THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 184, July 27, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE GREENS ARE GOING CRAZY
By Alan Caruba
INCREASING REJECTION OF GLOBAL WARMING THEORY: DISCARDING A MAJOR TENET OF THE IDEOLOGY OF
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM -- REFUSING TO ACCEPT THE KEY ARGUMENT EMPLOYED BY THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
MOVEMENT TO JUSTIFY PUBLIC POLICIES THAT IMPEDE OR PROHIBIT EXPLOITATION OF LONG ESTABLISHED ENERGY
SOURCES SUCH AS OIL, COAL, & NATURAL GAS -- ENVIRONMENTALISTS UPSET OVER FAILURE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING
HOAX TO CONVINCE THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO SLOW DOWN & STOP HUMAN PROGRESS
FULL STORY:
It’s hard to ignore the fact that the Greens are going crazy, not just in the United States, but around the world. They are
increasingly frantic over the opposition being voiced against the theory of global warming, one of the greatest hoaxes
in modern history.
The Greens have bet everything on global warming as the reason for giving up the use of long established sources of
energy such as oil, coal, and natural gas. The object has been to slow everything the modern world calls progress.
In India, a spokesman for that nation of one billion people has flatly refused to accept the global warming hoax. China
shows no sign of yielding to the global warming lies. The greatest agricultural and mercantile economy to have ever
existed, the United States of America, continues to thwart its own growth by yielding to the global warming lies.
Recently the U.S. Senate Majority Leader (Democratic Party Floor Leader in the Senate), Harry Reid, said:
“. . . coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming.
It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.”
No, what makes us sick is listening to such preposterous lies. A Rasmussen telephone survey taken after Senator Reid’s
absurd statement found that 52% of voters surveyed rejected his views about coal and oil, double the amount of those
who agreed.
What is troublesome, however, is that the same survey found the voters evenly divided on whether global warming exists
or poses a threat. Fully 47% of those surveyed believe that human activity affects the climate. Both candidates for
President are, by varying degrees, publicly committed to the global warming hoax.
Despite an intense, decades-long propaganda campaign, coupled with indoctrination in our nation’s schools, the truth is
beginning to emerge.
In March, 2008, an international conference on climate change organized by The Heartland Institute brought together over
500 of the world’s leading climatologists, meteorologists, economists, and others for three days of seminars and
presentations that completely refuted the pronouncements of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and disputed the lies of Al Gore’s famed “documentary,” An Inconvenient Truth."
As recently as July 8, 2008, the Space and Science Research Center held a news conference in which it stated that the
warming that has occurred since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 was completely natural, i.e., had nothing to do with
human or industrial activity.
More significantly, the Center went on record saying that, “After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate
research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community
acknowledges that the Earth has begun the next climate change.” The current warming period is not only at an end, but a
distinct cooling cycle has begun and will bring “predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future.”
Just how crazed has the environmentalist movement become? On July 7, 2008, it was announced that Argentine scientists
have been strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect and measure how much methane gas they produce.
Methane, like carbon dioxide, is a minor component of the Earth’s atmosphere. Methane is also released from swamps,
landfills, and other sources. If it and CO2 played a significant role in determining the world’s climate, it would be a cause
for concern, but it is the Sun that primarily drives the Earth’s climate cycles. Solar activity has gone quiet in recent years,
as fewer and fewer sunspots, magnetic storms, have been seen.
To maintain the global warming hoax, thousands of events and natural phenomena have been blamed on it. A recent
example is the floods in America’s mid-West. The National Wildlife Federation released a statement on July 1, 2008,
blaming global warming.
Climate experts at The Heartland Institute were quick to respond. Dr. Joseph D’Aleo, Executive Director of the
International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, said, “Alarmists have adopted the can’t-lose
position that all extremes of weather — cold, warm, wet, or dry — are all due to global warming,” adding that, “The record
snows, severe weather, and heavy rainfall have been the result of rapid cooling in the northern tier of the United States
and Canada, not global warming.”
Early in July, Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal, called global warming “a mass hysteria
phenomenon,” noting that “NASA now begrudgingly confirms that the hottest year on record in the continental 48 was
not 1998, as previously believed, but 1934, and that six of the 10 hottest years since 1880 antedate 1954. Data from 3,000
scientific robots in the world’s oceans show there has been a slight cooling in the past five years….”
The global warming hoax has never been about the climate. It is about competing economic theories. “Socialism may have
failed as an economic theory,” wrote Stephens, “but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the
consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.”
The United States Senate refused to consider the UN Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, which requires massive
reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, a policy proposal based solely on the global warming hoax. Other nations,
however, did sign on. But none have ever met their obligation to limit CO2 emissions, and they need not they have
bothered.
At the recent G8 conference, an international agreement to cut CO2 emissions was given serious consideration, despite
the fact that the Earth is now a decade into a cooling cycle likely to last several decades or longer. The impact of this
proposal on the lives of ordinary citizens would prove needlessly costly. Proposals in some nations for various taxes
based on global warming are a form of fraud.
The sensible refusal by leaders in emerging economies such as China and India would make it impossible for any
limitations on carbon emissions by Western nations to have any impact, even if such reductions had anything to do with
the realities of the Earth’s climate.
The only thing that can be predicted with certainty is that the Greens will become increasingly unhinged and crazed by the
failure of the global warming hoax.
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 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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