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Global Warming and the Undead
Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics ... The American Geophysical Union plans to announce that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. Other scientists plan a pushback against congressional conservatives who have vowed to kill regulations on greenhouse gas emissions ... Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions. – LA Times
Dominant Social Theme: Common sense must reassert itself. The message is important. The world will whither and die if it does not recognize global warming for the threat it is.
Free-Market Analysis: The world has certainly not recovered from the Dark Age of the 20th century when it seem every single facet of Western civilization was corrupted to serve the purposes of a Western global elite determined to implement global government. Economics, polity, education and even, unfortunately, science all fell victim to this all-encompassing effort. In this article, we want to examine how this trend continues and why a scientifically illegitimate – and discredited – concept like global warming can be continually propounded.
It is distressing to anyone who believes in the progress of civil society. The corruption of science has occurred like everything else through the availability of government-printed fiat money. Stuffed with paper currency, science has grown bigger and bigger until money itself controls much of what is researched and documented. Inevitably what this means is that government preoccupations will be reflected in science and that science will be controlled by invisible strings.
The mechanism is basically mercantilistic. The Western elites control central banking and are able to print money out of nothing to influence and ultimately control society, including its corporate and governance aspects. While money enables the elite to dominate, it is the use of dominant social themes, fear-based promotions that allow the powers-that-be to mold society as they wish in the direction of one-world government.
One of the most successful and basic elite themes was global warming. This fear-based meme has been used to attempt to fundamentally reshape how people relate to their environment and to each other. The idea is that much of modern society is contributing to an out-of-control warming trend that must be halted before the earth becomes literally unlivable. It is only through shared sacrifice and a dramatic reduction in living standards that people will be able to survive.
The global warming meme is perhaps the most perfect example of how the power elite likes to operate. The theme is entirely ridiculous, ludicrous really. But the overwhelming dominance of the elite in terms of the media, education and science itself has allowed the elite to establish global warming as something believed by millions if not billions.
Global warming – or at least the manmade part of it – can be rebutted by anyone who does even a small amount of research. Water vapor constitutes up to 97 percent of the atmospheric cover that supposedly traps heat. Human-created gasses constitute perhaps just three percent. Of course, global warming advocates argue that it is this three percent that is responsible for a "tipping point." But in fact, when one looks more closely at the numbers they are the product of whatever inputs researchers choose to utilize.
We will not in this article delve into exactly how global warmists have constructed their meretricious arguments over the years. There is plenty of information on Google and elsewhere that presents it in detail. What is important to note is that Internet exposure of the global-warming promotion via the now famous Climategate scandal – in which e-mails of the climate change crowd were hacked and released to the public last year – showed clearly how these promotions occur.
A small group of individuals intent on swaying science to one opinion or another can gain a chokehold on the journals pertinent to the subject. By controlling who is published and what data is presented, a determined handful of individuals can influence the outcome of research and its larger presentation. When the research shows clearly what it is supposed to, then it can be publicized to the broader media, eventually creating pressure for political solutions and even UN actions.
The global warming episode clearly reveals the how easily science can be undermined and in the latter half of the 20th century right up to the advent of the Internet. Accordingly, the global warming theme continues to be propounded. It is a basic building block of elite global governance and one it would seem that is necessary for a number of purposes. Establishing global warming as scientific fact for political purposes allows people's every move to be regulated and taxed – not just within nation states but globally, as the problem is to be perceived as international.
The elite, we wrote recently, have come up with a substitute for global warming by recycling the extinction meme. The UK Telegraph carried a nice expose which included the following statement: "The UN's two-week Convention On Biodiversity, launched on Monday: 'Delegates from nearly 200 countries are being asked to agree to new 2020 targets after governments largely failed to meet a 2010 target of achieving a significant reduction in biological diversity losses, a goal set at the last biodiversity conference in 2002 ... Developing nations say more funding is needed from developed countries to share the effort in saving nature. Much of the world's remaining biological diversity is in developing nations such as Brazil, Indonesia and in central Africa.'"
We then pointed out, as did the Telegraph, that the issues came down as usual to money. We wrote: "You see what is going on? If global warming doesn't work, the UN, and those behind the UN's various programs, are prepared to attack with a biodiversity meme. But the underlying effort is always the same. The 'problem' is global and the solution is 'funding.' The UN and the power elite behind it is DETERMINED to get some sort of global tax implemented at UN level. It could be one tenth of one penny per person per year – but something that provides a precedent for more taxation down the road." You can read the article here: Recycling Memes: The Biodiversity Promotion.
Western science in our view has been thoroughly corrupted and remains so in the 21st century. Big Pharma skews health care research toward chemical treatments for natural body imbalances; Big Science pursues gravitational interpretations of the universe at the expense of intriguing theories about the electrical universe; engineering resolutely ignores the fascinating research of Tesla; archeology ignores increasing evidence of manifold, advanced, pre-Neolithic civilizations in India and South America.
Much of the skewing of Western science has been brought to light by the Internet itself. On Youtube, for instance, one can see short debunking clips on everything from the manipulation of the Beatles (and the apparent death of Paul McCartney) to NASA's suspiciously propagandistic clips on the Apollo moon-landings. The information has always been available but the centralization that the Internet provides is unique and powerful. What so much information shows us, indisputably, is that the suspicious science being unearthed always supports a Western-centric view of the world; while the suppressed science inevitably provides a much larger frame of reference.
The elite, which as realigned the scientific conversation in the past century, is interested mostly in research that either supports the primacy of Western culture or predicts its downfall. And either trend supports the larger elite agenda that has to with strengthening global government. Of course, as we discussed just yesterday in the article entitled Is Paul Dead? science is not the only discipline that has been twisted by the elite agenda. Art, religion, sexuality, politics, war – every single aspect of human culture has been steadily dragooned into service of the larger goal. That this article can be written and read by thousands is testament to the change that is taking place in the 21st century. And this is just one site.
The agenda of Western elites, in fact, has comes under the increased challenge of a communication technology it neither anticipated nor can currently control. Like the undead in Hollywood horror movies, elite promotions continue to rise up no matter how emphatically they are flattened. But the 21st century is not the 20th and persistence is no substitute for propaganda. Just today, we read the CCX, the Chicago futures exchange set up for "carbon trading" is basically going out of business. At one point, the CCX estimated that the carbon-trading market could be worth US$10 trillion. Not now.
Conclusion: In our view the spell has been broken. Over time, we anticipate an efflorescence in all the forms of human endeavor, from art to science to literature and more. The elite may continue to try to impose the dead hand of its promotional agenda on every aspect of humanity; nonetheless, a renaissance may be coming.
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Posted by TCF on 12/05/10 10:12 AM
I would say this one tends to support your fears re: assange...
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This implies legitimacy of the global warming scam... after all why would the us seek to manipulate it when they know it's damn well all bullshit...If "secret government cables" confirm the legitimacy of the "danger of global warming" it supports the meme.
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We read the article but did not (then) come up with your conclusions - which are quite interesting. Thanks.
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Posted by Gavin on 11/13/10 08:18 PM
I know :) The above paragraph was copy and pasted from the link. The article goes into some detail about the abundance of resources and overcoming so-called shortages. Sounds similar to what you are saying re. the free market. For example:
"And I haven't even pointed out that what is a resource changes over time. Few of us are stressed about the shortage of whale oil, nor the pending decline in good flint for making tools. Yet both of those were critical resources at one time in the human past, with real issues due to "shortages". (The last gasp for whale oil was in the '70s when it was found that jojoba oil could replace it in specialized lubricants. We now farm jojoba in the desert...) In the '70s it took about one ounce of Platinum to make a catalytic converter for automobile smog reduction. Now it's fractions of an ounce and it isn't even platinum. (Paladium, nickel, and other catalysts have been developed including some ceramics.)
We constantly find new techniques to use the existing materials in new and different ways. That is the ultimate "trump card" in the whole "running out of resources" debate. IF we ever run low on something, we find something else that can replace it."
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Thanks. The scarcity memes are a farce in our humble opinion; the war on terror is fairly farcical; central banking is price fixing - the Western world, these days anyway, is built on what seems to be lie after lie.
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Posted by Gavin on 11/13/10 08:15 AM
DB "So we're not running out of "critical" minerals after all ..."
Also this: Functionally Unlimited Resources Exist
The simple fact is that the "running out" thesis is broken. We aren't. We can't. We won't. It comes from folks being scared by exponential functions (and The Club Of Rome promoting the scare stories due to their misguided paranoia, IMHO of course).
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We call them "scarcity promotions." Thanks for the link.
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Posted by Beth Ann on 11/11/10 10:25 AM
In my humble but common sense view of the global warming problem it isn't that global warming is or isn't happening but that the issue is used to promote social anxiety which directs people's hope for the future to remedies that seem to create wealth and power to the elites.
If, in fact, the priests of this new religion believe that, e.g. Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, etc, why are they not adhering to the creed they are positing as truth?
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Because they don't believe in it.
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Posted by 4irw4y on 11/11/10 10:16 AM
Dale Fitz 11 5:38 PM – "winters in Russia"
November in Pre-Urals is something to be out of the cold wave today, wow, a giant wave of heat. 30 in Krasnodar, 15 in Moscow. Reported it to be a hot pipe from Libya, where (by Rosgidromet) is "extremely hot".
