global warming a real estate scam?

Marla reports that her 13-year-old daughter came home from school after watching a compulsory viewing of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and announced that their entire suburb was at risk of being submerged.

"We only bought this house three years ago and the area is most definitely not flood prone," says Marla, "and I am angry that schools are now pushing the global warming scam and scaring our kids without a balanced discussion of the opposing point of view."

"It's not just scaring our kids that I'm worried about," adds Marla. "What about real estate values?"

"If this global warming propaganda is taken seriously, it can be used by the real estate industry to wipe out the value of all coastal properties," says Marla, "and I wouldn't be surprised if the real estate industry is in cahoots with the other money grubbing industries that stand to make millions
from these lies."

"So far, the ghastly green movement has only affected us in a minimal way -- recycling rubbish, going without plastic bags and using special light globes, that sort of thing," says Marla, "but having won on these little steps to manipulate our behavior the greenies are now determined to send us all back to the Dark Ages."

"And when they've done that," laughs Marla, "they will indeed inherit the Earth and all of our lovely coastal properties with it!"

"I remember being indoctrinated with anti-smoking propaganda back when I was at school and -- shame of me -- ticking off my grandparents for smoking," sighs Marla, "and look at how powerfully that propaganda worked on my generation."

"Now there is an gigantic anti-smoking industry employing thousands of people promoting bans on smoking, pharmaceutical industries are rolling in money from selling anti-smoking aids and the die-hards who refuse to quit smoking are being taxed to death by our non-smoking governments!"

"Imagine the similar powerful effect that climate warming propaganda may have on the current generation," warns Marla. "If nobody stops this nonsense we are dooming our kids to give up aspirations to own a home and instead to live in caves and have a minimum impact on the environment."

"Already, the green movement is becoming an industry using deluded converts to promote bans on vehicle emissions and measures to cut down our use of water and electricity," says Marla, "and plenty of entrepreneurs are making money out of selling deluded homeowners all sorts of eco-friendly gadgets at exorbitant prices."

"When the next generation has given up home-ownership in favor of living in caves, how much do you think those caves are going to cost them?" asks Marla. "Millions, that's what, and for every one of their carbon footprints they are going to be taxed to death by our carbon-friendly governments."

"Like current smokers, the only people who will be able to afford to live in houses are going to be the very rich -- those who can afford the exorbitant taxes," says Marla. "And that's why, in my opinion, housing affordability is already getting out of hand. It's deliberate policy to force us into eco-friendly trailers and caves."

"My parents were anti-smokers -- probably because their parents smoked -- and as such they didn't balance the propaganda I was learning in school with some 'inconvenient' truths about the dodgy facts being used to demonize smoking," says Marla, "and it's our job, as parents and homeowners, to stop the current global warming propaganda before it, too, gets out of hand."

"In that the anti-smoking propaganda didn't lead me -- as it did others -- to worse drugs, it was definitely good for me," says Marla, "but is the current global warming propaganda going to be as good for all of our kids?"

"If they are being taught that their actions are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and setting off global climate catastrophes that will submerge whole suburbs if not whole nations and kill millions of people," says Marla, "then isn't this going to make them feel guilty about simply going about their daily lives, using electricity, driving, building a home and starting a family?"

"Won't some kids just give up, decide it's not worth living?"

"I don't see Al Gore and the other global warming enthusiasts living exemplary green lives," laughs Marla, "and if they think they can indoctrinate my daughter into becoming a unwashed cave dweller in order to support them in luxury then they have another think coming."

"I'm not scared of my house being submerged by global warming," says Marla, "but I am scared that at some future time when I may wish to sell that its coastal position may be used as a disadvantage in order to lower its value."

selling trees like papal indulgences

Kirri has worked out that the creation of guilt and fear in the masses for things they are addicted to or need for comfortable living underpins the political and religious basis of western civilization and, rather than becoming a fire and brimstone preacher or a politician, she judged that easier money could be made by taking advantage of the new fad of environmentalism preached at both religious and political pulpits. She set herself up as a carbon footprint expert selling trees like papal indulgences.

