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July 1st, 2009 5:41 am

It’s not easy being green

Actually, Kermit the Frog is probably singing a different song these days. After all, what’s easier, more fashionable, more excruciatingly politically correct than “being green”? Longtime readers know that I am fond of Harvey Mansfield’s formulation that “environmentalism is school prayer for liberals.” Most people chuckle when I quote that (you see what troglodytes I hang about with), but the humor has a sharper edge than I’d originally realized.

Harvey wrote that more than a decade ago in an essay about the baneful influence of the Sixties on — well, on just about everything. I had thought that the nauseating odor of piety that suffused the Church of the Environment (Al Gore, B.S., Pastor) made it so ridiculous that its claim on the public’s attention (to say nothing of its claim on the public’s pocketbook) would soon fade.

How wrong I was. I knew in the abstract that being ridiculous is no bar to public prominence. Consider: Al Gore, former Vice-President and Nobel Laureate. Al Sharpton, king maker and presidential candidate. Al Franken, U.S. Senator. And that’s just people whose first name is “Al.”

But although it is clear that something can easily be both ridiculous and prominent, somehow I underestimated the staying power of environmentalism. I did so partly because I underestimated the mesmerizing power of this version of paganism on the collective consciousness of our secular elites: too sophisticated to subscribe openly to traditional religion but who nonetheless yearned for a token of spiritual uplift with which they could flatter themselves and impress others.

Then there was the immense political advantage of environmentalism. As the “cap-n’-tax” (also known as “Cap and Trade”) attack on the coal industry shows, environmentalism offers an essentially limitless opportunity for ambitious politicians. Indeed, its advantages are threefold. Since you can never be green enough, an environmental policy can always be made increasingly stringent in order 1) to increase taxes 2) to make government more intrusive and 3) to enhance the emotion of virtue among the environmentally elect.

A lot more could be said about all this, and perhaps when the U.S. Senate gets around to debating the bill there will be an opportunity to revisit the issue. For now, I wish merely to record my sorrowful realization that the aura of piety that surrounds environmentalism has effectively immunized it against ridicule. This may change someday, but for now I conclude that no amount of preposterous sentimentalized posturing is sufficient to condemn its proponents.

I came to this melancholy conclusion when I stumbled upon this advertisement for “green romance” at Instapundit. Entitled “Eco Ways To Romance Your Partner,” it is an emetic little digest of eco-friendly sex tips. Do you and your heartthrob like chocolate? Why not: the “Aztecs believed that chocolate had aphrodisiac qualities.” Oh, well then, if the Aztecs thought so, go for it, right? But be sure to procure “organic and sustainable brands.” (Didn’t the Aztecs also believe in ripping the beating hearts out of young virgins in order to propitiate the sun god? Well, never mind.)

There are 7 great tips for eco-nuts in the list, and the last is the best: Sustainable Lingerie. Think I am making it up? Read on:

If you simply want to stay in bed all day, then you might want to consider modeling some sustainable lingerie for an extra little piece of bedroom drama. It’s ultimately sexy and not even that expensive. Try Enamore’s sexy lingerie made from organic and sustainable materials like cotton, silk, and soy. Or, try the French eco-friendly brand g=9.8 which creates sexy, colorful undergarments made from cultivated pine trees!

Where is Juvenal, Jonathan Swift, Evelyn Waugh when you need ‘em? It would all be extremely funny if it weren’t in earnest.

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51 Comments

1. Duke of Sharon:

Your allusion to the Aztecs is even stronger than you let on. The Aztecs not only pioneered the chocolate industry but the Environmental segment of the Fear Industry as well. They produced scientific consensus on the need for human sacrifice–for half of the year, the sun was obviously moving farther south every day and unless society woke up and did something about it, the sun would continue to move south, bringing about darkness, death, and ruin. It would have been irresponsible to not do something!

Do you suppose there’s any chance that those sacrificed might have been the political or personal enemies of those who selected the victims? I wonder if doubting the need for sacrifice moved one to the top of the list. Hmmm.

