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The Climate Change-Industrial Complex is an Existential Threat
American Thinker ^ | 8 Oct, 2023 | Chris Talgo

Posted on 10/08/2023 5:28:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A new, dire threat to our nation has emerged in the years after the conclusion of the Cold War: the rise of the climate change-industrial complex.

On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued his Farewell Address, in which he warned that the United States must “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence… by the military-industrial complex.” While Ike was correct in his assessment of the dangers posed by the military-industrial complex during the early years of the Cold War, a new, more dire threat to our nation has emerged in the years after the conclusion of the Cold War: the rise of the climate change-industrial complex.

As a matter of fact, the climate change-industrial complex, which will be explained below, began decades ago when scientists warned of “global cooling” and the coming of a modern ice age. Eventually, the global cooling “crisis” morphed into “global warming,” which then morphed again into what we now know as “climate change.”

Of course, as anyone who has taken middle-school science classes knows, the climate has always changed, and will always change. However, by adopting this vague, catchall term, those behind the climate change-industrial complex executed a rather brilliant bait-and-switch. Plus, utilizing the “climate change” narrative has allowed them to connect any and all “extreme” weather events and social justice causes to climate change, even though these connections are loosely affiliated, at best.

Like the military-industrial complex, which referred to the insidious relationship between the military, defense contractors, and government and their aim to constantly increase military spending, a similar dynamic exists today among the climate change-industrial complex.

However, instead of military officials banging the drums for more spending on national defense less we be overtaken by the Soviets, we now have a parade of so-called experts constantly calling for massive...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; greenenergy

1 posted on 10/08/2023 5:28:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Whether the threat is global cooling, global warming or just climate change....the solution is always communism.


2 posted on 10/08/2023 5:28:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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EPA = envro-nazis


3 posted on 10/08/2023 5:29:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber
The greatest most successful gaslighting campaigns in the history of the workd is convincing fools that CO2 is a pollutant.
4 posted on 10/08/2023 5:32:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

“never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers” applies. who knew the movie idiocracy would be more truth than fiction.


5 posted on 10/08/2023 5:41:51 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber
The Climate Changers are the greatest threat to America. The far left screws up everything they can get their hands on.

The "media"- Garbage

Schools- Garbage

RACE RELATIONS - GARBAGE

American kids - Garbage

Public toilets - Sewage

The Border - Uncontrolled SEWAGE

Student loans - Thievery garbage

Reparations - Feces in a paper bag in the middle of a road.

Revised America history - Tons of Garbage

American Justice system - Garbage

American Courts - Garbage

Law Enforcement -Garbage

U.S. Military - Garbage

Far left RAT Democrazy - Garbage

Congress- Garbage

Elections- Garbage

Government agencies - WEAPONIZED GARBAGE

A nation of laws - Lawless RAT GARBAGE

Country music- Garbage

Movies - Garbage

TV- Garbage

Pro Sports - Garbage

Women's Sports - Garbage

The list goes on. I don't think we're in America anymore, Toto.

6 posted on 10/08/2023 6:25:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: MtnClimber

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7 posted on 10/08/2023 6:32:43 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Available on amazon.com


8 posted on 10/08/2023 8:07:22 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Awesome. Thanks.


9 posted on 10/08/2023 8:09:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: MtnClimber
And the historical world temp is down again today. https://temperature.global/
10 posted on 10/08/2023 9:12:09 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: MtnClimber
In the very same speech Eisenhower said this:

“In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”

11 posted on 10/08/2023 9:21:17 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
That is a good list in your 6#.

Some would add electric vehicle's as a currently practical replacement for those powered with traditional internal combustion engines.

But we were fore warned, as it all closely appears to go well with Obama's rearranging and "fundamentally remaking" America.

12 posted on 10/08/2023 9:31:21 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Open borders are a very cost-effective and certain way to dilute a nation's culture. )
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