THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 235, December 16, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
SAYING "NO" WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS SAYING "YES"
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, PSEUDO-SCIENCE, & GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA: SUBVERSION OF SCIENCE
IN THE SERVICE OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY & MOVEMENT -- THE NEW DARK AGE OF ABYSMAL IGNORANCE &
PUBLIC POLICY BASED ON UNPROVEN NOTIONS -- THE NEW BLACK MAGIC OF CLIMATE & WEATHER CONTROL -- THE PLAN
TO CONTROL & PREVENT THE HUMAN-INDUCED CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING THAT IS NOT HAPPENING -- PUBLIC
POLICY PROPOSALS DESIGNED TO CRIPPLE THE INDUSTRIAL ADVANCES THAT UNDERWRITE THE SUCCESS OF WESTERN
NATIONS IN PARTICULAR & IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION EVERYWHERE
FULL STORY:
I have been witness to the complete subversion of science in the service of an utterly corrupt new religion called
environmentalism.
In the Middle Ages, those who controlled the Medieval Church determined what “truth” was. Today, the fanatics who
control the "Green Church" seek the same power. From the fall of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century to the
beginning of the Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century, human society experienced a period of ignorance and
superstition. Globally, via the media and the classroom, a distorted and debased science is now being used to advance
the fraud of global warming.
The challenge is to say “no” when everyone else is saying “yes” to global warming.
There is no dramatic warming of the earth. There is no indication of a near-future warming. Carbon dioxide (CO2) plays
such a minimal role in the atmosphere that an increase would have no effect beyond the very beneficial boost in the
growth of forests, crops, and everything else that is truly green. Indeed, climatologists will tell you that CO2 increases
follow, not precede, warming cycles. They are not a trigger. They are a response.
During the United Nations’ Bali climate conference, a hundred prominent international scientists released an open letter
warning that any attempt to control the Earth’s climate is “ultimately futile” and would constitute “a tragic misallocation
of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems.”
“It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages.” The
notion that mankind has any impact on climate or weather is absurd.
In November, 2007, in Valencia, Spain, delegates from more than 140 nations agreed to what they and the media echo
chamber that disseminates the global warming lie called “an ‘instant guide’ for policy makers stating more forcefully than
ever that climate change has begun and threatens to irreversibly alter the planet.”
A science that can barely predict the weather next week is being perverted for purely political purposes.
Having followed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control since its inception in 1988 and the
environmentalist movement in general for decades, I can tell you that what we are hearing is a shrill message of
desperation coming from those who fear that people around the world may yet reject the global warming lie. An
Associated Press report said that the draft and coming IPCC report “is intended to launch a political process on
international cooperation to control global warming.”
How do you control something that is not happening?
Why is everything the IPCC proposes lead to “cap and trade” laws that would impose limits on carbon dioxide emissions,
something that reflects human activity, from exhaling to the making of steel, the harvesting of crops, the heating of one’s
home, and virtually all forms transportation except bicycles.
Why do all of the proposed controls aim at crippling the industrial advances that underwrite the success of Western
nations in particular and improvement of human civilization everywhere?
In Bali, there are voices calling for a global “carbon tax.” It would be collected by the United Nations and we know how
well they handle such funding. The Oil-for-Food fiasco is but one example. The funding of the Bali conference is another.
Wouldn’t limits put on the United States of America and on European nations be instantly cancelled by emissions from
nations such as China and India that are exempt from the Kyoto agreement? The answer, of course, is yes. Doesn’t the
failure of the current agreement and the billions in fines it portends for signature nations suggest still more failure?
Despite this, there is legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress that would impose cap-and-trade limits on
every industry and business in America. At a time when the U.S. dollar is falling in value and our national deficit has
skyrocketed, why would Congress even consider anything that would harm the economic engine of the nation?
This is, however, the same U.S. Congress that refuses to permit exploration and access to our national energy reserves,
leaving us dependent on imported oil and natural gas, while, at the same time, calling for “energy independence.”
If I were to devise a plan to destroy the greatest economy, creator of wealth, center of innovation, and exemplar of
individual liberty that has ever existed in human history, I would patiently create fear of a global disaster involving the
one thing over which humans never had and never will have control, the earth’s climate. I would then propose a
“solution” that would cost that economy billions in “carbon credits” to keep it from occurring.
What the former Soviet Union and its failed Communist system could not achieve in some 45 years of the Cold War, the
environmentalist movement is seeking to achieve in its place. By undermining the economy of the United States and other
Western nations with draconian limits on CO2 emissions, those behind this effort will create a world ripe for a single
ruling government composed of unelected bureaucrats whose only purpose will be to feed at its trough.
The single greatest determinant of the Earth’s climate, the Sun, will continue to shine, but, if the global warming lie
succeeds, the world will be plunged, yet again, into the darkness of ignorance and submission to a false religion
comprised of superstitous nonsense, this time, to the pseudo-religion of environmentalism.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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