By Alan Caruba
What is it with the “warmists”, Al Gore and his clones who keep insisting the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us, and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the planet.
They want us to cover the surface of the U.S. with solar panels and the mountains with wind turbines to generate the energy needed for everything we do. These Green energy alternatives are so wonderful they are producing a mere three percent of our current needs, require government subsidies and loan guarantees to exist, and tend not to be all that great when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
So why are we still hearing from this discredited and disgraced bunch of charlatans and buffoons? In early May, The New York Times published “Game Over for the Climate” by a major offender of the truth, Dr. James Hansen, who for some reason is still the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), despite having pocketed big bucks beyond his humble government salary. In 2007 he split a million dollar Dan Davis Prize with someone else and in 2001, received a $250,000 Heinz Award. Former GISS employees want him fired.
As debased as The Times is, in 2006 the American Association for the Advancement of Science selected Hansen to receive their Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. I cite this as a warning that even a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper and formerly respected science organization have long since gone over to the dark side when it comes to global warming. Nothing they have to say on the subject should be regarded as more than pure propaganda.
Suffice to say that Dr. Hansen’s opinion article cited every global warming lie we have been hearing since 1988 when he first gained famed testifying before a congressional committee that we were doomed. In his Times article, he predicted that the “semi-permanent drought” would turn the Midwest into “a dust bowl.” Like every other global warming prediction (that hasn’t come true) this will happen “over the next several decades.” Time enough for Dr. Hansen to pick up a few more awards and fatten his bank account.
The face of the global warming hoax, Al Gore, will not shut up. He made news in August 2011 when he totally lost it while speaking at the Aspen Institute. Anyone, noted climatologists, meteorologists, and mere science writers like myself were the target of his rant for actually citing things such as the fact that the Earth has been in a natural COOLING cycle since 1998 and other inconvenient facts about the climate.
“And some of the exact same people” said Gore, frothing at the mouth, “I can go down a list of their names—are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message. ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes’ Bulls***! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bulls***! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bulls***!”
The climate is not cooperating. The Church of Global Warming is crumbling around them. People are making fun of them. Parents are objecting to their scaring children with their lies. People actually want to warm their homes in winter and cool them in the summer. Meanwhile, using the global warming lies, the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to shut down the entire U.S. coal mining industry and attacking “fracking” to access natural gas. The Department of the Interior has virtually shut down all oil drilling on federal land and offshore. How crazed is all this?
One of their number, Dr. Peter Gleick, formerly of the American Geophysical Union’s Task Force on Scientific Ethics—the irony is too delicious—perpetrated a fraud against The Heartland Institute earlier this year, pretending to be a member of its board in order to secure a list of its donors and allegedly authoring a memo about a scheme to invade the nation’s schoolrooms with a program to dispute global warming. After confessing to the former, he resigned from the task force. An FBI probe is underway to determine if he broke any laws. Heartland has dubbed it “Fakegate.”
The Institute, by the way, is sponsoring its 7th annual conference on climate change, May 21-23, in Chicago, immediately following the NATO conference that will be held in the windy city where it is headquartered. Its theme this year is “Real Science, Real Choices.” Among the speakers will be Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, vice chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and two former NASA astronauts.
The lesson we can draw from the last few decades is that the entire environmental movement, of which the global warming hoax is one part, is an extension of what Dr. Robert Zubin, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, addressed in his new book, “Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalism, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism.”
Antihumanism has been around a long time. As Dr. Zubin points out, it has taken the form of “Darwinism, eugenics, German militarism, Nazism, xenophobia, the population control movement, environmentalism, technophobia, and most recently, the incredibly demented climatophobic movement, which seeks to justify mass human sacrifice for the purpose of weather control.”
Al Gore, James Hansen, and even President Obama’s science advisor, John Holden, are card-carrying members of this cult. In 1971 Holden co-authored “Global Ecology” with Paul Ehrlich, famed for his 1968 book, “The Population Bomb.” They wrote “when a population of organisms grows in a finite environment, sooner or later, it will encounter a resource limit. This phenomenon, described by ecologists as reaching the ‘carrying capacity’ of the environment, applies to bacteria on a culture dish, to fruit flies in a jar of agar, and to buffalo on a prairie. It must also apply to man on this finite planet.”
So you need to understand that you are no better than a fruit fly and you need to die in order to avoid depleting the planet’s supply of food and its energy resources.
God knows I would like to ignore or—better still—never have to hear from these climate Nazis, but that is not going to happen so long as The New York Times, the United Nations, and a host of others keep repeating their lethal lies.
© Alan Caruba. 2012
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Comment by Vern Shotwell on May 17, 2012 at 4:47pm That should be Altamont Pass, formerly Livermore Pass.
I note that susan shows Livermore, CA. as home.
Information is readily available, Awake . No problem!
