by Ray Jason
Greta,
You don’t know me, but we share something in common that is very special. That something is enormous and powerful and beautiful and elemental. That something is Mother Ocean.
I too have spent long periods of time at sea. My longest ocean passage was 30 days, sailing my little 30 foot boat from Hawaii to San Francisco. In my case, I was also doing this alone.
So you have experienced something of extraordinary magnificence. You have glided – or on difficult days – pounded – across the Wide Waters. Very few people have ever done this. To be hundreds of miles from the nearest humans, in the gigantic vastness of the Sea, can teach a person just how tiny we are compared to the mighty eco-systems of our watery planet. And looking up at the immense dome of stars, with the clarity of deep-ocean darkness, reinforces that lesson in humility even more.
This stark difference between the so-called Real World and weeks spent on the rolling waves, always inspires me to examine Life more deeply and independently. Being separated from normal, everyday living, allows one to question the accepted and conventional worldviews.
And so I wonder if sometimes when you were alone on a night watch, did you ever try to step away from the whirlwind that has been your recent life, and examine whether those who have guided your meteoric rise have been truly honest with you – and helpful to you. Did you ever question whether your advisers were as benevolent and noble as they claimed? Did you ever fear that perhaps you were being controlled like a human marionette?
The reason I do not feel guilty asking such questions, is because I too was once a fervent believer in human-driven Climate Change. But the further that I advance into the Autumn of my Life, the more I embrace The Need for Truth. And to achieve that, I find it wise to question everything.
So I took a deep and close look at the supposedly “settled science.” Amazingly, I discovered that the “97% consensus” was just statistical trickery, and that there are many scientists who question the accepted truths of NOAA and the IPCC and NASA, etc. And they do this despite enormous efforts to silence their voices, and to heap scorn upon them for questioning the prevailing dogma.
Therefore, because I believe that your concern and alarm for our planetary future is sincere and well-intended, I offer you a Christmas gift. My present for you is Scientific Optimism.
There are many, many researchers who demonstrate with considerable evidence that Planet Earth has gone through cataclysmic events far worse than the ones we fear today. These previous catastrophes were not caused by human activities. Mother Earth weathered those crises, and emerged as the only lush and life-rich planet among those zillions of stars that you saw so clearly when you were out on the Atlantic Ocean.
Greta, in order to demonstrate that there truly is justification for Scientific Optimism, I will briefly discuss two of the most frequently discussed phenomena which supposedly prove that Climate Change poses an existential threat to life on Earth. And I will show you evidence that you have probably never been exposed to, that, hopefully, will diminish your grave concerns.
The two that I have selected are the Melting Arctic and the Disappearing Polar Bears. These two were chosen because I have direct experience in these areas.
THE ICE-FREE ARCTIC
In 2017, some dear friends offered me the wonderful opportunity to attempt a sailboat voyage across the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Because of my love of adventure and of dangerous, faraway places, I accepted immediately.
Our fiberglass sailboat spent months in the Arctic attempting to make it across. I can assure you that it was not ice-free. Far from it, we struggled through frightening conditions in which we had to ponder turning back.
Here is a photo that is typical of the seemingly impenetrable ice that we had to find a path through.
But we persevered and made it. We were the 256th boat to make it through in the 111 years since the first successful passage. Prior to that superb human achievement, there were hundreds of years of failures and hundreds of lives lost.
Before embarking on this quest, I did considerable research. Some people argued that this undertaking was no longer praiseworthy, since the ice in the far north had supposedly melted. But when I carefully investigated this, I discovered a lot of fiction where there should have been facts. Yes, there had been many authorities predicting that the Arctic Ice Cap would soon melt, but inconveniently, it had refused to do so.
NASA claimed it would be gone in 2012. The Naval Research Lab guessed 2013. Al Gore placed his bet on 2014. And James Hansen hedged his wager by suggesting sometime between 2013 and 2018. They were all wrong! But the mainstream media never mentions these failures. Yet, they will undoubtedly trumpet the next ice-free prediction, which will probably be as incorrect as all of the previous guesses.
Here is another deliberate deception about the Arctic that has been foisted on the world. In order to “prove” that the Arctic is rapidly disappearing, the Climate Change defenders picked 1978 as the start date for their tracking of Arctic ice extent.
