The Global Warming Con Job

Con Man

Most of us are taught at an early age if something is too good to be true, it probably is. We don’t believe you can eat anything you want and still lose weight.We don’t believe you can get rich while working at home for just four hours a week. We know these things are scams and con jobs.

It occurred to me while watching this <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM&feature=player_embedded”>video of a dingbat Global Warming cultist in an ugly blouse whine that Cap and Trade just isn’t enough</a> that the Global Warming Hoax had<a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick”> all the classic marks of a con-job</a> from the very beginning.
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Confidence tricks exploit typical human qualities such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, honesty, compassion, credulity and naïveté. The common factor is that the mark relies on the good faith of the con artist.</blockquote>

One of the tricks of the con-artist is to tell the mark exactly what the mark wants to hear. Isn’t it a remarkable coincidence that the villains in the Global Warming Scam — western capitalism, oil companies, “polluters” — are the same people the left has hated since Al Gore was just another chubby rich kid growing up in the Fairfax Hotel. Isn’t it just as remarkable that the “solution” to Global Warming involves giving the left’s heroes — environmentalists — absolute control over the people they hate?

The Global Warming con artists exploit leftist vanity by giving them the most important mission of all — saving the world. They exploit the naivete of the leftist mark by telling them that climate change has never happened before and it’s all because of CO2. They exploit compassion by including a massive transfer of wealth from the advanced world to the third world in their “solution.”  They exploit the credulity of the leftist mark by telling them climate is too complex to understand, and they have to trust the scientists.

That’s where the shills come in.

The Big Progressive Lie

Shamelessly stolen from America Is An Obamanation.

The Green Movement is currently at Condition Red because of the Climategate emails.

Since we’re on the topic, let me summarize Climategate in four basic easy-to-understand elements.

1. Climate scienticians conspired to exclude temperature data that contradicted Global Warming from their “climate models.”

2. The computer models were set up with a bias to show Global Warming regardless of the data that were put in.

3. Climate scienticians conspired to circumvent the peer review process by steering papers toward friendly reviewers, and plotting to remove skeptics from the peer review process.

4. Climate scienticians conspired to destroy data rather than share it with potential skeptics.

These so-called scientists behaved more like Scientology lawyers shredding incriminating documents than dispassionate, objective observers simply going where the facts led them.

100 Years of Doom

1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”

1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents”

1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer”

1937: “Continued warm weather at the Pole, melting snow and ice.”

1954: “The particular point of inquiry concerns whether the ice is melting at such a rate as to imperil low-lying coastal areas through raising the level of the sea in the near future.”

1957: “U.S. Arctic Station Melting”

1958: “At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some estimates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years [ago].”

1959: “Will the Arctic Ocean soon be free of ice?”

1971: “STUDY SAYS MAN ALTERS CLIMATE; U.N. Report Links Melting of Polar Ice to His Activities”

1979: “A puzzling haze over the Arctic ice packs has been identified as a byproduct of air pollution, a finding that may support predictions of a disastrous melting of the earth’s ice caps.”

1982: “Because of global heating attributed to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fuel burning, about 20,000 cubic miles of polar ice has melted in the past 40 years, apparently contributing to a rise in sea levels …”

1999: “Evidence continues to accumulate that the frozen world of the Arctic and sub-Arctic is thawing.”

2000: “The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.”

2002: “The melting of Greenland glaciers and Arctic Ocean sea ice this past summer reached levels not seen in decades, scientists reported today.”

2004: “There is an awful lot of Arctic and glacial ice melting.”

2005: “Another melancholy gathering of climate scientists presented evidence this month that the Antarctic ice shelf is melting – a prospect difficult to imagine a decade ago.”

Morning Brevities

Item Number One: The Obama Regime has unveiled a new propaganda tactic in the war to regulate every human activity via “Climate Change;” if you oppose efforts to combat Manbearpig than you want millions to die. They are claiming millions will die unless Government Power to Regulate Human Activity is expanded dramatically. It is perhaps worth mentioning, in this context, that up to 300,000,000 people have died of malaria and other tropical diseases since the Global Environmental Community outlawed DDT. The Environmentalist Community considers outlawing DDT and killing 15 to 50 times as many people as Hitler to be one of their greatest triumphs. As with the contemporary hysteria over Global Warming, the push to outlaw DDT was based on junk science and emotional appeals, but unlike Al Gore, Rachel Carson wasn’t smart enough to set herself up to make billions off the scam.

