Give Me Liberty

“We simply cannot afford to gamble … by ignoring it. We cannot risk inaction. Those scientists who say we are merely entering a period of climactic instability are acting irresponsibly. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored.”

Not so fast. These frightening words are not the latest warning of a need to reduce our “carbon footprint”, adopt a “green” lifestyle, and wreak havoc on our economy in the process. No, these words were written in 1978, by Lowell Ponte, in a book called The Cooling.

The fact is, the only constant about our climate is change. When I was in third grade, “scientists” were convinced that we were heading into another Ice Age. Global temperatures had been declining for a number of years, and continued to do so for several more. Even in 1978, almost ten years after that trend had reversed itself, global cooling was still the primary concern.

Thirty years later, there is growing concern, approaching panic, about global warming. But again, not so fast. It has now been ten years with no warming trend! Due to the natural El Nino cycle, 1998 was a warm year. No year since has been as warm. Last fall, our government predicted unseasonably mild temperatures for the first three months of this year. In case you were hibernating, North America and Asia have experienced one of the coldest and snowiest winters on record.

Congress is not going to control the weather any time soon. Global warming is nothing more than an excuse for the radical environmentalists to impose their extremist views on rest of us. But the hoax is running its course. Fifty years from now we won’t be congratulating ourselves on our foresight, we’ll be wondering how we could have been so gullible.

So the next time you catch yourself reading terrifying statements like those above, stop and think for yourself. If you’re paying attention, and reading critically, you’ll soon realize that there’s a lot more hype than fact out there. And there are also a lot of contrary facts being discussed as well, they’re just pretty well hidden in the main stream media.