Global Warming and the Heritage Foundation


From http://www.myheritage.org/

“February 11, 2010 by Nathaniel Ward

Global Warming hysteria Strikes Again

Despite recent heavy snows in Washington that have shuttered the federal government and canceled Congressional votes, The Heritage Foundation’s experts continue to advance conservative ideas.

Writing in today’s Morning Bell, Heritage’s Conn Carroll explores the Left's latest hysterical claims about global warming:

Tomorrow, NBC (which is owned by General Electric) will begin broadcasting the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, Canada. Only two events are scheduled for the opening day (alpine skiing and ski jumping), but even those events will be difficult to pull off. Why? There is no snow in Vancouver. (As I said on my February 11, 2010 post, “Who said GOD doesn’t have a sense of humor …?”—my addition) And International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge knows exactly what is to blame: global warming. Rogge tells AFP: ‘Global warming of course is a worry, it is a worry for the entire world.’

Considering that NBC/GE has already received billions in TARP bailout cash from the Obama administration and is actively lobbying for a global warming energy tax bill so that it can receive billions more in government green-energy subsidies on top of the millions it already receives, we are sure to hear lots from NBC announcers about how the lack of snow in Vancouver is just another reason Washington needs to act now to stop global warming.

But back in Washington, the global warming scare-monger crowd is singing a slightly different tune. Facing record snowfalls, Time is reporting: ‘Snowstorm: East Coast Blizzard Tied to Climate Change.’ But do not confuse this headline with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s column from two years ago claiming that global warming was causing ‘anemic winters’ in the Washington region.

No snow, too much snow. It does not matter to the enviroleft crowd. For them, global warming always is to blame. That is the whole reason the movement made a deliberate decision earlier this decade to stop calling it ‘global warming’ and start calling it ‘climate change.’ That way they could expand the universe of terrible things they could plausibly blame on global warming. One British citizen even maintains a comprehensive list of everything the enviroleft has tried to blame on global warming including: Atlantic ocean less salty, Atlantic ocean more salty, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning faster, fish bigger, fish shrinking, and (most importantly) beer better, beer worse. (This is one reason why I’m posting this tonight. As I’ve said before, according to the Al Gore Gang, all things that seem bad are caused by Global Warming even if they are contradictory!—my addition)

The media are not the only ones complicit in the climate fear industry. The 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which is the most prestigious scientific body charged with determining what is and is not settled science) has also been found to be cooking the books. In just the past year, the IPCC’s 2007 report has been exposed for overstating the science on glacier loss in the Himalayas, crop loss in Africa, Amazon rain forest depletion and damage from weather catastrophes.

Here is what we do know: the cap-and-trade system in Europe is completely failing to reduce carbon emissions; the cap-and-trade system proposed here in the United States would do nothing to affect global temperatures, but would do trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy.

Something to think about while you shovel out your driveway today.

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Other Heritage Work of Note:

Heritage's Rea Hederman and James Sherk break down the January unemployment numbers in the Daily Caller and explain what lawmakers should do now. ‘The biggest news is the revisions to the employment numbers, which show an additional 1.2 million jobs lost since the recession began, thereby bringing the total to 8.4 million. To turn the economy around, Congress should promote private-sector job creation by removing barriers to entrepreneurship. Better policy solutions such as a no-cost stimulus, tort reform to promote new investment, and the lifting of barriers to domestic energy development are the right way to get there.’

Next Monday, many schools and businesses will close to celebrate a holiday erroneously known as President’s Day. Heritage’s Matthew Spalding explains why the holiday is officially known as Washington's Birthday and why it's important we give special honors to our first president.

Nathaniel Ward is the editor of http://www.myheritage.org/—a website for members and supporters of The Heritage Foundation.”