There is so much
at stake for the charlatans that have foisted the failed “global warming” hoax,
followed by the equally dubious claims and predictions regarding “climate
change”, that it should come as no surprise that they have begun to wage a
propaganda war on the courageous scientists who led the struggle to educate the
public about the truth and the organizations who supported their efforts.
Along the way,
many groups and publications claiming scientific credentials abandoned those
standards to pump out global warming and climate change propaganda. Scientists
discovered they could secure grant money for “research” so long as it supported
claims that the North and South Poles, as well as all the world’s glaciers were
melting. “Research” that predicted vast hurricane activity or a massive rise in
ocean levels became routine headlines. None of it occurred. Both
the government and liberal foundations provided millions to maintain the hoax.
Now we have a
President claiming that his daughter’s asthma was due to “climate change.” It
is obscene nonsense. If this was just a disagreement between scientists, we
could look on as the facts determine the outcome, but there are vast agendas as
stake so we have to keep in mind that billions have been wasted on “renewable
energy” alternatives to replace fossil fuels; the oil, coal, and natural gas
that are the heart’s blood of modern nations and our lives.
We have to ask
why the United Nations Framework on Climate Change takes such a dim view of the
world’s population that it cites its use of energy and other resources as a
reason to reduce it instead of celebrating it. Hard-core environmentalists do
not like humans because they build houses, start businesses, need roads, and
generally consume a lot and then create trash. Climate change is also the
platform the U.N. is using to "transform"
the world's economy.
We have to ask why our government is engaged
in shutting down the coal-fired plants that provide the bulk of the electricity
we use. This isn’t just a war on coal. It is a war on our entire economic
system, capitalism. It is a war on Americans by their own government.
Lately,
politicians at the federal level have declared war on those scientists whose
research and findings have helped the public conclude, along with eighteen years of a natural cooling cycle,
that “global warming” is no threat and that we have far greater threats to
address than the vague notion that “climate change” is a problem we humans can
affect in any way. We can’t and we don’t.
A recent example
has been letters sent to seven university presidents by Arizona Rep. Raul
Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee asking
for information on scientists and professors who had given congressional
testimony that raised questions about “climate change.” Grijalva had no legal
authority to request such information, but his intention was intimidation. In
2013, when asked about his legislative agenda by These Times, he replied “I’m a
Saul Alinsky guy” referring to the activist whose book, “Rules for Radicals”,
spells out ways to attack one’s political enemies.
Pete Peterson,
the executive director of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement at
Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy, identified Grijalva’s letters as “scare
tactics” concluding that we have come to a time when “The inability of
politicians to confront another’s argument much less to attempt to persuade the
other side, has become standard operating procedure. Now this toxic approach is
extending to the broader world of policy—including scientific research.”
Around the same
time, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Sen. Ed Markey sent a
letter to a hundred companies, grade groups and other organizations “affiliated
with the fossil fuel industry asking whether they spent money to support
climate research.” The message was simple: do not sponsor research that would
reveal inaccuracies or falsehoods regarding claims that “climate change” was a
threat. The inference was that scientific research receiving such funding would
betray scientific standards in ways that government or foundation funding would
not.
Suffice to say
the letters evoked outrage. As a policy advisor to the free market think tank, The Heartland Institute, I was aware of
the response of its president, Joe Bast who called the letters something that
“fascists do.” He was not alone. The Washington Times called the Senators
“climate change Toquemadas” and The Wall Street Journal said the letters were
nothing more than an effort to silence science.
When Sen.
Whitehouse aired his unhappiness in an April 14 blog post the Huffington Post, “Right-Wing
Groups Get Overheated on Climate Questions”, Bast responded asking, “If the
Senator’s letter wasn’t intended as harassment of individuals who disagree with
his extremist views on the climate, why the overly broad demand, the ridiculous
deadline, the implied threat of action, and the news release saying it was
intended to expose a diabolical conspiracy of ‘right-wing groups’?”
When “climate
change” reaches the political heights of Congress and the White House, it
should come as no surprise that the charlatans who want to use this hoax for
their own benefit and agendas are going to unleash efforts to smear and
intimidate those scientists who have put true facts before the public.
In late March,
Michael Bastash of The Daily Caller reported that “A new Gallup poll shows that
Americans’ concern about warming has fallen to the same level it was in 1989.
In fact, global warming ranked at the bottom of a list of Americans’
environmental concerns, with only 32 percent saying they were worried about it
a ‘great deal.’”
That’s what has
the politicians and U.N. officers on the offensive to silence scientists and
defame think tanks and other organizations that have helped Americans come to
the sensible conclusion that a “warming” isn’t happening and the planet’s
climate is something over which they have no control.
© Alan Caruba
2015
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