Jul 1, 2009 - 8:16 am 2. Pajamas Media » It’s Not Easy Being Green:

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Jul 1, 2009 - 10:43 am 3. Delia:

The “eco-nuts” want to see humanity die off. I wish they’d just off themselves first though…you know, to show they really ‘mean’ it.

Jul 1, 2009 - 10:51 am 4. Strawman:

The left in general, and the environmentalists in particular, hide behind the dual vanities: moral vanity, and intellectual vanity. Both threads run through everything they say and write. When you refute one, they try to hide behind the other.

When you have a group self identity based on being more selfless and more intelligent than everyone else, that ends up forming an impenetrable shell that looks like piety, but in fact is composed of vanity, which is in turn composed of narcissism.

Because the root of this is narcissism, they’re completely immune to any irony. They literally can’t see what’s wrong with Gore flying a 747 to a global warming conference.

Cardinal Bellarmine would be jealous.

Jul 1, 2009 - 10:56 am 5. Sherab Zangpo:

Very funny article.

But I don’t find “them green” funny at all.

“Cap and trade” is simply a way to undermine (pun intended) the American economy, tax the free enterprise, reduce the average level of life.
The commies, masked as “environmentalists”, pursue the dream of destroying America’s might and “cap and trade” is just one of their weapons to this goal.

To dominate, the totalitarians need poverty…and they are gonna create it.

We must stop thinking “politics as usual” and we must oppose the policies of the subversives before it is too late to recover.

Now that the subversives have a filibuster-proof majority, we can only hope in the honesty of each single member of Congress.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Jul 1, 2009 - 11:18 am 6. David Thomson:

“But although it is clear that something can easily be both ridiculous and prominent, somehow I underestimated the staying power of environmentalism.”

You overlooked the fact that Al Gore and his fellow environmentalist crazies—don’t pay a serious price for their weirdness. Sometimes they even benefit financially from such an irrational indulgence. Gore is a very wealthy man because of his hopping onto this bandwagon. The rest of us are the one who will be severely harmed!

Jul 1, 2009 - 11:21 am 7. thestupidwhiteguy:

This perceived saintliness of environmentalists prevents them from laughing at themselves. We get comments like, “How can you make fun of someone who wants to save the planet?” all the time for these shorts:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2135e532a4/eco-commando-4

Jul 1, 2009 - 11:42 am 8. "progressive"watch:

Yes,all five posters. Sherab Zangpo,the Republicans and rightist independents still think it is the same old corrupt slow pitch T-ball,but the Democrat progressive-left is playing a vicious treasonous dead or alive hardball.

Jul 1, 2009 - 11:51 am 9. wildman:

Its easy to spot the environmentalist:
1. They require sacrifice from everyone but themselves.
2. They are invariably from an urban area.
3. They have degrees in journalism or the social “sciences”.
4. They are unwilling to experiment on their own so we can see the effect of their “Green” lifestyle.
5. They beleive that they and only they can save the planet. The rest of us must commute here from space.
6. They want us to live as they say, not as they live.
7. They want to repeal the laws of thermodynamics.
8. Have a deep “Bambi” fetish.
9. They are immune to fact, logic, math and the opinions or wishes of others.

Jul 1, 2009 - 12:21 pm 10. SteveB/Colorado:

#3 Delia: “eco-nuts want to see humanity die off.”

#4 Strawman: “environmentalists in particular hide behind the dual vanities: moral vanity and intellectual vanity…..”

Perhaps a bit of history would help here concerning environmentalism and conservation.

President Theodore Roosevelt: “Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”

President Ronald Reagan, during his two terms, signed into law nearly 40 wilderness bills, adding more than 10 million acres to the national wilderness system.

In 2006, President George W. Bush used the Antiquities Act to create an 88 million acre marine preserve as the nation’s largest national monument.

During his administration, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Clean air Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act; and created the Environmental Protection Agency.

It was President Reagan who in 1987 negotiated the international treaty to safeguard the Earth’s protective ozone layer by phasing out the use of chlorofluorocarbons.

