THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 254, October 25, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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GLOBAL WARMING: AN OBITUARY
By Alan Caruba
WHERE HAS GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA GONE? ONTO THE ASH HEAP OF THE HISTORY OF THE LAST
TWENTY-PLUS YEARS OF UNSOUND ECONOMIC, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES, WASTED BILLIONS OF THE
TAXPAYERS' MONEY, & ALL OF IT DRIVEN BY THE PSEUDOSCIENCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS, THE UN
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, & OTHER ENVIRONMENTALIST ORGANIZATIONS. WHAT HAS
KEPT GLOBAL WARMING THEORY ALIVE? ITS MASSIVE PROPAGANDA MACHINE & USEFUL IDIOTS IN THE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
FULL STORY:
I used to write obituaries when I was a young journalist and I daresay they are one of the best read sections of any
newspaper. We have arrived at a time when the obituaries for global warming (now falsely called climate change) are
increasing.
The October 25, 2011, edition of The Wall Street Journal sports an editorial titled “The Post-Global Warming
World” commenting on the fact that the 17th annual United Nations-sponsored Climate Change Conference in November
is likely to be an even greater flop than recent ones. Few, if any, nations will sign on to the huge hoax of reducing carbon
dioxide (CO2) to save the world from burning to a crisp.
Considering the long years of media-driven drivel about global warming, the hoax should have been over by now, given
the exposure in 2009 of thousands of emails between the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
conspirators and the growing body of evidence that everything they asserted was a great steaming pile of horse manure.
If there was ever a reason for the U.S.A. to stop funding the United Nations, this is it.
I have predicted the death of global warming several times, but, like a Hollywood zombie, global warming is kept alive by
its massive propaganda machine and useful idiots in the media.
Since the late 1980s, The New York Times has engaged in the most horrid effort to convince its readers and the
world that the IPCC should be taken seriously, even though its successive reports have proven to be an offense to real
science and the truth. No opportunity was ignored to advance the hoax, even in the face of incontrovertible facts of
every description.
Global warming has become a Green religion to be taken on faith, but its claim to legitimacy was the “science” it put forth.
That science began to come into question when a natural cooling cycle began in 1998. Glaciers began to noticeably grow
along with the ice shelves of the Arctic and Antarctica. Snow arrived earlier and in greater abundance than previous
decades.
Global tropical cyclone activity has been at historic lows and the frequency of U.S. hurricanes has declined. The latest,
Irene, was rapidly downgraded to a tropical depression by the time it made landfall.
So, naturally, when Elisabeth Rosenthal, a blogger on “Green” topics for The New York Times wondered out loud
“Where Did Global Warming Go?” I was curious to know her answer. Turns out that, despite being heralded on the
covers of Newsweek, Time, The Economist, and countless other “news” magazines, in TV
documentaries, et cetera, it hasn’t gone anywhere
After lamenting that, since his visit to the 2009 Copenhagen UN Conference on Climate Change, President Obama has
failed to mention global warming every day, Rosenthal wrote “But two years later, now that nearly every other nation
accepts climate change as a pressing problem, America has turned agnostic on the issue.”
No, nearly every other nation has concluded it was a massive and very expensive fraud. That is why the forthcoming UN
conference is going to implode. Policy makers are trying to extricate themselves from the useless solar and wind projects
to which billions were committed. As soon as Obama is out of office and the Environmental Protection Agency is scaled
back to its original 1970 objectives we can begin to attend to the rebuilding of the nation’s economy.
Note Rosenthal’s use of the term “climate change” rather than “global warming.” Note, too, that the 2009 Copenhagen
conference was a huge failure, with none of the nations in attendance agreeing to do much more than get together again,
preferably in Cancun, Mexico, 2010, where the weather, unlike Copenhagen’s was not at risk of the huge blizzard that
forced Obama to leave early lest he be trapped there until the snow melted.
“Though the evidence of climate change has, if anything, solidified,” Ms. Rosenthal lamented that “Mr. Obama now
talks about ‘Green jobs’ mostly as a strategy for improving the economy, but not the planet.”
People who worry about “the planet” and not about real problems such as how to feed seven billion of its human
inhabitants or how to provide enough electricity to keep the lights on in the world’s cities or who think “improving the
economy” is a poor choice to make when more than 14 million Americans are out of work are seriously out of touch with
reality.
“He did not mention climate in his last State of the Union address,” said Rosenthal, pouting over something about which
neither Obama, nor anyone else on planet Earth, can do anything, except to clean up the mess left behind by hurricanes,
floods, and other forces of nature..
The climate, measured in hundreds of years, as opposed to the weather which is unpredictable more than a week from
now, is the result of the activity of the Sun, the oceans, volcanoes, clouds, and cosmic rays. It is determined by the
immutable laws of physics.
“The fading of global warming from the political agenda is a mostly American phenomenon,” wrote Rosenthal, apparently
unaware that the European Union is about to collapse because several of its member nations are so deeply in debt that
makes the U.S.A. look like a paragon of prudent fiscal policy. Rosenthal appears to be unaware of the rapid political
changes occurring across the northern tier of African nations called the Maghreb and elsewhere throughout the Middle
East.
Like the urchins “occupying Wall Street,” Rosenthal chides Americans who “prefer bigger cars and bigger homes. We
value personal freedom, are suspicious of scientists, and tend to distrust the kind of sweeping government intervention
required to confront rising greenhouse gas emissions.”
Since when is valuing personal freedoms, many of which are protected by the U.S. Constitution, and being suspicious of
those scientists who have been claiming we’re all going to die, or questioning sweeping government intervention
anything other than a deeply embedded American tradition and a very good idea under any circumstance?
For the past six years, the Heartland Institute has sponsored International Climate Change Conferences, the last in
Washington, D.C., June 30-July 1, 2011. Haven’t heard about them? Maybe that’s because the mainstream media has
gone out of its way to ignore them. The conferences, however, have contributed to the growing body of knowledge
disputing global warming to the point where, even in the nation’s capitol, the topic has become little more than the slow
revelation of the utter mendacity of the hoax and its perpetrators.
Where has global warming gone? Onto the ash heap of the history of the last twenty-plus years of bad policies, wasted
billions of the public treasure, and all of it driven by the UN’s mendacious “science.”
© Alan Caruba, 2011
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Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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