Ding, Dong, The Witch is Dead ... We Hope.

I know I went over this last month so pardon the repetition but I must use it again to make a different point. I am still striving to get people to understand the difference between cachet which means a stamp of authenticity and cache, which means a hiding place. Why repeat this? Firstly, repetition is the high road to learning something; secondly, as George Orwell pointed out, such lapses in proper English represent the degeneration of thought, a daily ongoing event.

It amazes me how many supposedly educated people get this wrong. I am appalled that so many people cannot use the present, past, and future perfect tenses correctly, which results in such horrors as, "I seen it, it landed in that field…" That sort of language makes me immediately feel sympathy for the poor aliens and wish to urge them to please abduct the speaker.

From whence comes such mangled English? Easily answered, it comes from government run schools, out of which it spreads like flu in a kindergarten, never to be corrected. George Orwell wrote a wonderful essay (available on the web) entitled

Politics and the English Language. His essential point is that "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible…Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties." By this he means the extensive use of euphemisms and dense, tangled syntax (the principles and rules for constructing sentences). Viet Nam provides such examples as pacification for bombing villages; or from Soviet days, elimination of unreliable elements for a Makarov 9 mm bullet in the brain and, liquidation, for mass murder.

All governments do this and we as of late have had vast, steaming mounds of examples piled before us daily. I refer to the on-going scandal of what is called "Climategate." Lies, deceit, and flim-flam orbit like electrons around the core of Climategate—except in this case "statistics" and rigged computer models serve as words.

President Eisenhower predicted when he warned about the "military-industrial complex," (a wooly bugbear used for decades by liberal parents unwilling to spank recalcitrant children) that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. "Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity...The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded."

Well, hello to the Global Warming mess. Oh wait, we now call it Climate Change— thanks, Mr. Orwell. One estimate says we have spent over $79 billion on Climate Change research in the last decade. All we have gotten in return are unscrupulous scientists scheming to snatch more grants with cooked studies, journalists yapping alongside like annoying street dogs urging us to vote to spend trillions instead of billions to "Stop the Warmth," Hollywood stars urging us (as they descend from their private jets) to support a wealth of laws against Glob–, sorry, Climate Change, and finally greasy politicians quickly writing up Cap and Trade laws to tax our personal energy consumption—at least a thousand dollars more per year to heat and cool your home and even more added on to gasoline, all flowing into governmental coffers into which these politicians can dip at will.

These people have used the scientific illiteracy lurking within most of us to hoodwink and steal. This whole thing is a scam, a false religion. We’ve been hustled by Global Climavangelists.* It is the biggest swindle in history. Worse, now that the game is up, they desperately want to keep the swindle going while chanting praises to Gaia all the more loudly. As in all such undertakings, the greatest fear is discovery. It is like the moment in Wizard of Oz when the ever obnoxious Toto pulls the curtain away from Professor Marvel, proving him a false "Wizard."

The Professor represents venal, grant hungry warmist scientists, the Witch is various "experts" in organizations like the CRU and IPCC testifying that the false is true; the media are the Flying Monkeys; while Dorothy and friends represent, well, us. And, oh yes, Toto is the Internet, without which none of this would have come to light.

But Congress, the President and a plethora of unsavory characters cling to the faith issuing warnings and alarms. Why? Well for one thing they desperately want tax money. They want to strip you and your family bare, an offering to Gaia.

The problem with crawling up to the altar of Global Warming to kiss its high priests’ dirty toes is that its foundations are rapidly crumbling. Most of us in this country are just now hearing the details of what the CRU, the IPCC and the Global Warming Mafia have done. In Europe, England, Russia, India and China it has been a scandal and mounting fury for over a month. In those places informed people now clearly see the lies and deceptions and fraudulent studies.

The attempts of these conspirators to suppress truthful information and analyses in defense of Global Warming Orthodoxy have done great damage to the honor and integrity of scientific research and "peer reviewed" publications. U. S. journalists have suppressed this information for weeks, keeping the details and implications out of our "mainstream media" which spent the time worrying about Tiger Wood’s marriage.

It brings to mind an exchange from the film Wild Bill. As they are walking into Deadwood surveying the chaotic scene, Charley, an old friend, says to Bill: "It reminds me of something from the Bible."

"Which part?" asks Bill.

"The part right before God gets angry," Charley replies.

Notes: if you want more detailed analysis see Dr. Richard Lindzen, climatologist at MIT.

*Thanks to Doug Giles at www.townhall.com.