Many thoughts arise from this article. Mainly that there are numerable ways of measuring or estimating the global temperature trend, numerable ways of interpreting such measurements and numerable uncertainties and degrees of uncertainty.
However, and I re-iterate this ad nauseum because it is logically true, that the climate science is not settled, nor is it sufficiently understood or accurately assessed, to be a logical basis for political and financial restructuring throughout the world.
This article, posted by Ed Morrissey. ‘Hot Air’, is also posted at ‘Digging in the Clay‘ but I had trouble downloading the video. It becomes self-explanatory, in its reference to CAGW and the reality of the CAGW enthusiasts being ‘hooked’ on the theory with insufficient regard for the real world. Bill Whittle informs us effectively.
I believe that relevance to the presence of a mind-set might well explain the differences in interpreting real world data depending on the approach. Of course, there is also an agenda issue, coupled with financial dependence in many cases.
In 1 Timothy 6:10, the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil (not money itself, as many mistakenly believe). PJ Media’sBill Whittle makes the case that the love of theory is the root of all modern evil, as he explains in his new Afterburner. And he has a pretty good point, at least over the last 100 years. Dedication to theory at the expense of evidence and fact has borne malicious fruit in that time, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions around the world.
I’d only quibble with Bill on one point, which is whether the theories themselves were really the end games at all. They certainly weren’t for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, or any of the other bloody tyrants of the age; it was the centralization of wealth and power into the hands of the few or the one. Theories such as Marxism and fascism were a means to an end, not the end itself. In all of these systems, and perhaps most honestly in fascism, the entire premise is based on a leader elite dictating economic choices by force to a captive population, couched in a proletarian veneer that allowed the leader elite to seize control. The only people who prospered in those systems were the ones who didn’t take the theories too seriously. The true believers — Leon Trotsky comes to mind — tend to end up dead.
In this case, Bill’s not talking about theoretical systems of government or economics, but of climate change. This still applies, though it’s not as dire as the above examples. Some of the AGW crowd are true believers; more, though, are motivated by the expropriation of private property and redistributive justice. In fact, during the climate-change conferences, much of what gets discussed relates to “climate justice” and the disparities between wealthy nations and developing nations. It’s not really the theory that people love — it’s the wealth and power they can grab by exploiting the theory.
As mentioned elsewhere, the video may become hidden behind a pay-wall. Please advise if this happens.
my terrorism suspicion slip (Photo credit: langalex)
This Sott.net post from RT.com, clearly reveals that citizens, not only those in the US, can be feeling free yet be within one minor incident away from being treated as a terrorist. The article shows that millions of people already meet the authorities’ criteria of a terrorist, just because of their thought and belief processes.
To me, the authorities and leaders who are actively engaged in sabotaging their own countries are the real terrorists, and they are making the rules. If this isn’t scary, it ought to be!
Are you suspicious of federal authority? How about really into individual liberty? Well according to a new study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, you very well might be a terrorist.
A report published earlier this year by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has surfaced, and in their DHS-funded findings, Americans “reverent of individual liberty” and others adamant about protecting their personal freedoms are categorized as extreme right-wing terrorists.
Of course it will make no difference to the global temperature. They know that, and are introducing the tax for another (other) reason (s).
Julia suggests we won’t notice the tax effect on our normal life styles. Yet there is a certain amount of compensation given to the public. The likelihood of the compensation being fair and equitable is as likely to come true as most of Julia’s other promises have (not).
There will almost certainly be global cooling, but not because of reduced CO2 emissions. The global temperature, even excessively fiddled, still does not show a real dependence on CO2 levels. In reality the planet is currently in a cooling phase, whilst the atmospheric CO2 level steadily rises and will continue to do so, with or without the Australian component.
As a hot and dry continent, Australia has more to lose from climate change than all other developed countries. There are significant risks to our environment and our economy.
This is what they would have you believe will be happening – so what is different from the last 200,000 years? Has no one read Dorothea Mackellar’s Poem recently?
Janet Albrechtsenhas a similar thought in mind (to my own) when she says:
The government informs us, more than once, that the carbon tax will “cut 160 million tonnes of pollution from the atmosphere each year”. But not once does the government inform us by how much the carbon tax will reduce…
As a rule I avoid close contact with politics per se. This article goes much deeper than politics. It connects with this blog because of determination and dedication to stand for justice and truth. It also reveals much about the American leadership corruption and even traitorous behaviour.
It is in this video that Cynthia reveals that new Congress members are literally forced to sign a letter of allegiance to, and US support for, Israel. That alone spells out the true relationship between the two countries to US citizens.
It is basically a “connecting of the dots”, a connection that provides the public with all they need in order to achieve a genuine comprehension of their corrupt civilization. A reason for them to look at their own belief system(s) and wonder whether they are on the side of good or of evil!
English: A volcano called Syria (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This Sott.net post, in turn from “WorkersWorld.com “, counters the BS from the mass media.
The following timeline reviews the progression of U.S.-NATO intervention in Syria and counteracts the Big Lie in the corporate media aimed at preparing open imperialist military aggression against the Syrian people.
Sanctions follow establishing opposition
Washington has funneled money to a right-wing Syrian opposition group since at least 2005. (Washington Post, April 16, 2011)
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TIPS:
To believe the mainstream media is to risk ever knowing the truth about the real world. To believe government, (any government), issued information without considering their agenda(s), is to risk being brainwashed.
WISDOM
"Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter".--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me". - Isaac Newton
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein, who also said:
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and the press, usually the church as well. under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and makes its tool of them!" And,
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
— Gustave Flaubert
The GOLDEN RULE 