From new site edwardring.com » More on Schwarzenegger

It is 12 noon on June 5th and the audio is working. And now the Governator is discussing global warming.

“We have our own air resources board and we are very lucky… …they are brilliant people.” Yeah, brilliant counting angels on the head of a pin and preparing to regulate a toppling economy into complete meltdown. This is a huge issue, and the biggest problem is the “brilliant people” are pretending there is broad agreement as to what is actually happening with our climate, and why. And when you dig in and find, again and again, that there is less than meets the eye, nobody wants to hear it. The notion that climate change is not debatable is an extremely dangerous and misguided “consensus,” and the behavior of members of the media in not making honest attempts to better understand climate science and report on the issue with integrity is shameful.

Edward Ring » The Climate Alarm Industry

Every time I reveal to someone my belief there is not evidence of imminent and catastrophic climate change, nor that anthropogenic CO2 is the primary culprit, I am again struck by how incredulous they are.  [I wonder if this reaction is related to Ed's location [California].  Here in Minnesota, I run into a lot of climate realists] This point of view has successfully been cast as a grotesquely self-interested if not evil or psychotic perspective. And what happened to journalistic and scientific skepticism? It is amazing that for the first time in history, the people running around with signs saying “the world is coming to an end” are considered the sane ones, and those of us who are saying it is not are considered the lunatics.

As Lomborg pointed out, however, the reason for this inversion of logic is clear. Climate alarm is an industry, impelled by a critical mass of special interests that together quite accurately may be called the climate-industrial complex. Environmental challenges are real and require ongoing efforts to mitigate them. But to mingle special interests with environmental imperatives is to invite a public backlash. Environmentalists and entrepreneurs alike would do well to reflect on this possibility, particularly now that the global economic temperature has cooled considerably more than 1.0 degree centigrade.

Edward Ring » Prosecuting “Future Crimes”

Environmentalism today has been hijacked by powerful vested interests, including public sector unions, corporate cartels, and the “international community,” whose primary concern is preserving their elite status and squelching competition. They are abetted by irresponsible journalists who have not taken it upon themselves to verify all of the doomsday predictions coming out of the PR mills such as that of the WFC, nor are willing to consider alternative world views that might embrace entrepreneurial activity and resource development. They are also abetted by ambitious consultants, service professionals and entrepreneurs of all stripes who see in the green mania a good way to grow their businesses - and if they don’t think too hard, they may even consciously think they are saving the planet. But when the judgement of history is upon us, one hundred years hence, maybe it will be those who wanted to reform environmentalism, right-size government, and roll back the power of big labor who will be seen to have fought the good fight. Green is a complex color - it reflects a great deal of genuine beauty and promise, but shades of darkness as well.

Prosecuting “crimes against the future” is a snake pit, writhing with opportunists and their useful zealots, and nothing more. It is dangerous, it discredits the genuine values and challenges of environmentalism that should be addressed, and threatens our freedom.