A common thread here that should be obvious: all 4 Presidents were/are Conservative Republicans. I haven’t heard anyone labeling them as “subversives” or “totalitarians;” words used by Sherab Zangpo in comment #5. Guess Roger Kimball didn’t do a very good job of background research.

Jul 1, 2009 - 12:27 pm 11. seven:

good news. The greenies can flush their toliet tomorrwo. Once a week saves water.
cap and tax has a device for the shower that limits it to 3 minutes. Pumping water costs energy. Big Al know better how long you need for a shower than you do.

Jul 1, 2009 - 12:32 pm 12. Bohemond:

SteveB, can’t you appreciate the difference between rational conservation and irrational hair-shirt eco-theology?

Jul 1, 2009 - 12:55 pm 13. David Thomson:

“Its easy to spot the environmentalist:”

Should be: Its easy to spot the radical environmentalist

“I haven’t heard anyone labeling them as “subversives” or “totalitarians;” words used by Sherab Zangpo in comment #5.”

Very fair point. One must distinguish between legitimate environmental concerns—and the efforts of crazies like Al Gore, Jr. They should not all be lumped together. At the end of the day, all sane people are environmentalists.

Jul 1, 2009 - 1:03 pm 14. lefroy:

Tring to suppress the religious impulse is like trying to stuff an octopus in a box. It will escape somehow. These people are the heirs to the inquisitors, and to prim Victorian killjoys, covering up piano legs and putting sinners beyond the pale.

Devotion to environmentalism as a substitute for a sense of the numinous may be here to stay, but freethinkers need to fight back, at least to give ourselves some space. If we don’t, these misguided moralists will gag us . . don’t laugh when these people talk about courts to try “deniers”.

Jul 1, 2009 - 1:21 pm 15. Strawman:

Reagan also screwed up Beirut. What’s your point?

But although it is clear that something can easily be both ridiculous and prominent, somehow I underestimated the staying power of environmentalism.

In an odd way, it’s actually a conservative gut instinct that drives environmentalism. The idea that we’re about to lose something irreplaceable due to our own screwing around.

The left, who have no problem scorching the earth when it suits them (ever been to Craiova, Romania?) hijacked Teddy Roosevelt’s conservationism a long time ago, mixed in a heap of Malthusian human hatred, and came up with the perfect excuse for minding everyone’s business, and mowing down everyone’s rights.

If TR were alive today, he’d slap Gore black and blue.

Jul 1, 2009 - 1:31 pm 16. jerryofva:

Steve B:

You should read the whole quote. Roosevelt believed in conservation for man’s use not locking our resources away. He also warned against what we now call the bambi syndrome. He feared that as we became more urbanized we would lose touch with and an understanding of nature in all its wonders and dangers.

General comment. I have been preaching the true definition of Fascism, i.e., a collectivist political social organization built around a central organizing principle. Today’s Fascists, i.e, the Progressives who run the Democratic Party are building a collectivist society around the environmentalist narrative. We have had Red Fascism, Brown Fascism and black Fascism. Now we have Green Fascism. Fascism when combined with utopianism leads to genocide. Eco-ism has the potential for mass murder on a scale that would make Hitler, Stalin and Mao blush.

Jul 1, 2009 - 1:36 pm 17. billslayer:

Environmentalism is an atavistic reversion to animism that exists in the absence of the anthropomorphic diety. Say that real fast ten times. It’s the post religion religion complete with its own version of echatology i.e. global warming. Somewhere in the cave man brain there exists a need, a longing to appease the gods, to buy indulgences, to do magic spells to avert the apocalypse brought upon us by our sins. Is it just me or is anyone else beginning to want to call the ACLU and see if we can’t get the religious fanatics off the lawn?

Jul 1, 2009 - 1:41 pm 18. Samizdat:

Roger Kimball raises excellent points in this opinion piece. Primary amoung them is his assertion about the political advantage of being “green”. It is key that the rational amoung us counter this lunacy by sticking to science and economics to counter the nuttiness that spills forth from the environmental absolutists. Their percieved advantage can be turned against them with facts and consequences.

