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Yes, "hegemony", because we are without doubt the most powerful nation on the
face of the Earth today and a lot of people really hate our devotion to
capitalism, to the workings of the free market, to property rights, to
guaranteed political freedoms, and the free flow of information.
Some of them fly hijacked commercial jets into the symbols of our power, the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Others seek to undermine our
Constitution by luring us into international treaties that have
noble-sounding names, but which serve to strip us of the control our
government has over our landmass, our natural resources, and other vital
aspects of our lives.
That has been the purpose of the United Nations Climate Control Treaty,
otherwise known as the Kyoto treaty. Even Japan, where the treaty was first
proposed, has recently rejected many of its provisions. There's nothing like
a recession or depression to get governments and people focused on how to pay
the bills.
The United States, to its credit, rejected the Kyoto treaty outright as
totally bogus and an attack on the stability and maintenance of our economy.
Of course, not everyone in government rejected it. The treaty's primary
defender and proponent was then-Vice President Al Gore. He was supported in
this by former President Bill Clinton. Not surprisingly,
Republican-turned-Democrat, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, is also a rabid
environmentalist.
If you think that environmentalists-Greens-have given up on curbing our use
of energy to keep our computers going, heat our homes, run our automobiles,
fuel our industries, and generally insure that everything functions as
intended, you are very wrong. The list of environmental organizations fill
fat directories. There are thousands of these enemies of prosperity, health,
and common sense buried in the ranks of government at all levels. They find
their greatest support from the Democratic Party.
My friend, David Wojick, who writes for Electricity Daily, recently alerted
myself and others to a plan to create a "National Climate Service" in the
Commerce Department. This nugget is tucked away in the huge Senate energy
bill, S-1766. Now, we're not talking about the National Weather Service or
the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. No, this new
agency would exist to predict the weather ten years, fifty years, a hundred
years from now!
At this point, you probably think I'm just making this up. After all, if
there is anything we know for sure, it is that even the National Weather
Service with the most sophisticated computer models and tracking technologies
often gets a prediction for the next day's weather wrong. If it gets it right
predicting what the weather will be five days from now, we think they are
doing a dandy job.
The National Climate Service, we are supposed to believe - and fund - will have
the capability of predicting what the weather will be decades, even
centuries, from now. This is the United Nations Climate Control Treaty all
over again! It is the deliberate lie that current computer weather models
have the capability of predicting such distant events or trends. It is the
Global Warming gangsters doing what they have been doing since they stopped
predicting a coming Ice Age in the 1970s!
Another friend of mine, Christopher C. Horner, an expert on the way the
Greens are perfectly willing to break in the backdoor if they can't get
through the front one, points out that "it irrefutably is not possible to
trace climate activity to man" and that "one volcanic eruption dwarfs
anthropogenic (human) activity, exposing the follies of regulating energy use
on the basis of man-as-weather-machine."
Horner, writing in The Washington Times, said, "Sane policy-making dictates
ceasing all machinations toward CO2 (carbon dioxide) reductions and their
related economic impact until science answers the threshold question: What
concentration level constitutes 'dangerous interference'?" Good question. In
the era of the dinosaurs, there was tons more CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere
and they thrived for a hundred million years!
The National Climate Service, proposed in Senate bill S1766, is intended to
ignore real science and substitute the outright lies perpetrated by Greens
who are devoted to advancing the Communist goal of global government. To
achieve this, they came up with the ultimate scare, Global Warming. The
proposed new agency would be charged with the responsibility of "developing
assessment methods to guide national, regional, and local planning and
decision making" based on its utterly, totally bogus predictions.
That's why this latest break-and-entry by the Greens is so dangerous. If the
National Weather Service cannot predict next week's weather with any
certainty, why would this nation want to predicate major policies on the
predictions of a National Climate Service? The answer is that this is
preposterous!
Preposterous, too, are claims about CO2 levels in the atmosphere as a danger
to humanity or claims that the Earth is even experiencing a warming. It is
not. It has not warmed at all in the past half century since the 1950s.
The Bush administration and the Republican Party have got to make a clean
break with the environmentalists and their endless, deliberate falsification
of science. This goes way beyond mere politics. This nation has declared and
is waging war on Islamic terrorists around the world. It is time to do the
same with the Green Taliban whose purpose is to destroy our economy and
undermine our national sovereignty.
Alan Caruba is the author of "The Pocket Guide to
Militant Islam", for sale from the Internet site of The National Anxiety
Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2002
Published by permission.
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