Kyoto and other such schemes are predicated upon information that has long since been proven to be half-truths, garbage science, and just plain out and out lies.
The facts of the matter are:
a) Man made CO2 is virtually a non-factor in climate change.
b) Global climate, by far, is affected primarily by cyclical solar activity.
c) The planet has been cooling since 1998.
d) The famous
"hockey stick" graph suggesting a continual rise in global temperatures since the late 1800s is now proven to be utter twaddle.
But you're not hearing much about any of this, right?
Additional facts are:
e) Polar ice caps are expanding, particularly in the Antarctic.
f) Polar bear populations, as a result of conservation efforts, are, in most Arctic regions, healthy and increasing.
g) Over the last 2000 years the planet has experienced a number of periods of higher global temperatures than the current cycle produced, with resulting contractions of the polar ice caps and glaciers.
But, again, you're not hearing much about any of this, right?
Here's why.
1) The scientific community, for the most part, has heavily invested itself in "Global Warming"...which recently has come to be known in the less specific, therefore more ambiguous, and thus more convenient, term as "Climate Change". Having lurched hard and heavy into this, in the very least their collective credibility is now on the line. They blew it in the '70s by predicting the certain coming of an ice age. They can't afford to be incredibly wrong (meaning idiotic) twice.
2) There are billions upon billions of big, BIG $$$$$$ in grants, both corporate and governmental, at risk. Even in the world of science, at the end of the day money talks. You get everyone concerned enough, if not outright frightened, they will demand, to the point of even rioting in the streets, that all kinds of money be thrown at a problem to make it go away.
3) There are even more billions at risk to corporate interests who have invested heavily in alternate energies and so-called "green" technologies. But more to the point, there are billions worth of "carbon credits" to be brokered between both industry and governments worldwide...with the usual commissions to be collected on both the sale and purchase thereof. (See
Al Gore and/or Maurice Strong)
Ah, yes! That mystical "carbon credit", based upon something you can't see or touch, estimated by mathematical and theoretical formulas you can't begin to comprehend, tracked through book keeping entries you'll never see, trading for sums of money you can't relate to...often your tax money...to far away lands to be spent, again theoretically (meaning when pigs fly), on "green" stuff. Recent audits, if even at all in the first place manageable, are...no big surprise here...proving that tons of that dough could be ending up just about anywhere, being spent on just about anything. Use your imagination, and don't hold back, either.
Meanwhile, sufficiently guilt burdened passengers (meaning suckers) line up at vending machines in airports to buy "carbon offsets" before they board their next flight. Who wouldn't want a piece of that action, eh? Great gig, if you can land it.
4) And of course, good news is no news. So, for example, an item on the discovery that the red breasted finklewink isn't bordering on extinction due to global warming after all, is a non-story that would be a tragic waste of valuable time slots and/or column inches that naturally should be used for alarming people.
A very recent headline swept front pages around the world stating that many major coastal cities, like f'rinstance, New York, might sink under a lot of polar melt water at any moment!
However, if next week an error is discovered that turns said catastrophe into so much silly nonsense, what you won't see are headlines such as...
- "New York Safe! No polar meltdown looming! Yay!" -
If such presumably stress relieving news even gets printed at all, it almost certainly will end up somewhere between the "Lost and Found Pets" and "This Week's Corrections" columns right next to the comics section...
- Reuters: A spokesperson for the research group, Alarming Climate Disasters R Us, today issued a retraction of a previous news release, which states: "We have discovered an error in our climate modeling, thereby negating previous indications of a looming global catastrophic event. We therefore deeply regret to inform the public that New York City will not sink under 20 feet of water any time soon, if ever. Thank you." -
Anyone and everyone, it matters not one bloody wit who he/she might be, credentials up the ying yang be damned, who threatens to rock the Global Warming boat will be, with all the zealotry of 13th century Inquisitors, summarily and symbolically burned at the stake of public opinion. Hundreds, if not thousands, of skeptical scientists and professionals (meaning heretics) have been intimidated into silence, as others have even had their careers decimated. The systematic persecution through the media, through universities, through political circles, and through corporations is staggering in its audacity and determination...to put it mildly. Threats of funding cuts, boycotting publications, black listing, and outright dismissal or termination of contracts are all fair game in what, by any other measure in any other circumstances, would be called "fundamentalism" at its very worst and most profane sense of the term. And all of it being employed by otherwise respectable and reputable people.
With global climate now shifting into the next, and inevitable, cooling cycle, and with the northern hemisphere reeling from the worst winter in four decades since the last cooling cycle, climate change alarmists are now telling everyone who will listen that this, too, is the result of man-made global warming.
Let's face it, they have to. Because, as they say, the proverbial jig, it is just about up.
Mind you, recent history considered, perhaps one can't blame them for assuming that people now will believe just about anything they're told about global climate, no matter how absolutely ludicrous and asinine.
But let's assume, graciously, for a moment that it's not just about the money.
Let's presume that it's about the actual cause of environmentalism.
Do the ends justify the means?
What is left of science at all, if all points of view and all the evidence are not brought to the table??? If there is no healthy skepticism??? If all debate to the contrary is suppressed??? And if scientists measure their works first and foremost by one single overarching doctrine/ideology/dogma/ism???
When did science ever become concerned with "consensus"??? Up until lately, science was a matter of proving that something either is, or it isn't. That the earth orbits the sun, that night follows day, that up is up and down is down, is not a mere matter of "consensus"! And yet we are told repeatedly that global warming is a matter of "fact" by virtue of wide "consensus" among scientists...which, by the way, IS NOT A WIDELY SHARED OPINION AT ALL, NOT EVEN REMOTELY!
I'll tell you what science becomes within this context: Religion.
Should we be concerned about the ecology? About pollution? About the earth's environment?
DEFINITELY!
And to those noble ends, before this goes any further, let's cut the ignorant bullshit (meaning ignorant bullshit), and get the ALL the facts on the table so we can make sane and prudent decisions on policy about where we go from here.
While the western world flogs itself with politically correct guilt, a third of world's population elsewhere is pretty much starving to death...if diseases aren't killing them first. We self-righteously preach to them the holiness of "green" living (meaning huts with candles), and thrust upon them our experimental technologies for producing energy costing 4 to 10 times the going rate that they already can't afford. And so they carry on burning down millions of acres of forests essential to CO2 recycling each and every year just to eke out a standard of living none of us would tolerate even for our pets, forget about our children.
No, it's not just about the billions upon billions being flushed down the proverbial toilet to no good end.
It's about the health and welfare of billions of human beings, of tens of billions of creatures, and the very planet itself.
It's about you.
And therefore it is critical and incumbent upon you to find out the truth.
It's out there, albeit a great many are busting their humps to keep it from you.