"Governments and religions are nothing more than protection rackets -- justifying their existence by whipping up fear and guilt," says Kirri, "and while I can opt out of tithing away my income I cannot opt out of paying tax. So, when I was looking around for a self-employment opportunity I thought it would be a good idea to capitalize on what they were preaching. Global warming!"

"Were I living in the 1930s when the new fad was prohibition, I would have found some way to make a living out of that -- as many people did, not always legally -- and it's the same throughout history," says Kirri. "Watch what the government and the church is doing -- who and what they're for and against at any point in time -- and jump on the bandwagon!"

"Look at the tremendous self-employment opportunities that came about after the invasion of Iraq," says Kirri. "A woman can't easily enter the security or reconstruction field, so I had to wait until environmental issues came into focus before making my move."

"My work is very similar to preaching," admits Kirri. "Instead of calling upon the wrath of God I call upon the wrath of Nature -- probably one and the same entity -- and people are happy to pay me for my services."

"People want to do the right thing and be accepted as good environmental citizens -- yet we all have our little weaknesses," laughs Kirri. "If I can make a family with five gas-guzzling vehicles feel good by advising them to plant so many trees then what harm have I done?"

"Before the Reformation, the whole Catholic church operated on selling indulgences to offset sins and that's exactly what I am doing," says Kirri. "Offsetting environmental sins by selling trees won't stop people sinning any more than the papal indulgences did, but at least I can run a nice little business from the exercise."

"My business plan is very simple," says Kirri. "I increase guilt and fear in people already spooked by the demise of Planet Earth and offer my services to help them reduce their carbon footprint."

"Mostly, I urge my clients to plant trees to offset their environmental sins -- yes, just like the old papal indulgences -- and I have a good financial deal with a plant nursery that gives me a great commission on the trees I recommend."

"I advertise in the local newspapers -- but already I am getting most of my clients by word of mouth," says Kirri. "And, although I admit to being an opportunist, I am sincere about making the world a healthier place to live in -- and pass on to our children -- and my clients do appreciate getting the right advice about environmentally correct living."

"No, I am not a qualified scientist -- I come from a sales background," admits Kirri. "What I do does not require me to be Einstein and besides which since when have qualifications been required by politicians and preachers?"

"Does George Bush need military qualifications to start a war and call himself a commander?"

"I do extensive research on products and advise clients how to cut down on their carbon emissions," says Kirri. "My work also involves being something like a professional de-clutterer. Most of the stuff in people's homes is useless rubbish, wasting space and resources, and another one of my sidelines is gaining commission from second-hand dealers that I recommend to pick up this junk for recycling."

"Do I practise what I preach?"

"Well, I own my own vehicle so I don't come down hard on clients who have more vehicles than they need," laughs Kirri. "That would be like a alcoholic priest denouncing the demon drink wouldn't it?"

"I also tend to fly rather than use trains or buses for long distances and I know that's naughty," laughs Kirri, "but I salve my sins by having lot of pot plants around my apartment."

"I also do little things like turn off lights when I'm not using a room and switch off at the main plug rather than use standby," says Kirri. "Every little bit helps -- which is what I keep on telling my clients."

"If every politician and preacher were required by law to practise what they preached nobody would enter those professions," laughs Kirri. "It's always been a case of do what I tell you to do, not do what I do."

"I'm planning on extending my commission income by connecting with solar energy providers, double glaziers and tradesmen generally who are environmentally conscious," confides Kirri. "Right now, people just want to know how much energy they are using and how they can cut it, but eventually I hope to be able to scare enough people into totally changing their houses to become 100% carbon efficient."

"Am I ethical?"

"Just as ethical as anybody out to make a buck for themselves and be their own boss," says Kirri. "But I do believe in the moral correctness of what I am doing. The world is becoming a polluted and nasty place and with global warming we are at risk of terrible flooding and all sorts of disasters."

"I believe people need to hear about these terrible things and be made to feel guilty and scared because their actions are contributing towards ultimate disaster."

"No, I am most certainly not in favor of banning all environmentally hazardous products and actions -- and neither is the government," says Kirri. "Without these sins I wouldn't have a business, would I? And without sins in general, no politician or preacher would have a job either."

