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Runaway Global Warming -
The New Ecoterrorist Menace

By Bill Henderson

19 December, 2006
Countercurrents.org


(After nine op-eds trying to explore the dangers of runaway climate change, here is a tenth trying to model how those who are now resolutely opposed to the idea of global warming will react as RCC moves onto the public radar. I have postulated that there is no solution within our current market based economy and that governance innovation, something like Lester Brown's PLAN B, is needed so that necessary change becomes possible - in this op-ed I try to present how this perspective can be mis-perceived. I don't mean to belittle opposition but only to model impediments to needed change and to introduce a meme about RCC in previously uninformed circles.)

Friends, I'm writing to warn you that ecoterrorists are organizing to subvert the lawfully elected US government using global warming as the pretext. These radical environmentalists have begun arguing on left wing websites that only the complete end of our market economy and it's replacement with tyrannical central government planning will stop global warming. They believe that only this complete repudiation of the American way of life will stop something they call 'runaway global warming' or 'runaway climate change'. With a fanatical disregard for all of our personal freedoms and our businesses, they want to turn America into a socialist state in total ignorance of central plannings failure in the old Soviet Union.

Global warming is a losers, doomsters conjecture. There is no reasonable cause and effect evidence that the world is getting any warmer (outside of normal temperature fluctuations caused by normally occurring changes in factors like the Earth's orbit or sunspots, etc.). In fact, we should hope that the world is getting a little warmer because in the reoccurring global climate pattern over the past hundred thousand years we are headed for the next ice age. A slightly warmer world would also increase agricultural productivity as well and generally open up presently inhospitable areas for human use.

Radical environmentalists state that emissions from fossil fuels are allegedly to blame for global warming because they hate America's success and because they do not recognize God's plan for human redemption and His love and infinite power. These radicals believe in a godless, hopeless creation where we are just one species amongst many; where all species will eventually become extinct. They believe in the possibility of a 'dieoff' of what they call our 'overpopulation' caused by lack of resources or catastrophe.

Their latest strategy is something called 'runaway global warming' which they say will 'create a different world' from the one we know. 'Human caused global warming will get so bad that we will all die'. Global temperatures will increase by tens of degrees abruptly. ('Abrupt climate change' is another pseudonym for this junk science.)

But the kicker is that according to these radical environmentalists and the few scientists that have come out on these leftwing websites in support, we must completely change our economy so that all emissions are stopped within just one decade. And since this is impossible, ludicrously impossible, they are agitating for the US Federal government to declare war against global warming and put the country on a war footing such as we did against Hitler in order to completely shut down our present market economy in favor of a centralized state with no cars, planes, no shopping, etc.

There are newly elected Democrats in the House and maybe even in the Senate who believe the global warming junk science and who are sympathetic to such socialist government powers. The radical environmentalists will try and spread fear of 'the end of civilization because of runaway global warming' and the big government politicians will try and use this excuse to seize government to wreck total havoc on our economy and our freedoms. Many well meaning citizens and legislators panicked by 'the need for change within a decade' will be tricked into co-operating and every business, every investment, and all our homes and possessions will be endangered by this godless hysteria.

What to do about it? Friends, trust in God and in America. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Find out more about this new conspiracy - check out how widespread this strategy is already. Write your representatives today alerting them to this ecoterrorist strategy. Talk to your pastor and your fellow congregationalists about this conspiracy and organize a counter education campaign in your community.

I'm trying to get a website up explaining this danger to our country and I will write again with an address and more information on how we can organize to fight back with the truth, real science, and faith in God and country. Global warming was always just a scare story told by those with ideological agendas. Runaway global warming is just more scary nonsense - but if we don't mobilize and fight back now we might lose our freedoms and our country.

( Finally, in my tenth op-ed I would be negligent in not informing readers about the reasonable scientific overview critical of runaway climate change at the Realclimate website:

Runaway tipping points of no return
11ºC warming, climate crisis in 10 years?
Climate sensitivity: Plus ça change ...
Can 2°C warming be avoided?

Given the many possible positive feedback mechanisms possible and underestimation of climate change possibilities in the past, I still think that precautionary action is a necessity with a complete risk assessment a priority. But divergence of opinion is definitely good and useful.- in Stephen Schneider's worldview, when it comes to possible climate change probabilities: "“End of the world” and “good for the Earth” are, in my experience, the two lowest probability cases.")



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