This time, the temperatures in Libya are as usual. WTF.
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Posted by Bionic Mosquito on 11/11/10 12:42 AM
@DB
If you haven't seen this, you may find a few useful comments here:
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Foir example: "Measured from the upper reaches of its atmosphere 4,000 miles straight down to its center, the magnitude of the chemical elements constituting the earth is 260 billion cubic miles....With the exception of natural gas, even now, after more than two centuries of rapid economic progress, the total of the supply of minerals mined by man each year amounts to substantially less than 25 cubic miles. This is a rate that could be sustained for the next 100 million years before it amounted to something approaching 1 percent of the supply represented by the earth."
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Excellent! Thanks. So we're not running out of "critical" minerals after all ...
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Posted by Jeff on 11/10/10 10:51 PM
This is a brilliant observation. Timely, accurate, succinct, It's why I read this website. I'm going to post this in, to and around the four corners of the earth.
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Thanks for the kind words.
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Posted by David on 11/10/10 08:51 PM
Follow the money. Especially if lying, corrupt, politicians are somehow on board pimping for it. You think an ignorant money loving louse is somehow "concerned" about pollution? Don't make me laugh. And what exactly happened to that ice age we were warned about back in the seventies? Huh? World was supposed to freeze up. Seems something smells fishy. And when you're attacked for questioning climate dogma as being a "denier" akin to being a religious heretic that needs burning... well, you know good and well it's now become a religion.
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Posted by Dale Fitz on 11/10/10 05:38 PM
@Sol Ott
I am sorry that the discussion got so heated, and you felt attacked. I've been visiting the DB for about a year, and I've rarely (if ever) seen a "flame-war".
I visit Click to view link, and this is NOTHING on the scale that they have there!!
Lila, thanks for that last post. There is a wealth of information, provided by climate scientists, that contradicts this AGW proposition. My epiphany came when I read about the "Medieval Warm Period" of 950-1100AD where global temperatures, as evidenced by historical writings about crops in England, settlements in Greenland, winters in Russia, etc. This convinced me that the world had been much hotter, and colder, than it is now.
That piqued my intellectual curiosity, and I searched more esoteric and in-depth sources, and came out on the other side far more equipped to see through the BS the politically dependent class of scientists (they get grants) put out regularly. When "Climategate" revealed that many scientists had lost tenure, and credibility, due to their objection to AGW, it clicked that the PE were controlling the idea to control US!
Please come back, read more, and join us. We need skeptical people like you!
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Posted by WD on 11/10/10 03:55 PM
Considering that the internet is the epitome of private wealth creation at its finest, and that the independence of information sharing provided by the internet is obviously threatening the domination of the financial elite, I can't help but wonder if world depression is not the elite's plan to squash the internet without being identified as the squasher.
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It is very possible. One need to watch closely in regard to all these questions until the pattern reveals itself.
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Posted by Leonardo Pisano on 11/10/10 08:35 AM
@DB
Just put on your creativity hats, indeed. Warning flags, color-codes, sirens, anything. My main drive is that I want to spend my precious time wisely and any structure or system that helps me screening the right stuff from the crappy chaff is welcome. Thanks, and keep up the great, great work you do!
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Posted by Leonardo Pisano on 11/10/10 05:07 AM
@DB [off-topic / general comment]
Is it possible for you to color-code the posts here? You could then show your affection/disapproval without having to spend your precious time (and also the feedbackers'), yet still allowing posts without some approval mechanism (which I find very libertarian and should be maintained). Ha, I hope I don't make it to the red list! I also would like to see the posts numbered, for easier referencing them in replies on feedbacks.
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We may simply point out trolls with a "troll alert" and that way people can avoid answering posts and encouraging them ...
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Posted by Gavin on 11/10/10 02:20 AM
@Sol Ott
According to Wikipedia: In 2009, the CO2 global average concentration in Earth's atmosphere was about 0.0387% by volume, or 387 parts per million by volume (ppmv).
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Posted by Gavin on 11/10/10 02:12 AM
@Sol Ott 6:05:47 PM:
"@Avenist ' As a non-scientist, I need scientists to show me the flaws in something that has been established by the vast majority of the (climate) scientific community as fact."
You've got it ars* about face. AGW was only ever a hypothesis and a so-called consensus doesn't make it fact. Therefore it's up to the pro-AGW scientists to prove that man-made global warming is real. But they're are not even willing to debate the topic so that should give you a clue.
