Posted by
Steve on Friday, February 09, 2007 11:14:43 AM
In the debate on global warming, one thing is perfectly clear, believers in global warming are not interested in facts and non-believers are. That is similar to many religions, facts do not come into play. You can show someone facts and they will not believe because it does not conform with their belief system.
In reading about the global warming debate in the paper and on the internet, facts are used in articles against global warming and no facts are used in support of global warming. That is because there are no facts to support global warming. It has not warmed in 16 years and we only had a brief period between 1976 and 1990 where it did warm. The total rise in temperature in the last 100 years was 1 degree fahrenheit. That is a very small increase. The increase is almost within the margin for error on those early thermomotor.
Why are we having this big controversy? The reason is to destroy the US economy. The leaders of the environmental movement have as their goal to destroy the US economy and bring us back to the pack. The rank and file truly believe that they care about the environment. The leaders know the difference. As many talk show hosts have said, environmentalism is the refuge of the communists after the fall of communism.
The truth of that can be seen in the goals of the environmental movement. If you take out the talk of saving the environment, you have the goals of the communist party. But, wrapped up in environmental doctrine, it is difficult to see.
What can we do about this? There is not much we can do about this. To say that the environmental movement is lead by communists will get you branded a crackpot and dismissed. You have to fight them point by point. That is a slow process. Unfortunately the practice only works with small groups. The propaganda of the environmental movement is being propagated in mass quantities every day. The net result is that more are subjected to the environmental half-truths and lies than are subjected to the truth. The other problem is that the half-truths and lies are sexier. The truth is not as exciting.
Until we get the truth funded at a level greater than the lies, we will not have any success. Even showing that all the computer models are wrong does not faze the true believer. In my class, we discussed this issue and when it was pointed out that the computer models are wrong, my students still believed. When I pointed out that we project the future based on the past and the past showed little increase, they still believed. When I made the projection that it should go up 1 degree fahrenheit, not 6.5 degrees centigrade, they still believed. I do not know what will get through to them to get them to question what is being taught to them.