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MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING IS A SCAM by Xxxx Xxxxxxxx 6/18/07
Manmade Global Warming (GW) is the biggest hoax in recorded history. There is absolutely no
scientific evidence that CO2 has anything to do with current warming, regardless of the source. It
has such a small effect that it cannot be isolated from the many other variables. Solar radiation,
orbit changes, axis tilt, volcanic activity, and ocean currents, for example, dwarf CO2 as causes of
climate change and there are many more variables for which we have no long-term data.
Historically, CO2 levels have risen after warming, not before. Superimposing a graph of
temperatures on a graph of atmospheric CO2 levels shows that temperature rises first, followed by a
rise in CO2, often 800 years later. Most atmospheric CO2 comes from the oceans and when they
get warmer, they release CO2 faster, just like a soda fizzes faster when it is warm. Arguing that CO2
causes GW is like arguing that lung cancer causes smoking.
The temperature rose a whopping 1° F last century, but ¾ of that rise was in the first half. If human
use of fossil fuels was the cause, the larger rise should certainly have been in the second half of the
century. Actually, the latest satellite technology has shown only a slight rise in lower atmosphere
temperature since 1998, indicating a declining rate of temperature rise. The satellite data largely
ignores the urban heat island effect that can result in “downtown” being 6 to 8 degrees warmer than
nearby rural areas, particularly at night. Many of the “hottest ever recorded” temperatures are in
urban areas where the heat island effect has increased with urban growth over the last century.
Willy Sutton said he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.” “Scientists” could just as
easily develop models for global cooling, as they did in the 1970’s, but they now model Global
Warming because that’s where the money is. V.P. Al Gore started the ball rolling with a $1 billion
grubstake and that’s been followed by $10 billion more to “study” GW. There are entire careers
dependent on GW and more grant money every year. The money has become so addictive that
any scientist who questions GW is attacked and risks losing funding for their own research projects.
The GW “scientists” assume CO2 causes GW, design computer models based on that assumption,
plug in rising (often greatly exaggerated) CO2 levels, and then claim that the models prove GW.
Using this method can prove virtually anything. Reduced to its basics: Assume A=B; thus it is
proven, A=B. The quantum leap to A=B=disaster is mere conjecture. History actually tells us that
humans thrived during warmer cycles and starved during cooler cycles.
There is one model that really launched the panic about GW. It is the one that showed an
impending sharp rise in temperatures. Because of this sharp rise, it was known as the “hockey
stick” model. There is a technique for testing such models, called the Monte Carlo method. It is a
modified random number generator that generates random data within certain parameters. When
100’s of random data sets of temperatures were plugged into the “hockey stick” model, it always
showed a sharp rise. So the shape of the curve was largely independent of the values entered.
The developer of the model refused to release the computer code that would allow peer review.
While this model has been thoroughly discredited, the hockey stick ramp is still etched in the minds
of many GW proponents and those gullible enough to follow their lead.
None of the climate models is backward viable. When data from the first half of the 20th century is
plugged in, the models “predict” much higher temperatures for the second half than what actually
happened. So the only thing we know for certain about the models is that they are flawed and
heavily skewed towards Global Warming.
Rising temperatures on Earth have coincided with rising temperatures on Mars and other planets.
The rising temperatures also coincide with the warmest solar cycle ever recorded. Could it be that
the variable output from the Sun, the only source of heat in the solar system, is responsible for
temperature variations? NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor has recorded that the polar icecap
(ironically made mostly of CO2) has been receding for 3 consecutive years. To be consistent, the
GW crowd would have to argue that Martians have been driving SUVs. Oops, Mars has no
atmosphere, so there is no greenhouse effect and “Martian-made” global warming is impossible.
Only increased radiation from the Sun can explain it.
CO2 is a trace gas comprising only 0.0335% (by volume) of the atmosphere. Human contribution to
CO2 entering the atmosphere is 2.5% to 4% at most. The predominant greenhouse gas, however,
is water vapor, accounting for 95%. IF CO2 were 1% to 2% of the greenhouse effect, human CO2
contribution would be something like 0.05%. And the GW doomsayers claim reducing this to 0.04%
is imperative to save the planet. One part per 10,000 to stop GW is patently absurd.
On top of that, only once in the last 600 million years have CO2 levels been as low as they are now.
