Posted on 4/4/2006, 6:57:30 AM by Exton1
Global Warming: The Real Agenda
In another statement quoted by the Herald, Ms. Stewart gave another reason for adopting the religion of global warming. 'Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.' Here she gets closer to the core motivation of some of the leading global warming activists. Where socialism's attempt at a global redistribution of wealth ended in economic catastrophe, global warming is being wheeled in as the next new economic crusade. Whether global warming actually exists is irrelevant. It is, in the hands of government and environmental activists, a convenient front for the introduction of programs and economic policies that Canadians - and most citizens of the world - would not otherwise accept.
Global Warming: The Real Agenda
Editorial by Terrence Corcoran
Copyright 1998 Financial Post (Canada)
December 26, 1998
http://www.sepp.org/reality/realagenda.html
What is the most important problem facing Canada? When the annual Maclean's/CBC year-end poll asked that question, there was at least one clear answer: Not the environment; in fact, anything but the environment. Ranked by percentage of people who identified one subject or another, the top worry among
Canadians is unemployment (15%), followed by government spending, the economy, health care, national unity, taxes, poverty, education and crime. At the bottom of the list, garnering only 2% support, is the environment.
The possibility that 98% of Canadians are not in a state of high anxiety over global warming, freaky weather, ozone depletion, pollution and scores of other Green scares must be a teeth-gritting irritation to environmentalists. They have, after all, spent decades fertilizing the idea that we are on the brink of environmental disaster. Ottawa and the provinces have spent billions on the campaign, which includes turning the weather into a propaganda tool and the school system into an indoctrination camp that begins in kindergarten.
The poll is a testament to the good sense of Canadians. Despite relentless scare-mongering by bureaucrats and activists, Canadians remain unwaveringly fixed on a national economic agenda of growth and prosperity rather than on fantastic claims of apocalypse. When David Suzuki says global warming 'is the most urgent slow-motion catastrophe facing humankind,' nobody is paying much attention.
Except our politicians. Backed by an army of bureaucrats and researchers, governments are systematically preparing to shut down the engines of economic progress in the name of environmentalism. In Canada, the heart of the stop-growth campaign is Environment Canada, where key bureaucrats dedicated to imposing an environmental agenda on the country have seized control. The focus of their effort is global warming and climate change, which they intend to use as a lever to impose what can only be described as a new economic order.
The politician nominally in charge of all this is Environment Minister Christine Stewart. Whether Ms. Stewart fully understands what's going on around her is unknown, but during a recent visit with the editorial board of the Calgary Herald she certainly demonstrated her conversion to the religion of global warming.
Ms. Stewart said that, 'as minister of the environment, I am very worried about global warming,' which for a politician isn't saying much. Politicians are habitually 'very worried' about one thing or another. The trouble starts when they use their power to fix problems they're worried about, even if the problems don't exist. Ms. Stewart said she's prepared to do exactly that. 'No matter if the science is all phony,' she said, 'there are collateral environmental benefits.'
Environment Canada, therefore, is prepared to act on global warming even if there's no such thing as global warming. On the strength of phony science, the federal government would still be willing to impose new taxes on energy consumption, cut economic growth, reduce our standard of living, and create bookshelves filled with new regulation governing most facets of the lives of Canadians.
In another statement quoted by the Herald, Ms. Stewart gave another reason for adopting the religion of global warming. 'Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.' Here she gets closer to the core motivation of some of the leading global warming activists. Where socialism's attempt at a global redistribution of wealth ended in economic catastrophe, global warming is being wheeled in as the next new economic crusade.
Consolidating Ms. Stewart's statements, we reach some horrific conclusions. Whether global warming actually exists is irrelevant. It is, in the hands of government and environmental activists, a convenient front for the introduction of programs and economic policies that Canadians - and most citizens of the world - would not otherwise accept.
Ms. Stewart, perhaps unintentionally, has identified the two key foundations of the global warming movement. One is based in environmentalism, which essentially claims that human beings are a problem in nature. The other foundation is the old business of economic redistribution. Both these movements are linked in the international climate change treaty Canada signed in Kyoto. Environment Canada has already given up trying to examine the science. It never really tried. Instead, it spends hundreds of millions of dollars churning out propaganda on the hypothetical effects of global warming. Its latest reports include hundreds of studies warning of everything from spreading insect-borne disease to increasing forest fires.
