Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
If you pay close attention to things going on in the world in a very general way without getting involved, you begin to notice patterns that reflect something else going on under the surface of it all, a script that features a consistent narrative which moves to some far off climax that never comes. This weekend the big push was on to remind us all that Climate Change was a thing and anyone who wasn’t fully onboard was dangerous. Not being fully onboard and somehow unaware of the danger I posed, I decided to put aside my already well founded disbelief and look at their P.R. one more time, for old time’s sake.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm
Still waiting.
According to Jonathon Amos, Science Reporter for the BBC in San Francisco, when this article was written, “Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.”
However, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (what? I know, right, the NSIDC, those guys are good!) “Arctic sea ice extent for April 2019 averaged 13.45 million square kilometers.”
Did you catch that? That’s a 9.32 million sq kilometer increase in less than 12 years. And all the ice was supposed to be gone six years ago. But if we point out that they’ve been wrong- or worse, using false data to support their “dramatic forecasts”, we’re the bad guys? This morning on NPR they spent a good twenty minutes trying to walk their audience through the process of identifying a “climate change denier” and how to correct their beliefs. It was chilling, pun fully intended. Then, browsing through the news aggregators today this interesting article pops up in half a dozen feeds-
“Using moral clarity to counter defeatism around the climate crisis.” That’s an interesting approach to scientific facts; moral clarity. Where does that come into the picture and whose morals, if you don’t mind us asking?
1) Isn’t it alarmist to talk about the potential extinction of the human species?
It’s true that we don’t precisely know how this will all play out, but the evidence is overwhelming that the climate is already dangerously unstable, and extreme weather will be increasingly deadly to us and other species. “Our house is on fire,” as Thunberg put it, “I don’t want your hope. … I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.”
Wow. Just wow.
To be fair there is probably an underlying problem here that goes beyond alarmist rhetoric, that’s par for the Climate Change course. Oh, I know what it is now-
“Thunberg, who is on the autism spectrum, has become a moral authority.” There it is, a triple lutz of authority; female, autistic and wait for it…
…she’s going to wish you into the cornfield if you don’t think good thoughts. I know people think I go overboard with the physiognomy thing and just because she’s got that Angela Merkel Junior Stasi air about her doesn’t mean she’s necessarily a bad kid, but she is heavily medicated. Look at her pupils and the light source. Does that look right to you? Not that I mind being threatened by a drug addled middle-schooler who thinks I should live in a perpetual state of panic, I think I could take her. It’s that this is what passes for authority- forgive me- moral authority in this day and age.
Fake data. Hysterical predictions. Angry foreign children.
What’s not to believe? I think the extremely late Spring, the really long cold winters and record setting snowfalls, the rapidly expanding ice fields must have sent them all into a tizzy and this week marks their Spring offensive, like McClellan perpetually camped on the banks of the Rappahanock waiting for the precise conditions that never seem to happen. And so they make them up.
GIGO, baby, GIGO.
A week ago I was standing in the lobby of the local Post Office chewing the fat with a couple of other older guys when one of them made some disparaging comment about “global warming” and what he was going to do the next time some snowflake (we all laughed) spouted off. As if on cue a stretchy pants and ballet shoes wearing guy with a lumberjack beard and man purse shot back with one of those lilting up-talk ripostes that the reason it was so cold- it had snowed the previous night, mid-May- was because of global warming and then flounced out the door in a huff with his Land’s End catalogue clenched in his thin, white fingers. There was a pause for a moment and then a simultaneous eruption of laughter from everyone in the lobby. It felt cathartic, liberating. No one believes the lies anymore unless they’re dressed like a mime.
I don’t know if the climate is cooling or warming and I don’t believe anyone really does. The ones who preach it the most have skin in the game; politicians, NGO’s, think tanks and celebrities. None of them actually change their own behavior, though. They all still fly around on jets from one Climate Change summit to the next, drive around in armor plated cars, use electricity, eat foods flown in from halfway around the globe in every season, expecting someone to take care of their trash every week without ever really contemplating just how much of it they produce.
They have plenty of great ideas on how to fix the climate beginning with our complete and total subjugation to their initiatives and demands. We are not only obligated to pay for it- whatever it is supposed to be- but embrace it enthusiastically, triumphantly and eagerly all the while living in a panicked fear of a two degree change sometime next century. Who wouldn’t get on board that train?
I do know that whenever they write an article about something I know well, like maple syrup,
they lie, lie, lie in an effort to point the fickle finger of fate at anyone who doesn’t know any better, claiming that the changing climate is going to kill off maple production anywhere south of the arctic circle despite year after year after year of increased production wherever maple syrup is made. Not one man I know who produces syrup around here has seen any kind of change in the past century, but none of them listen to All Things Considered. And that’s only one small peep back through the panopticon, there are plenty of others that different specialists in different fields notice based on their experience. If something is true, you shouldn’t have to tell lies to promote it. Climate Change is the proverbial hammer and the population are the nails. But lately the nails are telling the hammer to pound sand.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/world/australia/election-climate-change.html
Here an entire election stood as a definitive moment in the AGW timeline, the day when they’d show those ignorant flyover hicks what’s what and just like that, burned like Varys. At the top of the article is the tearjerker photo of the struggling rancher feeding his herd cotton seed? Did I read that right? Were they fresh out of tumble weeds and cacti? I didn’t know cows ate cotton seed, but I live in a different hemisphere, we just let them eat grass in my neck of the woods. Of course anyone brave enough to choose New South Wales as the base for your cattle operation has got all kinds of unique ideas about raising livestock. Does this look like good ground for raising beef?
