Earth Day Is Also Lenin’s Birthday
Reliapundit of The Astute Bloggers reminds us that today is not only Earth Day, but also the birthday of Vladimir Lenin. And according to Wikipedia, Earth Day was founded on Lenin’s 100th birthday although it was proposed by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin to be “a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment.” Time magazine “reported that some suspected the date was not a coincidence.”
One organization closely association with Earth Day and the environment is Greenpeace. Consequently, it’s worth reading the op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal by Patrick Moore, a co-founder and former leader of Greenpeace, in which he advises “the environmental movement is not always guided by science.” His conclusion?
“We all have a responsibility to be environmental stewards. But that stewardship requires that science, not political agendas, drive our public policy.”
Speaking of political agendas reminds one of the political agenda of the global warming alarmists, who claim that global warming is caused by human use of fossil fuels. However, Reliapundit and Doug Ross @ Journal note that world temperatures keep falling while CO2 keeps rising. Ross notes that “(a) group of scientists has formally petitioned the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“to cease and desist on their message that CO2 emissions relate to warming temperatures.”
Sweetness & Light, in fact, suggests that because of fewer sunspots, “an ice age cometh.”
None of the above, however, will stop the foolishness of the five grandees of the Arlington County Board in wasting our tax dollars on their political agenda.