Posted by
Bob Siegel on Friday, November 27, 2009 3:22:39 PM
The mainstream media doesn't seem to want to touch this one, but anybody paying attention to Fox News, internet news, or Talk Radio has been exposed to a huge story on the subject of global warming. Some hacked E Mail accounts between leading scientists such as, Phil Jones, (director of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) reveal a concentrated effort to suppress information and compromise data related to alleged climate change, thus protecting the conventional position on the dangers of an over heated Earth.
Discussing this story on Special Report, but wanting to be fair and honest at the same time, Charles Kruthhammer put it best. "Global Warming isn't junk science, but it is speculative science."
Nevertheless, calling the global warming conclusion speculative has not been a popular position these past few years. Indeed, those who deny global warming are likened to Fascist types who deny the holocaust (even though the holocaust is a documented event of the past as opposed to a prediction about the future). Doesn't matter. Al Gore insists the debate is over. And because such debate has been suppressed in uncounted media and academic circles, far too many have been convinced of this "impending disaster."
Whatever you may personally think about climate change, it is undeniable that global warming (at the very least) is not certain. Even if these E Mails turnout to be a hoax (which is looking less and less likely) we already knew that the Earth had actually been cooling for several years. Why then, are we not hearing as much from the mainstream media or our current government? Dare I venture a guess? In the name of "global warming" politicians seem to feel they have obtained a license to pass
all sorts of rules and regulations, the kinds of regulations they may have wanted to pass anyway. Cars must be made smaller and
cleaner and greener. As for oil drilling? Even before Obama was elected, (but after the Democrats took over Congress,) Rep. Maxine Waters accidentally let the cat out of the bag during a House hearing ( May 22, 2008) in which she interviewed the president of Shell Oil.
"And guess what this member would be all about?" Waters said. "This member would be all about socializing...er, uh. (At this point, she hesitates and goes silent for several moments.) ...would be about...(Another pause)... taking over and the government running all your companies."
As you can see, Waters obviously did not intend to spill out quite so much, but unable to take it back, the congresswoman had no choice but to finish her thought. OK, granted, we can always chalk this up to her own opinion, rather than a revelation about our current congress and administration, but add in some of the new standards attaching themselves to the heals of government auto company takeovers (where the economy crisis and climate change concerns ironically merge together), sprinkle in some of Obama's czar appointments such as, Green Czar, Van Jones, (a self professed Marxist, terminated from his new position only after certain speeches reared their head on You Tube) mix with Anita Dunn's infamous praise to Chairman Mao at a commencement speech, stir them both with candidate Obama's frank intentions to "share the wealth" offered as an unscripted, off the cuff comment to Joe the Plumber, and maybe, just maybe, we see a pattern emerging: Global warming is a nice excuse to make our country less Capitalistic and more Socialistic.
Al Gore called his global warming book, An Inconvenient Truth. Actually, the "truth" was very convenient to the Left. Indeed, the only thing inconvenient right now for Democrats in power (still wanting to pass Cap and Trade) is the real truth about a lack of uniform opinion in current science.
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