‘Climategate’: Good News World! A Crisis of Faith is Ended
by Adam Baldwin“[Marxist theories provide] a set of slogans that were supposed to justify and glorify communism and the slavery that inevitably goes with it… [although] the ideological fantasies of this movement … were no more than a nonsensical expression of the whims of spoilt middle-class children… the movement did without doubt express a profound crisis of faith.”– Leszek Kolakowski
We live in interesting times, as goes the ancient Chinese curse, wherein vainglorious environmentalist addicts to “the self-deification of mankind” are now desperately clinging to Nietzsche’s “God is dead” raft because humans are, according to their pseudo-science, “killing the planet.”
Yet, as the self-serving rats abandon the sinking ship of fools, the band of “Green Freak” true believers plays on…
For example, an actor cum environmental activist intolerantly agitates the slogans “Read peer-reviewed studies!”, “You should have an energy audit in your home!” & “You can’t destroy the commons!” on Fox News.
As if using incandescent light bulbs could destroy the commons.
In response to the good news that anthropogenic ‘global climate change’ has now, at long last, been irrefutably exposed by the infamous CRU emails as a gigantic hoax and fraud — shouldn’t Green Freaks be happy, or at least somewhat relieved for earth’s sake?
Apparently, not… Which would indicate the whole charade was never an ethical scientific endeavor at all, but an ideological-financial-political bamboozle.
Replete with its very own crypto-religious dogma, and indulgence purchases:
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It’s no secret that many of the ideological refugees from the Soviet socialist collapse retrenched within the environmental movement. This was an easy and obvious choice for them to make, in that one of the main currents of the socialist vanguard, historically, had been the divide-and-conquer exploitation of under-class groups as their surrogate agents for their (hopelessly unsustainable) utopian revolution.
However, during WWI the working class thankfully abandoned the revolution in favor of capitalism’s Liberty, thus debunking Marxist theory and forcing its totalitarian vanguard to scrounge around for other groups to exploit. This is reflected in what we witness as race/gender/sexual-preference groups being agitated to heighten tensions and divisions in what would otherwise be a generally peaceful, coexisting majority in America and elsewhere.
“Never let a crisis you’ve created go to waste… or allow a surrogate mascot to escape its dependency on the statist savior…” or something.
Within the irrational cult of indiscriminate environmentalism, statists found perfect surrogate-mascots for their failed revolution: animals, plants, rocks, water, even the very air we all breathe. Of course, these un-sentient mascots have no voice, and therefore no choice as to who should speak on their behalf according to their needs.
So, the “Save the Planet!” statists expediently leapt at the chance to again (once and for all) subvert capitalism and individual Liberty by brandishing these creatures and inanimate objects as their moral-do-gooder swords and shields. Epic fail!
One can perhaps muster some sympathy for ignorant useful idiot global warm-mongers that were simply acting with misguided ‘good-intentions’ and are now suffering the anguish of losing their religion.
But, derision and criminal charges are certainly due the unscrupulous racketeers that intentionally cooked the data, or selfishly looked the other way as a means to amassing personal profits in the fraudulent Green racket. Algore, Carol Browner, call your office.
As America and the world rejoices in the Good News of Climategate’s revelations, does President Obama really want to seem like such an obvious tool of the climate-change hoax crowd by letting his ideology override his fading political instincts?
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Yes "Goblow Warming" is definitely a political movement to make the wealthy educated hardworking folks feel guilty unless they voted democratic so they could save the world. What a bunch of hooey.
“We desperately need a nonpartisan, blinded funding mechanism to conduct research to determine appropriate policy. Scientists are only too aware whom they are working for. Those who fund research — whether a drug company, a government agency, or an environmental organization — always have a particular outcome in mind. Research funding is almost never open-ended or open-minded. Scientists know that continued funding depends on delivering the results the funders desire. As a result, environmental organization ‘studies’ are every bit as biased and suspect as industry ‘studies.’ Government ‘studies’ are similarly biased according to who is running the department or administration at the time. No faction should be given a free pass.” (Michael Crichton, State of Fear, 2004)
SO, the word is finally out…statists LIED about "Global Warming"…
Things that make you go, "Hmmmm…."
"Wonder what else they've been lying about…"
<Start list here…>
/sarc
Oh God… I miss Crichton.
