Naturally, these “scientists and energy experts†know best, and
so it makes sense IPCC meetings are open only to members of the World
Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.
As usual, the United Nations will be dictating to us, the squalid (and
over-populated) commoners.
Well, this commoner has big problems
with the United Nations, the IPCC, and its gaggle of bureaucrats and
scientists sucking on the foundation grant teat. First and foremost,
the United Nations is dedicated to world government, thus any solution
to any number of problems, more than a few contrived in advance, will
necessitate more globalism, more authoritative government, more orders
haughtily issued from on-high. Second, the IPCC’s scientists, to my
satisfaction, have yet to demonstrate climate change is the result of
human activity and carbon emissions.
“Those of us who study
the pre-human history of the Earth find the current debate over global
warming difficult to fathom,â€
writes Martin Keeley, a geologist. “To
expect permanent stability in climate patterns displays a fundamental
lack of understanding of the complexity and instability of weather…. If
the global climate were not getting warmer, it would be getting cooler;
stasis is not an option.†Keeley takes issue with the IPCC’s “
hockey
stick†temperature curve for the last millennium, a set of statistics
the IPCC used as the foundation for Kyoto.
“In every other
science when such a drastic revision of previously accepted knowledge
is promulgated, there is considerable debate and initial skepticism,
the new theory facing a gauntlet of criticism and intense review. Only
if a new idea survives that process does it become broadly accepted by
the scientific peer group and the public at large,â€
writes John L.
Daly. “This never happened with [Dr. Michael] Mann’s ‘Hockey Stick’.
The coup was total, bloodless, and swift as Mann’s paper was greeted
with a chorus of uncritical approval from the greenhouse industry.
Within the space of only 12 months, the theory had become entrenched as
a new orthodoxy.â€
Al Gore used this “hockey stick†data in his
film, An Inconvenient Truth. It is now widely accepted as gospel truth,
never mind schlocky research passed off as fact, even though two
Canadians with expertise in statistical analysis, Stephen McIntyre and
economics professor Ross McKitrick, “found considerable errors in the
way the data was collated,†according to the Cooler Heads Coalition.
McIntyre
and McKitrick, in a paper published by Geophysical Research Letters,
“were unable to replicate Mann’s results either by re-running his
calculations once the errors were corrected or by constructing their
own data set from the original sources. Their reconstruction of the
Mann et al. data set from the original sources shows clearly that there
was a period of greater warmth than the last century in the 15th
century, and that the spike is not unprecedented. They have suggested
that Mann should account for the discrepancies.†In response, Mann
accused the Canadians of engaging in a “political stunt†and dismissed
their research.
As Bjørn Lomborg discovered, criticism to this
entrenched orthodoxy will not be tolerated. Lomborg is adjunct
professor at the Copenhagen Business School and a former director of
the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. Lomborg authored
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World,
a book arguing that certain aspects of the global warming
orthodoxy—including overpopulation, declining energy resources,
deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other
global environmental issues—are unsupported by analysis of relevant
data. In response, the IPCC’s Rajendra Pachauri compared Lomborg to
Adolph Hitler.
Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist,
notes that taking a stand against the IPCC dominated orthodoxy can be a
career killer. “Twenty years ago, climate research became politicized
in favor of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as
the study of the effect of greenhouse gases,â€
Calder writes for the
Times Online. “As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for
innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with impediments to
their research careers. And while the media usually find mavericks at
least entertaining, in this case they often imagine that anyone who
doubts the hypothesis of man-made global warming must be in the pay of
the oil companies. As a result, some key discoveries in climate
research go almost unreported.â€
Of course, the “rebellious
spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science†are not
invited, as the point here is to stampede people into accepting global
government, lest we all fall victim to “a worldwide disaster†of
biblical proportion. “For complete control of the masses a dictatorship
is not necessary, although it does expedite the process. The collective
moulding begins early in life, sustained and refined throughout one’s
formal education; a universal curriculum of manipulation can transform
and achieve a complete paradigm shift for a whole generation,â€
writes
Terry Melanson.
