A post on a blog I just visited, on 'Man Made' global warming - and in general, about how government business is expanded and 'developed':
"I would keep in mind that whenever there is a question
like man-made global warming (MMGW), never forget the old
adage "follow the money, and political power". Millions of
dollars have been made by some people central to the
question of global warming, perhaps exemplified best by
Al Gore, who I read is now a billionaire.
One topic you never hear MMGW advocates speak of is the
300-year period of GW that took place a thousand years ago.
That period wiped out famine in Europe, because there were no
big crop failures in that period. Wine grapes were grown all over
England. Leif Ericcson and his father Eric the Red (and others)
were able to explore the north Atlantic, and colonize Greenland,
simply because the seas were calmer than normal in that part
of the world. Etc. And clearly, this period of GW was not caused
by coal-burning power plants, or automobile exhausts. Then suddenly,
at the end of the 13th century IIRC, it all ended in just one decade,
and temperatures returned to what we think of as "normal".
The point is that Mother Nature brings us periods of global
warming and cooling every so often. And until after Mother Nature is
accounted for properly, all discussion of man-made causes should
take a back seat.
But no, the advocates of MMGW never talk about global warming
and cooling that happens naturally. It does not support their agendas.
In the 1960's, while I was in the military, I worked in a government
laboratory for four years. I was young and naive at the time, but
slowly I began to learn something about federal government
employees -- they sooner or later figure out that their best rewards
do not come from solving problems, but from discovering or
inventing new problems. The first to "discover" a new problem
gets promoted and given an opportunity to build his own little
empire inside the government. And it works best when the "problem"
is in a part of government that is classified "Secret" or "Top Secret".
And works best when there is a tiny grain of truth upon which to
build all kinds of expensive distortions. That laboratory I worked in
was a good example. I wrote a (classified) paper about it, and
that resulted in my getting shipped to Vietnam - the truth was
not welcome. Except that one high-level civilian employee at
the Pentagon saved me. And much later a Federal Standard
that supported all this distortion got modified. In summary,
a 5-cent secret problem got "solved" for several dollars, by a little
government empire of several hundred employees who were
poorly organized and sent scurrying around on mostly useless
errands. I am sure that empire still exists - there is nothing
so permanent as a temporary government program.
I would bet MMGW is fully supported by the federal gov't for
the benefit of all those who are currently scurrying around making
measurements, and writing supportive papers, all at the expense
of the tax-payers. Do they care most about the truth? No, what
they care about most is job security, pay raises, and a
richer retirement.
Just recently I read a paper on the net that describes how government
scientists have been fudging global temperatures to support the
idea of MMGW. Instead of reporting ACTUAL temperatures around
the world, they have been reporting temperatures generated by
a computer model that they conceived and implemented. Never mind
the actualities - just get more people into the empire. Build it bigger.
"Truth is that which stands the test of experience."
-- Albert Einstein
And MMGW, you can be sure, is just one government program
initiated by government employees anxious first and foremost to
enhance their own security, power, prestige and income. There are
hundreds of such programs in the social "sciences" for example,
fighting unemployment, unwed birthrates, food stamps, welfare,
you name it. And you can be sure they are thinking up new
"problems" to solve each and every day.
What the founding fathers of this country wanted above all was liberty,
a government that never encroached on the people it governed. But
what ALL governments have a great tendency to do is to enlarge its
power and wealth. That is what is going on in the U.S. government
right now, every day. At the expense of we the people.
And MMGW is an excellent example of that process.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw |
