Was the Koran Caused by Global Warming?

bookofdeathIf the weather is too hot or too cold, if there is a natural disaster, if a plane crashes, if crime increases, if crime decreases, if the Ebola virus rampages across of Africa or stays home to read a good book instead, if the price of coffee goes up or if a war breaks out… it will eventually be connected to Global Warming

Even the rise of ISIS has been blamed not on the Koran, but on Global Warming.

Meanwhile a Muslim terrorist can blow himself up at Ground Zero on September 11 while screaming, “I am doing this because I am a Muslim and I hate you all” and those same experts will tell us that it had nothing to do with Islam, but it was caused by the impact of Global Warming on the molecules of his brain.

It’s all a matter of how you connect the dots.

Democrats think that Global Warming is a bigger threat to America than Al Qaeda. That’s the profitable notion that Al Gore has been selling for some time. When ISIS began making headlines, lefty publications scurried to explain how ISIS had been caused by Global Warming. If you can’t get rid of ISIS, you can always promise to make it go away with another few billion for Bay Area Green Tech liberal donors.

That’s why Homeland Security is focusing on Global Warming. Why bother with Islam when the root cause of Islamic terrorism turns out to be neither Islam nor terrorism, but your failure to buy recycled toilet paper and pay much higher prices for energy. Instead of droning ISIS, we will drone on about sustainable sustainability and how eagles would rather be killed by wind turbines than by oil spills.

Ideas are roads to conclusion and conclusions lead to policies. If you want to control the policy, you have to control where the roads go. The media narratives are roads. If you take them, you can never reach the right conclusions because they just don’t go there. The media’s map of America has highways going from climate change to marriage equality to death panels. The policies we end up with are based on that map and the policies determine where all the money and the power end up.

If Islamic terrorism is a major threat then the money will go to defense contractors and security consultants, to building more drones and bombs. That means guys named Earl and Amos who wear sunglasses and have a background in the Agency and the Mossad are suddenly in demand. Transguys named Meaghan and Tad who wear retro eyeglasses ironically and did their thesis on using non-linear histrionic narratives to educate inner city children about climate change suddenly have to get real jobs.

But if Global Warming is a major threat, then money goes to environmental consultancies and non-profits, to propaganda for education and the arts, to Green Tech companies and Wall Street. And the consultants, bureaucrats and regulators gain a vast suite of expanded domestic and international powers. Meaghan and Tad are back and running every aspect of your life through their gigs at some non-profit you never heard of funded by a family foundation with Ford or Rockefeller in its name.

The War on Terror expanded the powers of domestic law enforcement, but it’s nothing compared to what the War for the Environment has done to the power of every bureaucrat large and small to raise your heating bill, outlaw your washing machine, eliminate your water supply and root through your trash. If you thought the TSA was bad, the carbon regime puts a carbon footprint value on everything you do from driving to the grocery store to buying a beer to viewing this website.

And then it decides which of your behaviors have to be changed and how.

Global Warming and the War on Terror empower different parts of the government and the assorted consultants and contractors who plug into them. Those people not only have political differences, but also major cultural differences. It’s no wonder that the media, whose writers, producers and talent are culturally a lot closer to Meaghan and Tad than to Earl and Amos, favors their narrative.

The Warmist side of government is also the more liberal side. The side that bombs ISIS doesn’t even understand why anyone would stand on line for two hours to buy fair trade artisanal pancakes.

A shift to the terror side of the dial means restrictions on immigration, more strong male role models and more domestic oil drilling. Tilt to the Warmist side and the emphasis is on letting Meaghan and Tad decide what you can buy, where you can live and whether you can live.

However only one of these crises is real and it isn’t the one that involves the planet burning up, the polar bears riding surfboards to San Francisco and Al Gore revealing that he was sent as a messenger from a distant alien civilization to convince us to change our ways. But that has never mattered before.

The left has a long history of diverting attention from real problems by inventing urgent crises. Liberals rarely go two decades without declaring a major crisis in education. They were doing it throughout the twentieth century with invariably disastrous results. Common Core is only their latest effort at imposing a reviled educational reform plan funded by corporate giants and opposed by parents and teachers.

