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Always To The Right on Monday, October 02, 2006 7:04:50 PM
Interesting information about "global warming" 
Global Warming Scares Heat Up
by Alan Caruba
Posted Oct 02, 2006
To understand the whole global warming debate you have to understand
that it is not about any dramatic warming of the Earth. The Earth has
been warming since the end of the last Ice Age with time out for some
mini-Ice Age episodes.
As
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric
Science at MIT, has repeatedly written, the average global temperature
has increased about one degree Fahrenheit over the past century. It’s a
natural cycle and, since we are at the end of the current 12,000-year
interglacial cycle of temperate climate, we are due another Ice Age.
Global
warming is about controlling the world’s population by impeding or
making more costly the use of energy -- oil, natural gas, coal, and
nuclear -- in developed, industrial nations and thwarting efforts to
expand the use of electricity in Third World nations. Keeping people
ignorant and ultimately dependent on a vast one-world government based
on failed socialist utopian policies is the name of the game.
This
explains in part why so much of the global warming propaganda has been
coordinated and emanated from the United Nations. Its International
Panel on Climate Control and its Kyoto Protocol on Climate Control are
just two examples of the mischief that is generated by the UN. The
Panel has revised its estimates of global warming so many times that it
has become a farce. Worse yet, those estimates are all based on deeply
flawed computer models.
So what explains just a few of the
headlines we are all reading every day now? “Earth spews troubling
amount of methane,” “Winter ice declining rapidly in the Arctic,” and
“Nastier hurricanes? Just blame us: Study links human activity, monster
storms.”
A friend of mine, John Brignell, a British professor
emeritus, runs a website called NumberWatch.com. On it you will find a
page that documents how just about every imaginable natural phenomenon
has been attributed to global warming. It’s a very long, often totally
contradictory,
list and a tribute to the idiocy and hypocrisy that fuels the global warming hoax.
While
the global warming hoax has an economic component whose focus is energy
use, there is a political component because it is through the
implementation of laws that the control of human behavior is achieved.
This was seen most recently when California’s legislature voted to
implement controls on “greenhouse gas emissions” from utilities and
other industrial activities said to be the primary cause of global
warming. California has notoriously failed to keep pace with the growth
of its population and the provision of sufficient electrical power.
The
global warming hoax is also intended to force people to use public
transportation or to select alternative forms of energy such as solar
or wind. These latter two are totally inadequate to our needs and
exist, like ethanol, largely because of government subsidies and
mandates.
So why are we reading this sudden new spate of
articles about things alleged to cause global warming? It is not a
coincidence as, indeed, nothing one reads or hears incessantly is
accidental. Where it takes on a very dangerous potential is the
proposed legislation emanating out of Washington, D.C. these days.
Largely
unable to find traction with its anti-war diatribes, the Democrat’s
fallback position is to scare everyone with global warming. It began in
the summer of 2005 when Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D.-N.M.) proposed a bill
calling for modest mandatory limits on emissions of greenhouse gases
said to cause climate change.
These limits are moving forward despite the unanimous rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the Senate some years ago.
It
is essential to keep in mind that climate change is caused by factors
such as solar activity, the heating or cooling of the oceans, cloud
formation and activity, and volcanic activity. Human beings have
absolutely no “control” over these climate factors.
The vast
bulk of the Earth’s surface isn’t inhabited, despite the fact there are
six billion humans extant. Humans and other animals’ lives depend on
the oxygen we breathe. We exhale carbon dioxide. The Earth’s vegetation
benefits from the carbon dioxide as the essential element it requires
for growth. And yet there are people in government and elsewhere that
will tell you that CO2 is a greenhouse gas or even a “pollutant” that
is bad for the Earth.
Some of those people are in Congress and
these days it is, in the words of Business Week reporter, John Carey
“awash in carbon-capping bills and proposals from Senators John McCain
(R.-Ariz.), Jim Jeffords (I.-Vt.), Tom Carper (D.-Del.), John Kerry
(D.-Mass.), and others. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) plans to
introduce legislation on the first day of the next session of
Congress.”
Perversely, they will find support from the utility
industry that would prefer regulatory certainty. This has nothing to do
with the dubious, often duplicitous, science of global warming and
everything to do with running a business. Similarly, the agricultural
lobby will no doubt support this legislation in order to benefit from
crops used to make ethanol, a gasoline additive that actually and
grotesquely costs more to produce and provides less energy per use.
Finally,
these proposed regulations to cap emissions are immediately nullified
by the obvious fact that other nations such as India and China, with a
billion people each, will not be joining this fraudulent effort. We
could shut down all energy use in America without having any affect
even if the false assertions about global warming were true.
The
proposed legislation must be stopped before Congress in its stupidity
imposes it. Previous Congresses thought Prohibition and the War on
Poverty were good ideas. If you think life in America is expensive
today, you have no idea how that cost will increase if global warming
“controls” are imposed.