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The Big Green Lie
There is another similarity to Hitler’s regime, and that is the nature of the political agenda that the greens have. What the greens want is a government-imposed reorganization of economic activity under the direction of the government -- similar to Hitler’s Nazi, or national socialist, top-down agenda for the German economy. Just as Hitler’s propaganda team employed “the big lie” technique of incessantly repeating a falsehood until all but the most alert citizens are mesmerized into believing it from the sheer volume of repetition, so it is with today’s greens. |
by Mark Hendrickson
Public discourse about climate
change often degenerates into personal attacks. Those of us who point out the
many holes in the alleged “scientific basis” of global warming alarmism are
denounced as “deniers.”
As I wrote in my article Who Are the Ideologues? the heart of alarmism is
a radical political agenda -- namely, for a socialistic, top-down plan that
would restructure our energy usage, and therefore our economy, in the name of
saving the planet from a climate catastrophe.
The climate change “emperor,” of course, has no clothes. You can read some of my
rebuttal to the alarmists in my article Who Stole Greta’s Childhood? But
the soundbite version is that, yes, the world has gotten a degree or two warmer
than in “preindustrial times,” for which we should be thankful, since before the
Industrial Revolution, Earth was sunk in the Little Ice Age -- the coldest
period of the last 10,000 years. Yes, carbon dioxide traps heat, although it
does so on a logarithmic scale -- not a linear one -- which means that future
increases in carbon dioxide will trap less heat. And it’s essential to realize
that carbon dioxide isn’t the most important “greenhouse gas” -- that would be
water vapor -- and there are multiple other factors that influence the heat
content of Earth’s atmosphere, including everything from solar and volcanic
activity, ocean currents, tectonic movements, cloud cover, and so on.
In fact, in late 2009, when President Barack Obama and congressional
progressives were trying to pass a cap-and-trade bill designed to make Americans
pay extra for the privilege of burning fossil fuels, some of the scientists in
the global warming alarmist camp were backing off their claims of runaway
warming.
Looking at the most recent data available to them, they guessed -- yes,
“guessed,” which is all that we even the so-called “experts” can ever do
regarding the future -- that the Earth was likely to cool for the next few
decades.
Think about that for a second: After years of telling us that the more carbon
dioxide there was in the atmosphere, the hotter Earth would get, they reversed
themselves, saying, “Carbon dioxide will continue to increase, but the
temperature is likely to fall.” The alarmists thereby demolished their own case
by conceding the main point made by so-called skeptics: that many other factors
besides carbon dioxide drive changes in global temperatures.
The big green lie -- specifically, that human activity is warming the globe to a
dangerous degree requiring a radical economic, social, and political
transformation -- has many iterations. Although my invocation of “the big lie”
phraseology may be harsh, it’s bluntly and plainly accurate. Just as Hitler’s
propaganda team -- and indeed, all left-wing totalitarian groups, whether
communist, fascist, or socialist -- employed “the big lie” technique of
incessantly repeating a falsehood until all but the most alert citizens are
mesmerized into believing it from the sheer volume of repetition, so it is with
today’s greens.
I’m by no means likening alarmists to the murderous and maniacal Hitler. Indeed,
the average government employee repeating the mantra of “anthropogenic climate
change” today is a bureaucrat or government-funded scientist dutifully, not
maliciously, reciting the official party line. By the way, if you want to
understand how politicians can exploit scientists and twist scientific research
into “official science” -- the best “science” that money can buy -- get a copy
of Michael Hart’s book Hubris: The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics
of Climate Change.
And -- if I may digress for a moment -- the next time you hear someone cast
suspicion on the integrity of a private-sector scientist who dissents from
climate change alarmism, ask yourself why nobody ever asks scientists on the
alarmist side if they or their university have ever received government grants
for work on climate change. The unspoken bias in the media is that someone who
works for a government is an incorruptible, even infallible, truth-teller, while
anyone who works in the private sector -- especially for an oil company -- is
ipso facto a venal liar. What prejudicial rubbish!
There is, it should also be mentioned, another similarity to Hitler’s regime,
and that is the nature of the political agenda that the greens have. As I
explained in my article about the Green New Deal, what the greens want is a
government-imposed reorganization of economic activity under the direction of
the government -- similar to Hitler’s Nazi, or national socialist, top-down
agenda for the German economy.
The most recent iteration I have seen of the big lie appeared on April 26 in a
daily newsletter from The Wall Street Journal, derived from a longer
article: $115 trillion -- The amount the world would need to invest in clean
technologies through 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7
degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels, according to the International
Renewable Energy Agency.
Before I point out the untruths in this statement, let me commend it for being
honest and forthright in one important respect: the candid admission that the
radical transition away from fossil fuels will be immensely costly. $115
trillion -- wow! That’s larger than the entire planet’s annual GDP. Beyond that,
though, the statement is arrogant, pretentious, and dishonest in more ways than
one.
The arrogance lies in the implied certainty that human efforts can devise a
policy mix that would act like a thermostat regulating Earth’s temperature.
The pretentiousness is the glib presumption that somebody even knows what the
“right” temperature is, much less how to attain it.
The first dishonesty is the misleading phrase “clean technology” -- as if
renewables were clean. They’re anything but “clean” while being manufactured,
transported, and installed, and they’re disturbingly lethal to winged wildlife.
The second dishonesty is the disingenuous inclusion in the article of two
photographs of horribly polluted air in Chinese cities. Those photos were
designed to create the false impression that all fossil fuels cause severe air
pollution. They deliberately conflated carbon dioxide with pollution when, in
fact, carbon dioxide is invisible, meaning it couldn’t be the source of the air
pollution in the photos. True, one particular fossil fuel -- coal -- causes
visible and toxic air pollution, which is why so many utilities have replaced
coal with oil and natural gas. U.S. cities such as Pittsburgh, once known for
sooty skies, have enjoyed clear, clean air for decades after moving away from
coal -- not to renewables, but to cleaner forms of fossil fuels and some nuclear
power. More importantly, carbon dioxide is the base of the human food chain:
Plants live on carbon dioxide, and they, in turn, provide nourishment for
animals and humans. To imply that carbon dioxide is some sort of destructive
pestilence is a scientific travesty.
The greatest dishonesty of the big green lie is the basic premise of the climate
change alarmists -- that our prosperity is somehow sinful, and, therefore, we
don’t deserve to live in a world with more temperate, human-friendly
temperatures and in a more carbon dioxide-enriched, greener world than humans
had to endure in the harsh, wretched Little Ice Age.
The big green lie is several decades old. It has been taught for nearly 30 years
in our country’s schools -- thanks to federal legislation giving the
Environmental Protection Agency oversight over schools’ environmental
curriculums -- which explains why young people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
truly believe that the world is approaching a climate-caused cataclysm.
But facts are stubborn things, and I’m still idealistic enough to believe that
truth will prevail in the end. So let’s push back against the big green lie with
all our might and resist their suffocating, misanthropic, utopian socialistic
plans. It’s socialism -- not carbon dioxide -- where the real existential danger
lies.
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