"The creation of guilt and fear in the masses for things they are addicted to or need for comfortable living underpins the political and religious basis of western civilization," explains Kirri. "Simple societies are considered simple because their entire lives are spent sustaining themselves on a daily basis -- hunting, fishing and growing edibles -- and with this sort of lifestyle they don't produce people who want to make an easy living out of making people feel guilty about what they do naturally."

"As a product of western civilization, I can only exist by exploiting others," explains Kirri. "I didn't devise the system, I don't particularly like it, but being part of it I have to do what I have to do in order to make a living. After all, politicians make an easy living out of scaring me into paying tax to keep the wolf from my door -- I know there's no wolf, and so do they -- and that's why it's a protection racket."

"The new religion of environmentalism may not last long so I have to keep on eye on what's coming next," adds Kirri. "Already guilt and fear have been stirred up for just about everything people are addicted to or need for comfortable living, so in order to keep the fear and guilt alive and the money coming in they're going to have to start recycling fads or become draconian."

Kirri's story first appeared as capitalize on global warming!

ideologically driven education

Myra remembers angrily how her education was blighted by compulsory religious instruction spewing out anti-communist propaganda and that of her daughter's with compulsory hygiene instruction spewing out anti-smoking propaganda. Now, she is hopping mad that her grand-children's education is not only going to be blighted by similar political agendas -- this time global warming -- but also by a complete curriculum change.

"Was education ever intended to educate children -- to stretch their minds and inspire them?" asks Myra. "Or was it always intended to be ideologically driven by whatever political agenda was in vogue?"

"I've heard that a complete curriculum change is being proposed -- to replace subjects such as geography and mathematics with more politically relevant subjects such as global warming and financial planning."

"Hello? Since when has global warming been established as an undisputed fact?" asks Myra. "And, although I like the idea of slanting subjects towards a practical application I am not happy about my grandchildren being force fed propaganda and being denied a rigorous academic grounding in time-honored subjects."

"Who are the gnomes responsible for proposing these changes?" asks Myra. "And how dare they dumb down our children more than they have been dumbed down already."

"Grammar started going out of fashion when I was at school -- along with classical Latin and Greek," sighs Myra. "My mother still corrects me for my grammatical errors and wonders how an ignoramus such as I ever gained a university education!"

"Likewise, spelling and the times-tables went out of fashion when my daughter was at school," sighs Myra."Nevertheless, she gained a higher degree than I did and not wanting to be like my mother I never dared correct her or take away her calculator."

"I truly believe that academic standards are dropping with each generation," says Myra. "I would never have passed an entrance examination of my mother's era, and similarly my daughter would never have passed one of my era."

"And, I believe that for every political agenda pushed into schools, some vital academic knowledge is being pushed out."

"Is it the aim of our educational gurus to churn out a bunch of politically correct idiots or what?

"I remember being scared out of my wits by Reds under the beds and the wrath of God when I was at school," says Myra. "And my teachers achieved this politically inspired instruction by dropping grammar, Latin and Greek."

"Similarly, my daughter was scared out of her wits by the evils of smoking and did so at the expense of a thorough grounding in spelling and mental arithmetic."

"So, what are our political masters going to drop from the curriculum in order to indoctrinate the next generation into being good little green environmentalists?"

"Oh, I know, it's going to be history, isn't it?"

"We're going to exchange history for current affairs so that the next generation never gets a chance to learn from the mistakes of previous generations, right?"

"Of course, past events significant to the political agenda being pushed will be mentioned," says Myra, "but all of the blood and guts, the heroes and the villains that we learned about will be dropped, and children will never be able to form their own opinions about anything."

"When teachers push political opinion rather than education and become more concerned about political correctness than academic excellence, we are doomed," says Myra. "Children will be indoctrinated, not educated."

"Okay, I survived my indoctrination -- there never were any Reds under the beds and God was never watching me with an eagle eye -- and my daughter survived hers to become a smoker of all things," laughs Myra, "but did we really need to learn this rubbish and do so at the expense of academic learning?"

"In years to come, global warming like everything else will have lost credibility," says Myra, "and I shudder to think of a world populated by grammatical dunces, bad spellers and people without any grounding whatsoever in mental arithmetic, geography, history, Latin or Greek."

