asked<\/a> \u201cWhat are we doing to our boys?\u201d Now, after this month\u2019s international school walkout against the threat of climate change, we must question what we are doing to all of our kids.<\/p>\nAccording to mainstream news media, the walkout was a grassroots movement started by kids and led by a young Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg. The 16-year-old is certainly the movement\u2019s spokesman and, unlike many climate change activists, a true believer\u2014instead of flying to the U.S., she took a sailboat\u2014which only adds to her tragedy and that of her many school-age followers. This is a girl who truly believes and proclaims openly: it\u2019s time to panic, the world is burning up, and she must give up any hopes of parenthood because what compassionate parent would bear any children into a dying planet.<\/p>\n
How sad. How unnecessary. How cruel!<\/p>\n
Our kids (and many adults) are being terrified by a left-wing theological power-grab that mocks traditional religion and worships Mother Gaea to the detriment of both science and good sense.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s first get one myth out of the way. Climate change is and always has been real.\u00a0 The earth\u2019s climate is always in a state of flux (day-to-day, we call it weather) and is impacted over time by many factors including mismanagement of our resources. Long before man came along, however, earth\u2019s climate ranged from \u201cSnowball Earth\u201d when the planet was covered by an icepack from pole-to-pole to periods where the Earth is totally ice free. Earth and life have both somehow survived these conditions. Considering the overall paleontological record, today\u2019s Earth is actually enjoying a relatively cool period.<\/p>\n
While we\u2019re at it, let\u2019s get rid of another myth: the \u201cestablished\u201d science and \u201c97%\u201d of scientists who claim man-made climate change is both real and catastrophic. The so-called \u201chockey-stick\u201d of global warming is based on a model, whose creator, Michael Mann, just lost a lawsuit in Canada when he refused to release his data for review by other climate scientists. This, of course, has been the complaint of many so-called \u201cdeniers.\u201d The climate scientists who demand their right as scientists to review the data that jump-started the entire panic regarding climate change. Unless and until that data is released and reviewed, any claims based on that data are pure hyperbole with no factual scientific basis. Any \u201cscientist\u201d who is willing to accept and promulgate Mann\u2019s untested claims is not a scientist, but a priest.<\/p>\n
But this is what our kids are being taught: the Earth is dying. If we don\u2019t \u201cdo something\u201d within the next 10-12 years, there is no hope for them or their progeny.<\/p>\n
What a horrifying philosophy! No wonder our kids are panicked. Their teachers teach it. Their news sources teach it. Their politicians teach it. The United Nations teaches it. Even National Geographic<\/em> teaches it. And virtually anyone who would question it has been shamed into silence.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s time for us \u201cdeniers\u201d to brave the shaming to protect our kids and to remind everyone that frightened children should not be used by a soulless media to promote a political philosophy that demands we forgo our individual liberties\u2014a solution that would assure the living hell of worldwide socialism and do nothing to save the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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