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December 9, 2006

Environmental Thuggery Returning To Congress

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Michael R. Fox Ph.D. calls it totalitarianism poised for a renaissance, saying that the Democratic takeover of Congress isn't in place until next month, but its historically destructive agendas are already poised for renewal.

[...] We know that the Environmental Protection Agency's 1972 DDT ban has led to over 30,000,000 deaths globally from malaria, yellow fever, and other diseases, and likely many more. (http://tinyurl.com/vmyoa). This ban was led by many environmental groups, the EPA, with wide media support and coverage.

We know that environmentalists along with competitive corporate interests such as the coal, railroad, wind, solar, and biomass industries, exaggerate the risks of nuclear energy for their own purposes. As a consequence a number of nations can now build nuclear power plants for 1/3 of the costs and construction durations. These countries don't have to deal with hostile US state and federal regulators, a hostile media, and well-heeled lobbyists.

The Lawyers

Joining in with the environmental thuggery has been the legal profession. With careful legalistic manipulations of the risk data, and the usual suppression of important information, many plaintiffs prevailed who were never demonstrably harmed. Costs escalated.

Science should never be conducted this way. The risks of asbestos, for example, have been exaggerated as well, with many asbestos companies bankrupted and thousands put out of work. Worse the legal profession through many manipulations of the legal system has made billions from the asbestos litigation (http://tinyurl.com/y3l99d).

[...] On Thursday December 6 The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held a hearing on media biases of Global Warming (http://tinyurl.com/yb29gh). It also described some of the exaggerations and skullduggery of global warming advocates themselves. The testimony of Dr. David Deming of the University of Oklahoma was withering. He stated in part:

"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."

The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. Warmer climate brought a remarkable flowering of prosperity, knowledge, and art to Europe during the High Middle Ages.

The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

There is little wonder that the American public is so poorly informed. The returning thugs and their media lapdogs are major contributors to the exaggerations and are threats to our economy.

Be sure to read it all.

Let's not be fooled or intimidated by the Dem's enviro-thuggery in the upcoming Congress. The American public needs to be better informed and alert to what Fox refers to as the "returning thugs and their media lapdogs" that are major contributors to the exaggerations and threats to our economy. We need to insist on a common sense approach to addressing environmental issues, a factor that has been absent from previous debate on the subject.

Hat tip - Harry Tho

Posted by Richard at December 9, 2006 8:19 AM

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