Climate czar has it down cold ~ By Joseph Farah

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By Joseph Farah Posted: October 07, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. – Obi Won Kenobi, "Star Wars"

No, Obi Won wasn't talking about the watering hole of the White House czars. He was describing the fictional Mos Eisley spaceport. He advised caution. And so do I – when it comes to the White House czars. As Henny Youngman might say: "Take John Holdren, the climate czar, please." Today he tells us the planet is heating up to the boiling point because of catastrophic levels of man-made carbon dioxide. But 40 years ago, he was proclaiming the dawn of a new ice age – with many of the same government prescriptions in mind. In the 1970s, Holdren said government would have to stop population growth to keep the planet habitable for those lucky enough to live through his plans. Fortunately, people were smarter in the 1970s. They didn't buy it. They kept having babies. They eventually elected Ronald Reagan when they got tired of Cassandra-like warnings about an imminent apocalypse caused by American capitalism and Christianity. Holdren's rhetoric 40 years ago about an impending ice age was just as dire as his more recent prognostications about global warming. In "Global Ecology," which he co-edited with Paul Ehrlich, he predicted the "destruction of all life on this planet" as one of the possible consequences of the cooling he foresaw. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]