Just 36 hours after an informal non-scientific poll by Fox News showed 59% of Americans believe that global warming science has been “rigged,” the highly trusted Rasmussen Reports conducted a wide-ranging survey of American attitudes surrounding the issue. Their report showed that most Americans believe the science is clearly NOT settled on global warming despite what the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Al Gore and the infamous Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in England say on the matter.

                According to the recent opinion poll conducted by Rasmussen, 52% of Americans believe that there is still significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming’s validity. Only 25% of Americans think most scientists agree on the topic; while 23% say they are unsure whether scientific agreement exists. Like the informal Fox News poll, Rasmussen says 59% of Americans believe it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research to supporth their own theories on global warming; 35% say the falsification is very likely; and just 26% say it’s not very or not at all likely that some falsification of data occurred. 

The big surprise, however, in the Rasmussen poll is that the recent Climate Gate disclosures of a whistle-blower leaking CRU e-mails and documents has played very little role in the doubts of Americans about global warming. Only 20% of Americans say they’ve followed the CRU news very closely and 29% say they’ve followed it somewhat closely.  Part of the reason may be that the mainstream media has not covered the story and only Fox News has devoted much time to it. Indeed, according to Rasmussen officials many more Americans have followed the White House party crashers seriously than the Climate Gate revelations. According to Rasmussen, the fact that the United Nations has played such a prominent role in promoting the global warming issue may explain the doubts most Americans harbor. 

Only 22% of Americans regard the UN as a reliable source on global warming; while a full 49% say the UN is NOT reliable on the topic; and 29% say they’re unsure about the UN’s reliability.   Obama is presently headed to the UN Summit on Global Warming in Copenhagen, Denmark after recently committing the USA to a 17% emissions cut by 2020 if Congress will agree to it. Critics say the cut will devastate the American economy. Even while Obama and congressional Democrats are pushing major anti-global warming initiatives like “Cap and Trade” legislation and creation of green tech jobs, 71% of Americans doubt that green jobs can be created without seriously harming the mainstream American economy. Virtually the same 71% of Americans believe that stimulating the economy and the technology we already (such as oil drilling) have now should be the primary concern for elected officials since only 14% of those polled said the firms they’re working for are now hiring. 

A lesser surprise occurred here also as Republicans are much more serious about job creation even though they are still much more likely than Independents or Democrats to be employed. 44% of Americans see a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection and 47% say global warming is caused by long-term planetary trends, not human activity.   By a ratio greater than 2/1 most Americans say the legislation (Cap and Trade) now in the Senate will hurt the economy. Most voters think the news media make global warming appear worse than it is. Despite Al Gore sharing a Nobel Prize because of his stance on global warming with the UN IPCC, only 31% of Americans believe Al Gore is an expert on the topic and only 29% rank the UN as “an ally of the United States”; while 15% consider the UN our enemy; and 47% see the UN as somewhere in between.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

Boxer who was a big fan of the NY Times spilling the beans with the Pentagon Papers is calling the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit whistle blowers “vile criminals interfering with important scientific work” and demanding their discovery and arrest.   A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man, according to ancient parables, and Barak Obama is playing the “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” game for all he’s worth all the while encouraging Boxer and Holdren to muddy the waters so that others might not see the corruption involved. The question is “Why?” 

Does the President of the United States have so much staked on the global warming myth that its continuance is demanded long enough to pass “Cap and Trade” legislation and then to pass his threatened creation of five million^^ green-tech jobs? “What exactly is going on here?” “Why?”

Boxer whose screeches proclaim loudly that “the people have a right to know” is the same Senator Boxer who  defends ACORN, Van Jones, and the motley CRU defrauders  from exposure . . . does Barbara Boxer believe the people have a right to know ONLY what’s good for her left-wing interests? 