There will be a consumer revolt when things like Cap and Tax become law. There is a huge advantage here for rational people who argue science and economics. Consumers are going to become disenchanted with policies that make life more difficult to sustain and enjoy. There is a huge difference between the environmental totalitarians who currently control the terms of the debate and most people who are conservationist in their orientation. The revolt is already taking hold in europe.

Jul 1, 2009 - 2:15 pm 19. SukieTawdry:

SteveB/Colorado:

Conservation, always a worthy endeavor, has nothing whatsoever to do with all this climate change claptrap. Even conservatives recognize that wild spaces and preserves are actually good things (in moderation–all things in moderation). Where so many environmentalists go wrong is equating use with abuse. You see, you can use and conserve at the same time and a resource, natural or otherwise, ceases to be a resource if it can’t be used. Roosevelt said: Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. I doubt we conservatives could put it any better than that.

And as long as we’re at it, Teddy, while a great conservationist was far too much of a populist to be considered a conservative. Richard Nixon was decidedly not, repeat not, a conservative (take a look at a list of his domestic “accomplishments” some time–it’s enough to make an actual conservative cry). GWB is a proponent of compassionate (big government) conservatism. We non-compassionate (small government) types were at odds with his policies more often than not.

And, finally, the Montreal Protocol provides us with a global warming cautionary tale. While the dangers of chlorofluorocarbons might have made their banning a worthy environmental goal, the necessity of finding substitutes lead us right back into the briar patch. Hydrofluorocarbons cause chlorine buildup in the stratosphere and may be contributing to the greenhouse effect. Halons themselves have been found to deplete the ozone layer. Every action has a reaction and consequences, sometimes dire. How many millions of people, for example, have died of malaria, a disease that was well on its way to being wiped out, in the years since DDT was banned?

Frankly, the global warming crowd, the Gore acolytes with their hysterical prognostications and ridiculous assertions of scientific consensus are not trustworthy. I fear the “unintended” consequences of their various “fixes” far more than anything we might encounter due to a slight change in climate. More and more, we’re finding that their unimpeachable science is actually junk. Furthermore, the potential financial gain Gore and others would realize through the regulation of carbon emissions makes their motives increasingly suspect.

Jul 1, 2009 - 2:41 pm 20. bibbo:

g=9.8?

Weird name for lingerie. Is that a reference to gravity causing falling bodies to accelerate at 9.8 m/s2? I guess their bra’s must make your breasts sag pretty badly then. Interesting approach to salesmanship.

Jul 1, 2009 - 3:02 pm 21. Kristi S.:

‘Elle’ magazine has an annual Green Issue. They urge readers to wear soy lipstick, don hemp bikinis and go on something called eco-vacations. One starlet declared that she was so very green she recycled clothing tags.

All this green nonsense would be harmlessly amusing but for the real political power these people have to make me pay for their fantasies.

Jul 1, 2009 - 4:10 pm 22. fear obama:

Radical environmentalist religiousness and their sacrifices:

Some 95% of Sub-Saharan Africans still do not have electricity, lights, or refrigeration – or have them only a few hours a week. As a result, millions die every year from lung infections caused by pollution from wood and dung fires, and acute intestinal diseases caused by tainted water and spoiled food. Millions more die from diseases that would be largely eradicated by the improved living standards, healthcare systems, and agriculture that come with prosperity, modern technology, and abundant energy. The situation is likewise dire in many other areas.

But Al Gore, Live Earth rock stars, and radical pressure groups like Rainforest Action and Greenpeace constantly battle energy projects in poor countries. They oppose coal and gas-fired power plants because of speculative global warming, hydroelectric projects because they dam up rivers, nuclear power because it generates radioactive wastes. They expect Africans and peoples in other poor regions to base their future on insufficient, expensive, unreliable wind and solar energy. That is a virtual guarantor of perpetual poverty.
Millions more die because of parasitism diseases:
Environmentalists also oppose biotechnology to improve agricultural output, insecticides to reduce malaria and other diseases, and even jetliners that bring tourists to Africa and African produce to Europe.

