Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/28/2011 2:06:19 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Instead, the climate push was ... a total flop," Mr. Plumer laments.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Obama drops climate change talk as Obama green movement fizzles
there, fixed it
May the ecomarxist agenda die a domestic oil-soaked fiery death.
Thanks Ernest. He dropped climate change talk in order to run for reelection. That same line of demagoguery will reemerge after he wins in 2012, count on it.
Well, on that note, it is worthwhile to recall the words of one Dwight David Eisenhower.
In the same farewell speech that the Left likes to quote so frequently in which he warns of the "military-industrial complex", he also very much warns of the Big Science / Big Government complex.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. 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.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
What was have here with ClimateGate and all the Green nonsense pushed by politicians as a means to a power grab is exhibit A for the prescience of Eisenhower on this issue.
A little too late, but I’m sure he’ll give more money to the green side, just in case ya know.
Thanks for the ping!
Here’s an alternative headline:
THE PEOPLE ARE NOT QUITE THAT DUMB
I think I recall master scientist Ted Danson warning us of an underwater New York in twenty years. That was 1990. Where’s Ted nowadays?
What went wrong is that it became obvious that your stupid theory was a bunch of bull, and that you were having to resort to telling bigger and bigger lies. That's what went wrong, you global warming con artists!
Glad to ‘hear’ it, FRiend. =]
Obama’s Green Energy Plants Create “Toxic Brew Of Pollutants”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2711449/posts
Obummer drops climate change talk, but continues to allow EPA to stop all energy development that does not involve wind or sun!
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