Chicken Little, AlGore And Globaloney (the real agenda behind 'global warming')

RightBias ^ | 1-18-07 | Nancy Morgan

[nancyvideo]

The good news is: The sky is not falling and the earth isn't melting. The bad news is: A majority of Americans believe it is.

From headlines around the world, there seems to be but one consensus. The ice caps are melting, the earth is warming and it's all Bush's, er our fault. It's settled science and you're an ignorant, un-progressive conservative if you think otherwise.

Everything from Katrina to pimples is now blamed on global warming. If everyone believes it, it must be so. Using this logic, since over 90% of Americans believe in God, this must mean God exists.

[nancyvideo]

Global warming is moving up on the Dems agenda.

[stm]

[NormsRevenge]

sounds like a wealth transfer scheme to me, nothing more

wealth goes from your pockets to lib wackos in green industries and thinktanks

either way, politicos benefit from donations gleaned from the green amongst us because they are seen as acting for the common good

[sean_og]

Is China or Russia worried about Global Warming?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken

[pleikumud]

Right. That's why Bore wrote "Earth in the Balance". He thought he would be elected as our savior. The guy is insane, but the public generally believes the global warming lie.

[NormsRevenge]

I don't think Russia and China have political patronage as an integral part of their political structures.

They are a bit less likely to be affected by marauding herds of researchers and grubby protesters out to make a point or a few bucks crying in the wind.

[PGalt]

Great quote from Mencken. Thanks.

[Winged Hussar]

Al Gore's latest: global warming will thaw out The Blob, which was dropped in the Arctic after being frozen by characters portrayed by Steve McQueen and others.

Also, I heard that Gore wants to build fifty-story refrigerators that will be operated with their doors open to cool the environment.

http://www.stentorian.com/kyoto/ for my page on the Kyoto Treaty. ("Cali-Fornicating our Nation's Economy" and other observations on Kyoto)

On a final note to Democrats: REAL DEMOCRATS DON'T DESTROY WORKING PEOPLE'S JOBS, which is exactly what greenhouse gas regulations will do if we are irresponsible enough to enact them. (On the other hand, economically-driven energy efficiency improvements will have the incidental effect of reducing the amount of greenhouse gases produced per kilowatt-hour generated. Make automotive fuel economy a selling point instead of a mandate, and let the free market do its thing.)

[WildBill2275]

A few things to think about....
The evil of CO2
Each human contributes 724 lbs/year to the atmosphere
(caused by breathing)
The US contributes 109 million (US) tons/year
The world contributes 2.21 billion (US) tons/year
The population of the developed nations has remained relatively stable for the last half century.
(this CO2 caused by breathing only)
In the last half century the world population has gone from approximately 2 billion to about 6.1 billion.
Most of that increase is in underdeveloped countries
(per the UN, the only growth [4 billion people] was in undeveloped countries) Undeveloped countries still burn old fields to get them ready for planting.
(Several years ago there was a major fire in Mexico from just such a fire that was causing respiratory distress north of Oklahoma.)
Kyoto protocols only look at industrial pollution.
Then there are minor factors like the temperature of the surface of the sun (which warms the Earth.)
The Earth's locations in it's eccentric orbit
The molecular density of the area of space between the Sun and the Earth
The additional heat generated by the body mass of the additional 4 billion humans in the world... (I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but I bet someone is)
The hot air generated by politicians (left, right, and center)
And probably 100's more factors that I have never heard of.

And now that the Global Warming has eased off here in Texas, I guess I'll get in my Jeep and drive into town and get some groceries.

[Old Professer]

Here's my take on the whole issue of politics and crises; politics is above all else, an appeal to emotion and a call to action.

To persuade people to act it is necessary to establish a focus and a goal and a crisis serves this purpose in both respects.

Every year of my life since the end of the second world war I have become more aware of a growing tendency on the part of media and the politicians to operate in a synergistic fashion whereby both groups gain in notoriety through the promotion of one certain future catastrophe or another that may be prevented if only the people change their behavior to reduce the threat by their daily actions or through their representatives.

I now believe that that may be the unintended consequence of republicanism as opposed to the simpler but more direct result of pure democracy where transfers of wealth and power go through regular cycles of shift from the progressive to the conservative demands of the populace depending on which faction is in control at the time.

