Beware of the climate change mind police

The governments are quietly talking about improving infrastructure away from threatened areas, but, of course, this has nothing to do with climate change. Trying to get the government to admit there is a problem is almost impossible. There are bans on building and development on the coast, but this does not include the extraction industries. It is okay to build an open cut coal mine in a volatile area. Moreover, there is no public consultation.

The precipitous slide in climate change acknowledgement by a whole range of new climate change sceptics suggests a rigorous industry driven public relations campaign is taking place. It is putting doubts in the minds of ordinary people. It also suggests little concern about the other threats created by global warming; these include threats to health and well being, loss of water and food production and shortages of basic amenities limited by costs and supply.

A number of Americans, Britons and Australians appear to have had a change of heart on climate change and are not necessarily convinced it is occurring: this also seems to have coincided with an increased general distrust of politicians and bureaucrats. There have been stolen emails, leaked documents and dodgy figures coming out of research institutions and organisations such as the IPCC: none of it inspires confidence in our governments and their planning decisions. We have to wonder how much of it is motivated by the need to sway public opinion away from climate change risks and towards a general acceptance of large scale mining despite the consequences

Most environmentalists were disappointed with the outcomes at Copenhagen and no one was surprised to see a backlash campaign revealing the slaughter of dolphins in Denmark.

The genuine scientists who worked on the IPCC report were lost in the mire of the climate sceptics’ public relations propaganda, which, everyone suspects, is backed by enormous mineral industry funds.

The result is clear: an absolute campaign of mind control is occurring, but this happens with fascist governments, or in a dictatorships or a military regime doesn’t it? Surely it doesn’t happen through the Western democratic processes; or does it?