THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 68, March 13, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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GLOBAL WARMING, R.I.P.
By Alan Caruba
WANING OF PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF GLOBAL WARMING THEORY: MAINSTREAM MEDIA STILL TRYING TO HIDE
THE REAL LEGACY OF THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX -- THE DECADES-LONG ATTACK ON AMERICA'S ENERGY SOURCES --
CONSEQUENCE: VAST U.S. RESOURCES OF COAL & OIL REMAIN IN THE GROUND, INSTEAD OF BEING AVAILABLE
FOR USE BY AMERICANS. THE PRICE OF OIL ON THE WORLD MARKET CONTINUES TO INCREASE, AS THE U.S.A. BECOMES
INCREASINGLY DEPENDENT ON OIL IMPORTS FROM THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST. THE COST OF U.S. ELECTRICITY CONTINUES
TO INCREASE, DUE TO U.S. LAWS MANDATING THAT UTILITIES MUST BUY FROM WIND & SOLAR ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS,
WHO WOULD BE OUT OF BUSINESS BY NEXT WEEK, IF THOSE GOVERNMENT MANDATES WERE REPEALED.
FULL STORY:
Have you noticed that you rarely hear “global warming” mentioned on radio or television and that the term rarely occurs
any more in the print media?
One reason is that it has been replaced with “climate change,” and the other reason is that the only people talking about
climate change seem to be leaders of governments like those of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of
Australia.
To borrow a line from Shakespeare, I come to bury global warming, not to praise it.
An early and unrelenting skeptic from the days the term "man-made global warming" first debuted in the late 1980s, I
rather instinctively knew that the only warming occurring was the same natural warming that always follows a cooling
cycle, in this case, the warming that began in 1850 after the Little Ice Age that began around 1300.
It never made sense to me that “industry” should be blamed for pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere when the amount of CO2 was a minuscule 0.038 percent, with far greater amounts of hydrogen and oxygen
that protect the Earth from becoming the galactic equivalent of a toasted marshmallow.
Then, too, like oxygen, all life on Planet Earth is dependent on CO2, a gas that the Environmental Protection Agency is
actually calling a “pollutant.” That is so absurd that I was confident people would laugh the whole “theory” out the
door when it was first proposed. But that was over two decades ago.
The end didn’t begin until November, 2009, and the release of thousands of “Climategate” emails between the
meteorologists supplying the bogus data that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
used to generate the greatest hoax of the modern era.
Not since the discovery of the “Piltdown Man” had so many scientists allowed themselves to be taken in by a
complete fabrication, one based entirely on falsified computer model data. Worse still, many climbed on board the
global warming bandwagon to reap some of the billions in grant money involved.
The fact that “global warming” was generated by the United Nations should have been the red flag that something was
not just wrong about it, but that it hid an agenda aimed at Western industrialized nations.
I think global warming gained credibility as much from the support of the leaders of Western nations as from the great
difficulty skeptical scientists encountered in gaining any traction against it. To this day, President Obama still prattles
on about the need for solar and wind power to replace fossil fuels in order to avoid “climate change” from their use.
The current Prime Minister of Australia is busy trying to impose a carbon tax on that nation. The British have dug
themselves a deep hole by embracing windmills instead of coal mines. Billions have been wasted by Spain and
Germany on alternative energy sources.
The anti-energy agenda will have devastating affects on life in the West. Electricity consumers in the United Kingdom
were recently told by the CEO of the country’s grid operation that, by 2020, they will have to get used to having no
electricity for periods during the day and night. This will put the U.K. on par with North Korea. And the U.S.A. is not
far behind, if it does not quickly reverse current energy policies.
In the U.S.A., the leading voice for “global warming” became the former Vice President, Al Gore, who, following his
defeat for the Presidency, set about becoming a multimillionaire with all manner of “global warming” projects and
enterprises. He would eventually win an Oscar for his documentary and a Nobel Peace Prize that was shared by the
IPCC. Today, however, Al Gore is a joke.
The legacy of “global warming” has been the decades-long attack on U.S. energy sources, until today our vast
resources of coal and oil remain in the ground instead of being available as the price of oil increases, due to troubles
in the Middle East, and the cost of electricity increases, due to laws mandating that utilities must buy from wind and
solar electricity producers, who would be out of business by next week without those government mandates.
The public acceptance of the “global warming” hoax has waned, even as the mainstream media has tried to hide the
truth. The rise of the Internet has seen to that and other more pressing, real challenges are shoveling dirt onto its
grave. 9/11 refocused public attention on a real threat. The 2008 financial crisis still holds the nation in its grip.
And a President, whose first two years have generated massive resistance, now only occasionally references
“climate change.”
The global warming corpse is not quite dead, but dead enough for now. The question is what new fraud will the
United Nations and environmentalist organizations perpetrate? The “acidification” of the world’s oceans? “Species
extinction” or “Invasive species”? Be assured, the UN mafia is at work on something.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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