Scaring the shit out of people is a trillion-dollar industry.
Edit: Well, this blew up while I wasn't looking. Should have posted my global cooling/warming/climate change/climate crisis/climate catastrophe awakening here.
Climate alarmism is a fear-based religion just like COVIDism. The only salvation is to give governments and allied corporations more emergency powers, wealth, and taxes. Zealots worship the clergy like sheep following a shepherd, virtue signal adherence to their holy commandments, and evangelize others to comply - even if the rituals don't work. Perhaps they should lead by example by permanently removing their carbon emissions to boost their ESG scores.
+28C/82F here right now. Feeling hot hot hot, so to speak.
People exposed to fear-mongering green grift-capitalists, climate cultists and perfidious political parasites predictably panicked. They talk and behave as if there's never been a drought before.
What's really fun for me, having asomewhat acidic sense of humour, is asking:
"So why not drop all taxes on domestic food-production, from farmer to market, so as to give the farmers a fighting chance to weather the problems and invest in redundancy and back-ups? While we're at it, why not repeal most if not all the climate-whatever hinders put in the way of domestic food production? I mean, it must be more environmentally friendly to grow ginger here in a greenhouse, than to ship it to Sweden from Costa Rica? Surely, in order to help the planet, we can do without fresh lychees imported from South-East Asia?"
The faces of the grifters, the believers and the politicians are nearly priceless:
"Wut? Me give up sumpin I njoy? Nuh, dats fascist! Jus race taxis so pipil donn buy so mush!"
Posers the lot of them. As always with anything worth doing, "If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count".
always always always examine the data set. Saw this especially in Covid reports when they’d say one thing and the data set said the other. Same playbook.
Thank you for the lesson on statistics manipulation. The thing about this (similar to the Covid cult) is when you present people with simple questions on data or issues with the 'accepted' view, they won't engage with them. Ask anybody how they calculate mean global temperature and if, by miracle, they know then ask what possible meaning it has. They average out all (poorly) gathered world temperatures using a complex weighting system and then give people a mean global temperature...which is a literally useless datum used to scare people. Surely the people working with the data have asked these questions. Certainly the likes of Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen have...but they are well-known Deniers.
And what's the endgame of this fraud? Imprisoning the populace in 15-minute cities like the monstrous "Neom" development currently being built in Saudi Arabia. Save the Earth by giving up your car, your freedom, and your human rights! https://gomakeitreal.substack.com/p/building-the-city-of-tomorrow-by
‘... you are really seeing is 0.6 degrees of change over 44 years. this is not actual temperature...’. nor is it actually direct temperature reading, but uses oxygen molecules (I think) in the atmosphere and the way they react to temperature as a proxy - so plenty of margin of error. The satellite record was calibrated against the corrupt near-surface temperature record - bloated with compound error margins. Truth is: global warming is taking place at a glacial pace (pun intended) in tiny increments so small (and non-linear) it cannot be observed and measured - like watching a plant grow. Where I am right now it is 26C but about 12 000 years ago it was 0C under an ice sheet. That’s how slowly ‘global temperatures’ are heating - and 99.999% of that warming took place prior to the end of the 20th Century when Mankind supposedly took over control of the Cosmos. Climate change can only sensibly be considered retrospectively over periods of thousands of years. We are in a recurrent cycle - ice/tropical/ice, and there is nothing Mankind can do or not do to alter it or, absurdly, ‘stop’ climate change.
here in GA we had probably one of the coldest May months ever. Had to turn the heating on 2 times. Now it is June and the heating is still barely running. Older people tell me the weather is back to normal, like it used to be when they were young. May be we are going to a new ice age!
I don’t even need the data to know the climate change hysterics is wrong. The moment the climate change movement shifted to using kids to wail about an CO2 levels being an existential threat to humanity, I knew we were no longer dealing with a legitimate scientific claim. Even under the worst case scenarios, this is not an existential crisis. In their stupidity and hubris, humans may be able to destroy the Earth and themselves, but it isn’t going to be due to C02.
Thanks for the easily understood summary! I wish this was taught in school rather than climate nonsense they give these kids. My daughter teaches reading in public school and they spend a whole quarter reading climate extremist propaganda! By the way, University of Alabama Huntsville. (my son just graduated from there.)
Excellent article. I read John Dee's substack and he has just done a series on antarctic temperature data. It turns out that nearly all the substations containing the measuring equipment are on a small peninsular hence they are almost touching the ocean. There are around 3 substations in the interior but due to the extreme cold they are unable to get any measurement unless temperatures are relatively warm ie only in the summer months. Despite only getting 3 measurements or so from a potential of 365 'they' still average these 3 and show them as an annual mean average.
