The article is delightfully sprinkled with Mark Steyn’s unique humor along with his grasp of the current climate controversy.
According to the CIA’s analysis, “detrimental global climatic change” threatens “the stability of most nations.” And, alas, for a global phenomenon, Canada will be hardest hit. The entire Dominion from the Arctic to the 49th parallel will be under 150 feet of ice.
Oh, wait. That was the last “scientific consensus” on “climate change,” early seventies version, as reflected in a CIA report from August 1974, which the enterprising author Maurizio Morabito stumbled upon in the British Library the other day.
If only the impending ice age had struck as scheduled and Scandinavia was now under a solid block of ice.
Instead, the streets of Copenhagen were filled with “activists” protesting global warming, some of whom torched automobiles in the traditional manner of concerned idealists.
The corrupted science has paved the way for greedy opportunism by politicians who plan to get rich trading in carbon credits at the expense of industry who will pass the carbon tax on to consumers.
On the Internet, there is a telling clip of Christopher Monckton interacting with a young Norwegian from Greenpeace who has come along to protest the former’s “denialism.”
Monckton is a viscount—i.e., a lord, like his fellow denialist, the former British chancellor Lord Lawson. Now that’s what I call peer review! (House of Lords joke.)
Lord Monckton has the faintly parodic mien of many aristocrats, whereas the Greenpeace gal was a Nordic blond. If there were empty stools adjoining both parties at the Climate Conference bar, you’d head for hers before some carbon-credit travelling salesman swiped it. Big mistake.
Monckton was the soul of affability, gently suggesting places where she could check out the data. She, by contrast, seemed barely sentient, clinging to rote emotionalism and impervious to reason, data, facts, inquiry.
More of the story here.
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