“Not Evil, Just Wrong” — What to take away from the movie

So far, no film distributors or film festivals have been brave enough to show this film.  So the producers/directors of the film “Not Evil, Just Wrong”, a husband wife tandem, aired it all over the world live on the Web.  Credit Andrew Breitbart who threw in tremendous support promoting the event.

The movie was shown via ustream in people’s homes, churches and schools all over the globe simultaneously.  It was truly amazing being part of such a unique event.

So what did the movie have to say?  The film begins by disputing several claims that have been accepted as fact over the years.  For example:

• It recounts how a Judge in the High Court of London had found 9 significant flaws in Al Gore’s movie, “The Inconvenient Truth.”  These flaws include that the last ten years have been the warmest in recorded history.  In fact, temperatures are getting a little cooler.
• The film delved into the ban on DDT, which was later banned mostly due to Rachel Carson and her book, Silent Spring.  In fact, no connection has ever been found between the use of DDT and breast cancer.  And despite heavy use in the 1940s in this country, there have been no extinction of any species of birds related to its use.  Malaria was wiped out in the U.S., partly due to DDT, but it persists today in developing nations like Uganda and South Africa.  There, millions and millions of men, women and children die from malaria.
• The movie also discusses how the infamous “hockey stick” chart was disproved by a businessman and a mathematician.

 After the movie ended, Ann McElhinney said in the live Q&A panel that teachers are teaching religion to children in schools all over America, the “Green Religion”.  In an a previous post of mine on global warming, I pointed out that the scientific method should be employed to study our planet’s climate, but unfortunately, religious and nonsensical approaches are often used instead.  Ann, a citizen of Ireland, was movingly patriotic when referring to our country, demonstrating an appreciation for the U.S. that was in stark contrast to the many apologies Obama makes to the world for America.

If you are concerned by the cost of President Obama’s stimulus bill, and the cost of the upcoming health-care legislation, then you will be floored when you delve into the Cap and Trade bill.  Not only will companies like Goldman Sachs make money off of this bill, your electric bills are likely to increase by as much as 40%.  But, that’s just the tip of the iceberg:

• Those energy bill hikes in your home bill would also affect businesses as well.  Their increased costs would be embedded in everything this country produces, so the prices of everything would go up.
• Millions of manufacturing jobs would flow out of this country and into countries like India and China, which do not have these restrictions.
• And because the rest of the world, which far exceeds the U.S. in population, would not follow these measures, implementing this legislation would have no overall affect on the CO2 produced globally.

So, I have to ask: What’s the point?

For those making a profit off of this, everything.  But for the rest of us, it doesn’t make any sense.

Companies are alreay innovating on their own to be more “green,” so why create this complex stock exchange of carbon offsets when companies are already working on solutions themselves.

When I went to school, we learned that CO2 is a basic building block for life on this planet.  We produce it every time we exhale, and plants absorb it returning O2 back into the environment.  So far, scientific research has failed to find any harmful effects from the man-made CO2 released into our atmosphere.

Despite that, the EPA wants CO2 classified as a pollutant –yes, a pollutant –despite being a building block of life.  The motivation is based on their desire to regulate CO2, an outcome  of a Supreme Court case in 2005.

These are big stakes.  As Americans, we cannot be led like sheep by those who use fallacious claims just to make profits.  We need to follow the science, wherever that may lead us.  The truth is, we may not ever truly understand all of the drivers behind our planet’s climate.  But we should strive to do our best to learn all that we can without any political or economic bias.

What we should not do is blindly pass legislation that will forfeit our future as a self-reliant, independent nation of free, innovative citizens.