Climate-Catastrophe Skeptics - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Shrink 'Em!

by Charles Clough, Contributing Writer for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation; M.S., Meteorology retired chief of the U.S. Army Atmospheric Effects Team at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

The National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) new publication "The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States" gives wildlife a new meaning. Citing evidence that many in the climate alarmist community are "frustrated and burned out," it quotes one member as trying to keep on persuading mankind that a climate apocalypse is at hand so "I will not be able to feel the angst or despair" of failure.

For nearly three decades, certain U.S., U.K., and U.N. activists, like NASA's James Hansen, have tried to sell governments on draconian centralized economic policies supposedly to save the planet. Anyone disagreeing—regardless of credentials and reasoning—becomes the target of rhetorical terrorism.

In his recent Forbes article, alarmist Steve Zwick, apparently inspired by Hansen's tirades, wants the scientifically unpersuaded to be hunted down and their homes burned. Daniel Souweine of the Soros-funded Citizen Engagement Lab demands that TV weathercasters who disagree that man is the prime cause of climate change be persecuted until they repent. … Then, in language reminiscent of Mao Tse-tung's education camps for the non-compliant … Oregon professor Kari Norgaard already argues that scientific disagreement on the cause of climate change is an aberrant sociological behavior that must be treated.

These strident calls for an end to free thought are based, according to NWF, on "knowing full well what the science is telling us ...." What is science telling us? Where? In adjusted surface temperature data sets? In the misfit between actual global temperatures and model projections? In the limited effect of doubling CO2 of about a degree Celsius? In the global warming of the medieval period and other ages past due to yet unknown natural causes—causes that somehow have mysteriously ceased so that we "know full well" that the present gradual warming must be due to man?

The real source of "what the science is telling us" is a sociological phenomenon that President Eisenhower warned about in 1961…. Ike []warned, "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. ... We must also be alert...that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

Shrinks aren't needed to heal the imagined sickness of widespread scientifically based disagreement. If they want a project, why not study the dynamics of the climate elite that suppresses publication of contrary papers, withholds funds from politically incorrect research, and demands conformity of educational curricula with its political agenda of globalism?

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Genesis 9:1–3 (ESV): "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.'"

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