The MSM, BTW, is still strenuously avoiding discussion of the emails between climate scienticians that prove the whole Manbearpig thing is a great big hoax. There’s a pretty good summation of Climategate here.

BTW, Obama’s Eugenics-Loving “Science Czar” John Holdren, is also about waist deep in Climategate, as he appears to have been encouraging the climate scienticians to hide their raw data from skeptics.

Item Number Two: Al Gore sicced his security goons on two Manbearpig heretics who dared to try and ask him questions at a book signing.

Item Number Three: And in case you had any doubts that the real intent of the Manbearpig Cult wasn’t to let unsuccessful countries loot successful countries, read this.

Charles Krauthammer describes the Senate Climate Change Massive Regulation of Every Human Activity Bill as a “Dead Parrot.” I had planned to use this for today’s stinger anyway, but thanks Chuck for providing me a segue.

Durka Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad

The Universe of Lies: Go to Imaginationland and turn left

Hey, Remember how in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre, American Christians — a notorious volatile and violent group (according to the Mainstream Media) — went on a rampage and began beating up every Muslim in sight?

Neither do I

But apparently, even though such violence never happened, the MSM still feels it necessary to hype the possibility of violence against Muslims, and give our Koran-kissing friends another opportunity to play the victim.

Ayyad, a charismatic 37-year-old with a sonorous voice, seems to be speaking for, not to, the congregation as he laments, “It’s becoming harder and harder for us to raise our head and say, ‘I am a Muslim.’” Many nod in agreement when he says, “There are very difficult times out there.”

Poor baby. All of the anti-Muslim violence that didn’t happen must really bum him out; but he doesn’t seem too upsets about the anti-Infidel violence his religion perpetuates on a daily basis.

Unconvincing Defenses of the AGW Hoax

Since the emails they had been trying to hide from the public have been exposed, the climate scienticians behind the emails are now trying to spin that references to “tricking” the data and “hiding the decline” mean something other than what what they clearly and obviously mean.

Here’s Michael Mann, one of the scienticians, trying to explain away the emails.

I assume what Phil Jones was referring to was the well known that Keith Briffa’s maximum latewood tree ring density proxy data diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the “divergence problem”) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while ‘hiding’ is probably a poor choice of words (since it is ‘hidden’ in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand the reason for the “divergence”.

When you cut through the crap, what he’s saying comes down to is, “We threw out the data that didn’t fit our conclusions.”

And if these emails are not a big deal, why did the scienticians vow to destroy them rather than release them under the Freedom of Information Act?

Just the way progressives like it.

Progressive Leftists and the Wisdom of Twilight Fans

A progressive leftist group called “Answer” is based at Rutgers University and is devoted to the cause of promoting teen promiscuity. “Answer” produces a magazine called “Sex, Etc” aimed at teenagers. It is distributed in public libraries over the objections of parents. Answer’s websites includes a comic strip called “I Am Horny” about a frustrated bisexual girls as well as quizzes on orgasms and oral sex aimed at kids 12 and up.

Answer justifies their cause by saying, “teens are responsible decision makers.”

Consider that sentence for a moment. “Teens are responsible decision makers?” Really? Then, why is the drinking age 21? There’s something severely detached from reality in people who believe that “teens are responsible decision makers,” but adults can not be allowed to make their own health care decisions.

Also, how is it liberals argue on the one hand, “Teens are going to have sex anyway, so we should accommodate them by giving them all the information they want,” but on the other hand, “Smoking is harmful, and so we have to do everything possible to discourage teens from smoking.” This includes making cigarettes difficult to obtain and severely restricting tobacco advertising. But birth control and pronography are freely available. Are the health consequences of smoking worse than the consequences of STD’s or unplanned pregnancies?

