Posted by
skep41 on Monday, June 23, 2008 11:04:24 AM
James
Hansen, a climate scientist who works for NASA, has discovered a new
way to convince people that the Global Warming advocates have a
compelling case; arrest everyone who doesnt agree.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange
Using
the pogrom against the tobacco companies as an example of what
government can do when it sets its mind to it he called for the arrest
and trial of the executives of companies like ExxonMobil and Peabody
Energy (coal) for 'high crimes against humanity and nature'. He forgot
to call for the arrest of Hu Jintao (president of the People's Republic
Of China) or anyone in the Indian government even though both of these
nations are building coal-fired power plants as fast as they can and
subsidizing the price of gasoline so that more of their people can
afford to buy cars. But then these Climate Zealots dont care where the
actual Greenhouse Gases are coming from do they? Calls for police-state
measures against people who disagree with the faith undermine their
credibility as scientists. Einstein rejected the Hiesenberg Principle
but I dont remember him calling for the arrest of its advocates during
the debate. Even in the Holy War against tobacco the anti-tobacco
advocates started with a really clear scientific case. They had charts
and numbers and studies to prove that tobacco caused lung cancer, heart
attacks and emphysema. Where the crusade went awry was 'second hand
smoke' where the evidence was a lot more nebulous and uncertain and was
backed up with skewed studies and innuendo pointing to a 'conspiracy'
to murder people by those who didnt agree with the orthodox view. The
political zealots declared it the truth and proceeded to outlaw smoking
in all public buildings and now, increasingly, in outdoor public places
as well.
The reason that 'scientists' like Hansen can call for a
political purge against their opponents and be applauded for it is
simple; they are serving the purposes of the people who want to
completely alter this society. These people want to end the free
economy and lower the standard of living drastically for the average
person. They want to end the global consumer society and replace it by
one regulated by a class of economic mandarins who will view all
economic activity through the prism of whatever theory happens to be in
vogue at the moment. The history of these utopian schemes, which have
been tried in every conceivable form for the last two centuries (the
first try being the French Revolution), is always the same. The outcome
has always been poverty, oppression, murder and the death of millions
of innocent people. We've already seen the increase in food prices
caused by the bio-fuel boondoggle resulting in hunger and misery in
poor countries. Those same poor counties are going to experience a lot
more misery and mass death as the uber-socialist economic planning
cripples agriculture and distribution in the formerly wealthy
countries. That's already happening. All the nightmare scenarios
predicted 'if we dont
DO SOMETHING about Global warming' are happening as a result of what we are doing about Global Warming.
I'm
not a scientist. I hope I'm scientifically literate enough to
understand a decently made case one way or another. But I do know a
little bit about politics and the political agenda of the people who
push Global Warming is clear, a world economy completely under the
control of government, an end to free enterprise and free trade and
now, apparently, the arrest and imprisonment of anyone who doesnt
agree. If their scientific case is so compelling why do the advocates
avoid free debates and lose badly when they do get in one? Why do they
use such devious and underhanded tactics against their opponents if
this is a scientific debate and not a political one. Why do they refuse
to acknowledge hard data, such as the decline in global temperatures
since 1998?
None of this matters, in the end. If the predicted wave
of a Democratic Party victory occurs this November all debate will
cease as the Dems use 'Fairness Doctrine'-like regulations to close
conservative media outlets and move to effectively nationalize the
economy. The arrest of the energy company execs and their showtrials on
national TV that the Good Doctor Hansen yearns for so avidly will take
place on our telescreens in a radically 'Changed' America.
