As any trial lawyer will attest, when push comes to shove in the courtroom, it is not truth and reality that carry the day. It is instead
The court room is, however, a Sunday school picnic when compared to politics. Each day brings word of further atrocities. (Today, for example, we were treated to word that Bob Dole is now soliciting money from companies that compete with Microsoft in exchange for his help in influencing the Clinton Administration to expand their so-called "antitrust'' attack on Microsoft - an attack that has been bought and paid for by political contributions to the Clinton Administration from other Microsoft competitors. (See
The Wall Street Journal, December 23, p A16 and Conservative Chronicle, December 24, p 16.) The same Conservative Chronicle carries on page 14 an editorial by William F. Buckley praising the Kyoto global warming treaty and implying that it will be good for the nuclear power industry. My dilemma - a friend gave me a book by Buckley as a Christmas present. Do I read this book, or recycle it as carbon dioxide?It is in the world of perceived reality that the global warming contest will be decided - a world in which honest scientists are very poorly equipped to compete. Yet, this contest is the most important scientific issue of the 20th and 21st Centuries. If such a massive scientific fraud with so many terrible consequences for human progress can be politically implemented when overwhelming data, that is understandable by the simplest of logic, exists to disprove it, then virtually any lie can be implemented in the future.
If this treaty passes, not only are a lot of people going to die, but honest science also, in so far as it affects public affairs, will die with them - and the credibility of science will be crippled for generations.
Today, the perceived reality - a reality that very well-financed en-viro, government, and self-interested corporate propagandists are drilling daily into the public mind - is as follows: "A consensus of scientists (2,600 scientists in some incarnations) agrees that human-caused release of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases is causing major heating of the Earth's atmosphere, which will soon lead to global flooding, disastrous disruptions of weather, and catastrophic climate changes. The only scientist opponents of this consensus view are a few unpatriotic 'crazy people' and 'crackpots' and a small number of dishonest scientists who have been paid by greedy capitalists in the oil and coal industries.'' Opponents in the United States Senate who have noticed that the treaty will not cut carbon dioxide emissions - just shift them along with American industry and jobs to countries like China, India, and Mexico that have refused to sign the treaty - are being marginalized as shills for industrial polluters.
The game plan is simple: The treaty is now in place, but needs ratification by the United States Senate. Therefore, the propaganda campaign will continue and accelerate, while public opinion polls measure its progress. When those polls show that a large enough percentage of Americans favors the treaty, the polling figures will be used to roll the Senate. An old maxim is ascendant: "If a lie is preached long enough, the public will believe it.'' The remarkable fact is that there is no scientific consensus at all. Moreover, the 2,600 IPCC "scientists'' did not agree to any document that supports the claims of the global warmers. Further, there is overwhelming scientific evidence that the global warming hypothesis is false (see Access to Energy 25-3). This is reality, but it is not perceived
reality. Perceived reality is the opposite.For the enviros, this treaty has it all. Not only is technological progress debilitated by rationing energy, but forest provisions of the treaty are the ultimate spotted owl. Trees, being carbon dioxide absorbers, are sacred resources to be counted positively for a nation's carbon dioxide allotment. The unauthorized cutting of a tree on private property becomes a crime against global weather. Cows, since they emit methane, become a greenhouse warming menace. Each cow will be counted against a nation's carbon dioxide allotment.
Forget spotted owls and claims of logging impact on mountain streams; logging will be damned in any location. Forget claims that grazing is harmful to public lands; the very existence of cows will become an environmental atrocity. Forget claims of national sovereignty; greenhouse gases affect the whole world, so national interests become subservient to the whims of international bureaucrats.
Make no mistake about it. The implementation and subsequent logical evolution of this treaty will kill and debilitate far more people than World Wars I and II combined - and will leave humanity in the political position of having lost both wars.
If this treaty is implemented, history will record all of the other political issues of our day as mere distractions that helped divert principled, decent, and productive people from the primary issue and thereby helped set the stage for their overwhelming defeat.
The backs of the American people are already against the wall -and they do not even realize what is happening to them. Their only hope is that, by some miracle, the currently perceived reality about global warming can be changed to correspond to actual reality. It
must become common knowledge that the global warming claim is wearing no scientific clothes - that it is an outright lie.Yet, this lie is being vigorously promoted by a very large and very well-financed propaganda machine.
The present public debate boils down to the global warmers on their white horses fighting to save the world vs. greedy capitalists and their paid shills willing to destroy the world for profit. We may be certain that the greedy capitalists will lose this debate.
It is imperative that the truth be known. We must convince the American people that these people are not on white horses of truth and benevolence. They are instead on black horses of political power and death. They are riding a monstrous lie into the 21st Century. We must make sure that they ride this lie alone.
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Vol. 25, No. 5
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 25, No. 5 Date: January 01, 1998 04:26 PM Title: Perceived Reality
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