So-called Global Warming has the potential to destroy 300 years worth of scientific progress and our advanced western civilization along with it. From an economist’s position, it is pure folly. And our worst enemies’ dream come true.
Supporters of so-called global warming tend to fall into one (or more) of three categories: politicians who want to use this latest scare tactic as another means to take more control and power over our lives, corrupt businessmen who want to profit by selling snake oil solutions to a gullible public, or ignorant but well-intentioned people who have bought into another fantasy fable.
Al Gore probably personifies all 3.
Certainly his Academy Award-winning Power Point presentation is riddled with flaws. Even high school students have pointed out the numerous factual and apparently-intentional errors. The most important one, of course, completely destroys the basis on which the global warming theory’s house of cards is built. Studying his classic temperature versus carbon dioxide chart in detail shows that, on average, atmosphere increases – and decreases -- of it follow temperature changes by an average of 800 years, not the other way around as you are lead to believe.
Causation is not proved just because some event follows another (except among those who flunked history, chemistry AND evolution). However, the inverse does apply. The theory of global warming - namely that co² emissions cause temperature increases -- is proven by Al Gore’s own charts to be absolutely false. In this case, both temperature changes and changes in atmosphere co² levels are likely caused by the same more fundamental event: energy output variations of the sun.
This fact has been pointed out to Al Gore and his believers before -- on numerous occasions. That they have chosen to selectively ignore this scientific fact and have clung onto an increasingly rickety collection of flawed beliefs suggests that they view global warming not as an objective scientific process to be studied and diagnosed but rather a religious experience that transcends rational thought. In other words, Al Gore is a true believer.
Unfortunately, the True Believer is one of the most dangerous and potentially evil persons who can exist. Many decades ago, the San Francisco longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer warned us of the dangers of the True Believer. Karl Marx was a True Believer. Some say that Lenin and Hitler were too. It’s hard to tell when a True Believer is also a politician. Sometimes a politician is simply a psychotic megalomaniac who can’t envision anyone else being right except himself. Sound familiar?
True Believers are cult followers who when told to drink the poison-laced cool-aid will dutifully obey. The 900 people in Guyana who were mesmerized into following Jim Jones’ orders several decades ago killed only themselves. Today’s Global Warming True Believers are set to destroy our civilization and economy. Global Warming Kool Aid is no less dangerous than Jim Jones’ poisoned brew.
Global Warming is the big elephant in the china shop. It demands all the attention and sucks all the oxygen out of the room.
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