"This is a crime. You call it 'Climate-gate.' I call it 'e-mail-theft-gate,'" Boxer said on Wednesday, suggesting if she were to hold a hearing on the matter as the ranking Republican has requested, it would include a criminal probe of the whistle-blowers who showed the world that our global warming emperors are running naked while the world actually cools . . . "Part of our looking at this will be looking at criminal activity, which could have been well coordinated," Boxer added with a sneer. The Cap and Trade legislation she’s pushing will cost $220 Billion each and ever year till the second coming and devastate the American economy, a fact Rajjpuut finds utterly criminal.

For his part: John Holdren, ever the infamous population-control alarmist and would-be bizarro proponent of any and all travesties in the name of radical reduction in the earth’s human population, testified passionately before the House Select Committee on Energy and Global Warming that human activity “beyond any reasonable doubt” is the cause of the global warming (which isn’t happening) . . . . Holdren says the matter does NOT require any more looking into, it’s all solid science.  It does seem, however, that Penn State climatologist Michael E. Mann’s fraudulent “hockey stick” analogy created from massaged and otherwise dubious data is what a real scientist would suggest needs further consideration.

The sloppily coordinated criminal and unethical activities of CRU researchers and the English and American Left’s use of the scare-tactic of global warming to ensure power and lucre keep heading leftward always       . . .  that's what surely amounts to coordinated Trans-Atlantic fraud. The victims, Americans and others subjected to laws created by manipulated, fudged and massaged data (while contrary voices and information was silenced), must be kept ignorant at all cost about . . . laws that kill world economies by diverting Trillions of dollars toward perpetuation of left-wing political control and left-wing pseudo industries’ profitability.   CRU’s efforts to “hide the recent declines” in global temperatures all played to the end of people favoring big government and left-wing programs. 

Holdren and Al Gore have several e-mails included in the CRU scandal mix. Holdren attacks the editor of a scientific magazine for suggesting that de-emphasizing the Medieval Warming Period figures would not pass the “burden of proof in a criminal case.” Holdren’s response was basically, "I’m the expert here, and what I say is what matters."

In answer to the “Why?” posed above . . . the left wants to move toward greater centralization of power into the United Nation; they are seeking to use climate-data and global warming fears to control the Third World by preventing such activities as slash and burn farming; new developments, oil drilling, etc. etc. Does this sound like a conspiracy? Perhaps it is. East Anglia was infamous for its “Piltdown Man” hoax that wasn’t uncovered for almost 40 years. Piltdown Man was a harmless intellectual prank compared to what’s at stake here and now. The Left likes to play fast and loose with “facts” that bolster their agenda while willfully decrying those who bring up real truth that threatens it. The stakes can be enormous . . . take DDT . . . .

The left became inflamed about the environment and passed laws in the ‘70’s outlawing DDT. Today two million people die every year in the Third World from malaria and five or six other tropical mosquito-borne illnesses. And the truth: DDT has NEVER been scientifically implicated in a single one of the problems that Rachel Carson’s poorly-researched and poorly-documented book claims. You can drink DDT. You can use it for salad oil. It has never been implicated in causing cancer. It has never been proven to change the DNA or other body features of any animal larger than an insect. It single-handedly saved the day during the Italian Invasion of World War II when disease threatened to wipe out the Allied Armies, the soldiers there poured it all over their bodies to kill typhus-spreading lice and no problems were ever revealed.

The two million yearly deaths from DDT’s lack in the Third World don’t tell one thirtieth the story of the misery among those who don’t die but live on . . . if the Left actually wanted to control population, rather than just saving the environment, they could have done nothing more effective than banning DDT (today a few African nations are returning to DDT and ignoring the UN ban, many more will likely do so in the future). 

