President Obama is trying to change the subject from Obamacare to anything else before November. Who can blame him? He recently unveiled the scary White House National Climate Assessment. I used the term “climate whatever” because the latest report uses the term “climate disruption.” Before that, the popular term was “climate change.” Before that, the […]
President Obama is trying to change the subject from Obamacare to anything else before November. Who can blame him? He recently unveiled the scary White House National Climate Assessment.
I used the term “climate whatever” because the latest report uses the term “climate disruption.” Before that, the popular term was “climate change.” Before that, the moniker was “global warming.”
That is part of the problem the president and the Greens face. They want us to be alarmed by climate whatever. But the reason they changed the term from global warming is that the globe did not warm. Not the way they predicted. And so many more of their predictions have not come about.
The “they” I refer to are the climate alarmists, like Al Gore & Co. For a few decades, they have predicted various calamities. The catastrophes have not happened. When people hear the latest warnings, they remember the fable of the boy who cried wolf. And, they resent that Al & Co. have made so much money peddling calamities that did not arrive.
Hey, Greens, don’t attack me over this. I only state the obvious. Americans tell pollsters they rank climate concerns toward the bottom of their worries. Considering the number of bogus warnings they have heard over the years, who can blame them?
Also, when people are told the debate is over and the science is settled, they grow wary. They know there are serious scientists who hold different views. They know big-time Greens want to silence them and smother those views. That unsettles people.
Here is a good reason why it unsettles them: Next to the “climate disruption” article in my local paper was one about saturated fat and heart disease. A big study in a prominent medical journal tells us, “Saturated fat does not cause heart disease.”
Wait a minute. The science was settled on this many years ago. The debate ended long ago. Governments have spent gobs of money to change the way we eat. Health experts have urged us to despise eggs, butter, and beef. They have urged us to go veggie. Educrats have filled the minds of our kids with propaganda on the evils of saturated fats.
Turns out the debate is not over. And the science is not settled. (See March edition of Annals of Internal Medicine.)
From Tom...as in Morgan.
Tom Morgan writes about political, financial, and other subjects from his home near Oneonta, in addition to his radio shows and TV show. For more information about him, visit his website at www.tomasinmorgan.com
