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This is a sweeping subject so
I’m going to focus on one aspect
for the time being; gasoline and
fuel.
In recent years the liberals have
consistently blocked applications
for new refineries in the United
States. When legislation has
been introduced to simplify the
application process for new
refineries, the liberals have
blocked that too. They have also
blocked new drilling and
exploration for new oil
repositories. Their claim is that
new refineries and additional
drilling will harm the
environment. The news media
has supported these activities
with a plethora of nonsense
about global warming.
Not one word has been
mentioned in the mainstream
media about the environmental
disasters in China, India, the
Ukraine, Russia, England or
other places, where the
devastation is far worse than in
the U.S.A. I’ve often wondered
what the real agenda is. At the
present time, the largest gasoline
refinery on the planet is being
constructed in Jamnagar India.
This refinery is supposed to so
big that it will supply 5% of the
world’s gasoline needs. It has
towering chimneys that will burn
off excess gases, releasing the
affluent into the atmosphere.
There’s not much mention of that
anywhere in the green
enthusiasts’ litany of wailing. So
what is the real agenda?
Environmental controls limit the
rights of use to the landowner.
Could it be that this hubbub is all
about government control,
power, a gradual end of private
property ownership, as Roger
Baldwin wanted? The processes
they’ve been following are
certainly leading to that. How
are they doing it?
In recent history, the
liberals/Baldwinians have limited
the supply, driving up costs of
fuel. Even after Nancy Pelosi’s promise of sensibly reducing fuel prices that got her elected in California,prices have soared because of her policies. Her latest gambit?
The Congress of the United
States last week, according to Jim Quinn, changed the
designation of Canada’s Oil
Sands oil, formerly providing
over a million barrels of crude
daily to the U.S.A. markets to
“Alternative Fuel.” The decision
is that it contains too much
carbon and cannot be used in
the United States. Our supply
here has been reduced again,
driving prices even higher.
The most amusing aspect of this circus is that the Democrats who actually did this have the cheek to blame the fiasco on George Bush who, they say, is lining the pockets of his “rich oil buddies.”
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Bill Clinton, as it turns out is even sleazier than I always thought he was. In an article in The Wall Street Journal it is stated that the Clinton Foundation, ostensibly with the purpose of supporting his presidential library, has raised in the neighborhood of half a BILLION dollars. The money has come from special interest groups who apparently hope to influence the new Mrs. President Bill, or Miss Speak, however you want to address her, if and when she gets elected. The special interest donors who have been identified are people like -William Brandt Jr, a Chicago bankruptcy lawyer who donated $1,000,000 at the time he was being investigated for lying about a Clinton fund raising event. Clinton cleared him of the charges.
-Bernard Schwartz, then CEO Loral Space and Communications at the same time the firm was being investigated for improperly sending technology to China. Loral paid a $14,000,000 fine under the Bush administration.
-Next Wave pledged $1,000,000 while waiting to see if the Clinton FCC would allow them to keep their cellular licenses. Next Wave didn't get its licenses and defaulted on the promised money.
-Denise Rich donated $450,000 while she was waiting for her fugitive husband Marc Rich to be pardoned. The donation was followed by a Clinton pardon.
Presidential candidates are not permitted to accept campaign donations from foreigners, but donations to foundations are permitted. Donations have come to Clinton's foundation from the Saudi Royal Family, the King of Morocco and the governments of Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and Brunei. Much has come from wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen. Donations have come from huge Chinese interests, Alibaba for one. Alibaba helps the Chinese government censor the world wide web. It has posted a "most wanted list for Tibetan demonstrators with pictures and contact numbers to turn them in. Miss Speak has denounced the human rights violations of China in Tibet, but Bill has not returned the money.
