The American Culture

Whenever I think about the Green/Al Gore movement, I always think about Anthem, Ayn Rand's first novel, I believe. I just noticed in my local paper that someone who has been "trained" by one of Al Gore's institutes will lecture about global warming at the Earth Day ceremonies at my local state college. I did glance at an article about him & he is a minister, not a scientist. It seems to me that he is nothing than a trained propagandist for Al Gore's views.

I wonder if Discovery or History Channel will start a "PlanetLiberty" channel...

Great idea--just don't hold your breath....

Dear Mr. Karnick:
Your comments on the Greens resonated with an article in today's (April 11th) paper:
"Climate changes in North America: Heat waves, storm surges, water shortages" screamed the headline posted from the United Nations by an anonymous AP reporter. ("AP, that bastion of the Truth," remarked my sarcastic wife.) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has brought down from the lofty heights its latest addenda to the Ten
Commandments: "Thou shalt not be prosperous if thou art a Western democracy" and "Thou shalt not raise any objections to anything we assert, even on the flimsiest evidence."
The article states that the executive director of the U.N. Environmental Program which co-founded the panel "said the findings underline that the best way to reduce the effects of global warming is 'deep and decisive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change in the first place.'" Which is Newspeak for, "We're jealous of the American system, we hate it, and we're going to bring it down somehow."
So far all I've seen from the Greenies is scare-mongering buttressed by tons of Bad Science; it is doubtful that anyone can ever prove beyond doubt's shadow that what human beings do with their technology can cause the Earth either to warm up or cool down. Perhaps "global warming" is a natural change unrelated to arrogant man, who thinks he can somehow significantly alter a planet that masses out at nearly 6,600 billion billion billion tons, moves around the Sun at 67 thousand miles an hour, and undergoes periodic volcanic convulsions any one of which is more energetic than all the Cold War nuclear arsenals combined--and some of which change the climate in actually measurable ways.
Just as telling was the deliberate juxtaposition right over said article of a photo captioned: "Greek crews struggle to prevent environmental disaster", the photo being slightly larger than the global warming report. This is, I believe, a subtle use of a propaganda technique known as "transference": You're supposed to transfer your negative feelings about the "global warming" report to the sunken cruise ship and link the two together. In other words, a "twofer": one "man-made" disaster ("global warming") plus one REAL man-made disaster (a ship sinking) equals a hair-pulling, hand-wringing, despair-inducing "I'll do anything you say, just save me from this!" reaction--they hope.
One final thought: The Greenies, by personifying the Earth ("Gaia") and using imagery of a benign Planet Earth that "breathes" and "cries" out at our "rapacious" depredations, seems to be a recrudescence of ancient pagan nature religion of the kind that worships the creature rather than the Creator.
Respectfully,
Mike (not Linda)

Mike, your entire comment is spot-on. I concur fully. The human effect on global temperature, in my view, is virtually nil, and only a fool can fail to realize that the earth's temperature rises and falls naturally over time. When human production of "greenhouse gases" was at its highest--between WWII and the 1970s, the global temperature steadily fell, and since then, human production of ggs has fallen and the temperature has risen.

Plus, an increase in global temperatures on the level that we can expect to happen in coming years would be an unalloyed good for the planet: plants breathe carbon dioxide, and they thrive when there is more of it. That is a matter of science, as opposed to the heathen superstitions of the Greens.

Do you have a citation for these claims? These would be useful to us if we could substantiate them.

The vast majority of scientists are convinced that (1) the world is warming naturally today, slightly, as part of a natural warming and cooling cycle that has existed since the atmosphere was formed; (2) that human activities contribute negligibly or not at all to this effect; and (3) the slight level of warming that we get in this go-round of the cycle will be entirely beneficial to human, animal, and plant life.... When human production of "greenhouse gases" was at its highest--between WWII and the 1970s, the global temperature steadily fell, and since then, human production of ggs has fallen and the temperature has risen

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