Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense: Welcome to a brave new, yet not much warmer, world

People with common sense cannot be faulted for despairing at the constant bombardment with articles, speeches and blogs about the dangers of "global warming". To any plain and straight thinker it is very clear what is happening here: a bunch of radical left-wingers – communists, anarchists, etc. – grabbed the issue of global warming, saw that they could use it to bring chaos and anarchy to Western civilization, and figured that it might be a neat idea to paint themselves green when, in fact, they are of a deep red, complete with hammer and sickle embroidery on their underwear.

Proof of this is easily found in the fact that the global warming movement only demands harsh, and self-destructive, climate change measures from the West, but not from anyone else – most notably, India and China. Nor are they calling on their ideological comrade Hugo Chavez to shut down his oil wells. Left-wing radicals, like recently Sean Penn, hobnob with Chavez and praise his oil production – because he supposedly uses it to help the poor and fight capitalism, as well as "evil" America. But woe anyone, like Alberta, for example, who extracts the precious resource for a profit. That is not environmentalism; it is anti-capitalism of the worst order.

For several years Westerners have had to endure the blather from those groups about the phenomenon, as well as repeated claims that the science underlying the causes of global warming was "established" and met all the requirements of a "scientific consensus". Hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists who have dared to disagree have been maligned, assaulted and ostracized by their "colleagues" in the "scientific community". The fact is that our planet is an organism, and since even human medicine is not an exact science ("People should eat more salt"; "Sorry, we were wrong: Reduce your salt intake"; "How silly of us: Add more salt to your diet"), it is only logical that any "science" that claims to have definitive answers about the organism called Earth is best sent to the waste bin for instant recycling.

More recently there have been reports that the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is not melting as fast as predicted, or – surprise, surprise – not melting at all...