Well, folks it may not have the same rhetorical power of Eisenhowers famous "military industrial complex" warning, but the conservatives have found a new thing to be alarmed by: the increasing power of the "climate change industry"
Huh????? This is in a serious newspaper?
Cal Thomas and Bob Beckelis have a back and forth in USA today. Here is the link
http://www.usatoday.com/...
let me give you a few of my favorite quotes from scientific genious, Cal Thomas:
"Environmentalists are notorious for not letting the facts get in the way of a good, if harrowing, story."
Facts, those pesky facts. Well Cal, our "story" as you might say it is backed by every non-oil industry funded study. The long and the short of it: The planet is getting warmer. Besides that as a "conservative", is not the base word of your very intellectual meaning "conserve? To not waste? It seems that in the spirit of your intellectual identity you would embrace the concept of doing more with less. Oh well. Guess thats not in the current talking points!!!
"When drug companies fund studies on their own experimental medicines, and the findings work to their benefit, they are viewed skeptically because they stand to cash in. When the same thing happens in the climate change industry, we're to accept that their science is as pure as a mountain stream. Why is that?"
Cal, to compare drugs and the drug and health care industry with environmentalists in absurd. What are environmentalists selling? Al Gore books and movies? Hemp shirts? Spare me. The drug industry is an industry that rightly or wrongly, possibly the most profitably industry (other than energy) in the world. If there is a way to get rich off the environment, I'm all for it. I'm sure the republicans would be too!! In fact, lets let EVERYone get rich off environmental causes!!
And my favorite......
"Just a couple weeks ago, the greenies celebrated the 37th Earth Day as though it were a religious holiday. For the secularists, planet-worship has replaced holidays like Christmas and Easter. We can respect the Earth without worshipping it as a deity. Where's the tolerance you display on so many other things, but abandon when it comes to planet-worship?"
Yet another chapter in the mythical "war on christmas" is it?