Henny-Penny’s call came as a surprise. I hadn’t heard from
her in months. More surprising was what she had so say:
H-P: I’ve resigned as secretary of The Holy Order of The
Sky Is Falling because I’ve learned that it was based on a faulty
premise.
Me: That’s breathtaking. What’s happened to change your
life.
H-P: Last spring I was promoted to production chief here
at the egg ranch. I now oversee all the hens to make sure they meet
their daily egg quotas, but I no longer have to meet one myself.
That gave me some time to study. I read what skeptical scientists
have to say about the long-range effects of the slight average
warming of temperatures on Earth over the last century.
Me: What did you conclude?
H-P: That the global warming campaign is based on
politics. Many of the delegates to those biennial International
Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) conferences are political appointees
from governments that want to redistribute income and resources
from industrialized countries to ones that aren’t.
Me: What about the scientists who claim the glaciers will
melt, the oceans will rise and crops will fail?
H-P: Their dire predictions are based upon computer models
which are only as good as the assumptions put into them. When they
announce their results, they should say, “If present trends
continue thus-and-so may occur,” but they never do. They insist
their predictions will come true. Then political appointees in
various countries pick up the refrain — along with ecosocialists
and gullible media people — and it reverberates around the
world.
Me: That refrain has become the theme song of your
“pontiff” Al Gore for years now. Have you stopped believing
him?
H-P: I now see that my theory that the sky was falling was
only that, a theory. In fact, in the years since I first announced
it, the sky has not fallen so much as one inch. Al Gore liked the
theory and treated is “settled science.” As for “global warming,”
his only evidence is that he’s full of hot air.
Me: Aren’t the ecosocialists planning another giant
conference?
H-P: Yes, it’s called COP17 and will begin in Durban South
Africa on November 28.
Me: The ones in Copenhagen and Cancun were duds. What will
they try to do this time?
H-P: The World Wildlife Fund and Oxfam will propose a new
global tax of $25 a ton on all shipping. They say it will curtail
carbon emissions. The real purpose is to ratchet down the world’s
industrial production.
Venezuela and five other leftist-led Western Hemisphere
nations will propose a worldwide tax on all financial transactions,
and they want “Mother Earth” to have rights as if the planet were a
person.
Me: The Kyoto Protocol was rejected by Congress several
years ago. Will this conference try to resurrect it?
H-P: Yes, but under the guise of a new “sustainability”
treaty which, if it became law, could result in ruinous
cap-and-trade legislation here.
If China and India refuse to sign on to all this, the
conference won’t succeed. That won’t stop the ecosocialists from
trying again and again. In fact, just the media focus on the
conference alone would embolden Obama’s EPA to push forward with
the drastic regulations it has proposed on carbon
dioxide.
Me: Will the pressure grow for the U.S. to cave in these
various anti-industrial pacts?
H-P: You can bet the ranch on it. Even though a big treaty
did not come out of Copenhagen in 2009, the U.S. signed on to an
agreement that pays $30 billion annually to developing
countries.
That stipend is set to go up to $100 billon annually by
2020. The stated goal for the Durban conference is to get the U.S.
to agree to $400 billion a year!
Bear in mind that the underlying goal of this conference
and the earlier ones is global redistribution of wealth and
concentration of power in the hands of the UN and other
international bodies.
Me: What can individual Americans do about
this?
H-P: Support organizations opposed to the ecosocialist
agenda. Also, write to President Obama, your members of Congress,
pointing out these initiatives would have serious negative
consequences on our economy. As for me, I’m taking vacation time to
go to Durban to picket the conference.
Peter Hannaford first
met Henny-Penny several years ago when she announced her theory
that the sky is falling.
