Posted by
R. Chase on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:38:25 PM
Question: What do the climate alarmists have to support their constructs and solutions?
Answer: They have a hypothesis that the increase in carbon dioxide from the Industrial Revolution onward is the source for past and anticipated future rises in global temperatures, and they have computer climate models - based not on past data but on current hypotheses - that attempt to predict future climate data and patterns.
Or, in other words, they have nary a shred of evidence to prove their assertion that recent increases in global temperature are caused by something somehow different and more insidious than what has been the source of climatic variations - including both atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature - in the past.
Let me repeat that: they have <b>only</b> a hypothesis and the models - using far from complete data and a poverty of variables - using those assumptions.
These people are asking us to legislate, regulate, and order away our freedom based off of their <i>opinions</i>, based off of a faith - flying in the face of reason and history - in the future that they describe.
Why do they do this? Because most of our "activist" types are, in better terms, "authoritarian" types. They desire everyone to follow their behavior consciously because they think that they hold the monopoly on righteousness and unconsciously out of arrogance - because <i> they </i> are the intellectuals and it is they and their infinite reason that has undertaken a way of acting.
In short, they get their kicks out of making other people do what they want. The brutish and dumb examples of these people are playground bullies who grow up to be unsuccessful and delinquent. The nerdy, low self esteemed variety grow up to be regulators, progressive think tank policy analysts, and former Vice Presidents. Regardless of variety, they all think they have been oppressed by nature, by society, by those born into more wealth or in possession of better or different talents; they languish to lash out at their bogymen, the bourgeoisie, the man, the corporations, Zionist conspiracies, patriarchy or those more satisfied with their life. All of their real or imagined problems are put off on those they covet or those they invent. Sights of others coping and thriving with life's intrinsic variety are discounted as the sheepish behavior of conformists who haven't seen the intellectuals' emotional truth.
And what better way to strike back than with a hypothesis that can be made to seem non-falsifiable, than to be able to portray the activists as the saviors of humanity, while that humanity - ostensibly the source of the problem and those thus deserving of punishment - just tries to act out its everyday feat of survival. What a better way to strike back at the humanity and civilization that authoritarians feel distanced from than to tell the people of the world - who derive all they have physically from the world - that they are dooming themselves through the only methods by which they live, that somehow the fruits of their imagination - the technology which cannot be made without the elements of the earth - are "unnatural".
The global warming types are merely attempting to gain either power or a sense of empowerment for themselves at the expense of others, and they deserve nothing but civilized peoples' contempt.