This appeared here and my thanks to Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK
As January 2014
arrived with a blast of cold air ominously dubbed the “polar vortex”, the White
House released a video in which the Chief Science Advisor to President Obama,
Dr. John Holdren, managed to get on both sides of it, declaring the “extreme
cold” to be “a pattern that we expect to see with increasing frequency as
global warming continues.” How the Earth is getting both colder and warmer at the same time defies reality, but that is
of little concern to Dr. Holdren and, indeed, the entire global warming—now
called climate change--hoax.
Earlier, in
November 2013, the White House made Dr. Holdren available to social media
saying he would answer “any questions that you have about climate change…” As
noted by Jim Lakely, Communications Director of The Heartland Institute, the
invitation welcomed questions “but only
if they conform to the notion that human activity is causing a climate crisis,
and restricting human activity by government direction can ‘fight it.’” The
answers would have to wait “because the White House social media experts are
having a hard time sifting through the wreckage of their ill-conceived campaign
and finding the very few that conform to Holdren’s alarmist point of view.”
Sadly, in
addition to the United Nations where the hoax originated and any number of
world leaders including our President and Secretary of State, Pope Francis has
announced that he too believes the Earth is warming. Someone should tell him
that it has been in a natural cooling cycle going on twenty years at this
point!
Of course, such
facts mean nothing to Dr. Holdren and even less to the President. That is why
we are likely to not only hear more about climate change from him, but also
discover that the White House intends the last two years of Obama’s term in
office to be an all-out effort to impose restrictions and find reasons to throw
money at the hoax. Dr. Holdren was no doubt a major contributor to the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy initiative announced on December
3rd.
This “Climate
Action Plan” called the “Climate Education and Literacy Initiative” is
primarily directed at spreading the hoax in the nation’s classrooms and via
various government entities as the National Park Service so they can preach it
to the 270 million people who visit the nation’s 401 parks each year. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will sponsor five regional
workshops for educators and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
along with the American Geosciences Institute and the National Center for
Science Education will launch four videos likely to be shown in schools.
Joining the
White House will be the Alliance for Climate Education, the American
Meteorological Society, the Earth Day Network, Green Schools Alliance, and
others. It adds up to a massive climate change propaganda campaign, largely
paid for with taxpayer funding.
The “science” that will be put forward will
be as unremittingly bogus as we have been hearing and reading since the late
1980s when the global warming hoax was launched.
When Dr. Holdren
faced a 2009 confirmation hearing, he moved away from his early doomsday views
on climate change, population growth, and the possibilities of nuclear war.
Though warned by William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute that
Dr. Holdren had “a 40-year record of outlandish scientific assertions,
consistently wrong predictions, and dangerous public policy choices” that made
him “unfit to serve as the White House Science Advisor”, the committee voted
unanimously to confirm him. They should have read some of his published
views.
Regrettably
Congress generally goes along with the climate change hoax. Dr. Holdren noted
that “Global change research (did) well in the 2013 budget. One can look at
that as a reaffirmation of our commitment to addressing the climate change
challenge. There’s $2.6 billion in the budget for the United States Global
Change Research Program.”
Let me repeat
that. $2.6 BILLION devoted to “research” on global warming or climate change.
One must assume it is devoted to finding ways for mankind to cope with the
non-existent global warming or the threat of a climate change about which
mankind can do nothing. It is comparable to saying that humans can get the Sun
to increase or decrease its radiation.
In June 2014,
Ron Arnold, the executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free
Enterprise and Washington Examiner columnist, noted that Dr. Holdren has long
held the view that the U.S. should “de-develop” its “over-developed” economy.
That likely
explains the Obama administration’s attack on the use of coal, particularly in
utilities that use it to generate electricity. In the six years since the
policy has been pursued by the EPA, coal-fired utilities have been reduced from
providing fifty percent of the nation’s electricity to forty percent. Less
energy means less investment in new business and industrial manufacturing, less
jobs, and less safety for all of us who depend on electricity in countless ways.
Arnold reported
that “Holdren wrote his de-development manifesto with Paul and Anne Ehrlich,
the scaremongering authors of the Sierra Club book, ‘The Population Bomb.’”
Aside from the fact that every prediction in the book has since proven to be
wrong, but it was clear then and now that Dr. Holdren is no fan of the human
population of the planet. Like most deeply committed environmentalists, it is
an article of faith that the planet’s problems are all the result of human
activity, including its weather.
In December 2014, Dr. Holdren expressed the
view that worldwide carbon dioxide emissions should be reduced to “close to
zero”, adding “That will not be easy.” This reflected the deal
President Obama agreed to with China, but carbon dioxide plays no discernable
role whatever in “global warming” (which isn’t happening) and is, in fact, a
gas essential to all life on Earth, but particularly for all vegetation that is
dependent on it for growth.
Dr. Holdren’s
continued presence as the chief Science Advisor to the President encourages
Obama to repeat all the tired claims and falsehoods of global warming and
climate change. It is obscene that his administration devotes billions of
dollars and countless hours to spreading a hoax that is an offense to the
alleged “science” it cites.
The North and
South Poles are not melting. The polar bear population is growing. The seas are
not dramatically rising. Et cetera!
One can only
hope that a Republican-controlled Congress will do what it can to significantly
reduce the money being wasted and reverse the EPA war on coal and the utilities
that use it to produce the energy the nation requires.
For now, Dr.
Holdren will continue to use his influence in ways that confound and refute the
known facts of climate science. How does it feel to be the enemy of an
environment that Dr. Holdren and others regard as more important than human
life?
© Alan Caruba,
2015
