Cooling of warming is hot

Last week’s edition carried the theme that the public is finally realizing that man-made global warming is a politically motivated myth. Normally, we would look for something else to discuss for this edition, but the current week’s news is so loaded with stories about the collapse of the global-warming myth that we could not ignore it.

The four reports at the beginning of this issue tell the story quite well, so additional commentary on that would be repetitious. The big view, however, is that the UN climate conference in France this month is pre-programmed to ram through a treaty to institutionalize re-distribution of wealth from nations with a high standard of living to those with a low standard, and do this in the name of fighting global warming. To be more exact, the plan is to transfer wealth from the citizen of high-standard nations to the politicians and administrators of the low-standard nations – with political and banking brokers at the UN slicing off a hefty share of the pie as it passes through. The needy masses will never benefit – and the climate will not be affected one iota.

The cooling enthusiasm for the global-warming story is a hot topic, and the warmists at the Paris conference must instinctively know that it is now or never. If they do not get commitment from the national delegates this time around, future public pushback will be overwhelming. Therefore it is a fairly safe prediction to say that the delegates will try to ignore and casually dismiss these latest reports and push ahead with their agenda full force.

This is an extremely perilous moment for the future of liberty.

G. Edward Griffin
2015 November 6