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| Climate change march denounces capitalism |
By Alan
Caruba
There is so much at stake for the
charlatans that have foisted the failed “global warming” hoax, followed by the
equally dubious claims and predictions regarding “climate change”, that it
should come as no surprise that they have begun to wage a propaganda war on the
courageous scientists who led the struggle to educate the public about the truth
and the organizations who supported their efforts.
Along the way, many groups and
publications claiming scientific credentials abandoned those standards to pump
out global warming and climate change propaganda. Scientists discovered they
could secure grant money for “research” so long as it supported claims that the
North and South Poles, as well as all the world’s glaciers were melting.
“Research” that predicted vast hurricane activity or a massive rise in ocean
levels became routine headlines. None of it occurred. Both
the government and liberal foundations provided millions to maintain the
hoax.
Now we have a President claiming that
his daughter’s asthma was due to “climate change.” It is obscene nonsense. If this was just a
disagreement between scientists, we could look on as the facts determine the
outcome, but there are vast agendas as stake so we have to keep in mind that
billions have been wasted on “renewable energy” alternatives to replace fossil
fuels; the oil, coal, and natural gas that are the heart’s blood of modern
nations and our lives.
We have to ask why the United Nations
Framework on Climate Change takes such a dim view of the world’s population that
it cites its use of energy and other resources as a reason to reduce it instead
of celebrating it. Hard-core environmentalists do not like humans because they
build houses, start businesses, need roads, and generally consume a lot and then
create trash. Climate change is also the platform the U.N. is using to "transform"
the world's economy.
We have to ask why our government is
engaged in shutting down the coal-fired plants that provide the bulk of the
electricity we use. This isn’t just a war on coal. It is a war on our entire
economic system, capitalism. It is a war on Americans by their own
government.
Lately, politicians at the federal
level have declared war on those scientists whose research and findings have
helped the public conclude, along with eighteen years of a natural cooling
cycle, that “global warming” is no threat and that we have far greater
threats to address than the vague notion that “climate change” is a problem we
humans can affect in any way. We can’t and we don’t.
A recent example has been letters sent
to seven university presidents by Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking
Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee asking for information on
scientists and professors who had given congressional testimony that raised
questions about “climate change.”
Grijalva had no legal authority to request such information, but his
intention was intimidation. In 2013, when asked about his legislative agenda by
These Times, he replied “I’m a Saul Alinsky guy” referring to the activist whose
book, “Rules for Radicals”, spells out ways to attack one’s political enemies.
Pete Peterson, the executive director
of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement at Pepperdine’s School of
Public Policy, identified Grijalva’s letters as “scare tactics” concluding that
we have come to a time when “The inability of politicians to confront another’s
argument much less to attempt to persuade the other side, has become standard
operating procedure. Now this toxic approach is extending to the broader world
of policy—including scientific research.”
Around the same time, Sen. Sheldon
Whitehouse, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Sen. Ed Markey sent a letter to a hundred
companies, grade groups and other organizations “affiliated with the fossil fuel
industry asking whether they spent money to support climate research.” The message was simple: do not sponsor
research that would reveal inaccuracies or falsehoods regarding claims that
“climate change” was a threat. The inference was that scientific research
receiving such funding would betray scientific standards in ways that government
or foundation funding would not.
Suffice to say the letters evoked
outrage. As a policy advisor to the free market think tank, The Heartland Institute, I was aware of the
response of its president, Joe Bast who called the letters something that
“fascists do.” He was not alone. The Washington Times called the Senators
“climate change Toquemadas” and The Wall Street Journal said the letters were
nothing more than an effort to silence science.
When Sen. Whitehouse aired his
unhappiness in an April 14 blog post the Huffington Post, “Right-Wing
Groups Get Overheated on Climate Questions”, Bast responded asking, “If the
Senator’s letter wasn’t intended as harassment of individuals who disagree with
his extremist views on the climate, why the overly broad demand, the ridiculous
deadline, the implied threat of action, and the news release saying it was
intended to expose a diabolical conspiracy of ‘right-win
groups’?”
When “climate change” reaches the
political heights of Congress and the White House, it should come as no surprise
that the charlatans who want to use this hoax for their own benefit and agendas
are going to unleash efforts to smear and intimidate those scientists who have
put true facts before the public.
In late March, Michael Bastash of The
Daily Caller reported that “A new Gallup poll shows that Americans’ concern
about warming has fallen to the same level it was in 1989. In fact, global
warming ranked at the bottom of a list of Americans’ environmental concerns,
with only 32 percent saying they were worried about it a ‘great deal.’”
That’s what has the politicians and
U.N. officers on the offensive to silence scientists and defame think tanks and
other organizations that have helped Americans come to the sensible conclusion
that a “warming” isn’t happening and the planet’s climate is something over
which they have no control.
© Alan Caruba 2015
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