Liberals did their best to divert attention from the Cold War with a poverty crisis. The Cold War was won, while the War on Poverty made a lot of sociologists very rich and enabled the transformation of the country without actually ever being won. That war has morphed into the obesity crisis, the equality crisis and a dozen other smaller crises which all add up to power and wealth tilting to the left.

Then there was the crisis of the uninsured which couldn’t wait to be solved until someone in Congress actually read the bill meant to solve the problem or until anyone at HHS learned how to write code. It still isn’t solved, but ObamaCare has driven a lot of money and power to all the right parts of Maryland.

The Global Warming crisis is only the latest incarnation of a range of environmental alarmism about everything from a coming ice age to worldwide famines. Eventually another term and another threat will replace Climate Change, but schoolchildren will still be coloring in posters crying out, “Save the Planet.”

These crises divert attention from a real crisis that would weaken the power base of the left while inflating an imaginary crisis that will put cash and power in their pockets. The left accused the right of inventing foreign enemies to justify wars of profit. But Communism and Islam were and are real threats. It’s the left that invents phony threats and fights phony wars for money and power.

We aren’t being allowed to recognize the threat of Islamic terrorism because the left wouldn’t profit from it. At least not until someone finally proves that the Koran was caused by Global Warming.

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  • djf

    “Global Warming and the War on Terror empower different parts of the government and the assorted consultants and contractors who plug into them. Those people not only have political differences, but also major cultural differences.”
    I’m not so sure that the war-making, security and law enforcement parts of the government is all that different, politically and culturally, from the other parts of the government anymore. As I’m sure you’ve heard, the military, FBI, intelligence agencies, and Homeland Security are positively rife with political correctness. After all, following Col. Hassan’s massacre at Fort Hood, some high-ranking general said on TV that the real tragedy would be to reverse whatever “diversity” policies had prevented the Army from getting rid of Hassan when he began lecturing people about jihad. And, famously, the Army still won’t admit that Islam had anything to do with what Hassan did. Meanwhile, the military is integrating women into combat units and is “studying” integrating the transgendered into the service. And our continuing halfhearted fight against terrorists is invoked as a reason to become MORE accommodating to Islam. This is decidedly not the Army of George Patton or Douglas MacArthur. Or even of Norman Schwartzkopf.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      That’s true at the top who have to play politics. Much less so below.

      • djf

        True, for now. The process of decay still has a way to go.

  • roger

    I can just see the American troops comprised of butt wiggling, environmentalist trannies going into battle singing “From the river to the sea” as they try to figure out which weapon would be the least offensive to the cultural sensitivities of the enemy.

  • cheechakos

    Don’t forget the overpopulation crisis that democrats revive every 10 years. It’s been a goldmine for abortionists, makers of birth control and progressive’s repopulating white majority countries with 3rd world garbage since only civilized countries listened to the propaganda and stopped having children.

    Now they have no workers to support their socialist systems and entitlements as people retire and stop paying taxes.

    • tagalog

      They are now saying that human population growth has so crowded out natural habitat, and humans have harvested so many animals, that the wild animal population in the world has been reduced by nearly 50%. That story was being touted on the internet just yesterday.

      • Headed4TheHills

        Oh tag, y’all know the gubmint cain’t keep their grubby mitts outta things. They know better’n you an’ me how to spend our money, raise our kids, an’ lead our lives.

        • tagalog

          The more people, the more taxes. Those collectivist types should think about that when they think about the environment and there being too many humans.

          • johninohio1

            Don’t be silly. Everyone knows money grows on trees. I believe its’ Chinese Elm.

  • cheechakos

    According to NASA satellites and all ground-based temperature measurements, global warming ceased in the late 1990s. This when CO2 levels have risen almost 10 percent since 1997. The post-1997 CO2 emissions represent an astonishing 30 percent of all human-related emissions since the Industrial Revolution began. That we’ve seen no warming contradicts all CO2-based climate models upon which global-warming concerns are founded.

    The costs of feeding the climate-change “monster” are staggering. According to the Congressional Research Service, from 2001 to 2014 the US government spent $131 billion on projects meant to combat human-caused climate change, plus $176 billion for breaks for anti-CO2 energy initiatives.

