GLOBAL WARMING NEWSPEAK

GLOBAL WARMING NEWSPEAK

Contrary to popular belief, George Orwell lives.

Okay, technically the author of 1984 passed to the great beyond in 1950 but Orwellian thought lives and thrives in the persons of Al Gore and his fellow global warmists who employ Orwell’s “Newspeak” whenever necessary, i.e., whenever reality gets in the way of their propaganda.

As the Northeast shivers, as Montana sets a new record low temperature, (-31 degrees), as snow hit semi-tropical New Orleans, never is heard a discouraged word from the Gorewarmists. They attribute the freeze not to the oncoming winter solstice when things tend to get cold in the Northern Hemisphere but to, what else, global warming: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081214/D952LKP00.html.

Classic Newspeak or Doublespeak, take your pick, or language and interpretation distorted to serve ideological goals rather than the accepted purpose of language, to communicate.

You can almost feel Gore’s sweat in the increasingly-panicked tone of the rhetoric being spewed from the warmists’ new acolyte, President-elect Barack Obama, “The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over . . .We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.”

He is supported by one scientist who warns of a natural Armageddon, “We are out of time . . . Things are going extinct.” Meanwhile, from Reality Land, this report on thousands of new species of flora and fauna, from plants to mammals, to insects, to frogs, to fish, being discovered in Asia:...

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