If you are like me, you don't need someone to convince you that 90% of what we read or hear on "the News" is outright lies or truth "spun" completely out of any useful shape. But if Christopher Horner — in his new book about "How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed" — is even half correct, the "red hot lies" of global climate change alarmism have risen to the level of a fanatical religious faith, and its hysterical advocates are on their own kind of "jihad" to stampede the American people into handing over more and more of their freedom — and their money — to the government regulators, who promise to "save the planet," from our fear of "global warming."
I heard part of an interview with Horner a couple of weeks ago on C-SPAN's "Book TV," and decided his was "news" I should learn a bit more about. I purchased a download of the unabridged book from iTunes (for less than the book itself costs!), though I wish I had the hard copy for all the footnoted documentation. I'm about a third of the way in, and it's quite a story.
This is not really the story of a "vast conspiracy," but — more relevantly for those of us who want to think Christianly about everything (i.e., putting all we hear to the test — holding on to the good, rejecting evil in its many forms, 1 Thess. 5:21) — this is a stunning example of the way in which an intellectual and moral consensus in a "democracy" (arising in the humanist flow) can then become as totalitarian and propaganda-oriented as in any dictatorship.
It is also interesting, and disheartening, to see again how the "insiders" — once they have consolidated their protected positions (in media, academia, and government) can sit safely behind their walls of privilege and protection, and systematically vilify and demonize (and, according to Horner, threaten and even persecute) their opponents, without ever being forced to come out in the open and fight fairly (e.g., by actually dealing with arguments).
This kind of thing happens in the church as well. Just think, for example, of all the topics and perspectives that are never represented in the pages of New Horizons.
Well, that's enough on that. You might want to pick this "red hot" book up and give it a look.
10 years ago on the Jane Chastain show, I first heard the term Global warming. Gorbachev had just started the "Green Cross", and in her opinion, Environmentalism was going to be the new communism. The politically, global success of getting chloral floral carbons removed off the world market to save the ozone was so effective that it paved the way--and proved to many politicians--that through the "environment", they could get their political agendas passed most efficiently.
ReplyDeletePresident Klaus of the Czech Republic, who is (as far as I know) the only national leader in the world who is a vocal opponent of the "global warming" propaganda, has made the same point — environmental issues (and "GW" especially) is the fast track to socialism and totalitarian political power. And, given his background in the history of the CR, he knows what he's talking about. But, of course, no one is listening. He's just a "crank denier."
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