Since there has been data on the amount of ice for about 100 years, it seems odd that they would select that particular year. It seems a whole lot less odd when you learn that 1978 had the highest ice total in about 100 years. Therefore, by starting at that point the data will be distorted in favor of a rapid decline in Arctic ice. In other words, there has been a campaign of deliberate deceit.
POLAR BEAR EXTINCTION CLAIMS
The “Death of the Polar Bears” is a fraud on so many levels, that it is difficult to know where to begin.
They are portrayed as cold weather versions of Panda bears. Pandas are large and slow and adorable. They are also vegetarian and mostly eat bamboo.
Polar bears eat meat and they are one of the most ruthless alpha predators on the planet. They are most definitely not cute and cuddly. They can attack from land or sea and they are strong and fast in both elements. We never went ashore without a loaded high-power rifle. To a polar bear, we were not ecologists there to protect them, we were meat.
So let’s take a truthful look at how these powerful carnivores are doing. In about 1960 there were only about 6,000 Polar bears left in the Arctic Basin. But they were not in decline because of Climate Change, their numbers were dropping because they were being hunted to extinction.
Rich trophy hunters could fly to remote locations and hire a guide to help them shoot one of these magnificent creatures. They would then end up as rug or a snarling head on a wall. This was clearly despicable and needed to end.
Fortunately, in 1973, all of the nations in that part of the world signed a treaty banning that horrific practice. So today, the leading experts estimate that the population has now reached about 25,000 Polar bears.
The main reason that they still remain on the Endangered Species list of some countries, is not scientific; it is political – they are the poster child for Climate Change.
Here is a photo that I took in the Northwest Passage of a mom and her cub.
They are magnificent creatures – at a distance. I am delighted that they are not declining – they are flourishing.
BUT WHY?
Hopefully, this fresh perspective on the issues of the Melting Arctic and the Disappearing Polar Bears, will convince you to seek out evidence that has been hidden from you. Surely, you might wonder why your friends and advisers would lie to you. I believe that there are two main reasons.
1) The true goal of the Climate Change juggernaut is NOT to save the planet. It is to restructure society and re-distribute global wealth.
This quote from Christiana Figures, a recent U.N. Climate Chief, clearly states the actual agenda:
“It must be understood that what is occurring here in the whole climate change process is the complete transformation of the economic structure of the world.”
And Ottmar Edenhoffer, who was the lead author on the IPCC Fourth Assessment, echoes Christiana’s position with this statement:
“One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
Furthermore, AOC’s Green New Deal is also not primarily about the environment. Here is a recent quote from her Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabarti:
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy-thing.”
2) The second reason that so many people have been deceiving you, Greta, is because the rewards of supporting the Climate Change orthodox position are enormous. On the other hand, when you oppose that agenda, you are burned at the cyber-stake.
All of the perks flow in one direction. Those who buy into the “impending doom scenario” get published in prestigious journals, appear on television, get invited to conferences, receive research grant money, etc.
But those who question the supposed settled science, are cast out of polite society and scorned as vile “deniers.” Is it any wonder that your advisers have steered you in the direction that they have?
A GLIMMER OF HOPE
Greta, it is likely that you will never see this letter. And even if you do, I suspect that it will have very little influence upon you. But if I could make only one, small, heartfelt request of you, it would be this.
There are now millions of youngsters all around the world who are severely traumatized with fears for their future. Please toss them a little bouquet of Hope.
Perhaps suggest that our wonderful planet is enormously complex, and we certainly do not totally understand how her many systems of land, water, and atmosphere behave. And therefore, we can conclude that maybe … just maybe … the situation is not nearly as dire as we have been told.
Merry Christmas, young lady, from an old sea gypsy.
Captain Ray Jason in the Northwest Passage 2017 For more of Ray’s work, please visit The Sea Gypsy Philosopher. And Merry Christmas everyone.
I also find me self thinking about Greta!
Now,before I am judged some kind of (tasteless)pervert tis only when I work on Warchild do I think of her and what her reaction will be to Warchild on the road!
Now,as for polar bears,well…..,I have that covered!
Were almost there you know. I’ll like Greta a lot more on January 3 2023. I like my women like I like my Rum. 20 years old and mixed with coke.
Gosh, James. For a minute there I thought you were part of the Biden Administration with an attraction to a girl child. Glad you cleared up what the van is for.
well said. Good on ya Ray
Unsure of her age. Female, Teenager at some point in her celebrity. Parents are ‘Suspect’, to say the least. Some kinda ASD.