@Sol Ott 6:43:52 PM: "I've got facts on how much CO2 we're putting into the atmosphere"
Then you'll also realise that CO2 is heavier than air and that CO2 stays in the atmosphere for only a decade or so before it is reabsorbed back into nature. Plants love it you know. To give you a rough idea of how much CO2 is actually in the atmosphere think of your average dining room as the atmosphere. Then take a pencil. The eraser on the end represents the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (from volcanic activity, oceans, animals, dying vegetation etc), while the lead tip of the pencil represents the amount of CO2 from human activities. The human contribution of CO2 in the atmosphere represents something like 3-4% of total CO2, which is a trace gas anyway. Our CO2 output is so minuscule as to be virtually irrelevant.
"...and data that shows the temperature is rising, the ice is melting and we've got a sh*tstorm brewing on the horizon."
Please show the data for this as the onus is on you (/AGW scientists). As I understand it Antarctic ice is at record or near record levels and Arctic ice has been recovering since 2007
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And even if Arctic ice has been melting in recent years how do you know the cause is CO2 rather than other influences (winds, ocean currents, underwater volcanic activity etc)?
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Posted by Gavin on 11/10/10 02:08 AM
@Sol Ott 6:05:47 PM: "@Avenist ' As a non-scientist, I need scientists to show me the flaws in something that has been established by the vast majority of the (climate) scientific community as fact."
You've got it ars* about face. AGW was only ever a hypothesis and a so-called consensus doesn't make it fact. Therefore it's up to the pro-AGW scientists to prove that man-made global warming is real. But they're are not even willing to debate the topic so that should give you a clue.
@Sol Ott 6:43:52 PM: "I've got facts on how much CO2 we're putting into the atmosphere"
Then you'll also realise that CO2 is heavier than air and that CO2 stays in the atmosphere for only a decade or so before it is reabsorbed back into nature. Plants love it you know. To give you a rough idea of how much CO2 is actually in the atmosphere think of your average dining room as the atmosphere. Then take a pencil. The eraser on the end represents the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (from volcanic activity, oceans, animals, dying vegetation etc), while the lead tip of the pencil represents the amount of CO2 from human activities. The human contribution of CO2 in the atmosphere represents something like 3-4% of total CO2, which is a trace gas anyway. Our CO2 output is so minuscule as to be virtually irrelevant.
"...and data that shows the temperature is rising, the ice is melting and we've got a shitstorm brewing on the horizon."
Please show the data for this as the onus is on you (/AGW scientists). As I understand it Antarctic ice is at record or near record levels and Arctic ice has been recovering since 2007 Click to view link . And even if Arctic ice has been melting in recent years how do you know the cause is CO2 rather than other influences (winds, ocean currents, underwater volcanic activity etc)?
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Never saw this one. Impressive.
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Posted by John Danforth on 11/09/10 09:14 PM
Maybe the trolls sneak over to the keyboard when the elves go outside for a smoke break. No matter, I like them all.
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Posted by Bluebird on 11/09/10 08:49 PM
Oh I understand DB.
And This is your website and you have every right to say whatever you need. Trolls on other websites make them unbearable. That is why I have such hopes in this site showing others who visit how nice it is to have discussions.
Everyone seems to be able to have a say without being attacked. On some websites you are attacked if you post just because you are not one of the usual crowd.
So upsetting and impossible to make a point. I have tried to carry your important views to other boards in the past to get people to visit here. It does not work. They virtually scream me off of there. They seem to make points by seeing how unpleasant they can be while others vote on their insults. I did not mean to be critical. I just noticed a difference in your replies of late.
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No problem. Anyone is welcome to visit and make their points so long as they do it in a courteous manner. But if they continue to come back and back with the same arguments while not addressing the rebuttals then it becomes obvious after a while that they are not interested in having a discussion. And that is unfair to everyone else - to have one person posting 20-25 replies, each one restating the same argument.
Sorry you are having trouble at other sites. You are something of a free thinker and most sites in the US anyway that address sociopolitical issues of interest from a quasi-conservative standpoint are also pro-war, pro-military, pro-CIA and pro-military-industrial complex. They are the controlled opposition in other words, and that is likely while you are having a hard time!
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Posted by Lila Rajiva on 11/09/10 08:30 PM
Oooh, I forgot a biggy.
If AGW is a such a problem, why is the Pentagon, the biggest environmental culprit of them all, not even mentioned by the warmists? I mean, my carbon footprint is non-existent but I'm supposed to foot the bill for the military's environmental sins?
Why?
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Posted by Lila Rajiva on 11/09/10 08:24 PM
@Sol
1. Your average is now much better.
2. You'd be surprised how many very smart people think anarchist is the same as bomb-throwing revolutionary.
2. What is the conclusive evidence in favor of AGW? I'm all ears..
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