Bill's list of corrupt associations is endless
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Al Gore consistently makes a big footprint, whether it's in carbon or baloney. His Inconvenient Truth is so full of scientific error the schools in the United Kingdom are required to give a disclosure statement about them before showing the movie to children. Whether it's his "Al Gore Interstate Highway System" that Dwight Eisenhower instigated or his invention of the Internet, Al's $30,000 power bill in Nashville flies in the face of his admonitions to everyone else about how they should live. This is very supportive of Jim Quinn's assertion that environmentalism isn't about the environment. It's about government control of private property and the encroachment of socialism
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Freedom is a tricky concept. The word is slung around by all sorts of sleazy politicians today. They sell it wrapped in a cushion of charisma and charm as though it were no more than a slogan to be used in a stump speech. The idea that freedom isn't free usually brings to mind the soldier who fought for American freedoms, but the concept goes way beyond that. The soldier paid in blood for an ideology that stands in dire jeopardy everyday that it's accepted as a bought and paid for thing. The soldier's life made one payment. The cost of Freedom is never paid up. Everyone must pay by continuing the fight. The fee for not getting involved in politics is being ruled by your inferiors.
Ignore your rights and they'll go away.
Freedom has to be fought for everyday. We fight by voting. We fight by speaking out. We fight by refusing to be ruled by such idiotic concepts as "Political Correctness." Acquiescing to this tyranny over the tongue is a first step in giving up the freedom of speech and that is the beginning of the end of freedom.
Keeping one's mouth shut in the face of encroaching tyranny, which is what Socialism is, trashes the gift of freedom so dearly paid for. We who are not soldiers can still be Culture Warriors . We fight by not giving in. Don't give in. At The Chigger, the battle is heating up. Don't forget to participate by signing and circulating our Petitions.
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The Amero is proposed to replace the Dollar
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOY SCOUT STORY
http://www.philly.com/daily news/opinion/8161352.html
By MARK CHILUTTI
Posted on Mon, Jun. 25, 2007
I'M WRITING THIS filled with disappointment due to the actions of the leadership of the city that I love.
While in Atlanta several weeks ago on Boy Scout business, I was pulled aside and told we'd been blind sided, again with regard to the office that the Scouts have occupied and maintained in Philadelphia since 1928.
I get frustrated when I read the side of the story that our city solicitor tells, as it seems to not fall in line with the first point of Scout Law: Being trustworthy.
My goal is to tell the side of the story that seems to be hidden.
In 2004, the city presented a non-discrimination policy to the Cradle of Liberty Council, our local Boy Scout organization, and asked that it be adopted to resolve the city's concerns over the occupation of our city-owned building at 22nd and Winter.
It was adopted, and we considered the matter resolved.
On a Friday evening in July 2006, after hours, the council received a letter from the city solicitor's office threatening eviction if the council didn't begin paying fair-market rent, or adopt a different policy of non-discrimination.
On that Monday, without the matter being on its published agenda, the Fairmount Park Commission passed a resolution in support of the eviction. Other interested parties were informed in advance of this action and attended the meeting. The Scouts weren't contacted in advance.
Since July 2006, the Scouts have attempted to take part in a dialogue with city officials to reach a compromise, even though a solution had seemingly been reached in 2004.
During this time, the city solicitor's office repeatedly contacted the Scouts with what we felt were unreasonable demands for meetings. They canceled the last meeting scheduled with a promise that someone would call and reschedule, but never followed through.
In December 2006, the Scouts asked the city for a figure that represents fair-market rent. The city never answered that request.
In February 2007, Scouting representatives met with Councilman Darrell Clarke. Councilman Clarke indicated he would look into certain matters and get back to the Scouts. He never did.
On May 31, Councilman Clarke introduced a resolution in City Council to evict the Boy Scouts from their headquarters. The resolution was passed 16-1. The Scouts had no knowledge the resolution was to be introduced and feel we were again blind sided.
The Cradle of Liberty Council provides free programs for more than 40,000 children in the city of Philadelphia.
The programs target underserved boys and girls. Via after-school programs, internships, educational opportunities, camping and other activities, the Boy Scouts address many of the social concerns of parents and youth in our region.
The Cradle of Liberty Council is currently exploring its options in response to the passage of the May 2007 resolution.
It has a strong legal position, but the ultimate goal should be a compromise because - and let's be honest here - in a year in which Philadelphia is a national leader in homicide rates, this city should not be focused on evicting an organization that provides highly valuable programming for a portion of the population most in need of the support and exposure to opportunity.
What will it take for the city to make the kids its priority? This should not be a hard question to answer, but it seems to be impossible these days.
Instead of trying to kick us out, the city should be trying to help us in maintaining services for 40,000 kids.
