By Bruce Walker
The heavy artillery of the Left has been wheeled into a line
of barrage: global warming is real; global warming is man-made; and if
government does not stop, terrible things will happen. This means
that we cannot save ourselves unless we are willing to make draconian
sacrifices, to surrender our liberties to government, and to accept
blindly the latest version of politically-correct science.
Science guided by ideologues is nothing new to the
Left. Nazis, extreme Leftists, proclaimed racial theories which were
taught as science in Germany. The Soviets insisted that the biological of
inherited genetic characteristics, articulated by Lysenko, was “Soviet
Science.” Those who taught politically incorrect science were liquidated
by Hitler and by Stalin.
Ben Stein, in his wonderful documentary, Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed, exposed how political correctness had stifled
scientific inquiry into the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Jeffrey Burton Russell explained in his book, Inventing the Flat Earth,
how science and faith were not at war in Medieval Europe and, in fact, how
faith created science and how ideologue hostile to faith created a false
history of conflict between science and faith. The Left prostitutes
science for political ends.
Kinsey, the mendacious pervert who “changed” the
science of human sexuality through “research” which entailed sex crimes against
children, is still a saint of the “scientific” Left. The Silent Spring
of Rachel Carlson, whose bogus research led to banning DDT and also to the
death of tens of millions of innocent victims in the poor nations of the world,
is still required reading in college classes. The well documented
scientific fraudulence of such “scientists” has no more effect on the Left than
the monotonously consistent failure of “scientific Marxism.”
Global Warming is just such an ideologically imperative
pseudo-science. If this proposition is true, the central governments must
trump provincial or state governments and international organizations must trump
national governments. Central planners must be given absolute power over
Industry and private life to save us from a calamity whose real dangers are in
the misty future. Science so commands!
History speaks otherwise. Earth only a few centuries
ago had a mini-ice age, and only the silliest Leftists pretend that man somehow
caused this. Geologists say that the cycles of climate change are
natural, and the same geologists, a few decades ago, were warning of a new ice
age. So what if we are entering a new ice age, something which will occur
sometime without human interference? Weather science cannot predict what
will happen next week with much accuracy. If our planet is headed for
global cooling, and if we can influence that cooling, then government policies
should be directed towards increasing the Greenhouse Effect. Heavy
industry should crank out more smoke; cars should pump out more carbon dioxide;
we should all try to warm the globe.
Before we try to play God, though, perhaps we should ponder
some humbling facts. Geology confidently predicts that some day the San
Andreas Fault will cause the West Coast to fall into the Pacific
Ocean. Would this heat or cool our planet? No one
knows. We cannot do anything except for modest and sensible precautions
like emergency management and modified building codes in California.
Astronomy predicts that at some point in the next hundred
years or so a heavenly body will hit our planet. In early March 2009 an
asteroid the size of a ten story building had a “near miss” with Earth.
The impact would have been equivalent to one thousand nuclear weapons, a
virtual nuclear war. The grim warnings of plate tectonics and plummeting
asteroids are not, like global warming, dubious science.
So what are we doing about it? Absolutely
nothing! Where is the bold Leftist insisting that Americans abandon the
West Coast and Hawaii move to the Great Plains? Why does Obama Administration
not urge people in urban areas resettle into rural America, a much safer place
when the asteroids begin to fall? The reason is clear. Politics,
not science and not concern for mankind, guides the hand of Leftist science.
The Left knows city dwellers are much easier to enslave than rural
folks. The Left would not dare offend politically safe constituencies in
California, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon just to save their lives.
Why is the Left offering no solutions to natural global
warming (if, indeed, there is global warming)? If our climate is going to
warm or to cool over the next few centuries – just as our planet has warmed and
cooled in natural cycles over the last two thousand years of recorded history –
then government should be doing things to help us when the change comes, not
pretend that government can stop the forces of nature. If there is global
warming, we ought to be working on ways in which we can comfortably live on a
warmer planet.
Mankind lives at temperate extremes right now. Canada
and Singapore are both affluent nations. Israel and Norway both do just
fine in hot and cold climates. America is nation of states that include
the tropical islands of the Florida Keys and the tundra of Alaska.
State governments adopt policies that reflect, among other things,
climate and weather. If the world is becoming more like Florida and less
like Alaska, that is a problem only if we do not adapt or if – as we are doing
with global warming – try to adopt a cookie cutter solution to the problem.
Global warming – – or, perhaps, in another twenty
years, global cooling? – – is not about protecting us. It is about
seizing power, as the Left always seizes power, pretending to protect us all
the while all the time enslaving us.
© 2008
Bruce Walker — All Rights Reserved
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Bruce Walker is the author of two books: Sinisterism:
Secular Religion of the Lie, and his recently published book, The
Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.
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