scientists” have come up with a new global warming scare tactic, and it sure is a doozy (Hat-tip: Yid With Lid):

It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.

Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.

This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a Nasa-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.

This is ridiculous on its face, and not because it involves aliens. Surely any alien species would comprehend, better than our own alarmist scientists, that the Earth has had higher CO2 levels before and that climates are complicated things driven by more than a singular factor. Besides, CO2 isn’t exactly dangerous in space, so why would they even care?

Any space-faring species would have had to exploit considerable natural resources to get to that stage of development. Why would they judge us for doing the same? Too many humans are ashamed of our own species, and these scientists are simply projecting their anti-human-advancement attitudes onto fictitious aliens.

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