Indoctrinating And Bullying Business?

The Las Vegas Review Journal has an editorial today that attacks politicians who are using the power of their offices to attempt to bully and indoctrinate private businesses into toeing their line on global warming.

Contrary to what Al Gore, his pals in Hollywood and the uber-liberals say, the global warming issue is far from settled.

Hundreds of scientists contest the notion that industrial emissions are responsible for an imperceptible increase in the Earth's average temperature over the past 100 years. Recent revisions to NASA temperature calculations have cast serious doubts about the viability of models used to predict humanity's demise. And even Mr. Gore acknowledges that if Western nations abandoned their automobiles and shut down their economies, China, India and other developing countries would pump more than enough pollution into the sky to make up the difference in the decades ahead.

Such facts make it all the more disturbing that some state government officials are among the truest believers in cataclysmic global warming scenarios. Politicians are increasingly using the power of their offices to bully business. Heretics are drawn and quartered by vindictive regulation, which makes the public pay twice through higher consumer prices and higher taxes.

Last week brought two news stories indicative of the dogmatic global warming policies undertaken by bureaucrats. One offered a glimmer of hope for those who challenge the alarmist rhetoric of doomsayers. The other revealed how far these followers will go to impose their will.

Go read about the two court cases. Both are extreme cases of overreach by politicians. More importantly, both are attempts to use the courts to force policies into place. Since crippling the American economy will do nothing to stem greenhouse gasses, but will certainly badly damage America, do we really want law imposed by judges? Especially since there is ample evidence that the solutions being touted by the true believers are actually worse for the planet?