"Fran" <Fran.Beta@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Apr 8, 10:31 am, Annabel Lee <annabel....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:14:21 -0700 (PDT), chemist
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> <tom-bol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On Apr 7, 11:11 pm, Annabel Lee <annabel....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >wrote:
> >> Obviously it's a spammer since there are so many posts; so I had to
> >> delete everything it posted without reading any of them (including
> >> all
> >> the recent variations in spelling) and kill-file it. Is a bot that
> >> creates random anti-AGW messages or something?
>
> >You should read them they sometimes demonstrate
> >that AGW is pseudo science.
>
> Not a chance. There's no possible way I could ever make heads or
> tales out of that many posts. You know ... information overload. If
> it's a real person, then it's defeating its own purposes.
Sadly, Annabel, Bonzo is most likely someone suffering from multiple
personality disorders who has focused on AGW and what he regards as
'socialism' as his hot button issues. His posting pattern is
compulsive. Almost all of the content is copy and paste disinformation
from websites runing the line that the AGW-hypothesis is the result of
some sort of unholy alliance between scientists, environmentalists,
commodity speculators, socialists/marxists/liberals big government
advocates, the IPCC and their media entourage variously to
a) destroy western industrial society/destroy America (socialists/
marxists)
b) raise taxes (socialists/marxists, big government advocates,
liberals)
c) kill as many Africans as possible (liberals and socialists)
d) become part of a new commodity market (speculators)
e) transfer wealth from the first world to the third world
(socialists, marxists, liberals)
f) secure research grants through scientific fraud (scientists, big
government advocates)
e) Destroy humanity, return to stone age conditions
(environmentalists)
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Unmasking Global Warming, The Case of Mikhail Gorbachev
By Vasko Kohlmayer
Friday, May 11, 2007
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/kohlmayer051107.htm
The most remarkable aspect of the man-made global warming claim is the
lack of solid scientific evidence for it. Yet there are those whose
apparent goal it is to advance this theory at all costs. Blatant in
their disregard of the facts, they try to convince as many as would
believe of the real nature of this alleged danger. But since this
activism does not rest on scientific evidence or hard facts, it must be
driven by motives other than those publicly stated. This much at least
should be obvious, but sadly far too many people have failed to make
this inference. Blinded by fear, they have not considered the
possibility that those fanning the flames of hysteria may harbor
ulterior motives.
To see just what those motives may be, we need to go no further than
Mikhail Gorbachev whose remarkable political transformation offers a
striking insight into the true character of the man-made global warming
movement.
Formerly leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev is now one of the
world's most vocal global warming activists. This is an unlikely role
indeed for a man who during his years in power showed no inclination to
address environmental issues. This could not have been for lack of
op****tunity, given that he presided over a country which suffered from
extensive ecological damage wrought by years of gross disregard and
mismanagement. Had he had the inclination, there was much to do about
the lamentable state of his country's environmental condition.
Gorbachev, however, not only did nothing, but brazenly continued the
Soviet regime's ecologically disastrous policies.
But nothing revealed his true attitudes more glaringly than the
explosion of a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. His first reaction was not
to launch a clean-up operation, but to conceal the fact. Initially he
denied that anything happened at all. Then, when radioactive clouds
reached countries hundreds of kilometers away, he claimed that it was
only a 'minor' accident. It was only under the pressure of growing
evidence that Gorbachev finally admitted the truth. While mounting the
cover-up, the time and energy that could have been used to contend with
the unfolding ecological catastrophe were irretrievably lost. But that
was not all, for Gorbachev also decided to sacrifice the lives of
thousands whom he refused to evacuate or even notify of the danger.
Scores died and countless others suffered from diseases caused by
exposure to radiation. Many could have been saved had Gorbachev done the
decent thing. Chernobyl thus stands as tragic evidence of Gorbachev's
disdain both for nature and human life which, sadly, is all too often
found in those who espouse the communist worldview.
Yet today this man is one of the world's most prominent eco-lobbyists
and an ardent proponent of global warming. The question is how we are to
reconcile Gorbachev's past behavior of environmental destructiveness
with his present-day activism. We would do well to ponder this, because
the answer sheds light not only on a wily personal reinvention, but also
on the motives of those responsible for the creation and spreading of
the global warming hysteria.