Just watch that video and see how calmly and easily and clearly he explains away the environmentalists…
As for the rest of the article: I think it's a great idea that from now on we just always speak and write in a way that clearly expresses that AGW has finally died. The libs and greens have always spoken like it was a foregone conclusion that they were right, now its our turn.
Another great article Adam! You must be real popular on the left coast. I look for some real hysterics out of the global warming cultist, as climategate builds steam…great fun!
That opening quote is genius.
Excellent, excellent points. It was only a matter of time before the left found an ideology to attach themselves to that would give them the opportunity to claim the moral high ground. Whenever you try to argue against global warming, they gasp Heathens! Don't you care about the planet!? Never mind the junk science. Their intentions are *pure* so it must be okay. (And I mean pure with total sarcasm)
God is dead." -Nietzsche, 1882
"ManBearPig is dead." – Internet, 2009
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Crank up the smokestacks and amp up the beef sales. A new Ice Age is upon us!!
Oh nohz!!
I agree with Mr Crichton except the statement religion can not do the jobs that need done to preserve our environment. We are commanded to be good stewerts of our earth and I would argue just as our great nation has progressed to its current place founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs, the task of preserving our environment may well depend on returning to those principles. Through faith,translated to actions and human behavior, the Lord of the universe can change people and our world. Without faith, we are left to consequences of our own misguided choices.
People wake up. The global warming conspiracy that is being perpetrated upon the dullards of the world will continue on even with copius amounts of PROOF that it is all a scam. The dullards (i.e. liberals) want to believe in something so they have chosen global warming to believe in. As long as these monkeys don't try to take my money I could care less what they think.
I think you're generally right about the envy of American prosperity. But it's a love/hate kind of thing. When I was in Japan during college, my friends and I were treated as almost quasi-celebrities because we were so exotic to them. I kid you not, we had people ask to take their pictures with us. Anything that was considered "Western" was hugely en vogue and mutilated English slogans were all over Japanese merchandise. At the same time though, we were sometimes the objects of suspicion and racism because we were different. When it comes to the environmental agenda it's really important to realize that the motives of other nations in regulating the U.S. has a lot to do with envy and very little to do with the environment.
It's nice to read someone finally exposing environmentalism as a type religion and not just a poltical view point. Guess we could probably say, "Global Warming is dead." (Although I have this feeling people aren't going to let go of it so easily.)
I care about the planet. The solution is not carbon credits and "green" lifestyles. As long as the human population continues growing, our environment problems (AGW or otherwise) will continue to get worse. Although I don't advocate state-enforced family size limits or abortion, I do believe that a concerted effort to reduce the number of human beings competing for limited resources is the way to go. We can do it voluntarily through education and cultural change. (That's why we have brains – so we can do stuff like that.) Or we can wait for Mother Nature to take care of the problem with plague, famine, or unforseeable genetic diseases. The fact is, the planet doesn't need saving from humanity. The planet will destroy us long before we destroy it.
does President Obama really want to seem like such an obvious tool of the climate-change hoax crowd by letting his ideology override his fading political instincts?
Yes.
This isn't over by any means. In my opinion it hasn't even started to end. The MSM, the democrats, modern liberals, academia, and the left in general have far too much time, money, effort and credibility invested in this massive hoax to let go of it.
Do not underestimate the extent they will go to keep this moving. I'm still arguing with my sister who tells me Gorbachev won the Cold War by essentially reaching out and grabbing the bumbling Reagan's hand and pulling him into the future.
This is not Yorktown, this is Lexington & Concord.
Here's a few quotes from people at the vanguard of the environmentalist movement.
“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” – Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony, climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment
What more needs to be said?
That is exactly what they've been getting around for all these years.
As a believer of the scientific method, I've been completely outraged at what has been allowed to pass. I didn't study my ass off with all those physics, calculus, engineering and lab classes to allow these ass hats to make my degrees meaningless.
Second hand smoke.
Socialism/Communism/Liberalism/Modern-Liberalism/Progressives operate on one single, over riding ideal, divide and conquer.
Find a group of people, divide them into factions, determine which faction is most likely to vote for them, then convince them they are victims, and justice lies in using government to crush the other faction. As a nice side note, modern liberals get power.
What bigger victim group than the entire world?
Clap, clap, clap!
Exactly, class warfare. One of the easiest ways for fomenting dissent and strife.
And in the chaos of strife, there is opportunity.