We had to be sold on going to war and it took outside influence to accomplish that up until WWII; after the atomic bomb revealed the immense power and potential for destruction that the media showered our senses with, it became easier to mobilize a resistance to scientific tinkering for fear of a doomsday effect.

Now, since the environmental movement began our greatest threats are those which can be made to look more universal, creating a doomsday where the scientists' role is changed to that of a kindly savior protecting us against our childish excesses and we dare not question their wisdom for, after all, it was we who reined in their dangerous ways.

In my opinion, no matter what we do about AGW it won't be enough and even if it goes away on its own or fades from attention a replacement will soon follow to fill the void.

[crz]

Mo Money Mo Money Mo Money...

I smell Mo Money.

[Publius6961]

This whole charade has been a scam in the making for over 30 years:

Maurice Strong

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Fight Kyoto Book Excerpt featured in the Calgary
Sun and Edmonton Sun

Monday, December 2, 2002

Kyoto Protocol compiled by un-elected global bureaucrats
Ezra Levant

THE Kyoto Protocol was the work of thousands of bureaucrats, diplomats and politicians. But no one person is more responsible for it than a Canadian named Maurice Strong.

Strong organized the UN first-world environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972 and has never stopped pressing for a world where UN resolutions would be enforced as law all over the Earth.

Strong went on to chair the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio and to become senior adviser to Kofi Annan, the UN's secretary general. Not bad for a kid from Oak Lake, Manitoba, who dropped out of school at age 14.

But Strong is different than other social butterflies who flit from one UN conference to the next. He is a powerful businessman, who has served as president of such massive energy companies as Petro-Canada and Ontario Hydro, and on the board of industrial giant Toyota.

He is a huge political donor, not just here in Canada, but to both the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S. as well.

At age 29, he became president of Power Corporation, fusing his destiny to Canada's wealthiest and most influential families - including Paul Martin Sr. and Jr., now heir apparent to the prime minister.

Strong hired Paul Jr. to work for him during a vacation from university. "We controlled many companies, controlled political budgets," Strong said of his time at Power Corporation. "Politicians got to know you and you them."

Strong hired Martin into Power Corporation's executive suite. He helped guide Martin towards unimaginable personal wealth - and even predicted Martin's path to becoming prime minister. But Strong's influence reaches farther than Canada.

Indeed, compared to Strong's American and European friends, Martin is a small star in the constellation.

Strong sits on boards with the Rockefellers and Mikhail Gorbachev and chairs private meetings of CEOs, including Bill Gates. He hobnobs with the world's royalty, too - and with dictators and despots.

He once did a business deal with arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and wound up with a 200,000-acre ranch in Colorado - which his wife, Hanne, runs as a New Age spiritual colony.

He told Maclean's magazine in 1976 that he was "a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology." He warns that if we don't heed his environmentalist warnings, the Earth will collapse into chaos.

"Do we really want this? Do we want Marx to be proven right, after all?" Strong asks. He shares the views of the most radical environmentalist street protester, but instead of shouting himself hoarse at a police barricade outside a global conference, he's the secretary general inside, wielding the gavel.

Strong has always courted power - but not through any shabby election campaign. He was a Liberal candidate in the 1979 federal election, but pulled out a month before the vote.

How could a mere MP wield the kind of international control he had tasted in Stockholm? Journalist Elaine Dewar, who interviewed Strong, described why he loved the UN.

"He could raise his own money from whomever he liked, appoint anyone he wanted, control the agenda," wrote Dewar.

"He told me he had more unfettered power than a cabinet minister in Ottawa. He was right: He didn't have to run for re-election, yet he could profoundly affect lives."

Strong prefers power extracted from democracies, and kept from unenlightened voters. Most power-crazed men would stop at calling for a one world Earth Charter to replace the U.S. Constitution, or the UN Charter.

But in an interview with his own Earth Charter Commission, Strong said "the real goal of the Earth Charter is it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments. It will become a symbol of the aspirations and commitments of people everywhere." Sounds like Maurice was hanging out at his spirit ranch without his sunhat on.

There has been no one like Maurice Strong before, except perhaps in fiction - Ernst Blofeld comes to mind, 007's round-faced nemesis in You Only Live Twice. But Blofeld sought to attack the world order, to challenge it from some remote hideaway - not to co-opt it, and transform it from the inside as Strong does.

Blofeld would threaten a meeting of the UN; Strong would chair the meeting and script its agenda. Strangely, Strong once indulged his inner Blofeld, musing to a stunned reporter about a violent plot to take over the world through one of his many super-organizations.

