According to nearly every report on global warming, the vast majority of scientists line up on the side of those who contend human activity has something to do with it. That is the anthropogenic thesis, and far be it from us to gainsay so many experts.
Still, we couldn't help noting with a wry smile the news that a hundred years of settled science, as Al Gore might call it, recently may have been overturned. An experiment at the world's largest physics lab seems to have shown tiny particles called neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light.
This is supposed to be impossible. Scientists have described the news in unusually blunt terms — "a shock," "can't be real," "sensational," and so on.
At the moment the results remain unconfirmed. It's possible somebody made a mistake somewhere — forgot to carry the two, divided by zero, something like that. But if it turns out that the foundational concepts of modern physics are, well, just plain wrong, then that, too, would be a rather inconvenient truth, wouldn't it?
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