Page One in the Book of Lies

Canada's Financial post has a piece today from Peter Foster called "Road to Bali."

Rarely will you see such candid and accurate discussion of "global warming" in a major newspaper. The opening paragraph sums up the entire motive and effect of global warming hysteria as well as anything I've ever seen:

The real theme of this United Nations gabfest -- like that of its 12 predecessors, and of the hundreds, if not thousands, of related meetings --is whether globalization and trade liberalization will be allowed to continue, with a corresponding increase in wealth, health and welfare, or whether the authoritarian enemies of freedom (who rarely if ever recognize themselves as such) will succeed in using environmental hysteria to undermine capitalism and increase their Majesterium. Any successor to Kyoto will be rooted in hobbling rich economies, increasing the poor world's resentment, unleashing environmental trade warfare, and blanketing the globe with rules and regulations that benefit only rulers and regulators. Bali is not about climate; it symbolizes the continued assault on freedom by those who seek -- or pander to -- political power under the guise of concern for humanity.

Foster points out that, just as humanity was ridding itself of one of the most oppressive lies in history (Marxism) in the Soviet Union, the global warming horde came on the scene and "represented almost the passing of a poisoned baton."

Foster also nails a key characteristic of environmental alarmism and the bigger umbrella under which it falls:

Climate-change alarmism couldn't be presented as simply a new justification for power-seeking, so it had to be cloaked--as social-ism has always been cloaked, both consciously and unconsciously -- in concern for "the poor."

If a "Book of Lies" that looks back over human history is ever compiled someday, "global warming" and Marxism will compete fiercely for Page One.