California State University – Fullerton student Keith Fiero says anthropogenic global warming, also known as man-made global warming, is a fad.

Our society’s obsession with mass catastrophes is nothing new. We were all there for the Y2K and mad cow disease scares. The Soviet bomb and an invasion from Mars haunted the dreams of our parents.

A new fad is now being added to the cultural tombstone: anthropogenic global warming.

From Al Gore’s fantastically horrible film, An Inconvenient Truth (which was banned in public schools by Britain’s High Court for containing nine substantial falsities), to school curricula nationwide, we have been fed this global warming dogma for years.

All the while Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was telling us this was nothing to worry about. Countless scientists throughout the country agreed with Lindzen and tried to have their voices heard.

The climate change crowd drowned out the voices of reason, shouting monumentally stupid jargon like “99 percent of scientists agree! The science is settled!”

Their first challenge should have been to produce a list containing 100 percent of all climate scientists. This should have been no problem since they already collected 99 percent of them. Secondly, maybe they would like to explain how any self-respecting scientist would come to a conclusion on a theory based on democratic vote.

The very basis of the argument warning against a change in climate is that climate should never change. This is an absurdity in itself. We grew up learning about ice ages and times of a worldwide subtropical climate, and we’re supposed to freak out about a change in temperature?