There is a credibility crisis for Western governments.  For too many years, their incompetence and deceit have forced ordinary citizens to question whether they produce more harm than good.  On both sides of the Atlantic, the governing elite play by a set of rules that separates them from those they govern.  They ignore popular discontent while placing themselves above the law.  It is in this volatile climate that they push the greatest con game ever concocted: man-made global warming.  This is the hubris that brings empires crashing down. Like any confidence scheme, global warming rests entirely on misdirection and bad faith.  While Western governments create hundred-trillion-dollar programs for fighting the weather, they have (1) never scientifically established that man's use of hydrocarbon energy causally leads to temperature change of any kind, (2) never articulated some baseline climate ideal for the planet, and...(Read Full Post)