Why? Because so much of the carbon is tied up in coal, oil, and natural gas, all from vegetation
that died millions of years ago after pulling CO2 from the atmosphere. We should get busy and burn
that stuff or we’ll run out of CO2 needed for our current greenery. Higher CO2 levels have been
shown to increase crop yields by extending the growing season 2 to 3 weeks while also making the
plants more drought and disease resistant. If you put a bubble over North America, we would
eventually have crop failures caused by a depletion of atmospheric CO2. Due to the amount of
foliage, North America is a net producer of oxygen and a CO2 consumer.
Al Gore’s “documentary” is full of half truths, gross omissions, unsubstantiated “facts,” cherry-picked
data, misrepresented photos, and total fabrications.
Al Gore shows a few glaciers shrinking but not the ones that are expanding. There are about 9500
glaciers in the Himalayas alone and only 50 of them have been studied. What about the other 9450
glaciers? Some of the shrinking glaciers were shrinking long before the invention of the auto and
the surge in the use of fossil fuels. The “snows of Kilimanjaro” were receding when all ships were
sail powered and state-of-the-art lighting was lamps using whale oil.
Al shows dramatic photos of glacial ice falling off into the ocean and claims that this is evidence of
GW. Actually, it is proof that the glacier is expanding, not shrinking. The ice breaks off every spring
as it has done for hundreds and probably thousands of years. If the glacier were shrinking, the ice
would not reach the ocean to break off and the picture would only show a rocky shoreline. But
there is nothing dramatic about a rocky shoreline. So the picture is real but the commentary is a lie.
Al shows “before and after” photos of disappearing northern pack ice. But the leading expert on
subject says that that large ice flows drift during the summer due to weather conditions and ocean
currents. Sometimes they drift towards the North Pole, sometimes they drift towards Russia, and
sometimes they drift towards Canada. Then they freeze together again in the winter forming pack
ice that is not in the same location from one year to the next. So the ice didn’t disappear, it just
Al says GW will cause the spread of malaria. The disease is not temperature dependent, however,
and there have even been malaria outbreaks inside the Arctic Circle. If malaria spreads, it will be
primarily due to the ban of DDT, which was responsible for eradication of the disease in North
America and Europe.
Al shows waves lapping at islands that he claims will disappear as the sea rises 20 feet from
melting glaciers. There are several problems. First, waves have been eating away at landmasses
and turning them into sand since the beginning of time. Second, even the estimates from the GW
biased UN report forecast a rise in sea levels of at most 17 inches in the next 100 to 200 years. At
least that’s better than the original “forecasts” that predicted a 200 foot rise, where tourists would
look at NY City through glass-bottomed boats. It seems they used the amount of ice during the last
ice age, when Chicago was under 4500 feet of it, and added that to current sea levels. Oh how liars
can figure. And how did all that ice melt 10,000 years before the industrial revolution and SUVs?
Conveniently ignored is the fact that for 500 years (about 800 to 1300) the Medieval Warm Period
had temperatures much warmer than they are now. This reveals several inconvenient truths:
1. Humans had nothing to do with the warming.
2. Temperatures much warmer than now were not disastrous.
3. Receding glaciers in the Alps have revealed human activity. A silver mine appeared in
Switzerland with tools lined up waiting for workers to return in the spring. Apparently, the
“disaster” occurred when it got colder, the snow didn’t melt and a glacier covered the mine.
The glacier advanced during the “Little Ice Age” that ended in about 1850 and it has been
getting warmer ever since. Perhaps current warming indicates a return to “normal” rather
than a departure.
4. GW proponents will discount the Medieval Warm Period as an anomaly isolated in Europe.
However, Florida’s Lake Okeechobee this June receded to its lowest level since 1935,
revealing human remains and pottery from a village 500 to 1000 years ago. Based on the
mud at the site, the village was likely several hundred yards from the shallow lake, indicating
conditions warmer and drier than now. During the same period, Canadian forests extended
several hundred miles north to the edge of the Arctic Circle.
5. So how is it that more trees existed when it was warmer, but GW proponents now say we
need to plant more trees to prevent warming?
6. Humanity thrived under the warmer temperatures. The Vikings colonized and farmed
significant areas of Greenland, which were green at that time. Wine grapes were grown in
England, prompting the French to impose tariffs on the lower priced English wines. Olive
and fig trees were grown in Germany. It’s too cold to do any of that now.
A few more inconvenient truths:
While maybe 3 of Canada’s polar bear populations are shrinking, the other 8 are stable or
increasing and that’s where it is warmer. One population has increased from 850 to 2100,
hardly a sign of the apocalypse.
