Three cheers for the 'truth'

I like it when people agree with me. Here's a letter published in the TriCounty Record, a community newspapers in Morgantown, Pa., about a recent column I did on the global warming hysteria pushed by Al Gore and his cult following.

Three cheers for the 'truth'

Editor,

As inconvenient as it may be for Al Gore's pocketbook, Chicken Little and his followers (elitists, that is) stand to loose mega-bucks when their scam begins to unravel about them.

As journalist Tony Phyrillas so eloquently stated in a guest column in Nov. 20 issue of the Record, the majority of 'drive-by' media sources are in bed with the alarmists, and "fanning the flames of Global Warming Hysteria."

They even use the term "consensus" when referring to the scientific world. The majority of the "drive-by" journalists are ignorant of the fact that the two terms, science and consensus, are diametrically opposed. Science is ongoing and ever-changing, and never reaches consensus, lest we reach earth's edge and all fall off!

Is man contributing to climatic change? Of course! Is life on the planet threatened? Certainly, but by Islamic terrorism, not global warming. While we are in the midst of a true global crisis, one that is threatening the very existence of all mankind. We face a fanaticism that feeds on and is supported by mad men with titles like dictator, president and prime minister (don't forget monster), and the left-wing loonies need a fabricated crisis to bring attention and research mega-dollars into their ego-tainted coffers.

Rather than join the ranks of patriots, or join with civilized societal leaders, or show backbone in the honest execution of their elected offices, they must create a substantial diversion to fuel their insatiable appetite for control and power.
Chicken Little, who sits in the hen house of some of the largest corporations, is well positioned to become a financial equal to (Warren) Buffet, albeit not even close in the integrity department.

I consider myself an environmentalist. I respect God's great Earth, and I do my share to keep it tidy. I try to give more than I take, and pick up after other non-caring homo sapiens.

I am also too smart to fall for the left's radical agenda. I'm apprehensive about the safety of our great nation, and for the future of my grandchildren and their children. I'm apprehensive about liberalism in our culture, the low morals of some of our society, and the non-citizen illegals who are bleeding our medical system dry.

All of this is taking place while Al and his cronies are propagating a scam of huge proportion that, when truth be told, the recorded differential in earth temperatures has risen about one degree on average over the past 100 years.
By the way, did I mention global terrorism? Our brave men and women in uniform have taken the fight to those who have started it (on Clinton's watch, incidentally), to their turf, giving their all to protect ours.

And while they do their best, the linguini-spined leaders in charge of the homeland are letting it fall to the leftist elites, who have far more important agenda's to mind.

Tom Shappell
Morgantown