Climate change movement finds a new friend
February 4, 2010 by Matthew Jarzen
Violent extremism is not new for environmentalists.
The concept of “global warming” took a big hit last year.
It seems that its credibility as an area of scientific research has since become nothing more than a laughing stock, portrayed by the leaked e-mails between researchers that showed an attempt to hide evidence suggesting that global warming is simply a lot of hot air.
Humorously, the conference held in Copenhagen on global warming became nothing more than a contradiction when Copenhagen experienced the worst snow storm in decades.
The conference that was supposed to be the groundbreaking summit of the century turned out to be a complete bust.
Needless to say, these setbacks have curbed the global warming enthusiasts’ attempts to remake our world and they have since decided it’s best to lay low for a while.
But the devout followers of the belief of global warming have quickly found a new and unlikely friend in their ranks singing the gospel of global warming as if he were the second coming of Al Gore.
“The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent.”
Who gave this masterful recitation of the “Inconvenient Truth?”
Does this sound like it would come from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez? Perhaps the extreme Michael Moore? Or President Barack Obama?
The newest crusader — or should I say jihadist — joining the ranks of believers is none other than Osama Bin Laden.
In a new audio tape released by the Arab news network Al Jazeera, Bin Laden said, “This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions – whether intentionally or unintentionally – and about the action we must take.”
Who does Bin Laden blame for the phenomenon of global warming? Well, the typical laundry list of the Left’s villains: George W. Bush, the United States, Republicans, to an extent, the West in general, major corporations and capitalism.
In the audio tape, Bin Laden takes note of the U.S.’s failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol citing that the U.S. and corporations “are the true criminals against the global climate.”
Now, if I didn’t know any better, I’d say this sounds an awful lot like what we’ve been hearing from traditional global warming enthusiasts.
Take hero of the Left Chavez, in his remarks during the Copenhagen summit: “If we don’t do this, then the great creation of our planet — humans — will disappear,” he said. “It doesn’t need us, but we can’t exist without it. We’re destroying it — destroying mother earth.”
Chavez has also blamed capitalism as a factor contributing to global warming — or was that Bin Laden?
Either way, you’d think with Bin Laden’s global warming revelation, real global warming enthusiasts would denounce him.
Well, not quite: It seems that the environmentalists will simply go by the old adage, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Both environmentalists and Bin Laden view America as Satan, whichever form it may take. So, these two seemingly strange bedfellows will feel right at home.
After all, extreme environmentalists condone acts of terrorism so long as it benefits the planet.
Take for example the mysterious ELF organization. From its name, the organization might sound like it would consist of a group of disaffected World of Warcraft players, but ELF actually stands for the Earth Liberation Front.
ELF was founded in 1992 and has since been classified as a group of “eco-terrorists.”
ELF was responsible for numerous arsons and firebombings of condominiums and SUV dealerships. Granted, these attacks didn’t kill any human beings, but the goal was terror-related nonetheless.
Acts of terror are also not far from the history of the radical environmental organization Greenpeace – recall that its members caused $60,000 in damages to a coal-fired power-plant in England to raise awareness for global warming.
I suppose since radical Islam hasn’t been working out too well for Bin Laden, he thought he’d feel right at home with the eco-terrorists.
I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if the newer, greener al-Qaida killed a few thousand people along the way.
After all, to the environmentalists, humans are what is wrong with the planet.
Just ask Obama’s science czar John Holdren, who at one point, believed that humans were so bad for the planet that it was necessary to have forced abortions and/or forcibly sterilize humans.
But we cannot miss what Bin Laden was really getting at with all this terrorism stuff — the love of Mother Earth. I suppose that’s why Bin Laden decided to reduce his carbon footprint by choosing to live in caves like our ancestors did.
And you thought you were all high-and-mighty driving in your Smart Cars or hybrids — Bin Laden has you beat!
Too funny! Keep up the great satires!
-R.C.
What a crazy opinion piece. I agree with R.C. it is full of funny stuff!
I am just going to comment that epic blizzards to not explain away Climate Change or Global Warming. They actually support it. Warmer oceans and bodies of water increase evaporation which increase the likelihood of epic snowstorms.
http://www.pewclimate.org/blog/gulledgej/science-question-cold-weather-global-warming
I could write a point to every one of your hysterical comments, but I doubt it would change your mind. You can not come to all of these conclusions without a total lack of understanding about Climate Change and a complete denial of the science.
I would like to add a comment about this sentence:
“After all, to the environmentalists, humans are what is wrong with the planet.”
Let us get one fact straight, environmentalists are trying to save the humans from suffering by having a clean, healthy planet that can provide food, water and shelter to us. If environmentalists truly just wanted to save the planet for the planet’s sake, then they would just allow humans to continue to destroy the environment that provides us with life. Because just like when the dinosaurs went extinct, the Earth will continue to spin and have life on it with or without humans. Humans need to be responsible and preserve the planet so we can continue to call it home.