Al Gore is on Capital Hill this week promoting his “green” business interests to combat global climate change. Al Gore and the charlatans of global warming are the only ones seeing any green in the new “green economy.” Read more here.

Four centuries ago, European kings sent ships around the world to colonize cultures and people who they deemed to be savages. Rich cultures in the new worlds were decimated by disease, pestilence, religion, fear, and gun powder. The rich kingdoms robbed the new world of resources to feed the consumerism of the day. More raw materials were required to build their societies future industrial machines. Centuries later, colonialism collapsed under the weight of trying to manage global enterprises in a changing world.

Today’s kings are the environmentalist who use economic destruction in place of disease and pestilence; fear of the unknown is taught to our youngsters; modern science is corrupted; and agenda journalism has been replaced by true fact finding and reporting.

Fear is spread through our schools where many children now believe the earth may not sustain their lives and or the lives of their children. Ask any child in your life what they are being taught about climate change, which has become the new buzz phrase of the environmental movement.

I believe it is abusive to create this level of unfounded fear in our youngsters. This is indoctrination in the religious like environmental movement at the hands of our public institutions. Most world religions require the believers to have faith that the tenets of their religion are truths—even if those tenets can never be proved or disproved.

When I was a teenager the buzz word was conservation. We were taught to conserve resources for later generations. Conservation allowed individuals to make informed decisions on how to use what they were given.

Today’s environmentalists want to tell individuals what they can and can’t consume—even if they can afford too. One example of this in my life has to do with classic cars. My family owns classic cars from the 1950s and 1960s. But, the California Legislature wants to outlaw our ability to own and operate cars they have deemed “gas guzzlers.”

Environmentalism can only be perpetrated on a society that believes the non-scientific prophecies of the “chief investigators,” and promoters who make slick films filled with misinformation packaged as fact. The British court found nine lies in Al Gore’s Academy Award winning film An Inconvenient Truth, and these lies must be reported to British school children before viewing the movie. Yet, I know my son has seen this film at least three times since its release, but he has never been told by a classroom teacher that there are factual lies in the movie. When I discussed these factual lies with one of my son’s teachers, she was completely unaware of the British court’s findings. A quick internet search informed the teacher that she had been promoting these lies to my youngster.

The environmental movement had to change its phraseology when the planet began cooling in 1998. You may have missed the news that planet earth is actually three to four degrees cooler than it was in 1997. Somehow the mainstream media thought that the planet’s ability to deviate from the computer simulations provided by the brightest minds at NASA, MIT, CalTech, Jet Propulsion, and Harvard should go virtually unreported.

Those reportedly bright minds forgot to account for solar activity in their global warming computer models. The brightest minds in science and technology are no match for Mother Nature and the only star in our solar system. So today, instead of global warming fear mongering, the threat today is from global climate change. Newsflash for the uninformed: climate has been changing on this planet of 60 million years—long before human activity on the planet. The climate will continue to change long after we are dead and gone.

Even the master environmentalist Al Gore has admitted publicly that humans cannot change the climate. Yet, he travels the world in private jets and huge SUVs telling the world’s population that we must consume less and reduce our “carbon footprint.” Too bad Mr. Gore can’t practice what he preaches. His Tennessee mansion is one of the largest residential consumers of electric power in the state. And, if Al could travel the world in a coach or business class seat he could save thousands of gallons of jet fuel.

We lived in a closed system where every thing on this planet is made from, or contains, carbon. In our closed system called planet earth, carbon must be released to find a new use. Consumption, decomposition, and burning are three ways carbon is released for repurposing. The released carbon is then free to become a building block of new life. This is a very simple explanation of very complex systems, but there will never be more carbon on the earths than what was originally available for consumption. Carbon is a finite resource that is easily recycled into new material by every living thing. But the environmentalist want you to fear carbon, which is ridiculous and relies on the fact that an eighth grade science teacher didn’t make the lesson on carbon stick in his or her students’ gray matter. Carbon is the building block of all life on this planet. This is the simplest statement in science.

Today, modern environmentalists are trying to control the nations and people of the world by claiming a moral high ground and discuss improvable scientific theory as fact and justification for restrictions on the manufacture and consumption of every good and service in our daily life. Carbon has become the weapon in a maze of lies and half truths designed to create fear at every level.

Greenhouse gases produced by humans and consumed by oxygen producing plants are deemed unsafe for our environment. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is essential for life on planet earth, and human industrial activity contributes less than one tenth of one percent, which is nearly undetectable in the measure of the gases, yet the United States Congress and President Barack Obama continue to discuss ways to tax Americans and reduce the emissions of CO2 gases. “Cap and Trade” and “Carbon Credits,” are two to the terms bandied about to curtail the production of greenhouse gases. The current discussions in congress will cost each household an additional $1,600.00 per year in taxes and taxes that are passed to consumers in the form of higher prices on every consumable. Even every carrot and head of cabbage will have a tax attached to its production and distribution.

Carbon dioxide is exhaled by every breathing animal on the planet. To stop the production of CO2, the planet would have to kill every form of animal life. But, we live in a closed ecosystem of a planet that balances the production of CO2 with the production of CO2 consuming plants. In science they call this a symbiotic relationship between plants and animals. The relationship requires the existence of each partner for survival. Plants produce oxygen so animals can produce CO2. In perverting the science of environmentalism this symbiosis is rarely discussed in any detail.

The mother ship we call Earth has the ability to self-regulate in ways that humans can never predict. Famine, pestilence, and natural disaster converge on the unprepared. Death, infertility, and reduced life expectancies haunt those who put off marriage and family, or over consumed the bounty before them. This generation of Americans with increasing level of morbid obesity is the first to experience reduced life expectancies over those of the previous generation. A generation of American women who delayed child bearing are reaping the rewards of their careers in the form of infertility. Modern medicine has helped a few, but the message remains the same—you can’t fool Mother Nature.

The world is a cruel place, but carbon consumption is not the root of all evil. Global climate change is simply a distraction—the same kind of distraction that the great Oz was to Munchkins. What we really need to fear is the man behind the curtain.