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The coldest winter (2008-09) in a decade in many places, with snow in unlikely cities such as New Orleans, has deflated some of the hot air in global warming. And a heavy snowfall that paralyzed Washington, DC upstaged a mass demonstration scheduled to promote global warming. Nevertheless, according to Al Gore and the mainstream media, "the debate is over" proving that global warming exists and that humans are causing it. But 680 of the world's leading scientists, economists and policy analysts, who met March 8-10 in New York City for the second Heartland International Conference, beg to differ. The title of the conference expressed their doubts: "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?" These authorities assert that scientists worldwide do not agree that global warming is human induced or even that the earth is still warming. Many scientists and other observers have come to realize that global warming is no longer a question of science but is all about politics and money. Their slogan cap-and-trade was best explained by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-OH) as "a carbon tax that will increase taxes on all Americans who drive a car, who have a job, who turn on a light switch." President Obama is rushing his carbon tax through Congress before the American people discover the lie in his promise that "95% of working families" will not see their taxes rise by "a single dime." In fact, his own budget shows that taxes will rise for 100% of Americans for the sake of global warming. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plans to use a treaty to reduce America's use of energy and therefore our standard of living, while forcing us to subsidize energy production in other countries and close our eyes to the omission of China and India from any obligation. Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus described talking to global warming advocates as similar to trying to make "well prepared arguments" to former East European Communist bureaucrats: "it all fell into emptiness ... they did not listen ... they did not argue back . . . they considered you uninformed . . . a complainer." Klaus carried his politically incorrect views to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he reminded the countries promoting the global warming agenda that they "had not fulfilled even the relatively modest Kyoto Protocol obligations." At the Heartland Conference, the science of global warming was actually discussed and debated. That was very different from United Nations conferences, where global warming caused by humans was accepted as fact without debate. The advocates of a UN treaty to force the United States to reduce our use of energy are extraordinarily shy about debating the science of the issue. We've yet to hear any of them explain or apologize for their hysterical support of the false assumption of the 1960s that millions of people would starve to death in the 1980s because of overpopulation, or of the 1970s theory that global cooling would kill our agriculture. |