If we really cared about the Third World we would keep our dollar-soaked, bloody mitts out of their business and let these people settle their own destinies their own ways whether that means peacefully or through revolution, let them be masters of their own fate and keep UN pressures through such travesties as anti-DDT laws and pro-global warming laws out of Africa and the rest of the Third World. Just so you can keep track of the bad guys intelligently, here’s one lady’s take on the top five most Unwanted:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Who_s-who-on-climate-frad-8625428-78462462.html

                Rajjpuut is glad to hear that the merry road ahead of Al Gore’s** trip toward becoming the first Global Warming Billionaire has been blown up. Remember this, his and their agenda has only vaguely been about the environment but always it’s been about money, power and control over the ordinary man.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

The Straight Skinny About Liberal Dreams

of Tree-Hugging

                Good stewardship of the earth, as in conservation of resources and threatened environments and animal and plant life; prevention of toxic effects and substances despoiling the planet; some sort of wise and attractive balance between mankind and the natural world; and n0n-polluting power sources are what liberals call “no-brainers.” Unfortunately, not using your brain to go beyond these obvious desiderata and the practical implications for individual people and their governments is the reason that so many liberals seemingly act like they don’t have a pea-brain in their heads. 

                The amazing ability of green enthusiasts to demand draconian measures (including ultra-extreme population control methods) which show less than small regard for their fellow man while championing the survival of menaced mice, mosquitoes and mildew is shocking in its obvious misanthropy. In a perfect world: everybody would be green conscious philanthropists who think of fellow humans first.

                The green contingent’s miniscule regard for homo sapiens is easiest seen in the abhorrent and extreme population control methods advocated by Obama’s Science and Technology Czar John Holdren in a 1973 book he co-authored with the notorious Ehrlichs (Paul and Anne) in their “Human Ecology.” The book, said to have played a role in the passing of Roe vs. Wade later in the year, championed forced abortions, mass sterilization (via secret chemical additions via the water supply), mandatory body non-fertility implants and also paid more than lip service to eugenics. 

                The Ehrlichs and Holdren wrote: “a fetus is no more a complete human being than a blueprint is a building. The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being . . . a fetus” is not considered a “person” under the U.S. Constitution until it is born” thus the rationale behind forced abortions etc. on “potential human beings.” Since the born child years after birth will ultimately develop into a human being, infanticide sounds reasonable, too, no?

However, Holdren, an enthusiastic worshipper of notorious eugenicist Harrison Brown is not alone among the “liberal elite” (is that an oxymoron or what?) in believing that only certain types of special people should be allowed to live . . . recently Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a rather shocking interview with the New York Times said, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

There’s good reason to think that Einstein, who didn’t speak until age five, might well have been labeled as “a population” that Ginsburg “doesn’t want to have too many of . . .” Of course, 20/20 hindsight clairvoyance would help Rajjpuut decide his first candidates for abortion would be Ginsburg, Holdren, the Ehrlichs and Harrison Brown as well as mass murderers, tyrants, child molesters and all supporters of government spending and government interference boondoggles (GSBs and GIBs).  In fairness to the lady justice, it may well be that she only meant “poor people” we don’t want so many of . . . ???

If you were to make a litmus test to discover idiots from the ultra-right wing, it would probably include belief in absolutely no abortions even in case of rape or incest; creationism taught in all public school science classes and evolution banned; religion taught in public schools; and howitzers for every six-year old capable of hunting small game.  To discover extreme liberals perverts, however, the litmus test listing could be much, much shorter -- let’s shrink the list of beliefs down to just one item: POPULATION CONTROL whether that means ZPG (zero population growth) or NPG (negative population growth). One item? Is Rajjputt crazy? Consider this:

1.        Abortion on demand: plays first violin in their population control symphony.

2.      Global warming/cap and trade/green tech: all these supposed problems and impractical solutions are their bass instruments in the NPG or ZPG movement of our “Unwashed Symphony.”

3.      End of Life Counselors in Obamacare: any potential chance to refuse medicines or services to the elderly for cost control or intercede in the natural decision to live as long as possible is clearly their brass section since Medicare is the problem ($34 TRillion in obligations now and officially bankrupt in 2016) and the last six months of life cost one-half of a person’s lifetime health care expenses . . . the temptation to control costs by “omission of care” to the elderly is surely too great to be avoided.

4.      Curtailing human endeavor for the sake of “endangered species” (such as the delta smelt in California stopping irrigation of the country’s largest and most fertile vegetable growing region and driving unemployment nearby to 41%) is their greenie symphony conductor letting the world know who’s more valuable: mankind or a two-inch fish too stupid to avoid irrigation piping.

