Global Warming Cools Off

No matter if the crisis is global warming or global cooling, the environmental left always provides the same answers to the world’s woes, Marc Morano of Climate Depot noted at Accuracy in Media’s 40^th Anniversary Conference: more government control. In a panel on climate change, Morano stated, “Rainforest destruction, global cooling—whatever the eco-scare of the day is, they’ll… call for the same solutions, which inevitably involve more government control and a whole environmental-left wish list.”

Morano pointed out that we are now in the middle of a cooling trend globally, noting that scientists now say that there may be a pause of up to thirty more years before global warming begins again.

“If there’s a thirty-year pause in [global] warming, today’s high school kids who are forced to watch Al Gore’s [An Inconvenient Truth] will be old enough to join AARP, the retirement group—they’ll be almost age fifty by the time warming resumes, if these new studies are correct,” Morano said. “This is what’s called a ‘PR problem’ with the United Nations and Al Gore, and it’s why the New York Times’ Andrew Revkin said, ‘the UN has a PR problem: how do you sell a global warming catastrophe in a time of cooling climate?’”

Morano calls our current cooling trend “the Gore effect,” the idea being that the more Gore complains about global warming, the more the globe cools in response. It’s a joke that seems strangely validated by global climate events over the years. In fact, Morano noted, the current global climate has already caused hundreds of climate scientists to disagree with the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis: that man is causing warming. The number Morano cited was 700 scientists, over thirteen times more than the number of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC, a United Nations panel made up of politically-appointed and –funded scientists, is recognized as the leading scientific body behind global warming alarmism.

Morano explained that fighting climate change is futile. Since the main mode of fighting global warming involves high taxes, saving the climate is vastly expensive for everyday Americans. Morano likened it to buying insurance “with a huge premium, and no payout.” Americans who “invest” in fighting climate change will never see the benefits of it, in their lifetimes or their children’s lifetimes.

Morano went on to illuminate “the true motives of manmade global warming,” which involve “leveling the playing field” and implementing a “world governance.” Morano quoted former U. S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO) as saying, “even if [global warming] is wrong, we’re doing the right thing by policy.” Morano translated this statement as, “To hell with the science, we have policies we need to enact and we will ride any eco-scare we can.”

Allie Winegar Duzett is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.