Control Is The Issue

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Rain or Shine, Environmentalists Want to Control Us
By Dan Gainor
Vice President Business & Media Institute

This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars for it no matter whether it’s true or not.

But the weather has been inconveniently cold. Thirty-two states have experienced record or near-record lows this winter –- poking holes in the predictions of imminent fiery doom. Just ask the die-hard global warming activists who showed up in Washington last week to protest the nation’s use of coal. Their event was hampered by nearly a foot of snow in the nation’s capital –- enough to freeze out luminaries like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

The climate debate isn’t just about temperature, European Union President Vaclav Klaus told the gathering of scientists and public policy experts at the International Conference on Climate Change. He said “environmentalists want to change us and our behaviorâ€