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CLIMATE PROSTITUTES, CHARLATANS, & COMEDIANS:
Their "Research" Would Be Hilarious, if it Didn't
Cost Taxpayers & Consumers So Dearly
By Paul K. Driessen
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT, THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX, & SOCALLED CLIMATE "RESEARCH": THE
ENDLESS ABSURDITY OOZING OUT OF THE CLIMATE-CHANGE PROPAGANDA CESSPOOL -- CLIMATE "RESEARCH"
ANNUALLY COSTING AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS -- LAWS, MANDATES, SUBSIDIES, & REGULATIONS
ADVANCED BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS & CLIMATE "RESEARCHERS" COSTING TAXPAYERS & CONSUMERS STILL MORE
BILLIONS FOR "ALTERNATIVE" ENERGY & OTHER SCHEMES THAT SEND PRICES SKYROCKETING, KILL JOBS, & REDUCE
HEALTH & LIVING STANDARDS -- HIGH TIME TO END THIS ECONOMICALLY DESTRUCTIVE PROCESS & REMOVE FROM
GOVERNMENT OFFICE THE POLITICIANS & BUREAUCRATS WHO POUR BILLIONS OF HARD-EARNED TAX DOLLARS INTO
PERPETUAL CLIMATE "RESEARCH," "EDUCATION," & "ENVIRONMENTAL" PROGRAMS
FULL STORY:
Put these guys on Comedy Central. Put ‘em in an asylum … a mandatory restitution program … jail perhaps … or a witness
protection program, if they turn state’s evidence on other perpetrators. But keep them away from our money – and our
energy, economic, healthcare and education policies.
Climate prostitutes, parasites, and charlatans have been devouring billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars, year after year, plus
billions more in corporate shareholder cash, activist foundation funds, and state government grants. The laws, mandates,
subsidies, and regulations they advance have cost taxpayers and consumers still more billions for “alternative” energy and
other schemes that send prices skyrocketing, kill jobs, and reduce health and living standards.
It’s time to end this destructive saga and, while we’re at it, pink-slip the politicians and bureaucrats who pour billions of
hard-earned tax dollars into perpetual climate “research,” “education” and “environmental” programs. They’re actively
complicit or have completely failed to perform proper due diligence.
Global cooling has morphed into global warming, climate change, global climate disruption, climate “weirding,” and extreme
weather events – always man-made, always imminently catastrophic, always requiring eternal research and wrenching
societal transformation, to “save the Planet.”
The endless absurdity oozing out of the climate change cesspool would be hilarious if it weren’t so costly.
“Global warming: Is weight loss a solution?” the “peer-reviewed” International Journal of Obesity breathlessly
wondered a few weeks ago. Most definitely. Fat people breathe more and thus emit more carbon dioxide. If the world’s 1.5
billion obese and overweight adults all lost 22 pounds apiece and kept if off for a year, the reduction in CO2 would equal
0.2% of global emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement. (Translation: “health professionals” deserve
more climate research loot.)
If you need more proof that “obesity and climate change are linked,” simply consider how awful life is now in Mexico, the
same authors argued in an article for their Climate and Health Council. One in four Mexicans is now obese.
“The planet is getting hotter, its people are getting fatter,
and the use of fossil fuel energy is the cause of both.
Large increases in motor vehicle traffic have decimated
levels of physical activity. This, combined with increased
availability of energy-dense food, has propelled the body
mass index in the entire [Mexican] population upward.”
“Moving to a low-carbon economy could be the next great public health advance,” the CHC “experts” suggested. But even
eating less meat won’t be enough, nor reducing dependence on dairy products, nor even vegetarianism, pal reviewers
intoned. “We have to be vegans,” get rid of cars – and reduce human populations, perhaps with “China’s one-child policy
(entailing elements of compulsion)” as the model.
Didn’t we try that low-carb, low-carbon stuff for most of human history? Aren’t they still trying it in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Do we want dictatorial one-child policies in an era of “choice” and aging pensioners?
