The Coleman hypothesis
John Coleman is a meteorologist of some renown and commercial accomplishment. You have probably already read what he has said:
It is the greatest scam in history….It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming….
Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.
I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped.
It is possible of course that in time “everyone will come to realize we have been duped.” But there is also a significant probability that this will not happen. The grifters of political and economic power who champion global warmism for their benefit will no doubt claim that warming has been transmuted into cooling. And of course drastic measures are still needed — of any sort that fill their coffers and gild their thrones.
But that’s not the scary part. The business and political worlds have always been full of con men and their lackeys. That’s nothing new. The scary aspect of this to us is the media. We are producing generations of younger Americans who know little about life and yet feel perfectly justified in lecturing us about every aspect of it. They often come from great universities where they learn the current fashions in the liberal arts from professors who have never lived outside that sandbox. They then get jobs whose essence is to be observers of what other people do. (The Hollywood types have a quicker path to a similar end: from becoming high school dropouts to pretending to be other people.)
If there is a better recipe for creating witless grandees, we haven’t seen it. From the TV news to the fourth grade classroom, we’ve seen the power they wield and the intellectual carnage they create. Despite the advent of the New Media, we have not seen a noticeable drop in the power of those who shout fashionable, totalitarian nonsense into a large megaphone.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Antonio Gramsci, that wily old Marxist, lives on - he said the way to overthrow capitalism was to corrupt education, arts, the family, and religion from within. The lefties have taken over these areas and are doing a great job at corrupting them; and the media is best at it. Of course, a point will come when a dictator will be required to maintain control.