Hypocrisy in climate dogma
Global warming, like abortion, has taken the form of religious dogma. So much so that "progressives" closed-mindedly argue that it is an established fact and further debate is neither welcome nor tolerated.
Columnist Ellen Goodman has gone so far as to equate global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers in a recent op-ed. No hyperbole here.
The monthly energy consumption of pseudo-climatologist Al Gore's mansion in Tennessee is 20 times the yearly average of a typical American home. Nevertheless, the former vice president self-righteously urges everyone else to buy energy-efficient light bulbs and ride electric lawnmowers to work to save the planet from energy hogs like, well, Al Gore. He buys "carbon offsets" from his own company, Generation Investment Management LLP, a form of indulgence meant to assuage guilty consciences for oversized carbon footprints. No hypocrisy there.
Climate change zealotry is only the tip of the melting iceberg when it comes to manufacturing crises to justify government intrusion. An insatiable desire to micromanage people's lives has resulted in bans of unhealthy, though legal, behaviors in one's own place of business and arbitrary limitations in the number of garage sales city residents are now "allowed" to have.
Incidentally, since I do not plan to sell any of my junk this year, I am now in the "garage sale offsets" business.
Othelmo da Silva
Rochester
Rochester
5 comments:
Hey I'm the only guy who ever links to your loser blog
"It takes one to know one."
Shouldn't you be collecting signatures to draft hypocrite Gore or something?
Go play on a melting iceberg, kid, you're bothering me.
Hey, DAV, what's your "carbon footprint?"
How about Edward's huge future energy gulping home?
How about the most ecologically friendly, energy saving one belonging to none other than George Bush.
Hey Dave, are you the only guy that desires true enlightenment? (o:
Here is are the online responses to my letter to the editor so far:
172526 - 03/16/2007
Anthropogenic Global Warming Believers = undermining our nationhood by global political control. A similar idea arose in the 19th Century. Does the name Karl Marx ring a bell? The environment is the new crusade calling card for such control measures. One method they use, is get the general public to think that CO2 is no different than real pollution, like NOx, SOx, mercury, and particulate matter (soot). The Warmists will try to muddy up and confuse the public as much as they can to obtain their control over our lives. They are like figurative cockroaches infiltrating our political homes.
188395 - 03/16/2007
The writer makes a good point. What should be a scientific debate has turned into a political propaganda effort. The science has been cherry picked and massaged to match the political agenda and anyone who would dare to question it is pilloried. It is interesting that the party of so much freedom and tolerance is always passing laws to curtail or prevent certain human behaviors they find objectionable. The smoking constraints are a prime example of this. Now the state is in the predicament of losing revenue because too many people have stopped or cut back on their smoking to allow funding of the programs they were spending the money on. How can they get them to keep smoking and keep raising their taxes at the same time? Mabye lobotomies need to be done. I am sure the DFL will find a way. There is no harm in conserving our resources and our environment. Stewardship is a good thing, but this is not what the radical environmental movement is about. It is about socialism and power. Spending trillions of dollars on ineffective measures to combat something we have no control over would be the height of bad stewardship. It is highly questionable whether we can control global warming, or future cooling unless someone finds the thermostat on the sun and puts a remote control on it for Al Gore to maintain from his mansion. We need objective science on this topic, not the political nonsense that passes for reason today.
Frank Hawthorne - 03/16/2007
"An insatiable desire to micromanage people's lives has resulted in bans of unhealthy, though legal, behaviors in one's own place of business and arbitrary limitations in the number of garage sales city residents are now "allowed" to have." Thank goodness no hyperbole there, Othelmo. I was afraid you were going to defend the rights of smokers. While some may argue that it is "micromanaging" the lives & freedom of the citizenry for Rochester to limit to three the number of garage/yard sales per family, I hardly see the corelation between limiting the zeal with which one sells junk from the home with the necessity to corporately clean-up our environmental act in response to global warming. Even IF climate change does not occur precisely as so many are postulating, what is the harm in being more deliberate about implementing our much-delayed better stewardship of our God-given natural resources? This should be both non-partisan and a no-brainer. --Frank Hawthorne
The two first responses are quite thoughtful. Frank Hawthorne, along with the long winded and extremely boring Loyal "LD" Nelson, is an Olmsted DFL "director" (http://www.olmsteddfl.org/aboutus/officers.htm) and liberal watch/lap dog. You can count on him to post his pseudo-intelectual drivel in reponse to letters from a conservative perspective.
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