President Obama and Big Green environmentalists have failed in recent years to convince the American people that global warming is a serious problem requiring draconian regulation, skyrocketing electricity costs for consumers, and lowered expectations of future prosperity and economic opportunity. So they are now trying to use scare tactics to get their way. It's not a pretty sight, at least for those who think public policy should be based on facts rather than fear. To illustrate, the two following paragraphs cannot both be true.
The first paragraph is from Obama's National Climate
Assessment report: “Summers are longer and hotter, and extended periods of
unusual heat last longer than any living American has ever experienced. Winters
are generally shorter and warmer. Rain comes in heavier downpours. People are
seeing changes in the length and severity of seasonal allergies, the plant
varieties that thrive in their gardens, and the kinds of birds they see in any
particular month in their neighborhood.” This is all allegedly caused by
burning fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal - which injects carbon into
the atmosphere, trapping more heat, thus causing global warming.
Compare the preceding paragraph with this October 2013 statement by the SI
Organization, a private-sector technology firm that provides the
U.S. Air Force and other defense and national intelligence agencies with
worldwide daily and long-range weather forecasting: ….To Read More
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