There is one good thing about the lunatic \u201cGlobal Warming\u201d catechism now taught our youth in the mandatory government youth propaganda camps (taught essentially as a \u201cstate-established\u201d religion without meaningful \u201cequal time\u201d for rebuttals, which ought to cause someone to go back and re-read the First Amendment) and eagerly embraced by the tax-guzzling, power-mad cretins now in charge in Washington City:<\/p>\n
When they are finally forced to admit that the globe has been cooling again — not warming — for the past decade, yet proceed to demand PRECISELY THE SAME REMEDIES for \u201cGlobal Cooling\u201d (which they will cleverly dub \u201cClimate Change\u201d) as they did for \u201cGlobal Warming\u201d — higher electric bills, more government controls, taxes sufficient to cripple our entire industrial economy and generally lower our standard of living in keeping with the world socialist doctrine that America and particularly the \u201ccapitalist rich\u201d must be \u201cpunished\u201d and \u201cmade to sacrifice\u201d in penitence for our former prosperity — there is finally a decent chance that they\u2019ll simply be laughed out of town.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe SAME PUNISHMENTS to be inflicted on us in punishment for Global Cooling, as you used to prescribe for us in punishment for Global WARMING?! Ha ha! Good one! Have you heard the one about the prostitute and the midget?\u201d<\/p>\n
For the record, 1) the globe is now again cooling, albeit infinitesimally, just as Time and Newsweek declared in major feature stories back in 1975 — and the next Ice Age is indeed the real problem, since (if the world WERE to warm again), modest warming is actually good for us, since more people die of cold than heat, and warm climates allow us to grow more food.<\/p>\n
2) The modest fluctuations in question, of a couple of degrees per century, are of minimal importance to anyone. Even the \u201crising ocean levels\u201d predicted by the extremists\u2019 worst-case scenarios are on the order of one inch.<\/p>\n
3) During years when the globe has warmed, man-made carbon dioxide has had no significant impact on that warming, which is caused by the oceans and mostly the sun. (Mars warms in a rhythm which matches the Earth\u2019s. Do we believe this is because Martians are driving too many SUVs and burning too much coal?) Mankind creates about 3 percent of the atmosphere\u2019s carbon dioxide, which is not the largest contributor to the blessed greenhouse effect, in the first place. Water vapor is. Shall we next try to ban water vapor? and<\/p>\n
4) Even if we could de-populate and throw America back into the stone age tomorrow, and even if man-made carbon dioxide DID contribute in some measure to global warming (which it does not), this would still have no effect on the climate, since the authority of Mr. Reid and Mr. Obama does not extend to India and China, which are building new coal-fired power plants every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlobal warming\u201d is a scam promoted by those who want more taxes, more control of our lives, less enjoyment of the freedom represented by private automobiles and single-family homes — a modern sect of flagellants who (when you come right down to it) hate mankind, view mankind as a pox and parasite on an otherwise lovely world full of weeds and bugs more deserving of care, opportunity and \u201cprotection\u201d than our own children, who would view as a \u201cregretful necessity\u201d any government policy that could succeed in starving and thus reducing the number of humans by at least half.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not making this stuff up. See www.rightsidenews.com\/200907035325\/energy-and-environment\/climate-delusions.html<\/a> ; or Or, if you\u2019re willing to do a little old-fashioned book reading, try the fine new book \u201cClimate of Extremes \/ Global Warming Science They Don\u2019t Want You To Know,\u201d from the Cato Institute, by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr., or \u201cRe-Thinking Green \/ Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy,\u201d from the Independent Institute, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close.<\/p>\n These are both thoughtful, well-documented books by folks with notable academic credentials and a proven record of moderate skepticism about lockstep big-government propaganda. Choose your favorite and buy copies for all your friends.<\/p>\n I was going to do more of a \u201cSummer Reading List\u201d here, but there never seems to be room. The short version: Go to http:\/\/www.bigheadpress.com\/rtbook<\/a> and check out \u201cRoswell, Texas\u201d and \u201cThe Probability Broach,\u201d wild and wonderful \u201calternative history\u201d graphic novels by our libertarian pals L. Neil Smith, Scott Bieser, et al. I still somewhat prefer \u201cBroach,\u201d in part because it\u2019s in full glowing color, but \u201cRoswell\u201d is newer and, of course, refreshingly off-kilter.<\/p>\n Davy Crockett survived the Alamo, see, and refused to let Texas join the United States, as a result of which in 1947 it\u2019s still an independent republic under President Charles A. Lindbergh when something strange crash lands in the West Texas town of Roswell …<\/p>\n
\nwww.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/will021509.php3 ; or go to http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/WalterEWilliams\/<\/a> and choose Professor Williams\u2019 \u201cEPA\u201d column for July 15, which should be released for public consumption by the time you read this.<\/p>\n