Is the world suffering from global warming? Is the gradual increase of the Earth's average temperature a threat to cause famine, pestilence, drastic weather events, an increase in the ocean's levels, and a host of other catastrophes? I don't know and I don't think you do either. The reason I believe that is that the scientists are not being scientists. If they were using the principles of science such as repeated testing and deductive reasoning, then we would probably know. Instead, I believe that scientists are being paid or, at least, pressured by external forces to reach certain results. For example, my last post contained an article by Richard Lindzen. Mr. Lindzen worked as a consultant for OPEC which, clearly, does not support the theory of global warming because the goal of reducing CO2 emissions would require a conversion from traditional petroleum based fuels to alternative "cleaner" fuels. So is his research result-oriented? Is he a shill for the oil companies? I don't know. Is Al Gore a hypocrite because he flies across the globe on a diesel-using jet and lives in an old mansion where he runs up monthly electric bills in the tens of thousands of dollars? Should we question his arguments when he owns considerable interest in and/or serves as an officer of companies that are in the business of green technology? Who should you believe?
One of the major problems with this issue is that both sides keep referring to consensus as if the question of how the earth works and whether or not we are damaging the environment can be based on a majority vote. You would think that there would be generally acceptable methods of testing and acquiring data that everyone could agree upon and that scientists - all scientists - could conduct exhaustive testing and come up with an answer. At the same time, these scientists would follow the scientific method: they take a hypothesis such as "human-generated carbon dioxide admissions contribute to the greenhouse effect which increases the global temperature" and, then, they would use every possible test to try to prove that hypothesis wrong. Once they have exhausted ALL possibilities that they can originate, and the data reflects a certain result, then we would know whether or not that was true. Instead, you have one side referring to one particular authority, document, study, or set of records to support one position, and then the other side does the exact same thing. Don't support it - TRY TO PROVE IT WRONG! That is the only way that we can know for sure.
That being said, and after admitting that I do not know the answer, I do not agree that we need to take drastic action to combat global climate change. The reason why we shouldn't is because WE CANNOT TRUST THOSE WHO ARE URGING US TO DO SO. Here's why:
Progressives come in all shapes and sizes, but, whatever form they take, they feed on crises and take advantage of them to take control and acquire power. If you and I, the nation, or the world believe that we are in an emergency situation, then we are much more willing to let the government act decisively, dramatically, extraordinarily, and unconstitutionally, in an illegal and unprecedented fashion even, because we are in a panicked state. We desperately want to feel that security again. This mindset allowed FDR to put Japanese-Americans in detention camps and seize private citizen's gold during World War II. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson had Committee on Public Information propaganda machine and the American Protective League, which was a group of civilians charged by the government with spying on their neighbors and weeding out or ratting out any dissent among the general populace. Sounds like the Gestapo, does it not? And Congress and the American People let them do it because there was a war going on, the Hun was out there ready to steal our babies, and once we had the hell sufficiently scared out of us, we willingly sacrificed our freedom and our constitutional rights just to have that feeling taken away.
The Obama Administration is full of crisis buzzards. After all, as Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, stated: "We will not let a good crisis go to waste." So we have the financial crisis (the banks are too large to fail, so we have to bail them out), the financial crisis part 2 (we have to push a $787 billion stimulus package through Congress without anyone reading the bill, the majority of which will not result in any spending until 2013 [oh, but we've gotta have it NOW!] that hasn't created any jobs except among unionized teachers and construction workers and contains a ridiculous amount of pork - I call it the Obama Campaign Financing Repayment Package), the automobile industry crisis (the car companies are too big to fail, so the government has to purchase a huge amount of their stock, fire their CEO, tell them what cars they can and cannot build, and give a huge portion of their stock to their unionized workers), the climate crisis (we have to ramrod cap and trade legislation through Congress before the bill can be properly debated because the world is dying and our new green economy will create jobs [I guess at the expense of non-green energy-related jobs] even though it will dramatically increase household energy costs at a time when so many are losing their jobs and businesses are closing), the health insurance crisis (people are, apparently, dying in the streets because they can't get health care, we have to have a government option because there isn't enough competition in the health care industry [so now we have a "competitor" who regulates the other guys and will tax them, yet cannot run its own health care systems, and now is going to tell them what to do] which, by the way, is going to cost taxpayers more money in health care costs [at a time of economic recession]), the swine flu crisis (get your children vaccinated NOW or THEY WILL DIE!), and a few other less significant crises. The Administration and their affiliated non-governmental (or some would say quasi-governmental) support groups (aka special interest groups) are chocked full of progressives and it shows.
Now, let's translate the progressive addiction to crisis to the global or international levels. The UN is also full of progressives (and communists and socialists for that matter). They are generally American-haters. Why do they hate us? Well, George Bush, of course. Ok, not really. They hate us because we have always been the rich bully on the block. We have the highest standards of living based on just about every accepted measure. We have the strongest military on the planet. And, until Obama came into office, we pretty much have not ever put up with crap. In short, they are jealous and see us as the source of evil: we and our European capitalist predecessors are the progenitors of all of the social injustice in the world and we must be stopped.
Up to this point, even when Jimmy Carter was in office, they could not do anything about it. Now, we have in the office a President who is a citizen of the world. He may not hate America, per se, but he hates our white history. He sees our culture as racist and replete with greedy, shameless capitalists. He hates our bourgeois middle class and our intolerant religions. He desperately wants the approval of the world and wants to return our country to its previous international standing - translation: we need to appease our enemies, apologize for doing what we thought we had to do, and agree to whatever radical position the international community adheres to in any given moment.
The global climate change crisis propaganda machine and the anti-American forces of the world have found their ultimate tool in Barack Hussein Obama and they are getting ready to unleash the perfect storm. We cannot trust this administration to do the right thing and we cannot allow the international progressives, embodied in the UN, to impose any system of control upon us and have access to our tax dollars. In my next post I will tell you why. I will also show how the whole idea of climate change and the push to take drastic action now has nothing to do with the environment itself, but, rather, the international redistribution of wealth and the permanent elimination of the USA as a global power.
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