No more global warming?

[PanzerJaeger]

I’m probably late to the party, but here’s my opinion re:the conspiracy discussion.

While there is no evidence (and no reason to believe) that Al Gore is sitting at the head of an evil organization using Global Warming as a front for world domination a la Dr. Evil, it is quite clear that there is a powerful group of aligned interests far too invested in the theory to allow it to be questioned. Many scientists have staked their careers on the theory panning out, while many left wing politicians have embraced it as sequitur to increased government power and regulation, especially over Leftist boogey-men such as large corporations and industry. The recent EPA ruling on co2 in the United States opens the door for unprecedented government power over virtually all aspects of American’s lives. Then you have the profiteers, such as Gore, who stoke fears of apocalyptic destruction to peddle books and “Green” technology. And of course, at this point everyone’s reputation is on the line.

What is worrying is that these varied groups are increasingly dependent on each other in a vicious cycle for support, especially now that there is a concerted movement challenging the validity of the theory. The scientist rely on government grants for their livelihoods and to continue their research, while the politicians need a steady stream of cataclysmic “projections” and “models” to stoke fears and maintain support for an expansion of government power that is only acceptable in the public’s eyes under the guise of “saving the planet”. Of course the profiteers need both of the aforementioned parties to stay in business.

None of this is to say that man-made global warming is definitively false, or even that the original fears were not completely justified given the computer models at the time. However, Global Warming… err… Climate Change is now an industry, complete with balance sheets and lobbyists. And what is clear is that despite mounting evidence the runs contrary to the theory, there is an entrenched group of powerful interests pushing wild and unjustified claims of global catastrophe on a populace with no real way to parse the science behind it; with far more at stake than an egalitarian concern for the future of the planet – as evidenced by the fact that even if the harshest legislation were passed across the globe, their own projections indicate it would have little to no actual impact on global temperatures. Even more troubling is the demonstrated willingness of this collusion to alter and even eliminate contrary data and target the careers of opposing scientists for destruction. Scary stuff, indeed.