In 1990, Strong told a reporter a fantasy scenario for the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland - where 1,000 diplomats, CEOs and politicians gather "to address global issues."

Strong, naturally, is on the board of the World Economic Forum. "What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?...

In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?"

That's Strong talking, but those are Blofeld's words coming out. But this is no fictitious Bond movie villain speaking - it is the man who chaired the Rio Earth Summit and who is Kofi Annan's senior adviser.

"This group of world leaders forms a secret society to bring about an economic collapse," continued Strong, warming to his fantasy. "It's February. They're all at Davos. These aren't terrorists.

"They're world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's commodities and stock markets. They've engineered, using their access to stock markets and computers and gold supplies, a panic. Then, they prevent the world's stock markets from closing. They jam the gears. They hire mercenaries who hold the leaders at Davos as hostage. The markets can't close..."

Strong catches himself. "I probably shouldn't be saying things like this."

But is fantasizing about holding the world hostage, like Dr. Evil in an Austin Powers movie, any less strange than Strong's other solutions to environmental problems?

In 1972, as Strong organized the first environmental conference for the UN, he granted an interview to the BBC. "I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously," he said.

The only way to avoid doomsday, said Strong, was if "man, in light of this evidence, is going to be wise enough and enlightened enough to subject himself to this kind of discipline and control."

That discipline and control, of course, would be meted out by supernational organizations such as the UN. Just like his interview at Davos, Strong warmed to his topic.

The BBC reporter asked him what discipline and control people could expect - would it include legal limits on the number of children that a family could have?

Strong explained: "Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."

But, if the world didn't follow his instructions - if governments didn't heed the warnings of the doomsayers - then "this is one of the possible courses that society would have to seriously consider." Strong himself has five children.

He knows how he is viewed by opponents to his radical environmentalism, or his promotion of a UN government with taxation and enforcement powers that trump national governments. And he seems to rather enjoy being described as a man at the centre of secretive power-brokering.

"Sure, these are but the deluded and paranoid ravings of the Western far right, and I wouldn't normally trouble to mention them at all," Strong writes in his self-conscious autobiography, "Except that my reaction when I hear a few of these charges is that I wish I had a smidgen of the power (and money!) they say I have.

"I wish I could accomplish a few of the things they already attribute to me. I do wish I could assist my many friends and colleagues in all the organizations I belong to, to remake the political and economic landscape."

But this is Strong feigning modesty, and not very convincingly. Later in his autobiography, he reprints his ostentatious seven-page resume, boasting every connection he has.

His book takes name-dropping to a new level, including a seven-page "name index," a list of hundreds of blue-chip associates that Strong has in his Rolodex.

Maurice Strong: A Dr. Evil-style strategist. Owner of a 200,000-acre New Age Zen colony. Designer of a proposal to "consider" requiring licences to have babies.

The architect of the Kyoto Protocol.

[nancyvideo]

"Is China or Russia worried about Global Warming?"

I'm sure China is for it cause under Kyoto, they're exempt. Not sure about Russia

[CIDKauf]

Don't have the link, but recent study shows methane produced from animals (cattle, sheep, etc..) to be more of a problem with "greenhouse emmisions" than burning of fossils fuels in what is so called the "greenhouse effect". Personally, I think that "The Little Ice Age" has a lot to do with this.

[WildBill2275]

...."recent study shows methane produced from animals (cattle, sheep, etc..) to be more of a problem with "greenhouse emissions" than burning of fossils fuels in what is so called the "greenhouse effect"."

Saw the same piece, but keep in mind, creating CO2 by burning fossils fuels is only bad if industrialized nations do it. We don't want to stop underdeveloped nations from messing up the environment 'cause thats "not fair". I guess they should be allowed to create problems until they get industrialized.

[CIDKauf]

Actually, China, Russia, India, and any one of a number of other countries are excempt from the Kyoto Protocal (Dead on Arrival) adn should study the History of Volcanos instead!

[WildBill2275]

Truth!!

[george76]

Exactly why is the worlds biggest polluter allowed to sign Kyoto but is completely free of all aspects of the Kyoto protocol and its wealth transfer scheme, is it because they are Communists?

[nancyvideo]

Kyoto is being revived. There's a commission being formed, hints being given...I think the Dems will be making a big push to validate global warming.How better to justify massive tax increases?