“Monty Python” did not foresee the current, catastrophic man-made global warming/climate change hoax.  The group did, however, have a firm grasp of everyday absurdities.  Their 1969 “Dead Parrot Sketch” depicts two completely different viewpoints of the reality of a dead “Norwegian Blue” parrot.  The parrot is quite dead to any objective outside observer.  The pet shop owner is unwilling to accept this reality, and he contrives a variety of absurd excuses to explain the parrot’s immobility.

Such is the case now with those denying the fact that their claim – that catastrophic climate change results from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide – has proved false.  For seventeen-plus years, global atmospheric carbon dioxide has continued to increase, yet global temperatures have remained flat.

Schoolchildren are indoctrinated with the dogma of destructive climate change caused by human activity.  However, none of those seventeen or younger have experienced the claimed global warming.

In less than three years, the current global temperature plateau will match the prior twenty-year warming trend, itself preceding a thirty-year global cooling period.  Such reality conflicts with current political dogma and the investment schemes built on political favoritism. 

The reality of a defunct, bogus claim that human activity has measurably or harmfully impacted global climate is not accepted by the shopkeepers who sold the public this dead parrot.  Said shopkeeper is exemplified in real life by Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research: “The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”

The parrot may look dead, but we are not looking at the parrot.  We are looking at our computer, which says the parrot is alive.

A bracingly refreshing whiff of honesty on the climate catastrophe industry was provided by Ottmar Edenhoffer: “This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy. … [O]ne must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”  He failed to point out the direction of this wealth transfer.

This redistribution of wealth via climate catastrophe has made many quite wealthy, including Al Gore and Tom Steyer, and created many a corporation financed with taxes devoted to supporting renewable energy.  This redistribution of wealth upward from the less fortunate to the ruling class via governmental climate policy has been facilitated by the appointment of John Podesta as counselor to President Obama.

Hedge fund monies and activists’ protests notwithstanding, the climate change advocates' pet boondoggle "is no more," "has ceased to be," and is "bereft of life,” in the words of the Monty Python skit.  Everyone else can see this as a dead bird.

However, hope does not die easily for the environmentalism group.  This past Monday, March 10, 2014, Senate Democrats held a night-long vigil to wake up concerns over climate change.  The more scientifically informed public viewed this fittingly as a wake for a dead dogma.