Poor Soul, she’s really up against a Wall.
Maybe her and david hogg will meet and fall in love?
Even I do not find Greta that annoying!
That kid was used badly by her parents and their cohorts.
or she is fully aware and complicit. She’s living pretty large in her celebrity, hobnobbing, world travels and profits– wish someone would “use” me so terribly.
Yeah– as I was reading this I couldn’t help but wonder if the author is making a blatant and wrongful assumption.
Has anyone ever considered that there is not a sincere bone in little Greta’s body? What if this is all about the celebrity, a future political career, the buckets of cash and that she is fully aware that Anthropogenic climate change is a racket. She’s probably part of the Great Reset’s biggest hammer- and knowingly assists in driving the nails into the coffins of freedom, national sovereignties and individual liberties– she’s a little shyster shit.
She was a child who had been brainwashed by her parents, but I think that her love of fame has made her just another grifter.
winner winner
An interesting take from the Ethical Skeptic on a possible source of global warming. He is concerned about human emission of CO2, but the factor he bring up here (within Earth’s core) dwarfs that in importance.
I think their new wonder child is some hottie from the States.
Greta is just a hapless, gullible teenager who has been manipulated and brainwashed by her parents and other adults to further their agenda. I don’t have any bad feelings for her, in fact I actually feel sorry for her. Her critics are facilitating the man-made climate change hoax by directing their ridicule at her instead of the NWO which is orchestrating that hoax. The NWO is using the man-made climate change hoax as part of its two-pronged psyop (the other prong being the COVID-19 scamdemic) to usher in their Great Reset (aka Agenda 2030).
My intent with this essay was not to be hostile towards Greta, but instead to encourage her to reconsider her beliefs and the motivations of those around her. Clearly, she was seriously exploited; and what makes such manipulation even more despicable is her history of mental balance issues. I don’t keep referring to these creatures as Malignant Overlords without ample cause for doing so.
Very well done, Ray. Another good read if you haven’t already read it is : Fake Invisible Catastrophes And Threats Of Doom by Patrick Moore.
Hey nkit,
Patrick is a longtime hero of mine. He could be luxuriously grifting like the rest of the Greenpeace Pretenders, but he showed great integrity in leaving the organization that he helped found and shunning the shekels for the Truth.
Sad side note: A sailing boat that I have admired for years called PELAGIC AUSTRALIS that has been working the high latitudes – mostly near Cape Horn – was recently sold to …wait for it … Greenpeace. Now it will probably be used for spreading fraudulent Climate Change walrus shit.
I think that my son feeds my grandkids dried walrus shit with milk and sugar for breakfast. Cap’n walrus crunch or some sort of shit. Happy 2nd anniversary. We’re glad you’re here. Stick around brother. Happy holidays in the little latitudes.
When I first started hunting elk and deer, there were plenty.
Now there are thousands more.
Fuck Greta and her fellow liars.
I wish this could be spread far and wide:
Climate Change and You
The climate ‘science’ is wrong. CO2 being 0.04% of the atmosphere is a cause for good, as it is essential for plant life.
The atmosphere is 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen. The remaining 1% are various trace elements of which CO2 is but a small part.
The greatest cause of any change in the Earth’s climate, is due to the cyclical nature of the Sun’s phases, which may lead to vast differences between ice ages and continual heatwaves.
Please feel free to copy and paste this anywhere appropriate.
Thanks for the reminder about Patrick Moore.
It’s been circa 2-years since I ‘updated on’ his work.
Cheers, Chris in Sweden
BTW. Thank You Ray J. for this excellent piece. 🙂
Merry CHRISTmas, Ray. Once again, an interesting and very entertaining read.
And the same to you and your loved ones. Feliz Navidad as we say down here South of Many Borders.
Cap’n Ray, you’re one of a half dozen or more souls who comment here who bring a fine morsel to feed my spirit. I’ll very probably never cross paths with you or the others, but my life is enriched knowing there is a gypsy sailor ‘out there’ and tillers and keepers of flocks who share on this platform.
God bless you all.
Dear Ray, Your letter to Greta maintains respect for her just like it does for the polar bears. It is so easy to be divisive these days and it is usually applauded.
