Global warming distracting from dangers of looming ice age?
I’m not a fan of President Obama’s new stimulus plan that’s intended to kick-start our flagging economy. Too many billions have been earmarked for projects that will likely stimulate little more than more useless government programs.
Case in point: the $400 million that’s been set aside just to study global warming (who’s that stimulating?). The stimulus bill also calls for doubling the production of renewable energy, “improving energy efficiency” for 2 million homes and 75 percent of government buildings (whatever that means) and upping the number of those silly, underpowered plug-in hybrid cars (which, by the way, are made in not-so-earth-friendly factories).
Here’s the kicker: there’s a new study out of Russia that claims that the real weather problem may not be warming, but global cooling. According to the report, “The earth is now on the brink of entering another ice age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science.”
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of Pravda or the Russians. But I think they’ve hit the nail on the head with this one. After all, it’s not just Pravda saying this. Even though Al Gore and his moronic minions won’t acknowlege it, there are plenty of scientists who are of the opionion that manmade global warming is a load of utter hooey.
The Pravda report says that Gore, and other global warming fanatics like NASA physicist James Hansen and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt, are actually drawing attention away from the dangers of the approaching ice age with all their nonsensical global warming nonsense.
I’ve told you many times that I count myself among those who don’t think there’s anything at all to the panic of global warming. Frankly, I think it’s a racket. And I find it hilarious that on more than one occasion, global warming conferences have been delayed by ice and blizzards. The most recent was an Al Gore led summit in Washington, D.C. this past January. You’d think these guys would learn to schedule these events in July to avoid such bad PR.
The Pravda report goes on to point out that Gore’s entire theory is based upon the now- famous “hockey stick graph” used in his laughably inaccurate 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” This graph indicates a sharp rise in global temperatures (in the shape of a hockey stick) beginning in the 1970s. The problem is this “trend” has been upset by the brutal winter of 2007/2008, which according to the report, saw the Northern Hemisphere blanketed with the deepest snow since 1966 – and the coldest temperatures. And this winter isn’t much better.
And yet, the global warming camp always seems to conveniently ignore these cold, hard inconvenient truths.
Obama picks far-left socialist to head up useless global warming position
As I’ve said, I think global warming is a racket. For example, Al Gore has invested millions of his own money in all manner of “renewable energy” schemes that are sure to flourish when Obama enacts government edicts to fund these useless ventures. But the other racket of global warming is that it’s a government power grab. It’s about big government, and as a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, Obama wants government to be huge.
If you doubt me, take a look Mrs. Carol M. Browner, who Obama has tapped for his newly created (and amazingly silly) government position of “global warming czar.” Before she was tapped for the position by Obama, Browner was listed as one of the leaders of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society, a group advocates “global governance” and demands that “rich countries” shrink their economies to help fight global warming.
Of course, Mrs. Browner’s name magically disappeared from the rolls of another of her group affiliations, Socialist International, not long after the appointment. And conveniently, Browner’s new position (innocuously titled “White House coordinator of climate and energy policies”) requires no Senate approval.
I guess that’s “change we can believe in.”