Climate change, now making the rounds with
increasing urgency and no shortage of fear mongering, represents a
“control of the dialogue†that will ultimately lead to the “inevitably
to hegemony; defined, succinctly, as the power of ideas exercised by a
dominant or privileged social group over subordinate social groups.
Hegemony is the aftermath of the Hegelian Dialectic, the outcome of the
‘ends justify the means’ maxim. The people have not submitted to this
power, ‘they consent to it—though it is clearly not in their own best
interest. Hegemony is a form of control in which those who have power
maintain their position, not through force, but through the elaboration
of a particular ideology or world view. This form of social control is
long lasting, it is an effective, and patient, tactic,’†Melanson
continues, citing the late Antony Sutton.
Mary Burdman is a
bit more blunt: “The real agenda of what can only be called climate
‘terrorism,’ will be using this hoax to impose the kind of ’state of
emergency’ used when the Nazis took power in Germany, as the German
newspaper Die Welt has just warned.
This crew is not only after
everyone’s pension; they are using green propaganda to target a
generation of children, as Godzilla was used to frighten young Baby
Boomers about the atomic age. The Scotsman reported Feb. 23 about a
recent study which revealed that half of over 1,000 British children
between the ages of 7 and 11 lose sleep because of exaggerated fears
about global warming. It is no coincidence that the British government
is sending Al Gore’s film hoax ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ to all schools
in the country.â€
Quoting the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty,
Tom
DeWeese writes: “The goal of Sustainable Development is to transform
the world into feudal-like governance by making NATURE the central
organizing principle for our economy and society…. The plan is to
change your way of life to fit into the new global society. According
to Sustainable Development policies, air conditioning, convenience
foods, single-family housing and cars are among the products, habitats
and modes of transportation that have already been determined to be
‘unsustainable’… There has never been a single vote in Congress to
create Sustainable Development. It’s all done through cleverly
rearranged wording of existing programs and budgets, using UN treaties
as guidelines.â€
Steven Yates adds:
Agenda 21 is the
bible of the sustainable development movement. A horribly written,
long-winded tract consisting of 40 chapters of various lengths covering
everything from land, water and waste management to urban planning to
biotechnology, it purports to offer a comprehensive new paradigm for
life on planet Earth. The basic idea behind sustainable development was
spelled out back in 1987 by the little-known Brundtland Commission. The
Bruntland Commission definition: “development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.†This innocent sounding phrase came to carry with
it the implication that there are too many people living and working in
an environment of finite resources to permit “unsustainable†economic
freedoms. Behind the idea of sustainable development is the idea that
we have a choice: adopt “voluntary†central planning (with the UN at
the helm) to integrate economics and ecology within a globalist
perspective or face ecological disaster a few decades down the pike…
According
to Angus Reid, all the scary propaganda, much of it based on junk
science (as noted above), is working like a charm, although not fast
enough for green careerists over at the World Wildlife Fund, an NGO
that receives funding from the
Ford Foundation, a “philanthropicâ€
organization
connected to the CIA.
“Many adults in the United
States are willing to make some economic sacrifices in order to help
reduce global warming, according to a poll by the New York Times and
CBS News. 75 per cent of respondents would pay more for electricity if
it were generated by renewable sources like solar or wind energy,†the
polling organization reports. “In addition, 92 per cent of respondents
favor requiring car manufacturers to produce cars that are more energy
efficient, but only 38 per cent support an increased federal tax on
gasoline.â€
“They are the biggest culprit and they are the
biggest offender of climate,†complained World Wildlife Fund member
Stephan Singer. “The United States should take climate change
seriously.â€
No doubt most of us here in America will “take
climate change seriously†after we are crowded into Malthusian
“sustainable†ghettoes resembling something out the dystopian science
fiction film Soylent Green.