Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Conservatives and climate change
In the New Republic, Bill McKibben wonders why Republicans have become so uniformly resolute over the past few years in their opposition to the conclusions of scientists regarding climate change. (Only 1 in 10 believes that climate change is a very serious problem.) He also speculates that religious believers may eventually bring the GOP around to a more nuanced view.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/10/conservatives-and-climate-change.html
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The political lies of Global Warming have been exposed over and over again, including the lie that most scientists accept it as supported by the relevant evidence. The most noted Climatologist in America -- the man who discovered the Jet Stream -- is Professor Emeritus Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin. He had one word for global warming: "Absurd."
Only a few days ago another physicist, Harold Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society in a letter in which he accused the profession of having sold its soul for money -- hundreds of billions of dollars -- and sold its honor by activiely cooperating in this political myth called Global Warming.
Global Warming is the Big Lie, the one that Joseph Goebbels said no one would ever suspect because it is SO big.
One more time: the myth of global warming is a story told to preserve the international Anglo-American oil cartel. Crude oil is quite abundant around the world, and in the natural course of events, newcomers would break up any cartel. The answer of course is to prevent the rivals -- e.g. Brazil -- from getting into the game. Just convince everyone that carbon is evil, and that third world countries who want to release it into the atmosphere are just as evil. Then not only will the cartel continue to control the market for that hugely valuable resource, they will keep the third world on its knees in the process.
That is the political economics of global warming. Oh, by the way, it is a known fact that the Earth is undergoing the very early stages of a long term climate change that would be expected to (we won't know until it either does or doesn't actually happen) result in another Ice Age. But not soon.