“The sky is falling, the sky
is falling,” Chicken Little cried pitifully after an acorn fell on his head. It’s
the classic centuries old folk tale with a moral about a chicken who
believes the world is coming to an end.
In one oft told version of
this story, the chick decides to go tell the King, and on its journey meets
other frightened birds that follow along in the great quest. Eventually a wily fox
invites them to his lair and eats them all.
The moral, of course, is to
be skeptical of people, especially politicians, who claim that disaster is upon
us lest we do something drastic and extremely costly about it. The gullible fools
who believe the chicken are likely to be eaten.
There are always gaggles -- often majorities -- of
hysterical clowns among us who mistakenly believe that disaster is imminent.
They try hard to put down those rational skeptics in the crowd who express any
doubt. Eventually, after nothing happens; there is no disaster, the crowd
realizes it’s been deceived, but then the next Chicken Little comes along and
the crowd follows again.
It happens again and again.
And it almost always turns out to be bullshit!
Over the last two decades the “impending disaster” has
been “global warming,” and when that story turned out to be essentially
bullshit, the cry became “climate change.”
You see, during the past 17 years the average temperature
of the Earth has not gone up; sea levels have not risen; the ice caps have not
melted; there has been no “global warming” generally, so that bullshit fantasy
had to be abandoned by the Chicken Little’s; but who can argue with “climate
change?”
Climate change; so now it’s climate change? Well of
course there is climate change; there has always been climate change and always
will be climate change. So the “climate change” warnings from today’s Chicken
Little’s are meaningless. I defy anyone to accurately define what “climate
change” means exactly in the context of a global disaster claim. It means
nothing.
The Chicken Little’s of today, a.k.a., left leaning politicians
among us, have been trying to scare us about a looming climate “disaster” caused
by greedy human beings burning fossil fuels in their cars, factories, and electricity
plants; activity that they insist is adding carbon dioxide to the planet’s
atmosphere which will cause the world to come to an end unless we do something
drastic which will cost trillions of dollars.
U.S. Secretary of State, John, “Chicken Little,” Kerry
took the warnings
up a few notches last Sunday when he called climate change perhaps the world's "most
fearsome" destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence
or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat.
Climate change, he warned solemnly, ranks
among the world's most serious problems -- such as disease outbreaks, poverty,
terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It’s "the greatest challenge of our
generation."
Climate change is a weapon? Burning fossil fuel is a
weapon?
Bullshit!
"We
simply don't have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate
conversation," he cried, referring to what he called "big
companies" that "don't want to change and spend a lot of
money" to act to reduce the risks.
"And let there be no doubt in anybody’s mind that the science is absolutely certain," said Kerry. "It’s something that we understand with absolute assurance of the veracity of that science."
"And let there be no doubt in anybody’s mind that the science is absolutely certain," said Kerry. "It’s something that we understand with absolute assurance of the veracity of that science."
"We should not allow a
tiny minority of shoddy scientists and extreme ideologues to compete with
scientific facts… Nor should we allow any room for those who think that the
costs associated with doing the right thing outweigh the benefits… The science
is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their
heads in the sand… We don't have time for a
meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society."
The science is absolutely
certain and unequivocal?
Bullshit!
Kerry
went on to blame every recent storm, blizzard, flood, tornado, drought,
hurricane and typhoon, (events which have been occurring regularly on planet
Earth for billions of years), on “climate change” caused by man.
"This
city, this country, this region, [Indonesia] is really on the
front lines of climate change… It's not an exaggeration to say that your entire
way of life here is at risk," he screeched. “In a sense, climate
change can now be considered the world's largest weapon of mass destruction,
perhaps even, the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."
Climate change is a weapon of mass destruction? Every time you get in
your car and drive down the road you are wielding a weapon of mass destruction?
Not an exaggeration?
Bullshit!
Whenever politicians get forceful in their speeches demanding that we (the people) must do something, I always wonder how much money said politician (and friends) are going to make when the something is done.
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