First of all, there’s no such thing as “settled science”.  If you doubt that science is continuously making new discoveries that modify or throw out previous truths you should stop reading right now.  Rather than waste your time, you can get some sun (which rotates around the earth in your world) or take a trip; don’t go too far – the earth’s also flat in your universe.

So there’s no such thing as settled science.  Next bit of dogma to dispose of – global warming is a fact.  It’s not.  The earth goes through cycles of heating and cooling.  All of Al Gore’s pseudo-science cannot prove that the climate is warming (and the temperature at the center of the earth is several thousand degrees, not several million, Al.  You may be a star, but we don’t live on one).   There has been a decrease in temperatures world-wide for the last ten years.  It’s not getting warmer.

Global warming, now called climate change because the climate is not warming, is a political issue, not an environmental issue.  It’s a progressive plot to redistribute wealth from the Haves to the Have-Nots that replaced communism as the power-grabbing tool of the progressives when communism imploded.

Carbon dioxide, the villain in this political theater, is a greenhouse gas as defined by the EPA and greenies.  I define it as one of the results of oxidation, and a requirement for life (if you don’t metabolize nutrients you’re dead – metabolism is oxidation).  We inhale oxygen and exhale CO2; plants and trees inhale CO2 and exhale oxygen.  Pretty cool system.   It worked before the government, and will work when the government is gone.

I’m not a scientist, and usually pretty much go along with what scientists tell us, or at least I did.  When a scientist makes a claim that I can refute, I have to start thinking how much to believe scientists.  I always thought science was a means to itself, that science was its own justification.

What I’m seeing now is science prostituted to the Progressive agenda, e.g. we need a climate crisis to justify the changes we want to make, so let’s just ignore some of the data (think Little Ice Age), and not correct for known errors (don’t correct temperatures in cities for the “urban heat sink effect” that has been known for years).  Then we take the results of our bogus studies and put it in “peer reviewed” publications where the peers who review our tripe are believers and participants in the scam with us.  Please remember to then berate those who disagree by telling them the “science is settled”.

What the lie of settled science tells us is that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising and causing global temperatures to rise.  That seems to make sense, as CO2 levels are rising world-wide, but the second part of their supposition is flawed; temperatures have been falling for about 10 years, not rising.  To get their numbers to show what they wanted them to, they had to disregard the “Little Ice Age”, a period of cool, wet weather that extended from the early 1600s until the mid-1800s.  Google the Little Ice Age to find out more, but remember much of this occurred before the Industrial Revolution got in full stride, so man had nothing to do with it.  The LIA was a natural cycle.

All of this talk of climate change (they changed the name when “global warming” was proven false, just as they changed “global cooling” before that) is a cover for a power grab.  Progressives want power, one world government (they’re in charge, of course), and a planned life of equality, peace, and plenty for all.  Of course the world they’re describing is at least Socialism, possibly Communism, and very likely Fascism.  The Progressives are counting on our wanting comfort more than freedom.  If you’ll trade freedom for comfort, you deserve neither, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin.

Urge your Senator to vote against Cap and Trade.  Climate change is a natural cycle, and man will not affect it through legislation.

Urge your Representative and Senator to vote against the power grab.

We the People are too smart to believe this garbage.

Additional reading:

Krauthammer on Carbon – http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/11/copenhagen_shakedown.html

The EPA as Obama’s (useless) club – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514404574588120572016720.html

Call the bluff – http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/10/how-to-stop-cap-and-trade-by-rich-trzupek/print/