Globaloney Fears Shouldn't Dictate Policies

They have amassed evidence. Some doubters lurk and poke holes in it, after all most of the 'evidence' is speculative and uncertain; but the evidence from officialdom has been analyzed and judged overwhelming. They even have the UN backing them up, and could that be wrong? It's a slam dunk!

The politicians chime in with scaremongering statements and scenarios. A "crisis approaching" and "global catastrophe". We are told that the threat is real, the time for talk is over, the time for action is now, and if we don't act preemtively and soon it could be too late.

Sound familiar?

It should be. It's the fearmongers script for the global warming "Crisis".

The liberal intelligensia consensus on global warming is to pretend that there is a consensus and to shut off any debate, and hoodwink the public into thinking that any skepticism is illegitimate. Thus, in the Statesman of Friday, April 6, Senator John Kerry wrote:
"It is time to stop debating fiction writers, oil executives and flat-earth policians" says John Kerry, in a recent piece of fiction that assures us, falsely, that inaction would lead to a "global catastrophe". He opines, almost afraid to let the skeptics even be heard: "we cannot allow doubters to freeze us into inaction".

But now is the time for debate, and for serious questions and understanding, especially if we are to embark on significant and costly regulatory changes. Claims of urgency are absurd to anyone who considers the real science of climate change: The doomsday scenarios posited, of massive temperature increases, require commensurately massive increases in CO2 in the atmosphere, specifically a doubling of CO2 levels, yet we are increasing those levels at a tortoise-speed pace of 0.3% per year. The false urgency is especially un-wise given the false exaggerations of alarmists like Al Gore and John Kerry.

John Kerry said: "And yet we have allowed worlderwide temperatures to heat up an average of 1.4 degrees in the last six years alone." Wrong, Senator. The average rise in temperatures has been 0.6 degrees Centigrade over the last century, and there has been no rise in many critical measurements (such as satellite temperature measurements) in the past six years. Some scientists contend that much of the temperature variation in recent decades is at leastly partyl due to natural causes, and certainly the history of the earth shows that natural climate change has happened all the time.

The politicians and some climate scientists have been playing the game of hyping fear for some time, and many have admitted as much:
"To do that we need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have."
--Steven Schneider, Quoted in Discover, pp. 45-48, Oct. 1989; and American Physical Society, APS News August/September 1996.

H. L. Mencken once said: "The politicians are selling fear, and they of all people know that fear is the best way to get people to do what you want. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. ”

If we are going to base policies on anything, it should be based on the real impacts of global warming, considered only after a lengthy debate on the matter, not the hyped up fears of politicians. Let us not let Al Gore and his acolytes prey upon our fears. We have time for reasoned debate. After all, the earth is not going anywhere.