Climate Alarmist’s Last Card – Global Mass Hysteria

Posted on: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 By: ron_kemp Comments

A May 16th article in the American Thinker has exposed the new last gasp effort on the part of climate change loons. Detailing a recent editorial in the New York Times by James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Daren Jonescu unmasks the real objectives of this desperate movement.

Hansen is calling for a “carbon fee” which we would all pay, collected by the government and then “redistributed” to all Americans on a per-capita basis each month. This “fee” would not be a tax according to Hansen, as government would not keep any of the funds. The Carbon Belch team is not sure why a “fee” an individual is forced by the government to pay would not be considered a tax, but let’s move on. Quoting from the American Thinker article:

“Think, finally, of what Hansen is asking of those who would receive these “distributed” “fees” — i.e., “all Americans.” He is banking everything on the idea that the majority of people would shamelessly accept the premise that private companies with hundreds of thousands of employees supporting millions of family members should directly hand them a portion of their revenues for no reason other than as punishment for producing CO2. If his presumption is correct — it may well be — the battle for liberty has already been lost.

Forget Hansen’s scare tactics — he has officially forsaken semi-rational argument, so there is no reason to pay attention to his claims. Focus instead on his practical proposal. Shout it from the rooftops, in fact. If fear is to be used as a political weapon, then let’s give everyone something really scary to think about.

This famous global warming “theorist” has laid everything on the table: he is proposing the direct confiscation of legally earned wealth for the express purpose of temporarily offsetting the hardships that will result from destroying the industrial economy.

And when the destruction is complete, and the confiscated wealth has dried up? Well, then of course Hansen, Obama, and the rest of the redistributionist planet-savers have a plan for restoring the liberty that had to be suspended temporarily in Gaia’s name — wouldn’t you think?

You can read more of this article in the American Thinker here:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/globally_warmed_over_hatred_unmasked_at_last.html

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