…apparently, as many ideologues you can get to follow the pied piper march of the latest global warming scam: Earth Hour.
A couple of the usual entertainment suspects made some gross-out videos to get us to go along with the program. See, according to them if you switch off your lights for an hour, you are voting for the planet. But what you’re really doing is raising your hand when they say: “Which suckers believe in this crap?”
They want you to get used to the idea of turning off your lights when they tell you because, believe me, they will be telling you to in the future. And it won’t be a suggestion. The excuse will be climate change, of course.
Yet, increasingly, fewer people are accepting the climate change mantra. One reason is the weather has not warmed appreciably. In fact, if anything we had a much colder winter this year. NASA climate pimp James Hansen had to backtrack on some of his claims on more than one occasion.
Most of the global warming arguments are based on logical fallacies. The scientist proponents based most of it on climate computer models which simply can’t work because they don’t have all the data they need. Climate is an area we are still very much in the dark about. And the simple fact is, the study of the earth’s climate requires the study of epochs — 5,000 years at the very minimum. Most global warming scientists are basing it largely on a few hundred years of data, which amounts to the blink of an eye in earth history.
This is because the farther back you go, the more embarrassing it gets for them. We had something called the Medieval Warm Period which was warmer than today, and was actually a period where Europe flourished. And all without that nasty man-made CO2 problem.
The greenhouse gases claim is easily disproved by Al Gore’s movie. He shows a chart where temperatures go up alongside CO2 increases. Except the CO2 goes up after the temperatures increase. Something he misleads the audience about, but you can see that it does when you look at his chart. After all, most CO2 is created by life. From microscopic algae to large mammals. When temps get warmer, animals and plants thrive. They come out and breed and so on.
The bottom line with global warming is that it’s become a huge business. Bureaucrats see it as another excuse to tax people. So-called greens see it as a market for selling their products, technologies and government schemes. Scientists see it as an ATM card for government grants. The reason so many scientists “believe” in global warming is that they made it their livelihood.
Here’s the problem. The anthropogenic global warming (AGW) fanatics want everyone to cut back on energy. They want to force people to use their cars less. They want us to ration our use of electricity. Right now they’re suggesting we do this. Just like they suggested once upon a time that you don’t smoke indoors. But we saw where that went.
It always starts off with some cute stunt. Earth Hour is based on the egotistical belief that human beings are changing the climate by “being too greedy.” This is based on no evidence, just a lot of assurances from the same people who also think they know how to fix the economy. The same people who think higher taxes means more jobs. The same people who like to call others greedy while they fly around in corporate jets, commuting between mansions.
We’re supposed to believe them because they are the “smart ones.” This is how they see themselves, they like to claim they are pro-science. Except they refuse to believe the sun causes climate change and that CO2 is a “dangerous pollutant.”
What the AGW proponents are demanding will make this economy look like the gilded age. They want our economy to make significant cuts in energy use. 50% in some cases. Imagine that. They want us to use 50% less energy? Do you have any idea what that would do to us? And how do you think they’ll manage that?
Guess.
Meanwhile they want, and are getting, thanks to President Obama, billions of dollars in investment in their pet projects and technologies. Many of which are vastly inferior to oil, coal and nuclear. Many of which won’t work or are just scams.
And just to show how insincere the President is about cutting our carbon use, he’s essentially killed the nuclear power industry by shutting down Yucca Mountain. Nuclear energy is the cleanest source we have. No carbon is emitted by nuclear plants and they can provide our energy needs. But the Democrats hate nuclear power and have tried to kill it since Jimmy Carter.
The government has actually turned down a lot of MPG improving technologies since the 1970s because the states and the feds make major revenues on gasoline taxes. Increasing gas mileage would cut down on gas use. Do you really think they couldn’t come up with better MPG by now? They’ve had cars in Europe getting 50 MPG for decades.
And the real kicker is, greens keep blocking wind and solar farms for the same reasons they try to block every other kind of power plant. They seem to be against progress and industry. They don’t want our economy to keep growing. Some of these people want us all to go back to living in caves (except for themselves, of course).
Right now it’s all a big guilt trip. But don’t worry, soon they’ll stop asking and make you go a day without power. They already do that in a lot of poor countries. Even Russia. Of course, it’s largely because their economy and infrastructure are bad. But at the rate our geniuses are going, we’ll catch up to them.