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I’m constantly amazed at the pure arrogance and hypocrisy displayed by the global warming crowd.  Beginning with Al Gore’s statement that the global warming debate is over to current day, the environmental left in this country, and world, show little regard for human life and, instead, use fear-mongering, incomplete data and pure speculation to push their agenda forward.  The ultimate goal of many in the higher ranks of the global warming hoax is to enact control of your lifestyle and your money through legislation.

Here in America, we are known as the land of the free.  If we want to use incandescent light bulbs rather than fluorescent ones, we do it.  If we want to drive a gas-guzzling Hummer instead of a fuel-efficient hybrid, we do it.  America is based on capitalism and a free market.  It’s supply, demand and market prices that drive the purchasing decisions of our people.  A free market works in most cases as prices are market-driven and not based on monopolistic government rationing.  

The environmentalists in this country want to destroy the free market, something that has worked in this country for hundreds of years, with a government dictatorship, similar to the communist ideals of the former Soviet block and the current-day China.  There, the government provides “free” services to its people, namely healthcare, and controls the fuel and food supplies.  As you well know, the government won’t cut spending willingly, so as power and greed infiltrate the leadership, “free” services begin to break down and controlled supplies begin to dwindle.  Unfortunately for the citizens caught in this horrible scenario, there is little that can be done to rectify the situation short of moving to another country or a revolution.  Don’t believe in government corruption?  Try using Google to search for the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.  

Today in this country, the price of oil is breaking new records almost weekly, if not daily.  Food prices are skyrocketing due to the increased transportation costs associated with the record-breaking oil prices and the use of ethanol.  Where corn, wheat and soy were once used to actually feed people, it’s now been decided by the global warming crowd that it should be used for fuel instead.  In a free market, this creates a shortage and causes prices to rise, resulting in increased profits for those in agriculture.  Unfortunately for the tax payers, agriculture is already subsidized in this country, so your tax dollars pay for the farmers to grow the crop and more of your net pay is being used to purchase this same crop.  For the poor in this country, and around the world, there is no surplus capital with which to purchase food and the only option is to eat less or, if prices rise enough, starve.  With as many social programs that have been created by liberals in this country to help the poor by redistributing wealth, where is the outcry from within their ranks to stop this madness called biofuels?  It’s starving the very people that these liberals purportedly protect.

Recently, the MIT scientist who once declared that global warming causes an increase in, and frequency of, hurricanes has backed off that position.  Kerry Emanuel’s theory was important enough for Al Gore to base the cover of his film, An Inconvenient Truth, on it by depicting smokestacks creating a hurricane.  Now that same scientist has reversed his decision, now declaring that hurricanes will decrease over the next couple of centuries.  Since this guy’s opinion was so important to Al Gore at one point in the past, where does he stand now?  Where is the former vice president to tell us how, or if, his opinion on global warming has been swayed by the scientist’s change-of-heart?  

Speaking of Gore, he appeared on the CBS 60 Minutes “news” program last month to announce his $300 million ad campaign to convince you and I that global warming isn’t a scam.  During the interview, Gore insulted the collective intelligences of each global warming denier, comparing us to those who believe the Earth is flat or that the moon landing was faked.  When something doesn’t go the way of the liberal, it seems they resort to name-calling to make their position appear stronger.  Just read the Obama/Clinton news at any time for a great example of name-calling.

And in pure arrogance, Al Gore declared that the debate over global warming was, well, over, even before it started.  He said that there’s scientific consensus on the issue.  Since that time, numerous scientists have come forward to speak out against anthropogenic global warming, some risking their careers to do so.  In the light of new evidence contrary to climate change, such as the oceans not warming, a reduction of hurricanes over the last two years and learning that the planet hasn’t warmed up in the last 10 years, Gore still refuses to open up the topic for debate.  Even the most popular scientific theories are up for debate, such as the Big Bang and String Theories, but Gore refuses to budge on his position.  Recently, Gore has even barred the press from attending his engagements.  One wonders why Gore, if he’s so confident in his theory of global warming, would ban the press from his events.  Is he afraid to answer questions about man-made climate change or is he just arrogant enough to think that he doesn’t need to answer these questions?

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