While one side of the Greenland ice sheet is shrinking, the other side is getting thicker.
While at most 30% of the Antarctic ice cap is getting thinner, at least 70% is getting thicker.
While trees were cleared for farmland, there are actually more trees in the US now than
there were when the Pilgrims landed. An 1864 panoramic photo of “Old Main,” the original
building at the University of Denver, has Pikes Peak 58 miles in the distance, but not a
single tree anywhere. The large addition of trees to formerly treeless environs is very
common across the Great Plains and the desert southwest, from Texas to southern
California. Weyerhaeuser should claim that too many trees cause Global Warming.
Earlier this year scientists “misused” their grant money by releasing a study claiming that
methane from bovine flatulence was contributing more to the greenhouse effect than CO2
produced by human activity. This was a short-lived story because GW proponents knew
people would likely conclude that a world without pizza, ice cream and cheeseburgers is
not worth saving. They also knew that cow farts destroying the planet would expose GW
as the fraud that it is. But before cow farts, there were 70 million farting buffalos. Was
Buffalo Bill the first Al Gore, just doing his part to save the planet?
While GW proponents, citing the devastation of Katrina, claim GW will make such
hurricanes commonplace, hurricane experts say GW has and will have little or no effect.
The leading US hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, has said
that if GW is happening primarily at the poles, as claimed by GW proponents, it would
decrease the intensity and frequency. It is the difference in temperature between polar and
tropical regions that causes hurricanes.
While there were some noted scientists listed (for creditability) as contributors to the often-
cited GW report, none actually wrote the report; it was written by bureaucrats. Some of the
scientists, who disagreed with the distortions in the final report, had to threaten a lawsuit to
get their names removed.
While Al Gore and the mainstream media claim the debate is over, there is a petition (1)
disputing manmade Global Warming signed by nearly 17,800 scientists, including 2,660
trained in physical or environmental sciences. Most of the scientists promoting GW are not
so trained; they are usually concerned with the plight of frogs in their favorite pond or some
other micro view of the planet. You won’t see any of this on 60 Minutes or anywhere else
in the MSM.
The debate is over only because GW proponents have declared it so. Al Gore has
compared GW deniers to Holocaust deniers (unproven theory vs. historical fact) and has
refused to even appear with any qualified scientist who might shoot holes in his non-
(1) The “Oregon petition” has 19,700 signatures with 17,800 independently verified. While it does
not say “Global Warming,” it disputes the assertions of the Kyoto Protocol that is largely the basis
for GW. Many of the early e-mail signatures have been replaced with mail-in cards, which is now a
requirement. Of those claiming to have PhD’s, 95% have been independently verified. Critics cite
some obviously bogus signatures, like one of the Spice Girls with a PhD and duplicate signatures.
Note that submitting duplicate and bogus signatures is a technique often used by the left to
invalidate petitions for ballot initiatives they don’t like, but would likely be approved by voters if they
got on the ballot. However, some names ridiculed as obviously bogus are real. Signer “Perry
Mason,” for example, is a PhD chemist.
Most of the gloom and doom “scientists” now precede their dire forecasts with less definitive
conditions like “may,” “might,” “could,” and so forth. Never reported, of course, is that for every
“may” there is also a “may not.” So a modern Chicken Little will say, “The sky might be falling, but
we can’t afford to wait to find out for sure, because there is a consensus among all the little
chickens. We are told that there is a consensus on Global Warming, but we are not told that this is
only among those who “believe” in GW. Galileo was placed under house arrest, because he had
the audacity to disagree with the consensus that the Earth was the center of the universe.
Consensus is not science and is often dead wrong.
To gloss over such things as the disastrous crop losses due to frost in California, GW proponents
point out that it was only the second worst freeze in recorded history. The warm early winter
weather in the East was endlessly emphasized, but the brutally cold late winter and early spring
weather was given only casual reference, even though they forced the cancellation of several GW
conferences. Areas of northeast Alabama broke the record lowest temperature ever by 7 degrees,
and it wasn’t even winter.
These cold spells became so inconvenient that the latest technique is to speculate that all extreme
weather phenomena are due to “climate change” rather than Global Warming. The fall in the
Southern Hemisphere has been unusually cold. In May, it snowed in South Africa for the first time
in 35 years with a dozen or more dead and it wasn’t even winter yet. As reported:
“The South African Weather Service said 54 temperature records were set as snow, hail and heavy rain descended on the
country. Many cities recorded record low temperatures while others hit new marks for the heaviest one-day rainfall.
