Two articles in The
Yuma Sun this week suggest that the winds of change might be brewing. The first was Wednesday’s story about the
Dutch king’s sayonara to the 20th century welfare society. He’s looking toward a “participation society”
where people take responsibility for their own future and create safety nets at
a local level responding more realistically to the needs of the people. Sounds like what our founders intended,
doesn’t it?
The
Dutch have faced two truths, first that the classic welfare state is
unsustainable. More importantly, they
discovered what the Romans learned all too late: that dependence on government empties the
body politic of its soul, its spirit.
On
September 20, The Sun reported that
the climate change theists at the UN are wrestling with disconcerting data. Although we are pumping exponentially more
“greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere, the earth has been experiencing a
cooling trend since 1998. (“Is global
warming slowing down?”)
The
“scientists” managed to overlook Vice President Gore’s fake hockey stick trick,
but this information cannot be ignored. The
fact that the dilemma was reported by the Associated Press suggests that
conventional wisdom may finally catch up with real science.
Ten
years ago Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv mapped the path that our solar
system travels through the spiral arms of the galaxy, and Canadian geologist
Jan Veizer plotted 500 years of climate change. The pair of scientists
discovered an exact correlation. Apparently
the inflow of cosmic rays affects variations in earth’s temperatures.
American Thinker columnist Raymond
Richman suggests that an anthrocentric view of the universe appeals to man’s
vanity, so it takes a long time for academia and the general public to come to
terms with another explanation. Galileo
was under house arrest for the rest of his life for his disrupting the notion
that earth was the center of the universe.
I
guess we can be thankful that Shaviv and Veizer were not imprisoned or executed
for publishing their heretical findings.
You might remember, however, that Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
did threaten to ostracize climate skeptics in her department. When science is politicized, government
becomes a dangerous force.
Maybe
we are awakening from the fog after all.
September 21, 2013
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