I’m starting to understand the cotton seed solution. Look, this is just another example of the media desperately trying to convince you that something is real by showing you something fake. New South Wales was never a good place to raise livestock, regardless of the CO2 levels, it’s an arid environment with little or no forage. Land is cheap and if you can afford to bring in feed like cotton seed, I suppose you’re golden, but it hasn’t changed in thousands of years. That picture is not our fault.
I’m not an advocate for or against climate change, I’m just an uneducated farmer who spends his entire existence living in an environment and feeding my family based on our knowledge and understanding of climate, weather, seasons and cycles. I do know that I sequester more carbon in a year than every last member of Congress and the Senate combined but no one asks my opinion. They can’t seem to shut-up about it. I improve soil quality, prevent erosion, maintain wildlife corridors, improve water quality and build tilth where there was none and I do it all without flying around in jets- 10 years now- because that’s the least I could do.
I’m not saying everyone should return to the soil, though that would solve a hell of a lot of problems. What I will state is that it is impossible for large number of people to heed the advice of people who live like poobahs, ignoring every dictate they wish to impose. Some may be genuine- though it is doubtful based on the fraud and intimidation used to promote their agenda- but most are not. You cannot bring real change with fake data and you cannot lead without being an example.
The climate is changing, it always has and it always will, but it isn’t supposed to be a cash machine for wealthy elites jet setting around the globe to their confabs while the dirt people eat petri dish chick-ain’t.
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Missing link to the Australia article-
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/world/australia/election-climate-change.html
Oh, I get it, NYT doesn’t want you to link to or read their article. Now why would that be?
SYDNEY, Australia — The polls said this would be Australia’s climate change election, when voters confronted harsh reality and elected leaders who would tackle the problem.
And in some districts, it was true: Tony Abbott, the former prime minister who stymied climate policy for years, lost to an independent who campaigned on the issue. A few other new candidates prioritizing climate change also won.
But over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers. On Saturday, in a result that stunned most analysts, they re-elected the conservative coalition that has long resisted plans to sharply cut down on carbon emissions and coal.
What it could mean is that the world’s climate wars — already raging for years — are likely to intensify. Left-leaning candidates elsewhere, like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, may learn to avoid making climate a campaign issue, while here in Australia, conservatives face more enraged opponents and a more divided public.
“There has to be a reckoning within the coalition about where they stand,” said Amanda McKenzie, chief executive of the Climate Council, an Australian nonprofit. “I think it’s increasingly difficult for them to maintain a position where they don’t talk about climate change.”
Even for skeptics, the effects of climate change are becoming harder to deny. Australia just experienced its hottest summer on record. The country’s tropics are spreading south, bringing storms and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever to places unprepared for such problems, while water shortages have led to major fish die-offs in drying rivers.
Lucas Dow, the chief executive of Adani Australia, in front of conservative campaign signs in Clermont, Queensland, on Tuesday. The town was the site of a violent clash last month over a proposed Adani coal mine.CreditAnna Maria Antoinette D’Addario for The New York Times
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Lucas Dow, the chief executive of Adani Australia, in front of conservative campaign signs in Clermont, Queensland, on Tuesday. The town was the site of a violent clash last month over a proposed Adani coal mine.CreditAnna Maria Antoinette D’Addario for The New York Times
“This is all playing out in real time, right now,” said Joëlle Gergis, an award-winning climate scientist and writer from the Australian National University. “We are one of the most vulnerable nations in the developed world when it comes to climate change.”
And yet the path to victory for Scott Morrison, the incumbent prime minister, will make agreeing on a response more difficult. He and his Liberal-National coalition won thanks not just to their base of older, suburban economic conservatives, but also to a surge of support in Queensland, the rural, coal-producing, sparsely populated state sometimes compared to the American South.
The coalition successfully made cost the dominant issue in the climate change debate. One economic model estimated that the 45 percent reduction in carbon emissions proposed by the opposition Labor Party would cost the economy 167,000 jobs and 264 billion Australian dollars, or $181 billion. Though a Labor spokesman called the model “dodgy,” Mr. Morrison and his allies used it to argue against extending Australia’s existing efforts to reduce emissions and invest in clean energy.
The message resonated strongly in Queensland, where the proposed Carmichael coal mine would be among the largest in the world if it is approved.
The Adani Group, the Indian conglomerate behind the mine project, says it will provide thousands of jobs in nearby towns marked by empty houses and rife unemployment. But in other parts of Australia, particularly among the urban educated left, it faces fierce opposition. “Stop Adani” is a mantra for many, promoted by organizations like Greenpeace and shared with pride on social media, signs and T-shirts.
Even Mr. Abbott, the former prime minister, seemed to grasp this growing political divide.
“It’s clear that in what might be described as ‘working seats,’ we are doing so much better,” he said in his concession speech. “It’s also clear that in at least some of what might be described as ‘wealthy seats,’ we are doing it tough, and the Green left is doing better.”
Neither side seems open to compromise. In some ways, the election was foreshadowed last month in the Queensland town of Clermont, where environmentalists protesting the Carmichael mine were met by pro-coal activists, including a man on a horse who rode into the crowd and knocked a woman unconscious.