But you need to break a few eggs to make a crap and trade omelet.

Again I mention 6 years of California wildfires have dumped more pollution into the atmosphere than all the cars trucks buses airplanes motorcycles ever invented.

If California would sink we can save the polar bears.

Jul 1, 2009 - 5:02 pm 23. Ray:

SteveB/Colorado wrote: > I haven’t heard anyone labeling them as “subversives” or “totalitarians;”

You’ll hear me do it. In fact, I’ve written all about it in my book.

I’ve also written an abbreviated history of environmentalism here:

http://fortcollinsteaparty.com/index.php/home/environmentalism-a-brief-history/

Jul 1, 2009 - 5:42 pm 24. pH-DependentNeocon:

Why isn’t anyone on Pajamas writing about what is going on in Honduras?! A small nation is trying to defend itself against the next Chavez, and OUR COUNTRY (via Obama) opposes them! We conservatives should be defending this outrage by the worlds leftists, but instead all I hear are crickets! I have blogged on it (http://themullallyreport.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-selective-mingling.html), but I’m sure the pros at Pajamas can do better.

Jul 1, 2009 - 6:26 pm 25. AThinkingPerson:

Anyone else trying desperately NOT to picture Al Gore wearing eco-friendly undergarments made out of pine trees?

I would like to see an in-depth article on the amount of money that Al Gore et al are reaping out of the green movement. I’m guessing quite a bit of “green” has been heading into his bank accounts.

Jul 1, 2009 - 7:20 pm 26. Delia:

Greenies stink [literally].

Jul 1, 2009 - 8:03 pm 27. SukieTawdry:

If California would sink we can save the polar bears.

Don’t need to. They’ve become so numerous in some areas that culling may be necessary. Apparently they’re not quite as “endangered” as we thought. Imagine that. California sinking isn’t a bad idea, though. Kinda stands on its own merits.

Jul 1, 2009 - 8:11 pm 28. Realist:

The idea that the Socialist left wingers can somehow save the planet is blown to smithereens when you realise that the three greatest mass murderers of the 20th Century were all Socialists Mao, Stalin and Hitler.

Jul 1, 2009 - 9:03 pm 29. Donna V.:

Here in Wisconsin, where the last 2 winters made Siberia look like a pleasant tropical destination and where we’re still wearing jackets in July, global warming is frequently mocked – even in my very liberal neighborhood. My next door neighbor has an Obama sticker on his car and yet he cheerily called out to me this evening, “Gee, I sure hope global warming gets here before summer’s over.”

Jul 1, 2009 - 9:10 pm 30. Ellen K:

Or, envision Al Gore wearing a pine cone suit. Problem is, pinecones dry out and become somewhat flammable when dry. Stay away from those open candles Al! BTW….has anyone talked to the commission that handles such things to see if these brands of ecofriendly undies have met flammability tests? I would hate it if they cut corners….oh I forgot, green is always good, even when it’s wrong, even when it’s not.

Jul 1, 2009 - 11:25 pm 31. Ellen K:

BTW, has anyone bothered to look at the comparison for the repeal of cutting forest undergrowth and the increase in forest fires. The undergrowth is the fuel that spreads wildfires. But econuts don’t want ANY of it cut. In fact in some areas of the west they have tried to prevent firelines from being cut. It’s like a death wish. I wish they would use it on themselves and leave the rest of us alone.

Jul 1, 2009 - 11:28 pm 32. Emma:

I am in constant awe of the stupidity of people. Wear eco-friendly underwear? Wouldn’t it be more eco-friendly to just stop wearing underwear altogether? Don’t you still have to wash it, no matter whether it’s organic cotton or nylon? Didn’t the same energy go into manufacturing and shipping it? Or is the eco-friendly underwear delivered to stores by wind-powered fairies?

Jul 2, 2009 - 2:50 am 33. John Frary:

In Augusta Maine you will find the State GOP HQ across the street from the Natural Resources Council of Maine. One building is a converted private home with no parking lot; the other is built for its purpose at the cost of a couple million and has its own parking lot. You can guess which.