    Science is never settled, but the current state of “climate change” science is quite clear: There is essentially zero evidence that carbon dioxide from human activities is causing catastrophic climate change.
    http://nypost.com/2014/09/14/l

  • Bamaguje

    “The left has a long history of diverting attention from real problems by inventing urgent crises…. The Global Warming crisis is only the latest incarnation of a range of environmental alarmism” – DG.

    The sad part of it all is that – thanks to their control of mainstream media and academia – they are getting away with it… their ruinous agenda that can inflict serious economic damage and wreck the lives of ordinary folks.

    “We aren’t being allowed to recognize the threat of Islamic terrorism because the left wouldn’t profit from it” – DG.

    Leftists need Islamists as collaborators to help bring down the capitalist West.

  • truebearing

    Along with Ebola and ISIS, irony is running amok. Our best weapon against Obama and his ilk has been the things that people are seeing on the news that slaps them into reality. ISIS has been particularly hard on Obama — especially ironic since they are merely JV terrorists.

    Last winter didn’t help the Left’s lies on global warming either. It was the coldest winter in 102 years in the upper-Midwest. Fall is two to three weeks early this year and predictions are that we will have another freeze-athon. Global warming lies don’t work very well when it is sub-zero for months. I didn’t hear a whisper about global warming from anyone for at least 6 months, and I’m surrounded by goose-stepping leftist morons. Maybe they sensed the imminent violence that whining about any kind of warming would trigger.

    One can only hope that the Left has gone to the well once too often. People are suffering from crisis fatigue. Mere hyperbole and histrionics won’t work as well for the Left, so now they will have to facilitate a crisis better than ISIS. Beheadings are horrible, but they are a tough act to follow, even for the ruthless Left.

    • Bamaguje

      “Our best weapon against Obama and his ilk has been the things that people are seeing on the news that slaps them into reality” – truebearing.

      Indeed, with the hard-to-ignore daily atrocities by Jihadists around the world, the “nothing to do with Islam” spin is wearing very thin.
      Obama, Cameron, Kerry and other such Jihad denying dhimmis are fooling no one.

      “Global warming lies don’t work very well when it is sub-zero for months” – truebearing.

      That’s why warmists changed tack and started talking about anthropogenic “climate change”… as if climate was static before humanity came along.

      “One can only hope that the Left has gone to the well once too often. People are suffering from crisis fatigue” – truebearing.

      Not likely.
      As long as leftists control the lamestream media and academia, they’ll always find creative ways to reinvent their false narrative.

      • truebearing

        The warmunists did change the name of their lies, but the brand
        recognition of “global warming” is stronger than “climate
        change,” most likely because any idiot knows that climate changes arenatural. The Left now has to fight the inertia of its original claims, so in effect is contradicting its own claims. They are losing traction on the ice of the colder climate. Let’s hope they slide, at full speed, head on into the obsidian wall of truth…while the public’s minute attention span is focused on freezing their derriere’s off.

        They will always find more ways to lie, but there is a danger in
        continually changing your story. Eventually, pathological liars lose all credibility. Our job is to somehow get the public to get the dam cell phone out of their ear long enough to listen to the truth.

        • Daniel_Greenfield

          As long as they can march around chanting “Save the Planet”…

    • tagalog

      The climate fearmongers will say that a couple of cold winters is WEATHER, not CLIMATE.

      Or El Nino, or La Nina, or lack of same, or some other handy explanation.

      However, when we have a couple of warm summers in the northwestern part of the Western Hemisphere, THAT is clearly a harbinger of long-term climatic global warming.

      • CDM

        Climate is just weather in the aggregate.

        “Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get.” – Robert A. Heinlein

        • truebearing

          Deception is the Left in the aggregate. Lying is what we expect. Lying is what we get.

      • truebearing

        Yes, they needed something more vague so they couldn’t be pinned down as easily, but the argument against “climate change” is simple. If the climate was to suddenly become static, we’d have no wind — what would drive their glorious windmills? We would have no rain, or if it was raining when the climate ceased to change, it might keep raining indefinitely. Cold areas would stay cold, hot areas hot. The earth’s orbit around the sun would have to come to a complete halt…the universe would cease to be dynamic. It’s patently absurd, but then the Left has always been absurd. Climate change is not only good, it is an essential component to life.

