Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/15/2009 5:01:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here's what I wrote in last year's column titled "Global Warming Rope-a-Dope" (12/24/2008): "Once laws are written, they are very difficult, if not impossible, to repeal. If a time would ever come when the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of the global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more." On June 28, 2009, the House of Representatives, by a narrow margin (219-212), passed the Waxman-Markey bill. The so-called "cap and trade" bill has been sold as a system for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the struggle against global warming. There's a full-court press on the U.S. Senate to pass its version of "cap and trade."
"Cap and trade" is first a massive indirect tax on the American people and hence another source of revenue for Congress. More importantly "cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.
So why the rush and the press on the Senate? Increasing evidence is emerging that far from there being global warming, the Earth has been cooling and has been doing so for 10 years. Prominent atmospheric scientists have recently sent a letter to Congress saying, "You are being deceived about global warming. ... The Earth has been cooling for ten years. ... The present cooling was not predicted by the alarmists' computer models." Last March, more than 700 international scientists went on record dissenting over manmade global warming claims. About 31,500 American scientists, including 9,029 with Ph.D.s, have signed a petition, that in part reads, "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."
The Obama administration's EPA sees the increasing evidence against global warming as a threat to their agenda and has taken desperate measures. About a week before the House vote on "cap and trade," the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released some EPA e-mails, demonstrating that an internal report by Alan Carlin, a 35-year career EPA analyst, criticizing EPA's position on global warming, had been squelched for political reasons. One of the e-mails is from Dr. Al McGartland, director of the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics reads, "The administrator and administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. ... I can see only one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office."
The Competitive Enterprise Institute summarizes Dr. Carlin's report saying, "(T)hat EPA, by adopting the United Nations' 2007 'Fourth Assessment' report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature. "New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases."
Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala University in Sweden asks, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" Obviously, 10 years is not enough.
“”Cap and trade” is first a massive indirect tax on the American people and hence another source of revenue for Congress. More importantly “cap and trade” is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.”
This is EXACTLY what is happening and it is EXACTLY as it was planned by the early socialists in England.
The goal of the communists and socialists has always been the same: the elimination of the middle class by driving down the majority of those in the middle class to the lower class and the rising of the elite. They want a two-class system, the rulers and the ruled.
Both ideologies seek their end by first implementing an all-powerful STATE. After the STATE is established, they then drive the wedge to return society to the feudal state that existed before the industrial revolution and before that thorn-in-the-side-of-tyranny called America unleashed productivity and prosperity by adding to the industrial revolution FREEDOM and PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The English socialists decided that the slower, non-violent means was the best means. They claimed they didn't want to “OWN” companies and property, like the communists. They just wanted to “REGULATION INDUSTRY.”
If they can “REGULATE” the major industries (energy, transportation, food, communication, and currency) they effectively OWN and CONTROL everyone and everything.
As Vaclav Klaus has said repeatedly, the extreme “environmentalists” are no better than old-school communists. Their goal is the same. They just have a slightly new approach.
That's why I call them Eco-commies.
Also, for FReepers who want a good overview of this GW scam, read Roy Spencer’s “Climate Confusion.”
In that work, he discusses the role of atmospheric moisture and the thermohaline (super dense salt-water rivers at the bottom of the ocean) currents in regulating the earth’s temperature.
While solar activity no doubt does cast more heat at the earth, this heat is absorbed and transferred by the earth’s climate systems.
We are just beginning to understand the role of atmospheric moisture and the role of the oceans in regulating (in part by transference) the earth’s temperature.
Climate models do not account for either of these very important variables.
Walter Williams sums things up nicely doesn’t he?
Thank you for the post.
Thank you, Walter Williams, for your sanity and brilliance.
"If they can “REGULATE” the major industries (energy, transportation, food, communication, and currency) they effectively OWN and CONTROL everyone and everything."
I always include education in that list. Partly because of its use in corrupting young minds into favoring the leftists' reasoning. But also because of its costs. At the state level it is often the number one budget item. And the recent trend is toward federal mandates which even eliminate lower level freedoms to be both penny wise and intellectually honest.
It took congress ten years to get on the AGW band wagon. It took only ten years because that’s when the demonrats siezed control. Usually it takes longer. But the libtards just can’t let a crisis go to waste.
The problem is that it will take at leasst 20 years and a majority conservative congress to reverse all the problems this legislation will cause.
Libtard motto: If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is.
Boy, does this ring true!! In the 80s, in Dallas, the DA (a former Dem Congressman whose name I have forgotten) decided to go after a lead smelter in west Dallas as part of a political dog and pony show. He cooked up a scheme to make it appear that the lead smelter was blanketing the neighborhoods that had grown up around it with toxic lead waste.
He got the EPA involved and they went around collecting soil samples to prove that the lead smelter was indeed producing toxic lead levels in the soil of the surrounding neighborhoods. So, at a huge expense to taxpayers, the topsoil was all scraped up and stored in a small town on the south side of Dallas, plus the lead smelter was closed down with the accompanying loss of jobs.
At the time, I was dating the daughter of an EPA scientist who let me in on the dirty little secret that proved the whole thing was a political show 'n tell.
Dallas, in those days, had many earth drainage ditches that ran beside many of the roads. And, in those days, most gas still contained the lead additive. When it rained, the rain water would wash the fuel deposits from the streets into these earth drainage ditches that would carry it to the storm drains. The soil samples the EPA took showed very high levels of lead deposits because they took those samples from the earth drainage ditches, thus enabling them to obtain the results they wanted. So, squelching information that is contrary to political goals is nothing new for the EPA. This, by the way, is one of the reasons I don't trust much of ANYTHING the government says/does!!
I’d agree with that. Education is definitely an industry the Statists actively took over for their purposes.
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