Climate of Fear

The Ragister ran a less than objective, and mildly confusing, story on Gore-BULL warming...Er, Climate Change.

The most disingenuous part was their characterization that skeptics...

- are financed by oil, gas or coal companies -

The Ragister fails to mention the controversies that cloud their authorities and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Take th U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.S. meteorologist (Christopher Landsea) resigned because he saw it "as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound".

The IPCC doesn't even do its own research, instead taking papers and results from other bodies.

Apparently, the IPCC has doubts...man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth.

Another authority, the Union of Concerned Scientists(UCS).

ABC's John Stossel had this to say about UCS...

The key word in "Union of Concerned Scientists" isn't "Scientists" — you don't need any particular degree or experience to join — but "Concerned," and the concerns in question are decidedly left wing. Its own website reveals that it developed out of a campaign to make students think that strengthening the American military was an illegitimate use of technology.

UCS also is pro abortion, I guess babies have too big a carbon footprint for the "Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions".

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) led the scare mongering against the pesticide DDT, useful in eradicating mosquitoes.

As a result the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that malaria, carried by mosquitoes, kills more than one million people a year.

An estimated 30 to 50 million people have died since the ban on DDT was implemented, that certainly eliminates man's possible impact on the environment.

These are the folks that should strike fear into your environment.