It Didn’t Start With “Climategate”
The whistleblower at the University of East Anglia who leaked emails and other documents that reveal the fraud that is being perpetrated by the world’s leading global warming alarmists did us all a great service. But it is important to realize that the deception didn’t just begin: rather, the global warming hysteria movement has been shot through with fraud from the start.
So begins a thorough accounting of the deception that has been integral to the eco-panic movement’s rush to judgment on global warming’s presumed, proximate cause, human use of fossil fuels.
The central point is that Leftist politics triumphed over science. Given that governments have funded “global warming research” at a level an entire order of magnitude greater than that provided by private industry to “disprove it,” the motivations of some of the scientists are pretty obvious. Nothing succeeds like government research grants.
The motivations of the statists and socialists are pretty obvious, too. Anything that gives them more power via more intrusive government is a clear plus in their corrupted worldviews.
Sadly, these two groups, co-opted scientists and professional statists, have convinced large numbers of well-meaning people (and possibly some scientists who have mistakenly trusted the work of others) that global warming is largely caused by human activity, and that we can do something about it with enough determination. The solutions they prescribe would wreck national economies, and cause far more human suffering than even Al Gore’s dystopian fantasies would entertain.
The irony is that lies told in the service of Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” are just fine in the minds of the eco-panic crowd. After all, what’s a little white lie in the face of certain disaster if we don’t take over the world’s economy right NOW?
Thankfully, more and more people are waking up to the lies. The real “inconvenient truth” is just how many lies are involved in the global warming movement.
You can’t fool all the people, all the time.
The only remaining question is whether enough public pressure can be brought to bear in time to prevent true economic disaster in the service of environmental non-crisis.
50 million people have died in the last decades because the world stopped using DDT to control malaria carrying mosquitoes, under pressure from a similar “environmental movement.” Would the use of DDT have killed even 1% of that number? And just think, now the eco-pagans are very proud that they hand out mosquito nets. It’s like people who sprinkle around broken glass on the beach being oh-so-proud that they hand out band-aids to injured sun-worshipers.
How many people will we starve to keep the temperature down by half a degree… if we even can? How many of the world’s poor must languish in relatively undeveloped nations as the “first world” tries to convince the world’s governments to restrict economic development? And will we salve our consciences by offering them a dried tofu cracker or two as we prevent them from growing enough food to actually stay alive?