I would not be the person who I am in life, personally or professionally, without the skills I learned as a proud member of the Boy Scouts of America and the Cradle of Liberty Council.
I know that I am not the only one whose life has been touched by Scouting, and I wish that our time could be spent trying to find a way to get more kids off the streets and into the great outdoors to experience the possibilities of what a life spent serving others can truly be. *
Mark Chilutti is a Boy Scout volunteer and an Eagle Scout, Class of 1982.
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ACLU President busted for kiddie porn:
At least we now know the real reason why Charles Rust - Tierney argued for the freedom of children to access pornography in libraries. It wasn't an ideological position. It was a position from the Kama Sutra. Bill O'Reilly posted a video of the news report from February 2007. This is worth watching and it certainly clarifies the position from the ACLU on freedom of sexual obsession imposed upon children.
The founder, Roger Baldwin's initial statement of goals of the ACLU were eventually followed by a detailed list of objectives to obtain Baldwin's goals. The following statement from the American Communist Party from 1963 outlines what they had in mind. In retrospect, they've done a pretty good job of it. If you haven't signed and forwarded our ACLU petition you may want to consider it now.
The following is from an email to the Chigger we received last week.
I came across something recently that I found utterly
amazing. It was a list of goals that had been penned by
the American Communist Party in 1963. A Florida
congresswoman received a copy of the list, had it vetted
and then entered it into the Congressional Record that
same year.
In short, it's legit.
Some of their goals are dated and have not been included
in this post, while others have been paraphrased to make
them easier to articulate. I think you'll find the number
of objectives that have come to fruition stunning:
1. Do away with loyalty oaths (Pledge of Allegiance).
2. Use the courts to weaken basic American institutions by
claiming they violate civil rights.
3. Soften school curriculum. Get control of teachers
associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review
assignments, editorial writing, etc.
4. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them"censorship" and a violation of free speech and free
press.
5. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting
pornography and obscenity in media.
6. Present homosexuality and promiscuity as normal and
natural.
7. Infiltrate the churches. Discredit the Bible.
Eliminate prayer in schools on the grounds it violates the "separation of church and state."
8. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it
inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step.
9. Support any socialist movement to give centralized
control over any part of the culture (education, health
care, etc.).
10. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage
promiscuity and easy divorce.
Sounds like modern day America, huh? Seems they were
pretty effective at pushing their agenda doesn't it?
But how did they do it?
Though we haven't elected any communists to national
office, we've elected a whole gaggle of liberals. The
fact is, liberals and communists are part of the same
political family tree.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting there was a conspiracy
here. I don't believe our liberal politicians were
necessarily in bed with the communists, however, their
political values are not terribly far from those of Cousin
Commie, so the idea that they unknowingly pushed their
agenda forward is far from a stretch.
In the end, the list was a blueprint for the weakening and
eventual destruction of our Republic. When you consider
how these changes have vastly impacted the nation, you
could argue that we are now closer to the aspirations of
the 1963 communist party than to those of our forefathers.
The next time you hear some politician babbling on about
change, consider that we are still the greatest country in
the history of the world.
Doesn't common sense and history dictate that we leave
well enough alone?
Website: http://usaconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/
The ACLU petition demands that legislation be enacted to prevent organizations listed as Subversive by Homeland Security be denied access to the American court system. It may not be feasible to actually enforce something like that, but it could be possible to deny access to the court systems for third party litigation. The ACLU has used this idea successfully for a long time; suing on behalf of others - third party litigation. Click here for the ACLU petition. Just copy it to an outgoing email, sign it and send it off. There are links on the petition itself to The Chigger and to the original articles published here.
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This past week, the Democratic Congress passed legislation requiring that every HSA transaction be reviewed and verified as a legitimate medical expense. The Health Savings Account concept encourages a style of medical insurance that is affordable to most workers. If the employer provides a low cost, high deductible major medical policy, the employee can make up the difference with a tax deductible health savings account. This new layer of bureaucracy adds to the cost making such plans less affordable. Of course, without the added governmental interference, the employee might use some of the savings for non-medical expenses and get away with it. What the Democrats fear is that a person might use their own money for their own pleasure without paying federal income tax on it. What a dreadful thought!
