This
Friday (Earth Day and Lenin’s Birthday) President Obama will
sign the Paris Agreement, supposedly to control global climate.
Last week, the attorney general of a tax shelter – the US Virgin Islands
-- subpoenaed the
Competitive Enterprise Institute. This was part of a campaign to intimidate climate realists and to
shake down, and possibly shut down, the energy industry. The campaign was
launched by a number of Democrat Attorneys General and Al Gore, colluding with
trial lawyers and other special interests, under the guise of investigating
ExxonMobil. As bizarre as these moves are, they are just an escalation of
30 years of persecuting distinguished scientists who disagreed with Al Gore’s
climate change fantasies.
Scientific
research is supported by private industry, governments, universities (largely
government dependent) or some combination of the three. Before
Gore’s tenure as vice president, the majority of scientists with some knowledge
of the subject firmly rejected climate alarmism. During his two terms almost in the
White House, Al Gore and the academic liberals executed a quiet purge.
They packed the scientific establishment with environmentalists, defunded
inconvenient research fields, removed distinguished scientists, and bullied
others into silence or equivocation. Huge budgets allocated to climate
studies (even before Gore) produced hordes of worthless PhDs, incapable of
making a living outside of climate alarmism. But a large segment
of scientists and professionals versed in science are independent in a
free society, deriving their income from private business. Al Gore and other climate alarmists
had a problem…………