Modern liberals may seem like they are insane, but at the upper echelons, they know exactly what they are doing.
Organic foods.
I like the way they're backpeddling now. Do we even know if these "scientists" are really who they SAY they are. I mean once a liar always a liar in my book.
This well-written article underscores why appeasement fails. If US citizens were to give liberals everything they want, would liberals even exist anymore? No, they must always push for the next level of extremity, or resolve to fix the next "crisis", and, by definition, must seek to mainstream the absolute fringes (you see it already: NAMBLA, vegetation "rights", zoophilia, whatever).
Liberals cannot stand the status quo, no matter how good/right/fair/ethical/proven it is, even if it is one they have created.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, man made global warming is a money making scam and I wish I would have gotten in on it at the start!
I assume that you've let God know that He really screwed up this whole human experience thing? You'd think that, as God, He would have been able to see the effects over time of the mortal experience on the planet that He created. Really, what was He thinking? It's so difficult to get good celestial project management nowadays.
So your "brainy" solution: no enforcement by the state, but "voluntary" educational and cultural change. I've just found my definition of "dichotomy".
I think the point is that they are trying to take your money.
The rate of increase of the human population is already declining.
Estimates are now that worldwide human population will top out at 14-billion, then slowly decline.
There is enough room for all of us, unless we do something stupid like cripple the world's economy.
When economic conditions improve, people have fewer children.
Jonathan Swift said this better hundreds of years ago.
But reality has nothing to do with belief, William James(the father of american pragmatism) broken down simply means, if idiots think it's real it is to them, so if you get enough morons to agree it is reality, so care more.
AWG is the fastest growing religion on the planet, facts or lack thereof to the contrary. It is espoused mainly by people who deny GOD but still need something to cling to to give meaning to their lives, therefore they will fight to the bitter end to defend their delusions regardless of the damage that is done to economies societies and inthe end their own reputations.
News we'd all like to see: "While planning his funeral, Al Gore encounters his greatest burning issue to date: The carbon footprint of his cremation!"
(running and ducking)
Ad hominem arguments prove nothing. Has anyone here actually seen the facts? Or just someone else's interpretation of them?
You are absolutly correct sir! When I read the following:
<h2>In response to the good news that anthropogenic ‘global climate change’ has now, at long last, been irrefutably exposed by the infamous CRU emails as a gigantic hoax and fraud — shouldn’t Green Freaks be happy, or at least somewhat relieved for earth’s sake?
Apparently, not… Which would indicate the whole charade was never an ethical scientific endeavor at all, but an ideological-financial-political bamboozle.</h2>
… I said the same thing as you.
There is just way too much at stake for these people to roll up the carpet and pack it in. Between the acts of rewriting history as it's happening and ignoring any mention of the matters at hand, there are people who think that this will just blow over. And if enough people will just think the same way, everything will be ok.
Too bad for them. Now, let's make them stand accountable for the falsities they've brought upon our society. We certainly are living in interesting times.
You state "But… criminal charges are certainly due the unscrupulous racketeers" as if that's even REMOTELY going to happen. The putrid stench passed off as "Law Enforcement" will bow and scrape before their Masters and then do whatever they're told. Just like the fine California "Law Enforcement" is currently doing for Moonbat on ACORN. Investigate ACORN? No way in hell! Go after those two brave journalists who exposed the sewage? You betcha! And then they wonder why they're called pigs.
Healthcare ~reform~
What facts have YOU seen, JFC?
The ones that, as it turns out, aren't facts?
Ad hominem . Funny, did you learn that @ Troll Academy?
manbearpig
This is why I've heard someone in the know say, "the old guard has to die before the real truths can be revealed," and he was referring to scientists.
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." (Arthur Schopenhauer )
Hey, you're stating all the good ones!
CO2 is a pollutant
Simulacra and Simulations
"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true."
– from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baud...
… and so does go away this United Nation, Global Heating science – ooops, sorry, new religion…
… and since (fortunately) attitudes a’changin’ in a helthier direction, soon, and in the same manner will go away the “scientific” truth that has established that homosexuality is a “normal facet of the human sexuality”, fraudulent tenet so dear to liberals.
Since we are talking about “Mike’s NATURE trick” – pray, can anyone explain where is the science that allowed the removal of homosexuality in 1973 from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association list of mental afflictions?
