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Even in America, and certainly on the world stage,
the two increasingly look like Don Quixote and his faithful squire,
Sancho Panza. As they tilt for windmills, and against a “monstrous giant
of infamous repute” – climate disasters conjured up by computer models
and Hollywood special effects masters – their erstwhile followers are
making politically correct noises, but running for the hills. Citizens are livid over yet another attempt to use a purported crisis to justify further expanding the government and spending billions more tax dollars for alarmist research, activism and propaganda, just ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference. Global warming continues to rank dead-last in Pew Research and other polls that actually list it as an issue. Rasmussen puts the President’s approval ratings at 46% and falling. Zogby reports that 57% of Americans oppose cap-and-trade bills. Manufacturing states, which get 60-98% of their electricity from coal, worry that the only thing they’ll export in ten years will be jobs. Democrat senators from those states worry that the energy and climate issue will be “toxic for them during midterm elections,” says Politico magazine. Not even the climate is cooperating. Outside of Dallas, 2009 has brought some of coldest summer days on record across the US. Near freezing temperatures nipped at crops, and gas heaters were sine qua non at an August 29 outdoor wedding in Wisconsin. The Farmers Almanac predicts a brutal 2009-2010 winter. Germany plans to build 27 coal-fired electrical generating plants by 2020. Italy plans to double its reliance on coal in just five years. Europe as a whole will have 40 new coal-fired power plants by 2015, columnist Alan Caruba reports. The Polish Academy of Sciences has publicly challenged manmade global warming disaster hypotheses. And only 11% of Czech citizens believe rising carbon dioxide emissions caused global temperatures to climb. Australia just voted down punitive global warming legislation. New Zealand has put its emissions bashing program in a deep freeze. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s top economic aid bluntly dismissed any talk of following President Obama’s quixotic lead. “We won’t sacrifice economic growth for the sake of emission reduction,” he told reporters at the July 2009 G8 meeting. Chinese and Indian leaders are equally adamant. China is playing a smart hand in this high-stakes climate poker game ... building a new coal-fired power plant every week and putting millions of new cars on its growing network of highways. So is India, which will double its coal-based electricity generation and produce millions of Tata and other affordable cars by 2020. “India will not accept any binding emission-reduction target, period,” Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has stated. “This is a non-negotiable stand.” No wonder: 400 million Indians still do not have
electricity; 500 million Chinese still do not. Then there is Africa, where leaders appear ready to support curbs on energy use – in exchange for up to $300 billion per year in additional foreign aid, “to cushion the impact of global warming.” That will be nice for their private bank accounts, but less so for Africa’s 750 million people who still don’t have electricity. Those people will simply be sacrificed, to prevent natural or fictitious climate disasters. Of course, the real goal was never to control the
climate. It was always to control energy use, lives, jobs, economies,
transportation and housing – and usher in a new era of high tax global
governance. The American people are increasingly saying they’re not
ready to grant that power to Obama Gore & Company. Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality,
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