It’s fun to speculate sometimes.  It’s often called “dreaming”.  I’m sure that most every one of us has, at various times, fantasized about what we’d do if we won the lottery.

But in the world of science, speculation has only a very small place.  It is the spark, the germ, the seed that spurs action to collect actual data, evidence, by using rigorous control to avoid swaying results towards a specific conclusion.

Unfortunately, when money is in bed with science such objectivity too often goes flying out the window, almost as fast as Pelosi and Reid slam the door on Republicans when they schedule a budget planning meeting.  The evidence is gathered with a prevailing eye on what supports the initial speculation, since the spark, the germ, the seed was only about finding a way to make money.

That, boys and girls, is the story of global warming.  It is a tale filled with misadventures, missteps, and downright stupid mistakes, but all used to support only a way that someone can make lots and lots of money.  There isn’t anything the least bit altruistic about it.

In a minority report from the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, it is becoming more and more clear that the ideology of global warming is misguided at best, and at worst a means of global entrapment for the benefit of only a few.  That the United Nations remains a big proponent leads me to believe it is mostly the latter, for who has more vested interest in world domination than the U.N.?  And who has been Al Gore’s staunchest ally in leading the hue and cry against the dangers of global warming except the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

No one.  Until our President, Congress, and various members of the new administration bellied up to the old cap and trade bar and plunked down their money for a lottery ticket.  And though the numbers on their ticket don’t match the numbers displayed by those bouncing little ping-pong balls, they’re plotting and scheming to rig the machine to get the balls to drop in the order they desire.  They are, unfortunately, irritating our allies with their threats of economic penalties for those countries who won’t play along with their little get-rich scheme at the expense of the American taxpayers.  What it will also do is drive jobs overseas since the United States will no longer be competitive in the global market.  Something you might want to consider when you’re promising to “save or create 3.5 million jobs”, don’t you think?

It was a year ago that well-regarded scientists from around the world released what is called the “Manhattan Declaration”.  If you’ve never read it, it’s your lucky day for here it is in its entirety:

Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
“Global warming” is not a global crisis

We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,

Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;

Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;

Recognising that the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false;

Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change.  Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing human suffering;

Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:

Hereby declare:

That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems.

That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.

That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.

That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation, and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.

That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

Now, therefore, we recommend –

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth”.

That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008.

It’s pretty plain English to me.  And if you do some simple research, their case is well-documented and well-supported.  No one is saying that humans don’t need to start cleaning up their collective act, our trashing of Mother Earth can’t go on forever.  But to use “junk science” as a way to create a real climate change – a climate of fear – so that people willingly go along with the destruction of their economy is not only unfair, but as hypocritical as all the carbon disgorged by the jets that fly Al Gore and others to meet face-to-face (instead of using cost-effective internet live-meeting technology) to weep and wail about “global warming” aka “climate change” aka “climate extremes”.  Trust me, the latest round of nasty weather in the Midwest is perfectly normal and you don’t define warming by posting the last frost date for this year (used by gardeners) as coming later than the last frost date of last year.

The mainstream media isn’t thrilled about reporting this.  But just because the mainstream media thinks that supporting the administration in this lunatic delusion will somehow curry favor that will keep them operating doesn’t change the facts.  In the most simple of terms:  global warming is not a threat.  It does not need to be addressed at this time.  And it certainly doesn’t need to be addressed by the economic suicide of cap and trade.  Think about this:  Control carbon and you control the very air we breathe.

I’ll leave you with this sobering excerpt from the Wall Street Journal:

Politicians love cap and trade because they can claim to be taxing “polluters,” not workers. Hardly. Once the government creates a scarce new commodity — in this case the right to emit carbon — and then mandates that businesses buy it, the costs would inevitably be passed on to all consumers in the form of higher prices. Stating the obvious, Peter Orszag — now Mr. Obama’s budget director — told Congress last year that “Those price increases are essential to the success of a cap-and-trade program.”

That ought to put the frost on your cornflakes.