Doctor Hooker’s study (a piece of Michurin/ Lisenko science in itself) was the convincing science piece that was embraced by that collection of “scientists” and since 1973, the issue has became taboo, and has developed in an ample and completely fraudulent doctrine nicely rounding the warming fraud –
Sooner or later we’ll hear about this…
Yes, there's a lot of envy, but my observation is that it's not the African worker-bees or the Asian middle managers who are angry about it – they're all applying for visas to come here. It's the non-productive multicultural "intellectuals" from around the world, including here, who profess to be angry on their behalf and want to invoke massive change on us without having to suffer the consequences of that change.
>>vainglorious environmentalist addicts to “the self-deification of mankind” are now desperately clinging to Nietzsche’s “God is dead” <<
Sorry, but reading this Breitbart Hollywood is very good at convincing me that "God is dead".
People who are in touch with the Creator of the 'verse should reflect the supposed goodness of the Creator. At least Christianity claims that. Where's goodness in unneccessarily slandering people?
I like Capitalism. It's the better system that should win. Yet, it's not a system that's a sustainable one.
"The Earth got used up". That's all.
Oh, also DDT, since we're mainly talking about environmental stuff here. I learned that from Crichton's "State of Fear," incidentally.
"Although I don't advocate state-enforced family size limits or abortion, I do believe that a concerted effort to reduce the number of human beings competing for limited resources is the way to go."
That's a great idea! And I think the enviro-moonbats of the left should set an example for the rest of us and stop breeding.
The population crisis which we face today is that too many developing nations have upside down family trees–4 grandparents; 2 parents; one child. All of the western european nations except Ireland have a birth ratio of about 1.5 children per woman of child-bearing age, or .6 children BELOW ZPG.
With workers retiring early and living longer, european nations will face an exodus of young workers as the tax burden of providing benefits for a larger number of retirees. Hopefully, we'll be the beneficiaries if Obama leaves office 1/20/2013.
In poor countries, many children mean greater security in societies with no safety net. "Education and cultural change" really means paying Third World corruptocrats to force these changes on their subject populations. Opening family planning clinics in Darfur makes about as much sense as opening weight loss centers during a famine.
It's damn cold here!
The AGW true believers have yet begun to fight. The coming months, when more information will undoubtedly be revealed, will be interesting. These AGWers are not going to go down silently.
Population explosion, Forest and tree extinction!!
Health care reform = Health care insurance destruction.
It's still global…I mean climate change, so says the owlgore!
It's darn warm here in Finland! No snow, no under zero temperatures. It's supposed to be winter! ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf69EEL3WBk
Yes ManBearPig is real, save us Al Gore
Well said. The founders of this country were inspired to write the documents that has served this country well. Remind your Reps, if something has to go, it will be them, if they don't respect them.
24"Therefore (V)everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25"And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
26"Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27"The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell–and great was its fall."
28(W)When Jesus had finished these words, (X)the crowds were amazed at His teaching;
29for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
Watching to see what is done and by whom in investigating and bringing to justice the perps in this Emperor Has No Clothes "staged" play. Doubt that the perps are aware that there will be a big "backfire" that will warm their britches rather than the planet. There will be no sliding out of this. It has caused us all stress and money and extra unnecessary work and planning, and hid the truth from us. They have no right to play with OUR LIVES AND OUR FUTURES AND OUR WORLD like they have done, and get away with it. Citizens have legal rights to protection from these people. Move over MADOFF, company's coming and you can spend time comparing "schemes."
Just stick around on this site and:
BigGoverment
Newsbusters
HotAir
just to start you off. You need to get the years of MSM gook out of your system. I say this as a friend.
Enjoy it while you have it. 1,000 years ago, what we call Greenland actually was green.
By 2050, every single European country is projected to have a Muslim majority, and there's no way to reverse that now. It is going to happen. North America still has time to turn the tide, but that's if they start working on it right now. If not for our Latino population, the overall population of this continent would be in a rapid decline, and it's been estimated that by the beginning of 2100, the United States will also have a Muslim majority. The average family in Europe has 1.5 children. The average Muslim family in Europe has 8 children. World Muslim political leaders have been caught on film saying that they don't need terrorists and suicide bombers to change the world, they just need patience, because their children will do the work for them. In about 50 years, the world is going to be a very different place. What types of attitudes and politics do you think are going to be in play when the majority of every single democratic nation in the world is Muslim?
