It's Cold Outside, But Global Warming Industry Still Hard At Work
Christopher C. Horner Human
Events
Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008
The most expensive secret you’re not supposed to know
is that George W. Bush leaves office with the planet cooler
than when he entered. This dangerous trend threatens the multi-billion
dollar “global warming” industry, adding new urgency
to the ritual shriek of “we must act now!” in
the scramble to impose a costly regime of mandates and energy
taxes.
The global warming industry’s tactics already range
from comical to reprehensible. As a result of a cooling atmosphere
-- which thanks to the “global cooling” panic
we began measuring in 1979 -- you are distracted with irrelevant
surface temperatures. This is possibly because more than 90%
of our surface thermometer network is in violation of rules
for locating the instruments. For example, why are so many
now on asphalt parking lots, black tar roofs, airport tarmacs,
and even hanging directly above barbeque grills?
Such childishness is only the tip of the iceberg of outrages
employed to advance an ideological agenda. Our schools torment
those whom they are charged with protecting from abuse, with
night terrors among the less egregious outcomes. Their brainwashing
includes hate mail campaigns to skeptics, reporting on their
parents’ willingness to adopt an agenda, and even emotional
breakdown requiring institutionalization.
High government officials around the world abuse their powers
to expand government’s powers. The media moved from
pushing catastrophism in order to sell copy, to expressly
abandoning journalistic principles and declaring that, regarding
global warming, “balance is bias.”
Last year, after Kevin Rudd was elected Australia’s
Prime Minister, he addressed a gathering of that nation’s
“best and brightest” pondering how to achieve
their policy dreams. One idea floated was to strip Aussies
of their citizenship if they expressed doubts about man-made
climate catastrophe. So as to not be extremist, however, this
allowed for the prospect of restoring one’s standing
upon -- you guessed it -- reeducation.
The mostly taxpayer-funded science community is repeatedly
caught fudging their numbers to exaggerate and even manufacture
warming. Peer-review journals place hurdles in the “skeptic”
path to publication while publishing demonstrable falsehoods
without bothering to check the claims’ viability.