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To: joseffy who wrote (794063)	7/7/2014 5:02:50 PM
From: Taro	1 Recommendation Recommended By joseffy Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578485

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