Intro by Steve Cook
The CCC (Climate Crisis Cult or Climatobabble Control Cult) has a basic underlying problem: its assertions are based on flimsy “evidence” that does not withstand close scrutiny.
Its solution to that problem has been to deter, inhibit or discourage that close scrutiny, often by intimidating into silence those who might advocate it and by ridiculing or belittling those who refuse to be intimidated.
The goal of the CCC, the agenda behind its manufactured hysteria, is to instill fear in the citizenry and thereby render them unable to reason (try reasoning with someone scared out of his wits) and prone then to various attacks on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by the State disguised as measures purported to “make the scary thing go away.”
A massive and relentless barrage of propaganda and silencing of dissenting voices has gone into this operation over many decades through the MSM lie factory and the connivance of slightly dim politicians.
The amount of relentlessly sustained effort it took over a long period of time is a measure of how tough to cow the citizenry actually are. They are no pushover for sure, but that psychological warfare offensive has resulted in a section of the public who are sufficiently terrified to be sold on the idea that we are all going to die unless we dismantle civilisation and introduce a corporate dictatorship or some such thing.
I speak here as someone who not so long about bought the whole CCC dogma. For one reason or another I started to look closer and with a more critical eye at what I and my fellow citizens are being told with such zeal and authority. I came to the conclusion that, yes, the climate is indeed changing and . . .
Well, that’s about it. The climates is changing, which is no great shocker, because it always has and always will. Over my lifetime I have seen the summers where I live get somewhat cooler and the winters somewhat milder, the incidence of flooding, droughts and forest fires diminish considerably.
As to whether this is reason to freak out, the exact causes thereof, the role (if any) of CO2, the degree of influence of human activity upon those natural cycles of change, the extreme inaccuracy of predictions about that change and even the hysterical media misinterpretation of routine weather events, well quite frankly I was dismayed to find that the orthodox Be Very Afraid position, isn’t even honest, let alone based on real science. It is not even based on observation of what is actually happening in the here and now.
Be that as it may. We all after all have to cast a searching eye over the climatobabble and glean from it what truths we can in light of our own understandings and experience and preferences.
What may help us in terms of arming ourselves with a more balanced picture of where the “science” is really at is the fact that many scientists are now “doing a Galileo” and finding the courage to speak heresy in the face of an orthodoxy intolerant of ideas not subservient to its scriptures.
And not a moment too soon. I am sick of watching climate zealots trying to convince yet another generation of children that they have no future.
The following featured article is from the always thought-provoking Daily Sceptic
Declaration Saying “There is No Climate Emergency” Trends on Twitter – Greenies Have Meltdown
I’m sick.
Or, to put it even more clearly: I’m fed up with permanent and increasingly religious climate ramblings, fantasies about the energy transition, worship of electric cars, horror stories and doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations and weather disasters. I can’t stand the people who shout into microphones and cameras, or print it in newspapers every day. I suffer from having to see how science is turned into a whore of politics.
It seems that scientists like Professor Loschke are fighting back, tired of being abused and often ignored for scientific work that fails to conform to a fashionable political narrative. Last week, the Daily Sceptic highlighted the ongoing World Climate Declaration (WCD), now signed by over 1,100 scientists and professionals. Headed by the Norwegian physics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ivar Giaever, the WCD says there is no climate emergency. Climate science is said to have degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound science. Our story about the WCD attracted enormous interest on social media and is one of the most widely read articles we have ever published. Enormous efforts were made to trash the Declaration, and many of the people who signed have been personally abused.
The WCD is signed by no less than 235 professors drawn from a wide variety of scientific and other academic disciplines. Thirteen of the 28 WCD lead supporters are professors, seven out of the 10 Greek signatories likewise, and 11 out of the 24 from Norway. The climate scientist and writer Willie Soon recently listed a number of the academic disciplines that are helpful in studying the changing climate. They include: astronomy, solar physics, geology, geochemistry, paleoclimatology, glaciology, oceanography, ecology and history. It was not a complete lists, he added. The breadth of experience from scientists and non-scientists found in the WCD list encompasses most, if not all of these areas of study. People with thousands of years of cumulative practical experience are calling for the study of climate science to be less political and for governments’ climate policies to be more scientific.
