The Big Lie

"Everyone knows that global warming is real, but we cannot solve it alone," said Bill Clinton.

I teach at a Christian high school. One of my jobs is to prepare students for the inevitable assaults on their faith and values they will have to endure after graduation. In class we look at current events and and I try to sensitize the students to overstatement, because usually a big lie is cloaked in overstatement, to wit, President Clinton's proclamation that, "Everyone knows that global warming is real...."

Everyone? Really?

The number of scientists questioning the Gorified global warming scare scenario is increasing daily. Unfortunately for the purveyors of paranoia, it looks like the period of warming peaked about 10 years ago. Man's contribution to the phenomena is very questionable and if man didn't have much--or anything--to do with the "problem," man cannot "fix" it. So in that sense, Clinton is correct: we cannot solve it alone, it'll take an act of God. Or perhaps God decided about ten years ago that the climate had warmed up enough, for the time being at least.

The real objective of the global warming scare-mongers, however, is to slow down, or reverse, economic growth. A perceived worldwide temperature increase is just the latest issue for the saboteurs of economic progress to hang their shoes on...so to speak. Thirty years ago it was global cooling. A few years before that it was the "population bomb." Since then we've had HIV-AIDS and a few rounds of animal-born killer diseases, just to name a couple.

I agree that we might destroy ourselves one of these days, but I have a hunch it won't be due to increased worldwide material prosperity; it will happen for exactly the opposite reason.