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Sunday, December 12 2010

When your cockamamie theory is literally collapsing around you, it's probably best to take your plight to a higher power.  But if that isn't possible, a fake jaguar goddess could work.

 

According to the Washington Post, "Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was... 'the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving.'"

 

I'll give this conglomeration of exploiting profiteers five stars when it comes to creativity.  You can't manipulate data to produce fatalistic scenes of New York City being overwhelmed by tidal waves and Yellowstone erupting into volcanic ash without having a robust imagination.  But reason?  I think that went out the window long before they started praying to a jaguar.

 

The disintegration of this political juggernaut known as global warming is as imminent now as it is remarkable.  The heights from which these scientists' credibility has plunged is equaled only by the speed at which it has done so.

 

Consider that it was only last year when the scientific and political world was held spellbound by the deliberations of the UN Climate Change summit held in Copenhagen.  Nearly 45,000 attendees anxiously anticipated a global climate agreement that could spare us all from the imminent planetary incineration that was about to befall us thanks to the unholy alliance of SUVs, deforestation, and belching cows.  American taxpayers alone shelled out nearly $400,000 for Nancy Pelosi to lead a cadre of liberal Congressmen and staffers to attend the Warmer deliberations.

 

Yet now, just one year later, political leaders are staying as far away from the annual climate summit (this year held in Cancun) as possible.  Even the Congressional Warmer triumvirate of Henry Waxman, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer skipped the festivities.  Remember it was Boxer who proclaimed not so long ago that global warming was her "signature issue."  Yet when it came time for this year's convention, Boxer merely murmured, "I'm sending a statement to Cancun."

 

Meanwhile, across the pond, things aren't much better for the global warming hysterics in the British Meteorological Office.  As the Met geared up for Copenhagen in 2009, they were warning of the "warmest year on record."  Fast-forward to this year, and as Britain is in the grip of yet another extraordinarily frigid winter, their admonitions are much more subdued.  Even the Daily Mail noted why: "Buried amid the details of those two Met Office statements 12 months apart lies a remarkable climbdown that has huge implications - not just for the Met Office, but for debate over climate change as a whole...for the past 15 years, global warming has stopped."

 

This most inconvenient truth is why, despite millions of dollars of propaganda and free marketing offered by a totally duped American media, Al Gore's climate heist machinery is dismantling before our eyes.  The defeat of climate legislation in Congress has prompted Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection to whittle its resources from 25 states down to 7 states, acknowledging, "the situation in Congress has changed."

 

Indeed it has.  As the Democratic Party's death grip on Congress dies in January, Nancy Pelosi's House Select Committee on Global Warming will be dying with it.  Republicans have announced that they have no desire to continue wasting taxpayer dollars on a committee whose only contribution was a proposed energy tax that would have destroyed millions of jobs in an already stagnant economy.

 

For its swan song, the committee held a final hearing - one so boring that according to the Washington Times, the Chairman never returned from lunch break.

 

So how has this environmental Goliath collapsed so quickly and so painfully?  Certainly the ClimateGate scandal that revealed the epic fraud and deceit upon which the movement was built didn't help.  Al Gore admitting his willingness to fabricate dire consequences for the sake of getting people's attention didn't help.

 

But ultimately it comes down to this: given time, truth wins out.  Eventually rational people realize that groupthink and demonizing your opponents as "deniers" doesn't count for evidence.  They realize that a movement so freely changing names - from Global Cooling to Global Warming to Climate Change to Global Climate Disruption - might be more about a neo-Marxist pursuit of global governance than about saving polar bears.

 

In the end, that is what has hastened the demise of Warmerism.  This makes the climate changers' prayer to Ixchel the jaguar goddess so very appropriate...one myth perpetuated on humanity deserves another.

This column was first published at The American Thinker.

Posted by: Peter Heck AT 04:19 pm   |  Permalink   |  9 Comments  |  Email
Comments:
Peter, There are so many sloppy errors in this column it's hard to know where to start. The public debate over global warming may be won by your side--but the science is still clearly on the side of the global warming crowd. There are still very few climatologists who support your view. Unfortunately your side frequently misquotes and distorts scientists views on climate. Just a quick google on your Daily Mail source shows tons of errors by this journalist (David Rose). Scientists he quotes even call him out on it. The guy is just a shoddy journalist.
Posted by Monkey on 12/14/2010 16:46:32
Please see the links below that show clearly that all major data sets still show a clear global warming. Also see the link about the clear consensus (around 90%) of climatologists who believe the global warming is happening. I challenge you Peter to dig deeper. Don't just stay in the echo chamber--be more critical of your own side occasionally. There really is not some Marxist conspiracy out there. http://www.aussmc.org/documents/waiting-for-global-cooling.pdf http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf BTW I am not some tree-hugger--but I truly think you are not being very critical but are repeating a political spin rather than trying to be as unbiased as you can on this.
Posted by Monkey on 12/14/2010 16:52:13
Simply because political pressures have resulted in members of Congress and other political figures from backing away from their previous positions does not mean the underlying science of global warming is a myth. The last time I checked, the North and South Poles' ice sheets had shrunk significantly.
Posted by Mark Small on 12/15/2010 05:09:29
Solid thinking, Mark: ice sheets have shrunk. It's obviously the fault of belching cows and SUVs. The leap you folks make is too absurd to even waste time addressing anymore.
Posted by GD on 12/15/2010 17:05:09
Mr. Heck, I propose a simple question to you, perhaps a little tangential to the topic of this article: What happens when the oil is gone? Sincerely, A Real-Life Scientist P.S. Lengthy discussion concerning the legitimacy of global warming available upon request. You will not understand it, however.
Posted by some dude somewhere on 12/17/2010 03:41:19
Common sense tells you that climate changes over long periods of time. The earth has been warmer and the earth has been cooler. I am sorry folks, but there is absolutely NO PROOF that temperatures are getting warmer. NASA can not prove it and the majority of climate scienists are on Peter's side. Controlling the media you control the message, and the message is a LIE.
Posted by burt on 12/17/2010 12:13:10
Another couple questions for you, some dude: What happens when the air runs out? What happens when all the water evaporates? What happens when birds stop flying? P.S. Lengthy discussion concerning arrogance and conceit available upon request. You most certainly will understand. Seriously, dude - what an asinine post you made. And yes, EVERYONE is buying you're a real life scientist!
Posted by some dudette nearby on 12/18/2010 10:21:18
Burt,Your quote ".. the majority of climate scientists are on Peter's side." is incredible. Can you give any data to support your claim? Seriously, do you even read what the actual climatologist say? I don't even know if Peter would make such a bold claim. Read the polls: http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf If you have some counter poll that supports your view that the majority of climatologists support Peter's view--PLEASE do tell! I would love to see it.
Posted by Monkey on 12/18/2010 12:24:59
Excellent summary on the greatest scientific hoax we have ever had to endure. I have been following this thing for the past couple of years and I will be so glad when our governments finally learn that they have been lied too by IPCC policy makers and regret that they have wasted billions of tax payers dollars on green energy plans that will not work when they stop the pumping money into them.
Posted by Brian on 12/19/2010 17:42:31

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