George Will Joins the Battle Against Environmental Stalinists
It is far past time for our strong Conservative voices to take up the flag of common sense and join battle against the lunacy of Leftist Dogma on Human Caused Global Warming. George Will strikes a brilliant blow at the heart of this Leftist Sacred Cow in the post today.
It is insanity to destroy our own economy at the whimsical notion that mankind is so all powerful that we have the power to control the climate of this planet. Heck we can't even control Nancy Pelosi's mouth, what chance have we got at the climate.
Anyway, George has it right this time so I'm gonna excerpt his editorial:
By George F. Will
Thursday, April 12, 2007; Page A27
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a "serious problem." Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted 95 to 0 in opposition to any agreement that would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but that would involve no "specific scheduled commitments" for 129 "developing" countries, including the second-, fourth-, 10th-, 11th-, 13th- and 15th-largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let's find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
Do they also disagree with Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"? He says: Compliance with Kyoto would reduce global warming by an amount too small to measure. But the cost of compliance just to the United States would be higher than the cost of providing the entire world with clean drinking water and sanitation, which would prevent 2 million deaths (from diseases such as infant diarrhea) a year and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill each year.
Nature designed us as carnivores, but what does nature know about nature? Meat has been designated a menace. Among the 51 exhortations in Time magazine's "Global Warming Survival Guide" (April 9), No. 22 says a BMW is less responsible than a Big Mac for "climate change," that conveniently imprecise name for our peril. This is because the world meat industry produces 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, more than transportation produces. Nitrous oxide in manure (warming effect: 296 times greater than that of carbon) and methane from animal flatulence (23 times greater) mean that "a 16-oz. T-bone is like a Hummer on a plate."The problem with Al Gore's pet theory/scam/ego trip is that it cannot bear any really close scrutiny. All of the so-called evidence is based on broad assumptions and computer modelling (which is itself based on the assumptions of a scientist who is already convinced that his theory is correct).
This is not science, it is job security. The reason that this dogma has resulted in so many naysaying scientists being threatened with job loss, reputation loss, or worse is that if you dare to rock the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) boat, you threaten the livelihood of thousands of climatologists, environmentalists, and catastrophe pimps.
These pseudo-scientists have allied themselves to the anti-American Stalinists in our own Paleo-media and the Democrat Party leadership to form an almost insurmountable movement aimed at the destruction of our way of life, and it is going to take considerable effort from men with great strength of character to stand up to this new Emporer and point out his complete lack of sartorial splendor. This Leftist Imperial Banner has no clothes.
There are a lot of scientists out there who know this, who see this, but are afraid to take a stand against the AGW tidal wave for fear of losing their livelihoods. There are a great many politicians who see the same glaring holes in this current politically correct dogma, but to stand up and deny the claims of those on the Left would require them to take a "courageous stand," and since when have politicians ever been inclined to take courageous stands? For most, that is considered to be political suicide.
Somewhere, somehow those of us with enough common sense and intellect to withstand the constant drumbeat of Leftist Religious Dogma on AGW coming from the likes of hypocrites like John Kerry-Heinz and Al Gore and their propaganda machine in the Paleo-media, and prevent America from committing economic suicide at the alters of the IPCC, the UN and the Democrat Party.
Long Live the American Republic!
(Sorry for the blue ink George, but I am usually quoting Democrats. I guess I need to figure out another color for quoting those with whom I agree.)
It is insanity to destroy our own economy at the whimsical notion that mankind is so all powerful that we have the power to control the climate of this planet. Heck we can't even control Nancy Pelosi's mouth, what chance have we got at the climate.
Anyway, George has it right this time so I'm gonna excerpt his editorial:
Fuzzy Climate Math
By George F. Will
Thursday, April 12, 2007; Page A27
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a "serious problem." Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted 95 to 0 in opposition to any agreement that would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but that would involve no "specific scheduled commitments" for 129 "developing" countries, including the second-, fourth-, 10th-, 11th-, 13th- and 15th-largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let's find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
Do they also disagree with Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"? He says: Compliance with Kyoto would reduce global warming by an amount too small to measure. But the cost of compliance just to the United States would be higher than the cost of providing the entire world with clean drinking water and sanitation, which would prevent 2 million deaths (from diseases such as infant diarrhea) a year and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill each year.
Nature designed us as carnivores, but what does nature know about nature? Meat has been designated a menace. Among the 51 exhortations in Time magazine's "Global Warming Survival Guide" (April 9), No. 22 says a BMW is less responsible than a Big Mac for "climate change," that conveniently imprecise name for our peril. This is because the world meat industry produces 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, more than transportation produces. Nitrous oxide in manure (warming effect: 296 times greater than that of carbon) and methane from animal flatulence (23 times greater) mean that "a 16-oz. T-bone is like a Hummer on a plate."The problem with Al Gore's pet theory/scam/ego trip is that it cannot bear any really close scrutiny. All of the so-called evidence is based on broad assumptions and computer modelling (which is itself based on the assumptions of a scientist who is already convinced that his theory is correct).
This is not science, it is job security. The reason that this dogma has resulted in so many naysaying scientists being threatened with job loss, reputation loss, or worse is that if you dare to rock the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) boat, you threaten the livelihood of thousands of climatologists, environmentalists, and catastrophe pimps.
These pseudo-scientists have allied themselves to the anti-American Stalinists in our own Paleo-media and the Democrat Party leadership to form an almost insurmountable movement aimed at the destruction of our way of life, and it is going to take considerable effort from men with great strength of character to stand up to this new Emporer and point out his complete lack of sartorial splendor. This Leftist Imperial Banner has no clothes.
There are a lot of scientists out there who know this, who see this, but are afraid to take a stand against the AGW tidal wave for fear of losing their livelihoods. There are a great many politicians who see the same glaring holes in this current politically correct dogma, but to stand up and deny the claims of those on the Left would require them to take a "courageous stand," and since when have politicians ever been inclined to take courageous stands? For most, that is considered to be political suicide.
Somewhere, somehow those of us with enough common sense and intellect to withstand the constant drumbeat of Leftist Religious Dogma on AGW coming from the likes of hypocrites like John Kerry-Heinz and Al Gore and their propaganda machine in the Paleo-media, and prevent America from committing economic suicide at the alters of the IPCC, the UN and the Democrat Party.
Long Live the American Republic!
(Sorry for the blue ink George, but I am usually quoting Democrats. I guess I need to figure out another color for quoting those with whom I agree.)
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