The Nonsense of Global Warming - Forbes.com
When I'm driving to my country home in Somerset, I pass two examples of the damage Greens can cause when their views are accepted and applied. Thanks to heavy government subsidies, many farmers switched from growing food to biofuel crops--perhaps the most expensive form of energy ever devised. The result has been a world shortage of food, with near starvation in some places, and a rise in the cost of food for everyone. We're now getting wise to this ridiculous experiment; shares in biofuels have fallen, and farmers are switching back to their proper work. But the cost has been enormous.
The other thing I pass is a new windmill, spinning slowly around. Windmills were the great invention of the early Middle Ages--man harnessing nature and using it to replace muscle power. When I was a boy more than 70 years ago there were still a few windmills, but nobody doubted they were on their way out. The thought of going back to wind power would have seemed preposterous. Nevertheless, under pressure from Greens this has happened. Wind power is a grotesquely expensive and inefficient form of energy, and the new windmills are hideous things, ruining the landscape and making an infernal noise.
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof--of which history offers so many examples--that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. If people are in need of religion, why don't they just turn to the genuine article?
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As so often, the people that commented at the bottom of the article is the same bunch of believers that, for truth, refer to websites such as Realclimate or Grist.
Of course these websites are nothing but propaganda machines for Al Gore and James Hansen and employ the likes of Gavin Schmidt or the leader of Team Hockeystick Michael Mann.
If I think about this guy I alwaysd wonder: How come lawyers
can be disbarred and doctors can lose their license to practise, but number fudgers like Michael Mann or James Hansen can just continue selling their snake oil without repercussion.....
"If people are in need of religion, why don't they just turn to the genuine article?"
Because that would require a real commitment. Not to mention that it would cramp their lifestyle.
Global warming is the ultimate pseudo-religion.
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