Some commentators suggested climate change might be at least partly to blame…” [Emphasis added]
Note that during the same week it snowed in North Dakota and Maine. Blaming such a strange
coincidence on Global Warming is quite a stretch even for a GW proponent, so it must be “climate
change,” the new universal bogeyman. Manmade Global Warming has morphed into manmade
global climate change. No one has even attempted to twist science far enough to explain just how
this works, but humans must be the cause. After all, what else could it be?
Considering Al Gore’s contention that GW will destroy the planet and kill us all, you’d think he would
be doing everything he could to reduce his own contribution to this pending calamity? Apparently,
big Al only thinks everyone else should go green.
Al Gore’s Tennessee mansion uses about 20 times the electricity of the average home and most of
this comes from coal-fired generating plants. With a year-round heated pool and decorative
gaslights, the annual gas bill is $12,000, just a wee bit high for a home in a southern state. And he
has 3 more homes. Al claims he is “carbon neutral,” because he buys carbon credits. It turns out
that Al started and is chairman of a company that invests in planting trees and such for the purpose
of selling carbon credits to rich people who don’t want to be inconvenienced by going green. Al
buys carbon credits from himself, then profits from the Global Warming hysteria he creates and will
profit even more with government mandates regulating carbon emissions. Follow the money.
I think Al has also created his own version of the see food diet. He eats everything in sight but,
apparently, he buys “food offsets” by paying some starving Somalian not to eat food he doesn’t
have anyway. It makes just as much sense as carbon credits and the results are obvious.
How does big Al pay the $30,000 annual utility bill for his mansion? Through 2003 he had received
$500,000 in royalties from a zinc mine on the property. The mine had been cited several times for
exceeding EPA limits and polluting a nearby creek. It was shut down voluntarily, but is scheduled to
reopen under new management so that “environmentalist” Al Gore can reestablish the cash flow to
support his energy-wasting lifestyle, the kind he so deplores for the rest of us.
Al Gore recommends an “Energy Impact Calculator” for determining your “carbon footprint.”
Ironically, this calculator cannot handle numbers as large as those for Al’s house. When it comes to
carbon footprints, Al Gore is a giant, nearly as big as he is a hypocrite.
The following occurred during Al Gore’s March 2007 testimony before a Senate committee:
"There are hundreds of thousands of people who adore you and would follow your example by
reducing their energy usage if you did. Don't give us the run-around on carbon offsets or the
gimmicks the wealthy do," Senator Inhofe told Gore.
"Are you willing to make a commitment here today by taking this pledge to consume no more
energy for use in your residence than the average American household by one year from today?"
Senator Inhofe asked.
Senator Inhofe then presented Vice President Gore with the following "Personal Energy Ethics Pledge:
As a believer:
that human-caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our
that home energy use is a key component of overall energy use;
that reducing my fossil fuel-based home energy usage will lead to lower greenhouse gas
that leaders on moral issues should lead by example;
I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household
by March 21, 2008."
Gore refused to take the pledge.
Along with Al Gore, one of the leading proponents of carbon offsets is Maurice Strong, who has
become very wealthy by wheeling and dealing while manipulating world politics. He has been
involved in many UN scandals, the most recent being the totally corrupt oil for food program with
Saddam Hussein. Carbon credits are just the latest in a long line of international scams
“legitimized” by global bureaucrats. He has been working on this scam for at least 15 years. He
was in charge of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. At that summit, he clearly played to
the real agenda of the world environmental movement when he said:
“Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?”
There you have it. The environmental movement is mostly political. Patrick Moore, the cofounder
of Greenpeace in 1971 and GP International in 1979, is still an avid environmentalist. He resigned
from the organizations in 1986, however, because he says they, and the environmental movement
in general, have been hijacked by the far left. While they claim to be deeply concerned about the
environment, their primary goal is to destroy capitalism and promote global socialism. Why else
would the Kyoto Protocol exempt China and India, which have the fastest growing economies in
world and comprise 35% of the world’s population?
China is currently second to the US in carbon emissions and will soon be number one. China is
building coal-fired power plants faster than Starbucks builds new coffee shops. A new generating
plant currently comes on line every 10 days and over 2000 new coal-fired plants are planned in the
next 20 years. Thus, China cannot sell carbon credits, but they are well into playing the
“greenhouse gas” credit game. China currently builds factories specifically designed to produce the
“worst” greenhouse gasses, like Freon. They have no need for the Freon, but instead China sells
the factory to a European company. The European company then closes the factory and uses the
“credit” to get around new regulations and keep their factories operating in Europe. It is only a
matter of time before the European company pays China not to build the polluting factory at all. So
it boils down to redistribution of wealth from rich capitalist countries (and their evil corporations) to
poor countries, global welfare in effect. Who pays for this nonsense? The customers, of course.
