My Mind's Made Up--Don't Confuse Me with the Facts

That was a "tongue-in-cheek" saying popular in my house as I was growing up. We still may use it occasionally. But it is always, as I said, given in jest due to the obvious conflictual nature intrinsic to such a saying. But this conflict does not hinder the "Global Warming" voices out there today, does it? Their minds are made up, so trounce on reason! In a recent BreakPoint post by Chuck Colson (March 31), and with tongue firmly lodged in his cheek, he wondered how these windy prophets could be getting away with their agenda in light of the facts, namely that if anything, we are currently suffering from global freezing, not warming, as any of us who live in the frozen north can attest. Ah, but we cannot be right can we? Of course not! It's evident when facts are ignored that someone has another agenda.

The folk in Fargo, North Dakota might see otherwise. Colson records:

Temperatures across North Dakota have been five to 10 degrees below normal all winter long. Massive snowfalls have blanketed the Peace Garden State for months. As now, North Dakota is enduring an end-of-March blizzard.

The people of Fargo are paying the price. The ice-jammed Red River is cresting more than 40 feet over normal, flooding everything that isn’t protected by the heroic efforts of North Dakota citizens building up and maintaining the levies.

Despite the fact that the globe has been cooling since at least 2002,  or that near-record cold and snow have plagued much of North America all year long, all the proponents of global warming can see is—well, global warming.

This is why its adherents in Congress and in the White House want curbs on greenhouse gases, potentially ruinous cap-and-trade policies, and curbs on oil exploration (at a time when we need to decrease our dependence on foreign oil). And if in the near future you start paying upwards of $5 a pound for ground beef, thank those in Congress who want to tax cow flatulence as a way to combat global warming.

As the New York Times relates, renowned physicist Freeman Dyson has called “climate change an ‘obsession’—the primary article of faith for ‘a worldwide secular religion’ known as environmentalism.” Dyson accuses the adherents of this religion of “relying too heavily on computer-generated climate models that foresee . . . imminent world devastation as icecaps melt, oceans rise and storms and plagues sweep the earth.”

Why emphasize this? Well, more is at stake here than the national deception foisted upon this nation in order to control us through higher taxes. It raises another question: “Have we grown so inept at reasoning that we cannot see through such inane palaver?” Or is it that we have so little fortitude that we are not willing to react against such arguments even when we know that they are patently erroneous? What happened to that old saying so commonly invoked: "Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Seems many wish to keep their heads buried in the (warm) sand regardless of the personal attacks both to their own mental capabilities as well as to their pocket books.