Support for the Green Pietists comes from the Volvo Coast. The GPs regard the inhabitants of the rural north as trespassers on collective property over which they hold the High, the Middle and the Low Justice.

Jul 2, 2009 - 3:18 am 34. Right Wing Nation » School Prayer For Liberals:

[...] Sustainable lingerie. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. [...]

Jul 2, 2009 - 4:22 am 35. sodacrackers:

Thank you Roger, I have thought for quite a while now that “being green” is the new religion. Anyone who won’t convert will be sacrificed on their altars.

Jul 2, 2009 - 4:24 am 36. Old Soldier:

SukieTawdry: I’m with you. I’m a Conservationist who despises the idiot “environmentalists.”

Here in northwest New Jersey I am baffled by the enviro-nuts. They are adamantly against drilling oil on a few acres of arctic wasteland. The same people have no problem bulldozing beautiful woodlands and farms for housing developments as long as some of it is “low-income” housing.

Jul 2, 2009 - 4:58 am 37. Gary Ogletree:

Gaia is not amused by all the false prophets claiming to speak for the old lady. She is especially miffed that people who claim to love green plants are waging war against carbon dioxide. DC may be due a Cat 6 hurricane this fall.

Jul 2, 2009 - 5:13 am 38. Samizdat:

Right on Sukie Tawdry and the others who state that they are conservationsts. I fall in that category. I love the wild places that I frequent. I love to fish, keeping only what I eat and returning the rest. I abhor waste and litter. I support reasonable regulation.I compost,drive a car that gets 45+ MPG highway and heat my house with wood pellets.
Much of what the lefty environuts wish to impose on us falls way outside of reasonable regulation and use. My government, spured on by the enviro nazis views my use as unreasonable and creates regulations that are burdensome. They see man in constant conflict with nature, rather than in harmony. They impose standards based upon paganism and expect the rest of us to live by their values which are unsupported scientifically. Keep pushing lefties, you are going to experience backlash that you don’t see comming.

Jul 2, 2009 - 6:35 am 39. Skip:

My neighbor, whom I thought pretty rational, although liberal, spent a day away from home recently while a sickly tree was removed from her yard. She simply could not stand watching the tree service cut down her beloved plant and visibly shook when telling me about it. Bizarre.

Jul 2, 2009 - 7:56 am 40. John Moore:

This environmentalist religion is a significant part of Cognition Disorder of Progressives, a mental problem first described in 1994.

As to the Aztecs (Aztos?), their victims were from tribes the subjugated into slavery – sort of like people who work for a living in an environmental-fascist state.

Jul 2, 2009 - 1:57 pm 41. And just what the hell is that supposed to mean (part vii)? « The TrogloPundit:

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Jul 2, 2009 - 3:25 pm 42. Cindy Sue Causey:

Man, you ain’t kiddin’ on that piety [bit]..

A smaller than handful of others and I had to fight through an email campaign to have People with Disabilities tiered equally with, you got it, Environmentalists over at the BarackObama.com website in the runup to Election 2008.. Environmentalists, Labor, and even Children were given priority under his heading of People..

Persons with Disabilities..? Pah, under the heading Issues.. He might as well have used the word “problems”..

Warmest from Talking Rock.. :wink:

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Jul 2, 2009 - 7:38 pm 44. Realist:

