Watts Up With That?
Summary: William Lind takes a sharp and accurate look at the politics of climate change. In modern America, always look beneath the glossy surface of narratives in the news.
A March 15 article by Larry Kummer at the Fabius Maximus website discusses how global warming advocates have misused a worst-case scenario to generate panic. Titled “About the corruption of climate science”, Kummer’s article details how politicians are misrepresenting climate projections, especially one called RCP 8.5. That their goal is to create fear should not surprise us: from the government’s perspective, fear is a growth industry.
Russell Kirk called conservatism “Politics Of Prudence
" and prudence suggests we should pay some attention to climate change,
or, to be more precise, increasing volatility in weather. That is
something we can observe happening. Conservatives’ belief in stewardship
means we owe it to future generations to hand them a planet in at least
as good condition as we received from our forefathers. Reducing our own
consumption, including of fossil fuels, is desirable.
But the Left seeks far more. In fact, its goal is nothing less than total control of every aspect of human life, which we call “totalitarianism”, justified by fear of climate change. Since everything a person does, including breathing, affects the climate, if climate change is a huge threat, someone needs to control everything. That “someone” should obviously be whoever is most concerned about the climate, i.e., the extreme environmentalists and the larger coalition of which they are part, the culturally Marxist Left.
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Summary: William Lind takes a sharp and accurate look at the politics of climate change. In modern America, always look beneath the glossy surface of narratives in the news.
A March 15 article by Larry Kummer at the Fabius Maximus website discusses how global warming advocates have misused a worst-case scenario to generate panic. Titled “About the corruption of climate science”, Kummer’s article details how politicians are misrepresenting climate projections, especially one called RCP 8.5. That their goal is to create fear should not surprise us: from the government’s perspective, fear is a growth industry.
Russell Kirk called conservatism “Politics Of Prudence
" and prudence suggests we should pay some attention to climate change,
or, to be more precise, increasing volatility in weather. That is
something we can observe happening. Conservatives’ belief in stewardship
means we owe it to future generations to hand them a planet in at least
as good condition as we received from our forefathers. Reducing our own
consumption, including of fossil fuels, is desirable.But the Left seeks far more. In fact, its goal is nothing less than total control of every aspect of human life, which we call “totalitarianism”, justified by fear of climate change. Since everything a person does, including breathing, affects the climate, if climate change is a huge threat, someone needs to control everything. That “someone” should obviously be whoever is most concerned about the climate, i.e., the extreme environmentalists and the larger coalition of which they are part, the culturally Marxist Left.
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1 comment:
If no one is mentioning technological weather modification, which appears to be a HUGE - if not the main - cause of "climate change", this whole conversation is pointless.
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