Posted on 02/28/2007 4:00:33 PM PST by goldstategop
Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation.
Forget the lunacy of people claiming to tell us the precise temperature of planet Earth in 1918 based on tree rings. Or the fact that in the '70s liberals were issuing similarly dire warnings about "global cooling."
Simply consider what noted climatologists Al Gore and Melissa Etheridge are demanding that we do to combat their nutty conjectures about "global warming." They want us to starve the productive sector of fossil fuel and allow the world's factories to grind to a halt. This means an end to material growth and a cataclysmic reduction in wealth.
There are more reputable scientists defending astrology than defending "global warming," but liberals simply announce that the debate has been resolved in their favor and demand that we shut down all production.
They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton – with no Trentons or Detroits. It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those "eco-friendly" mansions, and someone has to truck it all to their beachfront properties, and someone else has to transport all the workers there to build it. (And then someone has to drive the fleets of trucks delivering the pachysandra and bottled water every day.)
Liberals are already comfortably ensconced in their beachfront estates, which they expect to be unaffected by their negative growth prescriptions for the rest of us.
There was more energy consumed in the manufacture, construction and maintenance of Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu home than is needed to light the entire city of Albuquerque, where there are surely several men who can actually act. But he has solar panels to warm his house six degrees on chilly Malibu nights.
Liberals haven't the foggiest idea how the industrial world works. They act as if America could reduce its vast energy consumption by using fluorescent bulbs and driving hybrid cars rather than SUVs. They have no idea how light miraculously appears when they flick a switch or what allows them to go to the bathroom indoors in winter – luxuries Americans are not likely to abandon because Leo DiCaprio had solar panels trucked into his Malibu estate.
Our lives depend on fossil fuel. Steel plants, chemical plants, rubber plants, pharmaceutical plants, glass plants, paper plants – those run on energy. There are no Mother Earth nursery designs in stylish organic cotton without gas-belching factories, ships and trucks, and temperature-controlled, well-lighted stores. Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill.
Because of the industrialization of agriculture – using massive amounts of fossil fuel – only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?
"Global warming" is the left's pagan rage against mankind. If we can't produce industrial waste, then we can't produce. Some of us – not the ones with mansions in Malibu and Nashville is my guess – are going to have to die. To say we need to reduce our energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce our oxygen consumption.
Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukrainians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans.
But global warming is the most insane, psychotic idea liberals have ever concocted to kill off "useless eaters." If we have to live in a pure "natural" environment like the Indians, then our entire transcontinental nation can only support about 1 million human beings. Sorry, fellas – 299 million of you are going to have to go.
Proving that the "global warming" campaign is nothing but hatred of humanity, these are the exact same people who destroyed the nuclear power industry in this country 30 years ago.
If we accept for purposes of argument their claim that the only way the human race can survive is with clean energy that doesn't emit carbon dioxide, environmentalists waited until they had safely destroyed the nuclear power industry to tell us that. This proves they never intended for us to survive.
"Global warming" is the liberals' stalking horse for their ultimate fantasy: The whole U.S. will look like Amagansett, with no one living in it except their even-tempered maids (for "diversity"), themselves and their coterie (all, presumably, living in solar-heated mansions, except the maids who will do without electricity altogether). The entire fuel-guzzling, tacky, beer-drinking, NASCAR-watching middle class with their over-large families will simply have to die.
It seems not to have occurred to the jet set that when California is as poor as Mexico, they might have trouble finding a maid. Without trucking, packaging, manufacturing, shipping and refrigeration in their Bel-Air fantasy world, they'll be chasing the rear end of an animal every time their stomachs growl and killing small animals for pelts to keep their genitals warm.
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Like almost all cult leaders, Al Gore is a hypocrite. And the Global Warming cult is beginning to make Scientologists look sane in comparison.
Thanks for the ping to the weekly Coulter.
I love Ann. You can't beat her for going for the jugular.
Rachel Carson. Heavy sigh. She was from Pittsburgh, and when I was in HS one of my teachers (older, former nun, turned Feminista) KNEW her (wow!!!). It was the early 80s and we had to read Silent Spring. Discuss Silent Spring. Do posters about Silent Spring, etc. Like mosquitos absent DDT, Silent Spring was everywhere in my HS. Later on, as an 'honor' for a hometown girl, one of the bridges in Pgh was renamed for Carson...great read from Ann.
Global warming is the original sin of liberal theology.
Also, the rednecks will simply shoot them before they go for any of this. That hasn't dawned on them, either.
"It's been scientificaly and historicaly proven that planet earth has periods of global warmings and coolings every thousand years. The human involvement has nothing to do with it. "
The fact that the planet has warmed and cooled in the past does not prove that humans are not responsible for warming this particular time.
Bush should go on TV tomorrow night and thank Al Gore. That's right, in front of the entire nation, he should praise Al Gore.
Then he should announce that we will embark on fast tracking 50 Nuclear power plants over the next three years and will be putting a 3 dollar per gallon import tax on Venezuelan, Rusian and Iranian oil. Then put a coal tax on China and build clean burning coal plants here.
Then watch the lefties jump off buildings as Bush's scientists say that this alone will lower emissions by 25% over the next four years. Oh, and Newt will support it and take it down another 25% for four years after that.
Without raising taxes.
It's not just the Malibu left that thinks this way. Hordes of ordinary democrats feel exactly the same way. They have watched too much TV where every problem is solved by a whiz kid in the last 15 minutes of the episode. They have no idea that most technical problems take teams of highly skilled specialists months to accomplish.
But it makes a hell of a case that Al Gore and his friends have yet to DISprove.
Agreed they have the burden of proof. We need to avoid making statements that we haven't proven, either.
Rush had been saying that if we can't predict the weather, how can we predict the climate. He had an expert on today that corrected him on this.
Cool name you got there.
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Due to the scant evidence, none of which is irrefutable, to support a 'global warming caused by humans' mantra, one may say liberalism needs a mythos to sustain it's irrational perspectives. Hmm, I wonder, does that make al gorghoul a high priest in the cult?
You must have been listening to a different show.
He had an expert on today who AGREED with him on his take on the fakery of global warming.
You're a daydreamer, I see.
That would be an expert from NASA, calling in from Huntsville, AL. The most salient point the expert made was the lack of input to the warming/cooling debate on the precipitation cycles of the planet ... has anyone ever inputted the amount of cooling or carbon sequestering resulting from x number of feet of snow or y inches of rain? No, so the entire data mass is totally inadequate for the conclusions dolts like the weather channel face made recently.
Somebody let me know when GW is an officially recognized religion so I can form a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization and separate all these true believers from their money.
A tithe on their incomes shouldn't be too much of a burden for their beliefs.
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