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Over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers.CreditSocial Media/Reuters
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Over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers.CreditSocial Media/Reuters
In some ways it was a clash of cultures as well as political views.
“I feel like there’s quite a lot of scorn about the way Queenslanders feel about environmental issues, and that doesn’t help,” said Susan Harris-Rimmer, a law professor at Griffith University in Queensland. “The predominant Queensland characteristic is pride and you can’t pour scorn on them.”
She said doing so was a strategic mistake for politicians comparable to Hillary Clinton’s description of some Donald Trump supporters as “deplorables” during the 2016 United States presidential election.
“You can’t trigger the pride response,” Ms. Harris-Rimmer said.
Scholars of Australian populism agree, arguing that the weakening of the major parties and the country’s tilt to the right have been driven mainly by class envy and alienation, including the belief that the elite do not understand the needs and values of the working class.
Despite his Sydney upbringing and former career in advertising, Mr. Morrison, 51, won in part by presenting himself as an Australian everyman — a rugby-crazed beer drinker who was the first prime minister to campaign in a baseball hat.
Mr. Morrison’s coalition also benefited from deals with two right-wing groups: One Nation, the anti-immigration party led by the Queensland senator Pauline Hanson, and the United Australia Party led by the mining billionaire Clive Palmer, who spent tens of millions of dollars on a populist campaign with the slogan “Make Australia Great.”
Under Australia’s preferential voting system, votes for candidates from minor parties can be used to help allies reach a clear majority in the lower house of Parliament. Nationally, United Australia secured 3.4 percent of the vote, while One Nation picked up 3 percent.
Neither One Nation nor United Australia did as well as similar parties recently in countries like Italy, Hungary and Brazil. But for Australia, where compulsory voting encourages moderate election outcomes, the results defied expectations and made clear that the country remains deeply conservative and open to the far right on a variety of issues.
The question that now confronts the new government is how much sway to give the forces that led to victory. Climate change may be the first battle in the long war that is reshaping democracy all over the world.
Am reading a lot about the attempt of Social Science Experts to reshape what was really a European treaty of peace called the Westphalian Agreement* into what was conceived as a League of Nations by a pedantic political activist named Woodrow, I think.
*The European Nations were so depleted financially, militarily, spiritually and agriculturally, they agreed to stay out of one another’s domestic affairs and mind their own country’s business. The agreement was not intended to be “global” because Russia was in their own Troubled Times tossing Polish Princes to the Wolves and Creating the Romanov Dynasty already doomed by Boyars and Commissars. That, of course, is the problem with Social Science… it tries to make “all things equal” to standards established by the laws of Physical Science.
And, in between the Social Scientists and the Physical Scientists sits the Natural Scientist, playing with his test tubes and sculpting tools.
OMG Do you really believe all you have written? Don’t come to my house when you are freezing and hungry. Australia will eventually starve with the coming Super Grand Solar Minimum. What you don’t get is that CO2 and this carbon crap are nonsense. It the sun and its going into a lower output stage for about 30 years. Also when you talk about hot days, yes they were hot but so what? Weather and climate are two different things. The climate is cooling. During the last Ice Age it was very warm in Alaska and along the North West coast of the US. It also had Ice hundreds of feet thick. All this CO2 and carbon are about control and nothing else. I say destroy all your power plants and put up solar and wind. When it gets cold and there is no sun and the wind doesn’t blow then what? Its almost funny. This global carbon and CO2 agenda will eventually kill billions who will not be ready for the cooling that is coming. Note, During a Super Grand Solar Minimum it can be hot or cold. The big problem is that it can happen all over the place. Look at Australia’s grain out put. In the US this year there will be a lot less planting. I fully expect food prices to double, and then double again. When food gets so expensive, people will not purchase any thing else and businesses who sell non food things will fail. Perhaps you think I am wrong, but all I can say is wait for the next winter and the spring. When 7 plus billion people wake up to the fact that they may starve, it will be too late. Perhaps that is what the CO2 Carbon agenda is all about? I think so.
Dennis DeLaurier Author Surviving the Super Grand Solar Minimum
So in condescending contempt the Conservatives brought this on…
I read the article and it it is a sad story that they’ve endured the kinds of losses they have, but what struck me was the air of-surprise? As if this was unanticipated. One of the places mentioned was in Wondoola Station so I started looking for images like the one above. Now that was was from 50 years ago, way before we ever heard of global warming. Does that look like a good place to graze cattle? Look up any place in New South Wales and imagine raising anything but cacti or tumbleweeds in that dust bowl. The same thing that has happened to American farmers has evidently happened to Australian ones- and artificial set of conditions that allowed people to raise cattle (or any agricultural product) in an area completely unsuited to it were it not for the combined efforts of government agencies, massive amounts of hydrocarbon inputs and imported feeds at suppressed prices.
Can you raise ruminant in an arid prairie devoid of grass? They grow mizuna on the International Space Station but does that mean we should?
The absurdity of most of the current practices of industrial agriculture are only possible due to an enormous imbalance of artificial inputs at the cost of long term sustainable practices that build soil and increase tilth and soil fertility. It is going to come to an end, just like the Australian beef industry if it continues to pretend that business as usual is good business.
It is all on the level.