Comment by susan Mueller on May 17, 2012 at 4:04pm I live surrounded by windmills. We have seen windmill company after company go bankrupt. They may run 1/20 of the time but probable much less than that. We know that without government subsidies they would not be here. They are truly ugly and detrimental to our environment and extremely noisy. The windmills have killed over 60% of the golden eagle population. This is just a tip of the ice of environmental hypocrisy.
Comment by Doug Nicholson on May 17, 2012 at 12:48pm More than 31,000 professional scientists, including over 9,000 with PhD's, have signed a petition denying man-made global warming, or "climate change", if you prefer. Here's the story.
The other thing involved here is Agenda 21, the UN sponsored plan to socialize the world in the name of saving it from "climate change". We must begin to oppose Agenda 21 in a vocal, publicly exposed manner. Most people have never heard of Agenda 21 and wouldn't believe it without proof.
Comment by Linda Sills on May 17, 2012 at 12:16pm The crazies involved in all of this are Fabian Socialists, and think that they are "gods". They are actually Nihilists, and sociopaths. One of their base ideas, is to try to recreate the Garden of Eden. Too bad they never read the Bible. This is not about nor has it ever been about the environment. It is about total control and abject tyranny. Do not fall for any of their lies, like "sustainable" "green", environmental justice..affordable housing, traffic calming, or any of the tenets which can be found in Communism throughout history. Keep vigil at your City Council meetings, and more importantly your local Planning Commission. This is how they are implementing Agenda 21.
Comment by Doug Sergeant on May 17, 2012 at 11:21am Wind generators raising ground temperature is conjecture, the gathered statistics are of improbable consequence. But just on the odd chance this would be case (that the turbines force the warm air up, not allowing the cooling of the night air to reach the ground) the only thing needed to be done would the reversal of half of the props. That way as much air would be forced down as up. Regardless of which way a turbine rotates, electricity could be generated.
Comment by John Bellaire on May 17, 2012 at 9:42am I think the world will be fine and continue for a long time after Al Gore and the global warming fanatics are long gone and forgotten. The world has been fine and nature does as it has done for millions of years before Al Gore ever existed. The global warming fraud must be perpetuated because a lot of money is invested in things like wind mills, solar panels, and electric cars. Most of these ideas to save us from ourselves are a waste of time and failed enterprises. If the end of the world or extinction of life on the planet ever happens, it is up to nature and the Creator of all things, and will happen regardless of what Al Gore or anybody else wants to do about it.
Comment by Vern Shotwell on May 17, 2012 at 7:48am Right Alan.
Global warming has been dealt a couple serious blows....by Climategate and an outbreak of cool weather! (I guess we all are familiar with the cute video Hide the Decline?)
But we now have the latest proof of Global Warming. Dinosaur Flatulence! Yes, the world got warmer, and dinosaurs died out. What more proof do you need, really? Yep, the methane in dinosaur farts was responsible.
A scholarly article from the University of London is anticipated this week. One article from the UK MailOnline is here. Many thousands of articles are available, guess we've got to face up to it.
Look for new legislation against farting. Teaching cows not to fart may prove difficult.
Be patriotic: eat more steaks!
These "green Nazi's" should be symbolized by a green flag with a white swastika. There has been no changes in the planet's temperature in the past 65 years. Al Gore and friends have successfully engineered the greatest hoax in world history. They have skillfully manipulated trusting, well meaning people. It's time to call them out! The fact that the President proved to buy into Gore's blarney is cause for alarm! He may either be one of the more gullible presidents in history, taking a proper seat beside Jimmy Carter. Or, he may be doing it to line his own pockets. I would predict the latter.
This is a critical campaign issue. With unemployment high and vast reserves of fossil fuel underneath our American soil, we must decide now if we want this madness to continue. The election may be a mandate on whether the United States is to continue as one nation. The country is painfully divided on (a) energy, (b) health care and (c) right to work. The split is probably somewhere between 60-40 and 65-35. Obama is represented by the smaller faction. It's highly doubtful that the larger faction will accept him for another term. Which translates to choice: Romney and a whole nation. Or, Obama and the question of "where will the borders be drawn.
Comment by Charles H. Sims on May 17, 2012 at 6:39am If there is global warming, what we are doing is exaserbating the problem. News today says that scientists have shown a direct correlation between wind power (windmill farms) and increased ground temperature 0.72 degrees. This contributes to global warming. Wow! Now consider solar power. I believe it is obvious that solar power collectors contribute to global warming. The surfaces of solar collectors are designed specifically to collect solar heat. This obviously reduces the reflection of energy into space and contributes to global warming. Now scientists have shown that our efforts in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from burning fossil fuels will have no measurable effect by the 21st century. Our government has passed cap and trade laws at enormous cost to reduce carbon dioxide buildup. Our president repeatedly encourages “investing” in green energy (increasing the subsidy). Now I have said you cannot believe anything you hear, I even wrote a book about it.
Comment by DianaS on May 17, 2012 at 6:31am And Bernie Madoff is doing time for WHAT?????? These guys put him to shame.
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