The $100 Billion Globaloney-Warming money grab

So how much money was invested by governments during the 1970s to scare-monger the population about Global ‘Cooling’? Good question. During the 1970s about $5 billion [in today’s money] was paid by governments in Europe and North America to various government-dependent institutes, to not only study, but broadcast the impending ice age. Now just 30 years later the same cycle repeats, except that the monies involved have increased by a factor of 20 - and this is only the beginning Global cooling funding was just a warm up exercise using some chump change to get ready for the big Globaloney warming scam. Back in the Bee Gees era, ice sheets in major cities were supposed to be just as common as Gay Pride parades or Muslims protesting this or that infidel desecration of their wonderful, peaceful, ‘faith’, are in our modern megalopolises. Now 30 years on we go from icicles to the toasted oven effect. While Globaloney scams are inconvenient truths for citizens who bear their costs and psychological effects, they are very convenient forms of government, political and activist, power-mongering. Nicely greased on public money, what were the ‘Cooling’ institutes unanimous conclusion during the era of bad clothes and big hair? After 10 years of public grants, the establishment of various ‘Environmental Protection Agencies’, and the giving of grants to scientists to scare up some doom and gloom, by 1975 the toiling citizen-slave was being screamed at by governments and their institute-dependents about the coming end of civilization – circa 1980 thanks to a coming ice age. Such blather was taught in high school with little children brow beaten about the deleterious effects of putting out a bag of garbage Canada Goose since humanity’s reckless consumerism was destroying mother earth. Nothing like brainwashing the young to support the cult. This Global cooling scaremongering had it purposes. It allowed governments to construct regulatory agencies, increase taxation on various goods, and create unaccountable bureaucracies that doled out money to government friendly and activist supporting friends. This created government dependent allies, including scientists, institutes and university research groups who would be out of business if not the for the business of scare-mongering and who could be called upon to rush to the barricades to defend various government-sensitive initiatives. Nothing breeds friends more than the handing out of unaccountable and non-transparent public money grants. The erection of eco-friendly institutes and funding schemes and the sloshing around of millions only made it a matter of time before Global cooling [or whatever scam was appropriate] would find its way into the media as a ‘truth’. With all that cash scientists and research institutes had to justify the grants and if government was concerned about the impending ice age, then so be it. So they went after the media and the political class with great effect. Nary a politician or media pundit was a Global cooling denier in 1974. Just as today nary a socialist or Marxist deep thinker denies Global warming. Notice the language from an erstwhile Global cooling believer, Time Magazine June 24, 1974: ‘Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.’ This article goes on to link Global cooling with the annihilation of agriculture; famines; and millions of dead. Notice the language from an erstwhile Global warming true-believer, Time Magazine, March 26 2006; ‘Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater into the sea but dumping whole glaciers. By one recent measure, several Greenland ice sheets have doubled their rate of slide, and just last week the journal Science published a study suggesting that by the end of the century, the world could be locked in to an eventual rise in sea levels of as much as 20 ft.’ This article goes on to link the destruction of ice sheets with agricultural annihilation, climactic upheaval, famines and millions of dead. So in a mere 30 years the so-called ‘scientific consensus’ goes from worrying about deepening ice sheets in Greenland, to the home of Eric the Red becoming the new swanky Cote D’azur and Caribbean vacation competitor. That seems intelligent. What about the hated eco-holocaust denying, SUV toting Americans?