The many interviews and statements made by Gorbachev since the collapse
of the Soviet Union offer im****tant clues. What they essentially reveal
is that despite the ignominious fall of communism, Gorbachev has not
changed his basic ideological convictions. In other words, this
life-long party apparatchik remains an unrepentant communist to this
day. This should surprise no one, since people rarely change their
thinking later in life, especially if they are as willful and
ideologically driven as Gorbatchev apparently was. After all, it was his
ideological rigor that enabled him to successfully negotiate the
dangerous waters of Soviet politics and emerge as his country's supreme
leader barely a week after his fifty-fourth birthday.
But ejected from power less than seven years later, he faced a
challenge. Unwilling to retire, he needed to find a new outlet for his
political energies. This posed a problem, because Gorbachev could not
afford to openly fly the banner of his communist convictions, since a
declaration of allegiance to this well-discredited ideology would have
resulted in his marginalization if not ridicule.
To remain credible, Gorbachev had to look for a more respectable
platform from which to continue his efforts. This he quickly found in
environmentalism and less than two years after his fall from power he
founded Green Cross International, a Geneva-based eco lobby group.
It is not at all surprising that Gorbachev--like so many others on the
left--has found environmentalism so attractive given that it in a
furtive way tends toward the very essence of socialism. It is precisely
this covert quality that makes this brand of activism so palatable to
true believers in the post-communist era.
Environmentalism's socialist tendencies are already inherent in its
starting premise which is that this world is headed for destruction
because of the way modern societies conduct their life and affairs. The
principal culprits are the business enterprise--whose relentless pursuit
of profit has ecologically devastating consequences--and the m*****
whose excessive and irresponsible consumption exacerbate the already
precarious situation. The only way to avert the looming catastrophe,
then, is to rein in the greedy business and direct people's behavior in
environmentally conducive ways. This naturally can only be done by a
government properly equipped for the great task at hand. The net result
of environmental activism is thus an empowered state exercising close
oversight over the business and private spheres. In Marx's parlance, the
means of production--and indeed nearly aspects of societal life--are
placed under state control. This is nothing if not socialism rising, and
since it also happens to be something Gorbachev has been striving for
all of his life, it should come as no surprise that he has been an
enthusiastic proponent ever since Marxism-Leninism became a byword for
failure.
But while even the most basic forms environmentalism have proven
themselves to be a potent vehicle for advancing socialist ideals, the
potential of global warming has exceeded almost all expectations in this
regard. All of the elements of the harrowing scenario it so vividly
paints--its global scope, its imminence, its catastrophic
potential--point toward the need for immediate and drastic measures on a
wide scale. It should not take very long to realize that such a
comprehensive response can only be mounted by a state armed with vast
powers to decree, to regulate and to tax, powers which the devotees are
only too eager to grant.
It is precisely for these reasons that the idea of man-made global
warming so appeals to Mikhail Gorbachev who never did anything for the
environment when he was in the position to do so. It is as paradoxical
as it is revealing that this man who now parades as an angel of
ecological salvation is by virtue of his actions at Chernobyl and
elsewhere responsible for more environmental destruction than any other
person alive.
The case of Mikhail Gorbachev carries an outstanding educational value,
because it shows what the global warming alarmism is ultimately about.
The glaring deceitfulness and duplicity on display here could well serve
as emblems for the whole movement whose real objectives are sharply at
variance with its promulgated goals.
We can only regret that President Reagan is no longer around to admonish
Gorbachev for his spurious activism in the same way he chastised him for
his dictatorial high-handedness by the Berlin Wall. One can almost
picture Ronald Reagan standing in Kyoto's main square rebuking this old
communist thus:
Mr. Gorbachev, if there is any honesty left in your heart, take off your
mask. Do not exploit lies to further your devious agenda. Tell us
candidly what your goals are so that we can have an honest debate. Stop
erecting those bogus smokescreens and stop scaring the gullible with
pseudo-science. Mr. Gorbachev, take off that ugly green mask.
And so should the whole man-made global warming lobby.
Born and raised in former communist Czechoslovakia, Vasko Kohlmayer is a
naturalized American citizen. His work has appeared in The Baltimore
Sun, The Wa****ngton Times, Frontpage magazine, The American Thinker, The
Jewish Press, RealClearPolitics, and others. Email Kohlmayer at
vasko_kohlmayer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
American Thinker 2007
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"In scientific circles, C02 is referred to as a `trace gas' that, for
hundreds of thousands of years, has remained at or below five
ten-thousandths of the atmosphere by volume. Even among the so-called
`greenhouse gases' (GHG), C02 accounts for less than 4%, with water
vapour being by far the most significant GHG. C02 is clearly a
miniscule component of the massive mechanisms that create climate and
cause climate change."
Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Steward****p Project
(NRSP.com), Former Professor Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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