[mwilli20]

OK, I agree with all points in this article. Major questions still remain though... Why are they all pushing a lie? Who stands to benefit? Who's behind it? How are they accomplishing this feat of mass manipulation?

Arrgh! My head spins!

[Gene Eric]

>> Why are they all pushing a lie?


Because they are unable to push the truth. It's too inconvenient.

[tang-soo]

Do a google on "Report from Iron Mountain". It's interesting in the name of one of the major players in this program from the 1960s - Rockefeller.

[aligncare]

It's not a matter of "who" stands to benefit (Although, many do benefit by having their scientific work funded in perpetuity). Global Warning Hysteria is irrational...and humans are prone to holding beliefs that lack any rational basis.

Mankind is clever enough to build computers and go to the moon...yet we can still embrace wrongheaded ideas and superstition. Just look to your average liberal for example.

[Still Thinking]

Why are they all pushing a lie? Who stands to benefit? Who's behind it?

There's a lot of power at stake. If this is true, or accepted as true, and we decide to take the corrective action they want, it vests a trmendous amound of power in individuals who get their rocks off telling people what to do. Also, they want most of the reductions in emissions from the places that make them most efficiently already, the US. This is very appealing to people who hate business and/or hate the US. This is one way you can see their hypocrisy for yourself; the exemption of countries that pollute so much more egregiously than the ones where they want to reduce emissions.

How are they accomplishing this feat of mass manipulation?

Some Nazi, Goebbels or maybe Hitler himself said "If you tell people something often enough and long enough, they will believe it." The pro crowd, as the article notes, has an almost complete lock on favorable or at least unbiased media coverage, so this is what people are told, almost exclusively. Also, I think people have a bias toward believing scares, despite the lessons of history, even that of their own lives.

[listenhillary]

Global warming is about bring capitalism to it's knees.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Global Warming justifies the Left's romance with power. Leftism attracts people (think Hillary) who like to tell other people what to do. Since almost everyone has given up on State control of the economy, at least on economic grounds, environmentalism is the one remaining pretext.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H. L. Mencken

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

[Old Professer]

When you find yourself arguing with zealots, it helps to leave logic out of the discussion and go straight to motive.