Conservative
Type 40
Even the Warmists Don't Believe In Global Warming - Forbes
Al Gore can suck it.
But what of the Progressives argument that, because the effects of climate change are potentially so disastrous, we should surrender our freedom and move to a centrally planned world economy managed by experts, just in case?
Two points about this: first, its not going to happen. The Progressives will have to content themselves with extracting a few billion dollars per year from taxpayers to fund cushy research and advocacy jobs, and to hold climate change conferences like the one that just concluded in Durban. Second, the climate change advocates obviously dont believe in climate change themselves.
You cant necessarily tell what people are truly committed to from what they say. However, you can always tell what they are truly committed to by how they negotiate. If someone really wants to do something, they will react to a suggestion by engaging it. They will work with the suggestion, trying to see how it can help them do what they say they want to do. If someone says that they want to do something but they really have some other agenda, they will respond to a suggestion with an instant, Yes, but
The climate change crowd has been frantically yes, butting geoengineering, which involves using technology to control the climate directly. Their efforts in this regard would be hilarious if the stakes in terms of money and freedom were not so high.
Climate change proponents recently mounted a desperate effort to stop an experiment in Britain designed to spray 40 gallons of pure water into the upper atmosphere (the so-called SPICE project). Thus far, they have managed to delay the test, and they are arguing that even if the experiment goes ahead, the results should not be made public.
The Progressives are well aware that their opposition to geoengineering experiments exposes their entire game, which is all about money, power, and central-planning control of peoples lives, and has nothing to do with concern about the earth. Unfortunately (for them), they have no choice. Geoengineering solutions might actually work, but they do not require that Progressives be given taxpayer money to hold lavish conferences in lovely places like Durban, South Africa.
Al Gore can suck it.