Posted on 06/09/2016 7:45:03 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Building a green utopia would be so much easier if people would just shut up, stop asking questions and behave like good subjects. Don’t they know the science of climate change is settled?
The debate is over. There never was one. Oh, goodness. Big Oil. The fracking people. Conservatives. Why should anyone listen to them?
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
The Ministry of Truth is the propaganda ministry. As with the other Ministries in the novel, the Ministry of Truth is a misnomer and in reality serves the opposite of its purported namesake: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. In another sense, and in keeping with the concept of doublethink, the ministry is aptly named, in that it creates/manufactures "truth" in the Newspeak sense of the word. The book describes a willful fooling of posterity using doctored historical archives to show a government-approved version of events.
As well as administering truth, the ministry spreads a new language amongst the populace called Newspeak, in which, for example, "truth" is understood to mean statements like 2 + 2 = 5 when the situation warrants.
In Newspeak, the ministry is known as Minitrue.
“Shut up!”, explained the socialist.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016.
SEC. 2. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) There is broad scientific consensus that anthropogenic global warming is occurring and changing the world’s climate patterns, and that the primary cause is the emission of greenhouse gases from the production and combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
(2) The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) states that the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases results in impacts that include the following:
(A) Changing temperature and precipitation patterns.
(B) Increases in ocean temperatures, sea level, and acidity.
(C) Melting of glaciers and sea ice.
(D) Changes in the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events.
(E) Shifts in ecosystem characteristics, such as the length of the growing season, timing of flower blooms, and migration of birds.
(F) Increased threats to human health.
(3) Impacts and damages from emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change have been occurring for many years and will be felt from decades to centuries after those emissions have occurred. The USEPA states, “[b]ecause many of the major greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for tens to hundreds of years after being released, their warming effects on the climate persist over a long time and can therefore affect both present and future generations.”
(4) Reports and documentation published by researchers, public interest nongovernmental organizations, and media in recent years show that some fossil fuel companies were aware by the late 1970s of scientific studies showing that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion pose significant risk of harmful global warming. The reports and documents also indicate that by the mid-1980s fossil fuel company scientists were confirming in internal documents intended for company management that emissions from fossil fuel fuels were contributing significantly to climate change, and companies were factoring global warming into their own business investments.
(5) By 1988, the scientific evidence of climate change and the significant risks it poses was widely communicated to the public and was confirmed in congressional testimony by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In that year, the United Nations formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the federal National Energy Policy Act of 1988 (House Resolution 5380, 100th Congress) was introduced in Congress in an effort to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. Because of the highly public dissemination of information, congressional discussion, and extensive media coverage of the robust scientific evidence of the risks of continued burning of fossil fuel products, major fossil fuel producers knew or should have known the risks of continued burning of their products by 1988.
(6) More than half of all industrial carbon emissions have been released since 1988, after the fossil fuel businesses knew of the harm their products might cause, and have substantially increased risks from climate change impacts to life, health, and property.
(7) Since at least 1989, published reports indicate that some of these same entities have put sustained and significant efforts and resources into creating public doubt on the science related to climate change caused by anthropogenic sources.
(8) Misleading and inaccurate information disseminated by organizations and representatives backed by fossil fuel companies, along with advertising and publicity casting doubt on scientific understanding of climate change, have led to confusion, disagreement, and unnecessary controversy over the causes of climate change and the effects of emissions of greenhouse gases. This type of misinformation, widely and broadly disseminated in the media, has long delayed public understanding of the risks of continuing to emit high levels of greenhouse gases, confused and polarized the public on the need to aggressively reduce emissions to limit risks from climate change, and increased damage to public safety, health, and property in California as well as nationally and globally.
(9) Scientific studies indicate that climate change impacts are occurring in California, causing significant damage to the economy, environment, and public health. In a 2013 report on climate change indicators, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment found that California is already experiencing serious and measurable impacts from atmospheric warming in the state’s weather, water systems, high wildfire frequency and intensity, plant and animal species health, and human health and morbidity.
(10) Climate change has been tied by scientists to the severity and intensity of the historically unprecedented and costly drought that California has been experiencing since 2011 that has resulted in communities running out of water, agricultural water cutbacks, and unprecedented groundwater use that has caused subsidence and a loss of storage capacity in the state’s critical aquifers.
(11) An independent bipartisan report, published in 2014, indicates that, by 2050, California will be suffering economic losses of tens of billions of dollars due to climate change-related impacts and that heat-related deaths could be twice the number of current traffic-related deaths annually by the late 21st century.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to retroactively revive and extend the statute of limitation for actions that may or may not be barred by the applicable statute of limitation existing before January 1, 2017, and that seek redress for unfair competition practices committed by entities that have deceived, confused, or misled the public on the risks of climate change or financially supported activities that have deceived, confused, or misled the public on those risks.
Never mind that we have been coming out of the Little Ice Age since the mid 1800’s. Of course it would be getting warmer. But our temperature is not abnormal for this interglacial warming period. In the future it will get very cold again. The global warming thing is just an orchestrated crisis designed to put leftists in control of the means of production. It is government funded fraud and it should be prosecuted.
Facts are whatever the Propaganda Minister decides they are.
To quote Orwell, its the duty of the honest man to state the truth.
Which the California Legislature could care less about.
Climate change proponents are like the Chamber of Commerce, there is a dollar to be made, get out of our way.
Thank you all for playing.
The fix is in.
Close. The science of X and XY chromosomes is settled.
What is “climate change”? What is the measurable criteria? Do you think we are stupid? ITS A HOAX!!
I’m surprised the Sac Bee would even print this.
This is why we cannot trust these eco freaks:
Paul Ehrlich: Giving society cheap, abundant energy... would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.
They are ANTI-Progress ANTI-Human MONSTERS!
If you live in California, you need to get out while you still can.
The commissars are making sure that you are politically pure.
Censorship. The refuge of Tyrants.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/07/the-climate-alarm-death-knell-sounds-again/
It takes carbon dioxide and turns it into oxygen. Carbon isn't poison, it's plant food. Learned that in the 3rd grade...and they call us "anti-science".
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
California sure has much beauty down there. I even like the landscapes in their cities. Beautiful beaches, warm ocean and wonderful weather. Heck, I even like the deserts.
But damn, that place sure has far too many loons living there and running the place.
I haven’t been to that state in over 30 years and while it is occasionally tempting to plan to revisit some of the places we liked, I just don’t think I’d ever be able to get out of my car and actually be in the same airspace with so many loons.
Perhaps I’ll go as far as Northern California on some future trip, but not much further.
IF PEOPLE REALLY WANT THE TRUTH .. I would suggest finding any books by Christopher Horner re the subject of climate.
He does not have one good thing to say about it .. and has been saying for years that it’s nothing more than a MONEY GRAB.
You might be able to find some YouTube stuff on Horner. I haven’t looked, but I know he gives a lot of speeches.
If there ever was a debate based on the facts ONLY on both sides the man-made climate claimers would fail quickly. Man-made up numbers to support man-made climate effects is called hearsay or more probably intentional fraud without a provable chain of custody of those numbers from sensor to final output documents.
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