Cannot eat too many fish from the lakes in Maine due to lead, pregnant women should not eat at all.
https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/environmental-health/eohp/fish/2kfca.htm
No frogs left in Yuma, AZ. I was there last winter and noticed no frogs after a Walmart guy told me he used to feast on frogs legs as a young man.
Tom Brady better watch his Kale.
Pesticides in veggies https://www.wellandgood.com/good-food/dirty-dozen-list-2018-produce-contamination/
Al Gore said the ice caps should be melted by now.
Lots of B.S. out there for sure.
Does not mean nothing is happening, like the huge aquifer under the U.S. getting drained.
It doesn’t mean we can do a damn thing about it, either…and to THINK that wind mills or solar can “cure” the global “warming” BS “nightmare,” is just pure idiocy. You can be a SUCKER with your money, you can do whatever you want with your lifestyle, but you better leave mine alone.
They love their windmills and solar panels. Of course, they never seem to answer me when I ask them how much energy was expended in the creation, transportation, etc. of said gizmos, or how much damage was done to the environment excavating the lanthanide mines.
I’m waiting for global cooling to be blamed on global warming.
Hasn’t that already happened? Certainly vast swaths of land being frigid somehow doesn’t negate the global warming theorem. That’s what’s most laughable – it’s unfalsifiable. No matter what happens, no matter how ball-freezing cold it can get, it doesn’t matter.
Many should return to the soil. All should return to the KJB.
Oh Man…..What a great article. One of your best for sure. I could not have said it better myself.
Bang!
Twiced!
And because it strikes me as funny, from the “Editor’s Picks” in the article re: Australia,
Now maybe it’s just me, BUT, without reading THAT article, and considering that its headline/hyperlink is “buried” as a sidebar/bottombar in an article that laments the severity of humanity’s own deathwish for itself and everything and other stuff, I could not help but respond, out loud, “Who cares?! We’re awl gunna die!!!”
GREAT article, HSF!
Whatever is happening, mankind will either adapt or die-out and another species will evolve to take our place.
Eternal optimist.
The truth is blinding the hucksters who exist to put their boots on our necks while they pick our pockets
In central Texas, there is little food value in the grass during the winter. So, baled hay and “range cubes”, chunks of cotton seed cake. I ran some 20 head, 196s-1980, and fed not quite three tons per winter.
We fed our plow horses (WW II era) cotton seed meal and cotton seed hulls as well as corn and baled hay.
The amount of carbon it takes to create one of those giant wind mills is greater then the carbon that the wind mill will replace, in lieu of burning the evil fossil fuel, and, there still is no solution for solving the base load problem (no cost effective storage yet). ditto for solar panels.
Who knows, maybe some day they will figure out fusion energy, and every town will have a local mini nuke to power a distributed grid. Until then, there simply is no alternative, other than fossil fuels to maintain the lifestyles we are engaged in.
Trust me, this climate-gate will pass, and the elites will come up with a new scheme, to scare the shit out of little kids, and guilt trip their liberal parents into spending more of their income to save the planet, while they medicate the shit out of their neurotic children.
Who knows, maybe some day they will figure out fusion energy, and every town will have a local mini nuke to power a distributed grid.
This ^
I have been saying for decades we should use the Navy’s nuclear power design and put a power plant by any city of appropriate size.
They’ve been running the cyclotron project at Princeton since before I was born. My father is buddies with a bunch of the guys over there and after more than a billion dollars in private funding and God knows how much in taxpayer coin they are no closer today than they were in the 50’s.
Not going to happen.
I would be really interested in hearing what your fathers buddies think of the Lockheed Compact Fusion Reactor they developed out in Washington. I have been reading about it for over a year. Peter Pan mentions it below and I have mentioned on TBP before too. They have a working prototype (different configuration than a tokamak), but I don’t know specifics on efficiencies.
It sounds too good to be true – 50+ megawatts from a unit that will fit on 2 pallets. 200 Megawatts from a unit several thousand square feet (and they expect to shrink that).
Your fathers buddies might also have a better grasp of the real past/present situation at Fukushima. From all I have read, they had MOX rods in the cooling pools there and several pools with MOX rods had huge amounts vaporized and released to the atmosphere – 100’s of tons worth. The hydrogen explosion (if it was not an actual uncontrolled criticality explosion) sent that stuff high into the atmosphere…did it get to the jet stream?
I remember pruning trees in a cold late march rain about a week after 3/11 and then later reading that our area got hit hardest with cesium in that rain – I did, indeed, get a “burn” on my face and it stayed red and felt like a sunburn for months. I was once told by a customer who claimed to have a degree in nuclear physics that I got a “beta burn”. Whatever it was from exactly, I believe it was a “burn” related to Fukushima release.
I know it’s a lot to ask, but any information from unbiased, intelligent and experienced people has huge value. Maybe your father could inquire and you could write a short essay if they have insight/information?
It seems, with the amount of fuel that was there, the amount of 530+ sieverts per hour years later (reactor 2), the heavy metal releases (like strontium) into the atmosphere/water, etc. is a FAR bigger cause for concern than any of the issues we all just used to call “weather”.
thx for asking. HBO has a mini series on Chernobyl. Third episode airs tonight. Gripping drama amid Communist hard core bureaucracy vs. exposed hard core science.
Fukushima’s legacy is yet to be told I am afraid.
