The Green Scare

By John Bertosa
One of the lowest points of the Republican Party's history was McCarthyism in the 1950s in which the fear over communism led to extreme acation and intolerance to opposing viewpoints.
It also led to some government leaders using this concern and fear for their own personal gain.
Now, it was this selfishness, intolerance and extreme actions that were wrong, not the fight against communism. The fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent opening of its records did confirm that they were seeking to insidiously influence American Society by using sympathetic Americans. But, that did not exscuse the motives and actions some took to combat this.
And now, liberals and their Democratic Party have their brand of McCarthyism -- Global Warming.
Testimony before Congress has come out in the past two years (as temperatures cool down both physically and emotionally) that scientists are being pressured to sign onto the theory that global warming is man-made or else not receive funding for their endeavors. Those in the general public are ridiculed as being ignorant just as those who questioned McCarthy were considered sympathizers.
Those who defend the scientific theories that global warming is man-made first wrongly treat these theories as fact and they wrongly treat these scientists as unquestionable. A person's career, no matter how noble, can never overcome the frailties inherent in humanity. Otherwise priests and police officers could never do any wrong.
Fortunately for the saner observers, claims by Nobel Prize-winning Al Gore and his followers are starting to be shown to be laughable. Global temperatures have been cooling since 1998, not rising. Better examinations of cores taken from glaciers show that earth went through several similar warming periods in the past 1000 years. Also, none of the computer models being used as the basis for global warming predicted such a cold year for 2008.
Now, when religion is debated, liberals always seek to take the point that emphasizes humans are in control not some superior being. And the issue of global warming follows the same argument -- the belief that humanity is in control of nature, that we can constantly have mild weather if we only tried.
They ignore the natural cycles of our earth. Just as a clock rotates for an hour which leads to the turning of a day which leads to a week which leads to a month and so on for a year,the same goes for other parts of nature. Except for San Diego, the world has seasons throughout the year, every year, so why shouldn't we expect the earth to have greater rotations that span centuries or even millenia.
So why ignore this? Why not let people like Joe Biden who responded during the vice president debate with the ultra-simplistic "It's man-made, it's man-made, it's man-made" have their way?Because their solutions to lower air pollution puts a financial burden on industries and that can and will mean job cuts to compensate. And as the current national financial situation shows, it's not worth tampering with for a climate situation that will swing back within decades, if it hasn't already done so.
So, be aware that the earth's climate is changing, but also be aware of the damage done by hysteria and be aware of those who try to prosper politically by it.