The Commissars Of Climate Change

forbes ^ | 10.23.08, | Claudia Rosett 10.23.08,

[milwguy]

It's not just income taxes that might trash the dreams of Joe the Plumber.

Ready or not, Joe and the rest of us are also about to get mugged by the commissars of climate change. On this, I've got a bipartisan beef, since both John McCain and Barack Obama have bought into the panicked Al Gore storyline that the earth has a man-made "fever." Both candidates are promising to meet it with dramatic and costly new forms of government control.

This comes even as Europe, after its fling with the Kyoto treaty, is backing off from grand pledges to cut carbon dioxide emissions, having decided that the whole thing is too expensive. But United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls climate change the "defining issue of our time," and the U.N. early last year announced that scientific "consensus" had been reached: The climate is in crisis, and it's man-made. At the U.N. this has morphed into calls for wealthy countries to choke their own productivity and compensate the rest of the world for the weather.

So the plan now is that America, along with its bailouts and other burdens, will sacrifice to the global climate gods. Nevermind that an emissions cap-and-trade bill died in the Senate in June, sunk by the titanic price tag and regulatory overload it would have entailed. America's top politicians, not entirely averse to finding ever-new ways to control and plunder the electorate, are still chugging the climate-change Kool-Aid. Once this starts, where does it stop? Carbon is the basis of life itself; carbon dioxide is exhaled with every breath. Regulating and taxing such matters is a road map to state meddling in every aspect of daily life.

[milwguy]

Among world leaders, there is almost no one left with the courage and vision to challenge any of this. A rare exception is Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who in the 1980s struggled to free his country from Soviet domination and is now sounding the alarm about the growing global tyranny of climate edicts. Last year he published a short book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles. In the subtitle of this book, he asks: "Which is endangered: climate or freedom?"

It's a pity that in America, a country built on free speech and free markets, neither presidential candidate seems willing to take a cue from Klaus. By now, the real question on climate is: Which candidate, once elected, is most likely to back off the campaign promises enough to leave America free to breathe?

[goldstategop]

Exactly. If McCain loses, then this nightmare won't become law. If he wins, then watch out for the biggest expansion of government in our lifetime - all in the name of saving the environment.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[rabscuttle385]

On this, I've got a bipartisan beef, since both John McCain and Barack Obama have bought into the panicked Al Gore storyline that the earth has a man-made "fever."

Vote for McCain and get a free ticket to Planet Gore!

Too bad the ticket is only one-way.

[rabscuttle385]

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[rabscuttle385]

It’s okay because McCain is the one delivering the screwing. /sarc

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I never heard of Vaclav Klaus until recently. As far as I know, a playwright named Vaclav Havel was one of the people instrumental in freeing Czechoslovakia. IIRC, I think Havel also served as prime minister or president of the late Czechoslovakia for a time.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[calcowgirl]

Ban Ki-moon calls climate change the "defining issue of our time"

It could be. It could be the elevating moment for a leader to come forward that speaks the truth and exposes this global scam.

How refreshing that would be!

I won't hold my breath.

[Checkers]

What has happened to the Juan McCain Truth File?