July 11, 2007
The world didn't want a Gorebasm
Thomas Lifson has a biting analysis of Al Gore’s global warming nag-fest and its inability to attract many to attend – or bother watching on TV.
My very favorite excuse for low attendance at the much-ballyhooed worldwide Live Earth global warming concerts yesterday came from Johannesburg, where concert organizer John Langford "believes extremely cold weather ... kept people away from the concert."
Well I suppose that if you are trying to whip up fears about global warming, cold weather does tend to dampen enthusiasm somewhat.
Of course, the global warming enthusiasts have already tried repackaging their rhetoric of doom, so Langford found himself musing, "... we've had a strange winter ... is it climate change?"
The brilliant stroke claiming that any weather at all is evidence that something is very wrong works on idiots, ideologues, and children too young to remember every year it gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
But evidence is accumulating that most normal people are fed up with being lectured about the need to conserve energy by people who fly in private jets and own multiple mansions. Fifty-six percent of the British public, for instance, believes that global warming fears are "exaggerated."
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Meanwhile, pillars of the scientific establishment are showing early signs of buyer’s remorse for having climbed aboard the bandwagon before the evidence was really in. It wouldn't be the first time that the common sense of ordinary people is way ahead of the experts.
The collapse of the global warming hot air balloon promises to be one of the most interesting spectacles of the next few years. Despite the overwhelming support of powerful corporations, formerly trendy cultural figures, and many governments, the truth will out.
In the meantime, there will be no worldwide shortage of irony and hypocrisy as the privileged try to sell sacrifice and conservation to those who lead more modest lives in the name of a poorly-substantiated alarmist theory.
I too am awaiting the embarrassed mea culpas from the credulous global-warming ninnies. It hasn’t escaped my attention that “global warming” has been taken out of the game as of late, replaced by its much more non-specific cousin, “climate change,” a term of such amorphous qualities that it means absolutely nothing.
And meaning nothing in particular, “climate change” can be used to describe everything, which makes it synonymous with “America” and “Americans,” who can be credited for nothing good in the world – and blamed for everything that ails Mother Earth.
Posted by Mike Lief at July 11, 2007 08:07 PM
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