Posted on 04/03/2010 5:10:17 AM PDT by RogerFGay
We have been awestruck by the audacity of the global warming scam. If taken to fruition, it will destroy freedom and democracy, devastate the economies of the modern world, and concentrate unimaginable power and wealth in the hands of a small international group of politically connected criminals.Organized through the United Nations, scientific research and education related to weather came nearly to an end. A handful of people controlled reports from a UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These reports were used to plant extraordinary and scientifically unfounded predictions about catastrophic global warming caused by human existence. Left leaning journalists, including a new core of “environmental journalists” jumped at the chance to declare that humans are bad and more government power is an urgent necessity.
Financing of science and education through governments aimed directly at pushing the political agenda, with IPCC reports as the excuse. Skeptics were ostracized while thousands of scientists were paid to include global warming fears in published works. Suddenly, there were claims that every scary thing imaginable was being caused by or would be caused by man-made global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore, claiming “scientific consensus,” exaggerated the IPCC claims in a powerfully promoted propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth, which made its way into many class rooms to frighten young children. By the mid-2000s, many people believed that global warming might be something to fear and that government action might be prudent.
It was time for “business as usual.” Threats from politicians to industry became credible. Barack Obama for example, directly threatened to put the coal industry out of business. Threats of sky-rocketing taxes and operating costs put business globally on the defensive. Woe unto those who didn't get into the game. Lobbying activity sky-rocketed.
The movement made it a long way past the starting gate and seemed unstoppable. Thanks to 10s of thousands of honest scientists and other analysts, the tide began to turn. Information spread across the Internet that the majority of scientists do not believe the IPCC claims. If you were interested enough to look, clear explanations were available on the lack of actual scientific support behind the claims along with scientific evidence of falsehood. Books and articles were published on both the scientific hoax and the political and economic damage that would be caused if the political agenda succeeded. (my first)
Late last year, the public was suddenly jerked into reality by publication of emails and other information hacked from computers at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit in England. The emails included exchanges between some of the most influential scientists involved in the global scam. They discussed manipulating data to give fraudulent support to catastrophic global warming claims, hiding data to keep from having their work checked, and controlling the peer-review process to maintain an aire of scientific credibility, among other things. It was a smoking gun.
According to a report by Greenpeace, public awareness that the man-made global warming scare is a hoax has been driven primarily by a “conspiracy” involving Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries and ExxonMobil. I know. I know. Greenpeace. Why bother. Hardly a credible source. Greenpeace renews the Bush-Big Oil conspiracy theory to destroy the planet to counter evidence that they and other conspirators have been lying about climate to promote their agenda. Their shocking evidence is that industrialists give money to organizations that openly state that they operate on private donations and are pro-industry and that they also donate to political campaigns. I guess the extremely far left now has their political agenda so well supported by public money that they have no need for private donations to such organizations as Greenpeace and Democrats apparently no longer accept campaign contributions. (sarcasm)
But let's just assume for the sake of argument that there is something to the Greenpeace theory. Koch Industries and ExxonMobil have provided large amounts of money to fund the battle against “climate change” propaganda. Good for them. Good for industry. Good for business. Good for the people.
We're not out of the woods yet. Barack Obama illegally ordered the EPA to implement CO2 regulation after the Senate refused to pass his “climate” bill. So deep are his back-room financial deals, that not even public awareness that it is a scam is stopping him.
The battle must be fought and we must never surrender. If Charles and David Koch and ExxonMobil are playing even a fraction of the part in public education as Greenpeace claims, then we owe them our thanks. I urge you to write your congressperson today and recommend Congressional Gold Medals for the brothers and for ExxonMobil executives. Tell them it's based on a Greenpeace report.
If anyone is not aware, Kock Industries is the largest privately owned company in this country and maybe the world. They are primarily an energy company, but they also own Georgia-Pacific.
If they are the enemy of Greenpeace then they are my friend.
I can't believe the "ho hum" reaction to this! Has everyone just rolled over and accepted the so-called settled science? Where is the outrage? Are these extra-Constitutional federal agencies just going to keep issuing assaults upon our Freedom and Liberty day after day?
States have passed states’ right resolutions and are filing lawsuits to stop the EPA. I believe that people are leaving it to that and hoping for the best. I have noticed one article so far saying people should not trust politicians to this extent. Whether federal or state, they are all parts of the same party machinery.
When Bill Clinton was pushing the BTU tax, Charles ordered all the employees to set aside everyday business and concentrate on a publicity campaign against the tax.
Everyone, and i mean everyone at Koch took part in calling customers, writing letters, making personal visits and generally raising hell.
It worked.
The last key Democrat vote for the BTU tax was David Boren on Oklahoma. When he voted no, the tax was derailed.
When Koch took over, they put GP on a diet. The Pink Palace (GP’s building in Atlanta) is almost deserted, according to my contacts.
I’ve been there...
An old Koch buddy said when Koch bought the paper company, each mill was shut down and everyone paid off and laid off. If the mill employed 1,000 people, an ad would appear a month later offering employment for 750 positions.
The paper industry is still very sickly. Dying newspapers, dying magazines, plastic grocery bags vs paper, etc. have killed demand. And all the mills are decades behind on capital upgrades - operating with baling wire/chewing gum maintenance programs.
Local leftist nut writes a guest column in the paper often blaming Koch industries for denying global warming. He also bashes Walter Williams as a paid Koch stooge, apparently because Koch has contributed to William’s university.
You are flat wrong. Having spent 35 years in the tissue side of the paper industry I can tell you GP, KC and SCA are the world leaders. Between the three that own the majority of the World Class Paper Machines and continue to out pace the world. They make money even over the last few years.
After the merger they kept saying to two companies were very much alike and I kept saying, Yeah, they both operate on the same planet.
Worked for GP via a merger and hated every minute of it. When they sold us it was the best day of my life.
I should clarify. Most of the mills in the South - Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia - are behind and are antiquated. I cannot recall a new paper machine being constructed in the South since the 1990 Ashdown, Arkansas project.
Louisiana lost three kraft mills in the last couple of years. I don’t disagree that tissue mills are managing to do ok - demand for that product is stable.
But newsprint and linerboard are not doing well.
Her conclusions:"AGW" is neither "good" science nor is the issue of AGW "settled" science.
Not only was she the top scorer above more than 250 other students, the other competitors were in the sixth through eighth grades -- and she is only a fifth-grader.
Altough she took First Place in her region, she was not allowed to go to State Science Fair -- because fifth graders are ineligible to compete at the State level... :-(
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Nonetheless, the good news is that the real scientists (and the USAF officers) who judged her work have not "drunk the AGW Kool-Aid"!
Full disclosure: she's my granddaughter... '-)
further south.
A great big mill, once owned by IP.
Barton, Alabama, SCA has built two World Class Twin Wire Paper Machines with in the last 10 years and more to come.
What companies are doing is pulling inefficient machines off line. GP is a good example of that.
Thanks for that info on the State activity, and for your article BTW!
And kudos to you and your son/daughter for raising a child that thinks like that in this day and age!
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