By Alan
Caruba
Fewer
and fewer people care about the apocalyptic claims and outright lies of the
environmental movement these days. The end of the world is nowhere in sight
unless a stray asteroid is headed our way and, after some seventeen years of a
natural cooling cycle, it’s hard to convince people that global warming is a
problem.
In
January The New York Times that has printed every global warming lie it could
since the late 1980s shut down its “environmental desk” and reassigned its
editors and reporters to other tasks. On March 1 it announced it was
discontinuing the “Green Blog”, leaving only Andrew
C. Revkin to rave on at “Dot Earth.”
Tim
Graham, the Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center, noted
that Revkin’s paycheck is being underwritten by financing from the John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation and, if that dries up, Revkin will have to take his
fear-mongering somewhere else. Graham opined that “The reality must be that
people don’t read it (Green Blog) and people simply don’t find global warming a
scintillating subject. So much for the notion it’s the ‘story of the
century.’”
The
Times promised “we will forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on
environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened
ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewable
sector and consumer choices.” Readers have already made their choice; they are
no longer interested in the torrent of lies that pours forth from the pages of
the Times on the topics they will continue to report about. They have figured
out that it is a steaming pile of horse manure.
It
won’t be long before other print news media conclude that writing about “climate
change”, aka global warming, no longer gets their reader’s hearts pumping
faster.
A case
in point from the alternative world of Internet blogs is the fact that 13 of the
17 blogs nominated for Best Science & Technology Weblog Awards were those of
climate and environmental skeptics!
At The
Guardian, a British daily that, like the Times, never failed to report that the
Earth is warming, Leo Hickman who writes an environmental blog for it was
fuming. He accused the climate skeptics of “gaming” the awards competition
because they have succeeded in generating so much
enthusiasm.
P.
Gosselin, the writer of the No Tricks Zone blog admitted that “It was tough not
to gloat” after reading Hickman’s screed. “It’s indeed a good look at a sour
grapes display by the increasingly defeated looking alarmist side, now that they
see they have got no chance of winning. Of the five finalists, four are skeptic
blogs. The sole remaining alarmist blog, Skeptical Science, has dropped
out.”
“The
problem for them”, the alarmist blogs, “is that nobody is listening to their
message any more. And, except for themselves, nobody else even has an inkling of
enthusiasm left o nominate them, let alone vote. They’re rapidly sinking into
irrelevance.”
It took
time, but a consensus has been growing about the alarmists, whether it’s their
absurd claims or the media that has been reporting them. It will take more
time—and Mother Nature—before more people conclude that they have been
victimized by the Greens who have foisted “renewable energy” (solar and wind)
that not only provides less electricity than traditional sources, but drives up
their bills in the process.
Environmentalism has never really
been about science or even the Earth. Judi Bari of Earth First made that clear
when she said, “If we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of
saving the world ecologically” or Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental
Defense Fund who said, “”The only hope for the world is to make sure there is
not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of
cars, the amount of industrialization we have in the U.S. We have to stop these
Third World countries right where they are.”
Writing
recently in Investors Daily Business, Dennis
Prager, a syndicated columnist, noted that the Philippines recently decided
after twelve years to permit the planting of genetically modified (GM) rice. The
reason for the reversal was that 4.4 million Filipino children suffer from
vitamin A deficiency, causing 250,000 to 500,000 children to go blind; half die
within a year.” GM rice provides that vital vitamin. The Greens where and
everywhere fight against the use of GM crops.
“So who
would oppose something that could save millions of children’s lives and millions
of other children from blindness?” asked Prager. “The answer is people who are
move devoted to nature than to human life. They are called environmentalists.
These are the same people who coerced nations worldwide into banning
DDT.”
Who is
really saving the world and our fellow humans? The skeptics. The scientists and
others who have debunked the lies and exposed the agenda of the
environmentalists. The Green Blog is dead. It is a victory for all of
us.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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