Global Warming: How It All Began

Here's a little perspective: What do the British coal miner's union, Trident nuclear missiles and man-made global warming all have in common?

Margaret Thatcher.

Yes, in 1979 that right-wing heroine of free market capitalism faced two seemingly divergent problems - she desperately needed a way to crush the coal miners union and she desperately needed new atomic weapons.

So she and her advisers contrived to invent global warming to scare the public off King Coal. To replace the coal she proposed nuclear plants with their handy byproducts of fissionable material.

Lady Thatcher touted her bachelors in Chemistry degree as qualification enough to expound on the brand new "science" of global warming. She succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. She had her way with the unions, built new nuclear plants and weapons, and left us with one of the greatest scientific hoaxes of all time - Anthropogenic Global Warming - the Piltdown Man of climatology.

Read the exquisite details here.