Another post from guest blogger Rick Neale of Florida Today, from the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando:William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, routinely uses the annual National Hurricane Conference as a platform to bash global warming.
In a statement to Florida Today, Gray argued that the scientific consensus on global warming is bogus — and "a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree" that mankind is in danger."
We are also brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore's alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background," Gray wrote.
Vaclav Klaus
Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus, a frequent global warming theory critic, concurs. He has recently argued that climate alarmists are a threat to freedom. In a speech to the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York on March 4, the recently reelected Czech president said,
As a politician who personally experienced communist central planning of all kinds of human activities, I feel obliged to bring back the already almost forgotten arguments used in the famous plan-versus-market debate in the 1930s in economic theory (between Mises and Hayek on the one side and Lange and Lerner on the other), the arguments we had been using for decades until the moment of the fall of communism.
The innocence with which climate alarmists and their fellow-travellers in politics and media now present and justify their ambitions to mastermind human society belongs to the same fatal conceit. To my great despair, this is not sufficiently challenged, neither in
the field of social sciences, nor in the field of climatology.The climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong. They believe in their own ability to assemble all relevant data into their Central Climate Change Regulatory Office equipped with huge supercomputers, in the possibility of giving adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions.
We have to restart the discussion about the very nature of government and about the relationship between the individual and society. We need to learn the uncompromising lesson from the inevitable collapse of communism 18 years ago.
It is not about climatology. It is about freedom.
Every liberal initiative from abusive tax increases to "universal" health care has only one goal in sight: control of the way ordinary people live their lives. Nowhere is this goal more transparent as in the liberal obssession with global warming.
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