My relatives in New England are fighting their way out from under a giant ice storm. Here in Las Vegas it\u2019s been snowing all week, several weeks earlier than our usual one-day-a-year photo op of snow and icicles sparkling one of our palm-bedecked golf courses before melting away by afternoon. The National Weather Service calls it \u201ca rare snow event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why? It\u2019s getting colder. 2008 was the coolest year in a decade.<\/p>\n
The American mainstream press seem to know \u201cteam players\u201d don\u2019t mention such inconvenient developments, but in the U.K., the esteemed Guardian reports \u201cThis year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.\u201d (www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/dec\/05\/climate-change-weather.)<\/p>\n
How stupid does this make politicians like Barack Obama and the other suckers who have fallen for the \u201cglobal warming\u201d hoax as they race to say \u201cNever Mind\u201d?<\/p>\n
Actually, they haven\u2019t missed a beat. These guys are so \u201cscientific\u201d that the evidence of their own eyes and overcoats has become irrelevant. They now contend global cooling is just further proof of global warming. Honest.<\/p>\n
So-called \u201cclimate scientists\u201d insist \u201cThe relatively chilly temperatures compared with recent years are not evidence that global warming is slowing,\u201d The Guardian reports.<\/p>\n
Um … earth\u2019s cooling doesn\u2019t mean the earth is cooling?<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d responds Dr. Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office\u2019s Hadley Centre. \u201cIf we are going to understand climate change we need to look at long-term trends.\u201d<\/p>\n
You might want to pause and savor that for a moment. This is the gang who keep telling us \u201cThe Debate is over! Dissent is no longer allowed! Man-made global warming is going to ruin the Earth!\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet they now say global cooling \u201cis not evidence that global warming is slowing,\u201d and that \u201cIf we are going to understand climate change we need to look at long-term trends.\u201d<\/p>\n
If we are \u201cgoing\u201d to understand climate change? Like … in the future?<\/p>\n
Sure, the mean temperature may still go up for a few more years before it plummets. So? None of the great climate cycles of the past needed us to burn coal in our power plants to make them happen, and there\u2019s neither evidence nor any intuitive reason to believe the tiny percentage of atmospheric carbon dioxide we now generate makes any substantial difference, either.<\/p>\n
If, a few years back, the earth was warming at a rate of one degree Fahrenheit per century, all that meant was we might be able to grow wheat 50 miles further north into Canada. It sure beats the kind of disruptions we\u2019ll see during the next Ice Age, which is overdue.<\/p>\n
When WILL the \u201cLet us take over and wreck your economy so we can save you from the climate boogey-man\u201d gang admit the earth is cooling again, and when WILL they admit, \u201cOK, since cooling is worse than warming, and our own theory is that mankind can impact global temperature by what we burn, it\u2019s now your duty to hold back the Big Freeze by going out there and burning all the fossil fuels you possibly can, as fast as you can\u201d?<\/p>\n
(Don’t even get me started on the fraud potential of “carbon trading,” a weird scam in which the buyer acquires an invisible commodity no one wants, and where both buyer and seller can benefit if they collude to overestimate the amount of carbon being “transferred.”)<\/p>\n
Instead, on Monday, President-Elect Obama (\u201cDelay is no longer an option; denial is no longer an acceptable response\u201d) appointed as Secretary of Energy (a position and an office not authorized in the Constitution) Steven Chu, the confirmed global warming lunatic from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who says coal — the stuff that powered the industrial revolution, cheap coal which will last for centuries and which can be burned more cleanly now than ever before — \u201cis my worst nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
This gang still intends to effectively ban both coal-fired and nuclear power generation. Do they believe they can meet our current demand with famously costly, unreliable, and toxic wind, solar and geothermal? (Look up the by-products of geothermal energy, some time. Then look up \u201cbattery farms.\u201d) Of course not. The gap can only be closed by \u201cconservation,\u201d they\u2019ll admit when you take a pencil and start to work the numbers.<\/p>\n
And what does \u201cconservation\u201d mean, precisely?<\/p>\n
They\u2019d like us to think they mean just turning out the lights in our empty rooms, that kind of thing. But they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Mr. Obama has said it, straight out. He, the Chosen One, has had it Revealed to Him that we can no longer use 25 percent of the world\u2019s energy when we have only 5 percent of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n
This is nonsense. All mankind uses less than 1 percent of the solar energy that streams past us every hour. Is it \u201cunfair\u201d that the Japanese eat \u201cmore than their fair per capita share\u201d of the world\u2019s fish? Should we have given Hitler half of our B-17s and Saddam Hussein half of our M-1 tanks \u201cjust to be fair\u201d?<\/p>\n
Are we now to be ruled by a depraved schoolchild obsessed with sharing the toys, granted the ability to carry forward that Ding-Dong School philosophy with powers reminiscent of the kid in the old Twilight Zone episode who could \u201cwish people into the cornfield\u201d?<\/p>\n
We should be proud that we\u2019ve learned how to capture and harness the lion\u2019s share of the available energy in this system. It\u2019s not like we refused to share with others \u201cthe secret of coal\u201d or \u201cthe secret of oil,\u201d is it? They saw how good it was; they\u2019ve been racing to catch up to us ever since; that\u2019s the main reason the world has escaped the life expectancies of the Stone Age.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a real world out there. Purposely, artificially impoverish the nation, force us to give up our competitive economic advantages, and we\u2019ll eventually go the way of the Carthaginians.<\/p>\n
Does the Obama gang also intend we should share half our food — or more — with those who now eat less, an \u201cunfairness\u201d caused not by bad soil or bad weather but because they\u2019re ruled by dashiki-clad kleptocrats? How will he bring that about? By knocking on our doors and telling us, \u201cComrade, your house and kitchen are too large! These 18 new arrivals to our country our now going to live with you and share your food!\u201d?<\/p>\n
They mean for us to learn to survive at 55 degrees in the winter; and to hope the tourists will still come to Vegas when our air conditioning only lowers the temperature to 87 in the summer (assuming we can afford even that.) They plan to unionize and thus close down most of our remaining factories — the Chinese will make us everything we need, you see; we\u2019ll pay for it with the endless bales of green coupons printed by Ben Bernanke and the Elves in the Big Hollow Tree.<\/p>\n
To see Mr. Obama admit \u201cUnder my plan, electricity costs will necessarily skyrocket\u201d visit climatechangefraud.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n