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Global Warming Scares Heat Up To understand the whole global warming debate you have to understand that it is not about any dramatic warming of the Earth. The Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age with time out for some mini-Ice Age episodes.
Global warming is about controlling the world’s population by impeding or making more costly the use of energy—oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear—in developed, industrial nations and thwarting efforts to expand the use of electricity in Third World nations. Keeping people ignorant and ultimately dependent on a vast one-world government based on failed socialist utopian policies is the name of the game. This explains in part why so much of the global warming propaganda has been coordinated and emanated from the United Nations. Its International Panel on Climate Control and its Kyoto Protocol on Climate Control are just two examples of the mischief that is generated by the UN. The Panel has revised its estimates of global warming so many times that it has become a farce. Worse yet, those estimates are all based on deeply flawed computer models. So what explains just a few of the headlines we are all reading every day now? "Earth spews troubling amount of methane", "Winter ice declining rapidly in the Arctic", and "Nastier hurricanes? Just blame us: Study links human activity, monster storms." A friend of mine, John Brignell, a British professor emeritus, runs a website called NumberWatch.com. On it you will find a page that documents how just about every imaginable natural phenomenon has been attributed to global warming. It’s a very long, often totally contradictory, list and a tribute to the idiocy and hypocrisy that fuels the global warming hoax. [http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm] While the global warming hoax has an economic component whose focus is energy use, there is a political component because it is through the implementation of laws that the control of human behavior is achieved. This was seen most recently when California’s legislature voted to implement controls on "greenhouse gas emissions" from utilities and other industrial activities said to be the primary cause of global warming. California has notoriously failed to keep pace with the growth of its population and the provision of sufficient electrical power. The global warming hoax is also intended to force people to use public transportation or to select alternative forms of energy such as solar or wind. These latter two are totally inadequate to our needs and exist, like ethanol, largely because of government subsidies and mandates. So why are we reading this sudden new spate of articles about things alleged to cause global warming? It is not a coincidence as, indeed, nothing one reads or hears incessantly is accidental. Where it takes on a very dangerous potential is the proposed legislation emanating out of Washington, D.C. these days. Largely unable to find traction with its anti-war diatribes, the Democrat’s fallback position is to scare everyone with global warming. It began in the summer of 2005 when Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) proposed a bill calling for modest mandatory limits on emissions of greenhouse gases said to cause climate change. These limits are moving forward despite the unanimous rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the Senate some years ago. It is essential to keep in mind that climate change is caused by factors such as solar activity, the heating or cooling of the oceans, cloud formation and activity, and volcanic activity. Human beings have absolutely no "control" over these climate factors.
The vast bulk of the Earth’s surface isn’t inhabited, despite the fact there are six billion humans extant. Humans and other animals’ lives depend on the oxygen we breathe. We exhale carbon dioxide. The Earth’s vegetation benefits from the carbon dioxide as the essential element it requires for growth. And yet there are people in government and elsewhere that will tell you that CO2 is a greenhouse gas or even a "pollutant" that is bad for the Earth. Some of those people are in Congress and these days it is, in the words of Business Week reporter, John Carey "awash in carbon-capping bills and proposals from Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Jim Jeffords (I-VT), Tom Carper (D-DE), John Kerry (D-MA), and others. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to introduce legislation on the first day of the next session of Congress." Perversely, they will find support from the utility industry that would prefer regulatory certainty. This has nothing to do with the dubious, often duplicitous, science of global warming and everything to do with running a business. Similarly, the agricultural lobby will no doubt support this legislation in order to benefit from crops used to make ethanol, a gasoline additive that actually and grotesquely costs more to produce and provides less energy per use. Finally, these proposed regulations to cap emissions are immediately nullified by the obvious fact that other nations such as India and China, with a billion people each, will not be joining this fraudulent effort. We could shut down all energy use in America without having any affect even if the false assertions about global warming were true. The proposed legislation must be stopped before Congress in its stupidity imposes it. Previous Congresses thought Prohibition and the War on Poverty were good ideas. If you think life in America is expensive today, you have no idea how that cost will increase if global warming "controls" are imposed. # # # # # # # # # # # For one of the best speeches on this topic, I recommend you put aside a few minutes and read one delivered by Sen. James Inhofe, the Chairman of the Environment and Public Works committee. It addresses the way the nation’s media has consistently failed to provide accurate, unbiased reporting on the topic of the so-called global warming. Click here: http://www.epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759 To learn more about the global warming hoax, buy Alan Caruba’s new book, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy." Available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, an autographed copy can be purchased from this website. Let me tell you the story of two women in Afghanistan. Safia Ama Jan was the provincial director for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs when she was murdered in late September by the Taliban outside of her home in Kandahar. She was a woman of immense courage. Her killers, two men on a motorbike who gunned her down and then sped away, were the kind of scum we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Even during the years the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, Ama Jan secretly conducted classes for young girls. She did so every day at the risk of death. She had been a teacher for thirty years when they killed her. When the United States rid Afghanistan of these murderous thugs, we laid the groundwork for a modern nation. Last year Taliban, who see themselves as the exemplars of Islam, burned or attacked 146 schools and they have picked up the pace, attacking 158 schools so far this year according to an advisor to Afghanistan’s education minister. Perhaps this is due to the fact that these schools teach girls or perhaps there simply is no room for competition with the madrasses that limit "education" to the Koran and teach only boys. The enemies of knowledge know how dangerous it can be to a so-called religion that believes it encompasses the only knowledge a Muslim need know or, for that matter, everyone else in the world. The enemies of knowledge are, by definition, the enemies of freedom in Afghanistan and everywhere else. The other woman was Army Sgt. First Class Merideth Howard of Waukesha, Wisconsin. On September 8th, she was killed by a car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was 52 years old. That’s right, age 52, on active duty in a war zone with her Army Reserve unit. So far, sixty-six women in our military have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan of whom fifty-one were 30 years old or younger. Four of the women were aged 41 to 44. Where does America find such remarkable, courageous women? The answer is everywhere. Merideth was 5-foot-4, but family and friends tell of the way she made up for her size with determination. This was noticed when she became the first woman member of the Bryan, Texas fire department back in 1978. She served three years with the department. When the suicide bomber killed her, she was just two years shy of the twenty-year mark in the Army Reserves. Something tells me that Merideth, like Ama Jan, both knew how high the stakes were, especially for a new generation of women in Afghanistan. Warriors like these two can never be defeated unless the appeasers and cowards convince Americans and their allies to run away from murderers on motorbikes and in bomb-laden cars. The National Anxiety Center depends on donations to help defray the costs of its communications program. If you enjoy these weekly commentaries, you can help the Center with a small donation. Thank you. |
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As Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, has repeatedly written, the average global temperature has increased about one degree Fahrenheit over the past century. It’s a natural cycle and, since we are at the end of the current 12,000-year interglacial cycle of temperate climate, we are due another Ice Age.
The Associated Press reported that, "Ama Jan was known as an active proponent of women’s rights in the former Taliban stronghold." The attack on her was one of "increasingly brazen attacks by militants on government officials and schools in Afghanistan." I do wish the AP would more accurately use the word "terrorists." Killing a woman in her 60’s, wearing a full burqa, is the work of murderers intent on spreading terror.