Posted by
El Puntillero on Friday, March 02, 2007 5:10:16 AM
There’s Snow Business Like Climate Change Business
On St. Valentine’s day, something very unusual happened in Kathmandu: it snowed. This hadn’t happened since January 1944. According to news reports, this caused a fair amount of excitement in the Nepalese capital and the event became a minor footnote many world news programmes.
Are there any wider implications for the region? Does a little sleet in the Himalayas signal the world is on the brink of a new ice age? Most probably not in both cases. The fact is somewhere today, a weather-related record is being broken. Most of Europe has enjoyed an exceptionally mild winter, while most Americans have been shivering their way through blizzards. In 2005, the Atlantic hurricane season was unusually fierce and prolonged. The following year was at the other extreme of the scale.
Until fairly recently, most of these abnormal weather conditions remained local news. Outsiders never knew how hot, cold, wet, dry, windy or becalmed somewhere else was, so they never remarked on it. This has all changed because now the weather is big business. There are entire television channels devoted to this single subject. Thousands of people make a living from the weather as meteorologists, programme presenters, writers, website producers and so on.
Now, the weather is such a big concern that politicians – elected and self appointed – see a tremendous opportunity. They have worked out a way to scare the electorate into voting for them because they claim to have the solution to the bad weather we’ve been having. These politicians can even impose a weather tax on the false basis that we are responsible for the weather and spending vast sums of taxpayers’ money on various half-baked schemes will improve the situation.
The cunning bastards have come up with a clever little name for their latest wheeze – it’s called global warming. At first glance it might seem a rather odd choice of phrase. It doesn’t exactly strike terror into people’s hearts. But by giving it such a vague name, the advocates of global warming are able to include just about every aspect of local and global climate as it suits them at the time. It’s very hard to argue against a concept that might very well be about anything under the sun.
Let us not forget, the same politicians who gave us the global warming scenario, and a multi-trillion dollar tax bill as the solution have also given us the London Congestion Charge which costs almost exactly the same to administer as it raises from motorists.
They have also taken a wrecking ball to education and given us the comprehensive system. I say “us” because none of their children go to such dreadful schools. As with global warming, the politicians have ulterior motives: manipulate what the public learns, make them dependent on you for solutions and scared witless by imaginary threats to their way of life and they’ll keep voting for you.
It is no coincidence that the vast majority of Western politicians involved in the global warming scaremongering are also working flat out to undermine efforts to bring peace and democracy to Iraq and other parts of the Middle East. In previous generations, they tried to appease Hitler, Stalin, Mao and the rest of the Communist Bloc. Now, they would rather we abased ourselves before Muslim terrorist networks.
Being wrong does not deter these socialist con artists in the slightest. Nor does the prospect of destroying everything good that Western civilisation has spent centuries developing. Global warming is merely the latest ruse intended to hoodwink people into giving them power. It is a false means to a ruinous end. We must not let it happen.
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