There has been a concentrated effort to brainwash school children with GW taught even in math,
history and English classes, mandatory viewing of Gore’s movie, etc. One school required parents
to view the film with their children. At one NJ university viewing the film is required for graduation.
Opposing views and data are neither presented nor permitted.
The public is bombard with GW propaganda woven into news stories. In the second week of May,
the MSM grossly over covered sub-tropical storm Andrea (not even a hurricane), emphasized how
this was three weeks before the official start of hurricane season, and implied Global Warming was
the cause. Where is it written that storms must conform to the Gregorian calendar like such
seasonal absolutes as “never wear white after Labor Day?” Then we are told that this is “only the
17th time that a named storm occurred this early,” implying that this is extremely rare. Conveniently
left out is that storms have only been named since 1951. Thus, on average, an early storm
happens every 3 years or so. Furthermore, U. of Alabama and former NASA climatologist Dr. Roy
Spencer stated that Andrea was caused by “unusually cold air pushing unusually far south.” And
somehow Global Warming caused this?
Unfortunately, the bureaucratic Global Warming train may have already left the station, never to
return to the real world. To further stoke coal to this engine, Al Gore has trained 1000 people
(Global Warming missionaries?) to travel the country narrating his GW slide show in front of any
audience they can find from schools to Rotary Clubs to nursing homes. This is intended to produce
millions of converts to the GW cause. Al Gore said it is, “The largest mass persuasion campaign in
the history of the world.” I’m reminded of an old adage, “Never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large numbers.”
The only questions unanswered are how much freedom of choice will be sacrificed and how much
will it cost to accomplish, at best, nothing.
For example, our tax dollars are used to subsidize production of ethanol from corn. In 2006, 20% of
our corn production was used for ethanol with 25% forecast for 2007. This has already caused a
huge spike in corn prices (doubled in the last 12 months), which has increased the cost of many
food items, those containing corn products and those from animals that eat corn products. In the
last year, for example, egg prices went up 23% and chicken is up 27%. Because of higher corn
prices, increased acreage is planted in corn rather than wheat or soybeans, causing price increases
in those crops as well. It even has a name – “agflation.” Taxpayers’ money used to raise the price
of their food; FDR would be so proud. The New Deal lives on; can a depression be far behind?
Corn is a major export commodity and many third world countries will have increased starvation
because they can’t afford the higher price. There have already been demonstrations in Mexico
protesting the rising price of tortillas.
Car companies are taking advantage of incentives by making higher cost vehicles that can use E-
85, 85% ethanol fuel. But even if 100% of the corn crop was used for ethanol production, it would
only satisfy 12% of our fuel needs and many millions of people would starve. How many trees must
be cut down to get land to grow more corn? On top of that, most ethanol production currently uses
coal to fire the distillation process, negating all proclaimed environmental benefits of ethanol.
Furthermore, ethanol (or E-85) cannot be sent through pipelines to major urban centers as is often
done with gasoline. It soaks up moisture and corrodes the pipes. Thus, it must be transported by
additional diesel burning trucks ($100,000 each), made from energy intensive steel and rolling on
petroleum and natural gas (burned for carbon black) based tires.
Then there is the often-ignored law of unintended consequences. The recent spike in gas prices
was mostly due to a lack of refinery capacity. Oil companies assumed the traditional 1% annual
growth in demand, but instead it was 3%. However, rumblings about the government raising CAFE
standards, mandating higher ethanol content in gasoline, and mandating availability of E-85 at gas
stations have caused the oil companies to shelve all plans they had for increasing refinery capacity.
Any such expansion is far too expensive and takes far too long for implementation to justify the risk
if the government will be meddling with market forces. So, once again, government attempts to
solve a problem will only make it worse and, consequently, the public will have to pay for such folly.
Even without all the details, “We must reduce dependence on foreign oil; hey, let’s burn food,”
sounds idiotic. Corn-based ethanol, as an alternate fuel source, is only viable for people who live in
an alternate reality. Yes, Brazil uses ethanol, but it’s made from sugar cane, which has 5 times the
yield. Furthermore, analysis of the entire process indicates that E-85 has essentially no effect on
CO2 emissions and it actually creates air pollution more detrimental to human health than gasoline.
