Posted on 04/12/2008 6:23:37 AM PDT by Delacon
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when I was in grade school, we got the message that a new ice age was coming.
I was petrifried, because I am a real whimp when it comes to being cold.
I was actually relieved to learn the earth was warming up.
What’s going to happen with the new trend in dipping temps?
Are they going to predict another ice age?
Or are they going to blame cold temps on global warming?
So confused.
Just wait till all the mercury from the new light bulbs, now MANDATED in the climate-change bill from Congress, hits the environment. Because it is too dangerous to manufacture them in civilized countries, they are all imported from China, which doesn’t mind poisoning a few million Chinese for a buck.
It brings to mind the debacle caused by the EPA’s mandate to put MBTE in unleaded gasoline...which wound up poisoning ground water in many states.
The governments “cure” is always more deadly than the original disease. Democrats, who think Big Government is the answer to everything, should be hit in the face with these failures as they advocate still more government intrusion into our lives.
I just put a hold on the book at my local library. I get to read it first!!!
“But the latest scare, global warming, has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than any of these. “
The time was right to strike; the population is now sufficiently “dumbed down” and will swallow just about any lies told to them at this point in time.
Scanned... definitely a good article, but I’ll have to consume it later...
The Sun is the culprit! Turn down the Sun and we can control global warming!!! /sarc
A point of interest from the article is the part where the author points out (and I agree) that carbon dioxide (carbon emissions) are the basis of plant life, humans exhale CO2, plants require CO2 to grow, and carbon is the basis of all life.
There are just as many scientists who disagree with the global warming premise as are those scientists who believe in it. Like the author says in the end of the article, Green is the new secular religion that everyone can feel good about. Most of the willing participants do not understand that “they gotta PAY to PLAY”.
The taxation and hardship that can be the outcome of the religion of green is almost beyond comprehension.
For many of them, green is the new red. And those who wish to order us how to run our lives, faced with the uncomfortable evidence that economic prosperity is more likely to be achieved by less government intervention rather than more, naturally welcome the emergence of a new licence to intrude, to interfere, to tax and to regulate: all in the great cause of saving the planet from the alleged horrors of global warming. But there is something much more fundamental at work. I suspect that it is no accident that it is in Europe that eco-fundamentalism in general and global warming absolutism in particular has found its most fertile soil. For it is Europe that has become the most secular society in the world, where the traditional religions have the weakest hold.
Real deal bump!
Hey, remember when, just about 10 years ago now, that everybody was screaming about the ozone layer?? Ozone holes and all that? I know that it’s now developed into the ‘Global warming’ hysteria, but I never seem to hear anyone bother mourning the ozone anymore...
Buy a pair of Sorel boots. They’ll keep your feet warm.
Excellent. Thanks.
“To which it will be replied that while that may be so for the world as a whole, the people in the developing world will indeed suffer.”
Yes, Gore will make his millions, enviroweenies will achieve some pointless goal to increase human suffering, and government paid researchers who follow the fad will get the funding they need to do “research” to prove global “warming” for the foreseeable future.
“By contrast, China - which has already overtaken the U.S. as the biggest single emitter - has said that there is no way it will agree to a cap on its carbon dioxide emissions for the foreseeable future. And India has said precisely the same.
Both of them point out that it was the industrialised West, not they, that caused the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the last century, and that it is now their turn to catch up.”
The “me too” example demonstrates why the west will suffer the most from crackpot global “warming” theories (not facts). The third world, with almost half the world’s population, will far outpace anything we could do to stem carbon dioxide emissions, including shutting down the U.S. completely.
This is why I believe that the best thing the west could do is sell their emissions technology to China and India precisely so they don’t have to “catch up.”
But no, the envirowhackos pick on us because those countries, particularly China, won’t tolerate that kind of crap, and those wimps know it. If they were REALLY concerned with greenhouse gas emissions (and all the other kinds of pollution), they would be in China protesting. Of course, they won’t, because it isn’t easy or safe.
You know the world is in trouble when a person that couldn’t manage to get more than low C’s in his college science courses gets the Nobel Peace Prize (admittedly a far left political award rather than a real science award).
Al Gore is a science dunce, and those that follow him are worse.
And the "warmers" still control the major media, needed for the intensive, fully-integrated propaganda campaign now in progress. I've never in my life seen anything like this: the Big Lie comes to Madison Avenue! Get along little dogies, you're being herded into the global socialism corral! It's amazing what a couple of generations of government school-union brainwashing can accomplish!
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This is really a good article. This Global Warming thing, now being retooled as Climate Change, is at it’s root, a tool for social control. There are those that want power, and they are using tried and true methods. This is a huge application of the Mass Movement.
First, you have to give the masses an enemy, and it has to be big enough that it cannot be defeated, yet small enough to be possible to imagine that it can be defeated. For the Nazis, it was the Jews. For Moslems, it is the Infidels. For Communists, it was Capitalism.
Then, if you can get the masses to focus their efforts on the enemy you have directed them towards, they will be willing to do just about anything you ask of them. They will make innumerable sacrifices, give up any freedoms.
The ultimate end is that those in power will not only remain in power, but will see their power grow. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Chavez are a few examples of how this works. Al gore was a loser presidential candidate, and he has become almost a messiah. He could well become a billionaire trading carbon credits.
“feelgood” Bump!
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