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Heartening to see President Trump turn back Obama's so-called climate change measures. I'm afraid the genie is out of the lamp and jurisdictions currently feasting on these new revenue streams will be very reluctant to forego that cash

When the climate hysteria goes away its steep costs will remain



As we enter the 19th or 20th year of the so-called 'hiatus' in global warming, it's becoming fairly clear that the idea of catastrophic climate change is a tad fanciful. I'm sure the potential for climate change certainly exists, because that's what climate does, but the evidence for this change to be attributed to "carbon pollution" caused by human behaviour is growing ever thinner. I see a time in the not so distant future when the concept of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) will go the way of the VCR. Many of the scientific experts advocating the AGW thesis are getting ever more desperate to retain their priestly status in the face of increasing evidence that climate change is much more complicated than climate hysterics realize and that there is a strong emerging body of evidence that many factors affect climate, not just fossil fuels. I still don't understand why some climate scientists maintain that solar cycles have nothing to do with climate change.
The idea that mankind is adversely affecting the climate was initially floated through the devious machinations of the late and not-missed Maurice Strong, Canada's own version of George Soros. Strong was a clever and unrelenting force in establishing the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the ideal tool to gain control of the behaviour of humans in a brave new carbon free world. And to a great degree Strong has succeeded beyond what anyone ever expected, because as Lenin famously said, 'a lie told often enough becomes the truth.' We are now beginning to see the cracks in the AGW wall, as revealed by hard evidence that some of the evidence used to prop up the idea is fabricated and massaged. For confirmation look no further than the damning revelations of the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, wherein the 'climate scientists (Jones and Mann) discuss ways to hide evidence that doesn't fit their hypotheses, as well as the fudging of temperature data recently revealed by a former scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Evidence that AGW was about something other than saving the planet has been around for nearly 30 years. As stated by Larry Bell in a column on cfact.org, 'In 1988, former Canadian Minister of the Environment Christine Stewa told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald:"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."'

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A recent essay on wattsupwiththat.com by Rick Wallace titled "Reflections on Mark Steyn's 'A Disgrace to the Profession' about Dr. Michael Mann" raises an interesting point: "One fine day we will wake up and find that the discrepancies and contradictions and dubious claims have accumulated to the point where the basic thesis cannot be sustained by anyone outside the inevitable fringe who will keep banging away before an ever-diminishing audience of true believers. At that point, because much of the field is more-or-less normal science, most researchers will simply put the excesses of the few behind them. In doing this, they will already have grounds for plausibly denying that they were involved in the hysteria in any serious fashion. And at that point the atmosphere of hysteria that now casts a pall over the entire industrialized world will vanish like the morning haze. But there will be one hitch. The institutions that Mr. Strong and others have created together with all those over-busy government agencies will still be with us. And how all that will turn out is something I really can't foretell. What does result when mastodons like these have been let loose to roam the countryside?"

Oh dear, this is something few have thought about as AGW has become so mainstream that it's now an article of faith among the great unwashed. And while I do not pretend to be a prophet, I feel fairly secure in predicting that once governments have enacted "carbon taxes" to combat AGW, those new revenue streams will not be surrendered by the political class and will in fact be expanded exponentially. If there is any doubt I refer you to income taxes, which were temporary measures in the US in 1861 to fund the Civil War and in 1917 in Canada to fund WW I. Over a century+ later, not only are income taxes still very much a part of our accepted reality, they now consume the lion's share of most people's incomes. It's heartening to see President Trump turn back Barack Obama's so-called climate change measures, but I'm afraid the genie is out of the lamp and jurisdictions currently feasting on these new revenue streams will be very reluctant to forego that cash.


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Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism.  His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others.  He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto.

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