Yeah, I know, I know. If you are a denier Global Warming (when the temperature is high) or Climate Change (when it\’s anywhere else – as if this hasn\’t happened throughout the annals of time) you\’re a mouth-breathing neanderthal ignorant moron.
But what if you\’re also the co-founder of Greenpeace?
Patrick Moore, whose credentials go far beyond being that co-founder, has written a commentary which every person concerned about the environment – and who wants to know the entire story, not just the sneering insults of people with their hands out for neverending grant money – should read. I, therefore, urge you to use the link I\’ve just provided and do so.
But in the meanwhile, I want to put up just this small segment of Mr. Moore\’s piece, because it lays out my problem with climate change proponents so well:
Climate change has become a powerful political force for many reasons. First, it is universal; we are told everything on Earth is threatened. Second, it invokes the two most powerful human motivators: fear and guilt. We fear driving our car will kill our grandchildren, and we feel guilty for doing it.
Third, there is a powerful convergence of interests among key elites that support the climate “narrative.” Environmentalists spread fear and raise donations; politicians appear to be saving the Earth from doom; the media has a field day with sensation and conflict; science institutions raise billions in grants, create whole new departments, and stoke a feeding frenzy of scary scenarios; business wants to look green, and get huge public subsidies for projects that would otherwise be economic losers, such as wind farms and solar arrays. Fourth, the Left sees climate change as a perfect means to redistribute wealth from industrial countries to the developing world and the UN bureaucracy.
Bingo. Yahtzee. Bullseye. That says it perfectly.
Is there such a thing as man-made climate change? Personally I have no doubt that there is. But I also have little doubt that man\’s contribution to climate change is infinitesimal comparied to other factors, and that we are being asked – make that told – to jump through hoops for virtually no benefit.
I mean this literally: cows burping and farting have more of an impact on climate than anything man has ever done.
But keep those scare campaigns going, guys…and keep those grants coming.
