Science claims that global warming is a real and urgent threat. Science says that we, humans, are the cause of this global crisis and that every second we don’t act more icebergs are melting that will make the sea level rise and cause mass flooding throughout the entire world. Science says that emissions from burning fossil fuels are getting trapped in the atmosphere and turning it into a greenhouse of sorts, a greenhouse where we are the helpless geraniums trapped under a blazing summer sun. Science says global warming will kill us all if we don’t act now.

That definitely sounds terrifying, and it would be too if it wasn’t all completely false. Why would science say these things if they weren’t true? In the 1980′s the government decided that the global temperature of the planet was going to rise, and continue rising, and so they put all their scientists to working on the problem and finding out the “facts” about what was happening to our precious planet. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979, and she was responsible for raising this curious hypothesis to a level of national security.

Global warming science soon became a huge international issue. The U.S. government began employing their own scientists to work on the problem and provided grants for any researcher who wanted to jump on board. Unfortunately, they went a little further than that: scientists who opposed or tried to disprove global warming were shut down. Their funding was revoked and they stood a chance of losing their career if they didn’t publicly state that global warming was indeed happening.

Fear is a powerful emotion, not for the people afraid, but for the thing that they are afraid of. If populations were panicked and afraid, the government would have greater control over the people. Global warming made a logical next step after the Cold War ended. When the U.S. population is afraid, they band together under the leadership of the federal government like children huddling under a large umbrella. When the rain stops, there’s no more need for the umbrella, so it’s in the government’s best interests to keep it raining.

Global warming is not backed up by any scientific fact, despite what organizations like Greenpeace and EDF have to say about it. Greenpeace conducted a survey of 400 environmental scientists in 1992, when the global warming movement was riding a high and dangerous wave, with the plan of publishing the results as further proof to the public. The survey ended and Greenpeace was oddly silent on the matter. Why? Because only 15 out of those 400 scientists actually said they believed in global warming. That’s the problem with power. Anything that helps your cause is emblazoned in pink and purple for all to see. If it won’t help the cause, it’s quietly swept under the rug. These are the lies that we are being fed.