Another German scientist, the distinguished experimental physics specialist Professor Hermann Harde, recently dismissed the idea that humans control the climate via carbon dioxide emissions as an “absolute delusion”. He warned politicians that it would be an irresponsible energy policy to continue to ignore more serious peer-reviewed scientific publications that show a much smaller human impact on climate than previously thought.
We recently reported Harde’s comments and referred to the fact that for years German politicians have been able to make virtuous green noises by banning nuclear and fossil fuel production, while relying on an unstable Russia to make up the energy short fall. The sheer stupidity of that policy is likely to become apparent in Germany this winter. Already problems are mounting, with the German newspaper Handlesblatt reporting that the megawatt price of electricity jumped last week to a new high in daily trading. A megawatt hour cost €563, compared to just €23 a year ago. Of course, the ruinous policies behind Net Zero are responsible for this. In the U.K., the spike in international gas prices, and an increasing reliance on unreliable renewables, means the consumer energy price cap could be raised to £6,000, an amount that is almost certainly beyond the means of a significant portion of the population. Under these conditions, a cold winter could kill thousands of people.
Before he died, the acclaimed physicist Professor Freeman Dyson – a signatory of the CWD – noted that the “people who are supposed to be the experts and claim to understand the science, are precisely the people who are blind to the evidence”. Professor Richard Lindzen, a WCD lead signatory, evidently agrees, having said that the current climate narrative is “absurd”, even though trillions of dollars currently says it is not. It remains to be seen what will run out first – the money, or the tolerance of citizens to become poor under command-and-control, hard-left Net Zero regimes.
For years, green activists and journalists have been able to hide behind the obvious canards that the science surrounding the human involvement in climate change is ‘settled’, and that 99% of scientists agree with that statement. The arrogance behind this political stance is on display with a tweet from the Guardian writer George – “Don’t mention the coral!” – Monbiot, who made an oblique reference to the recent WCD article.
As we have reported before, 48 Italian science professors recently wrote to their Government, stating that human responsibility for climate change is “unjustifiably exaggerated and catastrophic predictions are not realistic”. Activists such as Monbiot regularly traduce ‘deniers’ for their supposed links to funding from oil companies (although he recently dismissed the suggestion that the Guardian’s lavish funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation influences its coverage in the slightest). Particular ire is often reserved for geologists, since they are much in employment demand from companies that seek to extract mineral riches from the Earth. Geology also provides an important insight into the paleoclimatic record. Geologists are often sceptical about claims that humans are causing sudden changes in the climate. One might say that they have seen it all before. The only scientist who went to the moon on Apollo was a geologist called Harrison Schmitt, and his position is that there is “no evidence” that humans cause climate change.
The increasing numbers of scientists prepared to break ranks with the ‘settled’ politicised science of climate change would suggest various causes for their scepticism other than bungs from oil companies.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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If the truth were told instead of suppressed, too much of modern “science” is really bigoted religious cult that too often is unable to replicate the studies that allegedly establish supposedly sound theories. Real science is when hypotheses fit the data; today it’s too often the reverse. MRI inventor Damadian was denied his deserved Nobel prize because he was a creationist, not an evolutionist Ironic since Galileo was a creationist who even in his day was opposed by evolutionists.
The press and the global warming crowd deliberately suppress the fact that ANTARCTICA has had record cold, snow and ice accumulation for decades. Even the last few years, ANTARCTICA cold, snow and ice have hit record numbers. The number of catastrophic hurricanes and tornadoes has dwindled the last couple of decades. The oceans have not risen appreciably other than the normal waxing and waning of ice melt and evaporation cycles. If you try to google it, the first few pages will be pro global warming but when you drill down to the more reputable “scientific” sites it says no global warming. Also droughts, cold snaps, and weather extremes are the rule all throughout recorded history. There are records clear back to the 1400’s verifying this fact. One has to dig for this data because the political and globalists agenda has big-tech, the leftist media, et al working at sequestering real facts as the “Brown Shirts” did for Hitler. Most folks don’t even go past the first page and these hyena Globalists at google know this.
Lastly, look up the sun-spot cycle which is an eleven year cycle. The weather patterns on earth are affected profoundly by this cycle.
They try to explain it away with all kinds of mental gymnastics but it doesn’t pass the smell test. Funny one never hears of this, but then again suppression of reality by ideologues is commonplace.