About 25 years ago, when I served as Deputy Secretary in the California Resources Agency, I put together a conference in the Department of Water Resources to discuss global warming. Yes, I was early getting to the station, and still the train left without me. I was skeptical, even then, but it was a new idea that I thought California should look into. We invited scientists from all around the world, and they happily came to discuss their studies with colleagues.

The conference turned out to be rather boring. The main thing I came away with was, maybe the earth is warming, and maybe not; and if it was warming, maybe it was caused by humans, but maybe not. There was such a lack of conclusive evidence that I wrote it off as just another chicken little idea. Surely, I thought, we've heard the last of that issue, unless something amazing happened. Well, something amazing did happen. Algore.

Twenty-five more years of climate data and the conclusions have not changed in the view of many respected climatologists and earth scientists. I know, Algore says the debate is over. But what else do you say when you have no facts?  Weather is a very complicated phenomena that we have not even begun to understand. Computer models are no match for the real thing. When was the last time we got an accurate weather report beyond a day or so? Yet, these professional worriers are telling us what the weather is going to be in 5 or 10 years! Give me a break.

While the earth's climate may not have changed, certainly the political climate has. Fresh off the 2000 election with suddenly nothing to do, Algore needed a cause; and global warming fit the bill just fine. Now, due to the fact that the planet is not falling apart as predicted 25 years ago, the Chicken Lickens have abandoned their global warming moniker and are now climate change artists. That way they can claim they are right even when they are wrong. Didn't we all do that when we were, like, 8?

Make no mistake; this is all part of a larger idealogical agenda to dumb down our society, limit accessibility to needed resources, tax the living daylights out of each world citizen, and dole out the minimum for survival so the elites can wrest power from the individual. It's not that they are mean, it's just that they believe they are so much smarter than all of us in the unwashed masses and only they know the way to save the earth and run our lives. Climate change is just another way to facilitate less energy, less economic freedom, and a lower standard of living in general. What is available will be controlled by the elites and used to maintain political power. That was the way it was before the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. In fact, we are talking pre Magna Carta, when the King was sovereign and provided only subsistence level support to the serfs. The serfs had no control over their lives and were at the mercy of the king. The liberal elites want that kind of power. A king and a cast of nobles lording over a feudal society.




I wonder if the liberal rank and file, unthinking army knows that? Or do they think they will be included among the nobles? Boy will they be surprised.