Posted on 09/26/2014 2:21:25 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy
Anyone who has followed the debate over climate change in recent years has probably noted the seemingly religious fervor with which the pro-alarmist crowd approaches the subject. Opposition to the environmentalist agenda of deindustrialization is not just viewed as wrong policy, but the rankest heresy. To deny that man-made global warming is going to destroy the Earth is tantamount to spitting upon the holy scriptures of the "green" faith. Opposition is not just misinformed or wrong-headed, but is actually sinful and evil, unholiness that cannot be allowed to continue by the Disciples of Gaia.
So it is in this context that we must understand the recent call by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – scion of the Kennedy fortune and born-again environut – to prosecute and jail climate change "skeptics." You didn't read that wrong – Kennedy was actually lamenting the fact that the US government currently does not have any laws on the books that would allow for the prosecution of people who dispute the global warming dogma of the environmentalist movement. Forget free speech and all that other earth-hating heresy – if you deny global warming, you should be tried for treason. Treason against Holy Mother Gaia.
Kennedy isn't the only one who wants to do away with all of the "freedom" and "individual rights" garbage for the sake of the environmentalist creed. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, smarting from that nation's repeal of its self-defeating and self-destructive carbon tax, recently opined that democracy gets in the way of "responding to climate change," and wondered if we shouldn't get rid of all that nonsense about letting "the people" have a say in their own government. And who can forget left-wing columnist Thomas Friedman's swooning over China's authoritarian regime, because of its superficial introduction of electric cars and renewable energy sources? Or what about the recent "climate march" in NYC, where thousands of astroturfing paid volunteers came out to condemn capitalism, fossil fuels, climate "deniers," and the democratically-elected representatives who enable them?
No, it's quite obvious that for the pious among the environmentalist movement, if it's a choice between freedom or orthodoxy, freedom is going to have to go.
The indignation that is felt by those on the Left whenever someone brings up inconvenient facts against the canon law of global warming exists because environmentalist is a religion, not a science. Along with evolution and the existence of the "gay gene," global warming forms part of the canon of revealed truths that are held as gospel by adherents of SCIENCE!.
There is a tremendous difference between science and SCIENCE!, as many practitioners of science can tell you. I do science. That's my job. I perform experiments, obtain data, draw conclusions, construct hypotheses, and all that other stuff you learned was part of the "scientific method" in school. Hundreds of thousands of scientists do this every day, all around the world. Science deals with actual observations, evidence, data. It's what moves our knowledge of the world around us, and our knowledge of how to apply that knowledge in the form of technology, ahead incrementally, step by step.
But SCIENCE! Is something totally different. SCIENCE! is a dogma, something that exists to provide a common ideological framework to its adherents, allowing them to define what is "consensus" and thus lawful, as opposed to dissenting ideas which are then heretical. SCIENCE! isn't about doing actual science, but is instead about believing the "right" things, showing that you are orthodox, a right-thinker who is able to selectively dismiss whatever doesn't fit into the worldview. SCIENCE! is not interested in facts, reason, evidence, thinking critically, or any of that other jazz. It's interested in enforcing a left-wing political, ideological, and social orthodoxy, and the things that SCIENCE! is interested in and talks about – things like promoting atheism, scaremongering about global warming, and the like – coincide with that ideological worldview. Indeed, many of the people who love SCIENCE! don't really know or care about actual science – SCIENCE!, for them, is just a way to lend emotional and social credibility to their ideological agenda. SCIENCE! allows pre-conceived notions and even wishful thinking to drive its approach. In other words, SCIENCE! is the embodiment of the worse aspects of all those Enlightenment-era criticisms of "religion," the dogma, the blind adherence to things that empirical evidence and reason have shown to be false.
Man-made global warming – by which is meant the idea that man-made carbon dioxide production (from industry, transportation, etc.) is creating a steadily increasing warming of the earth and will eventually destroy the world we live in – is hooey. Objectively so. As I pointed out earlier, much of the "science" that environmentalism rests upon has either been refuted scientifically, or else had been shown to rely on false and spurious data. Such is the case with the arguments for global warming. They rely on spurious climatological computer models whose guiding principles are suspect, and whose input data have repeatedly been shown to either be incorrect or falsified. The famous "hockey stick" supposedly showing rapidly accelerating global temperatures due to CO2 emissions, has been decisively debunked, having been founded upon purposefully cherry-picked and misleading data.
