The dismantling of The Weather Channel Environmental team is as much a public relations statement as it is a material policy shift exacted by General Electric. The timing of this action should be alarming to The American Meteorological Society, academia and other institutions funded by thinly disguised grant money gravy train.

Paul Farrell, a columnist with CBS marketwatch makes a strong case that the current economic peril that the United States is in, is the result of a concept that he calls “destruction capitalism”. Basically he states that since the 1980s, a series of economic bubbles were created by the peddling of the illusion of external threats.  The y2k myth is a classic example of a miscalcution, intentional or otherwise that led to the federal reserve pumping massive liquidity into the general economy. much channeled into the .com craze that led to the worst stock market crash and national recession since the early 90s. The oil bubble is another example, with pronouncements by Goldman Sachs and other institutions that the price per barrel of oil would soon eclipse $200.00 a barrel. The housing bubble and sub prime mess are other examples, paradoxiacally, are examples of failures that were misrepresented in an opposite manner, until it was too late for the unwitting.

Last year, Farrell predicted that the final attempt to create a false industry would be created by the fear peddled to the public by the perils of global warming. He also stated that the attempt would fail for two reasons. First, the general public is not buying into the myth. Surveys taken before the general election showed that global warming scored far down the list of electorate concerns. In fact, a large majority of the democratic base indicated an unwillingly to pay any additional money from strained family budgets for greehouse gas curbs.

Thus, the symbolic and practical nature of GE’s action is telling. The timing of the action may have been coincidental relative to market declines and considering that they happened in the middle of Green Week on GE-owned NBC. More likely it represented a small measure of hope, that the free market system actually does work, despite years of cynical rigging by Al Gore, university meteorology departments, The Weather Channel and most importantly, The American Meteorological Society.

GE likely dismisses those interests as pawns in a failed coupe on the sensibilities of the populace and shareholders. By the public execution of the environmental unit GE was tacitly communicating to worldwide investors that they “Get It”. It is also notable that during the same week that this action occured, The French Company responsible for constructing GE wind turbines, business model failed and to the degree that GE was enmeshed in financing the operation, they failed as well. The economies of scale for General Electric are vast and if their attempt to satisfy the demands of an already questionable market failed, common sense would indicate that all other venture capital earmarked for alternative energy would be second guessed. In the public sector, any policy that would overtly impact Americans finances during this time would be, at best perilous.

They will be forced to share diminishing resources, have difficulty maintaining gainful employment and repairing the damage exacted on their credibility. The healthiest directive that the AMS can employ would be to craft a policy statement, acknowledging the true nature of climate change, it’s complexities and the limits of our understanding the vast complexities of the world around us. Ironically, it will require those of us who, despite being sanctioned by the AMS, news management and some state governments and aligned newspapers who would be best suited to “carry a torch” to resurrect the reputation of the AMS, government and news departments who are even now damaged by the disinformation campaign that has gone on, irrelevantly and nearly tragically far too long. So too, one can only imagine what is going on in the psyche’s of educated men and women who became seduced by the blood lust of mob rule.

The cognitive dissonance and self delusion will be unmasked by a sudden material insecurity before family, community and academic circles. Despite a false front it will in actuality will be internally devasating and isolating. Conversely, men and women of character will regard those with a regard for the truth with dignity and respect. It would seem that the choice is really quite simple.