The global warming sell-out

It's a fact because the Bush administration has conceded it as such to the United Nations.

There's little point in debating the theory any more. Man is altering his environment and creating future disaster scenarios that only computer models and Ph.Ds in earth sciences can predict.

Never mind that only 30 years ago, some of the same scientists were prophesying doom and gloom from a new ice age. They've seen the light since then. There's a new consensus emerging. After all, the scientists who get the government grants all agree that global warming is a real threat.

Now the Bush administration is on board. Who says Al Gore didn't win the election? His political agenda is nearly fully in place.

Is the earth really warming? Maybe. Maybe not. The long-term trends are hard to measure – even the most doctrinaire proponents of the theory will acknowledge that. If it is warming, it's nothing dramatic. Over the last 100 years or so, the average mean temperature may be a degree higher.

But there is no evidence – none whatsoever – to suggest such a minor change has anything to do with the activity of man on planet earth. There is also no evidence to suggest that man has the ability to do anything meaningful to reverse any global warming trend – real or imagined.

That's right. Most scientists not compromised by the desire for government grants to study global warming or some political motivation will tell you there is little if anything man could do to heat up the earth's atmosphere. The earth is just too big. Man's presence is just too small. That's just the way God planned it.

It wouldn't make a bit of difference if we burned up all the oil reserves in the world in a day and a night. There would be no noticeable or measurable impact on the world's temperatures.

Because it fits a broad political agenda for further government control – in this case, international government control – over the lives of ordinary people. There is no other explanation for it. The global-warming doomsdayers all believe Big Government is the only answer. We need more centralized power, more command-and-control bureaucracies, more regulations – all of which translates, like it or not, to less freedom.

It's June. It's beginning to warm up in North America. So be prepared to hear more about the imminent global warming threat. The international statist political zealots are going to turn up the political heat. That's why the Bush administration leaked its global warming report to the United Nations this week.

This is a power grab. It's about stealing your liberty. It's about destroying the last vestiges of self-government and imposing international tyranny on Americans and the rest of the world. It's part of a broad scheme to make decisions for you with no accountability – no elections, no representation, rule by a pseudo-scientific elite. Marx would be so proud.

That's why even some of Bush's most vocal cheerleaders have been severely disappointed by the administration's flip-flop on global warming. It is a benchmark decision. It reveals more about the character of the administration than almost anything else we have seen in the last two years. It may not be meaningful in terms of immediate policy decisions, but it sets the tone for draconian actions by unaccountable international agencies.

It's a sell-out of truth. It's a sell-out of freedom. It's a sell-out of what's right.

Less importantly to me – as someone who didn't vote for President Bush and as someone who had no expectations of his presidency – unless personally repudiated by him, this policy will represent his political Waterloo. This is George W.'s "read-my-lips" speech. History is repeating itself. As Yogi Berra would say, "It's deja vu all over again."

The first George Bush was a politically popular president riding the wave of military action in the Persian Gulf. He lost his re-election bid to an unknown clown who will be remembered as the most immoral man who ever served as president.

The Democrats may not have a charismatic leader on the horizon. But George W. Bush just made sure they won't need one to win in 2004.

But here our betterers in government are insisting they know its man who is the cause of global warming and we'd better buckle down and be prepared to make do with less to help stop it.

I see you're still taking the NYT as gospel.

The report said no such thing. The report used qualifiers such as likely and mostly when it said that global warming may be caused by humans. It further stated, repeatedly, that that conclusion is preliminary and subject to change. This is basically the same position that the president took a year ago.

The report further stated that there will be no policy change.

After the Chicken Littles were hit in the head by an acorn (the report) and ran around screaming, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling," Bush was asked about it and he referred to the report as having been done by the burocracy and emphatically stated, in no uncertain terms, that Kyoto is out of the question.

I don't see that science has any clear conclusion on what man's effect is on global warming.

If more of today's scientists actually had integrity and intellectual honesty, they would acknowledge that there is in fact enough data to reach a fairly sound scientific conclusion. And the conclusion is this: man's effect upon global temperatures is not really measureable, and is in all likelihood nonexistent. At best, it is pure guesswork.

The reason why so many scientists refuse to honestly acknowledge this conclusion should be pretty obvious. Government funded global warming research has become an industry. A not insignificant percentage of the employees at NASA have in fact made it their life's work. To acknowledge the truth would quite probably mean and end to the gravy train, and having to find a new career is just not easy for most people.

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