"The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us," Vaclav Klaus writes in the Financial Times. He knows of what he speaks. He lived through communism. Now, he's making a comparison between it and the mania surrounding global warming. "As someone who lived under communism for most of his life," the Czech leader writes, "I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning."

If a car salesman were making a pitch, and frantically told you that you have to buy it right now or else, you might think the seller a con man. But when environmentalists sell their political program, they use these exact tactics. Buy it now or a catastrophe will befall us. Like the shady car salesman's modus operandi, this method is a way to induce an absence of well-considered thought. We act under threat, not thought, when we succumb to these methods.

Appeals to "everyone believes this" or "this is science" operate on about the same anti-intellectual, intimidatory plane. Klaus wisely counsels, "Let us resist the politicisation of science and oppose the term 'scientific consensus,' which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority."

I have my doubts about whether man is a significant cause of climate change, or whether climate change is an evil beyond all others (it could stand to be a little warmer in Wisconsin; a little global warming might have sent the Cowboys to Super Bowl I). But if any measures are to be taken to reduce cargon emissions, etc., they should be tax incentives like those suggested by Gingrich.

Global Warming is a hoax?

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Meet your roommate: Noam Chomsky.

Mars is getting warmer.
The earth is getting warmer.
Do you think maybe the sun might have something to do with it? hmmmm....
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