The global warming sell-out

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, June 7, 2002 | Joseph Farah

[JohnHuang2]

Global warming is now a "fact."

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.

So, why all the political hot air?

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.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, June 7, 2002

Quote of the Day by Violette

[goldstategop]

I agree. The President appeared to have repudiated it. The next day his press secretary Ari Fleischer says the Administration agrees with the sell-out. Apparently this Administration doesn't have its wheels all on with respect to the global warming issue. But do read our lips Mr. President: we draw the line in the sand here and now. We Americans are not prepared to have our future handed over to an unaccountable and unelected international bureaucracy. We will not allow so-called global warming to be used as a cover to steal American sovereignty and freedoms. And if you do stand with the "bureaucracy" against conservative principles we will abandon you in 2004. Its as simple as that. You have been warned and its still not too late to turn back and finally do the right thing.

[Deb]

Oh, please.

[goldstategop]

Oh please. Like we're going to roll over and let him implement Al Gore's environmental agenda. Over our dead bodies.

[Deb]

Haven't you been paying attention? That was his plan all along!!! He's going to cram Kyoto down your throat and make you scream..."Yummy!! Chicken Nuggets!!!"

Question: Do you dress yourself?

[Texasforever]

Over our dead bodies

Do you have a mouse in your pocket or just glad to see me. Get over your bad self kid. Anyone that cannot discern the difference between an acknowledgement that Co2 emissions have increased since the industrial revolution and the meta subject of Global Warming has no business hunting with the big dogs.

[goldstategop]

I won't get into a shouting match. The point is when I think the President's wrong, I'll call him on it. And its not "Bush-bashing."

[My Identity]

Kyoto Paradox I:
Climate is an extremely complex, chaotic, coupled, non-linear, time-dependent system
with massive, external, naturally-occuring inputs and wide variability in measurables.
Therefore,
To say we can control it by tweaking a small set of factors is ridiculous on its face.

Kyoto Paradox II:
Climate is an extremely complex, chaotic, coupled, non-linear, time-dependent system
with massive, external, naturally-occuring inputs and wide variability in measurables.
Therefore,
You can no more successfully predict the outcome of doing something than you can of
not doing something. In other words, the impact of trying to "fix" a climate problem
is as unpredictable as the impact of ignoring it.

[goldstategop]

LOL! Sure CO2 emissions have increased since the Industrial Revolution. What I object to is the assumption anything we can do will make much of a difference and that I have be bossed by some distant international body into altering my life style on the basis of a very questionable theory. And I'll be damned if I allow my President to lead us down that road. I trust I have made myself sufficiently clear. We all have to take a stand and I know where I stand.

[goldstategop]

Excellent! We know so little about the weather. 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. Ick!

[Deb]

You might consider learning something about what you're "calling him on" before you start flapping your arms. You'll look less like a fool.

[Texasforever]

LOL! Sure CO2 emissions have increased since the Industrial Revolution.

However, Bush has only conceded that point and rightly so because it is NOT debatable. Co2 is only ONE of hundreds of "greenhouse gases". Just because the NYT and other media outlets including WND have spun this to mean that Bush has conceded that GLOBAL WARMING is man made is a gross inaccuracy and frankly agenda driven. It drives me up a dammed wall when people jump to conclusions based on false premises. This article along with the NYT "analysis" has done just that. Bush has NEVER once stated that GLOBAL WARMING is a man made phenomena.

[goldstategop]

I'm the fool for opposing an Algore agenda, big government, command and control bureaucracies, more regulations, and a diminished quality of life due to misplaced environmental zealotry. Wow, I'm absolutely flattered! I guess I have to keep flapping my arms more. Moreover, I don't think its any agenda that I as a conservative can recall ever voting for. So as the fool to the Bush-bots court, I'll take a moment to climb down from my fools' chair so I can play the devils' advocate cause facts are stubborn things. Like these facts:

"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."

Like I said I'll be damned if I allow my President to take us down this road. Its time to shut this thing down before it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now let me go back to my fools' chair. ;-)

[goldstategop]

Well I'd like to hear him correct Ari Fleischer. I will be satisfied once he says his press secretary got it wrong, no we're not backing that report and we'll have nothing to do with the statist agenda in that report, period. Until then its a bone of contention on my part cause I don't think we'll like where I fear we may wind up. That's why I'm calling this on the President.

[ChasingFletch]

"Bush has NEVER once stated that GLOBAL WARMING is a man made phenomena."

