The Falseness of the Environmental Movement

Back40 at Muck and Mystery has a very well thought out and excoriating essay on the environmental movement and the damage that it is doing. He cites the recent report on Arctic Climate Conditions and the potential for warming: bq. Loose Cannons Several previous posts have discussed the falseness of the environmental movement and its harmful effects on the environment and society. There is no concern about the damage to the environment or society since those in the movement merely use it as a wedge issue to advance their steam age political ideas and would gladly burn the world down to spite their opponents even if they never gain power. bq. It has also been noted that those in the environment business are similarly deceitful though their motivations are personal gain - donations, payments and grants as reward for providing the politicians with talking points. bq. A recent example of the worst aspects of this behavior is on display in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), a report that claims to document dire and unprecedented changes in the arctic. The findings are precise but inaccurate because it was carefully constructed to deceive. The warming trend in the arctic over the past forty years is real and precisely documented, but is a fiction of selective use of data that begins at the lowest temperatures recorded for the past century and ends in the present. Prior to that low beginning point the trend had been going down from a high point even higher than today in the 1930s. bq. Politicized poseurs such as Alex Stephen are in full shriek mode crowing about a law suit against the Bush administration for failing to halt the trend. Note that it isn't against the US or any previous administrations that did the same, it's just against Bush. Note also that no other country is doing diddly to halt the trend except trying to talk it down, and most are avid contributors to the trend. bq. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the public and the stock of environmental groups continues in free fall, losing the support of funding organizations and in the most recent US elections were avoided like lepers by all political parties. The importance of this isn't the venality and ineffectiveness of these groups and poseurs like Stephen, it is the negative effects their behaviors have on the social mind, poisoning the issues of environmental preservation and remediation. Nobody even wants to hear about this stuff now and view the ravings of alarmists much the same as they do those of religious extremists - like an environmental Taliban. This is about one third of the essay -- check the link for the rest. It's a good one...