The world conference on global warming has just ended in The Hague, Netherlands, and all the treehuggers are really howling. But we live here, too. The environment is not the exclusive property of the Sierra Club, the Green Party, Greenpeace or any other organization. We live here too, and we don't particularly support the wishes of tree huggers, vegetarians, ecologists of many stripes, climate control experts (?) and so on, ad nauseum. We have been threatened with all sorts of catastrophes, from a 10-degree rise in temperature with accompanying brutal storms, lightning, fires, general destruction, famine until the planet explodes. It reminds us of the old fable of Chicken Little and The Sky is falling!

These people, who so willingly trumpet doom, at the same time, tell everyone within earshot that they are the only ones who know the answer to the problem, and should therefore be revered and honored for their leadership. They ignore scientific studies that have full peer review and acceptance, but happen to disagree with their ideas of global warming.

The climatologists from Britain who study ice cores from the Greenland ice cap state that there has been no increase in atmospheric temperature since 1940 are simply brushed aside. The data from this study disagrees with the preconceived idea that there is global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels should just be ignored.

The obvious mindset of these groups reveals the weakness of their beliefs. In other words, if you don't have a good argument with logic and facts on your side, you must necessarily talk louder! The Green Party, the Sierra Club, and others cut from the same cloth should take a good look at themselves before they try to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.

The Achilles Heel in all of the arguments of all of these treehuggers, vegetarians, liberals of all persuasions, is the obvious fact that they covet the power to tell the rest of us how to live. The World Conference on Climate Control has failed to deliver on its plan to give to the Earth's inhabitants a new set of Commandments to govern our lives. The old set of Ten Commandments is good enough.