An expensive, and very lucrative taste at that.
On July 5, 1989, Noel Brown, then director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming “entire nations could be wiped off the face of Earth by rising sea levels if the global-warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.” Well, it is now 27 years later and despite the massive increase in CO2, it didn't happen.
In 2007, the chief of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said, “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.” Well it is now five years later, and because none of the IPCC predictions have come even close to the disastrous circumstances predicted what do they do? Just move the goal posts further along.
On Jan. 19, 2009, James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies up until last year, firmly declared that President Obama “has only four years to save the Earth”. Back in 2006, Al Gore told us that we had only “10 years” to solve the global-warming problem. It is now 10 years later and they are still telling what we must do in the next 10-20 years or whatever. But President Obama must have already saved us, yes? We're still here. But they still want billions of our dollars and to take away more of our liberties, choices, options, and opportunities to 'save us' from ourselves.
Come on folks. Isn't it time to get a whole lot less gullible about this stuff and get a little bit smarter?