Global Warming is not going as planned; the disastrously rising temperatures and massive environmental catastrophes activists of the environmental left have sobbed and tooted their horns over for twenty-plus years have not emerged. For this reason, "Global Warming" has been re-designated slightly more vague, less-definable verbiage. Perhaps you’ve heard of it; it’s now referred to as "Climate Change". Global Warming is a lie.
After Katrina in 2005, GW proponents hysterically predicted increasingly worse hurricane seasons; the world is heating up! Things will obviously worsen! 2006 was one of the calmest hurricane seasons in decades; 2007 hasn’t exactly been Doomsday, either. A 2006 North Pole expedition, studying the long-term negative effects of GW, was postponed, due to unusually harsh cold, snow and ice.
With the obvious dearth of long-predicted (and somewhat more than fashionably late), epic ecological disasters, purveyors of Global Warming mythology are working overtime to shove GW-related legislation and regulations down the throats of We, the People, before we completely wake up to reality.
Winter 2006-07, though late in coming, was one of the worst in recent record, and thus, one of the worst for GW-drum beaters, now scrambling, pushing desperately hard for their cause; half the country was encased in ice and snow. Dozens died across America, killed by weather-related incidents; billions lost in crop revenues, due to freakishly low temperatures in California and Florida. Finally, skeptical opposition arises. Books and scientific studies become more and more prominent, despite the GW Nazis efforts to squelch them, and any opposition to their orthodoxy.
Here’s how it works….overzealous environmentalism is a leftist ideal. Leftist ideologues tend to promote Socialist economies, opposing American-style Capitalism; the environmentalists advance their cause using mush-brained celebrities, compliant liberal idealists and impressionable, easily frightened children and adolescents.
If they can utilize governmental regulation to hamstring our economy, the strongest, most resilient in the world, it would give their beloved Socialist states of the European Union---and the few remaining zombie totalitarian Communist nations---a chance to fill the vacuum. So far, it’s worked pretty well, really. Much of the heavy industry (and its money) in America is gone, headed overseas, to nations like India, China and Venezuela, for example. Nations with little to no environmental regulation, something the GW faithful and environmentalist flag-wavers overlook. Seemingly, such regulation only applies in America, where, apparently, we should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles made of recycled toilet paper.
Al Gore has a "solution": "carbon offsets", or credits, to be purchased, allowing the holder to pollute as much as they want, so long as it’s not beyond that allowed by their number of credits. It must work; his mansion uses $30,000 a year in carbon-polluting utilities! Yet, Gore calls us to conserve. Save Mother Earth! If this Climate Change thing is successfully fed to the masses (or Congress), Gore stands to make tons of cash.
Moderate environmentalism is fine; it’s simply good stewardship. Everyone wants trees and animals, clean water and breathable air. It’s just that too much of anything is bad, and radical--politically-motivated--whacko environmentalism is too much. Call it whatever you will, Global Warming is still a lie.