Wait – I am too new here…is KeyserSusie also HSF?
Or just providing some info? Either way, maybe I’ll check out the Chernobyl series. Thanks!
I agree it ain’t gonna happen but;
I’m not sure what a cyclotron has to do with it. I’m talking about using a Navy nuclear power plant that runs an aircraft carrier or a FBM submarine as a source for power locally and on the grid.
Not cost effective. The navy doesn’t have to be cost effective to run their plants but civilian plants do. I worked with plenty of guys from the Ft. Saint Vrain nuc plant. It was shutdown because it cost too much.
Follow up question:
Is it not going to happen due to physics, or because the energy business will tank with cheap abundant power?
Observation: nuclear power has been running small cities, sometimes known as aircraft carriers, for many years now.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19652/lockheed-martin-now-has-a-patent-for-its-potentially-world-changing-fusion-reactor
There are new designs that are safer than our old plants. I talked to a guy about small powerplants in trailers that could power a city. Thorium power would be a great step ahead.
One of my favorite moments in business school was presenting a paper to my tree hugger/socialist “business ethics” professor on alternative fuels. In it I showed that it costs more BTU to produce a gallon of corn ethanol than it yields AND it actually lowered mpg. Further, the only way ethanol made sense is if it were produced from natural gas and even then it was sketchy.
I concluded the paper by stating if the early presidential contests weren’t in the corn belt we would think subsidizing and using food for the gas tank was nothing but a get-rich-for-some boondoggle.
Talk about science denier. The comments all over my paper made clear he wanted to hear none of it.
Global Warming/Climate Change hysteria has been beyond nutzoid for years. Real climatologists and atmospheric scientists all know they must keep their mouths shut and never criticize the ‘Tax CO2 to save the world’ con that is easy to sell to those who can’t leave home without a comfort critter.
Those in our educational/indoctrination system who speak the truth don’t remain long. They get marginalized, their research remains unfunded, their work unpublished, and they get pilloried by the press.
In 2017, Climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology,Judith Curry, reigned because of ‘the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science.’
Any climate scientist with integrity would do the same.
The pollution is off the scales, the continents of plastic trash floating in the oceans, the pesticides, herbicides and other overused poisons contaminating water and soil, the massive urban sprawl, the billions of autos spewing tons of crap into the air…the list is long.
Back when conservation was a thing the people conserved and did it so well that utility companies raised their rates to offset the fuel usage losses. People were punished with higher rates for conserving. In the twenties street cars were slowly replaced with autos, there were claims that GM, in conjunction with Standard Oil worked to replace said streetcars with buses.
Dumping of sewage, industrial waste, radioactive waste continues apace, in both oceanic and fresh water. The third world is the biggest source of pollution on the planet, the climate change knot heads want to issue carbon credits so the first world is punished for third world pollution. If people are slobs then things look like the images below. Poverty doesn’t mean living in filth, ignorance and sloth and indifference create such scenes. Low IQ’s create such scenes, corporate and individual greed and crappy or non-existent leadership create such scenes, witness the 30 blocks of squalor.
The climate change agenda has jack shit to do with conservation or pollution abatement, it is a scam to enable taxing the air we breath, a scam and a pretense of doing something if only enough money was spent .It is about control. domination and power.
this is a Manila slum
A slum in Mumbai
Rio de Janero
You’re using climate change as an argument AGAINST socialism, where a government’s system creates these kinds of messes; look at Detroit, or Wilmington, or LA, or SanFrancisco…pick a spot where there’s socialist control and you’ll find this kind of CRAP. Hell, attend a concert for the planet, WAIT until everyone leaves, look at the trash these people leave behind. Before you attempt to blame conservatives like me, you’d better look in the mirror.
uh, oh…
…Captndicksalot is pikin’ a fight with TBP’s Socialist Champion.
He’s makin’ fun at his mirror phobia!
He’s trying to block the plate in front of a Tye Cobb slide!
Back in the 2000’s I was one of the administrations representatives on the University environmental clubs. But at that point I was interested b/c the Enviro club was almost entirely focused on the watershed, water pollution, and relocalization of food production. It was basically me and alot of young hippy types. The whole global warming thing was barely even mentioned and was never front and center at all. It was all about cleaning up the watershed which was primarily being damaged by large farms, not industry. It was an interesting few years. Back then the hippy types were more OK with a libertarian type like myself. Some of them cringed if I defended hunting etc, since of course there were a whole slew of vegans in the club. But overall they were at least dealing with real local problems in the country/city. But I’m certain if I stayed there much longer it would have morphed into the sky is falling climate change garbage. Global warming has destroyed alot of the good things done by environmentalists, even if some of its real, you can’t change the Macro stuff. Yet, these folks want to become the biggest authoritarians ever seen to force folks to not reproduce, and to live their vision of their neo-communist utopia.
The good news is that the “men’ and I use that term loosely in the environmental club were pathetic. There were actually a few badass live off the land hippy chicks, but the dudes were pathetic. I’m sure someone like myself wouldn’t even be allowed to be a member of such a group, just a decade later. Nor would I have the stomach to listen to the idiotic bullshit.
It’s a rarely mentioned fact that the legislation most beneficial to our environment was initiated by a Republican President, Nixon. The Clean Water Act, in 1972, mandated sweeping changes in environmental stewardship.
In Florida, where the water table is only several feet deep in most places, it was a dramatic change.