Anyone with at least 1/4 of a brain who lived thru the brief “global freezing” scare of the early ’70s which quietly flubbed as all its predictions were far more than just wrong, knows that the current global warming scare — originally justified by models created BY THE SAME GLOBAL FREEZING CHARLATANS — is just as much hooey as the first attempt of these 4th rate scientists to achieve name recognition and income from engagements to speak to crowds of ignoramuses and retards. All the data shows — repeat ALL the available historic data, bar none — that although CO2 and atmospheric temperature are correlated, it is WITHOUT EXCEPTION the case that atmospheric temperature changes first, THEN much later the co2 level rises. It rises because of evaporation of co2 dissolved in the sea, more of which enters the atmosphere when surface sea temperatures are warmed. This is true for the data Gore shows in his famous “documendacity,” which he intentionally squeezes into a long time scale over a small chart so that the detail is obscured, since it shows the precise opposite cause & effect that he knows is the correct one in reality. The atmosphere has been far warmer in the past than now, and it has had at times at least 20 times the co2 concentration as at present. And… those times were wonderful times when plant and animal “biodiversity” flourished, as any botanist would tell you is the natural consequence of a little warming. That’s why life is easier in the warmer latitudes and terribly harsh in the northerly ones. We should PRAY (if religious) for global warming because it would go a long way toward ending world hunger, expanding the rain forests, increasing biodiversity and making this planet more of a heaven on earth than it already has the capacity to be. But the advocates of the global warming hoax are just SO incredibly uninformed (or such liars) that they are either unaware of (or hiding) their hypocrisy in advocating a war on non-existent man-caused warming that would, even if correct, accomplish all the other goals they claim to worship. It would be a colossal joke if these neanderthal numbskulls weren’t so populous and endowed with the voting power to destroy the lives of their betters along with their own suicides.
So really if you want to know about Climate Change ask a Geologist and you will get the truth Meteorologists can’t even tell you if it will rain tomorrow or not.

Jul 2, 2009 - 10:58 pm 45. Colin Wilkinson:

Environmentalism is a religion. Ecology is a science. Environmentalism is a false God. Serious Christians and Jews should take a look at the 10 commandments. Al Gore is a Jesus School drop out. When you drop out of a school that has one textbook I think you have proved yourself mentally deficient for serious work. I do not get my Climatology from a Jesus school dropout, Mr. Gore.
BTW when some greenie starts talking about their 120 year meteorological record, I reply that my time line is 2 million years. 80% of the time in the last 2 mill. years,Minnesota, where I live, has been under the Ice. The Ice retreated most recently was about 13,000 ya. The post-glacial climate Maximum was 6,000 ya. At that time Minnesota had a climate a lot like west Texas and the prairie reached into north Ontario and east toward the Alleghanies.
There is more to life than lying to people to get political power.

Jul 3, 2009 - 10:03 am 46. DavidN:

I’m having trouble with all of this cap and trade thing. I don’t believe that Al and his friends are true socialists. They’re smart enough (just) to understand that socialism doesn’t work, because the economy it produces is weak and poor. Al and his friends want a wealthy economy, because a wealthy one can be taxed heavily, and that gives them lots of money to do *GOOD THINGS* like destroy the environment while trying to save it, and creating poor people to feed, so that they feel good about themselves.

I’ve come to the conclusion they don’t understand how things work, and are just lame-brained in their actions and the consequences. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd et al certainly helped create the mortgage crisis, but they clearly don’t understand what happened, or why it’s a problem. The only thing they know is that the economy crashed, and they regard that similarly to the weather (only George W. Bush could be blamed for a hurricane, certainly not Democrats). So now Frank has been making noises to the effect that Fannie and Freddie should be returning their lending practices to 2007 levels, in spite of the fact that those were what got us in trouble in the first place. Al and his friends want to do Cap and Trade (sounds like a vaudeville team, doesn’t it?) and put the coal industry out of business. Obama said openly (but in San Francisco, not West Virginia) that his Cap and Trade scheme would put coal-burning power plants out of business, with cripplingly expensive taxes. We elected him anyway, and he did what he said he’s going to do…put half of America’s electric power generating plants out of business. I seriously doubt he understands what that means: he probably thinks that it’ll be good for the economy (think of all those taxes we’ll be collecting! Right up until they all go out of business, and then we’ll collect…oh, never mind) and for the environment, as if we can just change over our power generation grid right now, and mandate solar panels on everyone’s house. Does everyone have the tens of thousands of dollars needed to pay for the new panels? What, you’re already broke? Well, the stimulus bill will spend tax dollars from future years right now, to pay…well, OK, we don’t have the money…Another stimulus anyone?

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