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Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:32 PM
Wesley J. Smith

Global warming may or may not exist–I suspect not, at least not of the earth-flooding-bake-caused-by-us kind–but the gas emissions from its advocates among the hyper-elites show that the real game afoot is massive income redistribution in the name of science. 

Latest example Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling in an Atlantic interview. For example, he urges our leaders to lie to us–my blunt word for intentionally exhaggerating–about what is happening climate-wise, toward the goal of getting us to allow our pockets to be picked. (NOTE: I have truncated his statements given to several questions for space reasons, without, I believe, distorting his views.) From the interview:

It’s a tough sell. And probably you have to find ways to exaggerate the threat…It’s very hard to get honest people [and get them to support policies that would "overwhelminglybenefit the developing world"]…to commit ourselves to massive redistribution long after you and I are dead.

But income redistribution would be a nightmare for us, for the poor, since they would be inhibited from developing their own resources in the name of preventing warming–heck, for everyone except the world government’s bureaucrats in charge of the taking and giving (with a cut for their own agencies off the top). 

At the end, sounding like a deep ecologist wanting a massive pandemic, Schelling yearns for catastrophe so we will all buy into his brand of global warming hysterical alarmism:

But I tend to be rather pessimistic. I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening — you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth — that would get people very concerned about climate change. But I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Tornadoes in the Midwest! May it never be! Let’s shut down the economy now to stop it from happening.

The more I read from these climate change alarmists like Al–we only have ten years left–Gore, Prince–long live the queen!–Charles, and Thomas–lie to the people–Schelling, the more I worry that science is being hijacked to promote ideological agendas. Or perhaps Gore, Charles, and Schelling are just bishops  in a new earth religion that seeks to sacrifice human prosperity on the altar of “saving the earth.”

7 Comments

    Ianthe
    July 22nd, 2009 | 4:53 pm

    He wants horrid things to happen so that people will get concerned? He even SAID “horrid.”

    HistoryWriter
    July 23rd, 2009 | 7:07 am

    Denigrating the Nobel Prize because one disagrees with the opinion of one of its recipients is a bit extreme, isn’t it? As for “lying” being a blunt word for intentionally exaggerating — well, it appears that some people’s tolerance for exaggeration varies directly with their favorable opinions of the matters being exaggerated (as in matters of federally subsidized health care).

    Wesley J. Smith
    July 23rd, 2009 | 12:26 pm

    History Writer: Al Gore? Jimmy Carter? Politics are devaluing the prize. But my point was if such boneheaded comments come from our supposedly best and brightest, we are in real trouble.

    Ianthe
    July 23rd, 2009 | 3:58 pm

    Yes we are.

    HistoryWriter
    July 23rd, 2009 | 9:31 pm

    Wesley: Do you believe that Carter’s getting Menachim Begin and Anwar Sadat together wasn’t worth a Nobel Peace Prize, regardless of what you think of his administration? Seriously?

    Wesley J. Smith
    July 23rd, 2009 | 10:28 pm

    History: May I call you History? I thought JC deserved it for Camp David. I thought he deserved it for his fight against Guinea worm disease in Africa. But that’s not why he won it. He won it because he castigated Bush, illustrating why the Nobel is so devalued. It’s become way too political.

    Jacob
    July 24th, 2009 | 10:10 pm

    When I was young the Nobel Prize was only given to people whose names I didn’t know.
    People who set an illusive almost divine example of the potential of human intellect…

    Now the NPP is the TMZ of the academic world…giving props in the form of Pi-zease Pr-zizes to da gangsta-ist of da gangstas…da homey dat pimpslaps all da backward minded cons ‘n raises da roof da most amongst da global leftist elite WHAT WHAT!!

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