“Big Green had a big impact on the U.S. Administration in the 1990s, deserving much ‘credit’ for the Kyoto cap-and-trade-with-offsets, which led to sharply accelerated global carbon emissions.“
“Most marchers tomorrow [September 21, 2014] will be liberals. The truth they must face is the fact that prescriptive liberal policies have no chance of solving the global climate problem.”
In Speaking Truth to Power—and to Friends (September 20, 2014), James Hansen continues to denigrate the efforts of the Big Green/Obama establishment to address climate change. For reasons that Hansen repeatedly stresses in his posts (regularly summarized at MasterResource), climate alarmists may wish they had more Green Party candidates to vote for next month.
Hansen and many other eco-alarmists might Go-Green-Party at the 2016 ballot box to support the climate section of the Green Party’s ecology platform:
…[W]e especially support the reduction of consumption of the world’s raw materials by the industrialized Northern Hemisphere.
“I do, however, believe that corporations which deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty.”
“The Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, the Cooler Heads Coalition, the Global Climate Coalition, The American Enterprise Institute (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), George C. Marshall Institute, the State Policy Network, The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).… these front groups are snake pits for sociopaths.”
“Koch Industries and ExxonMobil have particularly distinguished themselves as candidates for corporate death.”
– Robert Kennedy Jr., “What States’ Attorneys General Can Do About Climate Deniers,” Huffington Post, October 1, 2014.
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s screed against great American corporations is an elitist indictment against consumer preferences for affordable, reliable energy. Kennedy’s hate speech is also a confirmation about how badly the climate fanatics are losing in the court of public opinion.…
“In popular terminology, a libertarian is the opposite of an authoritarian. Strictly speaking, a libertarian is one who rejects the idea of using violence or the threat of violence—legal or illegal—to impose his will or viewpoint upon any peaceful person. Generally speaking, a libertarian is one who wants to be governed far less than he is today.”
– Milton Russell, “Who Is a Libertarian?” , The Freeman, May 1, 1955.
A growing number of pundits and politicians from across the political spectrum, favoring both economic and social liberty from government, are identifying themselves as libertarian. A growing, sizable number of students ‘lean’ libertarian, combining fiscal conservatism with social liberalism. Students for Liberty, still in its first decade, has organized on 1,300 campuses in the U.S. and around the world.…