Central to the enactment of this new legislation is Pete Stark, the head of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee crusades to establish government controlled health care.
His work is consistent with the move toward Socialism. His credits include numerous moves against private enterprise. His Paid Family and Medical Leave Legislation places a burden on business that could preclude even having the employee, much less providing such sweeping benefits. Extending unemployment benefits places the burden of joblessness on the tax payer and discourages those who are out of work from finding new jobs. If a person has 6 months or more of unemployment pay coming, the tendency is to enjoy it for a few months - go fishing - stretch out on the beach if one is nearby.
The HSA concept was created near the end of 2003. Since then, 3.2 million accounts have been opened. That covers 4.5 million Americans. Nearly a third of them previously had no insurance. Another third are small businesses that had never before offered health care to their employees. One would think with all the prattle from the Dems about the need for wider spread health care that they would welcome figures like these. But there's a problem with all this. The problem is, there is no government control. It's a free market solution. Free Markets are anathema to the Socialist. Evidently, since the Dems lost the argument in 2003 when the HSA's were created, they are now going to try to kill them with regulation.
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During this election cycle I'm reminded of the time that 4
year old Jennifer, one of Matt's friends, told me that she
wanted to be President one day.
Both of her parents, liberal democrats, were standing
there with us when I asked Jennifer, "If you were
President what would be the first thing you would
do?"
She replied "I would give houses to all the homeless
people."
"Wow - what a worthy goal you have there Jennifer." I told
her, "But you don't have to wait until you're President to
do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all
the dog poop in the yard and I will pay you $5 dollars.
Then we can go to the Giant Eagle where the homeless guy
hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for
a new house."
Jennifer thought that over for a second, while her mom
looked at me seething, and Jennifer replied, "Why doesn't
the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and
you can pay him the $5 dollars."
Welcome to the Republican Party Jennifer.
Contributed by Robert Medvesky
( If a four year old can get it, why can't grown up, well educated Democrats get it?)
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Why is there yet another property Tax Revolt? This time it's in Arizona. Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has devised an ingenious plan to answer the problems posed by the "housing crisis." The Wall Street Journal reports housing prices in Arizona are down 17% with a record number of foreclosures. Her answer is the only answer a Democrat could possibly come up with; raise taxes. She vetoed a bill to make Arizona's two year property tax suspension permanent. Arizona is not alone in this nut-case answer. Fairfax County in Virginia, Washington State, Chicago and Memphis have announced similar plans.
At a time when homeowners are faced with barely being able to meet the cost of their housing, government is plotting to make matters worse. Tax hikes at a time like this could push hundreds of thousands more homeowners over the brink of foreclosure. The Center for Business and Economic Research reports that property tax increases without improved public services results in a loss of value to the home. They say an increase in taxes of $200 results in a loss of value ranging from $1,200 to $1,800.
In many communities today, because of the residential housing bubble, tax assessments have become so high that the tax exceeds market rent. That is to say that a rental unit can't be rented for enough to cover the taxes in some places, much less, taxes, mortgage, insurance, upkeep and reserve for replacement. Forget about profit. Governments live well on the backs of minimum wage earners.
Maybe Arizona could consider cutting some of the fat out of its state and local budgets?
I'm again reminded of a friend of mine who went to work for the local government. She came to me a week or two after she started the job laughing that half the people she worked with had nothing to do. They spend their time trying to look busy and hiding. I had the same experience with my employment hitch with the State of Florida.
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NAFTA is part of a larger fiasco permitted by the United Congress and the American people. Presidents of the United States need Congressional approval to enter into "treaties." They don't Congressional approval to enter into "agreements." The North American Free Trade Agreement has been lauded or attacked by the current presidential candidates, depending on who they think is listening. Hillary is for and against it. Both want to renegotiate it. What we need is to take away this unlimited right of Presidents to freely enter into such things. Some pundits say NAFTA has generated a lot of jobs, especially in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
A lot of things are being ignored in those observations. The Florida Orange Grower.,for one. Mexican Orange Juice has displaced millions of gallons that used to come from Florida. Jobs have been lost. Farms have been hammered with the influx from south of the boarder. Avocado farmers in California are now growing other things because Mexico has flooded our land with Mexican Avocados. The avocado used to be a big crop in California, but not any more. The concern about the introduction of insects to California kept Mexican avocados out of the United States for 80 years. Now the ban has been lifted. Not only has the Mexican Fruit Fly been given a passport to California, they are being delivered by Mexican trucks.
