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Globaloney Hysteria Philip V. Brennan The enthusiasts for the global warming theory have begun to panic over the failure of the American people to get all hot and bothered over the prospect of being barbecued by Mother Nature as she allegedly turns up the thermostat and the planet heats up.
It's gotten so that you can't turn on the TV without being told by some alleged climate expert on ABC or the other two networks that the entire earth is doomed to experience a catastrophic warming that will wipe out whole species. Want more? They claim warming will raise the sea levels resulting in the inundation of such places as New York City and a host of remote Pacific islands, scorch farmland and reduce them to deserts, starve us all, and wipe out the beloved polar bear community.
Not long ago, for example, Time magazine lost their cool with a Page One head: "Be Afraid, Be Very Much Afraid," warning readers that global warming is upon us and we must act now to deal with the looming disaster or perish.
Al Gore is racing around shouting the equivalent of "the dam has burst" and warning everybody to get on board the global warming express and sign up for his crusade to save the earth before it's too late.
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All of the Globaloney fanatics are repeating the same theme: global warming is a fact attested to by the worlds scientific community, and that it is no longer an issue but an accepted scientific fact.
That is, of course, a lot of baloney.
Numerous climatologists around the world dismiss global warming as a myth, especially the notion that mankind is causing the globe to heat by the use of hydrocarbons s and other allegedly environmentally destructive practices.
That flies in the face of the petition signed in April 1998 by more than 18,000 scientists, two-thirds of whom held advanced academic degrees and who urged the U.S. government to reject the Kyoto Accord which called for drastic cuts in energy use in this nation which President Bush noted would cost this nation alone 5 million jobs.
Said the petition: "Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful."
Scores of top climatologists continue to scoff at the claims of the global warming alarmists and deny that the matter is settled. Thanks to a biased media, their views go unreported in the mainstream media and many are punished by the withdrawal of the grants that support their work. Ask renowned hurricane forecaster Dr. William Gray who has felt the cyclone of retaliation for daring to question the reality of global warming.
Few bother to ask what is behind this frenzy to get the American people to buy into a scientifically discredited theory and those few who do quickly discover that the furor has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with politics. The global warming campaign is the last gasp of the thoroughly discredited system of socialism.
Follow the path down which the Al Gores and Mikhail Gorbachev's want to lead us and you will find yourself in a world ruled by a Marxist United Nations.
According to the Goreites, the problem is global and must be addressed globally, and the authority to deal with it must be vested in a global organization, in this case the U.N. which would be empowered to dictate the rules and regulations needed to deal with the problem.
Those rules and regulations are spelled out in the Kyoto Treaty. They are the opening guns in the battle to achieve what the Soviets tried and failed to do: subject the entire world to a socialist system.
In June, 2001, the magazine Socialism Today, the monthly journal of the Socialist Party, let the Marxist cat out of the bag when it wrote: "The flaws in the market system mean the whole debate on sustainability is inevitably moving in the direction of a serious debate on alternatives and in particular the possibilities of democratic socialist planning on an international basis.
"This is beginning to be reflected in the academic discussions on the issue, a harbinger of the more general rehabilitation of socialist ideas. Marxists must be in forefront of the debate in the anti-capitalist movement on this crucial question because we have the only credible solution."
Those who thought that international socialism came down with the Berlin Wall should take careful note of such statements as those of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who as chair of the Senate committee dealing with environmental issues, declares she will reopen to discussion of such socialist monstrosities as the Kyoto Treaty and the whole matter of global warming.
Socialism is alive and well, as we will discover as the quasi-socialist leadership that controls the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives begin to implement the program they refused to reveal during the campaign.
Although they may be crazy, they are not stupid. We can expect them to squelch the farthest-out proposals of their most leftist members in recognition that their target is the White House in 2008.
Their pure socialist agenda will not get them there. What we'll get then is socialism lite disguised as Democratic compassion for the common man, none of whom, by the way, are admitted to the Democratic leadership headed by such multimillionaires as Nancy Pelosi.
Those who view socialism as a panacea for all economic ills ought to take note of the experience of states who live or have lived under socialist governments. A prime example of just how inefficient socialism has proven to be is Iraq under the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein.
According to Dean G. Popps, principal assistant secretary of the Army for acquisitions, logistics and technology and the man responsible for rebuilding the infrastructure in Iraq, one of the richest nations in the Middle East, was in shambles under the rule of the socialist Ba'athist party.
In an article in the Nov. 20 Washington Times, Popps revealed that when the Army Corps of Engineers got on the ground in Iraq, there was shock:
The Pentagon in 2003 summoned American firms to get reconstruction started in the absence of Iraqi ministries that could supervise and a private sector that was in shambles under Saddam's totalitarian rule.
"The ministries were jammed with people who did nothing," Mr. Popps said. "They sat around and smoked and drank tea and held 'worry beads.' It was an economy based on incompetence and corruption."
In short, it was a socialist regime.
In his book "The Green Book," Libya's socialist dictator, Muammar Al Qadhafi writes about capitalist exploitation, money, profits, plants, animals, people, and families, sounding must like the rhetoric of Greenpeace, PETA, and Earth First! He links environmentalist doctrine with socialism, stating that:
Embrace the policies of the Global Warming fanatics and that's what you can expect.
As writer Eric Englund wrote in LewRockwell.com, the aim of the environmentalists is that "All people, especially those living in industrialized countries such as the U.S., must sacrifice in order to win the universal struggle against global warming. "As we have seen over the past three decades, environmentalists have succeeded in eroding property rights in the United States in order to protect Mother Earth as they see fit (i.e., through the Clean Water Act, through the Endangered Species Act, through ridiculous wetlands legislation, through air quality laws, etc.)."
This, he wrote, is "the real struggle is between liberty and totalitarianism. For if environmentalists succeed in gradually taking away our private property rights, then a free market and liberty cannot exist. Thus, it is my contention that the struggle against environmentalism is actually a struggle for liberty (using the classical liberal definition)."
He goes on to quote from Dr. George Reisman's "Capitalism" when he wrote that "it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the freedom and well-being of the individual."
I'll close with these quotes from Pope John Paul's description of socialism: "Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism.
"Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil.
"Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears, the very subject whose decisions build the social order.
"From this mistaken conception of the person there arise both a distortion of law, which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom, and an opposition to private property. A person who is deprived of something he can call 'his own,' and of the possibility of earning a living through his own initiative, comes to depend on the social machine and on those who control it.
"This makes it much more difficult for him to recognize his dignity as a person, and hinders progress towards the building up of an authentic human community.
"In fact, where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity."
As Pope Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum "the Socialists encourage the poor man's envy of the rich and strive to do away with private property, contending that individual possessions should become the common property of all . . ."
Just keep in mind, that's what the global warming campaign is all about.
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor and publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association For Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com.
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