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News
of a January 31 “teach-in” on more than 1,000 college campuses nationwide
strikes me of just one more example of the growing desperation of the
environmental movement that has bet its credibility and influence on global
warming.
Mark your calendar for any news about a March 2-4 conference in
Organized by the Heartland Institute
and co-sponsored by the International Climate Science Coalition, Oregon
Institute of Science and Medicine, and the Science & Environmental Policy
Project, it should put to rest the very core of the “teach-in”, the notion that
there is a consensus among the world’s scientists that global warming is
happening or about to happen.
In one way, even the Greens are right. There is
global warming and the reason is that it is a perfectly natural phenomenon based entirely on the
activity of the Sun. No one disputes that the Earth has warmed about one degree
Fahrenheit since the end of the last mini-ice age around 1850. And, as Martha
Stewart would say, that’s a good thing.
What is not happening is a huge
warming that is melting all the ice at the North and South Poles, causing
hurricanes, or any of the several hundred other things attributed to global
warming. It is definitely not something that human activity is causing or can “control”
in any fashion. Try controlling the Sun, the oceans, clouds, volcanoes, et
cetera!
As for the dreaded carbon dioxide, it represents 0.038% of the earth's
atmosphere.
Alex Tinker, the public relations director of Focus the Nation, an
environmental advocacy group, said that the teach-in would be a day when an
entire college or university campus turns its attention to a single issue,
global warming.
“The premise behind Focus the Nation is that ‘The Science is in. Global warming
is real,” said Tinker. “There’s no longer a meaningful debate about whether or
not global warming is caused by humankind—the debate should be about what
policy solutions we need to enact to address it.”
This is a lie.
This perfectly articulates the Greens' agenda and the science is in, but it refutes all of the more fanciful claims made about global
warming and its effect on, well, everything. The agenda, however, is not about global warming. It’s about
doing everything possible to destroy the economy of the
Anyone who tells you we can replace coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, and
nuclear power with wind turbines and solar panels is blowing smoke up your
skirt. The only way such “alternative” energy sources even exist is with
millions in government subsidies, i.e., your tax money being thrown down an
indefensible rat hole.
It’s worth noting that Tinker used the word “enact” with regard to the Greens
proposed “solutions.”
The environmental movement exists to use legislation
to force people to do their bidding. Its entire philosophy is coercive because they know that anyone
with any common sense understands their “solutions” are idiotic. As but one
example, the State of
In just the
Do you really think that we should not tap the estimated billions of barrels of
crude oil in a tiny part of
Do you think we should continue to limit exploration of 85% of the nation’s
continental shelf?
Do you seriously believe that polar bears that have been around for millennia
are “endangered” and will disappear by 2050?
And why have a national teach-in when every single day of the year every one of
us is hammered with global warming propaganda? Why take college students' time
to blather away about global warming when they have had this nonsense forced
down their throats since they were in pre-school?
I will tell you why. Desperation. Time is running out for the global warming
hoax.
Focus the Nation says it wants to create support for the creation of "one
million new 'green jobs' – workers who would service
The nation’s infrastructure of roads and bridges exists to serve the needs of
millions of cars and trucks, and we know the Greens hate them because they run
on gasoline and diesel.
The infrastructure includes power generation plants and we know the Greens hate
the ones that use coal (providing over half of all the electricity in the
nation) and oppose the building of nuclear plants.
I guess people who work for airlines or sea-going cargo lines should find
another line of work as well because both use large amounts of energy to
function.
Parents and the students who have taken on huge debt in order to attend college
should tell Focus the Nation to focus on leaving the faculty to teach something
that doesn’t come with an agenda that blames the human race for the climate and
does not seek to undermine capitalism and the globalization that is increasing
and spreading wealth throughout the world.
Alan Caruba writes a weekly
column posted at www.anxietycenter.com
and blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
© Alan Caruba, January 2008
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