Adam Great post.
I think one of the reasons that these nonsense tactics works is the failure to teach science in the class room the way they were doing even 30 years ago. These people telling us to "read peer reviewed" studies are the same people whose last science class was in eighth grade because the high schools treated "science" as an elective who clepped "Algebra" in hig school so they would not have to take a math class in college. If they had taken any science classes they would explain how the science worked. When the IPCC had the Cambridge press send a 198 page document explaining all the "horrors" that would befall us due to Global Warming it would devout more than a quarter of one page to a graph to explain the meaning of the ANtartic Ice Core samples to evidence that CO2 levels are rising. It might even speculate things like what is the optimum level of CO2 in our atmosphere for our species. You'd think with an 800 billion Cap and Trade Tax they might want to answer that question. It is scary that the average american high school student in 1950 learned more science in school that in 2010. And they dare to call themselves Progressives…….
If you truly believe this, then I assume you're putting yourself at the head of the line, right?
I don't disagree with any of this. I would just challenge you to go one step more and read up on Social Darwinism, Monism and the Eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. You will find that the Climate-Change crowd marches nicely to the beat of that drum. We are already learning that members of the current administration believe that life does not begin until a child is about three years old. They emphasize the doom of the world through over population and when you start taxing a person for breathing (ie carbon footprint, carbon off-sets) it can only get worse from there.
"I care about the planet…As long as the human population continues growing, our environment problems (AGW or otherwise) will continue to get worse."
America's air and water are cleaner now than 1970, after 40 years of population growth.
"…I don't advocate state-enforced family size limits or abortion, [A] concerted effort to reduce the number of human beings…is the way to go. We can do it voluntarily through education and cultural change."
The biggest single cause of reduced birth rates is prosperity, with no concerted effort whatever.
"Or…Mother Nature [will] take care of the problem with plague, famine, or…genetic diseases."
Good Job! It would be wonderfully helpful if someone could setup a website with those quotes and all quotes from people in any official capacity, who have pushed Global Warming claiming truth about it wasn't important, but that the crisis it creates is useful (hummm sounds like something a Rahm E would say huh?)… anyway, a gathered Quote list would gather sources to be brought before HEARINGS to publicly explain their intentions and their knowledge that Global Warming needed "help" to survive.
The list would help those working for justice to know who the perps are so they can be investigated. We don't want to miss anyone who pushed this. If our "justice" pursues Nazi war SUSPECTS we can gather and try these criminals.
Every European country except for Muslim Albania is reproducing at less than replacement birthrate. Greece,Italy and Spain are at about half. The US is either right at or just below replacement. The countries with the highest birthrates? Niger has a birthrate of over 50 per 1000 persons(the US is 13.8 per 1000). Most of the other countries at the top of the list are alot like Niger. Why are you preaching to us?
There is no Mother Nature. We live on a rock with an atmosphere. True, the planet is an ecosystem composed smaller ecosystems. But plagues, famines and genetic diseases don't arise from overcrowding and they're not caused by the planet. (Some non-genetic diseases are related to overcrowding, but our technologies pretty much have that situation in hand. Witness Singapore.)
"[T]the planet doesn't need saving from humanity. The planet will destroy us long before we destroy it."
True. The poorer we are, the more likely we are to succumb to starvation or exposure. Obama's misguided policies are practically guaranteed to cause a lot more of both.
BTW, cant remember where I saw this but I recently read that by 2020 or 2025 half of the Russian Army will be Muslim. Pretty sure it was in Mark Steyn's "America Alone".
No, it didn't. It's not even half used up. That's claptrap.
“Everybody knows that the boat is sinking
Everybody knows that the captain lied – Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows"
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/11/lawm...
Lawmakers Probe Science Czar Holdren’s Links to Climategate, November 30, 2009
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/b...
"CEI releases global warming study censored by Obama's EPA"
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php
The New Zealand Climate Change Coalition
“More on NIWA’s Adjustment of Temperatures…”
“Climategate – the Saga Continues”
“Still More Breaking News-Call for the UN IPCC To Be Disbanded”
Excerpt from Chapter 12 of Anthem: Ayn Rand novel
I look upon the history of men…and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.
But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.
What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We."
