When former Vice President Al Gore attended the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006 to premiere his propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, he declared that, unless drastic measures were taken regarding greenhouse gasses, the earth would reach a point of no return in ten years. It has now been ten years. The doom is now unavoidable. The ice caps will melt shortly, the polar bears will drown, and NYC will sink into the Atlantic Ocean any second now. Okay, just a few more seconds. Hmm. Well, the standard deviation of the ten year prediction must allow for leeway.
Obviously, the claim was just fear-mongering, an effort to convince the electorate to approve 'drastic measures' that would include more money and power to government. The people didn't bite and now, ten years later, the scam is clearly revealed. Of course, there will be an excuse. Perhaps it has already been offered and I have missed it. Gore's Frying Pan Earth notion has been replaced by Obama's more vague Climate Change.
This has been the modus operandi of the environmental movement since the first Earth Day in 1970. Here is a list of some of those initial predictions. Note that none of them came to pass. The catastrophes scheduled for 1975 haves still not occurred even 40 years later. Global cooling changed to global warming and now it is climate change.
If only the government could take more of our money and infringe further on our property rights and freedom, I'm sure the issue could be solved.
1 comment:
I think the title is unfounded - the poll only tells us that global warming isn't their TOP priority, not that they aren't worried - but it is interesting that though the president has declared this the number one threat, so few agree with that ranking.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/01/poll-91-of-americans-arent-worried-about-global-warming/
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