THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 321, December 7, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
HOW OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATS WILL DESTROY THE U.S. ECONOMY
By Alan Caruba
THE COMING OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY IN THE 111TH. CONGRESS AS A COMBINATION
CONSTITUTING A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: A PRESIDENT & CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY
STRONGLY COMMITTED TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT, OBJECTIVES WHICH, IF ATTAINED,
WILL EVISCERATE THE U.S. ECONOMY & TURN AMERICA INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION
FULL STORY:
When I heard President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama speak casually of “bankrupting” the coal industry because of its
role as a source of greenhouse gas emissions, I knew that he would become a serious threat to the economy of the
nation.
Given that the economy has been seriously threatened by the financial crisis, Obama has acted quickly to surround
himself with people tasked to restore trust and confidence to our banking system. The ad hoc approach of the current
Secretary of the Treasury will hopefully yield to a more reasoned effort, but it is clearly one in which the government
will inject huge amounts of money into the system to give it, in Obama’s words, “a jolt.”
Obama enters the Oval Office as perhaps the President who is most committed to the murderous objectives of the
environmentalist movement that took root and have expanded since the 1960s. It is instructive that its impetus was
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, a screed against DDT and all chemicals that protect and enhance the lives of
human beings, crops, and property. The “facts” put forth in her book have long since been exposed as lies, and the
result of those lies has been the needless death of millions from diseases such as malaria. Here in the United States,
cases of West Nile Fever would be greatly reduced were DDT permitted to control the mosquito population.
In a comparable fashion, every “fact” put forth by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Fact has been demonstrated to
be false.
Here are Obama’s words:
“Few challenges facing American and the world are
more urgent than combating climate change. The
science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking.
We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and
storms that are growing stronger with each passing
hurricane season. Climate change and our
dependence on foreign oil, if left unaddressed, will
continue to weaken our economy and threaten our
national security.”
Every single word of this statement is false in whole or in part.
To begin with, there is no problem with regard to climate change, a term adopted by environmentalists. The public is
becoming more and more aware that there was not and is not dramatic global warming. Indeed, the world is now into a
cycle of global cooling that has been in effect since around 1998. A number of solar scientists are predicting we are in
for at least fifty years of global cooling and its effects will be far more destructive to modern societies than any
fictitious global warming.
Nothing, absolutely nothing should be done to deal with a non-existent global warming. The Earth is 4.5 billion years
old and climate changes have occurred throughout all that time. Humans have been around for about 200,000 years
and the Industrial Revolution began just over two hundred years ago. In the process, the ordinary lives of humans
have been extended and enhanced in ways that were unimaginable even in my youth.
Briefly, the sea levels during the Twentieth Century rose worldwide by less than eight inches, nor are the coastlines
“shrinking.” Obama is engaging in scare mongering by saying that there has been record drought. There were far
worse U.S. droughts in the early part of the last century. Even the intentionally flawed UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change warns against attributing droughts or floods to “global warming.” The natural cycles of hurricanes are
well known and attributing more of them to “global warming” is utterly false.
The worst and most dangerous aspect of Obama’s objectives is the imposition of limits on greenhouse gas emissions
in the name of ending a “global warming” that is not happening. Cutting 80 to 90% of U.S. carbon emissions would
result in the closing of a comparable amount of U.S. industries. It would so weaken the U.S. economy that it would
render America a Third World nation. The European Union nations that agreed to such reductions via the Kyoto
Protocol are seeking to alter or end these commitments.
Imposing “cap-and-trade” on emissions or a “carbon tax” will eviscerate the U.S. economy. The notion that the
Environmental Protection Agency should regulate carbon dioxide is absurd, and the justification, if this goes into effect,
will be the lies promulgated by the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change. As Sarah Liddy Bourne, Vice
President for Policy and Strategic Development of The Heartland Institute, points out, the IPCC “includes staffers of
such activist groups as Greenpeace, Environmental Defense, and Environment Canada.” Not exactly the most neutral
people on this critical topic.
Obama’s promise of 2.5 million new jobs based on “sustainable” energy such as solar and wind turbine use, the increase
of ethanol production, and other mandates is utterly baseless, as these steps ignore the fact that the nation and its
economy is totally dependent on the use of oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric energy, and nuclear power for its energy
requirements. Neither the solar nor wind industries would exist without significant government subsidies and support.
Requiring Detroit to produce hybrid automobiles which no one wants to buy and which are far more expensive than
gasoline-powered models will kill its auto industry. The batteries required add an average of $8,000 to the cost of these
vehicles that get barely 45 miles per charge and must be recharged overnight, running up the owner’s electricity bill.
As the Viscount Monckton of Brenchly, a noted British scientist, has pointed out, the rise in the real cost of “biofuels”
such as ethanol has already led to food riots in poor countries, and the consequence of such a policy would be mass
starvation. He has deemed global warming and environmentally-based energy mandates as “purposeless and cruel.”
Lord Monckton says:
“To let politicians insert data into official scientific documents;
to alter those documents so as to contradict scientific findings;
to manipulate decimal points so as to engender false headlines
by exaggerating tenfold — those are moral issues.”
He went on to rebuke statements like Obama’s, saying:
“To claim scientific unanimity where none exists; to assert that
catastrophe is likely when nearly all scientists do not; to exalt
computer models over real-world observations; to misstate the
conclusions of scientific papers or that meaning of observed
data; to overstate the likely future course of climatic
phenomena by several orders of magnitude — these are moral
issues.”
They are also critical economic issues.
We are on the brink of a term of office by President-Elect Obama and by the U.S. Congress, a term which puts everyone
at extreme risk and which, if these false assertions are enacted as the law of the land, will utterly destroy the economy,
leaving everyone vulnerable to energy and food losses on a scale few can imagine.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
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 most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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