I worked in the engineering department of a large water and sewer utility company, where the CWA mandated a ‘Manhattan Project’ of sewage treatment plant upgrades. We went from ‘Primary’ treatment (screen the solids and let the rest go) to ‘Tertiary’ treatment (reverse osmosis – drinkable effluent) in two years.
Thank you, Tricky Dick (ya shoulda colluded with Putin instead of Haldeman)!
Curious, what would the “secondary” treatment be?
Sadly, there is NO $ in doing the right thing.
Simple stuff that any 3rd grader(literally) can come up with, like….cleaning up.
Do these hucksters promote cleaning up?
No, there is no money in it.
There is money, big, gigantic money in carbon tax.
Trotting out that demonic stasi larvae is an act of desperation. As they have spent billions erecting this ponzi and the payoff is increasingly in doubt.
I noticed you did not credit Trump for kicking them square in the balls at Paris.
“Climate Change is the proverbial hammer and the population are the nails. ”
And watch your neck, because here comes the sickle.
Lol Awesome rant and the description of the post office scene is one of the best evah
The puppet-masters desperately need the climate change deception to foist their Orwellian levers of control upon Futureworld; the land of rainbows and unicorns. But what is especially nauseating, are the useful idiots who require that deception in order to palliate the black and empty voids that once housed their souls.
Modern climate change environmentalism is just a mask for Marxism and ultimately seeks to spread servitude, poverty and death to as great a population as possible.
However most of the climate change alarmists don’t understand that. They are just the useful idiots.
Hell yes. So sick and tired of the stupidy and hypocrisy. I keep wondering what it will take to finally put a nail in this cult’s coffin. It’s getting really, really old.
Two great websites that offer daily debunking of the “climate change” narrative: https://wattsupwiththat.com and
Even the term Climate Change had to be implemented because it became obvious that Global Warming just wasn’t happening. Coming from the Finance world and having made a zillion models, I know that you can make a model do anything you want but of course, that doesn’t mean it will happen. BTW when they dropped the temp recording stations from Siberia post-USSR did that add or subtract from the various model’s reliability? How about all the temp monitoring stations next to various heat islands (air conditioning exhausts, airport runways, etc.)…..totally specious.
The climate alarmists offer the formulaic argument that any good con man does. Give me something of value now so that I can save/stop the amorphous bad thing from happening in the future. Like any con, they are always moving the goal posts and will always double down (never give up the con), thus the spectacle of actress AOC proclaiming that we only have 12 years left……which was a “jump the shark” moment and likely did far more damage to their cause than even they realize…….thus it was now a joke badly misinterpreted by the evil GOP…..AOC when you are in a hole stop digging.
Humans as a species thrive in hot weather and die in the cold so we should welcome a warming period and in fact, any warming today is just an uptick after a cold spell…..not much to do with human activity.
Sadly it appears however that we are now trending down in temperature and mostly due to a quieting sun. Maunder minimum….look it up and look at the predictions for Sun Cycle 25…..bundle up folks.
So the obvious con is that only the wealthy countries (those with the ability to pay!) are demonized for being bad carbon emitters when if fact it is China/India etc with very dirty power generation and abysmal industry standards that not only emit lots of carbon but poison the planet with practices we gave up long ago. But do you ever hear Bernie or Al Gore or Drake being critical of China? It’s an obvious con to consolidate political control and capture more economic resources. In the name of Climate Change, these folks can and will do anything they want with you, your money and your future.
As a long time boater and hunter……I never saw any change in water levels along the many docks of Long Island Sound…nada. The deer/elk are in the same place at the same time of year as they have been for the 30+ years I have been pursuing them.
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I really enjoyed this article as it echoes my own (layman’s) thinking on the AGW discussion. Thanks for writing and sharing it.
Yesterday the coldest high temperature in May here in MN since 1971 (mid-40’s F). I wish global warming were real. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be.
It (climate change) has become a mixture of a business and a belief system; I writemore about it here:
http://hirocker.com/mania/modern-mania.html
It’s a religion. This is what happens when we on the right take Ayn Rand too far. To wit: Get rid of God and government and there’d be no problems. It is also what happens when those on the left replace God WITH government.
In either extreme, humans and their stupidity cannot in any capacity replace the perfect imperfection of the Creator in nature.
Can’t compare an April average with a yearly minimum, HSF. That’s the type of thing the hucksters do.
Other than that I couldn’t agree more. This is typical of all modern debates… no room for nuance or reason, just screaming about extremes…. you either believe in anthropogenic climate change with all your hearts or you believe in all the trappings of modernity and your big oils bitch. It’s all nonsense. Of course we humans are doing tremendous damage to many local environments regularly and are certainly making some difference globally– how could we not? But how much. Its definitely not 0 and its definitely not 100%…. but those are the only 2 positions this “debate” forces us into.
The degree of hypocrisy by admissible every climate change activist is staggering. No skin in the game is right and always overlooked or simply ignored. Also it is just assumed that the government is the proper channel to use to fix this alleged mess… without the slightest thought to all the other alleged messes they’ve tried to fix and made far worse and I’m just speaking of the us govt in the last few decades….historically it’s much worse. The rhetoric amounts top washing another govt war on something (Climate Change, AGW, air travel, whatever). How have all the previous wars on abstractions (poverty, drugs, terror, etc.) worked out?
