It's hard to describe what a rat's nest Stephen Milloy's site Junk Science is. But what is really frightening is how poor a news organization Fox News is for publishing Milloy's "views" on global warming. Guess what? Global warming is a conspiracy cooked up between Margaret Thatcher's conservative government (which was trying to destroy the coal unions), and the great eco-conspiracy to take over all corporations! Yes, the sinister greens have nearly taken over our government by subverting all these multi-national corporations (when they're not hiding behind the children that is)

As described in a 2004 book entitled, "Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation," left-leaning environmental groups, labor groups and human rights groups have been quietly working to harness (hijack?) the influence, power and resources of large publicly-owned corporations in order to implement the Left's social and political agenda.

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The Rainforest Action Network's campaign against Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill resulted in the bank agreeing to give environmentalists a say in the bank lending process. The capitulation of Citigroup, America's largest bank, was quickly followed by similar surrenders by the next largest U.S. banks, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

At about the same time, the General Electric Company apparently made peace with environmentalists over the company's long-standing headache involving the clean-up of PCB sediments spilled decades ago in the Hudson River. Coincidentally (or not), at about the same time that GE's PCB problem went away, the company very publicly teamed up with environmental activists in May 2005 to champion global warming regulation.

Through a combination of coaxing and coercion, the Greens have now successfully insinuated themselves into corporate boardrooms to the point where they've gained critical mass in the form of USCAP.

The significance of the Greens' capture of big business is readily apparent.

America is on the verge of committing economic and political suicide by enacting global warming regulation. What’s the reason? Al Gore's hyped movie notwithstanding, there is no new or compelling science to support the notion that humans are harming global climate or that humans can control climate to any discernible extent.

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And this pressure is only likely to increase. Perceiving that the global warming regulation train is moving, businesses naturally will seek to craft the process to their advantage. General Motors and Ford, for example, have fought against mandatory global warming regulation in the past. But their businesses are being crushed by retiree health care costs. It's possible that the companies might support global warming regulation in exchange for some form of legislative relief from their health care burdens.

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Moreover, remember that the Greens' goal is to capture the corporation as a means to implement their social agenda, which goes far beyond the distraction of global warming to an unpalatable political vision that most of us would regard as socialistic.

But wait, where does Margaret Thatcher come in? Apparently her union-busting led to the theory of global warming!

When Margaret Thatcher became UK Prime Minister in 1979, her mandate was to reduce Britain's economic decline. Thatcher wanted to make the UK energy-independent through nuclear power - she didn't like her country's reliance on coal, which politically empowered the coal miner unions, or oil, which empowered Middle Eastern states.

So Thatcher latched onto Bolin's notion that man-made emissions of carbon dioxide warmed the planet in a harmful way, thereby providing the perfect political cover for advancing her nuclear power agenda without having to fight the miners or Arab oil states.

She empowered the U.K. Meteorological Office to begin global climate change research, a move that eventually led to the 1988 creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations' group that has come to be the "official" international agency for global warming alarmism.

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Then when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, many "peace-niks" and political activists moved over to environmental activism, bringing their "neo-Marxist" political philosophy with them. As Moore puts it, environmentalism became the "new guise for anti-capitalism."

Global warming alarmism was thus borne from this combination of official British policy, environmentalism's rejection of its own success and political opportunism by "unemployed" left-wing political activists.

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Let the public see both sides of the story and then we'll see who's believable and who's not.

So you see? It's all a conspiracy between the anti-coal British Conservative Party, and those crafty environmentalists who have so much power they bend multinational corporations to their will and control global scientific opinion (for anti-capitalist propaganda) just like the illuminati.

Exactly how bent does one's mind have to be to believe this kind of tripe?

Labels: global warming denialism, Stephen Malloy