Dec 12 2007
The New Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Pollute– part 1
Thus saith the augers at the Oracle of Brussels— or else.
“EU climate policy is gearing up to confront the US. Imports from countries that refuse to ratify the Kyoto Protocol could be subject to punitive tariff duties — a new measure intended to pressure the Bush Administration. A climate tax on flights may also be introduced.”
This is the basic message of environmentalists the world over. In addition to their attempts to make you wet your pants with fear at your impending doom from flooding, a sun scorched earth, and enormous wild Herculean hurricanes, our friendly environmentalists/pacifists have resorted to a more direct route of persuasion: coercion.
Or to be more succinct, save the earth or be punished.
This has been the tenor of our rabid environmentalists for some time. They tend to hold Mankind in the highest contempt as a Gaia polluting miscreant, while simultaneously they wish to be Mankind’s quasi-saviors. It’s a contradiction they don’t bother to resolve.
We can’t leave the house or turn on the news without being assaulted by the notion of just how terrible we Americans are by our oil consumption, our level of production, our antiquated belief in Christ. Etc, etc, etc. You’ve heard it all before.
Not content to nag us into an early grave, like a gnarled battle-axe in blue suede pumps, the EU has decided that it must punish us for not surrendering to their scientific cartoon of what makes the world go round. This is what environmentalism amounts to. A cartoon.
They would have us believe that the reason for the rising temperature of the earth has a direct correlation to our CO2 emissions. More to the point, it is our cars, our airplanes, our modern industries, and that warm radiator under the windowsill holding out the frost. That’s a fine idea because it gives us the illusion that we can actually control the weather of an entire planet. Yeah, and pigs can swoop in the air on the majestic Icarus wings.
Instantaneously after the release of Al Gore’s political diatribe against the US, An Inconvenient Truth, climatologists have come out supporting this so-called environmental truth. If only we became more enlightened, like Al Gore, we can preach to save the environment and strip mine the mountains of Tennessee and jet across the world in private airplanes between riding around in enormous tank-sized SUV’s (Sorry, I couldn’t resist. But, hey, that’s what he and his accolades are doing.)— the world can be saved.
Months later, making it prominently to the eighth page in newspapers and online magazines beside the lingerie ads, other scientists came forward and lodged complaints and protestations of the entire Global Warming fiasco. Even the creator the Weather Channel, John Coleman, came out earlier this month to comment on this circus.
“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going.”
Consider. You wake up in the morning Monday and check the weather reports for the week before heading out to work. It said that Friday will be “Partly Cloudy” with roughly 10% chance of rain but the rest of the week should be sunny. By Wednesday afternoon, you’re walking to work under a cloudy sky and by Friday, you’re drenched in a torrential downpour.
It is rare person to whom this hasn’t happened. Our meteorological predictions are iffy at best. These meteorologists can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday if we asked them on Monday. How are climatologists going to predict the climate 40 years from now if they can’t tell me if I need an umbrella or not?
Of course, this is common sense. But I suppose we’ve become too sophisticated for that simplicity these days.
— Read Part 2