By Alan Caruba
This appeared at Alan's Warning Signs!
In the same way Americans are discovering that the Cold
War that was waged from the end of World War Two until the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991 is not over, Americans continue to be subjected to the
endless, massive, global campaign to foist the hoax of global warming--now
called climate change—on everyone.
The campaign’s purpose to convince everyone that it is
humans, not the sun, oceans, and other natural phenomenon, and that requires
abandoning fossil fuels in favor of “renewable” wind and solar energy.
“It is not surprising that climate alarmists, who desire
above all else blind allegiance to their cause, would demand all school
teachers toe the ‘official party line’ and quash any dissent on the subject of
man-made global warming in their classroom,” says
Craig Rucker,
the Executive Director of co-founder of the Committee for a Constructive
Tomorrow (CFACT). “What is absurd is that any teacher or free-thinking person
for that matter would listen to them.”
These days when I am challenged regarding my views about
global warming, climate change or energy I send the individual to
www.climatedepot.com
and
www.energydepot.us, two constantly updated websites filled with
links to information on these topics. Both are maintained by CFACT.
It’s not just our classrooms where Green indoctrination
goes on. It is also our news media that continue to distort every weather event
to advance the hoax. Guiding and feeding them is a massive complex of
organizations led by the United Nations—the International Panel on Climate
Change—that maintains the hoax to frighten people worldwide in order to achieve
“one world order.”
On September 23, heads of state, including President
Obama, will gather in New York City for what the Sierra Club calls “a historic
summit on climate change. With our future on the line, we will take a weekend
and use it to bend the course of history” to save the world from “the ravages
of climate change.” This is absurd. Suggesting that humans can alter the
climate in any way defies centuries of proof they do not.
One of the leading Leftist organizations, the Center for
American Progress, focused on the July 14 Major Economics Forum in Paris,
offered four items for its agenda. Claiming that “the Arctic is warming two
times faster than any other region on earth”, they wanted policy changes based
on this falsehood. They blamed climate change for “global poverty” and wanted
further reductions in so-called greenhouse gas emissions from energy use. The
enemy, as far as they were concerned was energy use.
Mary Hutzler, a senior research fellow of the Institute
for Energy Research, testified before a July 22nd meeting of the
Senate Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign
Assistance, that due to Europe’s green energy (wind and solar) policies,
industrial electricity prices are two-to-five times higher than in the U.S. and
that, by 2020, 1.4 million European households will be added to those
experiencing energy poverty.
There are lessons to be learned, for example, from
Spain’s investment in wind energy that caused the loss of four jobs for the
electricity it produced and 13 jobs for every megawatt of solar energy. In
Germany, the cost of electricity is three times higher than average U.S.
residential prices. Little wonder that European nations are now slashing wind
and solar programs.
Billions Wasted to Combat Global Warming
In the U.S., the Obama administration used its “stimulus”
to fund Solyndra—$500 million dollars—and fifty other Green energy projects
that have failed or are on their way to failure. Undeterred with this appalling
record, on July 3 the Energy Department announced $4 billion for “projects that
fight global warming.”
But there is no global warming. The Earth has been in a
cooling cycle for seventeen years and it shows no indication of ending anytime
soon. This is the same administration that has waged a war on coal, forcing the
closure of many plants that produced electricity efficiently and affordably,
and had throughout the last century.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
2014 weather highlights showed that, from January to June, the temperature in
the U.S. has risen by a miniscule 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit compared with the
average temperature for the 20th century. NOAA also noted that
recorded temperatures for the first half of 2014 are the coldest since 1993
when the cooling cycle began. The exception to this has been California.
Brainwashed for decades about global warming, 20% of
likely voters, according to a July Rasmussen poll, still believe that global
warming is not over, colder weather or not, 17% were not sure, but fully 63%
disagreed!
The results of a Pew Research Center poll in June
revealed that 35% of Americans say there is not enough solid evidence to
suggest mankind is warming the Earth while another 18% says the world has
warmed due to “natural patterns”, not human activity. Pew found that liberals
remain convinced that humans are to blame, but the bottom line is that 53%
disputed the President’s claims.
That means that a growing number of Americans are now
skeptics.
In the months to come we will see marches and meetings
intended to further the global warming lies. The good news is that fewer
Americans are being influenced by such efforts.
© Alan Caruba, 2014