Hello Everyone,

Cal Thomas expresses creationist-style frustration because John
McCain is behaving like a responsible adult in relation to the Global
Warming issue. George W. Bush constitutes the "good old days" to
these people and that says a whole bunch about the intellectual
merits of Global Warming Denialism.

The denialists have lost the battle yet they cannot acknowledge
defeat. They insist upon a debate:

"McCain should demand a debate on the issue. Global warming cult
leaders won't debate. Al Gore has refused every debate challenge,
asserting the facts are undeniable and that global warming is real."

But he fails to realize that it is impossible to engage in a
scientific debate with groups which are explicitly anti-science in
their methods and attitudes. It is impossible to win a scientific
debate with a creationist, for example, because such a victory would
lead the creationist straight to eternal damnation in Hell. How can
science compete with that?

The Global Warming Deniers have their own Hell, too. That Hell is
called, "the end of the American Way of Life", and it means a
significant loss of wealth, prosperity, and self-indulgence for the
consumer. This is the economists' hell, too, so it is little wonder
that so many economists have become "authorities" on climate change
in order to tell the consumer cattle that "everything is ok" so that
they might keep on shopping and driving their SUVs.

Given the dismal future of Global Warming Denialism, I think it safe
to say that these people will look back fondly upon the George W.
Bush years. They might even build a statue to honor their hero and
defender of pollution everywhere, Saint George the W.

Sincerely,

David Mathews
http://www.geocities.com/dmathew1


McCain Joins Global Warming Cult
Cal Thomas
Thursday, May 15, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6h3xdy


In an effort to win over those "moderates" who believe that global
warming is about to destroy the planet, Republican presidential
candidate John McCain spoke Monday at a Portland, Ore., training
facility for Vestas Wind Technology. He claimed, "The facts of global
warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington."

There certainly is more "hot air" on this and a lot of other subjects
in Washington, but that isn't what he meant. The era of big
government is so not over, as Bill Clinton claimed it was in 1996. It
is just beginning and increasingly the political contests seem to be
about who will manage its growth, not who will reduce its size, cost
and reach.

Despite a recent Wall Street Journal editorial characterizing his
position on global warming as "Obama lite," McCain asserted, "We
stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that
time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question
now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge." No, the
most relevant question is whether global warming is true. Cults
ignore evidence and facts contrary to their blind faith. Science
should never be blind to opposing views, but the apostle of global
warming, Al Gore, and his new disciple, John McCain, want us to
believe in a 2008 version of the Pete Seeger anti-war lyric: "we
were - knee deep in (carbon monoxide) and the big fool said to push
on."

McCain would have done better to push back against the global warming
cult and conduct a raid on the cultists similar to what Texas
authorities did to the FLDS polygamists. Instead of buying into the
claims of global warming alarmists who seek more control over our
lives through big government intrusion, McCain should demand a debate
on the issue. Global warming cult leaders won't debate. Al Gore has
refused every debate challenge, asserting the facts are undeniable
and that global warming is real. That's another mark of a cult
leader; he will tolerate no doubters.

Growing numbers of atmospheric scientists and others with related
expertise are emerging from the global warming cult and testifying to
their conversions. They are mostly ignored by the media and by
politicians who have embraced the cultists' doctrines.

Two years ago, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works held hearings and produced a document quoting anti-global
warming scientists. Among the conclusions was this: "Earlier this
year, a group of prominent scientists came forward to question the so-
called 'consensus' that the Earth faces a 'climate emergency.' On
April 6, 2006, 60 scientists wrote a letter to the Canadian prime
minister asserting that the science is deteriorating from underneath
global warming alarmists: 'Observational evidence does not support
today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust
model predictions of the future. Significant (scientific) advances
have been made since the (Kyoto) protocol was created, many of which
are taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse gases.
If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate,
Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have
concluded it was not necessary.'" (See here.)

Among the noted converts is Claude Allegre, a member of the French
Socialist Party and a former Minister of National Education. Allegre
is also a member of the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences. He once
was a believer in the "science" behind global warming, but no more.
He, too, wants a debate and his ranks are growing.

If global warming alarmists are right, they will only strengthen
their position by having robust debates, not between politicians who
seek votes, but among scientists who seek truth. The issue is too
important to allow politicians to decide it for us because it has the
potential to drastically change the way we live.

Sen. McCain may win a few votes from some "moderates," who mostly are
uneasy about having convictions about anything that matters, but if
he persists in embracing the global warming cultists, he risks
experiencing a temperature drop from the conservative base that could
cast him out in the cold when the weather and his election prospects
turn chilly in November.