I love to read Victor Hanson, as he has insightful observations, and he is cogent and precise in his writings and books. He writes a column, which you can follow (victorhanson.com) and enjoy his intellect, wit, insights, and humor.

In “The Myth of Progress” he poses several observations, parts of which are incorporated below.

I always marvel at those that are firm in their belief of global warming, climate change or whatever it is called this week or next month, while they don’t understand or know anything about scientific methods or measurements, facts don’t change their minds. There are some scientific absolute truths, like the laws of atomic weight, but much else is up for debate and exploration.

We keep hearing about global climate change is “settled science.” If this were true, the majority of arguments for settled science was used against Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin, we might now believe that the earth was created 5,000 years ago, gravity did not exist, and the planets revolved around the earth.

With blowhard Al Gore and his abomination of a movie “Inconvenient Truth,” showing the hockey stick chart indicating quickly escalating warming for North America, this has been debunked in the last 17 years with very little or negligible heating of the earth and the predicted shrinkage or elimination of polar ice caps has not occurred since their initial 1979 mapping.

In fact, the ice cap has grown in Antarctica quite a bit. The polar bear population was predicted to quickly decline in the Arctic. Researchers aren’t sure if they have increased due to insufficient data, but they do know they haven’t decreased! Anything even close to being seen as change in climate (too warm, too cold, more storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.) is suspected under the heading of “climate change” instead of normal weather fluctuations. If you look at the historical climate of the earth, it has been much warmer and much colder at different periods of time with more CO2 than any extremes experienced now as natural occurrences, without human influences. How did that happen?

Are there anomalies within the climate in the different seasons? Of course – remember the winter of 1978-79 – the freeway was shut down and nothing moved for a few days. Was that global warming then? Nobody presumed it was – it was a “bad winter” and subsequent winters were normal or even warm.

While Al Gore and others in the climate change gospel choir continue to flap their lips and cry about climate warming, reasoned scientists see little has changed. There are many scientists and climatologists that don’t believe the “Global Warming” hype. But why all the hype about global warming/climate change? It is very easy to understand, follow the money – who profits most from the spin and lies? The sources are many – alternate power and solar power providers, contributions from believers to political mouthpieces, companies supporting the “green revolution” and any other peripheral business affected by the perceived change.

This is not to say we should not be responsible stewards of the earth’s resources and do all we can to eliminate waste and decreased pollution, we have a moral and public obligation to do so. But we still don’t know where this is going – some say warmer – some say we are at the beginning of a mini ice-age.

However, saying that global warming or global climate change is settled science is, at the least untruthful; at worst, a colossal lie. All with the government’s insistence you and others must give more of your monetary resources to combat, when we have no idea on how to combat a non-existent enemy. We always attack the symptoms, never the cause – and we have no idea what the cause is at this time, if any. Could it be cyclical in nature? Could it be natural, such as volcanic action above and below sea level?

Don’t suggest that to a big believer of global warming or global climate change. They are rabid zealots of the worst kind, and usually they glean all their information from Mr. Gore, their dope smoking science teacher from school, or left leaning publications with no scientific background. Don’t bother them with facts, as in their minds, the matter is settled. We must act! But just what enemy has to be confronted is a mystery to most, but we must allocate budgets and spend money! Any time you are approached by some bureaucrat and they say “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,” hold onto your wallet, do a 180-degree turn, and run, don’t walk, the other way.

The rotting of the country from within continues…