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Page 8 The Westchester Guardian Thursday, JUly 1, 2010The Right TurnMichael LimatoThe GreenTwilight ZoneIt’s officially summer and time forbeaches, barbeques and cable TV marathonsof The Twilight Zone. My favoriteepisode is The Midnight Sun (1961).Characters Norma (Lois Nettleton) andMrs. Bronson (Betty Garde) are the onlypeople left in an apartment building as amajor planetary disaster looms. Radionews reports the sun is on an irreversiblecollision course with Earth.The stifling heat rises and Loiscollapses with exhaustion. In a flash,she wakes up. Mrs. Bronson is hoveringover her, patting her forehead with acold cloth. Lois shivers with fever as afierce blizzard rages outside the window.It was all a dream. In reality, the earth isslowly moving away from the sun andthe planet will soon freeze to death.President Obama and the left --hell bent on carbon taxing everythingfrom industry to cow farts -- push thewarming theory for ideological andfinancial gain. Like The Midnight Sunepisode, theirs is a dream world in whichthey believe the earth is warming when,in fact, it is actually cooling. Globalwarming will go down in history as oneof the great scientific frauds of our time.In November 2009, global warmingskeptics had a boost. Files and E-mailsleaked from the University of EastAnglia, a world center for pollution andclimate studies, revealed global warmingadvocates cooked the data on climatechange.Different regions of the world havenormal cooling and warming trends.The planet as a whole has experiencedcooling and warming trends well beforeinvention of fossil fuels. It may be due tovariations in solar radiation. Men oncefarmed areas of Greenland now coveredby glaciers. A few years ago, Danishscientists studied Greenland’s ice core.It showed the earth naturally coolsand warms every two thousand years.Mother Earth has had hot flashes longbefore man walked the earth. Whethershe cools or warms, there is nothinghumans can do about it.It came as no surprise that Mr.Obama used his Oval Office address topromote dangerous cap-and-trade legislation.First, Mr. Obama acted like theprofessor again, lecturing the public onhow the spill happened, as if we wereall wearing cone hats in his classroomand never read the newspapers. Next, hepresented his revisionist account on howdeftly his administration managed thespill (see Guardian June 24 th , p. 8).Every American president, fromRichard Nixon to Barack Obama,promised alternative energy and an endto our dependence on foreign oil. Thefederal government has subsidized therenewable solar and wind industries forthe past thirty years. Nothing substantialhas come from it. We must rely onoil for generations to come.Renewable solar and wind energy isTwelfth Century technology. Americarelied on it before the IndustrialRevolution. We moved away from itbecause it costs more than fossil fuels.Solar and wind infrastructure demandsvast amounts of land and cuts intonatural habitats.The terms “renewable,” “green,”and “reform” sound good on paper,but say nothing about how we harnessand deliver this type of energy to theconsumer. Mr. Obama does not know.In his address, he claimed our children’sfuture was at stake and we must act now“even if we’re unsure exactly what thatlooks like. Even if we don’t yet knowprecisely how to get there, we knowwe’ll get there.”Sounds like the song and dance forhealth insurance reform legislation. Wedo not know what it will look like, howmany people will be affected, how muchit will cost, but trust me (wink-wink anda nod), we will get there and it will begreat!If the neo-Monarchs running thenation really want to develop alternateenergy, they should get serious aboutnatural gas. Alaska has one thousandtrillion cubic feet of it. Gas is a safeand clean form of energy ignored in theenergy debate.Alaska also has oil reserves well overone hundred billion barrels. Radicalenvironmentalists prevent us fromtapping Alaskan oil and gas. They insistthe ecology of the North Slope will bedisrupted. Nothing could be furtherfrom the truth. The Alaskan land richfor drilling is essentially deserted tundrawith little wildlife. Environmentalistswho stand in the way of recoveringthis energy are the same interlopers weshould blame for the out-of-controlspill in the Gulf. If oil companies likeBP were permitted to drill on shore orcloser inland, instead of a mile downContinued on page 13