There are problems associated with that too. The Mexican truckers don't have to comply with United States laws. The trucks don't have to pass U.S. inspections like U.S. trucks have to do. The drivers lack the training and according to American truckers are sometimes, not even licensed. There have been reports of up to five Mexicans driving cross country in the USA with one license between them. A heated argument from American truckers is competitive pay. They say the Mexican truckers can drive cross country in the United States for a remuneration of only $.17 per mile. American truckers make from $.30 to $.50 per mile. This undercuts the pay of the Americans and places an unfair advantage on the side of Mexican competitors. Other inequities with NAFTA include limits on what can be exported.
Canada will allow imports from the United States of anything that is not produced in Canada. One cannot import potatoes to Canada. Blue Berries are also produced in Canada and cannot be imported there. On the other hand, the United States produces oranges and avocados, but that doesn't seem to matter. Mexico brings those commodities to the U.S. unfettered by such tedious regulations. While NAFTA has been a nuisance to some, there are other trade agreements that bypassed Congressional approval that are even more alarming.
The Security Prosperity Partnership between Canada, the United States and Mexico is very alarming! Many have armed themselves with pens and blogs about this . There is a lot of rumor about the SPP, and there have been a lot of protests. Much of the rumor accuses our last three presidents of conspiracy to make all three nations into one. The trans-national highway now under construction from Mexico to Canada with Customs at Kansas City is under construction as I write this. That is not just a rumor. The new currency, The Amero, and the end to the United States' dollar is yet in the future. While the United States President and the leaders of Canada and Mexico have their secret meetings this past week, we wondered if the SPP was the main topic of conversation.
No one in Canada or the United States wants such a partnership. In the United States, this Presidential AGREEMENT could well result in the elimination of fire arms ownership as a tenet of the international contract. Our Bill of Rights could be short circuited in numerous other ways as well. We need to pay close attention to this. And we need to stop our American Presidents from being able to make international agreements that by-pass Congress.
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A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World
War II owned a number of large industries and estates.
When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the
answer he gave should guide our attitude toward
fanaticism.
'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many
enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too
busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the
Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat
back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they
owned us, we had lost control, and the end of the world
had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a
concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'
These days, 'so-called experts and political talking
heads' tell us repeatedly that Islam is the religion of
peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to
live in peace. Although this assertion may be true, it is
entirely irrelevant, meant to make us feel better, and to
diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the
globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the
'fanatics' rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage
any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics
who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups
throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire
continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb,
behead, murder or honor kill. It is the fanatics that take
over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously
spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and
homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the
'peaceful majority,' the 'silent majority,' is cowed and
extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of people who just wanted
to live in peace, less than 1% of Russians belonged to the
communist party, but the communists were responsible for
the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful
majority were irrelevant.
China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese
Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was
not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and
slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of
killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million
Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel and
bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery.
Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were
'peace loving'?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet
for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic
and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have
been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving
Muslims will become our enemy if they do not speak up,
because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one
day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of
their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians,
Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis,
Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because
the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too
late. And those of us who watch it all unfold; we must pay
attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who
threaten our way of life.
Anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just
deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing
to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.
Someone said in order for evil to exist, all that is
necessary is for good men to do nothing.
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Scientist: Earth Cooling, Not Warming
A San Francisco-based scientist says that
current solar activity strongly indicates that
the earth is on the verge of a new ice age.
"Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age
cometh," warns Phil Chapman writing in The
Australian. Chapman is a geophysicist and
astronautical engineer who was the first
Australian to become a NASA astronaut.
"The scariest photo I have seen . . . is at www.spaceweather.com, where you will find
a real-time image of the sun from the Solar
and Heliospheric Observatory [SOHO],
located in deep space at the equilibrium point
between solar and terrestrial gravity,"
Chapman wrote, adding ominously that
"what is scary about the picture is that there
is only one tiny sunspot."
