How much longer do you think Al Gore can continue to regale sympathetic crowds with stories of the catastrophic climate change that is certain to occur within a mere 4 years, while the evidence against him piles up outside? How much longer can he keep gullible followers strung out on his lines of anecdotes before eventually turning against him as one after another of his “evidences” turn out to be wrong?
I guess that depends entirely upon the unquestioning shallowness of the minds of those who believe him. If anything, Al Gore has successfully amassed an army of the kind of people he needs most–the kind that accept without question or argument the words he dispenses to them.
Many of these non-thinkers are quick to jump on the message boards of the outlets that carry the opinions, thoughts and research of the climate change heretics such as George Will or Jeff Jacoby. They repeat their proofs of global warming as they hear them from their associates in the green associations or from other warmist blogs and columns. Little or no verification is needed for these people, because the science has been settled, Al Gore has spoken, and the time to act is now. I had a professor who called this kind of nonsense “telephone scholarship,” cautioning us that it was below students who attended his classes.
And it easy to see why. Without a few minutes most or all of the claims made by the pretend climate scholars is laid to rest by someone with actual knowledge or first-hand experience. One case in point is found in the comments of the Jeff Jacoby article mentioned above. A certain commenter, Robocon-1, informed the rest of the board that Australia had not seen rain all year. Robocon-1, who lives in the US, was then later corrected by a gent living in the Australian outback, who reported that they instead have had a rather rainy summer.
Some of the other favorites for these “natural-climate-cycle deniers” are:
- The polar ice caps are shrinking (in fact there is new proof they are growing1)
- Warming is increasing (no new warming has been recorded since 19982)
- Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are causing the earth to warm (new evidence shows a strong solar component to climate cycles, and that CO2 is not a climate driver3)
- Ocean levels are rising rapidly (globally, ocean levels remain fairly steady)
- Polar Bears are dying (polar bear populations are increasing)
But this brings up a scary scenario: If enough of these people band together to form a political movement to get legislation passed that would enforce deep cuts in our economy in the name of protecting the environment, and rollback much of the technological progress we have made in the last 50-60 years, they could institute a new world-wide fascist regime based on their unhealthy obsession with the environment.
Don’t look now, folks, but we are much closer to that than ever before.
Footnotes
- Dr. Willie Soon, “It’s the Sun, Stupid!”
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
