California Congressman and professional alarmist, Henry Waxman, is as close to a meddling bureaucrat as an elected official can be. And now, as chairman of a House investigation on global warming, he and his cronies are after the Bush administration, claiming White House involvement in systematic intimidation of government scientists to downplay global warming.
Waxman and others in Congress have joined the gloom-and-doom chorus of the environmental movement, warning of imminent disasters to be caused by an imminent rapid rise in global temperatures. Presenting these scenarios as the conclusions of a monolithic scientific community, they ignore serious and distinguished scientists who disagree.
So what are Waxman and the whole panoply of eco-freaks basing their dire predictions on? Why, the United Nations, of course! The U.N., an organization that specializes in corruption funded by the American taxpayer, has kindly provided the bulk of the scary global-warming-in-overdrive scenarios to the environmentalists. The U.N., through it’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been unrelenting in issuing all sorts of fantastic predictions of coming disasters that we have yet to see any evidence of, and nearly everyone, from Waxman to the news media to your daughter’s science teacher buy them hook line and sinker.
Chris Landsea, a prominent scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was a leading researcher for the U.N.’s IPCC when he developed a guilty conscience and resigned. In an open letter to IPCC, Landsea said, “I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.” Did Landsea’s defection shake the foundations of the IPCC? Did Congress launch an investigation into the so-called science behind the global warming scare? No, they simply ignored Landsea and moved forward with their agenda.
It seems incredible that so many otherwise intelligent people would be so willing to take even the wildest predictions of planetary doom coming from a list of suspect “climatologists” at face value when an army of climatologists who actually do legitimate climatology full time can’t tell us what the weather will be doing a week from now.