Let’s try the truth for a change

The idea that environmentalists should tell the truth rather than continuing to hype “global warming” is a good one. I am an outdoors-man, I love the environment, and want to protect it. Just don’t try to manipulate me with talk of man-caused global warming, which, as records from recent years indicate, warming may or may not be occurring. And these changes in global temperature, if they are real, may or may not have anything to do with human activity. Let’s emphasize what we know. The introduction of particulates and toxic substances into the atmosphere is bad. Let’s minimize it. The introduction of toxic substances to our lakes, rivers and oceans is bad. Let’s minimize it. Don’t let your admiration for Al Gore, your hatred of George W. Bush, your distaste for economic growth, your sense that the world’s resources are unfairly distributed, your dislike of oil and coal, etc… turn you into a bobble head doll, a Stepford Wife, or any other variety of well intentioned useful idiot, ready to be  manipulated by those who stand to profit from the proliferation of the idea that man-caused global warming is an indisputable fact and settled science. It is not.

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