Now, this is not to say that there is no such thing as "climate change." Obviously, the Earth's climate changes all the time. We've had ice ages and we've had warm periods – a thousand years ago, Europe was warm enough for people to grow wine grapes in Sweden. Some places on Earth add forest or jungle while others undergo desertification. So yes, the climate changes all the time. And it does so because – get this – the Earth and its combined bio/atmo/geosphere is a complex system. It depends on all kinds of variables and variable inputs. The sun, the primary source of heat energy into this system, undergoes short and long-term fluctuations all the time. Cosmic rays are thought by some to induce cloud formation. Aerosols in the atmosphere, variable albedo, volcanoes spewing millions of tons of particulates into the atmosphere, and so many more variables all combine to create this complex system.
This doesn't mean, of course, that the actions of mankind cannot negatively impact the natural world around us. The Soviets managed to pretty much destroy the Aral Sea through over-irrigation, and the phenomenal population growth in the American Southwest has almost done the same to the Colorado River. Acid rain is a real and destructive phenomenon. In the exercise of our stewardship over the Earth, there are things that we can do wrong, and which harm rather than help it. Who knows, carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases may contribute to temperature fluctuations in the Earth's complex system – but to what extent and in what ways, we do not know. Yet, the idea that we can pin down one, single variable out of thousands, and dogmatically attribute one specific phenomenon (global warming) to this variable, is simply ludicrous. Talking about "climate change" is not the same thing as talking about "global warming" in the sense that the Church of SCIENCE! means it. But yet, climate alarmists try to conflate the two terms, knowing that the more neutral "climate change" is essentially inarguable, yet not really descriptive of what they have in mind.
I've been subtly alluding throughout this article to the notion that environmentalism, SCIENCE!, and so forth are really a religion, as the reader has probably noticed by now. Those who disagree with me will tend to want to scoff at this characterization, if for no other reason than because it assaults their own self-inflated notion of being "rational" and part of the "reality-based community," however wrong that self-perception may actually be. In fact, characterizing SCIENCE!, and especially its environut component, as a religion is quite correct. And further, I observe that greenie SCIENCE! is susceptible to many of the same criticisms that secular humanists have traditionally hurled at religion (keep in mind that what follows is not criticism of religion, but is simply turning the criticisms that they've used against religion back against their own side).
First, there's the simple fact that what the global warmer SCIENCE! crowd believes about mankind's impact on climate change is flatly contradicted by actual empirical evidence. Far from the polar regions being ice-free by 2020, we are actually seeing Antarctic sea ice (relevant right now because it is winter in the southern hemisphere) reach record highs for coverage – there is a greater amount of the Earth's surface covered by this sea ice than there has been at least since we've had satellites in orbit and have been recording it. The Earth's temperatures have been holding steady for 19 years now, even though 2013 saw the largest increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration yet recorded. This is not surprising, since the amount of published data continues to mount showing that the Earth's climate is not nearly as sensitive to carbon dioxide levels as previously thought. And so on and so on. The dogmas of the Disciples of Gaia are flatly contradicted by actual science, just as were previous dogmas about geocentricity and the Earth riding on the back of a giant turtle.
Then there is the superstitious response to incidental events that nevertheless evokes great outpourings of religious sentiment among the acolytes of the Church of SCIENCE! A slightly warmer than average summer in one region of one country of the world? Obviously, it's GLOBAL WARMING! A worse than expected winter with more snow and ice than usual? It's GLOBAL WARMING! Everything, no matter how trivial, incidental, short-lived, or contradictory to other events is considered to be a harbinger of GLOBAL WARMING! It's not unlike those people who get all worked up because they saw an image of the virgin Mary in their toast. It's all silly superstition.
Further, the wild-eyed prophecies of impending doom, so commonly associated by secularists with religion, are part and parcel for the Church of SCIENCE! And they are all wrong. Archbishop Al Gore's prediction of ice-free poles by 2020 appears to be as well-predicted as was the end of the world in the year 1000. The warnings that we were going to see more and larger hurricanes due to global warming appears to be falling flat as well – in fact, the hurricane season this year is the tamest since 1992. Likewise also with the claims that we would see more tornados and other extreme weather events. "Climate change" was supposedly going to destroy the Great Lakes – nevertheless, in defiance of the Word of Gaia they are actually at or above their normal water levels for the first time in 14 years. SCIENCE!'s predictions do not stand up when put to the test.