        I’d like to hear how they square their climate change idiocy with their love of the Big Bang theory. Big bangs have consequences, change being the most inevitable.

        Reductio ad absurdum, the antidote to virtually any position of the Left.

      • DaveGinOly

        NOAA and the University of Washington came out last week with a study of the century long (actually 1900-2012) warming trend in the eastern Pacific along the US west coast. They determined that it was not caused by human activity. A warmist critic slammed the study, saying that the temperature records from the early 20th Century are not reliable enough to come to such conclusions. This struck me as odd, because the warmists base much of their message on weather records from the same period, and earlier, yet they have no problem with using these very same records in support of their own studies.

    • Dan Knight

      Hi true, … this post had me really laughing out loud… at least for the first two paragraphs. Keep up the good work. I’m sure the ruthless Left has something up their sleeve.

  • samnigromd

    global warming is caused by the liberal press and media…

    • Headed4TheHills

      I have to agree, but must point out that you forgot one major contributing factor to global warming / climate change / *insert currently hip LibProg buzzword here* – The Potomac Hot Zone. One must never forget the amount of solid, steamin’, methane-producin’ BS and hot air comin’ from Moscow-on-the-Potomac.

      • kasandra

        I don’t know where you live but I live near DC and I can assure you, you are insulting Moscow when you refer to DC as Moscow-on-the-Potomac. There was far less uniformity of political thought in Moscow and not that much more in the way of punishment for deviance from it.

        • Headed4TheHills

          kasandra, you know, you are quite correct. I do apologize to all my Russian friends out there. A more apt description would have been Crapper-on-the-Potomac.

          • kasandra

            There you go. Washington is like nothing so much as a college town for a very liberal college. I live in a nearby county that is very large and has not a single elected county official. One party rule and that’s typical of the entire metropolitan area.

  • Paul F Getty

    It isn’t democrats or the left. It is the world of science that is telling us we face catastrophe if we do not act on cutting fossil fuels. The scientists around the world, coming from all walks of life, different countries, different cultures,mare not leftists. Their studies tell us what you wingers simply don’t want to hear. And so you deny their message. So weird to me!
    Do you know lots of people killed by Muslims? I don’t either.

    • Headed4TheHills

      Paul, Paul, Paul…you truly need to put down the Kool Ade pitcher.
      1) Scientists from around the world and their studies? Really? You must have missed the many leaked emails detailing data massaging so their findings fit their theories. Or how about the many scientists who DO NOT agree with climate change – why are their papers and findings not being peer reviewed and published? Do the climate change scientists have something to hide?
      2) As for not being Leftists – need to rethink that, ol’ chum. They are products of Leftist Indoctrination Centers (higher educational centers such as Harvard, Cambridge, etc.) They are told what the findings are to be and they toe the party line. Additionally, have you seen them in action? Try to have a civilized discussion on the subject and it’s like disagreeing with a pro-abort or an anti-gun supporter. Suddenly you are an uneducated, intolerant, “hater”. Your words are ignored, your scientific evidence is trashed, and you are shouted down.
      3) Do I know lots of people killed by Muslims? Why yes, yes I do. Many of my brothers and sisters in Christ have died at the hands of Muslims. Do some research (outside the Lame Stream Media and Wikipedia if you please). It is not hard to find detailed accounts of atrocities being committed by Muslims (not the “radical” ones but the Fundamental, by-the-book, Qu’ran following Muslims).

      The problem is, like many apologists for LibProgs and Dimwitocrats, you refuse to believe anything but what your Messiah, Chairman Maobama, and his Leftist Propaganda Machine (AKA the Lame Stream Media outlets such as CNN (Clinton News Network), MSNBC (Monstrous Socialist “News” Broadcasting Company)), and their ilk have spoon fed you for so long. If you would just do some research for yourself, dig deeper, I believe you might actually have one heck of an “eureka” moment.

    • tagalog

      But there are lots of scientists who question the claims of climate warming; not every scientist by any means has climbed on board the global warming bandwagon.

