Always Follow the Money...

Christopher Monckton, former policy adviser to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, goes a little medieval on all of the Global Warming alarmists in his latest commentary...

Global warming profiteers are wrong

Monckton who has for years, publicly challenged the likes of Al Gore to an open debate on Global Warming (challenges which Gore has apparently never responded to) highlights some very interesting tidbits regarding this cottage industry...

"Polls reveal that voters worldwide, bored with wolf-crying scientists, see "global warming" as just another pretext for more tax, regulation and empire-building. So the tiny clique of politicized scientists driving the scare are desperate to revive fear of doom. Otherwise, the multibillion-dollar climate-change industry is headed straight down the pan."

I find it fascinating to watch how behavior can change when people start to become desperate and this is no exception. Think about how much money is at stake here! Think of all the carbon credit firms, all of the industries who are solely dependent on environmental legislation making it's way through the halls of congress and parliament. Can you say Ethanol? There's definitely a lot of coin riding on this um...debate.

Although somewhat rudimentary, Monckton also likes to point out a few apparent discrepancies with Global Warming alarmists and their iconic depiction of our polar caps melting away leaving nowhere for the poor polar bears to sleep...

"In the Arctic, the media reported less summer sea ice than at any time since records began. Most did not report that records began only 30 years ago; that at both Poles there is more sea ice now than ever since records began; that there are five times more polar bears today than 50 years ago; that the Arctic was warmer in the 1940s than today; or that the average thickness of the vast Greenland ice sheet grew by 2 inches yearly from 1993-2003.

Even the UN's climate panel says melting ice will not raise sea level by Al Gore's imagined 20 feet for several millennia, largely through natural causes."

Perhaps Mr. Gore just bought stock in an inflatable boat manufacturer. But I digress. By the way, I always found it odd that people often refer back to the UN in all of this. Since when did a lethargic bureaucracy like the UN become the standard-bearer for climate research?

The one question we need to really ask is who is making more money amidst all of this... climate change alarmists or the so-called deniers? Tough question, but I think you know the answer.