Doug Casey on How You Can Make the Carbon Hysteria Your Friend

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Carbon Hysteria

International Man: There’s no doubt that the carbon credits racket will be a drag on the economy. What do you think will happen, and is there anything you can do about it?

Doug Casey: As we discussed last week, having to buy carbon credits—carbon offsets—amounts to an onerous tax. They will result in much less efficiency in creating new wealth, much less wealth in general, and a much lower standard of living for the average human than would otherwise be the case. It will set back science and technology by decades. So that’s the bad news.

The good news is that no matter what happens, it’s possible to profit from trends, including this very adverse one.

For instance, if the stock market crashes, it’s a very bad thing for most people. But it can be a very good thing for a very small number of people who position themselves to take advantage of it. That’s the way I see this thing. Overall, it’s stupid and destructive, but it’s possible to turn a lemon into lemonade.

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Is Failure Baked in the Cake at Glasgow?

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

Is Failure Baked in the Cake at Glasgow?

Consider. The world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide is China, which burns half of the world’s coal and is building new coal-fired plants even as the 30,000 summiteers gather in Glasgow… Neither Chinese President Xi Jinping nor Russian President Vladimir Putin will even be present in Glasgow.

“Colossal Stakes as Leaders Meet to Talk Climate,” ran the headline.

“The Last Best Hope,” ran the subhead, which turned out to be a quote from President Joe Biden’s climate czar John Kerry.

But these alarmist headings were not atop an editorial. They topped the lead news story in Sunday’s New York Times, the opening line of which set the tone for Glasgow: “The future is on the line.”

Somini Sengupta, climate reporter, then laid out the “colossal stakes” of the summit.

“As presidents and prime ministers arrive in Glasgow this week for a pivotal climate summit, the outcome will determine, to a large extent, how the world’s seven billion people will survive on a hotter planet and whether far worse levels of warming can be averted …

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Doug Casey on Why the Carbon Hysteria is a Huge Threat to Your Personal Freedom and Financial Wellbeing

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International Man: Western countries are leading the charge in restructuring their economies around the issue of climate change. They’re committed to a comprehensive agenda to “decarbonize” their economies by 2050.

What’s your take on this?

Doug Casey: To sum it up in one word, it’s insane. In two words, it’s criminally insane.

Before the Industrial Revolution, the overwhelmingly major fuel source was wood. After that, we went to coal, which was a big improvement in density of energy and economics. Then, we went to oil, another huge improvement in energy density and economics.

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Let’s Review 50 Years Of Dire Climate Forecasts And What Actually Happened

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk,

Here are 21 headlines from various news sources regarding dire climate predictions over the last 50 years. Many of the predictions are outrageously funny.

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Why Global Warming was a Total Farce & it’s Now Incorporated into the Great Reset

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

This is the Western Plague in research. They always seek to reduce whatever it is to a single cause and effect. I am so tired of this nonsense about CO2. Here in Flordia, we had a red tide and instantly the politicians were blaming it on farmers that certainly are not in this area. All I did was Google red tides and there it was, the first one reported was by the Spanish during the 17th century long before farmers in Florida using chemicals.

The output of energy from the Sun oscillates but that is NOT the single cause of the effect of global warming and cooling. There are other aspects that come into play such as Arctic Oscillations.

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Winter Blast To Dump Heavy Snow Across Rockies, Plains, Midwest This Week

One month ago my son got married outdoors with 72 degree temperatures in Loveland CO. This is the current forecast for Loveland, after already getting 5 inches of snow Sunday:

Issued: 6:05 AM Oct. 29, 2019 – National Weather Service
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 8
inches. Highest amounts from Fort Collins southward. Winds
gusting as high as 35 mph with areas of blowing snow near the
Wyoming border.

* WHERE...Fort Collins.

* WHEN...Until noon MDT Wednesday.

* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The cold wind chills
as low as 15 below zero could result in hypothermia if
precautions are not taken.

 

Via ZeroHedge

Several major snowstorms are expected to dump heavy snow across the Rockies, the Plains, and into the Midwest this week as cold Arctic air blankets those regions in the last days of October.

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Idiotic Environmental Predictions

Guest Post by Walter E. Williams

Idiotic Environmental Predictions

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity?

As reported in The New York Times (Aug. 1969) Stanford University biologist Dr. Paul Erhlich warned: “The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. We must realize that unless we’re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”

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Why People Fail to Understand There are Cycles to Everything

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

There tends to be a fairly regular 21-year cycle in extreme climate shifts with respect to volatility. There was the extreme cold of 1936, followed 21 years later with a heatwave that melted the ice in the arctic, and then going into 1978 they were talking again about the deep freeze.

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Climate Change That Ignores History

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

Climate has ALWAYS changed from decade to decade.  There were major swings (volatility) during the 1930s. You had the dust bowl during the summer and in 1936 you had record cold. The 1936 North American cold wave, which also hit Japan and China, still rank among the most intense cold waves in the recorded history of North America. You cannot blame this on soccer moms driving the kids around town burning fossil fuels. Cars were a luxury in the 1930s still.

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5 Surprising Scientific Facts About Earth’s Climate

Authored by Vijay Jayaraj Jayaraj via The Foundation for Economic Education,

On the weekend of August 10–11, as if in chorus, major online news websites called on people to stop consuming meat. The calls echoed a recent United Nations report that recommended doing so to fight climate change.

It surprised many, but there are other more surprising facts about climate change that are hardly published in our everyday news media.

Below are some facts – scientifically recognized and published in peer-reviewed journals – that may raise your eyebrows.

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Global Warming is Undermined by New Discoveries

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

Nobody wants to listen to the evidence against Global Warming because the government doesn’t hand out money for research that fails to justify new taxes. Real scientists have just discovered a massive previously unknown source of nitrogen that could turn the Global Warming nonsense on its head. My bet is that it will be ignored. There is too much money on the table to just walk away.

This new discovery may dramatically change those dire global warming forecasts that are now a religion. The findings were published in the prestigious Journal Science, whereby the previous eco-science assumed the only source of nitrogen was the atmosphere. Scientists recently discovered that the planet holds vast storehouses of nitrogen, which is essential for plant life, in its bedrock.

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Do We Face Global Cooling or an Ice Age?

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

There appears to be a 20-year cycle in the Arctic to begin with. The mere fact that at times the Northwest Passage has been ice-free and ice blocked proves there is a cycle to absolutely everything. The Arctic has not always been frozen. There are documented accounts from 1817 when the ice melted. The point is nature functions in a cyclical manner — hello, remember four seasons?

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Shameless Perfidy

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

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Every couple of days or so a new piece will appear that does it’s very best to reinforce the narrative of man-made global climate change with scholarly reports of changing weather, disappearing glaciers, human migrations, and other various and sundry disturbances in The Force. Fighting back with facts, reason and logic is tedious, laborious, and often unrewarding, but it must be done, every time.

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A Climate Alarmist Sued A Skeptic For Defamation… And Lost

Authored by Onar Am via LibertyNation.com,

The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently dismissed a defamation lawsuit by celebrity climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann against global warming skeptic climatologist Dr. Tim Ball. Mann must pay the full legal costs to the defendant. The ruling is explosive because it means that Ball’s claim that Mann was a scientific fraudster is now supported by the court.

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