2011
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The Global Warming Hoax: How Soon We
Forget
By
F. Swemson
Nobody has ever offered
a more succinct indictment of the global warming hoax than H. L. Mencken, who
said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
While Americans are rightfully focused on the
unemployment situation and the debt limit negotiations, we've pretty much
forgotten about global warming as an issue ever since Obama failed to pass his
Cap & Trade bill. As a result, we're becoming complacent once again
about the huge threat we face from the progressives' attempts to control the
world's energy industry based on the greatest scientific hoax in human
history. In reality, however, nothing's changed, as Obama is still
imposing his will on us through the EPA's regulation of CO2.
This hoax still threatens our economy, while
advancing the UN's "Agenda 21" in more ways than one. It's also
the foundation of Obama's "green jobs" approach to the unemployment
issue, since the very concept of "green jobs" is just as bogus as the
idea of a "carbon footprint."
With Fox anchors and conservative bloggers arguing that those "green" jobs are simply far too few to fuel a strong recovery, the fact that they're based on junk science, and aren't economically viable on their own, gets little if any mention.
The truth is that CO2 is a beneficial
trace gas that exists in such small quantities in our atmosphere, that the idea
of it playing any significant role in determining our climate is simply
silly. CO2 comprises less than half of 0.1% of our atmosphere,
and only 4% of it comes from human activity. That's 16ppm, or 1 part in
every 62,500 parts of our atmosphere. CO2 is plant food, and a
key component in all life on earth. Plants need CO2 to grow
and produce oxygen. They feed animals (including ourselves).
Animals in turn consume oxygen and plant-based foods, and exhale CO2.
Without CO2, nothing
could be green! This brief (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qVNK6zFgE) video showing the effect on plants of increasing atmospheric
CO2 is quite striking.
Ironically, the audacity of
their lies about CO2 are overshadowed by the most obvious
part of the Hoax. The fact is that
warming is good! Throughout history, man, as well as all
other living creatures, has thrived during the earth's warm periods, and
suffered and starved during the cold ones, a lesson that we're about to be
reminded of in the coming years.
The Roman civilization arose when the earth was
much warmer than it's been recently. And it's
no coincidence that just as the earth was entering the 400-year-long
"Little Ice Age," the Roman Empire was overrun by the Huns. The
Egyptians also built the pyramids when it was
much warmer than today, and the beginning of the
industrial revolution coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age. If
global warming is such a problem, doesn't it seem odd that mankind has always
flourished during the earth's warmest periods?
And if increases in atmospheric CO2
are the primary cause of warming, why, from the 1940's through the mid 1970's,
was the earth cooling when increases in our use of fossil fuels were at their
greatest?
And why is it that Mars and Jupiter, and
Neptune's moon Titan, have all followed the exact same warming and cooling
cycles as the earth during the 20th century? Does anyone think
that our SUVs and power plants are causing the same climate change on
other planets and moons in our solar system, or is it more likely that the
changes there were caused by the fact that we're all in the same solar system?
I.e.,
"It's the sun, stupid!"
To me, the most worrisome aspect of this problem
is that we simply aren't debating this issue properly.
In 1974, in an article in Time Magazine entitled
"Another Ice Age?,"
the same alarmists suggested that the
(then-)coming ice age was being caused in part by the same vehicular emissions
that they're now blaming for global warming.
Man, too, may be
somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid
A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles
released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be
blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
But then it stopped cooling and started warming
again. This has been happening throughout history (see
Global Warming: Exposing the
Far Left's Lies[http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/01/lord]).
Now, since the warming stopped 12 years ago, the
alarmists are finally beginning to admit that the earth has started cooling
again. And what are they telling us is the reason why? In what's
got to be one of the most mind-boggling displays of chutzpah ever seen, they're
actually saying that the reason that it hasn't been warming for the last 12
years is that China and India are now burning such a massive amount of coal,
that it blocks the sun's rays from reaching the earth and warming
it. That's right! Our use of fossil fuels is warming the earth,
while China's is cooling it?
How stupid and gullible do they think we
are? Australia just announced that they're going ahead with a carbon tax
on their power companies, rather than a Cap & Trade system. But no
matter what they call it, they're still fleecing the same victims, the people,
who'll be paying this new tax in the form of higher utility bills, and higher
prices on everything they buy. And while this insanity unfolds, we're
still paying lip service to this absurd lie by continuing to make reference to
the virtues of reducing our "carbon footprint." Every time we
hear that preposterous phrase, we should laugh at it, and then explain why we
find it so funny if anyone asks. Years of constant repetition is what
sold the lie in the first place. It may take
years of constant repetition of the truth to counter it.
Our primary argument against Cap & Trade and
the EPA's CO2 regulations has been that they would be bad for the economy.
Of course they would be, but by attacking them on those grounds, we're granting
our sanction to the underlying premise -- that CO2 is
dangerous. But it's not. And there never were any benefits to be
had from Cap & Trade, regardless of its cost.
There are millions of smart people out there who
have been bombarded with this global warming nonsense for so long that they've
actually come to believe it. The old adage that if you tell a lie often
enough it becomes the truth happens to be true, especially when the people
don't get to hear other points of view, something our mainstream media has made
sure of over the last few decades.
But even though people are slowly growing
skeptical about it, and turning away from the mainstream media, we can't afford
to let our guard down about this scam. And we'll never truly defeat it
for good by arguing against it based on the enormous costs involved.
Whether it's global warming, or global cooling, or ocean acidification, we need
to denounce this madness as the outrageous lie that it is, if we're ever going
to defeat this hydra in all of its various guises.
Source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_global_warming_hoax_how_soon_we_forget.html