Mark Steyn - Nothing to Fear but the Climate Change Alarmists

Chicago Sun Times ^ | April 23, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[Tom D.]

Steyn Strikes Again

[Tax-chick]

The archbishop of Canterbury, in a desperate attempt to cut the Anglican Communion a slice of the Gaia-worship self-flagellation action, demands government "coercion" on everything from reduced speed limits to ending cheap air travel "if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die."

Now I'm confused ... does the Archbishop worship nature, or the government?

[KeyWest]

bump

[JohnEBoy]

The title says it all.These people are never called to account. Paul Ehrlich had a cottage industry in the 70's with the Population Bomb ... little or none of it ever came to pass. Sometime in the 80's, Sam Malone, from Cheers, (can't think of the actor's name) said the oceans would be rendered unusable in 10 years. In the 70's, global COOLING was the fear. The difference was there was no way to connect man's lifestyle (deodorants, A/C's, and SUV's) to that. But, global warming was made to order.

See Michael Crighton's "State of Fear". His graphs show the rise in temperature of NY City from the 40's till now. The main character shows the graphs to the lady reporter. "Do you think this shows the effect of global warming?" he asks. "Well, sure," says the reporter. Then he shows her a graph of a nearby small NY town in which the temperature is constant. "isn't it more likely the rise in temperature in NY City is due to concrete poured during that period, since the small nearby town had no comparative temperature rise?"
Hmmm?

[alwaysconservative]

Superlative Steyn bump!

[Publius6961]

But the Big One never fell. And instead of killing his wife Martin Amis had to make do with divorcing her.

Typical drama-queen smelly dope-smoking marxist loser: long on promises and short on delivery...

[The Raven]

>>>Finally, we might decide that civilization itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population -- weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example."

That's what to worry about !!! Elitists

[Publius6961]

Environmentalism doesn't need the support of the church, it's a church in itself -- and furthermore, one explicitly at odds with Christianity: God sent His son to Earth as a man, not as a three-toed tree sloth or an Antarctic krill.

This guy could do stand-up comedy; this stuff is hilarious. When the losers come out of their drug-induced stupor, they will feel pretty silly...

[Publius6961]

Dr. Sue Blackmore... ...If we decide to put the planet first, then we ourselves are the pathogen. So we should let as many people die as possible, so that other species may live, and accept the destruction of civilization and of everything we have achieved.

What if we don't?
When we let the insane among us have this sort of influence (Dr. who?), we must start questioning the sanity of the planet, not its health.

If Sue had an iota of honesty, intellectually or ethically, she would dispatch herself forthwith, ideally by offering herself as a meal for a bear or a shark...
I suspect I will not be hearing about her ultimate sacrifice to her faith any time soon.

[Publius6961]

And this time the doom-mongers said, "Look, do we really want to rewrite the bumper stickers every 30 years? Let's just call it 'climate change.' That pretty much covers it."

I don't see the problem.
There need only be two sets of bumper stickers forever. What's the big deal? They can just switch every few years and hope nobody notices...

[DManA]

Time to watch the movie ZARDOZ again.

"Finally, we might decide that civilization itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population -- weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example."

[rvoitier]

I might have missed it but how did the environmental whackos explain Mars' polar icecaps melting without using a conservative as the reason?

[Publius6961]

I might have missed it but how did the environmental whackos explain Mars' polar icecaps melting without using a conservative as the reason?

I really really hate myself for it, but from time to time I get the dark feeling that perhaps Adolph Hitler was right... I manage to dismiss the thought each time, but I'm weakening...

Come to think of it, these nutjobs have embraced his "ethnic cleansing" in total, albeit from the opposite perspective: kill off everyone except the leeches the "artists" and the entertainers...

How would that work?

[rvoitier]

How would that work?

I know! It's way beyond insanity. But as a practical matter, to answer your question, it would be the last one to get to the gun. :-)

[Publius6961]

I know! It's way beyond insanity. But as a practical matter, to answer your question, it would be the last one to get to the gun. :-)

Well, that wasn't the point of my question...
How long would the "perfect" world last if it consisted exclusively of leeches, artists and entertainers?
(I know, I repeat myself there).

[Thermalseeker]

I might have missed it but how did the environmental whackos explain Mars' polar icecaps melting without using a conservative as the reason?

You never hear about the data that shows the relatively recent increased output of our sun, either. Or, the fact that the "observed" global warming trend stopped in 1997.

Somebody needs to gather all these nutjobs in a room somewhere and explain that the earth has natural cycles of cooling and warming. Then, lock the doors and don't let 'em out!

[tet68]

Iranian nukes? Nah, that's just some racket cooked up by the Christian fundamentalist Bush and his Zionist buddies to give Halliburton a pretext to take over the Persian carpet industry.

Steyn Bump.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Dirt worshiper.

[chesley]

Pagans can worship more than one god at a time.

[chesley]

Except, they never come out. With one or two notable exceptions such as David Horowitz.