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As one approaches Earth Day, April 22, my fear
increases that as a nation we have lost our grip on reality. The Greens
have substituted their “truth” for what anyone can see with their own
eyes.
Is the world warming? No, it is now into a cooling cycle.
This passed winter included record-breaking blizzards in China and
elsewhere, along with snow showing up in the Middle East and in places
in the southern hemisphere where it has not been seen, often in living
memory. Glaciers are advancing. Both the Arctic and Antarctic ice
shelves have been expanding.
Can America be “energy
independent”? No. In fact, no nation can be energy independent. Even
Iran imports gasoline for lack of refining capacity. Meanwhile, the
Congress of the United States refuses to permit exploration and
extraction of vast known national oil reserves while individual States
thwart efforts to build coal-fired plants to generate the electricity
we need.
How insane do we have to be to permit Congress to ban the purchase of incandescent light bulbs by 2014?
How
insane do we have to be to insist that so-called “endangered species”
take precedence over access to energy, the building of hospitals,
schools, housing, and other elements of our national infrastructure?
For
reasons known only to him, President Bush has reversed seven years of
sensible policy to advocate reducing “greenhouse gas” emissions.
How
out of touch with reality do we have to be to believe that 0.038% of
the Earth’s atmosphere, carbon dioxide, determines the Earth’s climate
when a child can look up and see the Sun, intuitively understanding
that it is the primary driver?
How can we ignore the food riots
occurring around the world and not understand that is a Congressional
mandate to turn corn, soy, and palm oil into a fuel additive that is
causing these shortages? Unless repealed, the situation, aggravated by
weather-related crop losses, will only grow worse.
How bizarre
is it to believe that man “controls” the climate when it is and always
has been manifestly evident that mankind’s success has been the
adaptations we have made to survive the challenges the climate poses?
How we heat and cool our homes is just one of these adaptations and,
without oil, coal, and natural gas, without electricity, we will be at
the mercy of nature once again.
Why would any people turn to the
two least efficient and reliable forms of energy, solar and wind, when
there are ample reserves of fossil fuels to meet our present and future
needs?
A nation that began with a protest against “taxation
without representation” now submits to all forms of visible and
invisible taxation of all goods and services, on all means of
transportation, on investments and savings. We are being systematically
impoverished as individuals in order to fund a profligate government
system based on the redistribution of income.
The tyranny of
demography, the demands of an aging population, hold forth serious
challenges to our pension and entitlement systems. The funding will not
be available no matter how successful our economy may be.
While
all this occurs, a warrior cult called Islam threatens to drag us all
back to the culture and values of a seventh century Bedouin tribe. No
efforts to compromise will succeed and elements of Islam have nuclear
weapons or soon will. The most repressive societies on Earth want to
impose their religion on the most successful.
Until and unless
the nation can regain a grip on the realities of the world in which we
live, we risk losing our nation to the lies environmentalists tell, the
laws a blind Congress passes in the name of the environment, an economy
transformed from capitalism to socialism, and perhaps the very freedoms
embedded in our Constitution. Source
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