Health Care BS

One reason the Church of Warmism is so intent on silencing Sarah Palin and other heretics involves its desire to use global warming as a pretext for imposing a variety of poorly-conceived public health programs on an unwitting electorate. This agenda was behind last year’s initiative by the American Public Health Association to “educate” voters on the alleged threat:

The connection between global warming and public health is the focus of a new campaign announced by the American Public Health Association. “There is a direct connection between climate change and the health of our nation,” says the campaign’s new blueprint designed to combat the health effects of climate change.

As this  CDC Climate Change Policy  suggests, the public health branch of the Warmist ministry offers virtually unlimited potential for the expansion of government power over our daily lives. Note how the passage finesses the absence of any actual evidence that global climate change poses any serious threat to public health:

Although scientific understanding of the effects of climate change is still emerging, there is a pressing need to prepare for potential health risks. This public health preparedness approach is applied to other threats in the absence of complete data …

But if climate change heretics convince the electorate that global warming poses no public health threat, it will cut off a lucrative source of money and power for the Church of Warmism. For this and other reasons,  Palin has been attacked by Warmist inquisitors for her recent “climategate” editorial. Yesterday, she debunked one such attack from the WaPo’s Eugene Robinson:

I’d like to thank Eugene Robinson for highlighting Alaska’s achievements on climate change and for noting that I’ve ‘treated the issue as serious, complex, and worthy of urgent attention,’ while making ‘any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor.’ But he’s wrong to suggest that my views have somehow changed or that now I’ll have to ‘renounce’ my past efforts.

She goes on to provide Robinson with a brief tutorial on the difference between a voluntary carbon-trading policy and the egregious cap-and-tax policy advocated by the President and his congressional accomplices. Not that critical thinking has much effect on Warmists. A couple of days ago, she administered a similar smackdown to Arnold Schwarzenegger after he shot off his mouth in Copenhagen.

But the attacks will keep coming. The Church of Warmism cannot allow heretics like Sarah Palin to go around questioning ”settled” doctrine. The public health agenda, along with the other “climate change” missions, must go on as planned. Palin must be brought before the Warmist inquisition (i.e. the establishment media) and made to recant, even if she whispers “And yet it cools.”