When men accepted that worship, the structure of centuries collapsed about them, the structure whose every beam had come from the thought of some one man, each in his day down the ages, from the depth of some one spirit, such spirit as existed but for its own sake. Those men who survived — those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them — those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received. Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth…
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost…
“Nietzsche is dead.” – God, 1900
Adam… I guess you're not invited to big brothers Christmas dinner table. Btw… you were great as Jane in Firefly and love ya in Chuck… and happy to see the show returning.
Keep up the great editiorials… almost unimaginable to see a Hollywood "Star" that hasn't drank the far left Koolaid.
Mag
The facts are: we don't know what the effect of increased CO2 levels are doing.
The global warming hysteria is being propagated by opportunists who can't even handle freshman physics let alone claim to understand a shred of climatology.
I came across a good one today. Liberals are like watermelons. Green on the outside and Red on the inside.
Liberals are like watermelons. GREEN on the outside and RED on the inside.
Hard to believe that the main stream media is totally ignoring the Global Warming Hoax. Now we have the top scientists in the world who believe in Global Warming covering up the fact that the earth is actually cooling. I don't get it. Democrats seem to line up at the though for another feeding of lies from Al Gore and the rest of the fools that believe this Global Warming nonsense. Wake up America if Global Warming was fact why would the scientists try to cover up the fact that the earth has been in a cooling cycle. Their goal is to tax us to death with this Cap and Tax scheme the Democrats have come up with. The goal of the USA should be to become energy
independent without taxing Americans.
I think you missed Mr. Chrichton's point about why religion will not work to save the environment. we are not as smart as we think and we don't have the answers. The national parks have been hurt by us trying to help. Flexibility is needed. We need to walk away and try something different if what we're doing isn't working. And the one thing you don't find in fundamentalist religions is flexibility.
All you're doing here is replacing one pseudo man-made disaster for another. The overpopulation crisis was predicted years ago … and it didn't pan out. Read the Population Bomb by some idiot who is now working with Al Gore.
Families and cultures are defined by whether they consider their people to be a treasure or a liability. The very people that you consider a burden on "mother earth" are the same people who brought us the technology to grow more crops on less land, etc etc. As PJ O'Rourke says: Population control means way too much of you, just the right amount of me. The earth is not overpopulated and is in no danger of becoming so. Bangladesh has the same population density as Fillmore, CA. Every person in the world can currently fit in the state of Texas.
Go forth and populate. People are our greatest treasure. And while you're not breeding, read All The Trouble in the World by PJ. You'll sleep better.
Thank you! Keep hammering it home. The breath-taking nasty of it was to lay down and construct the phony foundation on which massive wealth taking could be justified.
SInce it's all about wealth-taking, it'll keep moving onwards – zombie-like – fake climate models or no fake climate models. No complacency – people are STILL parroting, "peer-reviewed," "scientists have no reason to lie" and "well, of course everyone KNOWs we're warming."
Total la-la land. This is going to take a while.
I got them with two sources for verification from Alan Korwin. He's an attorney here in Phoenix who publishes the books about state gun laws. I have more of them including the links where they come from on my blog, http://survivingscrounge.com . I'm certain that there is more evidence out there of the collusion among the people pushing this fraud. The UN is still planning on pushing through their global warming plans and Obama's socialist climate czar has said that they have not intention of changing their position on it. Heavy forbid facts stand in the way of their agenda to impoverish the people of the industrialized world.
Those comments have been on my blog since October, so if you want to read more of them, you'll have to go to the October Archives.
Why denigrate someone who believes the factual evidence by calling them a denier? The Duke University Tree Ring study studied tree rings for the last 1000+ years, not the 100+ that Mann used to create his now disproven hockey stick graph. The global warming alarmists have been claiming a .8 degree Celsius increase over the last 150 years. Of course, the fact that prior to that time the planet had been in a 300+ year long mini ice age isn't explained to people. To claim that the earth is warming is like saying that your freezer is going into a warming phase when it auto defrosts, or a frozen lake is warming when it thaws in the spring. Temperatures during the medieval warming period ,that the AGW alarmists excluded from their data set, were much higher than they are now. Someone once said that facts are stubborn things. The facts are that the planet isn't so much warming as it is thawing. There is plenty of evidence that the glaciers weren't always there, so their melting is not that big of a deal. If the glaciers had been there forever, they wouldn't be finding wooly mammoths or Bronze age men frozen in them or plant life under them.
