It’s so easy and comfortable being a liberal. You never have to admit you’re wrong when you’re demonstrably wrong. Neither do you have to be concerned with lack of support, because the liberal establishment — from the news media to your fellow Democrats, academia, “science” and Hollywood elites — are always with you (like The Force). None are about to admit error, so they simply move on to the next cause.
For half a century, we have been told that the end is near and if we don’t immediately allow government to impose significant changes on the way we live and use energy, we will burn to death. All the elites have made bold predictions that the end is coming in two years, five years, 10 years (choose your own number) if immediate action isn’t taken. Those dates arrived, and the sky didn’t fall. History was not allowed to be a guide when it showed temperatures rising and falling in a cycle through periods of warming and cooling.
Now comes a report by the once-highly credible (by liberals) International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and backed by the United Nations that consistently predicted the end is drawing closer unless we convert to other energy sources and significantly alter our lifestyles. The IPCC has now concluded, presumably after research untainted by political presuppositions, that the extreme scenarios they once were guilty of selling us are now “implausible.” The presumptions were wrong, it says, and so was the fearmongering, I say.
In the immortal words of the character Emily Litella (played by the late Gilda Radner on “SNL” ), “never mind.”
Never mind that global investment in climate action has surpassed $1 trillion annually, according to tracking by the Climate Policy Initiative. This has been a cult-like false god our overseers have demanded we worship. If we refused, we were to be ostracized to the land of the ignorant, the uneducated and those who don’t believe in “science.” Recall the days 50 years ago when “science” was convinced — and demanded we believe — that the Earth was cooling so much that if we (meaning government) didn’t do something we would all freeze to death. In 1975 Newsweek did a feature article titled “The Cooling World.”