So how much money was invested by governments during the 1970s to scare-monger the population about Global ‘Cooling’? Good question. During the 1970s about $5 billion [in today’s money] was paid by governments in Europe and North America to various government-dependent institutes, to not only study, but broadcast the impending ice age. Now just 30 years later the same cycle repeats, except that the monies involved have increased by a factor of 20 - and this is only the beginning

Global cooling funding was just a warm up exercise using some chump change to get ready for the big Globaloney warming scam. Back in the Bee Gees era, ice sheets in major cities were supposed to be just as common as Gay Pride parades or Muslims protesting this or that infidel desecration of their wonderful, peaceful, ‘faith’, are in our modern megalopolises. Now 30 years on we go from icicles to the toasted oven effect. While Globaloney scams are inconvenient truths for citizens who bear their costs and psychological effects, they are very convenient forms of government, political and activist, power-mongering.

Nicely greased on public money, what were the ‘Cooling’ institutes unanimous conclusion during the era of bad clothes and big hair? After 10 years of public grants, the establishment of various ‘Environmental Protection Agencies’, and the giving of grants to scientists to scare up some doom and gloom, by 1975 the toiling citizen-slave was being screamed at by governments and their institute-dependents about the coming end of civilization – circa 1980 thanks to a coming ice age. Such blather was taught in high school with little children brow beaten about the deleterious effects of putting out a bag of garbage since humanity’s reckless consumerism was destroying mother earth. Nothing like brainwashing the young to support the cult.

This Global cooling scaremongering had it purposes. It allowed governments to construct regulatory agencies, increase taxation on various goods, and create unaccountable bureaucracies that doled out money to government friendly and activist supporting friends. This created government dependent allies, including scientists, institutes and university research groups who would be out of business if not the for the business of scare-mongering and who could be called upon to rush to the barricades to defend various government-sensitive initiatives. Nothing breeds friends more than the handing out of unaccountable and non-transparent public money grants.

The erection of eco-friendly institutes and funding schemes and the sloshing around of millions only made it a matter of time before Global cooling [or whatever scam was appropriate] would find its way into the media as a ‘truth’. With all that cash scientists and research institutes had to justify the grants and if government was concerned about the impending ice age, then so be it. So they went after the media and the political class with great effect. Nary a politician or media pundit was a Global cooling denier in 1974. Just as today nary a socialist or Marxist deep thinker denies Global warming.

Notice the language from an erstwhile Global cooling believer, Time Magazine June 24, 1974: ‘Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.’

This article goes on to link Global cooling with the annihilation of agriculture; famines; and millions of dead.

Notice the language from an erstwhile Global warming true-believer, Time Magazine, March 26 2006; ‘Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater into the sea but dumping whole glaciers. By one recent measure, several Greenland ice sheets have doubled their rate of slide, and just last week the journal Science published a study suggesting that by the end of the century, the world could be locked in to an eventual rise in sea levels of as much as 20 ft.’

This article goes on to link the destruction of ice sheets with agricultural annihilation, climactic upheaval, famines and millions of dead.

So in a mere 30 years the so-called ‘scientific consensus’ goes from worrying about deepening ice sheets in Greenland, to the home of Eric the Red becoming the new swanky Cote D’azur and Caribbean vacation competitor. That seems intelligent.

What about the hated eco-holocaust denying, SUV toting Americans? In 2007 those neo-fascist-corporatist-oil mongering-blood on his hands-Bush and co. will only give out $7 billion to eco-institutes to study and advocate Global warming along with only $16 billion to fund ‘alternative’ energy sources. How dare they be so stingy!

In the past 10 years in the US, Europe and from the ever-honest and dependable UN, only $100 billion has been given out in grants, funding and government sponsored program money to government friendly institutes and fear mongerers to ring the bell about impending doom and eco-hysteria. Come on boys, surely that is not enough! If you love mother earth, show us the money!

Of course approximately zero cash is given out to scientists who question the nonsense of Globaloney warming. That seems fair to the impartial observer.

With all that money available to be cashiered what do you think the market effect is on institutes and scientists? Gee let me think. Hold on I think I can do this math.

Option 1. I can become a cult believer, have influence over government policy, make a load of cash, get published, have media interviews and have hot chicks recognize me in swanky bars.

Option 2. I can be a real scientist, dispute the unscientific basis behind Global warming, ask for grant money to dispassionately analyze climate cycles, receive no money, be a nobody and get attacked by the media for being a holocaust-eco warming denier and killer of mother Gaia, and eventually get fired for being ‘unorthodox’.

Maybe I will take a pass on Option 2 and go for the gold.

Yet the media is usually full of teen-age angst over Exxon or some other evil ‘corporation’ spending a few nickels to try and get some balanced coverage of climactic cycles. A Marxist group with the Orwellian name ‘Union of Concerned Scientists’ who sided with the Soviets; warned against military strength during the Cold War; and have advocated that the modern world is untenable, were crying about Exxon supposedly giving a paltry $19 million in the past 10 years to public policy institutes that promote climate holocaust ‘denial’.

Sorry but such nickels and dimes don’t stand a chance against big government’s BILLIONS. In any event Exxon gives out annually, tens of millions to the eco-cult Globaloney warming true believers, and along with BP spends hundreds of millions on alternative energy development. This hardly sounds like a capitalist cabal intent on putting a large carbon footprint on the pretty little heads of the eco-cult.

How many stories have you read about the $100 billion funding of the eco-doom and gloom gang? Not many. But chances are that the pathetic $19 million, 10-year Exxon funding story was near the front page of your local newspaper and highlighted on your liberal media news show. For the record the Union of Concerned non-Scientists is one of the top five recipients of U.S. public money to study Global warming [see George C. Marshall Institute 2005 study.]

And therein lies the problem. I could take the Globaloney Warming ‘millions-will die in famines-the modern world is a crock-white civilization is to blame theory’; a little more seriously if the mouthpieces were independent voices of scientific repute, glorying in the scientific method, and impartially observing reality. The implementation of Francis Bacon’s ideals would impress me more than the hysterics of an old 1970s government-style and funded scam. But apparently humans need to believe in cults – even government inspired ones.

The current eco-cult is a government funded nightmare. The hundreds of billions that will be poured into the cult would be better off spent to clean up streams; reduce particulate pollution; improve garbage incineration and removal; or even provide hydro and clean water to struggling villages in Africa. But that is too rational.

Pouring monies into the sewer of arrogant, dissident and self-loathing institutes and academics is a crime and a fraud. Instead of helping literally millions of people with concrete measures, the eco-cult and its Marxist minions are engaged in a huge lie to destroy wealth; lower living standards and accrete power. It is a disgrace built on the backs of taxpayers, created through the dishonesty, power-mongering, arrogance and ignorance of elites.

I wonder what all these deep thinkers will say in 20 years after the earth’s temperature has noticeably cooled. They will probably say something intelligent like, 'see told you so, Global warming caused Global cooling, now we need more billions to deal with the threat of a new ice age.' Or some such anti-rational mystical Globally warmed over cart load of fertilzer enhancer.

Sources:
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/Govt.htm

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