"This is where SOHO comes in," he
explained. "The sunspot number follows a
cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging
11 years. The most recent minimum was in
March last year. The new cycle, No. 24,
was supposed to start soon after that, with a
gradual build-up in sunspot numbers."
That, he writes did not happen. "The first
sunspot appeared in January this year and
lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared
last Monday but vanished within 24 hours.
Another little spot appeared this Monday.
Pray that there will be many more, and
soon."
Why? According to Chapman "there is a
close correlation between variations in the
sunspot cycle and earth's climate. The
previous time a cycle was delayed like this
was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially
cold period that lasted several decades from
1790. Northern winters became ferocious: in
particular, the rout of Napoleon's Grand
Army during the retreat from Moscow in
1812 was at least partly due to the lack of
sunspots."
Although the rapid temperature decline in
2007 coincided with the failure of cycle No.
24 to begin on schedule is not proof of a
causal connection, Chapman warns that it is
cause for concern.
"Disconcerting as it may be to true believers
in global warming," he explains, "the average temperature on earth has remained steady or
slowly declined during the past decade,
despite the continued increase in the
atmospheric concentration of carbon
dioxide, and now the global temperature is
falling precipitously.
"All four agencies that track earth's
temperature [the Hadley Climate Research
Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies in New York, the Christy
group at the University of Alabama, and
Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California]
report that it cooled by about 0.7 C in
2007." This, he says is "the fastest
temperature change in the instrumental
record and it puts us back where we were in
1930. If the temperature does not soon
recover, we will have to conclude that global
warming is over."
Moreover, he says, there is also plenty of
anecdotal evidence that 2007 was
exceptionally cold, noting that it snowed in
Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the
winter in China was simply terrible and the
extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral
winter was the greatest on record since
James Cook discovered the place in 1770.
Chapman wrote that the global warming
dogma should be put aside, "at least to begin
contingency planning about what to do if we
are moving into another little ice age, similar
to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850."
How bad could a new little ice age be?
"Much worse than the previous one and
much more harmful than anything warming
may do. There are many more people now,
and we have become dependent on a few
temperate agricultural areas, especially in the
U.S. and Canada." Global warming, he
added, "would increase agricultural output,
but global cooling will decrease it. Millions
will starve if we do nothing to prepare for it
[such as planning changes in agriculture to
compensate], and millions more will die from
cold-related diseases."
And grim as that outlook is, Chapman
predicts that there is also another possibility,
remote but much more serious — the
Greenland and Antarctic ice cores and other
evidence show that for the past several
million years, severe glaciation has almost
always afflicted our planet and under normal
conditions, most of North America and
Europe are buried under about 1.5 km of
ice.
This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted
occasionally by brief warm interglacials,
typically lasting less than 10,000 years.
The present interglacial period we have
enjoyed throughout recorded human history,
called the Holocene, began 11,000 years
ago, so an ice age is overdue. And glaciation
can occur quickly: The required decline in
global temperature is about 12 C and it can
happen in 20 years.
His conclusions: "The next descent into an
ice age is inevitable but may not happen for
another 1,000 years. On the other hand, it
must be noted that the cooling in 2007 was
even faster than in typical glacial transitions.
If it continued for 20 years, the temperature
would be 14 C cooler in 2027."
By then, he writes, "most of the advanced
nations would have ceased to exist, vanishing
under the ice, and the rest of the world
would be faced with a catastrophe beyond
imagining."
"All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinders and
give some thought to what we should do if
we are facing global cooling instead," he
writes. "It will be difficult for people to face
the truth when their reputations, careers,
government grants or hopes for social
change depend on global warming, but the
fate of civilization may be at stake."
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Inquisition:
Once upon a time, it was possible to be executed
as a result of being accused of thought crimes. Admission was guilt. Denial was guilt. The accusation was enough. Today, defending someone accused of thought crimes can be punishable with prison and fines. They aren't executing us yet, except in Muslim countries, for thought crimes. What thought crimes? In many civilized countries, i.e., non-muslim countries, the idea is referred to as "political correctness." In the USA, thought crimes are manifested by "hate speech." There is still freedom of speech, as long as it isn't too hateful and isn't against muslims. I didn't capitalize the word, by the way because I have to regard it as a "common" noun. And that is not "hate speech." It's "contempt speech."
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