Well, they can fight all they want, but when the people of the US discover that they have been thrust into abject poverty over a fraudulent scientific theory, the resulting explosion will end the entire thing. The taxation and regulations that the AGW alarmists are proposing will send the standard of living in this country down the tubes. Many can see this and are preparing for it. Since the people in DC are ignoring the anti tax demonstrations, they may get a really rude awakening when during a subsequent one the people are armed and angry. Seeing as I doubt they are going to give up their power peaceably following an election (honestly I think they'll be running even more fraud schemes than last time in 2010) a revolt is imminent if they continue as they are. Of course Thomas Jefferson did say over 200 years ago that "the tree of liberty must from time to time be fed with the blood of patriots and tyrants for that is its natural manure." But then again according the Obama, a lot of us are just bitter clingers.
Actually Capitalism is the ONLY sustainable system. Without capitalism, there would be no money to develop alternative energy sources, develop new insulations, or "green" building materials. Why do I say that? Because capitalism is the only system wherein when supply exceeds demand, prices rise to keep them in balance and budding capitalists develop new technologies to meet the unfulfilled demand. Look at oil shale for example. If oil stays below the cost of producing oil from shale, shale doesn't make any sense to develop as there will be no market for it. If the demand for oil outstrips demand sufficiently as to drive prices up, oil shale becomes profitable and is then developed. When oil shale production hits a certain percentage of oil on the market, the overall cost of oil will drop. Basically capitalism is a self leveling system and promotes entrepreneurism. No other system does. Likewise it also promotes efficiency and economy, by rewarding those who are more efficient or economical with greater profits.
Climate change (formerly global warming); it's like the game where you have a mallet and you try to keep up with the next pop-up.
Climate change belief given same legal status as religion
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate
As SQT pointed out – it's definitely a love/hate thing – they want it, but can't get it (for whatever reason) so they deride it. Sour grapes at its finest. And it is fed by Statists – socialists, fascists, communists, whatever you want to call them. They feed the "beast" that is envy (one of the 7 deadly sins, no?). As a group, Statists are like the minions of Satan (and I'm not even religious BTW, but the analogy seems to fit) – they are like the Father of Lies – spreading dissent, despair, etc., all to get what they want – power. People who live under such regimes often find themselves doing things they never thought they would ever do, all out of desperation, a lack of hope, a giving in to the more baser instincts.
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It is probably the primary reason why our Founding Fathers believed that Judeo-Christian values were necessary for a free country to survive – because even if you are not traditionally religious, those teachings are important nonetheless, because they teach you to distrust statism because of how it feeds on sinful feelings like envy, because of how it feeds despair, how it divides and how in its godlessness it allows millions of people to be killed without batting an eye.
Years ago, I came up with the term "The Church of the Holy Smoke" to explain "environmentalism. (Blatant self promotion – you can Google the original – it's about six down on the page, and published by Rite-On) .
The article originally came about five or six years ago after I'd attended Easter services at my church. In the social hour, I encountered a fervent believer in Environmentalism, i.e. "The Church of the Holy Smoke". I tried to discuss rationally the possibility that the science had not been adequately investigated, but like any true believer, she wasn't having it. I gave up when I realized I'd have as much chance convincing her the at least question her beliefs as I'd have had convincing the priest in his robes to question (on Easter Sunday yet) the ascension of Christ. (I've since learned that Mars was heating up, too, thought t be secondary to increased solar activity.) Now Climategate is in the news — at least the news not controlled by propaganda media.
Climate Change (nee Global Warming) is not about weather or temperatures but rather an attack on the prosperity of the American middle class which is a poke in the eye to the rest of the world. Africans who don't have running water are naturally angry at Americans with three cars in the garage, one of them an SUV. Europeans hoofing it to work in the rain or waiting on the corner for a bus or trolley are incensed at the sight of eight across freeways of bumper to bumper cars. Why the hell can't Americans take mass transit like the rest of the world? Asian middle managers who rise an hour early to catch a crammed high speed train into the city are irked at the idea of factory workers owning a car. And we won't even discuss the Islamic Middle East who are struggling to keep their women in check only to see Madonna French kissing Brittany Spears. So it isn't about the climate or the planet, it's about us.