Best for all of us to live by the mantra “don’t shit where you eat” and leave it at that. Or go a little further and improve your soil.
There’s the BIG Yellow Thing in the sky…you can actually see the thing…don’t look too long, though…Yeah, that BIG Yellow Thing…it’s called, The Sun…it provides the heat for the planet we live on…in fact, its energy output rises and falls…sometimes it’s a predictable process, sometimes, not. When the Sun cools, it means a cooling planet, when it rises, it means a warming planet…we…homo sapiens can’t do a damn thing about it…we CAN vote for politicians who don’t believe in the bullshit, however. If those that DO believe in the bullshit ever “win” their battle against Western Civilization, we CAN do something directly about them, too…
They’ve won. Now what?
Should we all Yammer-Hammer them?
Thanks for a great article that most sane people agree with completely, even if most of them just keep their mouths shut so as not to be ridiculed by the brain dead. Glad to see another sane person making this an open and shut case for those who have a clue.
The one individual that has been relentless in his exposure of the magical mythical HOAX of global warming is Tony Heller. Numerous videos documenting the NASA manipulation of data to create the warming myth, and numerous other fraudulent narratives to keep the Myth going.
The link to his web site for all his excellent analysis is just under this video, which is necessarily long, to make the point on the climate industrial complex feeding at the governments trough. He has many other videos interspersed with the factual ones, so a little selection is necessary for the fact based ones of interest.
It is snowing today along the front range of Colorado. I was so worried about global warming today that I went ahead and lit the wood stove. I hope Al Gore chokes while I stay warm. FOOT
Yeah. WTF? Mid may snow in town?!
Just got some flowers and vegetables planted yesterday.
“Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.”
However, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (what? I know, right, the NSIDC, those guys are good!) “Arctic sea ice extent for April 2019 averaged 13.45 million square kilometers.”
Did you catch that? That’s a 9.32 million sq kilometer increase in less than 12 years.
I stopped reading when you compared the summer minimum in September to the average ice extent in April.
Wow is right. Are you really that stupid?
Great catch! Thanks for pointing out the difference. I’m a farmer in New England, not a scientist and definitely not a science writer for the BBC News and all the support, research and funding that implies. Just me and my $299 Lenova and an Internet connection. My assumption has always been that the poles are more or less stable, otherwise where would they be getting the ice core samples that go back 400,000 years? You know, the ones that prove that our current CO2 levels are the highest in the history of the planet? Obviously I punted when I should have run the ball.
I won’t make that mistake again.
However in your haste to find a nit to pick, you overlooked the claim-“Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years…you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.”
So let’s compare apples to apples-
“Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2013 was 5.35 million square kilometers…”
That is slightly more than ice free. Approximately 5.35 million square kilometers more. A modest 25% gain, but still, way more than a 100% loss. Are you willing to concede that point, or are you gonna flounce?
The difference between myself and the climate scientists is that I am willing to admit a mistake and apologize for it immediately and then go back and look at some more data. They never even acknowledge just how far off they are, nor make any attempt to correct whatever histrionic reaction they may have mistakenly promoted in the haste to scare the shit out of everyone who reads their fantastic, ideologically driven bullshit.
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE!
There’s been weaselly use of ice “extent” (preferable among denialists to ice volume). Ice extent can increase at the same time ice volume is diminished.
Why? Fresh meltwater on the surface freezes more readily than normal-salinity seawater.
Global warming is a thing, like it or not.
Whether all the algores and Greta Thunbergs and Goldman Sachs’er jump on some scammy financial bandwagon is neither here nor there. Both things can be true: there are fraudsters and AGW is happening, at the same time.
OOk Oook, Eeek eek.
Please write an article on how you are returning tilth to the soil – I must have missed that one, in the rush. I’m a container gardener, and found six earthworms clinging to the soil beneath a water bucket that sat undisturbed in my backyard – so I put them in a container with tomato and green pepper plants. Hopefully they will improve things this year, and have more earthworms for the future.
One of the roadside shops on Redwood Road advertises “Lucera’s Pretty Worms” – I’ve been meaning to stop by to see if they are.
Good. Quit reading. Go manicure your beard, embrace androgyny, stick soy packets up your ass or whatever gives you the pleasure of a good reach-around. In the meantime, I imagine HSF will lose exactly ZERO sleep over it, and he’ll be one more lettuce head closer to freedom while you and your boys (or are they girls?) cogitate on all of the problems outlined by your bull dike Inclusiveness professor.
I caught it too and posted about it first. Doesn’t make me intelligent. What I didn’t do is stop reading at the first thing I disagreed with. Doing that would have made me foolish.
Jordan Peterson on a 6 minute climate change rant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbvehbomrY
Always look forward to your posts, HSF. You’re just about one of the few posters online, other than Jim, that I don’t do a mental tl;dr on. If it’s not disgustingly humorous, engineering-related, farming/climate-related, or antebellum-American-history-related, my time is too valuable to lose.
Thank you, sir, for relieving Jim of 40 Blocks duty every now and then. (Although we are long overdue in that regard!)
BTW, love your comment about sequestering carbon. The only fucktards on our country road happen to be my far left neighbors. Always running their mouths about recycling, gun control, you name it.
