A great author with his video interview perspective on the Global Warming debate. The most rational and succinct perspective I’ve seen. “We don’t have another planet to conduct the experiment on.”
Climate Change Treaty A Precursor To Global Government? – Are you even serious in this question??
One of the most interesting topics around global climate change is the controversy it spawns. It is strangely provocative to me that something so rudimentary to our existence – our environment – is used so subversively and to manipulate the population of the earth.
On one hand, the politicians are clearly using a common concern over the changes that seem evident, to anyone with only a small portion of working cerebrum, to manipulate trade policies, exert greater control over population, and, of course, tax the hell out of the middle class. (This will be left to another posting…)
On the other hand – let’s call this the fanatical right hand just for fun – proponents of this line of thinking appear to believe that global climate change is a façade, a fake cause, a little make believe to manipulate the masses.
What interests me more is the fanatical right hand, although both of the aforementioned should concern us all, since it seems so ridiculous in its out of context line of thinking.
Case in point: I was sent a link from a friend that adamantly asserts (even though the title with the question mark would suggest a real question), “Climate Change Treaty A Precursor To Global Government?” . I read through this article with its clever links to sound bytes and video, its poorly formatted page, and its controversial political images – all taking it with a grain of salt, but trying to understand the points the article and the reference materials were making.
First off, the author writes, “Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Jerome Corsi states”, as if to give some sort of credibility to both the blog site and the writer Jerome Corsi, which are simply this: a blog site and a writer with a Ph.D. in political science who has had recent success only with a number of controversial books. (That’s where the author of the first site gets his right to add “Dr.” to Jerome Corsi’s title, even though the blog site where Mr. C writes doesn’t even bother with this title.) Prior to that, his recent history has him working as a “financial services marketing specialist” – by which I’m not really sure how that gives him any true wisdom in the area of global climate change research; however, it is true that he sticks mostly to what he presumably knows – marketing by hype. ( I mean, c’mon… a poli-sci doctorate working as a financial service marketer – an educated con-man?)
I continued to read from both of the sites – the first link sent by my friend, and the blog site where Corsi authoritatively asserts his position – and both sites simply quoted another interesting figure, “Lord Christopher Monckton”, who has been an opponent to the idea of climate change (or at least man-induced climate change) for quite some time. Of course, Corsi writes and the first blog quotes “A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher..” in the first sentence of both articles. From this, the first article can suggest, if questioned about its accuracy, that it only quoted this statement (plausible deniability?), while Corsi doesn’t have that luxury. If there is any foundation to this statement, I haven’t found it. Wikipedia.org displays a reference to: “James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore note in their book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming that Monckton has “no training whatsoever in science”, and criticize his asserted credentials as “unfounded self-promotion. The Daily Telegraph has described him as “a former economic adviser”.
Hmm.. so far, it would seem that this chain of wisdom, from one blog or outspoken personality to the next seems to all link together under the common denominator of “politics and finance” – certainly the largest opponent to any sort of regulation to preserve our environment over the last… oh… lets say 200 years.
Of course, I couldn’t just stop on the first sentence of each article with the knowledge that everything so far (in the first sentence!) was deceptive manipulation by means of either quoting another article and author (who I would hazard a guess, is quite intimately connected to the makers of the jonesreport.com), or simply lying outright. No. I had to tread on.
In the second sentence of – well, again, BOTH sites – the collective authors (although I did start to think that they were in fact the same author) point out a speech made under the “Minnesota Free Market Institute” banner by Monckton.
(A side note: The Minnesota Free Market Institute states on their website, that they are “dedicated to preservation of and education about free markets. We do so not because we have a partisan political ax to grind, but because, quite simply, history has proven free market capitalism, with all its flaws, is undeniably the most effective form of organization for providing the greatest good for the greatest number. ”. Now, upon review of their site, I see nothing but the fanatical right hand; however, I wouldn’t go as far as to say that this is a partisan view – just that it really isn’t fair to say that they do not have “a partisan political ax to grind”. I thought ax was spelled “axe”, but who am I to judge?)
So, I was taken to a youtube video of Monckton’s speech on the Minnesota Free Market Institute, which appeared to be highlighting this video along with other videos of the same sort. The same tactics on presentation appeared to be used in this upscale blog site.
To recap just on the first couple sentences, we have one blog article referencing another blog article, referencing another blog with a video of a well-known sceptic. By this time, the average sheep of a human being has now been convinced that there is such an abundance of information out there that supports this theory that there is no global climate change induced by man and that it must be true. Of course, the sheep I am referring to probably has some belief structure in place already that would easily lead him or her astray. The scientific minded would take it all with a grain of salt and investigate the issue fully. But, we all have little time for that so we choose to follow those who appear to have done the work for us. We are encouraged by even Monkton in his speech to look into the research for ourselves and find the truth, while he knows very well that the vast majority will not do this and simply acquiesce out of pure laziness or the reality that life is far to busy to take a lifetime to investigate an issue like this.
The people that are not comfortable in simply agreeing with something that they can not prove to themselves without a doubt must then weigh the data they do have and use their rational minds to come up with a belief structure that seems most plausible. To me, it is most plausible that man is affecting our environment in disastrous ways. Everything I have seen leads to this most plausible conclusion and it is up to human beings everywhere to take some action. Am I positive that the planet’s climate is changing exclusively because of man? No. Is it plausible that we are contributing to global climate change? Yes. Should we do something about it? Of course! Should we simply lie down and let taxes grow exponentially among the middle class in order to fix a problem quite obviously created (directly or indirectly) by the elite and anonymous corporations? I’m sure you can answer that for yourself.
Of course, this is not even the topic of the first two articles. They simply point out that global warming is being used as an excuse to create a one-world government, by tying the sheep psychologically to the idea that one, there is a preponderance of data that supports this “lie” about global warming, and two, that a global governance of any kind is a bad thing. Why? Because those that believe that globally people are all pretty much the same and could use a global governance of some kind are diametrically opposed to those who believe that people are all different and should stay separated in every conceivable way. The great thing for politicians is that both groups are encouraged to exist in diametric opposition. Have you heard the saying, “divide and conquer”? It is a very old method for controlling the masses (the sheep) while giving them the idea that they actually have a clue.
It seems more plausible to me that a one-world government wouldn’t make any sense to the people that are supposedly controlling the world (as all of these blog writers and speakers would attest in other documentation they spew). The elite that tug on the strings of puppet countries would have no incentive to merge the world into a global one-world government. History shows that when you have too many people controlled by one group, there is inevitably a revolution and everything falls apart into smaller components.
These articles use deceptive tactics to anchor their ideas to a current global concern, thereby facilitating exactly what they assert they are revealing – mass manipulation. They become part of the problem, despite some of their ideas that may just be dead-on. Ironic, isn’t it?