Then there is the Church of SCIENCE!'s effort to claim that there is a "consensus" on climate change, and that only a few, fringe heretics and unbelievers challenge the orthodoxy. This claim exists so that the faithful can feel better about themselves because of their presumed superiority over the heathen, while also shoring up the flagging doubts that all of the empirical evidences may be causing in some of their minds. In short, the "consensus" argument is an argument from authority, much like those typically criticized by opponents of religion. Yet, the consensus doesn't actually exist, being based on a shallow and fraudulent survey of the scientific sources (sound familiar?). Indeed, more and more scientists in the relevant disciplines are stepping forward to voice their disagreement with the "consensus," including one who was the undersecretary for science in the Department of Energy during Obama's first term. Surely these brave Galileos will face the Inquisition for their temerity, but eventually the dogmatic stranglehold on the study of the Earth's climate will be broken by the twin lights of fact and reason.
That SCIENCE!, especially relating to global warming, is a religion can even be seen in the terminology used by warmists to refer to their opponents – "skeptics." If you deny the reality of global warming, you are a "skeptic," and this is a very, very bad thing. To be a "skeptic" means to deserve to be cast out of polite society. Which brings us back to the Inquisition that the Church of SCIENCE! would like to institute against the heretics and skeptics. This is probably the worse aspect of man-made religion – the apparent need to punish and destroy those who don't get into line. The Muslims did and continue to do it everywhere they live. The Catholic religion did it all through the middle ages. And the Church of SCIENCE! wants to do it today. Indeed, they've already started, if the efforts by Michael Mann (a Cardinal in the Church of SCIENCE! and professor at Pennsylvania State University) to shut down his critics via predatory lawsuit is any indication. So far, much to Robert F. Kennedy's chagrin, there is no statutory sanctions against climate heresy. But they'd like for there to be, and if they have their way, there will be.
Yet, those of us who care about the future have a duty to oppose the dogmatists on the Left, and especially those in the anti-human, anti-progress, anti-science environmentalist movement. To quote Neil deGrasse Tyson, himself an Archbishop in the Church of SCIENCE!,
"If your belief system is not founded in objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people."
I completely agree, Neil, which is why you and your fellow SCIENTISTS! have no business having any say in public policy matters that are going to influence not only the quality of life of people in the West, but even whether starving people in Africa can get enough to eat. If we're going to pursue policies regarding our climate that will impact the lives of real people, then these need to be based on science, not SCIENCE!.
The Climate Liars will never quit.
NO ONE LIES LIKE AN ENVIRONMENTALIST
“‘Excessively high temperatures’ are ‘already’ harming public health nationwide…“
– Barack Obama, Nov. 1, 2013
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1947:
International Agency Needed To Stop The Arctic Meltdown
and…
Alarming Rise In Arctic Temperatures To Melt Greenland And Flood The Coasts
and…
1947 Shock News : “Enormous” “Alarming” “Serious” “Catastrophic” Polar Melt To Drown The Planet. International Agency Needed To Study The Problem
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2007
Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
http://reason.com/blog/2007/01/09/global-warming-could-kill-45-b
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“Top NASA experts predicted an ice-free Arctic for 2012, and it has happened.“
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/ice-free-arctic-update/
and…
Gore’s “ice free Arctic” prediction from five years ago, falsified by nature itself
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/16/nature-proves-al-gore-wrong-again/
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No Global Warming For Almost Sixteen Years
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/no-global-warming-for-almost-sixteen-years/
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Major change in UK Meteorology Office global warming forecast
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/major-change-in-uk-met-office-global-warming-forecast/
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1970s Global Cooling Scare
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/1970s-ice-age-scare/
and…
1974 : Flooding, Drought, Crop Loss And Mild Winters Blamed On Global Cooling
and…
Der Spiegel 1974: “Temperatures Over Last 20 Years Have Dropped Faster Than At Anytime In The Last 1000 Years”
and…
1974 : CIA Enumerated The Devastation Of Global Cooling
and…
1975 : Newsweek Explained How Global Cooling Causes Extreme
Droughts, Floods, Dry Spells And Heatwaves
and…
Factsheet on 1970s Coming ‘Ice Age’ Claims
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New question mark over global warming: Scientists discover glaciers in Asian mountain range are actually getting BIGGER
&
“This impressive new study says that the Karakoram glaciers are not only not shrinking, they are accumulating enough ice each year to cause a slight decrease in ocean sea-level.“
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/karakoram-rising
[Wait a minute. The U.N. IPCC told us a few years ago that the Himalayan glaciers would all be gone by 2035. What’s wrong with this picture ?]
BTW, speaking of failed AGW predictions, how many of you remember this prediction from the National Science Foundation back in 2009?