We will still be dependent on foreign oil and will increasingly become dependent on foreign food as
well. Only a Washington bureaucrat could devise a “solution” so patently stupid.
And that’s just one of what will likely be a plethora of “solutions” designed by politicians, the
geniuses that gave us a 66,000-page tax code, each page attempting to correct some perceived
inequity created by a previous page. Our very way of life is in jeopardy. Generations of little girls
baked “delicious” brownies in their Easy Bake Ovens that used a light bulb as the heat source.
Millions of these gourmet appliances will be wastefully relegated to the trashcan when incandescent
light bulbs are banned. Either that or parents will be forced into even whiter (greener?) lies when
compact fluorescent bulbs produce “delicious” raw brownies.
And what happens when a fluorescent bulb breaks, releasing toxic mercury? A woman in Maine
recently tried “saving the planet” by installing CFL bulbs. Unfortunately, she dropped one and it
broke. Home Depot suggested she call the poison control center, which referred her to the state
EPA, who tested and found 6 times the maximum allowable levels of mercury. Because she tried to
do the right thing, she ended up paying $2000 for a HAZMAT cleanup. With energy savings of
about $10 per year, she’ll break even in 200 years.
“White knight” politicians around the world, including some state governments, are strongly
considering banning incandescent light bulbs. All flora and fauna on Earth are carbon based. To
save these carbon-based life forms, we are told we must reduce the amount of carbon we remove
from the ground. This in turn requires removing mercury, toxic to nearly all living things, from the
ground and putting it in every room of every house. Will every house become a potential Superfund
Site? How long will it take for ambulance-chasing lawyers, like John Edwards, to file class action
lawsuits that will double or triple the cost of the CFL bulb mandated by the government?
Are you ready to pay more for a lawnmower, air conditioner, refrigerator, washer, and pretty much
anything that uses energy, often with negative payback? Are you ready for a gas-guzzler tax on
anything bigger than a Civic, a carbon tax on charcoal, and a surcharge on every tank of propane?
Are you ready to pay more for the energy itself, and everything that requires energy to produce,
when the government requires power companies to “collect” carbon and store it underground?
Sadly, nature would do that for us at no cost; that’s how oil and coal got underground. Some of
today’s vegetation becomes tomorrow’s oil (yes, it’s renewable), tomorrow being millions of years in
the future. Mother Nature should file a grievance.
At the time of the Kyoto Protocol, the Clinton Administration estimated that “carbon caps” would
increase the price of gasoline 53% and overall energy costs by 86%. This would in turn reduce
economic growth by 1.9% and cause interest rates to rise. With the government’s track record of
grossly underestimating costs, one can only imagine how high they might really go.
April marked the 35th anniversary of the first Earth Day (UN sanctioned version), often cited as the
beginning of the environmental movement. While extensively covered by the mainstream media,
not a single one reported the claim at the time was that human-generated pollution was going to
block out the Sun and precipitate disastrous Global Cooling. A late 1970’s cover of Newsweek
depicted the impending doom as we all froze to death. Oops, it didn’t happen so the
“environmentalists” regrouped and developed a new strategy, Global Warming. But even if nothing
happens (again), they will claim that it was Al Gore and resultant government regulations that saved
us from certain death and that even more drastic restrictions are necessary to prevent humanity
from backsliding into oblivion.
In the real world, climate warming follows climate cooling followed by climate warming, and so on
since the birth of the planet. In the last 600 million years, the one thing that has never happened is
climate stay the same. Climate change is both normal and inevitable. Anyone who believes
otherwise is either a fool or unaware that the manmade GW “science” is shaky, at best, and there is
another side to the argument that is far more compelling.
You do not have to believe in Global Warming to be swept up in the rush to “save the planet.” But
you will pay dearly for complacency in a higher cost of living for a lower standard of living. While I
doubt the GW train can be derailed, perhaps it can at least be slowed. To paraphrase the
traditional admonition by the wedding preacher – Should anyone have reason why we should not
destroy our economy in the inane attempt to stop Global Warming, speak now (and be prepared to
dodge the slings and arrows from the PC crowd) or forever hold your ankles.
While the following were written roughly ¾ of a century ago, they are still appropriate today:
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
H. L. Mencken
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
H. L. Mencken
“I intend to make government into an instrument of unimaginable power.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt