(The following commentary was written as a response to a link to testimony in Congress made in 2001 on the subject of global warming.... We thank Regular Contributor M.D, of St Charles County, Missouri for the link.)
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THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX
We wholeheartedly agree with Dr Lindzen's testimony (see link below). However we see at least two problems. They are not related to the truth of his presentation before Congress because we believe he is accurately stating the facts but instead the problem he and many others have in getting the truth across is the manner in which they present the case.
http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/Testimony/Senate2001.pdf
Two major problems we refer to are:
1. Dr Lindzen’s testimony is 7 years old.
2. The terminology of his truthful testimony on the issue is presented in a way that no ordinary citizen is likely to read it or understand it. This particular testimony has obviously made no headway with many politicians because Al Gore and his gang of believers have been winning the public perception ever since this prestigious testimony was given!
CLARIFICATION OF OUR VIEW:
Politicians, and that includes the current bunch running for office, are only interested in the perceptions, correct or incorrect, of those who vote and only then to the extent that it impacts an upcoming election. Ignoring the truth and supporting damaging policy is certainly not new to those in and seeking positions of power. One need go no further than the Federal Reserve, its money printing policies, Congress, their "bailout" proposals and their unwillingness to end the "earmark" scandals, among many other things, to see that clearly.
The proponents of the global warming hoax have done a masterful job in promoting the scam and have run a PR campaign that has thoroughly routed those relative few who understand that global warming is a hoax. That is the main and current problem.
With people like Gore running around collecting the Nobel Prize and making suckers out of a gullible public, as well as many qualified and unqualified climate scientists, and generating millions for their own pockets and that of elected officials, hardly anyone is going to disagree with the hogwash these global warming scam artists are selling. The upshot of it all is that whoever gets elected as President will be pushing a huge cost onto the American Taxpayer while at the same time punishing U.S. Industry and killing job formation. We are likely to get stuck with paying for a lot of phony and fictitious “science” because influential politicians and their gaggle of “hangers-on” are eagerly joining the bandwagon in order to pocket campaign and consultant money from people like Gore.
Unfortunately, all three Presidential candidates are espousing a "belief" in global warming and, as I have pointed out, it's because it has become a myth believed in by the general population. As for us, all we can do is continue to work at translating and publishing REAL scientific facts into a view that will find acceptance by the general public. The odds are pretty good, though, that Gore and his global warming cronies will continue making huge amounts of money on this because on this issue the advantage does not lie with the truth, it lies with the money!
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