5.      Etc., etc. the main message of radical environmentalism is that people are the problem and the planet would be better off without any people, except radical environmentalists, of course, leaving no one to hum along with their symphony.

Rajjpuut finds this approach disingenuous, if nutcase greenies really cared for the planet, surely their own suicides would be the logical and integral acts affirming their love of the natural planet and hate for humankind? Save the planet^^, Greenie, kill yourself now! 

Of course, Mother Nature herself has on two separate occasions pretty well cleaned things up on her own without any help from Wall Street and other “polluters.” The comet 65 million years ago that brought on the demise of the dinosaurs and eventually the rise of mammals and even primates and mankind also wiped out 96% of all life on the planet: plant or animal; and 420 million years earlier over 98% of Earth’s life was extinctED, to coin a term, by widespread super-volcanic activity bringing down upon the planet a total ice age lasting about six million years if Rajjpuut’s memory of pre-pre-history serves correctly. Given that background a little more reverence for the preciousness of human life might surely be in order in Rajjpuut’s not so humble opinion.

 The more vocal the green advocate whether their primary focus is global warming, other ecology, or green tech . . . the more likely they are to be an advocate of ZPG or NPG. In fact many Negative Population Growth fans literally are promulgating desired human population numbers ranging from as low as 180,000 to as high as two million for the entire planet. To put that in perspective, 29 out of every 30 people living on earth would have to die to satisfy the two million figure; and 33, 332 out of every 33, 333 people now living would be sacrificed to the whims of those favoring 180,000. If that seems like some sort of cruel intellectual parlor game to you . . . you’re right . . . that is exactly the sort of Maoist-Hitleresque mentality that it takes to dream up this sort of philosophy of life. One suspects that the earth-firsters would see the necessity of including themselves in the 180,000 valuable survivors, eh?

The main reason that “thinking lefties and greenies and even anarchists” (Rajjpuut knows, yes, that’s an awful lot of oxymorons) are so in favor of forcing green tech down our throats (even at the cost of $675,000 and 2.2 real jobs** for every green temporary green tech job created by government intervention) is their fervent belief that the planet’s only hope, regardless of quiescent human population is to develop a power source that is non-polluting. In that desire and understanding is the only agreement that greenies and Rajjpuut have. Green tech is ultimately desirable. Green tech would be a godsend. However, it’s in the little matter of PRACTICALITY that we differ. To insist upon cap and trade laws now or on financing green tech now is putting the cart before the horse. Right now practical, AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE green technology is a dream only.

A whole lot of people marvel at Da Vinci being beyond his time with drawings of tanks, helicopters, and submarines centuries before those ideas became practical. That’s the way it is with green tech. Let’s say that 40 years from now, 89-90% of the greenies’ fondest wishes come true and a 21^st Century Edison-clone comes along and does for power generation and green tech what Edison did for electricity . . . hurrah! What we must NOT do now is to spend today’s dollars and eliminated today’s jobs on pipe dreams. Now’s definitely NOT the time to spend money on green tech jobs and converting the power grids . . . not 40 years too early, for crying out loud. 

What we can do now is to fund research, and only research, by bona fide scientists/inventors (not global warming enthusiasts friendly to the administration’s viewpoints)who've proven their credentials most practically of all by winning contests open to anyone where anybody with a non-polluting or extremely-lightly polluting non-traditional energy source ideas can demonstrate the efficacy of their ideas. Winners win cash prizes, free patents and government research bucks for, say, ten years. When we find our Edison, then we spend and convert the energy grids, not before.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

** This data comes from a longitudinal study of the Spanish experience with funneling tax money into green-tech and furthermore it showed that only one in ten green-tech jobs was permanent. Many of the green tech jobs of the five million Obama promised/threatened to create will only last three weeks or a month, or perhaps six months. This means that 22 real jobs are sacrificed to create one permanent green tech job, which alas, only pays $10-$16 per hour.