"Climate Change"

Climate Change and The Choice Of Life

This article is pretty good and despite the bizarre ending, it makes a good point. Correlation is not causation, so without any type of veritable evidence on whether humans cause climate change, how can any half witted person take the desperate actions – the institutionalization of “fighting” climate change, presumably soon to be coined the “war” on climate change - and mass regimentation advocated by governments and interest groups as rational?  Let us not forget Bog Higgs’ conclusions in Crisis and Leviathan, governments love crises and its growth can be described by a ratcheting effect.  Moreover, by acting on dubious science and expanding government control of various activities identified as contributing to climate change, ex-post no one will be in the position to rigorously examine the efficacy of any policies enacted.  Not only will no one be in the position to do so, the 1984 remnant government to come will be less than cooperative.  Just like the winner in war writes the history - usually less than true to fact - when government enacts policy, its establishment intellectuals decide on the statistics, and obviously these guys don't want to harm the hand that feeds it.  In fact, a fortiori even if there were whistleblowers ready to expose the hypocrisy, it has been proven over and over, no government willingly admits to the failure of its policies and invariably acts to suppress any problematic ideas and people – think Iraq, Cold War or "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." In conclusion, not only is the science behind climate change suspicious, any measures taken aimed at fixing or reversing climate change will invariably fail and only lead to ever more intervention. Ludwig Von Mises wrote about the inevitable failure of government policies and the logical conclusion of intervention “What these people fail to realize is that the various measures they suggest are not capable of bringing about the beneficial results aimed at. On the contrary they produce a state of affairs which from the point of view of their advocates is worse than the previous state which they were designed to alter. If the government, faced with this failure of its first intervention, is not prepared to undo its interference with the market and to return to a free economy, it must add to its first measure more and more regulations and restrictions. Proceeding step by step on this way it finally reaches a point in which all economic freedom of individuals has disappeared.  Then socialism of the German patter, the Zwangswirtschaft of the Nazis, emerges."