Global cooling. Global warming. Climate change. Yawn.
For decades we’ve been lectured by the so-called best and brightest about how environmental disaster looms just over the horizon. Humanity’s only hope, we are told, depends upon our willingness to hand over every last penny, every last freedom in our possession to the all-wise, all-knowing globalist keepers-of-the-flame who alone possess the vision to lead us, the benighted masses, through this our darkest hour.
Oh, spare me. Please!
I haven’t written much about environmental issues in this blog space. But since environmental fear mongering has been a permanent part of the globalist playbook now for decades, it behooves me to pay a bit more attention to it.
To that end, a couple of items caught my attention recently.
Climategate 2
The original Climate Gate scandal broke back in 2009 when emails were released showing that scientists falsified climate data to convince people of the reality of manmade global warming all to the end of fostering world government.
Well here we are eight years later and not much has changed. the tricksters are up to their same old tricks, falsifying data in an attempt to lie the public into supporting world government.
This time, the whistleblower was Dr. John Bates, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). According to the Daily Mail,
Dr Bates accused the lead author of the paper [a paper supporting global warming], Thomas Karl, who was until last year director of the NOAA section that produces climate data – the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) – of ‘insisting on decisions and scientific choices that maximised warming and minimised documentation…in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming pause, rushed so that he could time publication to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy’.
The Daily Mail goes on to report that the bogus data was published by NOAA to “coincide with the Paris climate change conference in 2015.” This is the same conference where Pope Francis described the world as being at “the limits of suicide” as a result of climate change.
Of course, it’s no surprise that the current occupant of the Office of Antichrist would seek to use the bogus climate change boogey man as a forum to push for world government. Or that the fake news mainstream press would go along with his evil agenda. It’s not even surprising that sycophantic scientists eager for recognition would compromise their integrity and hitch their wagon to what they think is a rising star.
What is surprising, and that in a pleasant way, is that there are still men of integrity such as Dr. Bates who are in positions of authority and are willing to speak the truth. Perhaps there really are still 7,000 men in Israel who haven’t bowed the knee to Baal.
Conservatives and Climate Change
Apparently tired of all the climate change “glory” going to the liberals, former Secretaries of State James Baker and George Schultz have decided to peddle their own version of a carbon tax, even arranging a meeting with President Trump to discuss it.
As CBS reports, “A group of Republican senior statesmen is pushing for a carbon tax to combat the effects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House.”
In their recent Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “A Conservative Answer to Climate Change,” Schultz and Baker joined the pope’s alarmist chorus, writing “the risks associated with future warming are so severe that they should be hedged.”
Baker and Schultz go on to describe their plan for a new massive, unconstitutional governmental intervention in the economy as a taking out and insurance policy. But taking out insurance policies, at least before Obamacare, used to be voluntary. Their tax is not.
Further, these men have the gall to describe their plan as embodying “the conservative principles of free markets and limited government.”
It is double-speak like this that have led many people, myself included, to despise conventional politicians and their worn out, dishonest rhetoric.
Baker and Schultz actually believe the public is so stupid as to believe their claims about “returning the [carbon] tax proceeds to the American people in the form of dividends.”
Well, golly! Here I’ve been saving and investing all these years to get stock dividends and I never considered that government could do the same thing for me out of my taxes! It’s a miracle!
Or how about this whopper. Baker and Schultz would have us believe that they are serious about “rolling back government regulations [apparently then are referring to current governmental regulations] once such a system [a system of carbon taxes] is in place.”
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.
No, what will happen once the carbon tax is in place is that, not only will current environmental regulations not be rolled back, but they likely will become even more onerous than they already are. Plus we’ll have the additional blessing of the Baker/Schultz carbon tax to pay. And what’s not love about that?
Of Spillways and Societal Metaphors
You may have seen the Oroville Dam in the news this past week. Due to unusually heavy rains in California, the dam’s lake reached the level where water had to be released down a spillway. The spillway promptly failed, leading to the evacuation of 200,000 people downriver.
As the story has developed, it has now come out that there were warnings as far back as 2005 about the dam’s safety, in particular its emergency spillway. But to no one’s surprise, the warnings went unheeded.
Commenting on this situation, podcaster James Evan Pilato noted that the Oroville dam was something of a metaphor for larger society. By this he meant that it’s just another example of how we like to ignore problems, kicking the can as far as possible until there’s an unavoidable crisis (I’m speaking here of problems for which there’s actual evidence, not make-believe crises such as climate change).
He has a good point. Just think about all the serious situations we as Americans try to ignore.
National debt has been out of control for years, yet it keeps growing at an ever faster pace.
Our immigration and naturalization system is a shambles but nothing is ever done about it.
The federal government continues to infringe upon the Constitutional rights of ordinary Americans, yet the police state grows ever larger.
Our interventionist foreign policy lurches from one disaster to another, but the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department all insist on doing more of what doesn’t work.
America’s financial system is in a state of rolling crisis, but no one ever seriously questions the policies of the Federal Reserve, or more importantly, asks whether we need a central bank in the first place.
Left unaddressed, every one of these issues by itself is enough to seriously threaten the safety of the American people and the integrity of the nation. And yet the American people and their elected officials never quite get around to dealing with any of them.
The can will continue to be kicked…until one day it can’t be kicked anymore. And that’s when things will get interesting.
Lux Lucet 
Well, Steve, I’m never surprised when I hear about Rome’s support for industry-stifling environmental policies – she has a vested interest in keeping a perpetual peasant class in developing nations. From what I understand, the industries and technologies opposed by the world-wide environmental lobby have the potential to lift the third world (particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, which is apparently staggeringly rich in energy resources) out of the poverty they’ve languished in. Of course, for there to be long lasting change in these countries, the Gospel must take root – which, I’m sure, Rome opposes as well.
The subject of “fracking” and the derangement of it’s opponents is a pet-interest of mine – I live in the oil and gas region of West Texas. A few years ago, an anti-fracking documentary called Gasland was released. I’m sure you are in no way surprised to find out that it was riddled with misrepresentation, manipulative editing of interviews and out-right, unabashed, intentional deception. In response, Irish journalist Phelim McAleer put out the documentary Frack Nation Not only does it directly attack the claims of Gasland and other fracking critics, it’s an informative and entertaining primer on the subject. It was on Netflix at one time, but I know you can rent it on youtube for few bucks. I highly recommend it.
You’re right in what you say about lasting change coming through the Gospel. Rome has a long history of opposing limited government and capitalism, the political and economic systems of the Bible. And Rome rejects what the Word of God has to say about politics and economics, because it rejects the Gospel of Justification by Faith Alone.
If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend Ecclesiastical Megalomania and Christ and Civilization by John Robbins. In Christ and Civilization, he shows the relationship between the preaching of, and belief in, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the rise of the West. In Ecclesiastical Megalomania, he demonstrates that Rome’s fatally flawed politics and economics are extensions of its fatally flawed philosophy and theology.
Thanks for the info on the fracking video. I’ll have to check it out.