14 August 2016
Paul Driessen - Olympic-sized climate propaganda
I am posting this article at Paul Driessen's request. I would add to the comments of the Egyptian commentators he quotes about Obama's belief that man-made global warming is our foremost crisis that Hillary Clinton claims she will have an even more radical program of fossil fuel use suppression than does Obama. And yes, I do believe that Hillary is so divorced from reality, such a criminal, and so mad for power that it is very reasonable to evaluate her as insane. Here is Paul Driessen's article:
Olympic-sized climate propaganda
It was wrong to
interrupt Rio’s delightful opening ceremonies with deceitful agitprop
XXXI Olympiad competitors are joyfully showcasing their
skills and sportsmanship, while delighted fans revel in their amazing efforts. But
opening ceremonies featuring colorful history, dance, song and athletes were rudely
interrupted by an unprecedented propaganda film.
As audiences around the world were getting pumped up in
eager anticipation for the upcoming events, a slick but deceitful video soured
the mood by inserting partisan climate change politics.
Fossil
fuels are warming our planet, and the manmade heat is melting its ice caps, narrators
intoned. Animated maps showed Greenland “disappearing
very quickly” and Amsterdam, Dubai, Miami, Shanghai, Lagos and Rio being
swallowed up by rising seas.
Well,
yes, if average global temperatures really did soar 4 degrees Celsius (7.5
Fahrenheit), and if all of Greenland’s ice melts, oceans certainly could rise
20 feet and other terrible things certainly could happen.
But
wild assumptions, computer models and animations are not reality. Few of us are
really worried about being eaten by raptors and Tyrannosaurs cloned from DNA in
fossilized amber, even though Jurassic
Park sure made them look real. Ditto for Hollywood sharks, werewolves, cave
monsters – and global warming.
In the
Real World outside the animators’ windows, average planetary temperatures
barely budged for 18 years. After climbing a headline-grabbing 0.55 degrees C
(1 deg F) in 2015, a strong El Niño year, they plummeted a media-ignored 0.5 degrees C the first seven months of 2016,
as La Niña approached. That’s a far cry from the 4/7.5 temperature spike that
animated the animators’ fear-mongering. The sun has entered a low-sun-spot phase, possibly heralding a new colder period for Planet Earth.
As to
temperatures increasing “since the industrial era began,” that primarily
reflects Earth’s emergence from the 500-year Little Ice Age. Of course, climate
alarmists happily claim this natural warming is due to mankind’s growing fossil
fuel use during the same period of time, though scientists still cannot distinguish
human and natural factors. With temperatures rising 1850-1940, cooling
1940-1975, warming 1975-1998, and mostly flat-lining since then, it’s hard to
blame oil, gas and coal for any warming.
So the
likelihood of Greenland’s ice all melting is about zero. In fact, its ice mass has been growing since the time period the
Olympics propaganda squad selected to show the ice sheets “disappearing.”
News
stories about the Rio video also featured claims that climate change has
“already had real effects in Brazil,” where 60% of the Amazon rainforest is
located. Some 240,000 acres were clear-cut just in June 2016, “as a result of
deforestation” – related to global warming, it was slyly suggested.
If
they’re talking about replacing rainforests with biofuel plantations, to
replace fossil fuels that could be produced from a fraction of that acreage,
then yes, there’s a climate (policy) connection. But there would be little need
to chop down all those trees if climate chaos campaigners weren’t obsessively
opposed to the fossil fuels that power 80% of the world’s economy and provide
other vital human needs.
The
indispensable benefits of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals for Olympic Games
alone are impressive.
They are the raw materials for uniforms of every
description; swim suits, goggles and caps; kayaks and kayaker helmets and
paddles; bicycle helmets, shoes and carbon-fiber frames; basketballs, vaulting
poles, tennis balls and racquets, soccer balls and shin guards; bows and
arrows; volleyball and field hockey nets; basketballs [Paul really likes basketballs]; seats and clothing for
fans; prosthetics and wheelchairs for Paralympians; and much more.
No one could watch the games without plastics for computers,
cameras, monitors, cell phones, dish antennas, banners and other equipment that
promote, record and transmit the events. Neither athletes nor fans could get to
the games without airlines, vehicles and fossil fuels.
In short, virtually nothing we make, grow, eat, use or do is
possible without fuels and materials that come out of holes in the ground
somewhere on our planet. But radical greens want it all put off limits. They
would rather see billions of acres of croplands, rainforests and wildlife
habitats cleared and plowed – and trillions of gallons of water and fertilizer
expended – to grow biofuel crops to replace fossil fuels. “Keep it in the
ground,” they demand.
African, Asian and European countries cannot afford to stop
using oil, natural gas or coal. Nor can the United States or any other modern
or developing country.
Naturally, the video and news reports mentioned none of
this. So why did the Rio
organizers agree to present this manmade climate cataclysm video?
One
possible reason is a desire to distract people from its real problems. Mosquitoes
are spreading Zika. Shoddy athletic housing has bare wires and sinks falling
off walls. The open-water swimming venue is a bacteria-infested open sewer. Swallowing
just a few teaspoons of Rio’s tap water will make visiting athletes and fans
horribly sick. Eleven
construction workers died while preparing Rio for the games.
Brazil’s economy is on the rocks and #174 out of 189 nations
for starting a new business. Its current and previous presidents are under
investigation for corruption.
But once the games got underway, they were fantastic, fun,
exciting and dramatic; their own distraction.
So the video could be simple “greenwashing” – making the
2016 games the “greenest ever.” Or it might be to reinforce Brazil’s claim to
billions of dollars that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have promised for
mitigation, adaptation and compensation for the climate chaos we supposedly
caused.
Just as strange, even ExxonMobil
played the politically correct climate game. Its Olympics TV ad says the
company is doing all it can to reduce “carbon pollution.” Surely Exxon knows
it’s not carbon (soot); it’s carbon dioxide. And it’s not pollution; the plant-fertilizing
CO2 is enriching the atmosphere and making forests, grasslands and food crops
grow faster and better. So why use Obama/EPA terminology?
Maybe the company just wants to
buy some feel-good PR and “peace
in our time.” Maybe it and its corporate and political colleagues are
forgetting 1960s radical activist Jerry Rubin’s comment: “The more demands you
satisfy, the more we’ve got.” And Winston Churchill’s blunt truth: “An appeaser
is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
All of it reminds me of the way several Egyptian journalists
responded to President Obama’s 2015 commencement
speech at the Coast Guard Academy. “Climate change is a serious threat to global
security, an immediate risk to our national security,” he asserted. “It will
impact how our military defends our country.” Anyone who fails to recognize
this is guilty of “dereliction of duty.”
The journalists
reacted in disbelief. “Is he insane? Is he on drugs?” asked one. “What did
you expect from a president who never served in the military and never worked a
day in his life?” said the second. “I’m sure he’s not deliberately trying to
destroy his country,” the first suggested. “Of course he is,” the third said.
Now millions
of Americans appear perfectly willing to sacrifice their livelihoods, living
standards, liberties and country on the altar of manmade climate Armageddon.
Are they insane? Are they on drugs?
Paul
Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
(www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black
death.
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