We hear a great deal about ‘dangerous climate change’ from the likes of Al Gore and Nicholas Stern. By contrast, I wish to speak about dangerous ‘Green’ economics.

We forget at our peril that a significant portion of the ‘Green’ movement has striven for over 40 years to undermine the whole of our economic system, and to replace it with a ‘Green’ autocracy that can rule all our lives and decisions. Unfortunately, until the present economic crisis, too many of our bien pensant classes, along with their preferred media, such as the BBC and the New York Times, have been happy to play along with this trope, paying lip service to it intellectually and at dinner parties, if not much in practice. The trope has been reinforced by a legion of sloppy-minded university products from far too many ill-conceived MAs and MScs in development studies and environmental studies.

These forces have worked hard to undermine the economic world by adopting three quite deliberate tactics.

Well, whaddaya know? The very same week that Nature journal revealed that we are all going to die from a Global Ice Age -- pay attention out there, kids, it's not Global Warming after all -- the "experts" on paranoia are telling us that, Yes, we are surrounded by a fast-growing paranoia epidemic!     

It's enough to make a person feel very, very suspicious.

Personally I'm all in favor of a Paranoia Epidemic, just because it would cut out the middle man. Right now the Global Warming Industry is being stoked by an endless series of paranoid stories in the media. A whole pseudo-science of climate modeling, the New Astrology, is getting the big bucks to make up scare stories. The UN is tumbling all over itself trying to "solve" Global Warming. And yes, Barack Obama is a True Believer in all that farcical pseudo-science -- or at least in the political juice you can squeeze out of it.

Watch for the Feds to put a lot more junk scientists on the payroll in the Obama years, who will justify their money by rolling out more horror stories, which will take more experts to study, and so on, ad infinitum. OK, that's all good clean graft. The trouble is that Global Warming is really expensive paranoia. Everybody is getting money out of it except the people who pay taxes. 

How ideological is Barack Obama? Criticism of early associations implies his left wing ideology is fixed. His voting record supports this claim. However, his shifts to the center while campaigning suggest something different.  Did he shift merely to get elected or is it a willingness to face realities? Does John Maynard Keynes comment apply? “If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?” Obama presented himself as a populist, but is he an opportunistic or pragmatic populist? The answer is critical for energy and climate policies.

Many nations are already shifting for pragmatic reasons away from reducing greenhouse gases, especially CO2. China and India have shown little inclination to hinder economic progress. India also took away the moral high-ground of the environmentalists by pointing out that starving people transcend questionable climate science. (Starving Indians Not Impressed by Global Warming Plan)

In Europe the poor economy has changed priorities. (Source)

T Boone Pickens has a simple business plan: convince the government to force Americans to buy his wind power and natural gas, so he can get rich.

Already in Texas, he benefits from a law that requires that Texans get 20% of the electricity from wind power—T Boone’s wind power. He even convinced the State to spend $5 billion in taxpayer money on transmission lines to deliver his wind power to consumers.

In California, he is spending millions on Prop 10, which would mandate that the Golden State use natural gas—T Boone’s natural gas—in public vehicles. If Prop 10 passes, the real windfall for T Boone would be the scores of millions that the State spends on a compressed natural gas (CNG) infrastructure (fuel trucks, fuel stations and the like), which could pave the way towards greater use of CNG—and greater profits for T Boone.

As if to back up the many, many recent reports of the onset of global cooling from distinguished scientists around the world, Brazil, whose northern border touches the Equator and lies in the Southern Hemisphere where seasons are opposite of ours in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning that when we have warm temperature months the lower half of the earth is experiencing cold weather.  Equatorial countries rarely ever have weather cold enough to produce sleet and snow.  So Brazil experiencing these latter weather-produced phenomena is an almost positive sign that the ridiculous blusterings of Al Gore and his sycophants calling for measures to stop global warming are fallacious and unfounded in fact.

Here are the cold facts (pun intended) as reported by Newsmax.com; 9/14/2008, 10:00 a.m.; Snow and Near-Freezing Temperatures — in Brazil.