"The biggest single cause of reduced birth rates is prosperity, with no concerted effort whatever. "
Excellent point. Hasn't this been proven over and over again. Although I have no idea how to get those 3rd World countries to be prosperous. They seem to be self-destructive. And I don't think democracy and capitalism can be imposed from the outside. It has to come from within, which basically means waiting until some of the rest of the world wakes up and figures it out for themselves.
But it's a very good point you make and one that the Left will continue to ignore.
Apparently, abortions are easier.
The need for the stimulus package. The need for big business bailouts. That obama is smart. That michelle is a woman.
I still favour investing in renewable energy [oil isn't an infinite resource], plus we're somewhat ethically compromised by having to go cap in hand – as it were – to repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia. Increasing nuclear has the problem of more toxic waste [would you or I live next to a storage or recycling facility?]. I understand we've got potential in wind, solar and wave technology if we're careful.
Again, which scientists do we listen to? They've written themselves out of a job with climate-gate!
P.S. – I wouldn't start dancing on the grave of Global Warming just yet. Climategate might make some people take a second look at the data, but it won't shatter their emotional clinging to the Cause. It's part of their self-image: smart, well-informed, progressive people believe in AGW. And it fits in with their basic worldview: everything is wrong and we've got to make it right. I don't believe your average True Believer has informed himself about AGW any better than your average Denier. But he believes he has, and that's what's important to his ego. He won't let go of his Truth so easily.
In spite of what Nobel Peace Prize fraud, Al Gore, states, anyone who does not have direct knowledge and evidence of Global Warming, should now realize there has been a rush-to-judgment!
ANY POLITICIAN WHO CONTINUES TO PUSH THE GLOBAL WARMING AGENDA IS ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT and is most likely in the pocket of those who have financial interests. In short, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Now that some of the data has clearly been altered to promote a scam, ANY SCIENTIST (OR SO-CALLED SCIENTIST) WHO CONTINUES TO INSIST THE DEBATE IS OVER IS ALSO CORRUPT and is in the pocket of corrupt politicians, those who have financial interests or is looking to belly up to the trough of taxpayer funding. Again, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
As for the rest of radical loons who continue to bray "Global Warming" to the world and shout insults at anyone who does not instantly adopt their lunacy, they are simply showing their ignorance and shame at having been so easily duped.
Global Warming Scam Exposed!
http://usataxpayer.org/view.asp?Get=globalwarming
ACORN Scandal Exposed…
http://usataxpayer.org/view.asp?Get=obamaacorn
In spite of what Nobel Peace Prize fraud, Al Gore, states, anyone who does not have direct knowledge and evidence of Global Warming, should now realize there has been a rush-to-judgment!
ANY POLITICIAN WHO CONTINUES TO PUSH THE GLOBAL WARMING AGENDA IS ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT and is most likely in the pocket of those who have financial interests. In short, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Now that some of the data has clearly been altered to promote a scam, ANY SCIENTIST (OR SO-CALLED SCIENTIST) WHO CONTINUES TO INSIST THE DEBATE IS OVER IS ALSO CORRUPT and is in the pocket of corrupt politicians, those who have financial interests or is looking to belly up to the trough of taxpayer funding. Again, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
As for the rest of radical loons who continue to bray "Global Warming" to the world and shout insults at anyone who does not instantly adopt their lunacy, they are simply showing their ignorance and shame at having been so easily duped.
Global Warming Scam Exposed!
http://usataxpayer.org/view.asp?Get=globalwarming
ACORN Scandal Exposed…
http://usataxpayer.org/view.asp?Get=obamaacorn
Sean: since you like that Kolakowski quote, you might enjoy reading some of the essays in his "Modernity on Endless Trial" – especially "The Revenge of the Sacred in Secular Culture" and "The Illusion of Demythologization." Kolakowski also wrote *THE* intellectual take-down, demolishing, ass-whooping of Marxism in "Main Currents of Marxism" (a mere 1200 pages).
The "Illusion" essay I mentioned above has this gem:
"After centuries of the growth of the Enlightenment, we suddenly woke up in a mental and cultural disarray; we are more and more frightened in the face of a world that is losing its religious legacy, and our fear is well justified. The lost myths seem to be replaced less by enlightened rationality and more by terrifying secular caricatures or substitutes . . . Intellectuals are helpless . . . And the attempt to endear oneself to the rationalist ideology by “demythologizing” Christianity is the least reliable prescription."
So, the Simulacrum is true?
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baud...
AGW…Screwtape Proposes a Toast.
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