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Tuesday June 8, 2010

Were You Fooled By The Biggest Hoax Ever - Global Warming?

To his sympathizers, Mr. Gore could do no wrong and when he concocted the idea that one could buy carbon credits to offset one's excessive greenhouse emissions, many sympathizers gullibly accepted it as gospel.

By Alicia Colon

Being taken for a fool was never an easy thing to admit and when it came to the biggest, most expensive hoax ever committed on modern man, even the brightest people were taken in, especially if they were of a liberal mindset. Conservatives are more likely to question everything that comes from the mainstream media, so most were skeptical from the start.

I have an elderly friend who had her letter printed in my local paper urging everyone to see Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." I called her and told her that I felt most of the data in the film lacked substance and sounded more like junk science. My friend, who's an artist and very sensitive, took umbrage at my skepticism and never spoke to me again.

I sincerely regret expressing my opinion on this issue because I knew she was a diehard Democrat and had always avoided discussing politics with her. But there was something different about this film and the unbelievable hype that reeked so highly of fraud that I had to do something personal about it besides writing a few columns that she'd never read. When the idea of carbon credits emerged, I was stunned by the number of people who found this tactic plausible. Who was behind this scheme and why would anyone even believe such nonsense?

Well, when V.P. Gore lost the 2000 election, he became the wounded poster child of liberalism and Bush Derangement Syndrome was born and is still in existence nearly 10 years later. According to D.C. wannabe socialite Sally Quinn, Mr. Gore's recent split from his wife Tipper after 40 years was probably caused by his defeat by President Bush. Even ex-Beatle Paul McCartney couldn't resist swiping at Mr. Bush - a Harvard MBA still married to his first and only wife, a librarian - by saying: "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is." Will the Bush Derangement Syndrome ever end?

To his sympathizers, Mr. Gore could do no wrong and when he concocted the idea that one could buy carbon credits to offset one's excessive greenhouse emissions, many sympathizers gullibly accepted it as gospel.

Imagine: Mr. Gore and Hollywood celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio could purchase carbon credits from a company that Mr. Gore himself founded - Generation Investment Management - which would invest in solar, wind, and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe. Get it? The glitterati would get to continue living high and flying around the world in private jets and emitting greenhouses gases willy-nilly and it wouldn't matter because they'd bought carbon credits to offset their wasteful consumption of energy. (By the way, Mr. Gore is now the first global warming billionaire.)

Meanwhile you and I are forced by the elites to "go green," which means we must do everything we can to "save the planet." This means recycling under penalty of heavy fines; buying expensive "green" cleaning products; banning incandescent light bulbs, and generally changing the way we live (i.e., reducing our standard of living).

While he was alive, George Carlin was not one of my favorite comedians. As he got older, he became more caustic and too fond of the "F" word but he was dead on when it came to the environment. Here are some salient remarks edited for language:

"The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years... And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat?

"The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles... hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?"

Did we cause that volcano to erupt in Iceland? No. Did we cause those devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile? No and neither did Mr. Bush, although there are those who swear he's somehow responsible for every natural disaster including Hurricane Katrina and the Indonesian tsunami. The truth is that the planet can take care of itself and it's the vanity of man that thinks we're responsible for its survival.

I seem to recall the scare campaign some years back about the hole in the ozone layer. Mount St. Helens in Washington then erupts, spewing out 540 million tons of ash and voila! Don't hear much about that hole anymore.

I'm a native New Yorker who remembers when our skies were perpetually yellow with smog. Well, now our skies are blue but the smog is ever present in the environmentally precious Los Angeles. New York has the best tasting tap water as well, thanks to the work that real environmentalists have done to conserve our resources.

Environmental wackos, on the other hand, have done more harm to our ecology than a million gas-guzzling Hummers. They've prevented third-world countries from achieving a higher standard of living... and for what? Hypothetical futuristic disaster tales spun by Hollywood studios that hypocritically generate enormous greenhouse emissions in the process of making and publicizing them.

I met the late great author Michael Crichton some years ago at an awards luncheon and he had it exactly right when he noted that whenever there was a consensus of scientists you'd better "watch your wallet." The global warming consensus broke down last year when it was learned that the data was flawed; that true data was hidden, and that skeptics were blacklisted. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped Congress from trying to pass a climate bill designed to destroy what's left of our economy.

Crichton also wrote about his skepticism of global warming:

"The global crisis is not 100 years from now - it is right now. We should be addressing it. But we are not. Instead, we cling to the reactionary and antihuman doctrines of outdated environmentalism and turn our backs to the cries of the dying and the starving and the diseased of our shared world.... If we really have trillions of dollars to spend, let us spend it on our fellow human beings. And let us spend it now. And not on our impossible fantasies of what may happen one hundred years from now."

Al Gore won an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Nobel Prize for his chicanery and successful swindle of the global community. Maybe Tipper just got tired of living that inconvenient truth.

Alicia Colon resides in New York City and can be reached at aliciav.colon@gmail.com and at www.aliciacolon.com

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