Some aren’t sure this meatless diet craze is crazy. They claim the link between climate change and raising animals for meat is
borne out by Earth history. According to a Texas paleontologist, dung and flatulence from herds of hadrosaurs, the
Cretaceous equivalent to modern cattle, could have contributed to Arctic warming 70 million years ago. Other scientists say
the hypothesis is a load of coprolite.
Nearly 2,000 animal species “are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade
ago,” asserts new “research” just published in the once-credible journal, Science. The opportunistic species are
moving at the breakneck speed of “about a mile a year,” intrepid climate-chaos promoter Seth Borenstein anxiously noted in
his Associated Press wire story.
The situation could quickly reverse, if reduced solar activity and the past two years’ frigid Northern Hemisphere Winters
become the new norm. But neither Science nor the AP mentioned that or explained how the current migrations
differ from what’s been happening since the last Pleistocene glaciers retreated and the Little Ice Age ended.
Instead, we’ve been repeatedly treated to amusingly convoluted back-peddling from earlier pronouncements that ski resorts
will be a thing of the past and “children just aren’t going to remember what snow is.” Now we’re told that global warming
can worsen Winters and increase snowfalls. In fact, as one Greenpeace activist explained, “Global warming can mean colder.
It can mean wetter. It can mean drier. That’s what we’re talking about.”
Actually, what we’re talking about is Earth’s constantly changing weather and climate caused – not by hydrocarbon use –
but by complex, chaotic, unpredictable atmospheric, oceanic, solar, planetary, and other forces whose interactions and
effects scientists are only beginning to understand. To respond adequately to them, we need building, heating, air
conditioning, and other technology to adapt to, cope with, and protect our lives and property against those forces – and
the prosperity to afford that technology.
Unfortunately, policies, laws, and regulations driven by climate “research” and horror stories are making it increasingly
difficult to address those needs. Rather than developing our nation’s own vast natural resource and human resources,
America is wasting billions on politically correct technologies and companies, like Evergreen Solar, which got $486 million
in taxpayer subsidies before going belly-up this month. As Al Gore likes to say, that is unsustainable.
Meanwhile, a steady stream of headline-grabbing “studies” continues to power the climate scare and renewable energy
gravy train. Retired Professor John Brignell’s website presents hundreds of absurd research claims, from the Alps melting
and Amazon being destroyed, to “Italy robbed of pasta,” to the “world going up in flames” over resource scarcity and
zebra mussels taking over the Thames River – all because of global warming. The website is not up-to-date, but here’s one
recent gem he could add.
A new taxpayer-funded NASA/Penn State “scientific” study warns that “ecosystem-valuing universalist” (really “green”)
aliens might realize that we have been altering “the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere,” conclude that we have
“ecological destructive tendencies,” and “wipe humanity out in order to preserve the Earth system as a whole.” (And you
thought James Hansen and Michael Mann were the only loons collecting big bucks at these institutions of “vital research”
and “higher education.”)
This interminable pessimism undoubtedly prompted climate activist Danny Bloom to marry his longtime companion and
love of his life: Mother Earth – in a charming ceremony officiated by an online justice of the peace. Perhaps he can
consummate his marriage, using one of “the first-ever eco-friendly luxury condoms,” which were developed by two French
aristocrats and introduced in the U.S.A., just in time for Valentine’s Day, 2011. Unlike other condom manufacturers, the
Original Condom Company is “extremely eco aware and makes every effort to cover their carbon footprint.”
These attention-getting stunts may not save the Planet. But responsible citizens may be able to save the Republic, by
helping Congress, the White House, and their “debt committee” to find a few places where tens of billions are being
wasted on excess bureaucrats, bogus research, useless reports and destructive policies.
President Reagan once observed that, if politics is the second oldest profession, it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
A corollary might be that, even if the perpetrators are wearing eco-friendly luxury condoms, most citizens don’t like getting
screwed by elected officials and unelected bureaucrats.
With Congress home for more fact-finding meetings with constituents, citizens have a perfect opportunity to send a
powerful message. Let’s make the most of it.
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
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
Paul K. Driessen is Senior Policy Advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality, the Committee for A Constructive Tomorrow, and the
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Driessen is author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death (2004).
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