Warming was not enough though. It had to be Man-Made Global Warming so that we would all feel guilty and want to pay up. Mankind was also implicated in the Y2K scare, since we created and programmed all those computers, and we had to spend lots of our hard earned tax dollars to pay for our mistakes.
So now after the revelations of Climategate and the failures of both Kyoto and Copenhagen what is the likelihood that the Alarmists might want to switch horses again and try a new boogeyman? With major snow falls all over North America and Europe during December, ongoing record setting cold spells now being experienced seemingly everywhere, and scientific predictions for at least a couple decades of cooling, this may be a good time to try to save some Alarmist credibility and get off the Global Warming horse.
But which horse should they switch to. After all, there needs to be another horse. Those that want to scare us into believing we are in great danger and need to be saved must find something for us to be in danger from. Otherwise, how could they advocate for higher taxes, a new world government, restrictions on freedoms, and funds from the haves to save the have-nots. Anthropogenic Global Warming was such a perfect crisis vehicle for trying to achieve all of these, but now it is looking kind of worn out and full of holes.
Health issues have been tried before but with limited success. DDT, Acid Rain, Ozone depletion, AIDS, SARS, Bird Flu, H1N1
Health issues have been tried before but with limited success. DDT, Acid Rain, Ozone depletion, AIDS, SARS, Bird Flu, H1N1 all had a good run, but didn’t do the complete job. I would hate to think that anyone would conceive of a really nasty manufactured disease that would serve their purpose. Surely things of that nature and WMDs would be created and used only by extremists to suit their religious goals….Wouldn’t they? I hope!
There is however a man-made crisis that could be useful to the elite control freaks and that is a world-wide economic crisis, but it has a few flaws. One is that we just got over one and seemed to have survived it just fine, so that is kind of so last decade. Also, Copenhagen demonstrated that it is kind of difficult to convince world governments to raise taxes during an economic crisis, and besides the developed countries seem to be more seriously hurt by economic crisis, so the taxes would have to be raised on the undeveloped and developing countries to help the rich…..That’s not going to work. So even if Obama and the Democrats are successful in destroying the US economy through deficits and taxes, the world government fans may not be able to take advantage of it.
Currently, there does not seem to be any large meteors or comets that can be verified to be on a collision course with earth, so we don’t need a world government and higher taxes to save us from any of those things. At least, not yet! But just you wait until something significant is spotted. We will all have to dig deep and send our money to the UN to protect the developing countries from the imminent danger, ‘that will hit them first’. I wonder how much money is already being spent by Alarmists eagerly looking for a big rock that may be useful to them, at least for a few years…..until it lands.
Unfortunately for the Alarmists, the Mayan and Nostradomus predictions for the end of the world in 2012, although nice and big in terms of threat level, does not really lend itself to raising taxes or saving the developing countries, since fortunately, even the UN would be a candidate for destruction. Besides, who would believe them if they tried to give some scientific credibility to these predictions? Jones and Mann were good at their deceptions about Global Warming, but not even these guys could make us believe this one.
I hope I haven’t bummed you out to much. Don’t despair! There is still a potential tragedy that the Marxist control freaks could use to take your money and your freedom.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the odds are you can likely look out your window right now and see it, or walk outside and feel it. It is a threat to our life-styles and in some cases our lives and it is an even greater threat to the poor nations of the world, so wealth transfer could still be invoked. Its effects could be minimized through massive financial investments, but no matter what we spend, we cannot prevent it, so the tax increases could go on as long as our jobs hold out. It will probably have a detrimental impact on world population, so the eugenicists will love it. It may require large migrations of the population and new methods and guidelines for food production and distribution, so it could be a hit with the central government control types.
Unfortunately (for the rent seekers) it does not require any fraudulent scientists to make the case for the threat since there are already many real scientists predicting it. That would be great news for the Alarmists since they won’t have to risk their already shaky reputations about scientific facts. Another plus for Alarmists is that it will also require energy conservation, although for a different reason, so the carbon tax fans could carry on without missing a beat.
This is a perfect new horse for the Alarmists to switch to, so why are they still riding that beaten down old nag called Global Warming when they could switch to Global Cooling. Well, for one reason, they would lose all of their useful idiots in the Environmental NGOs. If man is not causing the world to cool, then what would the Greenies have to complain about. Who could they blame? Gaia? The Alarmists would also lose many of their current rent seeking scientists as they latch onto a new group of poorly funded scientists they once called ‘deniers’.
The best thing of all about this new crisis for the Alarmists is that it is real and it can be predicted with some degree of accuracy. No more hockey sticks, other than possibly for playing hockey on the ice-paks around the edge of the Caribbean.
This article is not just a sarcastic shot at the AGW Alarmists. There is a considerable amount of science behind this prediction. There are many scientists working on the question of what is really causing Climate Change (besides that stupid CO2 thing) and where are we headed. The almost decade long cooling that we have experienced since the turn of the century is real and there are predictions that it will continue for at least two decades or possibly more.
The current theories for why we are experiencing cooling include the influence of clouds, cosmic rays, solar burst from sun spots, and the relationship between these. One of the best authors I have seen on the subject is Dr. Henrik Svensmark from Denmark. He is the man that you may have seen collapse from a heart attack on stage at COP15. Dr. Svensmark has produced a very layperson consumable video of his theories that was shown on television in Europe. A DVD of his video can be purchased at this
website: The documentary is currently available online in six parts
here:
Note that the documentary starts out in the Danish language with English subtitles then switches after a few minutes to English. The Danish language at the beginning of the first video may explain why there were 32,000 views on the first of the six videos, but just over 5,000 views for the remaining five. The video of Dr. Svensmark’s heart attack however had over 880,000 hits.
If you are among those concerned about what is being taught to our children in schools, such as Al Gore’s highly discredited movie, you might want to acquire a copy of Dr. Svensmark’s DVD and the “Not Evil Just Wrong” video to share with your local school or school board. As I indicated in my article on a proposed
Global Freedom Day, finding out what our children are being taught in school has to be a high priority if we want to maintain our freedoms.
Those of you who have paid attention to the Climategate scandal will not be surprised to see in the video the extent to which the Alarmist have tried to block Dr. Svensmark from publishing his theories. My prediction though is that after the Global Warming Alarmists get shot down in flames again in Mexico City in December, they will jump to a new horse, embrace the scientists working on Global Cooling, and plot a new course for world governance.
Are you ready for their next assault on your tax dollars?
John Ziraldo retired from IBM in Toronto after 40 years as a computer and security technician and manager. John Ziraldo can be reached at: JohnZiraldo@rogers.com
The first week of January is the time for predictions for the New Year, so I would like to make my prediction about the Climate Alarmists next attack on our freedom.
You may recall that some of the Global Warming scientists started their careers warning us about the pending ice age in the 70s, but then when the weather began to warm they switched to warming. 
