Tullus Hostilius Rex

The biggest hoax the Cult of Global Warming has pulled off was not in convincing the people that global warming is actually taking place, nor was it in convincing the people that global warming is a manmade phenomenon. The greatest hoax global warmers have pulled off, to date, was in convincing the people that we can do something about it… i.e. change the whole of mankind’s way of life, and harness a force of nature (i.e. the weather).

For the sake of argument, let’s take the CGW at their word… i.e. the planet is heating up, due to the actions of mankind, and the results will be catastrophic.

Even the global warmers will be the first to admit that “human action”, in regards to global warming, goes a hell of a lot deeper than a few people here and there spraying aerosols into the atmosphere. “Human action” basically entails modern man’s entire way of life. According to global warmers, our mere existence creates a “carbon footprint” that is forever impressed in the atmosphere (or at least for the millions and millions of years it takes the Earth to repair itself). Global totalitarianism is the only possible way for us to completely transform the lifestyle of industrialized, modern man… and we need only look back to WWII to see what happens to dictators who try to take over the world (i.e. they end up in a ditch, on fire, covered in petrol for their honeymoon).

The CGW will tell you that buying one of their affiliated “green” products will help solve global warming problem. For example, buying a hybrid car will supposedly help to lower emissions and end global warming… but hybrid cars still emit pollution, and according to the global warming scenario, reduced emissions will only stave off catastrophe for another few generations (since pollution is still being released into the atmosphere… just at a slower rate). Even if everyone in the world bought a hybrid car, or green-proofed their house, or whatever, it would be tantamount to a heroin addict entering a methadone clinic. The heroin addict is still ingesting opiates, just less powerful opiates than before. It may take them longer to overdose on methadone than it would on heroin, but unless they eventually cut opiates out of their diet completely, death by overdose will always loom large. In order to end the CGW’s climate change scenario, mankind would have to shun industrialization altogether, much like the Amish do, and revert to a pastoral way of life. Forget “hybrid car” and start thinking “horse”. Forget “green housing” and start thinking “mud hut”. The CGW will go out of their way to tell you that I’m only using “scare tactics” and that fighting global warming doesn’t mean a return to the Stone Age, but may I ask, will non-emission technology (i.e. vehicles, housing, power supplies, etc..) be available to the public at an affordable price within the next five years (i.e. the timeframe in which Al Gore claims we will have reached a “point of no return”)? I can answer that for you… no it won’t. Point being, switching from heroin to methadone is not the answer, unless you one day plan to quit using methadone as well. Switching from high emissions to less-high emissions will not reverse global warming, unless it is only a stepping stone back to the Stone Age (no pun intended).

We can talk about “green technology” all we want, but the term itself is an oxymoron. “Green technology”, as of now, only emits slightly less pollution than non-green technology… and “emissionless” technology that will be available to all the world’s people, including the developing world, at an affordable price is nothing more than a pipe dream. True “green technology” (i.e. technology that doesn’t leave a carbon-footprint) consists of technologies discovered before the dawn of industrialization… like horse-drawn carriages as opposed to hybrid cars, and wooden galleons as opposed to oil tankers. As long as we are emitting pollution into the atmosphere, we are contributing to global warming, according to the CGW.

No matter what the Discovery Channel, Al Gore, and other global warmers may tell you, mankind has never had the ability to harness the a force of nature. Sure, the US military may have conducted experiments during the Cold War, or what not, on the effects of cloud-seeding, and similar phenomena, but mankind can hardly predict what the weather will be like a week from now, let alone a decade or two. If mankind did have the ability to harness a force of nature intentionally, and control the weather, climate change wouldn’t even be a topic of discussion, because we never would’ve let it happen in the first place. No matter what we do, whether we revert to a Stone Age lifestyle, or force green technology upon the world, we will still be at the mercy of the Earth’s climate, and that will never change. The generations who lived before the Age of Industrialization were not immune to wild fluctuations in the climate either, hence the “Younger Dryas”, the “Little Ice Age”, and the “Medieval Warming Period”, and those generations were emitting exponentially less pollution than we are today, if any at all.

In conclusion, I am not trying to make the case that manmade climate change is occurring… I am simply saying that even if it was occurring, we would be completely powerless to stop it. The weather is a force of nature, and “human action” is a euphemism for our modern way of life. Theoretically, mankind, as a whole, could change their way of life, but that’s only in theory. Implementing such grandiose change on such a large-scale is another matter completely (and even if we did manage to pull off such a feat, there is no guarantee that the billions, if not trillions of tons of pollution we’ve already created wouldn’t come back to haunt us). Global warming is nothing more than a tool used by “green” businessmen to make money… because those of us realists, who are not in denial about the human condition and are not living in a utopian dreamworld, understand that there are certain aspects of nature humans cannot control, no matter whether their unintentional actions caused the problem or not.