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Come on, it's a con-job isn't it?

Sometimes I think we humans are idiots.

Look at the way some of us would prefer that we ditch our nasty polluting technologies and return to a lifestyle based on organically grown crops sown using horse-drawn ploughs and harvested by armies of hemp-teeshirt-wearing environmentally aware workers.

That's the Green utopia I suspect.

More tofu and bean-sprouts for everyone!

Then there's the issue of climate change...

Not only does it now appear that much of the "evidence" supporting the argument for climate change is little more than hearsay but we're also seeing increasingly powerful evidence that the planet is getting far from warmer.

Yes, I know the difference between climate and weather -- but you try explaining that to those who've suffered through the worst winters in a century throughout the UK, Europe and Eastern USA.

Is it mere coincidence that so many of these countries have been plunged into a winter of record harshness and cold?

Of course we're told that this is exactly what the climate-change scientists predicted -- not "warmer" but "more extreme" weather.

Yeah, right!

So why did they call it "global warming" then, only to change the name to "climate change" once it became obvious that things just weren't getting warmer at all (on a season-to-season basis).

Could it be because much of the data on which they were basing their predictions was simply bogus or without foundation in fact?

How quickly our scientists and politicians have backpedaled and shuffled the cards to try and cover up glaring holes in their arguments.

But hey, it might surprise you to learn that today's column is not about debunking the claims of those scientists and politicians that we're headed for planetary meltdown -- oh no.

What I'm saying is "who gives a damn".

If (and I stress *if*) we do have global warming then there's little or no *credible* evidence to suggest that it is man-made. There's even less evidence to suggest that we're in a position to do anything to prevent such massive climate change.

So why do we even bother?

Is it a good old Roman Catholic desire to punish ourselves for our crimes (imaginary or otherwise)?

Are all these new taxes really just an example of climate-change masochism?

I liken it to the idiocy of the Greenies that decry our abuse of the planet's resources -- you know, the same folks who'd have is walking in horse pooh all day. These people just don't seem to understand that you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

While everyone's busy trying to save the planet, all its plants and animals -- please don't lose sight of the fact that man is part of that planet and its species.

There's absolutely no reason to place *our* needs and wants behind those of any other species, is there?

Some scientists tell us that even if we immediately halted all our man-made carbon emissions it's still too late to save the planet from catastrophic warming. If so, why the hell should we make our final days on the planet so damned miserable by way of uber-taxation that is ultimately futile anyway.

Hell, even the Bible says "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" (Isaiah 22:13).

If we spend all our time (and money) worrying about what might (or might not) happen tomorrow, what quality of life will we have today?

There are just not enough irrefutable concrete facts to support the level of hysteria currently being promoted by certain factions in respect to climate change. And, even if what the extremists say is true, there's even less evidence to suggest that we can change what may well simply be another natural cycle in the earth's ecosphere.

Fortunately, lots and lots of every-day folks are waking up to the fact that climate change is just like Santa Claus -- it's something you can believe in if you want to but simply believing doesn't make it true.

But surely it must be true -- after all, leading politicians from all over the globe believe, a good number of scientist believe, many environmentalists believe... If all these clever and powerful people believe then it must be true, right?

Well I'm afraid that neither the power nor the position a person holds offers immunity from being scammed (proof) and let's face it -- most politicians are far from the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Boy, that ought to have put the cat amongst the pigeons eh?

Is that a devil's advocate hat I'm wearing?

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