Well, this environmental hoax and the perpetrators of it are actually responsible for far more deaths than any mythical global warming ever will be."Three hundred thousand people are already dying every year as a result of global warming, according to the most comprehensive report ever on the human impact of climate change," it was reported last week. The claim was made by a think tank called the Global Humanitarian Forum set up by the extravagantly-besuited ex-UN chief Kofi Annan.
You knew it was a nonsense. I knew it was a nonsense. But what we needed was an expert to come along and explain in proper scientific terminology exactly why it was a ludicrous farrago of unmitigated tosh and drivel. And now one has. Step forward Roger Pielke Jr, a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder who specialises in precisely the area covered by the report: disaster trends.
Scaremongering is a beloved tactic of some greenies. All by himself, Al Gore has misled people about rising sea levels, hurricanes, tornadoes, melting glaciers and more. The scientist Paul Ehrlich once sincerely warned how overpopulation would cause the starvation of hundreds of millions in the 1970s and 1980s. It didn't happen.It's Gore, of course, who has put the mental in environmental, while becoming very wealthy promulgating this fraud.
The flip side of this alarmism is virtual silence and even tacit-to-open collusion in the deaths of millions of African children through some degree or other of hostility to the use of DDT to fight malaria.
Banned in America because of dangers to wildlife, the pesticide is in some instances and some parts of the world the most effective weapon against this deadly, painful disease and poses minimal if any threats to human health or the environment when sprayed inside homes.
Environmental consternation nevertheless kept many rich countries from sending DDT to poor, malaria-inflicted countries and caused some people in those countries to fear the pesticide themselves.
In some places, thanks to these practices, malarial death rates rose dramatically, and then, several years ago, the anti-DDT ethos began to change.
While some environmentalists remained opposed to its use, a number of environmental groups came around to saying that DDT might be helpful here and there, if only temporarily.
National Geographic magazine ran an article noting its life-saving utility. The United States agreed on using DDT to combat malaria, and so did the United Nations.
But extremism dies hard, and at a time when DDT is only just now beginning to do its good work again, the United Nations has said it wants to start chipping away at its use, taking it out of commission entirely no later than the 2020s.
There's a special place in Hell for people like him.
For all the good environmentalism has done, it is at its far-out fringes not science, not rational, not wise, not beneficent, but a wild-eyed, dishonest, dangerous, modernist superstition that, incredibly enough, has come to have great influence in the corridors of power. A consequence is policies that can lead to unspeakable disaster.He played on our fears!
In a democracy, at least this much is required of the people -- that they watch this thing very carefully, refuse to be its dupes and speak up in defense of the human good.
While lining his own pockets.
According to public disclosure information, Gore was worth somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in 2000. Not quite eight years later, Gore is estimated to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million. While I ordinarily would applaud such financial gains from such a short period of time, I can’t help but to question just how it happened. When you look out at what Al Gore has done, it’s evident that he figured out on a way to capitalize on the creation of Big Green while becoming the official doomsday prophet that has helped to build Big Green into the monetary powerhouse that it has become.Al Gore lied, millions died.
