THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 8, January 7, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE GLOBAL WARMING CRESCENDO HAS PASSED
By Christopher G. Adamo
PREDICTIONS OF CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING RING INCREASINGLY HOLLOW TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC: WHAT
WEATHER PATTERNS OF THE PAST DECADE INDICATE: A GLOBAL COOLING TREND SINCE PRIOR TO THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- WHAT THE SCIENTIFICALLY QUANTIFIABLE DATA SHOW: NORMAL WARMING &
COOLING CYCLES, EASILY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE FLUCTUATIONS IN SOLAR ACTIVITY THAT HAS BEEN THE FATE OF THE
PLANET SINCE ITS CREATION -- WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO AMERICA'S ENERGY INDUSTRY, IF LEFTISTS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS,
& GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS ARE ALLOWED TO ADVANCE THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA UNCHECKED: THE END
OF DOMESTIC PETROLEUM PRODUCTION & OF COAL-FIRED GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY
FULL STORY:
As the cold of Winter settles in on the northern hemisphere, all of the hysteria of “global warming,” or its less specific
alternative “climate change,” rings increasingly hollow to the general public. Weather patterns of the past decade
indicate that the planet has been in an undeniable cooling trend since prior to the new millennium. So the panicked
prophesies of cataclysmic upturns in the earth’s average temperature simply do not carry the emotional impact that
they once held.
Specifically, the “global warming” debate has now advanced out of its dire predictions phase. It is no longer sufficient
for celebrated professional alarmists to get in front of news cameras and prognosticate as to how quickly the world will
incinerate. Such discussions are entering the observable evidence stage, in which those melting icecaps had better
start inundating Manhattan or else people will begin to suspect they were being hoodwinked. To date, the scientifically
quantifiable data show nothing but the normal warming and cooling cycles, easily attributable to the fluctuations in
solar activity that have been the fate of the planet since its creation.
To the dubious credit of its advocates, the entire “global warming” controversy, along with the mountains of legislation
and regulation that resulted from its promotion amounted to perhaps the largest and most successful example of royal
nudity in the modern era. Entire industries have sprung from the public pressure brought against oil companies and
other large-scale manufacturers who face increasingly outrageous demands to curtail their dastardly assaults on mother
earth.
Even now, though its supposed ill effects are proving fraudulent, the reputation of Carbon Dioxide (ostensibly the
principal “greenhouse gas”) as a threat to the future of all life on the planet is widely, if not universally, accepted among
the nation’s highest social and political circles. Admittedly, neither group has a lock on intellect or rational judgment,
but their collective impact on the perceptions among the general public cannot be ignored.
The ensuing 2012 deadline for the end of sales of incandescent light bulbs in America reminds us all that government
will happily seize any situation as a means of expanding its control on society. In what may first seem to be merely a bad
joke, over at the Environmental Protection Agency, a “greenhouse gas” tax on livestock, reaching as high as $175 for a
dairy cow, is being contemplated. Main Street America is threatened with forced fundamental changes, implemented in
deference to an unfounded fable.
Most ominous of all, the coal industry, which makes up the backbone of America’s ability to produce electricity, is being
openly targeted for eventual eradication by the Leftwing political establishment. So universally vilified is it among the
Liberal elite that some “progressive” jurisdictions are currently refusing to buy electrical power produced from coal.
Instead, they opt for “green” sources of energy, not realizing (or perhaps deliberately ignoring the facts) that the
utilitarian efficiency of coal-fired electrical production is the primary reason that such alternatives can be selectively
employed at, the whims of the environmentalist extremists.
Were their livelihoods and well-being truly reliant on the fickle supplies of wind energy, for example, the Green ideologues
-- the environmentalists -- would find its inconstancy and impracticality starkly enlightening. A few cold dark nights with
no wind, and thus no power, and they would quickly learn to temper their nutty idealism. Currently however, they bask in
the luxury of railing incessantly against their cheap, reliable electricity, while remaining fully confident that the next time
they flip the nearest light switch, the darkness will flee.
Yet, despite their relentless efforts to maintain the worldwide panic over rising temperatures and all of the supposed
calamities that will ensue in the wake of the expected planetary heat wave (and many of which should have befallen us by
now), a growing cadre of skeptics, supported by a bulk of research data, suggests the possibility that the “global
warming” scam may be in retreat.
No less a world leader than Vaclav Klaus, incoming President of the European Union, denounces climate change hysteria
as a hoax. News from the Arctic is that the ice pack this Winter is as large as it was in 1979. In other words, during the
intervening years the world has warmed and cooled, cyclically and irrespective of man-made “greenhouse gases,” just as
has been the case throughout the millennia.
Of course, if allowed to advance their agenda unchecked, the political Left will continue to exploit “climate change” fears
for as long as it can garner political capital from them. Then, as it does in the wake of all of its other dismal failures, it will
simply move on to some other topic the moment the public grows suspicious and weary of the always impending, but
never materializing climatic catastrophes.
Until such time, Al Gore will continue his lucrative practice of giving speeches addressing the “end of the world,” for as
long as sycophantic crowds are willing to ignore his insincerity and continue paying exorbitant sums of money to be
propagandized about the impending apocalyptic heat waves. And the network news apparatus will persist in its
attempts to convince the American people that, only through the expanded powers of government can humanity hope to
survive the ordeal.
Yet, many among the scientific and political communities are recognizing the need to distance themselves from the climate
change alarmism. Others, who pragmatically supported the ruse, despite having access to empirical data that refuted it, will
suffer longterm credibility deficits that inevitably befall such shameless opportunism.
Despite the seeming sea change in the political landscape last November, or the eagerness with which the incoming
President intends to exploit environmental fears to his advantage, “global warming” may soon take its place along side
Bigfoot, Y2K, and the Bermuda triangle on the ash heap of fabricated history.
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
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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