Norvell Rose
Climate change? Yes! But not that kind
By Norvell Rose
I must admit, I love irony. Especially when, like an avenging angel, it delivers a righteous blow to those who deserve being blown off their self-righteous perch. Yes, it's almost a guilty pleasure. But, okay, I'll go ahead and enjoy it. And you have my permission to enjoy it, too.
The latest irony ensnaring the radical left and exposing its full-of-hot-air policies and pronouncements involves "climate change" — not environmental, but political. While the one appears phony, the other appears real — very real. And quite possibly catastrophic to the liberal agenda.
As far as the earth's temperature is concerned, the global-warming climate change hysteria is, with almost daily revelations, proving to be the fraud so many of us suspected. A hoax. A ploy. A radical left, power- and money-grab assault on individual freedoms and limited governance. But the political climate change in this country, that's another story and not a fictional one. That climate change is genuine; it's authentic and demonstrable. The climate of principled, common-sense conservatism is indeed re-establishing its place in American political thought and action.
When we speak of "climate," we're referring to prevailing conditions, not temporary or fleeting ones. We know that the left's alarmist arguments supporting man-caused planetary climate change are falling apart. The seas of truth are rising, lifting the fallacies and falsehoods of their global warming doctrine into the light for all to see. So, too, is the glacial ice of liberal arrogance and elitist assumption melting, exposing the rotting skeletal remains of their century-old progressive arguments upon which the new forces of liberty will boldly march forward.
Ironic, isn't it, that the same "tolerant" crowd who intolerantly belittle skeptics of man-made global warming also hatefully demean those of us who claim that Constitution-aligned conservatism is re-emerging. Well, the "science" of global warming is indeed not "settled." And the pundit-promoted "facts" of the Obama-led embrace of a permanent strain of liberalism/socialism are far from "established."
Seems that environmental science and political science, at least as espoused and foist upon us by the devout apostles of the left, are both flawed. They both rely on either misinterpretation of data (temperature cycles and election results) or outright manipulation, if not conscious fraud.
Much to the liberals' dismay, they will soon discover that Tea Party anger and agitation are not the short-lived winds of a passing storm. Grassroots frustration and determination are much more than a brief, tornadic burst. The outrage expressed even by many Independents and old-line Democrats is evidence of a political sea-change.
Despite the true believers' best efforts to cloud and cover up, evidence is emerging that the earth is not warming; in fact, it may be doing just the opposite — it may well be cooling. The same overheated gang of Obama worshippers has failed to prove that liberalism has buried conservatism, or that socialism is the new driving force and defining paradigm in American politics. Core conservatives and clear-eyed defenders of the Constitution are again showing their might on the right, coalescing into a hotly conservative coalition that is, truly, changing America's political climate.
It wasn't that long ago that Al Gore and his minions of the New Environmental Order were declaring intellectual and moral victory. It wasn't that long ago that the Republican Party was, according to gleeful leftists, pronounced dead and all but buried. In only a few short months, we have come to recognize the craven power-hungry, money-grubbing nature of the global warming hucksters. In only a few short months, we have re-awakened and renewed our belief that the media-fueled momentum of the ultra-liberals — who, for generations, have moved relentlessly to radically restructure America — is a failing and hopefully soon-to-fade political condition.
Climate change? Yes. The kind that presents a providential revelation. How the lies, half-truths and false-prophet edicts that the audacious extremists on the left would have us believe about both the planet and our politics are ironic at best, despicable at worst.
And as I said earlier, I love irony. It's the shameless and selfish duplicity that I despise.
© Norvell Rose
January 17, 2010
I must admit, I love irony. Especially when, like an avenging angel, it delivers a righteous blow to those who deserve being blown off their self-righteous perch. Yes, it's almost a guilty pleasure. But, okay, I'll go ahead and enjoy it. And you have my permission to enjoy it, too.
The latest irony ensnaring the radical left and exposing its full-of-hot-air policies and pronouncements involves "climate change" — not environmental, but political. While the one appears phony, the other appears real — very real. And quite possibly catastrophic to the liberal agenda.
As far as the earth's temperature is concerned, the global-warming climate change hysteria is, with almost daily revelations, proving to be the fraud so many of us suspected. A hoax. A ploy. A radical left, power- and money-grab assault on individual freedoms and limited governance. But the political climate change in this country, that's another story and not a fictional one. That climate change is genuine; it's authentic and demonstrable. The climate of principled, common-sense conservatism is indeed re-establishing its place in American political thought and action.
When we speak of "climate," we're referring to prevailing conditions, not temporary or fleeting ones. We know that the left's alarmist arguments supporting man-caused planetary climate change are falling apart. The seas of truth are rising, lifting the fallacies and falsehoods of their global warming doctrine into the light for all to see. So, too, is the glacial ice of liberal arrogance and elitist assumption melting, exposing the rotting skeletal remains of their century-old progressive arguments upon which the new forces of liberty will boldly march forward.
Ironic, isn't it, that the same "tolerant" crowd who intolerantly belittle skeptics of man-made global warming also hatefully demean those of us who claim that Constitution-aligned conservatism is re-emerging. Well, the "science" of global warming is indeed not "settled." And the pundit-promoted "facts" of the Obama-led embrace of a permanent strain of liberalism/socialism are far from "established."
Seems that environmental science and political science, at least as espoused and foist upon us by the devout apostles of the left, are both flawed. They both rely on either misinterpretation of data (temperature cycles and election results) or outright manipulation, if not conscious fraud.
Much to the liberals' dismay, they will soon discover that Tea Party anger and agitation are not the short-lived winds of a passing storm. Grassroots frustration and determination are much more than a brief, tornadic burst. The outrage expressed even by many Independents and old-line Democrats is evidence of a political sea-change.
Despite the true believers' best efforts to cloud and cover up, evidence is emerging that the earth is not warming; in fact, it may be doing just the opposite — it may well be cooling. The same overheated gang of Obama worshippers has failed to prove that liberalism has buried conservatism, or that socialism is the new driving force and defining paradigm in American politics. Core conservatives and clear-eyed defenders of the Constitution are again showing their might on the right, coalescing into a hotly conservative coalition that is, truly, changing America's political climate.
It wasn't that long ago that Al Gore and his minions of the New Environmental Order were declaring intellectual and moral victory. It wasn't that long ago that the Republican Party was, according to gleeful leftists, pronounced dead and all but buried. In only a few short months, we have come to recognize the craven power-hungry, money-grubbing nature of the global warming hucksters. In only a few short months, we have re-awakened and renewed our belief that the media-fueled momentum of the ultra-liberals — who, for generations, have moved relentlessly to radically restructure America — is a failing and hopefully soon-to-fade political condition.
Climate change? Yes. The kind that presents a providential revelation. How the lies, half-truths and false-prophet edicts that the audacious extremists on the left would have us believe about both the planet and our politics are ironic at best, despicable at worst.
And as I said earlier, I love irony. It's the shameless and selfish duplicity that I despise.
© Norvell Rose
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