Liberals use television and film to encourage politically correct attitudes on environmentalism, racial attitudes, animal rights, and whatever other cause is trendy. Many loftily claim that the got into the media business in order “to make people think,” or even, “to change the world,” because they think their words and images can create messages that affect behavior; they sell billions in advertising based on this theory. Yet, at the same time, they insist that saturating media with adolescent sexual imagery has no effect on teenage behavior. You’re not allowed to depict a Muslim as a terrorist, or a black man as a criminal because they claim that imagery would affect people’s attitudes. But they can show teenagers and twenty-somethings having promiscuous, consequence-free sex and claim it won’t influence people’s behavior.

Because “teens are responsible decision makers.”

Right.

Teenagers are responsible decision-makers.

“I Didn’t Quit Drinking to Get High On Hope and Change”

Charles Winecoff at Big Hollywood writes of addiction, recovery, and Obamunism.

I didn’t get sober to continue living in a dreamworld of perpetual denial and fantasy, the way I did for most of my life. Being a drunk is a lot like being a liberal – and I was both – always hiding from reality, making childish excuses, blaming other people for my shortcomings. But with time, and patience, my Higher Power revealed to me something unexpected: the common-sense sunshine of the conservative spirit.

Interesting analogy; Big Government liberalism as substance abuse. Is our country addicted to massive levels of government welfare spending and social engineering. The mayo clinic provides a list of symptoms of addiction. How do these relate to liberalism?

Our children are getting pissed off with our addictions.

Morning Briefs

Good Morning,

Item Number One: Senator Granny Clampett — I mean, Harry Reid — has declared that if the giant turd of a health care bill working its way through the senate becomes law, Americans will become immortal!

Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation – indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and death, which can be prevented by decent health care for all .

Delusions of grandeur much? So, if we can get immortality for $1 Trillion, how much will it cost for us to transform into beings of pure energy?

Item Number Two: Maybe some of you saw the (wretched) series finale of Battlestar Galactica, in which the crew lands on prehistoric Earth and Dr. Cottle determines that the primitive proto-humans that inhabit the planet have at least some crude, minimal level of civilization by observing that they bury their dead.

New Mogadishu, the most liberal city in America, fails at even that basic level of civilized behavior.

Item Number Three: Reports that Senate Whore Mary “Nutgobbler” Landrieu sold out her vote on ObamaCare for $100 Million were inaccurate. It was actually $300 Million. Senator Nutgobbler is thanking her pimp, Big Daddy Reid, by holding a fundraiser for him.

Not a Good Week for Teh Cult

The last few days have not been good for the People’s Temple of Hope and Change, nor for its charismatic leader, whom many members regard as a god incarnate.

• Chairman Zero returned from Asia having accomplished nothing except looking like a jackass for bowing to the Emperor of Japan
• Chairman Zero’s budget deficit just for the month of October, at $127 billion, was larger than the deficit for the entire 2007 Fiscal Year (the last budget authored by a Republican president and Congress.)
• Chairman Zero’’s Attorney General was revealed to be an idiot when he couldn’t name a single case where an enemy combatant captured on a battlefield had been given a trial in a civilian court.
• Chairman Zero promised the world that Khalid Sheik Mohammed would receive a fair trial, while promising Americans there could be no other outcome to that trial but conviction and execution. (Ponder the Stalinist quality of that statement for a moment.)
• The “hockey stick” chart was revealed to be a fake when emails between Global Warming scienticians revealed they were deliberately manipulating the data to “prove” global warming; one scientician instructing another to fudge the data in order to “hide the decline” in global temperatures.
• A probably-soon-to-be-fired Inspector General revealed that Chairman Zero’s Tax Cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner used TARP money as a private slush fund to bail out his old buddies at AIG, Wachovia, and Goldman Sachs.
• It was also revealed that $6.4 Billion in Stimulus money was sent to congressional districts that don’t exist.

By the end of the week, Chairman Zero’s silly little cult was so desperate for a distraction they were hyping a fake story about Sarah Palin getting booed at a book signing.

Tough Times at People's Temple of Hope and Change