Exposed

Anyone remember "Global Warming"?

You know... evil humanity destroys all life on earth by triggering cataclysmic climate change caused entirely by over-indulging in greedy consumption of fossil fuels to enrich their selfish pathetic lives. Or something. I think that's how it went.

Apparently, it was a lie, and the people telling the lie clearly knew it. But like all lies, they were eventually undone by their own duplicity.

The unraveling started in a tiny little nation called Australia, which was responsible for just one hundredth of the total "carbon emissions" that were allegedly destroying the world.

It was there that ex-bureaucrat Prime Minister Kevin Dudd announced, with big fanfare, his government's commitment to reduce that country's "carbon emissions" by a whopping 5% by introducing a new "carbon tax', which he then promised to give back to everyone who asked. Yes, finally, a government had found a way to tax the air you breathed.

Now some maths are important here... five percent of one percent is five ten thousandths which, last time I checked, is hardly anything at all. I mean, imagine you have a hundred bucks, and you accidentally lose 5c. Or let's say you're on a two hour and forty five minute flight, and the captain announces that you're going to arrive five seconds ahead of time. Yes, That's the amount by which Prime Minister Dudd was going to reduce "carbon emissions".

Remember too, that 5 percent of 1 percent was actually 5 percent of 1 percent of 2 percent, the two percent being the total contribution to all of the world's "carbon emissions" made by human activity. So Kevin Dudd was prosing to cut, by Australia's action, the total amount of "carbon emissions" going into the atmosphere each year by one one hundred thousandth. That was such a small amount that the instruments capable of measuring that reduction don’t exist.

It was a joke. It must have been, because surely, if "Global Warming" was the problem everyone was being told it was, and "carbon emissions" were to blame, then governments around the world would actually be doing something about it. After all, the technology existed to fix it. All that was missing was the will.

That's when people started realising that this Global Warming thing was a scam. They realised that the government's policy was all spin and rhetoric, with no substance at all. They realised it was all about raising taxes and about ideological dogma. They realised it was about "giving the masses something else to worry about" to distract them from inept and corrupt government.

They realised it was pathetic.