By Alan Caruba
As World War Two wound down, in 1945 Italian partisans found Benito Mussolini and his girlfriend trying to flee to Switzerland. They shot both of them and then hung them by their heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan. He had led the National Fascist Party and had been the 40th prime minister from 1922 until being deposed, jailed, and rescued by his pal Adolf Hitler.
I was reminded of this when I read a list of 1970 Earth Day predictions because, sooner or later, lies implode and the liars must be held accountable.
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something”, said Kenneth Watt, an ecologist, when asked about global warming.
“Civilizations will end within 15 to 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” said George Wald, a Harvard biologist.
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” said Barry Commoner, a Washington University biologist.
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years,” predicted Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist and author, none of whose predictions ever came true.
It’s been 40 years since the first Earth Day.
This, of course, brings us to the greatest serial liar of our era, former vice president Al Gore, author of “Earth in the Balance”, the star of “An Inconvenient Truth”, Nobel Prize winner, Oscar winner, and surely worthy of being metaphorically hung by his heels for general repudiation, disdain, and ignominy.
Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com and the GreenHellBlog, reported that Al Gore told a conference call of supporters that the battle to enact a Cap-and-Trade bill, imposing limits on so-called greenhouse gases, and creating “carbon credits” to be bought like medieval indulgences for the remission of sin, that “The federal government has failed us.”
No, what failed was the long, relentless and utterly mendacious campaign to convince people that global warming was an actual event and a genuine threat to the Earth. It never was because it was utter fiction. Well, the part about massive increases in the Earth’s overall temperature was. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old and has gone through a succession of ice ages and warming periods since it began.
To demonstrate how deranged Gore is, he actually blamed a “biased right-wing media…bolstered by professional deniers.” There is The Wall Street Journal and Fox News whose reporting reflects a conservative philosophy and outlook, but the rest of the mainstream media has been so demonstrably left-wing there was little else available to the public until the advent of cable television and the Internet. And they all lied about global warming.
In November 2009 the release of thousands of emails between the small band of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “scientists” revealed they were a cabal of data fabricators who were by then increasingly alarmed that global warming wasn’t happening despite their best efforts to deceive the entire world. The event was dubbed “Climategate.”
Now we learn that a U.S. funded agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has become mired in a new scandal involving numbers for the Great Lakes region that misrepresent average temperatures there. The latest word as of Wednesday, August 11, is that NOAA has removed an entire NOAA-16 satellite data set from its website--leading some to wonder if a decade’s worth of North American data will be discredited.
In sum, do not trust NOAA and most definitely, do not trust the Environmental Protection Agency that is desperately trying to get authorization to regulate carbon dioxide on the grounds that it is causing global warming. This isn’t just a rogue agency. The EPA has the look of a criminal enterprise bent on destroying the U.S. economy.
There is NO global warming and hasn’t been any for a decade as the Earth has been cooling thanks to a predictable lack of sunspot activity known to affect the overall planetary temperatures.
The Green lies are imploding. In the midst of a very ugly recession, the nation’s governors can do us all a favor by ending all funding to the various “environmental” programs tied to the global warming fraud.
The next Congress, if power is transferred to the Republican Party, should begin to trim the budget of billions of bogus “climate” and related “environmental” related programs.
It’s time to send the liars packing. It’s time to regain our fiscal and environmental sanity.
© Alan Caruba, 2010
8 comments:
hear hear!
Awesome article!!! Sending on to many friends who cower and cringe and feel guilty ALL THE TIME because of the likes of creepy frankenstein, Al Gore and his ridiculous movie schtick. Some poor school children have been subjected to An Inconvenient Truth five and six times before graduating school.
May he receive what he deserves!
May we be freed from the lies and the greed.
thank you
It's funny how errors interact. It may very well be that warming DECREASES hurricanes, because the temp gradient between poles and tropics flattens. Cooling steepens the gradient, and empowers airflows across the globe.
see http://frank-davis.livejournal.com/ and article The Low Carbon Plot
The "green" which is always being bandied about is disgusting, as is the goal of reducing atmospheric temperatures and the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Reducing the amount of carbon dioxide would only mean less mass of green plants growing.
Lowering average temperatures would result in killing frosts later in spring and earlier in fall. This would shorten the growing season for agricultural crops and would result in less food harvested, and result in famine, if not outright starvation, of people planet wide.
The policies being pushed by these "green" promoters are all, every one of them, anti-"green" to the extreme.
Great article, but I cringe when I see the name of Steve Milloy held up as some sort of pillar of free thought. Yes, he is right about this, but in other areas he is nothing more than an apologist for corporatism.
@Augsnod
I prefer the word "defender" of corporation as opposed to "apologist." Just try thinking of all the goods and services you would NOT have were it not for corporations, large and small. They, like individuals, are not angels, but neither are they in the business of killing their customers.
Much shorter working week with increased wages (60 hr work week to 40 hour work week) . . . sick leave with pay . . . company (corporation) paid vacations . . . paid retirement . . . all brought to the American people by large corporations, not small business, not government.
It took lots of profits and corporate competition for these vast improvements in life for Americans to occur.
Inept government regulation as it has been done and huge taxation has largely destroyed corporation competition and significantly destroyed profits of corporations.
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