Posted on 05/05/2014 2:44:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Global-warming orthodoxy is not merely irrational. It is wicked.
[snip] ".......Biologists have always known that carbon dioxide is essential for plant growth, and of course without plants there would be very little animal life, and no human life, on the planet. The climate alarmists have done their best to obscure this basic scientific truth by insisting on describing carbon emissions as “pollution” — which, whether or not they warm the planet they most certainly are not — and deliberately mislabeling forms of energy that produce these emissions as “dirty.”
In the same way, they like to label renewable energy as “clean,” seemingly oblivious to the fact that by far the largest source of renewable energy in the world today is biomass, and in particular the burning of dung, which is the major source of indoor pollution in the developing world and is reckoned to cause at least a million deaths a year.
Compared with the likely benefits to both human health and food production from CO2-induced global warming, the possible disadvantages from, say, a slight increase in either the frequency or the intensity of extreme weather events is very small beer. It is, in fact, still uncertain whether there is any impact on extreme-weather events as a result of warming (increased carbon emissions, which have certainly occurred, cannot on their own affect the weather: it is only warming which might). The unusual persistence of heavy rainfall over the U.K. during February, which led to considerable flooding, is believed by the scientists to have been caused by the wayward behavior of the jetstream; and there is no credible scientific theory that links this behaviour to the fact that the earth’s surface is some 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than it was 150 years ago.
That has not stopped some climate scientists, such as the publicity-hungry chief scientist at the U.K. Met Office, Dame Julia Slingo, from telling the media that it is likely that “climate change” (by which they mean warming) is partly to blame. Usually, however, the climate scientists take refuge in the weasel words that any topical extreme weather event, whatever the extreme weather may be, whether the recent U.K. rainfall or last year’s typhoon in the Philippines, “is consistent with what we would expect from climate change.”
So what? It is also consistent with the theory that it is a punishment from the Almighty for our sins (the prevailing explanation of extreme weather events throughout most of human history). But that does not mean that there is the slightest truth in it. Indeed, it would be helpful if the climate scientists would tell us what weather pattern would not be consistent with the current climate orthodoxy. If they cannot do so, then we would do well to recall the important insight of Karl Popper — that any theory that is incapable of falsification cannot be considered scientific.
Moreover, as the latest IPCC report makes clear, careful studies have shown that, while extreme-weather events such as floods, droughts, and tropical storms have always occurred, overall there has been no increase in either their frequency or their severity. That may, of course, be because there has so far been very little global warming indeed: The fear is the possible consequences of what is projected to lie ahead of us. And even in climate science, cause has to precede effect: It is impossible for future warming to affect events in the present.
Of course, it doesn’t seem like that. Partly because of sensitivity to the climate-change doctrine, and partly simply as a result of the explosion of global communications, we are far more aware of extreme-weather events around the world than we used to be. And it is perfectly true that many more people are affected by extreme-weather events than ever before. But that is simply because of the great growth in world population: There are many more people around. It is also true, as the insurance companies like to point out, that there has been a great increase in the damage caused by extreme-weather events. But that is simply because, just as there are more people around, so there is more property around to be damaged.
The fact remains that the most careful empirical studies show that, so far at least, there has been no perceptible increase, globally, in either the number or the severity of extreme-weather events. And, as a happy coda, these studies also show that, thanks to scientific and material progress, there has been a massive reduction, worldwide, in deaths from extreme-weather events.
It is relevant to note at this point that there is an important distinction between science and scientists. I have the greatest respect for science, whose development has transformed the world for the better. But scientists are no better and no worse than anyone else. There are good scientists and there are bad scientists. Many scientists are outstanding people working long hours to produce important results. They must be frustrated that political activists then turn those results into propaganda. Yet they dare not speak out for fear of losing their funding.
Indeed, a case can be made for the proposition that today’s climate-science establishment is betraying science itself. During the period justly known as the Enlightenment, science achieved the breakthroughs that have so benefited us all by rejecting the claims of authority — which at that time largely meant the authority of the church — and adopting an overarching skepticism, insisting that our understanding of the external world must be based exclusively on observation and empirical investigation. Yet today all too many climate scientists, in particular in the U.K., come close to claiming that they need to be respected as the voice of authority on the subject — the very claim that was once the province of the church......." [snip]
It would seem to me...logically...that if you really take all of this as “fact” and absolutely believe in it...then the only outcome that is sufficient....is vast elimination of ninety percent of society, and live off of the land with no infrastructure, no electricity, nothing. There is no other alternate conclusion if you accept all of the concocted story, as is.
It may take fifty years for the public to realize that it’s a massive elimination of human beings or wealth redistribution scheme, but you can only come such a conclusion if you believe in their big points.
The despicable deviants trying to convince the stupid
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
You are correct...their ultimate desire, like all leftists, is complete, totalitarian control over everybody. Agreeing with these people is like accepting the knife they hand you to cut your own throat. Which they would love you to do.
ping
They don’t expect to control the sun.
They expect to control YOU.
Oy, this must be why Nigella has been banned from America.
The US and other country constitutions and foundation documents are based on money for taxation, trade, basically everything transactional. The goal is to base the world using carbon, carbon credits, and carbon dioxide outputs instead of money.
Then every constitution and founding document for every country in the world is moot and invalid. The elites in charge of the carbon exchanges now run the world.
“How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?”
They plan to control the sun by passing massive tax increases that will alter the rotation of the earth, moving it to a degree of slant that would decrease warming and make birds sing more sweetly, thereby lessening stress among humans, while the sun will be a less intense inferno because the alteration of the earth’s slant will increase the magnetic field and make the sun burn less intensely because of the massive tax increases causing less warming and resulting in less climate change, thereby proving that Progressive Democrats know how to control the sun and make it burn less intensely and save the human race from greedy, evil, capitalist pigs who are greedy gun-lovers.
See? Ya Know?
/s/
IMHO
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun
6. Add together all the mass contained in the ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM with planets, etc. and the Sun holds more than 99% of that total mass.
bkmk
Excellent! LOL!
What it, simply, boils down to-
They found a way to tax breathing.
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