THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 23, February 4, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE GREEN JUGGERNAUT
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, & PUBLIC POLICY: THE OVERPOWERING & DESTRUCTIVE
FORCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT PROCEEDS TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT MODERNIZATION,
INDUSTRIALIZATION, & GLOBALIZATION ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH & SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN ABRUPT HALT --
THE BIG LIE OF HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING TRIUMPHS AS MASS INSANITY OR WILLING & DELIBERATE
IGNORANCE REPLACES SCIENCE, COMMON SCIENCE, & RATIONALITY -- AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, POLITICIANS, &
CORPORATIONS JOIN THE BANDWAGON FOR ENACTMENT OF "CLIMATE CONTROL" LEGISLATION THAT WILL
HAVE NO IMPACT ON THE WORLD'S CLIMATE, BUT WILL HAVE THE EFFECT OF DESTROYING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY --
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, THE UNITED NATIONS, & THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
FULL STORY:
As the news poured forth about the devastation wrought last week by a huge storm that swept across central Florida, I
wondered to myself how anyone with any common sense could think that humans are responsible for the weather?
Responsible? We have zero control over these events. And yet --
What is happening in Congress with regard to various Green legislative proposals?
What occurred when President George W. Bush used the term “climate change” in his State of the Union
speech?
What is happening as various corporations throw their support to carbon emissions “cap and trade”
programs?
What is happening when California declares it will not purchase power if it is generated by “dirty”
utilities utilizing coal-fired operations?
What about the massive media coverage of the announcement of the United Nations Panel on Climate
Change report predicting millions dying from hunger and widespread drought by 2080?
What about the hyping of ethanol as the solution to energy independence?
The foregoing and many more events, announcements, and claims has reached a tipping point for those seeking to
convince the world that modernization, industrialization, and globalization are destroying the Earth.
The Earth is 5.4 billion years old. Does anyone seriously believe millions will die by 2080 or that the Earth’s vast
resources of water will go dry?
Those of us who have written extensively on the vast hoax that Global Warming represents must wonder if the Big Lie
has triumphed? What can be done when a kind of mass insanity or willing and deliberate ignorance replaces both
science and rationality?
The U.S. government, from the White House to the Congress, appears ready to vastly impact our lives and the nation’s
economy by passing legislation based on a massive campaign marked by deception that began in the 1980s.
Global Warming has become totally politicized. Even in the halls of Congress, science cannot be evoked to debunk it.
Those who cite science are to be threatened with decertification, denied access to the public by the mainstream media,
ridiculed or subjected to isolation within their profession.
Senator John McCain (Republican - Arizona), a candidate for the U.S. Presidency, has said that “Global warming is an
international problem requiring international effort,” but he knows full well that neither China or India are signatories to
the UN Kyoto Protocol to control greenhouse gas emissions and, for that matter, neither is the United States of
America.
Why does no one ask, having been masterminded by then-Vice President Al Gore, why didn’t then-President Bill
Clinton ever submit the UN Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for a vote?
Why do today’s senators ignore the Senate’s unanimous vote against the Protocol in 1998, citing harm to the nation’s
economy as the reason for declining to ratify the proposed treaty?
Why doesn’t anyone admit that none of the Protocol’s signatory nations have ever met the emissions reductions
required by the treaty?
Why does anyone think its carbon emission restrictions will have any impact on the world’s climate when China and
India -- home to more than two billion people -- will not participate?
“This is a problem whose time has come,” said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, yet another presidential candidate. No,
it is an even bigger problem if carbon emission caps are applied nationwide.
It would appear that former Vice President Al Gore has won his insane effort to save the world from the internal
combustion engine, thanks to one of the most flawed and deceitful documentaries in recent times.
Americans simply have not grasped how environmentalists have put them and others around the world at risk for their
lives by, for example, removing from use some of the most beneficial pesticides ever invented.
The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards imposed in 1975 to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption and
dependence on foreign oil have had similar consequences. In order to improve fuel standards, auto manufacturers have
looked for ways to lighten cars. The National Highway Safety Administration concluded that, between model years 1996
and 1999, this translated to 13,608 traffic fatalities for light cars, 10,884 for heavier cars, and 14,705 for light trucks. Since
CAFE went into effect, crash data from 1975 calculates out to 7,700 deaths for every mile per gallon gained in fuel
economy.
The mandate to require gasoline blends with ethanol in ever increasing amounts has driven the cost of corn to a ten-year
high. This, in turn, is driving up the cost of all the food products, including the feed for livestock and poultry, derived in
whole or part from corn. There are already food riots in Mexico because of it.
The list of indictments of the environmentalist movement is too long for this short examination of the Green juggernaut.
It is not saving the Earth, but intends to render it devoid of humanity.
Americans, while they still have a voice in the affairs of this nation, must demand that Congress vote against the “climate
control” legislation that power-crazed politicians of both major political parties are advancing.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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