by Bob Ewing

DISCLAIMER: I hereby state for the record that I am NOT an employee or hired gun of ExxonMobil, Big Oil or Republicans Who Cannot Destroy The Environment Fast Enough.

If we are all going to be taxed half to death, or have such flagrant intrusive measures as the state remotely controlling our thermostats, isn't that what we ALL should be looking for before we just jump into the stifling financial and regulatory abyss that awaits us?

The Truth?
The debate over the 'science' of Global Warming, or 'Climate Change' as it is more frequently called now (which conveniently allows for ANY change in climate, such as our recent brutally cold winter, to be attributed to Global Warming) is rapidly descending from the scientific arena to those of regulation and taxation as though it were fact.

The question you have to ask is, how solid a science is it? Is it up there with the Table of Elements and biochemistry? Or is it merely theoretical hypothesis, like predicting the hurricane season, next week's weather, or even the nascent 'science' of climatology itself?

From my own personal observations and research on the subject (in addition to my three years in the Western Pacific as a Navy oceanographic and meteorological technician, NEC 1413), I don't believe that the science is solid enough to justify taxing and regulating ourselves back into the Stone Age.

Remember also that it was many of these same 'experts' who predicted not thirty years ago that we would all be buried by now under the glaciers of a new Ice Age.

The most troubling aspect of the Global Warming debate is that renowned scientific authorities who dissent from the mainstream view of GW (as held so dearly by the tree-slaughtering Time Magazine), are quickly branded as heretics, deniers or hired guns of Big Oil (as I'm sure I soon will be), and it has cost many their jobs.

This is not only reminiscent of the Catholic Church's persecutions of Galileo and Copernicus, it conveniently covers up the fact that the Global Warming industry itself has bestowed upon many of its main players great wealth, influence, major accolades and considerable political power. If Global Warming goes away, so do all their fat foundation and federal grant cheques, not to mention their cushy political jobs.
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