"To be totally cynical," says Myra, "it's as if our political masters want to take us back the Dark Ages of illiterate masses and despotic rulers."

going global on climate change

After spending an entire century or more feeding, educating and Christianizing the Third World, it strikes Jinny as very odd that the globalists now want to impose severe restraints on these emerging economies -- could it be that the West is using global warming scaremongering to keep its economic advantage?

"Just think about it," says Jinny. "The West became rich after a filthy dirty industrial revolution and it was hundreds of years later -- in the 1960s -- that pollution became such a problem that measures were finally taken to stem it."

"The Third World cannot possibly catch up with the West without experiencing a similar industrial revolution," says Jinny, "and there is something immoral about imposing on emerging economies the same pollution measures that the West now uses and scaring these people into submission with dire climate change predictions."

"How dare the globalists beat up on China's economic miracle and expect Africa to forgo the use of electricity,"says Jinny. "The more I think about it the more I believe that global warming is nothing more than a political agenda pushed by the same people pushing globalization for the same reason -- economic advantage".

"I know there are a lot of conspiracy theories about global warming and some may be crazy," says Jinny, "but there's a little bit of truth in all of them."

"When one race imposes its will on another, especially when the imposing race once considered itself as having a 'white man's burden' to look after the other," explains Jinny, "I see shades of eugenics and Neo-Nazi race science emerging."

"When think tanks come up with studies showing that if couples had two kids instead of three, they could reduce their carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights pa between, say, London and New York," says Jinny, "you get to understand that the globalists are not just talking about global warming, but population control."

"Actually, believe it or not, the concept of 'global warming' was invented by Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in support of nuclear power after a fight with both coal suppliers and coal unions," laughs Jinny. "She poured money into the venture and gained the support of most of the scientific establishment."

"I think the only point on which the pro and anti global warming protagonists agree is the fact that a Medieval Warm Period occurred and was definitely warmer than today,"laughs Jinny. "That, to me, is enough evidence that man-made global warming is bunkum, and it's downright criminal that the globalists continue to push their propaganda not just on us, but on the rest of the world, too."

"Sure, man is responsible for adding to naturally occurring CO2, but in total this makes up just a tiny fraction of a percent of the Earth's atmosphere," says Jinny, "and rather than pointing their fingers at the Third World the globalists should be cleaning up their own act. How many of them, for instance, practise what they preach? How would they like to live for a year, let alone a lifetime, without electricity and vehicles and the other polluting necessities of modern life?"

"And, another oddity in this equation is the Live Earth concerts," says Jinny. "Following on from so many concerts aimed at feeding the Third World masses -- allowing more and more so-called superfluous people to live and breed and make ever more carbon footprints -- now the globalists are using music to push the green message onto them!"

"Tell me, why would the masses in the Third World be interested in taking a pledge to cut global warming pollution and return to stone-age living so that Al Gore and his fellow-globalists in the West can continue to live like carbon hogging kings?"

"How dare the globalists blame the emerging Third Word economies for spoiling the planet," says Jinny, "and how dare they make up lies about man-made climate catastrophes and how dare our governments give these people millions of our taxpayer funds to spread such drivel."

"Man-made pollution is a real problem and needs to be addressed, but climate change is a natural event and has nothing to do with us," says Jinny. "If the globalists think that their climate change scaremongering will stop the emerging economies from steaming ahead and overtaking the West, then they need a reality check."

"When you go global, you either uplift others to your level or downgrade yourself to theirs," adds Jinny, "and I'd prefer the former, wouldn't you?"

smoking scientists discredited

It sounded like a good debate to watch -- Gore's Inconvenient Truth v. Durkin's Global Warming Swindle -- but Lottie was gobsmacked when one of the debating panellists attempted to destroy the life work of an eminent scientist by saying, shock horror, that the man was a smoker and had published a paper debunking second hand smoke.

"Imagine the furore if he had said, instead, that the scientist was a Muslim and had published papers, say,debunking the medical benefits of alcohol," says Lottie. "Since when have scientists been forbidden to be smokers, Muslims or anything they want to be -- and publish papers accordingly?"

