The end is not near
By Paul Moomjean 12/10/2009
It’s December, and while it is the end of the year and the decade, luckily it turns out not to be the end of civilization. Recently, a slew of disturbing e-mails were posted on the Internet showing what many of us conservatives had already known: man-made global warming is about as legit as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and your neighbor’s pyramid scheme. This must be devastating to college kids and Al Gore, who have banked everything on the inevitable self-destruction of the world and all of us participating in the great experiment known as human life. With the revelation that scientists working for the Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom fudged on some “facts” concerning the heating of the planet, “facts” that have been the inspiration for costly world seminars dealing with climate change, the 21st century’s first great hoax arose. Interestingly, many on the left still hope the end is near.
I would think that the finding of these e-mails would cause celebration in the streets, and I have yet to see a parade. Think about it. If it turns out global warming is a trickster tale spun from the laboratories of left-leaning scientists, I suggest we all just wipe our brow, take a deep breath, get back into our SUVs, and place that 7-foot light-up Santa in the front yard for Christmas. However, the left won’t let us. In fact, the man behind “Climategate,” Phil Jones, stated in his released e-mails that he “would like to see the climate change happen so the science could be proved right.” Wait … what?! Jones hopes that random chance proves the science? I thought science proves or disproves random chance? So Jones was essentially a well-dressed version of the crazy man in Santa Monica with the sign “The end is near,” praying his prediction comes true even though there is no basis for the claim. Now that he’s stepped down from the position, he will have all the time in the world to join those who share their prophecies painted on cardboard boxes.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., takes the carbon cake for the response to what happened. The computer hackers who located the e-mails revealing the fraud should be given the Nobel Peace Prize, but Boxer wants criminal charges pressed against them. This is a modern Woodward and Bernstein if there was ever one, and Boxer wants to punish the Paul Reveres instead of the redcoats. “You call it ‘Climategate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate,’ “ the senator said in a committee meeting. She should be celebrating the good news that the world isn’t ending, but alas, she is upset.
After the revealing of the e-mails became public, the main television networks stayed silent while Fox News remained a voice crying out in the wilderness. What created this global warming frenzy? How did scientists, politicians and news reporters all get into the same bed over this issue? Simply put, it was about power and economics. For scientists, they need funding. So instead of finding an AIDS vaccine, science has decided that there is money in stopping the so-called end of the world. Meanwhile, politicians need a boogey man when running for office; and when Democrats go against the Republicans, and the mantra “more taxes and abortions for all” wasn’t cutting it, the Democrats decided to jump on the end-of-the-world campaign by asking people to vote for them if they want to maintain the planet. Boxer and her ilk are more concerned with maintaining a hovering cloud of fear than they are with the truth. And the news media doesn’t get the same nightly news rating with “the world is OK at 11” when the headline, “the end is near at 11” can get more viewers.
This trinity of power (science professors, politicians and the media) feeds off fear, and if global warming isn’t real, then they have lost a lot of talking points. Since the end of the world is such an important issue to them, luckily 2012 is just around the corner. For them to maintain their power and funding, they better pray the Mayans were right.
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