The Maclean's poll shows Canadians aren't going along with the government or the claims of environmentalists. If they knew what Ms. Stewart has in store for jobs and living standards, and why, they might take a greater interest.
TIME magazine has joined the crusade. Their cover proclaims "Be worried. Be VERY worried." Frogs and minorities hit hardest.
El Rushbo has said this for at least a dozen years. He certainly is "on the cutting edge of societal evolution."
There is no global warming. Rush said it. I believe it. And that settles it.
"Where socialism's attempt at a global redistribution of wealth ended in economic catastrophe, global warming is being wheeled in as the next new economic crusade. Whether global warming actually exists is irrelevant. It is, in the hands of government and environmental activists, a convenient front for the introduction of programs and economic policies that Canadians - and most citizens of the world - would not otherwise accept."
Precisely. Thanks for posting it.
Old article, still relevant.
Great find, thanks for posting.
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Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
They've gone beyond "ecoNazis" -- they're becoming the new Order of the Death's Head.
The globe has been warming for 10,000 years else the Great Lakes would Great Ice Cubes..
If I lived in the Great White North, I would be praying for warming. Anyone beat the crap out of a Godless Commie baby seal today?
The earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age.....what's the big deal?
You would think that the cold blooded species pushing the idea of global warming and hissing about stopping it, would instead be seeking ways to make it happen. After all, wouldn't global warming make the rocks they live under and bask in the sun upon, more comfortable for them?
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/264017_warm23.html
County acts on global warming
Sims outlines plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Thursday, March 23, 2006
By LISA STIFFLER
P-I REPORTER
Saving water, using more renewable energy and protecting undeveloped land were strategies announced Wednesday by King County Executive Ron Sims to respond to global warming.
Sims signed four executive orders specifying goals and timelines for the strategies. He said they reflected the county's overarching objective of minimizing global warming gas production in county policies and day-to-day operations.
"There is no question that we are going to experience warming that is going to have a substantial impact on us," Sims said.
The orders come two days before Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is set to publicly announce his recommendations for reducing local contributions to climate change in order to comply with the international Kyoto Protocol.
For more than a year, Nickels has been urging U.S. mayors to join him in supporting the Kyoto agreement, and he created a Green Ribbon Commission that helped craft the recommendations.
The county had planned previously to issue the orders now, Sims said. The coincidence with the city announcement was accidental.
"I respect the leadership of Mayor Nickels," he said. "This has nothing to do with anything he's doing."
City officials would not comment specifically on the county's timing.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, "we need strong action at all levels," said Steve Nicholas, director of the city's Office of Sustainability and Environment.
"Every resident, every household, every business, every government needs to be involved. So if the new actions (by the county) are going to reduce global warming pollution, we're all for it. We welcome it."
Sims said that by embracing his strategies, the county can serve as a "national lab," testing ideas for reducing planet-warming pollution -- such as carbon dioxide and methane gases -- and preparing for the effects of a warmer world. The gases are created primarily when oil, gas and coal are burned.
Sims said he hopes the region could be a model for other municipalities, that King County could show others "these are the tools you can use, these are the goals you can achieve."
The county could not say Wednesday what the costs would be to implement the orders.
County officials predicted that nearly 200,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be cut annually as a result of using more renewable energy. U.S. emissions for 2004 totaled about 7.8 billion tons.
In October, the county spearheaded a climate meeting attended by more than 500 scientists, government officials, environmentalists and others. The event explored what a warmer Northwest might look like and how to plan for changes that could include less snow in the mountains, droughts and a shift in the kinds of plants and animals found here.
The county strategies released Wednesday expand on ideas highlighted at that meeting.
They include:
Critics often scoff at local efforts to reduce emissions, noting that they won't do much to address the issue globally.
But even groups often skeptical of environmental programs said they didn't object to Sims' plans.
Don Brunell, president of the Association of Washington Business, had not seen the orders, but said, "We all need to look at the reduction of greenhouse gases and other pollutants as well."
P-I reporter Lisa Stiffler can be reached at 206-448-8042 or lisastiffler@seattlepi.com. See the P-I's environment blog at www.datelineearth.com
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