      And half of the earth’s population, in India and Red China, don’t tell us there’s a global climate catastrophe on its way. Even the great Pied Piper of global warming, the IPCC, has revised its warnings of catastrophe downward drastically with every Annual Report they issue.

      There’s some truth to the claim that in this debate there are people who are not listening to what they don’t want to hear. But that’s not restricted to righties, the global warming types do it too, as witness the words of Steven Schneider.

      The scientists are rather bemused about the flat line on warming since the 1990s, since the CO2 concentration has risen in that same time period.

    • Bamaguje

      “Do you know lots of people killed by Muslims? I don’t either” – Paul Getty.

      What planet have you been that you don’t know people killed by Jihadists?
      I’m tempted to believe you are being sarcastic.
      Do you know anyone killed by the fictitious man-caused “climate change”?

    • truebearing

      Their is a monolithic “world of science?” So, then science is dead if all scientists agree on everything. The entire history of science is one scientist refuting a previous scientist with new theories, experiments, and discoveries. True science is antagonistic to established science. Now all scientists agree all over the world?

      If you had the slightest understanding of science, you would realize that it is a competitive realm, where scientists want to prove their theories just as passionately as any NFL team wants to win the Superbowl. They don’t agree with each other on all kinds of things, and are motivated to excel, which by definition means prove other theories wrong. There is no consensus in science, but there are scientists with low moral character and a lust for research funds who will go along with a scam if it puts food on their table and garners them some recognition.

      How did you find that out? Did you interview all of them? Or did you hear some other leftist idiot say something stupid like “the science is settled” or “there is overwhelming consensus?”

      Do you follow the news? Ever heard of Al Qaeda or ISIS or Boko Haram? Next time, educate yourself before you comment.

    • ben t

      At the end of the last Glacial Maximum, 10,000 yrs. ago there was a 10,000 to 14,000 foot high glacier that entirely covered the North American Continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific which extended south to a latitude roughly between NYC and Phila. For almost 100 years anthropologists have debated how “Native Americans” from Siberia could have crossed into Canada and the U.S.A. This glaciation also covered the entire Bering Sea area including the Alaskan islands down into the N. Pacific, the N. Atlantic Ocean area from Canada to Greenland to Iceland. over to Ireland, Britain,the North Sea, into N, France! Did Indian campfires melt it? It’s retreat carved out the Great Lakes and other large lakes in Canada. Anthropogenic? Follow the MONEY!! Global Warming and Cooling are natural phenomena which have been going on for over a billion years of Earth’s past. FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!! I have more points to make. Time limits further elucidation.

      • tagalog

        There was a narrow unglaciated channel between the western ice field and the eastern (Laurentian?) one; one theory says the entry into North America from Siberia could have followed that route. Another theory says the migrants from Siberia canoed along the edge of the ice shield on the Pacific Ocean, and made landings at various places that were not covered in ice.

  • Paul F Getty

    You all need to read this book: http://www.naomiklein.org/main

  • windy2

    John Kerry fully supports the Global Warming caused terrorism meme and chastised Americans as being the real terrorists for emitting CO2. He then proceeded to quote the Bible in suggesting the penance that Americans must accept for their sins. John Kerry in essence deemed Americans to be the terrorists of the Muslim world and the biggest surprise (sarc) is that the US media said nothing.

  • windy2

    I’m curious to see who buys into the far left Obama regime’s labeling of Americans as terrorist enablers. I guess White guilt has been such an effective tool in manipulating those who’s brains have been nullified by emotion, that he figures why not try making these emotionally driven morons feel guilty about causing terror by driving their cars and liking to eat meat.

  • tagalog

    Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank as critics spend years verifying that he is using “global warming” as a method to enrich himself while appearing to be public-spirited. What a waste of time to fuss over him. Thank God he didn’t get elected President. Except Gore HAS served as the inspiration for a host of good jokes.

