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It has just come out that the Climate Summit is defending against even more phony evidence about global warming.  Even those who agree with the concerns for global warming are getting tired of all the artificial and misleading information.  We now hear that the prediction about the melting away of the Himalayan glacial by 2035 was unreliable information.  Of course, it makes for great drama and photo ops when this was the crisis backdrop for the attendees of the summit.  Now, they are trying to handle the latest bombshell of false evidence.  Environmentalism is in danger of persistent exaggeration and a credibility gap going forward.

This penchant for environmental hype hurts the environmental cause since it has been roundly asserted that the “scientific community” has already laid the foundations for this urgent global meetings.  Time and time again, the information is misleading, incorrect, and purposely contrived to support the claims of global warming.

Of course, we cannot forget the leaked emails out of England that told the story of suppressed information contrary to global warming.  Fewer were told that the climate change models had the reference data tied to models that were not properly protected from manipulation.  Few people understand that the climate change data was anything more than recordation of the actual temperatures.  If scientists tweak the software, the results were more to their liking.  More lies tossed like gum balls to the public.

Like any good Nixon-style cover up of the facts, the conspiracy was worse than facing the truth.  When the emails leaked out, the whole climate change community went into overdrive trying to minimize the truth that was leaking out of their highly protected community.

But, why bother to lie or contrive information to turn a matter of concern into a voracious crisis?  Is it that those who succeed in driving a crisis mentality get more of what they want?  The sad story of Haiti perhaps illustrates my point.  Haiti has been a desperately poor nation for a century.  The world has helped Haiti through humanitarian aid, but never to the extent that it did after the horrible earthquakes that struck this island country.  Crisis raises the priority of the cause and pushes people to take emergency action.  Urgency doesn’t mean that the best solutions are installed.  Haiti will still be a poor nation after the relief efforts unless we think our way through the process of international assistance.

The message to those who make the claims for environmentalism and global warming is “Stop lying to the public even though you think the reason for the lies is noble.”  The truth is what we all want, and there are enough crisis issues around to consume our attention anyway.  With unemployment at true numbers of 17%, we have a crisis.  The national debt is a nightmare that is mostly ignored by a spend-crazed congress.  The flight of jobs from America caused by taxation and regulations is being ignored while taxes on the population are going up.

Good people were disturbed at the private jet-flying elitist who attend the Climate Summit ignored their carbon footprint, made no secret of the opulent luxury of the attendees, and yet had the audacity to lecture the rest of us on our abuses of the resources of the world.  Global warming is going to suffer the ignominious fate of Martha Coakley because people are tired of the lies and elitism of those in charge of the cause.

The truth is coming out, and global warming is obvious.  It is also obvious that far too many wrap themselves in an environmental flag to advance their own private and political agendas.  They enlarge their wealth and power at the expense of the private citizen because they have hijacked the environmental cause at our expense.  The next failure of these big, fat, Green liars will be the Cap and Trade bill.  Why?  Because people are totally fed up with the Barney Franks of the world who still believe that people will buy their bald-face lies and the sold-out news media will not call them on their favorite sport of deception.

The public voted against the lies of Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, and Frank were exposed when an unknown man in a pickup truck truth told the truth.  Shocking the world, the people turned a solid blue state with a Kennedy legacy over to the truth-telling Scott Brown.  Regardless of party implications, the fact was that the truth stood against an army of lies and won.  We need less of the present political grandstanding and a lot more real people who still believe that the truth will set them free.  The environment is not a politician football, and politics is not a reliable friend of the environment.

Ever since the Kyoto Protocol set the stage for global concern and governmental intervention, the worldwide concern for global warming is inextricably tied to the production of carbon dioxide .  It was also at the Kyoto meeting that the phrase “Cap and Trade” seemed to find its voice and the concept has continued to grow as more and more governments saw this as the primary means to address the global warming concerns.  Now, Cap and Trade programs seem to be a growing trend, but the wisdom of yet another governmental program raises unsettling questions.

Just to add another opinion to the global warming issue, the natural and environmental solution seems to be getting minimal attention in the global community, and I think it is because they have not figured out a way to tax the trees.  This is more than a sarcastic swipe at governmental intrusion, but an objection to the boorish ignorance of the best solution that we have in the global warming concern.  If carbon dioxide is the named culprit of global warming, and tree remove carbon dioxide and release wonderful oxygen, why in the name of good sense aren’t there governmental initiatives with the same aggressive drive for a “Natural Solution?”  The need for heavy-handed governmental intrusion with a Green Tax or Cap and Trade should not be the singular solution while better solutions get a mild level of friendly encouragement.

Global warming is becoming something more than an environmental concern.  It is possible that global warming could be hijacked and used as political leverage, taxing opportunities, and power-mongering that will not serve the true issue at hand.  This would not be the first time opportunists have seized on a popular theme for political advantage. The fact that the Cap and Trade program promises that it will drive up the cost of energy.  This means that someone will get rich and the people at the bottom will struggle all the more.  This is worse than unfortunate.  The CBO report of February 2008 on the concerning Cap and Trade reports a 60 billion dollar market of these CO2 trading instruments in a speculative market where “banks, brokers, funds, arbitrageurs, and private traders now participate in a market valued at $60 billion in 2007.”  Does it start to make sense now?  This is becoming a multi-billion dollar marketplace where the fat cats will get fatter and the rest will watch from outside of their foreclosed homes.

Returning to my key issue, I am very concerned that the reforestation effort is a sideline issue promoted by private efforts with government encouragement.  Trees provide an immense benefit in sweeping the air of particles, taking out carbon dioxide, and replenishing the oxygen.  They serve other purposes as well.  They slow the rain and hold the soil in place which has obvious benefits.  They are a true natural resource.  It therefore seems to be that the best solution is lighten up on cap and trade and increase the reforestation efforts.  No matter the public rhetoric, we are looking at a solution that seems to offer no good solution except to aggravate people who are already financially stressed with a cost-laden program where the wealthy and powerful are lining up for “The Next Big Money Grab.”  There is a need for Toto to pull back the curtain once again to reveal the wizards behind the curtain that are pulling the levers to fool us all with their magic and seeming power.

Well realistically, trees are not nearly so much fun as people.  Trees charge nothing to do what they do.  They work at their task without complaint and without a government or union to control their production.  They can’t vote, and they never complain no matter how badly we treat them.  No wonder they have so little political weight in D.C. or other political conclaves.  At the end of the day, we will find that we may have taken the wrong route to the global warming issue chosing to fight nature with policital clout and taxation rather than joining with nature to find the solutions already in hand.  But then government cannot control nature, and worse yet, they can’t tax the trees.