"I fully expected the panellists to shred to pieces each other's pro and anti global warming theories," says Lottie, "but I didn't expect a debate between so-called science intellectuals to sink into a personal attack and especially so when the man whose personal habits were being attacked wasn't there to defend himself."

"To their credit, or perhaps not, the other panellists ignored this personal attack and kept strictly to the global warming debate," says Lottie, "and it did not surprise me one bit when I checked this guy out later and discovered he was employed by the government, being paid from taxpayer funds."

"His remark came in the context of a personal interview he once had with the eminent scientist -- oops, the filthy, dirty, nicotine stained, cancer riddled, moronic smoker -- and this guy actually counted the number of cigarettes the scientist had smoked in his presence."

"Hopefully, the scientist had politely asked his guest whether he minded if he smoked -- and naturally the guy would have said, okay, because he was, after all, a guest in the private space of a smoker -- and in this convivial environment the scientist relaxed, talked and smoked. Not twenty cigarettes, not ten but three lousy cigarettes."

"OMG, for the poor guy to have actually counted the cigarettes smoked he must have been incredibly uncomfortable and fearful of dropping dead on the spot from second hand smoke," laughs Lottie. "If so, why didn't he object straight off on the smoking issue or suggest that they go outside?"

"No, he sat there, pretending to be friendly and interested in what the scientist had to say but all he wanted was a reason to discredit the man," sighs Lottie. "What a jerk!"

"Had the scientist slugged three whiskeys, or ate three chocolate eclairs or scratched his backside three times would that have discredited him, too?" asks Lottie. "Probably. That guy was hell bent on finding something not quite kosher about the scientist in order to discredit his anti-global warming stance, and a smoking habit and support for the rights of smokers was it."

"The global warming debate was, of course, inconclusive -- neither side was able to convince the other, or the audience -- but I did pick up some facts about scientific research funding that made me understand not only how global warming came to be such a big issue but also how cigarette smoking got such a bad rap."

"Apparently, because the clique of global gnomes who rule the world behind the scenes have two pet hates -- smokers and rising third world polluters, China being a threat on both counts -- the word went out to the puppet western governments to stamp them out."

"Second hand smoke and global warming were quickly invented for this purpose," says Lottie,"and a mass of funding became available to any researcher willing to give credibility to these invented hazards."

"That's why there is now an avalanche of literature in medical and scientific journals about the hazards of smoking -- and very little about any of the terrible diseases that continue to plague us," sighs Lottie. "Our governments deliberately reduced the funding available for the diseases that the researchers wanted to study, and the only way the medicos and scientists could get around this was by linking whatever they wanted to research with smoking."

"Do a search of PubMed and the number of articles linking the most esoteric diseases to smoking is a joke," says Lottie. "I don't blame the researchers -- because it's clear from their articles what their real passion is -- but it is nevertheless an abominable way for our governments to manipulate researchers."

"Similarly, there is now an avalanche of literature in all types of journals about the hazards of global warming," says Lottie, "and if more scientists appear to support Al Gore it is only because they are the ones getting the big funds to do so."

"The politicizing of science -- like the politicizing of other so-called independent bodies -- is an abomination similar to the crazy religious climate in which Galileo worked and suffered," says Lottie. "An avalanche of government funded research does NOT represent conclusive evidence of anything other than politcal interference."

"While I remain undecided about climate change, I nevertheless applaud the maverick scientists who went out on a limb -- some with threats on their lives believe it or not -- in order to present publicly an opposing theory," says Lottie. "I applaud them not because I smoke -- or because some of them, apparently, have also presented an opposing theory to the hazards of second hand smoke -- but because science would not be science without dissent and scepticism."

"If today's 'politically correct' science community is encouraged to discredit the work of a fellow scientist on the basis of a personal smoking habit," says Lottie, "then what is it going to do about the work, for instance, of Albert Einstein, and how is it going to attract brilliant young minds with attitude?"

"Undoubtedly, after the debate the panellists retired to a lounge where, awash with alcohol and whatever other drug was being used, a convivial atmosphere prevailed," sighs Lottie. "I hope they didn't relax too much because who knows who was COUNTING and storing this information for a future discrediting."