Politics and science do not belong in the same sentence. And, for the same reason, politicians, like Al Gore should not champion causes with unproven scientific data. When a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, it had revealed that over of a 1000 confirmed to be accurate e-mails illustrated that Global Warming was indeed a hoax (at least the research). Where we do not condone the method for retrieving this data (although it was requested legally and ultimately denied access to by the UK’s version of the Freedom of Information Act), these e-mails were validated by the same University of which they were stolen.
These e-mails have created a snowball effect that is unparalleled in human history. What this has really done is set science back. Science and mathematics are supposed to be empirical and trusted, and we learned in one day that we have been duped by a tight circle of scientists cooking the books on scientific facts related to Earth’s heating and cooling trends. This “revised data” was passed off as factual to other corrupt scientists, educators, politicians, and a certain select companies, i.e. General Electric with a profit driven agenda. We have been told for 15+ years that Global Warming is real. Think of the wasted money we could have allocated to other causes such as cancer research. Governments around the world have created policies combating Global Warming. There are National Holidays honoring our planet. Private companies were mandated to alter their production plans or face fines. There are textbooks from elementary school through college that has described its “causes” in great detail. President Obama has a “Green job agenda” called “Cap and Trade” that will demolish our economy via higher taxes because of the threat of “Global Warming.” There is even an upcoming International Treaty in Copenhagen that, if signed, will handcuff the production economies of the planet in an attempt to fight rising global temperatures related to Global Warming.
These corrupt scientists, educators, politicians, and certain companies with a profit driven agenda should be prosecuted for fraud on the grandest scale. These people belong in jail….not rewarded….and definitely not respected. Basically, we have to start over. We cannot trust any collected and reported data because nearly all of the findings so far have been derived from this corrupted control group. Even if these people had a benign agenda, their reported data is baseless without facts. Was Gore, for the last 15 years, acting in the best interest of the planet? Or, was he just in it to line his pocketbook because he has made over $100 million off his followers?
Followers of the environmental movement should be spitting nails for wasting their time. There is no dispute there is pollution in the world and we should make an effort to minimize it and leave the world a better place than the way we inherited it. It only takes common sense to figure this out. For instance, if you stick your head over an open camp fire and breathe in, the hot air and ash makes you gasp and cough. The same is true (minus the heat) if you live downwind of a coal plant with limited filtration that is releasing large amounts of coal dust. The people in nearby towns have a more difficulty time breathing than those that live in remote areas with little to no polluters, so we should strive for cleaner air, water, and soil for everyone's (and Nature's) greater good and health.
We can all agree to make the Earth cleaner. And cleaner means safer and healthier, but the method of imposing fines, rather than tax incentives, to make the industrial facility “greener” is foolish. What makes more sense, offering a company a tax incentive that benefits all parties (financially and health-wise) or a punishment through fines and/or potential jail time? All the latter does is put companies out of business, creating more unemployment, forcing companies to delay greener goodwill methods by filing one lawyer injunction after another to combat a bigger more intrusive Government. In the end, you have more pollution…not less, and, it is the community that ultimately gets hurt.
But thanks to corrupt and greedy scientists, politicians, educators, and certain companies, the Green agenda has received a black eye. We can measure pollution via common sense, collected air/water/soil samples, and related medical ailments, but the real data just isn’t there to evaluate true Climate Change or Global Warming.
Our advice is that is better to respect Nature by applying the Golden Rule to where you live, work, and play. By doing this, both nature and humanity will prosper and interact more harmoniously without needing to adjust scientific data to sell an agenda.
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