Climate Change Likely to Devastate Emperor Penguin Populations in Antarctica
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/emperorpenguins.jsp
OK, how many of you saw this report last weekend?
Twice as Many Emperor Penguins as Thought in Antarctica, First-Ever Penguin Count from Space Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120413145303.htm
How ’bout this prediction from “a few decades” ago?
NASA 1986 : All Life Extinct In A Few Decades
http://talkstraight.tumblr.com/post/21104002827/nasa-1986-all-life-extinct-in-a-few-decades-due
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Drought:
No Trend Towards Flood Or Drought In The US
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/no-trend-towards-flood-or-drought-in-the-us/
and…
German National Weather Service: “No Significant Trend To More Drought In Europe…”
and…
[Drs.] McKibben & Masters Lying About The [2012] Drought
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/mckittenmasters-lying-about-the-drought/
[See, also, here .]
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New paper finds floods and extreme precipitation were more common during the Little Ice Age
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-paper-finds-floods-and-extreme.html
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IPCC:
Empirical Data Vs. [IPCC] Predictions
http://www.c3headlines.com/bad-predictions-failed.html
and…
The IPCC 1990 FAR predictions were wrong
http://joannenova.com.au/2012/05/the-ipcc-1990-far-predictions-were-wrong/
and…
Another IPCC Prediction Drowns In The Facts
and…
Another wild exaggeration from IPCC 1990 – sea level rise touted to be 6cm per decade
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=19
and…
IPCC Forced To Backtrack On Bogus Claims That Global Warming Causes Severe Weather
and…
Satellites Confirm: Atmospheric Global Cooling Reigns, Not The IPCC’s Predicted CO2 “Global Warming”
and…
Prediction Failure: IPCC’s Climate Models Remain Weak At Arctic Cloud, Sea Ice & Albedo Conditions, Say Researchers
and…
In 2001, the IPCC predicted milder winters and less snow. Experts are hoping no one remembers
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/411543526648709120
&
Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Up Sharply Since CO2 Hit 350 PPM
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About 30 of America’s 312 million people show up to oppose climate change realism, chanting ‘we are the 99%’.
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/05/about-30-of-america-312-million-people.html
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NASA’s James Hansen:
[NASA’s] Hansen 1986 : Earth Living Hell By 2001 – And It Is Reagan’s Fault
and…
Hansen : Five degrees warming by 2010
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/421262302562643968
and…
“NASA’s James Hansen [predicted] in 2004 that the window for action [to counteract global warming] is only 10 years.“
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-04-03-tipping-points_N.htm
and…
“‘Barack Obama has only four years to save Earth’ from global warming.“
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama
and…
In 1986, The World’s Greatest Climatologist Predicted Nine Degrees US Warming By The 2020’s
and…
Norwegian Climate Professor: Hansen’s Projection Off By 150%…Regrettable That Politicians Still View It As Reliable
and…
Temperatures Trending Below Hansen’s Zero Emissions Scenario For 168 Months In A Row
and…
[NASA’s James] Hansen Predicted Peak Sea Ice Loss In Antarctica
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/hansen-predicted-peak-sea-ice-loss-in-antarctica/
and…
ABC’s Global Warming Piece Ignores Decades of Hysteria from NASA’s James Hansen
http://newsbusters.org/node/13114
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Less ice, more ice, whatever. It’s global warming
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Factsheet on Inconvenient History of Global Warming ‘Tipping Points’
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For warmists trying to convince us that carbon dioxide causes lower US corn yields, an *extremely* inconvenient graph
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/07/for-warmists-trying-to-convince-us-that.html
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Sea levels ignore government forecasts
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2012/08/sea-levels-ignore-government-forecasts
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New paper finds ‘tropical species not as vulnerable to climate change extinction’
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-paper-finds-tropical-species-not-as.html
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New paper finds no evidence of increased humidity in US, contradicts global warming theory [predictions]
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-paper-finds-no-evidence-of.html
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Reduced sea ice – less consequences than anticipated?
“The evidence in support of the claim that climate change will undermine U.S. national security is, at best, ambiguous and most probably non-existent.“
http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/1122.pdf
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Sunday, 2 May 2004…
An Important Message From The UK’s Top Scientist
“Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century…“
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/an-important-message-from-the-uks-top-scientist/
[ASND recommends a review of the Antarctica section on our Polar Ice Sheets page for contextual comparison.]
