Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/16/2009 11:11:39 PM PDT by dsrtsage
From: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 30 March 2009
The Hon. Representative Ed Markey, and The Hon. Representative Joe Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
Gentlemen,
Questions raised by the Subcommittee on Energy & Environment
I am most grateful for the fairness and good humor with which Chairman Markey conducted the hearing of 26 March 2009 on the question of adaptation to “global warming”. The calibre, commitment, and concern of Hon. Gentleladies and Gentlemen on both sides of the House were self-evident.
However, my notes of the hearing indicate that certain national and international executive agencies may have materially, serially, seriously, and successfully misled your Congress for several years about the imagined extent, anthropogenic component, and effects of “global warming”.
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceandpublicpolicy.org ...
for later
Viscount Monckton opened up a can of whoop on Al Gore
Keynote address to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change
http://www.heartland.org/full/24881/Great_Is_Truth_and_Mighty_Above_All_Things.html
In his letter, Monckton gives a great quote from Eisenhower:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his farewell address to the nation in 1961, gave a warning “that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” He said –
“Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. ... 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.”
This is the very root of the problem. Monckton, and Eisenhower, hit the nail on the head. While the global warming alarmists are continually accusing their opponents of having financial interests, it is they themselves who are raking in the dough from this scam.
From the article, a link to the full letter:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/markey_and_barton_letter.pdf
Well worth the read, but unlikely to be read by any elected representatives:
1. It doesn’t fit a 15-second sound bite aimed at a 10-second attention span.
2. It’s got big words.
3. It’s got WAY too many facts. That makes it confusing for many congressthings.
4. It doesn’t simply FEEL the problem. Where’s the emotion? Where’s the gut-wrenching passion of it?
5. It provides no avenue for pork to be funneled to a constituency.
Nope. Ain’t gonna get read.
I do like a couple of phrases in it, however — especially the one about “involuntary largesse of the taxpayer.” Wonderfully understated way of saying the TAXPAYERS (not many of the appointees) are getting $crewed against their will.
You are sorely deluded if you entertain the notion that Liberals care the slightest bit about the facts.
No amount of scientific evidence will penetrate their narcissistic psychosis.
ping
40 pages worth with 50 red flags. On skimming through it looks like no stone has been left unturned.
FANTASTIC article! Well worth the relatively long read, but it is the single best piece I have read on the BS of planetary warming.
(Planetary, because a globe is what sits on my desk)
I love this:
Red flag 37: Nor is there a shred of evidence that sea level will imminently rise by 20 ft, as suggested by Al Gore in 2005. Gore cannot have believed his own prediction: that year he bought a $4 million apartment in the St. Regis Tower, San Francisco, just feet from the ocean at Fisherman’s Wharf. As the London High Court bluntly found in 2007, “The Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view.”
Big Al is such a typical liberal hypocrite.
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