Your moderate sensible regard comes though in almost everything you write as you claim your niche in the wonderful world of the Mariner’s Library and literature from the sea generally. I’m sure that if Charles Borden were alive
he would add a chapter for you in “Sea Quest”.
As I read your Greta letter there is @ 10 ” of fluffy snow outside the window
here in the NW and it is worth remembering that the Malignant Overlords want to kill us not the weather.
My admiration for you continues to grow.
Thanks Tab,
This is my second Christmas as part of the TBP family and you have all been a blessing.
Fair winds and following seas to all of you!
How about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AyJBX1HFr0
Good on you Ray, for adding your name to the list that kicked that ass kicking passage back.
As for Greta…pfft
I can only imagine what it must be like to stare upward on a clear night from a small craft floating halfway between Hawaii and San Francisco.
The words “spectacular” and “unforgettable” would be insufficient.
Thank you, Ray.
Hey Un,
You get so attuned to your little ship and the moody Sea that it can become quasi-mystical. All sensory experience seems heightened.
Dostoyevsky on his way to the firing squad described a similar experience. Fortunately, for him and for Western Civ, his sentence was reversed at the last minute.
At times it is so idyllic that you never want to return to the frenzy of the land. Of course, at other times, it is an “am I gonna make it?” mofo. Risk/reward … what a rush. All the soyboyz don’t know what they are missing.
I’ve spent the last decade working/mentoring with college students in archaeology, which has now morphed into ‘climate studies’ which is pure brainwashing where they go and measure 200m wide remnant snow patches and try to come up with ancient glacial data. It’s a cult movement from their Bolshevik professors and the kids come out so brain damaged they have no grasp of real nature or common sense, let alone true science studies. Nothing has any basis in reality, they make it up as they go and astound themselves with their earth shattering revelations in the world of make believe pseudo science.
All of them end up with college degrees in Greta cloning. Mindless little robots who spew nonsensical garbage while being the greatest contributors to their own global warming scam. Be interesting to see where they all end up in 10-20 yrs from now when the science changes again, if they aren’t all dead from the jab already. At 68, I’m glad I got to see the world before this insanity kicked in.
>So I took a deep and close look at the supposedly “settled science.” Amazingly, I discovered that the “97% consensus” was just statistical trickery, and that there are many scientists who question the accepted truths of NOAA and the IPCC and NASA, etc.
I looked at the science, too. Amazingly, I discovered that the biggest reason to believe that climate change is something to be worried about comes from F*CKING 19th Century PHYSICS. Look up the history of the greenhouse effect, if you doubt me.
In other words, there is a political party in the USA that has been screwing with F*CKING 19th Century PHYSICS for DECADES. The Nazis only managed to screw with science for a shorter period of time before totally collapsing in the most spectacular manner. The Soviets lasted for longer, but I’m not aware that they were busy questioning F*CKING 19th Century PHYSICS. Their forays into disbelieving commonly accepted science were a lot tamer.
In short, I’m impressed with Republicans in all the wrong ways. I think they might have succeeded into bringing into complete disrepute not just their party (that was always a given) but also the whole system of American democracy. In particular, I think the notion of having massive hugely expensive electoral campaigns using the leading experts of marketing to make sure people get totally loyal to their party, leading to everybody voting on the same date for a president that has a fixed term of four years and can’t be taken out of office no matter what, unless he gets a little nervous and resigns, which is certainly not something you can expect of a total bastard, has proven to be a truly, truly terrible idea that even has the potential to eclipse Nazism and Soviet communism as truly terrible ideas. Because if climate change gets bad enough, it certainly could lead to the collapse of modern civilization, once people start having some serious trouble eating because food crops don’t grow too well with extreme weather, which is somewhat more serious than mere trifles like world wars or keeping the citizens of a big country, plus their satellites, seriously unhappy for decades.
I do appreciate that given the stakes, Republicans leaders probably felt, and continue feeling, like they have a gun to their heads and they will say whatever they think they have to say to save their sorry skins. Which I have zero sympathy for. Leaders that feel like they have a gun to their heads ought to resign on the spot and spend the rest of their lives trying to fix whatever they think went wrong from the outside, if they had any gumption, which Republican leaders clearly have lacked for a long, long time. It looks like the most they can ever do is go Christmas early in order not to be there when something they don’t like happens. That is so far from enough it’s almost unbelievable.