My wife taped the weekend morning 'Sunrise' program for the competition words and I have to watch and find the correct password to enter on her phone while she sleeps off last nights late-night shift, fair enough. But watching these smug, arrogant, self-satisfied 'journalistic' hacks makes for a queasy stomach and some frenetic fast forwarding finger-work on the remote.
What really got to me during this mornings taping was the irony of these morons complaining that 'nutjobs' (their description) like Cory Bernardi and other conservative politicians were not allowing the climate change inspired new taxes on the taxpayer to: " even be discussed". Of course they prefaced this claim with the statement that all of the scientists and the truly 'clever' people of course agreed with them that AGW was happening.
The irony in this is how the climate change preachers have had FREE RUN OF MOST OF THE LEFT-WING PRESS for decades now and have tried every which way they could to close down debate on the issues often resorting to quite fascistic means to quieten the 'sceptics':
Today’s climate science, as Ian Plimer points out in his chapter in The Facts, is based on a “preordained conclusion, huge bodies of evidence are ignored and analytical procedures are treated as evidence”. Funds are not available to investigate alternative theories. Those who express even the mildest doubts about dangerous climate change are ostracised, accused of being in the pay of fossil fuel interests or starved of funds; those who take money from green pressure groups and make wildly exaggerated statements are showered with rewards and treated by the media as neutral.The loons then presented a segment on 'fake news' and how damaging it had been to the Hillary Clinton campaign, citing only how false accounts had influenced and probably rigged the election, thus continuing the campaign against democratic elections in America only because 'their side' lost. To be sure there was indeed lots of 'fake news' and in fact much of it (if not most) was on the 'side' of the Democrats. As for the leaking emails....this was not fake, these were actual emails generated by the individuals involved, what irks the left is that the public were given access to the information, information that proved Hillary Clinton was a liar, a political prostitute, an anarchist and probably was going to bring America to destruction more swiftly than current estimates. At least it now has some time to recover and perhaps make the necessary arrangements.
Look what happened to a butterfly ecologist named Camille Parmesan when she published a paper on “Climate and Species Range” that blamed climate change for threatening the Edith checkerspot butterfly with extinction in California by driving its range northward. The paper was cited more than 500 times, she was invited to speak at the White House and she was asked to contribute to the IPCC’s third assessment report.
Unfortunately, a distinguished ecologist called Jim Steele found fault with her conclusion: there had been more local extinctions in the southern part of the butterfly’s range due to urban development than in the north, so only the statistical averages moved north, not the butterflies. There was no correlated local change in temperature anyway, and the butterflies have since recovered throughout their range. When Steele asked Parmesan for her data, she refused. Parmesan’s paper continues to be cited as evidence of climate change. Steele meanwhile is derided as a “denier”. No wonder a highly sceptical ecologist I know is very reluctant to break cover.
Jim Hansen, recently retired as head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies at NASA, won over a million dollars in lucrative green prizes, regularly joined protests against coal plants and got himself arrested while at the same time he was in charge of adjusting and homogenising one of the supposedly objective data sets on global surface temperature. How would he be likely to react if told of evidence that climate change is not such a big problem?
Michael Oppenheimer, of Princeton University, who frequently testifies before Congress in favour of urgent action on climate change, was the Environmental Defense Fund’s senior scientist for nineteen years and continues to advise it. The EDF has assets of $209 million and since 2008 has had over $540 million from charitable foundations, plus $2.8 million in federal grants. In that time it has spent $11.3 million on lobbying, and has fifty-five people on thirty-two federal advisory committees. How likely is it that they or Oppenheimer would turn around and say global warming is not likely to be dangerous?
Why is it acceptable, asks the blogger Donna Laframboise, for the IPCC to “put a man who has spent his career cashing cheques from both the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Greenpeace in charge of its latest chapter on the world’s oceans?” She’s referring to the University of Queensland’s Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.
These scientists and their guardians of the flame repeatedly insist that there are only two ways of thinking about climate change—that it’s real, man-made and dangerous (the right way), or that it’s not happening (the wrong way). But this is a false dichotomy. There is a third possibility: that it’s real, partly man-made and not dangerous. This is the “lukewarmer” school, and I am happy to put myself in this category. Lukewarmers do not think dangerous climate change is impossible; but they think it is unlikely.
I find that very few people even know of this. Most ordinary people who do not follow climate debates assume that either it’s not happening or it’s dangerous. This suits those with vested interests in renewable energy, since it implies that the only way you would be against their boondoggles is if you “didn’t believe” in climate change. [M Ridley]
Our civilisation is truly imploding from within and I fight against these loony tunes only because I find it impossible to sit still in the face of blatant and hypocritical 'useful idiots (Lenin's words), plus the truth is that I want a little more peace-time with my children because one thing is for sure; that the policy's of these useful idiots and their demonic cronies (Soros) are going to send the whole world into a massive conflagration in the not-to-distant future.
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