Global Hoax: Cap and Tax

Anthropogenic (human caused) global warming is the biggest hoax in the history of the world. Never have such draconian changes been proposed in the way humans live and run their economies based on such flimsy evidence.

Friday the House was scheduled to vote on a cap and trade scheme, which is nothing more than a huge, new tax on every American. It will not only drive up the cost of heating, cooling and electrifying our homes and workplaces, but it will increase the cost of everything we buy.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) makes up .038% (38/1000ths of one percent) of Earth’s atmosphere. Only 4% of that CO2 is from human activity. (The other 96% comes from nature.) The United States accounts for, at most, 25% of all anthropogenic CO2. Even if we all reverted to being hunter/gatherers, we couldn’t eliminate all of it, but let’s assume we could reduce it by 75%.

That would reduce the total CO2 in the atmosphere from .038% to .037715% or a whopping reduction of .000285%. That infinitesimal decrease would require the destruction of our civilization as we know it.

We are told that there is a “scientific consensus” on man made global warming. Nonsense. As Kimberley Strassel says in her excellent WS Journal opinion piece today, Sen. Jim Inhofe lists over 700 scientists who disagree with the UN’s 2007 climate summary. Ms. Strassel reports that “Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak ‘frankly’ of her nonbelief.” Strassel also mentions Japanese environmental physical chemist, Dr. Kiminori Itoh, who calls man made global warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.”

Notice that you hear the term “climate change” more than global warming now. That’s because there has been no measurable increase in the earth’s temperature since 2001. Besides, now the proponents can blame any climate event on human activity. How convenient.

So why has the human-caused climate change myth persisted? Because, as David Horowitz says, its supporters are like watermelons, green on the outside, but red on the inside. While there are many honest, though misguided, true believers, climate change is being used by its extreme, core proponents to promote a panoply of liberal causes from anti-automobile, anti-urban sprawl, and anti-consumerism to anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism.

The way to get people to give up their freedom is to convince them that the alternative is certain disaster.