Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should have been undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?
Walter Williams
As we move from one doomsday prediction to another, first global warming and now world economic depression in 2008 – we must be aware that candidates are going to speak about this issue and should let voters know what their plans, if anything is to do about it. I vote that we do nothing, watch the Kyoto Treaty signers dwindle away their much-needed capital on uselessness (other than cleaning up their air and water) and forget about the cap and trade nonsense that is presently being discussed by the candidates for President of the United States.
Recently a cyclone caused mass deaths and destruction in Burma – immediately the Doctor of Doom, Al Gore, merely stated “I told you so” – but remains silent that the last winter was the coldest in most nations of the world in recent history.
As Investor’s Business Daily Junk Science disclaimer writes on May 8th 2008 in the article: Al Gore and Climate Ka-Ching ….
Al Gore blames the Burma tragedy on global warming despite growing evidence to the contrary. Could the hype be related to his financial interests?
…ignoring the fact that the rising death toll is due in part to an incompetent, isolationist and authoritarian government that allows most of its people to live in shanty towns of tin and bamboo, Gore claimed that “we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.” In other words, people die in Rangoon because of an SUV in Richmond, Virginia. …
So why the hype? Well, global warming is a growth industry designed to keep Earth and some bank accounts green.
Gore himself jointed the venture capital group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers just last September. On May 1, the firm announced a $500 million investment in maturing green technology firms called the Green Growth Fund. The group announced another $700 million to be invested over the next three years in green-tech startup firms. But if the green technology business, uh, cools down, there will be no return on that investment. There would be no need for such investments if global warming wasn’t a threat.[1] … So Gore just launched, among other things, a $300 million on an ad campaign to convince us it is so. …
We have a prediction all our own – that disastrous global warming will not occur. Then the greenies will take credit for preventing it and ask us if we’re glad we spent trillions in fighting it. Al Gore will be laughing all the way to the bank.[2]
Tell your senators “NO” to the United States Senate bill S. 2191 [don't vote for a candidate that votes "YES" for this bill - and ensure that those that do are no longer in Congress after 2008], better known as Warner-Lieberman, or “America’s Climate Security Act.” Authored by Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) that would implement a cap-and-trade policy to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 4%, and:
Auction emission allowances.
Observe and report on the GHG emission market; provide cost relief if the emission market is deemed too harmful to the U.S. economy.
Workers will be transferred into “green” jobs.
No wonder we are having an energy crisis. Look at what the Senate proposes to do to fix it – tax us, or rather the part of the economy that provides employment and consumer goods – the former remaining at the same rate and the latter climbing steadily. Meanwhile, factories and business is preparing to move offshore, increasing unemployment.
[1] It is a general violation against international law that an individual or business entity creates false information in order to profit or make profit at the expense of others. Bad business practice and detrimental to the welfare of the people of third world nations that require money to be funneled into better living standards instead of quake junk science schemes with money and power behind its agenda.
[2] [Al Gore] Using electricity in one month what normal Americans use in one year.
Here are two unfortunate truths related to the Global Climate Change debate:
1) Tell a lie long enough and it becomes the truth—Vladimir Lenin
2) Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem—Joseph Stalin
I read a recent comment the other day on a Global Warming post responding to the question: “How Will We Know When Climate Change has Stopped? The commenter lamented that no one is seriously suggesting that we can stop climate change completely; but maybe we can stop catastrophic climate change before it’s too late. I should have re-engaged with the question: How Will We Know When Catastrophic Climate Change has Stopped?, but didn’t because all I read and hear is phrased—Stop/Halt Global Climate Change. Until we all start Thinking Strategically About Global Climate Change, the Lenins and Stalins among us will get their way.