Dangerous Myth

If you want to see why the cult of global warming is more a destructive myth rather than "better safe than sorry" prudence, then just pop down to Norfolk.

Believing that it is impossible to defend against the huge rises in sea levels predicted by the high priests of global warming, the British government has decided to abandon all efforts to maintain sea defences in the county. The result? Six villages will be lost to flooding inside the next hundred years whether the waters rise or not. Amazingly, this is presented as being necessary on the grounds of economy by a government that never saw a rat hole it couldn't resist trying to fill.

The truly frightening thing is that what is happening in Norfolk is a microcosm of what will happen in Africa and other impoverished parts of the world. The chattering classes of the West busy themselves convincing their governments to spend potentially trillions of dollars to try to offset Al Gore's energy consumption and slow the pace of a global warming trend that may not even be happening by a a mere one or two years. Meanwhile, vital efforts to provide clean drinking water, improve sanitation, increase crop yields, combat malaria and generally improve the standard of living get overlooked, declared as hopeless or discounted as unimportant because it is far more important to face the greatest threat the world has ever seen and Save the Planet^tm.

Doubtless when the waters flow through the high streets in Norfolk it will be chalked up by the faithful as another sin of man against Blessed Gaia, but the rest of us will remind them of what a self-fulfilling prophecy is.

Update: At least there is balance in the Force.