  • Pete

    Islam was aided by the Byzantine Persian War which devastated both empires.Afterwards you get the usual court intrigue further weakening at leas Persia. Also there was gold strike in the Arabian peninsula which provided a shot in the arm in terms of wealth. Saw this on history channels but I didn’t get to watch the whole thing and they did not run it gain. They have to run reality TV. History must be a boring subject. To obtain manpower Heraclius had recruited Arab mercenaries and trained them (to fight Persians; but at some point they go home).

    So we had weakened opponents, wealth to pay armies and military training provided.

    Perfect Storm.

  • IronTigersVet

    So now I guess they are saying that Global Warming, er um Climate Change (PC terminology), is causing leftist stupidity? Gotcha!

  • kasandra

    But I thought it was “GLOBAL warming.”

    • tagalog

      Thank you for bringing that up; every time I hear about “global warming,” the talk is about the northern part of the Western Hemisphere and the Arctic Circle, with the occasional side mention of the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

      Where is the talk about Africa and Asia, South America? Sometimes they talk about the oceans, though, I have to admit THAT.

  • Sara

    ISIS was created by global warming? You mean it wasn’t created by Israel? In any case, it was not created by Islam.

    • truebearing

      Israel caused global warming, so they are at fault for everything. We used to think George Bush caused everything, but now the science is settled. Israel got Bush elected through the unlimited power of its lobbyists so everything Bush caused is actually Israel’s fault.

      Islam isn’t connected to any wrongdoing. The only reason Muslims behead people is because of Zionism, and Muslims don’t have anything to do with Islam anyway. It’s all very simple.

      • Sara

        It always comes back to us Jews. We do run the world it seems.

        http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/even-we-cant-keep-track-of-all-our-conspiracies-anymore/

        • truebearing

          I’m not jewish, but have to admit, it would be nice to part of the small minority that control everything. Look at how you control most of the world’s oil supply…oh, that’s right, the poor, downtrodden Muslims control most of the oil.

          A-ha! But look at how Jews have a monopoly on the blintz. Right there you have culinary control and oppression.

          • Sara

            Yes yes, the oil. Our top agent, Elliot, is tied up at the moment.

            http://americanfreepress.net/?p=19176

            I hope you’re reading these links, funny stuff.

          • truebearing

            Yes, I read them. I especially liked the preoccupied territory link. It’s perfect for this Golden Age of Conspiracy and Paranoia.

  • Virgil Hilts

    “Did you ever know a politician that was
    not ‘facing the most critical time in the world’s affairs’ every time he spoke
    in public?” –humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

  • johnnywood

    Hey Algore, I have a t-shirt that says “Al Gore did not invent the internet, he invented global warming, therefore the “science is settled”. How about them apples?

  • Latin2

    Actually the Quran and Islam CREATES global warming. They don’t believe in population control. Why don’t the Liberal environmentalists examine that? Muslims are having children in massive numbers which destroys the environment, yet not a peep from them.

  • CosmotKat

    Global warming has been caused by all the hot air spewed into the atmosphere by the lunatic left coupled with the noxious smoke and gas they keep blowing up everyones a$$.

  • truebearing

    They use guilt to control people. What is the mechanism in their idiotic charges of racism? Guilt. Homophobia? Guilt. Islamophobia? Guilt. Guilt is how they disarm people psychologically.

    The sun has been unusually dormant lately, so it has been cooler in general, but the Eco-morons completely ignore solar activity as a factor in warming or cooling. They pretend it is a constant, like a thermostat. A giant ball of nuclear energy in the sky, radiating light and heat, yet they ignore the “Goldilocks theory”, the most obvious explanation for our atmosphere and survivable temperatures.

    I like global warming. It’s already getting pretty chilly around here for this time of year.

  • roger

    Scientists agree:
    Global “Hot Spots” Caused by Quran.

  • physicsnut

    well, Obviously !
    they have been out in the sun too long !

  • Dan Knight

    Daniel, brilliant and funny!

  • Dan Knight

    Hi Bamaguje; It was a secret department in the CIA called the Bush Time Warriors. They’re run by the space aliens. They went back in time and drove SUV’s all over the place shooting everything in sight until the glaciers melted…. You have to have a time machine to get up before Vast Interstellar-Extraterrestrial-Interdimensional-Trans-temporal Right Wing Conspiracy. ;-)

    • Bamaguje

      Good one!!