What motivates enviro alarmists? ~ By Joseph Farah

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Joseph Farah Posted: December 12, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I'm beginning to believe very few of the environmental alarmists actually believe what they say. I suspect their motivations are not "saving the planet," but something else entirely. This isn't true only of those in Copenhagen this week, claiming now we only have "weeks" to reverse cataclysmic climate change. It's true of all environmental chicken littles. Let's examine a much smaller example to put this in perspective. Way back in the 1970s, when no one had yet dreamed up the possibility of catastrophic, manmade "global warming," the big threat in environmental circles was PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls. These chemicals were widely used for three decades in electrical equipment because of their insulating properties until Renate Kimbrough of the Centers for Disease Control decided to feed massive quantities of PCBs to lab rats and found they caused liver cancer. Not long afterward, in 1976, Congress banned the use of PCBs. Almost 25 years later, Kimbrough revisited the subject in a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and found no link between PCBs and human health problems. That study, by the way, focused on more than 7,000 people who worked from 1946 to 1977 in GE power plants on the Hudson River – plants that dumped massive amounts of PCBs into the river. Even though PCB levels in the Hudson were dropping every year as nature took its course, and despite the new study by Kimbrough, the Clinton administration decided to invest in a major dredging operation of the river. The Bush administration later green-lighted the project at an estimated cost of $460 million. All along the way, critics explained the worst possible thing you could do if the goal was to reduce PCB levels in the Hudson was to dredge. They said dredging would actually raise the levels of PCBs in the river. Scheduled to begin in 2003 or 2004, the project finally got under way last spring – with a new price tag of $780 million. Would you like to guess the results? READ FULL STORY>>