Climate Spin

The Gorse Fox has found an interesting article in Frontpage Magazine which discusses The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) - a book by Christopher C Horner. (The article is an interview with the author).

One phrase that caught the eye was:

Yet although every single bill on Capitol Hill and even the UN's Kyoto Protocol is demanded in the name of 'it's-real-it's-bad-it's-here-now-it's-our-fault-we-can-impact-it-but-we-must-act-now-it's-a-moral-issue', not one such proposal would under any scenario, under any set of assumptions, according to any champion, actually have a detectable impact on that which it purports to address: the climate.

Gorse Fox would warn the author (and reader) not to confuse fact with a good story that keeps the masses under control when you raise taxes in the name of "climate".

He also picks out the media's part in this:

Disaster sells in the news business. Waves calmly lapping at the shore don't. "Man at fault!" is huge; "Many factors likely at play; science unsettled" is a loser story. When the temperature goes up, it's man's fault and a big story. If warming is the story line.

So what can we do?

As regards policy, we need to avoid succumbing to the hysteria and enacting absurd policies under pressure from trade competitors and anti-capitalists and the Kyoto Industry, generally. Europe is floundering and will only step up the pressure and the rhetoric, which I hope our public will be too well-informed to fall for...

Sorry, too late. The media are busy educating the public, and the public don't have time to check the facts themselves. Here they will meekly succumb to the mind-control and do what the Government says.