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Florida’s Hurricanes:
“Florida used to average about one hurricane per year, and now averages about one every other year. The ongoing stretch of non-hurricanes is the longest on record, and looks like it will extend into its eighth year. This is completely consistent with climate model forecasts of more frequent and larger hurricanes.“
So is this, btw…
Dr. Ryan Maue releases new hurricane frequency data showing a negative trend in the last 30 years
[For those who can’t read, ASND would like to point out that the data in that report are global, not just for Florida.]
and…
New Record : Seven Years Since A Hurricane Hit Florida
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/new-record-seven-years-since-a-hurricane-hit-florida/
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New study: There will be less – not more – tropical cyclones in the future
http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.se/2013/01/new-study-there-will-be-less-not-more.html
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So much for the theory that AGW increases water vapor and positive feedback
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New paper finds global warming is not a threat to humanity & GDP will be highest under the warmest scenario
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-paper-finds-global-warming-is-not.html
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Malaria study challenges warmer world predictions
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22419-malaria-study-challenges-warmer-world-predictions.html
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Climate alarmists confounded again: New paper finds no effect of global warming on El Ninos
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/11/climate-alarmists-confounded-again-new.html
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Forest Fires:
Experts’ Predicted Increase Of Forest Fires From Global Warming Fails To Materialize
and…
Global Warming Produces A Significant Reduction In North American Wildland Fires
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“More bad news for warmists: “infectious diseases, maternal and child illness, and malnutrition now cause fewer deaths and less illness than they did twenty years ago…“
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-bad-news-for-warmists-diseases.html
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Jellyfish and Global Warming – another busted alarm
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/01/jellyfish-and-global-warming-another-busted-alarm/
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Deleterious Disasters?
New paper finds climate change benefits Chinese agriculture
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-paper-finds-climate-change-benefits.html
and…
Fortified By Global Warming, Crop Production Keeps Breaking Records
and…
New paper predicts CO2 fertilization will greatly improve plant productivity by 40-60%
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-paper-predicts-co2-fertilization.html
and…
New study says extinction fears are “alarmist”
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-study-says-extinction-fears-are.html
and…
New paper says Amazon trees will tolerate IPCC projected temperature in 2100
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-paper-says-amazon-trees-will.html
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NOAA: Accelerating Global Warming Is Not Happening – CO2 Wrongly Accused
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Crack NOAA Forecasters Predicted A Hot [Late Fall, 2013] For The US
That’s ... long.
I believe when he was in the Congress, RFKJr. was considered so dumb, he was referred to as the “Stuttering Stump”.
Thus we see the value of his scientific opinions...
Better “sciencism” than “SCIENCE!” The former translates into the spoken word.
Global warming is another block in the rising fascist edifice taking root in Western civilization. We may eventually need to annhilate these Morlocks just as our fathers destroyed the Nazis in WWII.
I don't believe he was ever in Congress.
There was Joseph P. Kennedy III, and Patrick "Patches" Kennedy, both reps.
A Boston radio show used to have a contest they called the "Wizard of Uhs", based on uncle Ted's utterings, and they expanded it to include the two reps.
They'd get a couple of callers on the air, play a recent audio clip of a Kennedy, and the goal was to give the number of "uhs" in the short clip to "win some crappy prize".
That is, if the Kennedys had time to speak in public, rather than assaulting airport screeners, or trying to run over capitol police.
Howie Carr, WRKO.
All their socialist dreams hinge on the power “green” government oppression.
Would these people actually jail dissenters? To hear them speak, yes. Would they send them to the stake? Or asked another way, what would keep them from it?
The reason these climate fanaticals are so upset with deniers has nothing to do with the climate or protecting the planet. Their climate change scam is losing steam and they can see their dreams of destroying capitalism and turning the US and the world into one big socialist world order, going down the drain. They must be so proud to have picked a system (socialism) that has never, ever been successful anywhere in the entire history of the world, ever. Stupid is as stupid does.
As David Horowitz has said, “The issue [climate change] has never been the issue. The issue is always the [socialist] revolution.”
Long, but awesome. Nails it on point after point after point.
If I posted all of my Glowbull Warming bookmarks as links it would be at least 10 times as long.
FU envirowhackos. You’ll have to pry the steering wheel of my 11 mpg V-8 Truck out of my cold dead hands.
You’re right, I’m mixing the two.
Don’t matter - they’re all dumb as rocks!
“The Climate Liars will never quit...”
...and those who love to vote form them will never quit doing so.
IMHO
mark
Denier. Facist. Fact driven codswallop. It is so much more fun if you just feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel what is riiiiiight.
Surely if 96% of the 4% believe that AGW is true and an immediate threat that is consensus and everyone else needs to accept that which is coming to them.
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