Two quick stories: My 79 year old neighbor on the other side of their parcel told them that if they had had gun control like they wanted then the rabid raccoon he shot 4 damn times would have likely bitten one of their mangy mutts…he laughed as he told me the story in his hearty old twang, and mentioned that he refused to ever fix their fucked up plumbing again. This is one of the smartest old men I have ever met…not college educated (like his 4 mechanical engineering brothers), but IMHO likely much sharper.
The other story: Neighbors were moaning about how folks around here don’t recycle. This, as I am wheelbarrowing 6 cubit feet of mulch up and down our hill in 85 degree heat. I asked him if he knew that most of the plastic that he doesn’t need to use just gets crushed and sits at Long Beach, waiting to be shipped to China in the midst of a protectionist climate. But I needed to go further. I asked him how much carbon I sequestered that summer, estimating I moved about 400 yards with muscle (excluding the skid steer)…and then to compare that calc to his trash bag of plastic sitting in Long Beach, waiting to be recycled.
I hate idiots. I’m glad you’re more polite than me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7050631/Oceans-swell-nearly-SEVEN-FEET-2100-wipe-homes-200-million-people.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
“Oceans could swell nearly SEVEN FEET by 2100 and wipe out the homes of almost 200 million people, new study warns”
“The shock finding is based on a technique called structured expert judgment (SEJ) that pooled the knowledge of 22 climate change specialists.”
SEJ. That’s a new one. Experts- like the guy who blew the ice cover story that only went 5-6 years out- are now predicting 100 years into the future using nothing but their expert judgement.
You could not make this up if you tried.
Its all about power and control. it’s snowing outside now in AZ. I read up with interest in global cooling. I keep hearing words on the news like record cold or unprecedented.
Change the subject to geoengineering/chemtrails. Weather modification is real though I don’t know if it’s changing weather overall, but they’re definitely raining crap on our (and everything else) heads plus blocking the sun. It’s real.
One of the ballot papers we had to fill out for the Oz election was over a yard wide. Fact. It requires a bit of brainpower to fill it in. You have to number a bunch of candidates in preferential order.
When we left the voting station, I told my wife that the left were screwed – that a lot of ignorant welfare parasites would be too stupid to fill in the forms and that it would help the right retain office.
Turns out something like 10% of the votes got tossed because idiots fucked up.
Man, am I good or am I good.
You’re observant.
A lot of those on the right would screw it up, too – esp. old folks. But I suspect overall it favored those on the right.
Something surely did. The reaction of the Australian media was pretty harsh, accusing the majority of being too stupid to know what’s good for them. Not very Dale Carnegie of them.
It is the equivalent of the Deplorables comment Clinton made.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/21987/20190520/octopuses-may-go-blind-as-climate-change-sucks-oxygen-out-of-the-ocean-says-new-research.htm
And another one. I told you that this was the week they would kick it into high gear. Seems that the octopus is going to go blind due to lower oO2 levels in a hundred years. That’s the new sell buy date, 100 years. They know we’ll all be dead and no one can do what I did earlier proving them to be hucksters because these dimwits were predicting tragedy in 5 or 6 years. The new 100 year marching order has gone out.
Looks like the Easter Bunny is going to have a little extra spring in his step this year, if you know what I mean.
What? I’m not to believe NPR’s not so subtle push to have us join the climate cult?
Maybe so but I’m sure they are correct about how diversity is our greatest asset as a country, how Islam is a religion of peace, how the vaccination I receive only protects me if “the herd” is vaccinated, everything they say regarding the president and that walls are racist.
Oh, and that a person who fancies themself a different gender, ethnicity or age than they actually are is not insane.
I went on my annual hunting trip to Montana,Wyoming and South Dakota on May 1st. Four weeks before the trip the weather looked like it was going to be a fantastic trip. High’s were in the lower 60’s,lows in the lower 30’s…perfect for hunting.
On May 1st there was 8 inches of snow on the ground and it was 24º . Most of the week it was rainy,cold and of course windy. The weather was crap for the whole trip.
So the “Globull Warming ” idiots tell me they can predict what the weather will be in 20 years but they can’t get the weather right 4 weeks out or even tell me with pin point accuracy where the hell a hurricane is headed when it’s 1,000 miles of shore.
The one question that shuts the “Globull Warming ” idiots down is….what temperature should the Earth be ?
Where’s Tesla when you need him…….maybe one day his free energy machine will be released to the public .
Pssst, it’s a tax.
It is similar to the Christian “end of the world” theology. It’s always “coming soon”.
Sorry Farmer, but they want to save the cick-aint for their minions. For us useless eaters its more like eating human waste –
Human waste used to make ‘Marmite-like’ food for astronauts
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/astronauts-food-human-waste-marmite-iss-international-space-station-nasa-a8179451.html
Where and how the HOAX got started is laid out in this older article.
A very important issue is the source of incentives of the “Climate Industrial Science” community which has been feasting off the government and NGO cash machine for writing bogus confirming dissertation.
A favorite on this subject is the decades old brilliant work of Joseph Campbell, on Myth creation, which I highly recommend!
Notice the date on this article. Would love to know who financed his movie, and arranged distribution.
https://www.sott.net/article/413892-Scientists-caught-adjusting-sea-level-data-to-create-false-impression-of-rising-oceans?fbclid=IwAR0B3JVnZs7ndpalWGJJWewps-Kuib3g5gFQGSgdV1IVZyv2snRBchCKFlc