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Global
Warming Equals Socialism
By
Philip V. Brennan
There's a very simple question that the global warming scaremongers
don't seem to be able to answer in a straightforward, credible
manner.
It
has to do with the current refrigeration of much of the United
States and the claims of the global warming alarmists which
appear to be very much at odds.
According
to the propaganda campaign being hammered at the people of the
world, the polar ice cap is melting and the polar regions are
on the verge of becoming a tropical paradise.
I
would like to know, if the polar regions are warming, how they
able to bestow Arctic weather upon much of the U.S. as they
are currently doing?
If
the Arctic is the planet's refrigeration system and if that
system is losing its coolant due to global warming, how can
it continue to bless the U.S. with cold fronts that continue
to break records for their severity?
The
lame excuse the alarmists provide is that, oh well, climate
is measured over the long term, you see, and over a year's time,
the climate is seen as getting warmer, despite the frigid temperatures
seen in the winter, which are merely temporary.
That's
called "begging the question."
In
an e-mail promoting a new book, "The Politically Incorrect
Guide to Global Warming" the Conservative Book Updates
from Human Events Book Service had the following wisdom to impart:
"For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best
excuse for increasing government control over our actions in
ways both large and small.
"It's
for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales!
But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've
trumped up haven't been large enough to give the sinister prize
they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic
activity, and even individual behavior.
"With
global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto
emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only global
government can tackle such problems. National sovereignty? Democracy?
Forget it: global warming has now brought the Left closer to
global government, statism, and the eradication of individual
rights than it has ever been before."
In
that book, CBC reports that author Christopher C. Horner explains
why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites
and U.N. globalists endlessly bleat that "global warming"
is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as
a dream come true.
"Global
warming is the ideal scare campaign for those who are doing
all they can to secure strict control over society, business,
and the minutest details of individual life." As Horner
explains, "if global warming really were as bad as the
Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could
'solve' it . . . no matter how much we sacrifice there would
still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless
well of excuses for the relentless growth of Big Government."
Writing
in Canada's National Post, Feb. 5, Timothy Ball addresses the
strongarm tactics employed by the environmentalist left. Dr.
Ball, chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project
and a former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg,
Canada recalls what happened to him when he spoke out against
the global warming hoax.
"What
I have experienced in my personal life during the last years
makes me understand why most people choose not to speak out;
job security and fear of reprisals. Even in university, where
free speech and challenge to prevailing wisdoms are supposedly
encouraged, academics remain silent."
Dr.
Ball recalls that he once got a three-page letter from an academic
colleague telling him he had no right to say what he was saying,
especially in public lectures.
He
was also accused by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki of
being in the pay of oil companies. "That is a lie. Apparently
he thinks if the fossil fuel companies pay, you have an agenda.
So if Greenpeace, Sierra Club, or governments pay, there is
no agenda and only truth and enlightenment?"
What
did Dr. Ball say that got him in such trouble with some of his
colleagues?
Just
this: "Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't
exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open
up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the
fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in climatology and
I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the
reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change
on human history and the human condition. Few listen, even though
I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London,
England and that for 32 years I was a professor of climatology
at the University of Winnipeg."
Politicians
are being listened to, however, wrote Dr. Ball, even though
most of them have no knowledge or understanding of science,
especially the science of climate and climate change. Hence,
they are in no position to question a policy on climate change
when it threatens the entire planet. Moreover, using fear and
creating hysteria makes it very difficult to make calm rational
decisions about issues needing attention.
In
recent weeks we have seen environmentalist wackos issuing fatwas
against any scientist who dares to contradict their propaganda,
demanding they be exiled from the scientific community and tried
in international courts.
For
example, The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist,
Heidi Cullen, advocated that broadcast meteorologists be stripped
of their scientific certification if they express skepticism
about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming.
Appearing
on the Larry King Show Jan. 31, MIT's professor of atmospheric
science Dr. Richard Lindzen spoke about the widely touted scientific
report issued by the U.N.'s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) and allegedly the work of 2,500 scientists insisting
that it's 90 percent certain that global warming is manmade.
In
fact, Dr. Lindzen explained, all that was issued last Friday
was a summary for policy-makers that is not prepared by scientists.
"It's not 2,500 people offering their consensus, I participated
in that. Each person who is an author writes one or two pages
in conjunction with someone else.
"They
travel around the world several times a year for several years
to write it and the summary for policy-makers has the input
of about 13 of the scientists; but ultimately, it is written
by representatives of governments, of environmental organizations
like the Union of Concerned Scientists, and industrial organizations,
each seeking their own benefit."
Added
Lindzan about the whole global warming scare, "I think
it's mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark
closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves."
Then
there is this juicy story about the lengths to which the globalbaloneyists
will go to convince the world it is tottering on the brink of
a cataclysm.
The
pro-global warming BBC reported that "rising seas, caused
by global warming have for the first time washed an inhabited
island of the face of the earth."
According
to BBC, "The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's
part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra
rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one
of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and
climate scientists has started coming true."
According
to TheNewsisNowPublic.com, the story was a hoax.
BBC
didn't bother to mention that Lohachare Island disappeared 22
years ago and that the entire region of The Sundarbans is a
river delta, or that the disappearance of the island has been
attributed to erosion, not global warming.
All
of this provides solid evidence that Christopher C. Horner is
right on target in his charge that the whole global warming
business is nothing but pure politics — a means by which
the left can take control of just about every human activity
worldwide.
The
real purpose behind the global warming movement is the establishment
of a world socialist order under the control of the United Nations.
Global
warming is what I've been saying it is since 1997: a lot of
globaloney.
Phil
Brennan
is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com (pvb@pvbr.com).
He is editor and publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com)
and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in
the 1960s. Petroleumworld do not necessarily share these views.