And I hope he never does. If and when he does I hope he includes one other "certainty". V.F. drove his own car to the Park that warm day! (sarcasm warning)

[Deb]

I'll let him know.

[goldstategop]

:) Mother Nature can take care of herself and did so long before we were on this planet. I hope our President does get the message for what's crystal clear is the enviro nazis are both misanthropes and totalitarians are heart who believe man is the enemy and their way is the only way to protect the environment.

[Uncle Bill]

Press Briefing - June 5, 2002
"Q Ari, if I could change subjects for a second. This morning you said that the President quoted a speech, indicating that the President believes that human activity is largely responsible for the increase in greenhouse gases. But I'm wondering if he also agrees with an EPA report which indicated that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?

MR. FLEISCHER: Let me just read from the President's statement of June 11th on global warming, and let me read from the recent report the EPA submitted to the United Nations. And I think you'll hear that on the key issues, they really sound very, very similar. This is the President on June 11th in the Rose Garden, in a speech where he announced his global warming policies.

"Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially C02, have increased substantially since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity." That's the President himself speaking.

Here is from the report, page 4, that was just submitted to the United States by the EPA: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as the result of human activities, causing global mean surface temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise. While the changes observed over the last several decades are due most likely to human activities, we cannot rule out that some significant part is also a reflection of natural variability." And I think what you're hearing is the same thing.

Q I'm glad you make the connection explicitly, since the President addressed greenhouse gases, but not specifically global warming. Does the President agree with the conclusion that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?

MR. FLEISCHER: That's what the President said in his speech in June.

Q That's not exactly what he said. He does agree with it?

MR. FLEISCHER: When the President cites the National Academy of Science as saying that the National Academy of Science indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity, I don't know how the President could say it more specifically than that.

Q He hasn't changed his mind at all?

MR. FLEISCHER: No. Here's -- the bottom line for the President is, number one, he has made a proposal that he believes is a proposal that not only can reduce the problem of greenhouse gases and global warming, but also protects the American economy, so the American economy can lead the world in technological and scientific advances that also have an effect in reducing pollution.

The President has said, citing the National Academy of Sciences, that the increase is due in large part to human activity. The President has also continued, citing both, now this report the EPA has sent to the United Nations, previous evidence from the National Academy of Sciences, that there's uncertainty -- and the recent report notes that there is considerable uncertainty. That's the state of science, and the President agrees with it. I don't think people dispute that.

Q Its uncertainty, but he can still draw that conclusion, that --

MR. FLEISCHER: He didn't June 11th.

Q He didn't exactly do it, but you're saying it now.

MR. FLEISCHER: Again, when the President cites a report by the National Academy of Sciences that indicates the increase is due in large part to human activity, I think you have two reports that are very similar.

Q Why was he --

Q Why did he call it the bureaucracy yesterday?

MR. FLEISCHER: I think the EPA issued a report that says the same thing. And I think the President was also reflecting about some of the way it was covered, that made it sound as if the report was somehow inconsistent with what he had said previously.

Q I don't think he reflected at all, he just said that, I saw it put out by a bureaucracy. What did he reflect on?

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm sharing with you his insights."
Ari Fleischer Sound Bite

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"Christie Whitman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief, said Saturday that the United States supports the goal of Kyoto but was reviewing its strategy for achieving it."

GLOBAL LYING - Thomas Sowell

Fleischer Flips Back - White House Realigns With EPA - Rush Limbaugh

G. (global) W. (warming) Bush? - Cal Thomas

Is Bush playing treaty "chicken"? - The Washington Times

Get Out the Ouija Boards - Dr. Sallie Baliunas

Say It Ain't So, George

"And now, a Republican administration will continue and complete the work of a Democratic administration. This is the way environmental policy should work."
George W. Bush, April 19, 2001, upon Patriot's Day approval of the UN's POP Treaty.

[goldstategop]

Ummm.... I don't think I like the sound of that last statement.

[Sam Cree]

One thing is for sure, everyone is confused on Bush's stance on this issue, whether they should be or not. It's discouraging, but I doubt it will become clearer. If Bush wants to hedge issues to get what he needs to fight terror, I understand, I just don't think people will vote for a second rate "democrat" when there are real ones (unfortunately) handy.

I don't see that science has any clear conclusion on what man's effect is on global warming; a meteorologist I spoke with indicates that sunspot activity may well be the main player. My belief is that the computer models used are seriously flawed.

When scientists can figure out tomorrow's weather for one city, maybe then they can have a shot at the whole planet for decades at a time.