Fire and Ice

Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

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U.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change Research
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U.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change Research

     Global warming is a good business to be in for government funding. More than 99.5 percent of American climate change funding comes from the government, which spends $4 billion per year on climate change research.

     Researchers use this money to promote doom and gloom reports on what man is doing to his world.

     The bigger and more catastrophic climate change cataclysm becomes, the more it is justifiable to take more money and exert more control – a cycle that feeds itself. Scientist and environmentalist Stephen Schneider explained these tactics.

     “On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but – which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.” (Discover, October, 1989)

     Environmental lobbying, a $1.6 billion industry, puts increased pressure on government to spend more on global warming and take more control.

     Calls for higher taxes, more regulation and greater government intervention in private businesses increase as environmentalists propagate scarier scenarios.