FELDSTED -- The propaganda principles of the late 1930s still work with a small segment of the population, but as PT Barnum observed, you can only fool some of the people all of the time
Most
of us wish Environment Minister Catherine McKenna would take her climate change
drum and put it where it might smart a bit.
The
unending false propaganda spewed by McKenna and her government is degrading and
insulting. We are capable of independent research to discover climate change
truths.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna |
What
Ms McKenna contends is untrue and unsupported by independent critical analysis.
There
is nothing virtuous about parroting an international organization that adopted
the hypothesis that suspected global warming was caused by the industrial
revolution and set about creating science that would support that hypothesis.
Creating
the science was not difficult.
Sponsoring
governments bought the science through grants to universities to ‘study’ the
hypothesis and report an outcome. To sweeten the bribe, universities were
allowed to skim off a portion of the grants for administrative costs.
The
results predictably supported the hypothesis; not doing so would have ended
further grants and studies. The subterfuge had fallout that has rocked the
scientific community for decades. Authors of the original studies knew that
they had fudged the results. In order to protect themselves and their
reputations, they formed a coalition to defend their work and set upon any
scientist who dared to question their findings. Reputable scientists were
demeaned, defamed, ostracized and driven out of the scientific community to
protect the original group.
It has
been a dark time for science.
Fortunately,
a core of ethical and honest scientists refused to be censured and silenced.
They have been joined by others and the real truth is emerging.
We do
not know what causes climate change and resultant heating or cooling of the earth.
The odds of atmospheric carbon dioxide causing climate change are too small for
serious consideration. There are other major factors none of which have been
seriously studied. The reason is stupidly simple – admitting that there could
be other factors at play did not fit the government agenda.
Virtue
signalling and symbolism cannot replace dealing with the responsibilities this
government was elected to discharge. If we want dancing, we will hire a theatre
company and get a professional performance.
If we
want a government that dictates to us, we can move to any one of two dozen
nations with partial democracies. We don’t need to turn Canada into one of
them.
McKenna
is playing to a reducing crowd of easily-led people. The propaganda principles
of the late 1930s still work with a small segment of the population, but as
P.T. Barnum observed, you can only fool some of the people all of the time.
McKenna
believes that we can all be fooled all the time and refuses to accept the
greater wisdom of the public. It is not the public that requires a sharp change
in attitude and behaviour.
John
Feldsted
Political
Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
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