I'm old school. I'll stick to the potential of going to hell than creating yet another fake statistical hell and concerning myself about that for the rest of my life. It seems that many people require a fear of something bigger than them, and it's much easier to freak out about their climate god and appease it with ritual and sacrifice (that is, sacrificing others) than it is to try to clean up their lives--the latter with the cool, underrated benefit of avoiding eternal suffering. Climate fear has the added theoretical awesomeness of claiming to save the universe--by .0003 seconds--from the supposed entropy that will eventually be upon us and making all of "this" (including fearful climate graphs) lost eternally. I'll continue to be a throwback and cling to the hope that Bach's works won't be lost even after entropy--I like that better even if it's just a hope. I'm going to go outside with my hoodie on in this abnormally cold late spring.
Scaring the shit out of people is a trillion-dollar industry.
Edit: Well, this blew up while I wasn't looking. Should have posted my global cooling/warming/climate change/climate crisis/climate catastrophe awakening here.
https://argomend.substack.com/p/the-good-fight
Climate alarmism is a fear-based religion just like COVIDism. The only salvation is to give governments and allied corporations more emergency powers, wealth, and taxes. Zealots worship the clergy like sheep following a shepherd, virtue signal adherence to their holy commandments, and evangelize others to comply - even if the rituals don't work. Perhaps they should lead by example by permanently removing their carbon emissions to boost their ESG scores.
Day 1000+ of 15 days to slow the spread, Year 50+ of 10 years to stop the climate catastrophe. By 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy. Follow the Science and Join the Resistance! https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-follow-the-science-join-the-resistanc
PS: Gen Dread's Substack is an example of mental illness driven by climate fearmongering. I responded to their article about a climate activist's suicide. Can we reason with demoralized people? https://gendread.substack.com/p/post-traumatic-growth-after-touching
+28C/82F here right now. Feeling hot hot hot, so to speak.
People exposed to fear-mongering green grift-capitalists, climate cultists and perfidious political parasites predictably panicked. They talk and behave as if there's never been a drought before.
What's really fun for me, having asomewhat acidic sense of humour, is asking:
"So why not drop all taxes on domestic food-production, from farmer to market, so as to give the farmers a fighting chance to weather the problems and invest in redundancy and back-ups? While we're at it, why not repeal most if not all the climate-whatever hinders put in the way of domestic food production? I mean, it must be more environmentally friendly to grow ginger here in a greenhouse, than to ship it to Sweden from Costa Rica? Surely, in order to help the planet, we can do without fresh lychees imported from South-East Asia?"
The faces of the grifters, the believers and the politicians are nearly priceless:
"Wut? Me give up sumpin I njoy? Nuh, dats fascist! Jus race taxis so pipil donn buy so mush!"
Posers the lot of them. As always with anything worth doing, "If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count".
always always always examine the data set. Saw this especially in Covid reports when they’d say one thing and the data set said the other. Same playbook.
Thank you for the lesson on statistics manipulation. The thing about this (similar to the Covid cult) is when you present people with simple questions on data or issues with the 'accepted' view, they won't engage with them. Ask anybody how they calculate mean global temperature and if, by miracle, they know then ask what possible meaning it has. They average out all (poorly) gathered world temperatures using a complex weighting system and then give people a mean global temperature...which is a literally useless datum used to scare people. Surely the people working with the data have asked these questions. Certainly the likes of Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen have...but they are well-known Deniers.
The war on energy, based on the climate scam, is very destructive.
I'm getting under the bed. Let me know when its safe to come out.
Another excellent summary. Thank you.
And what's the endgame of this fraud? Imprisoning the populace in 15-minute cities like the monstrous "Neom" development currently being built in Saudi Arabia. Save the Earth by giving up your car, your freedom, and your human rights! https://gomakeitreal.substack.com/p/building-the-city-of-tomorrow-by
‘... you are really seeing is 0.6 degrees of change over 44 years. this is not actual temperature...’. nor is it actually direct temperature reading, but uses oxygen molecules (I think) in the atmosphere and the way they react to temperature as a proxy - so plenty of margin of error. The satellite record was calibrated against the corrupt near-surface temperature record - bloated with compound error margins. Truth is: global warming is taking place at a glacial pace (pun intended) in tiny increments so small (and non-linear) it cannot be observed and measured - like watching a plant grow. Where I am right now it is 26C but about 12 000 years ago it was 0C under an ice sheet. That’s how slowly ‘global temperatures’ are heating - and 99.999% of that warming took place prior to the end of the 20th Century when Mankind supposedly took over control of the Cosmos. Climate change can only sensibly be considered retrospectively over periods of thousands of years. We are in a recurrent cycle - ice/tropical/ice, and there is nothing Mankind can do or not do to alter it or, absurdly, ‘stop’ climate change.
Finally someone get into this. Why nobody from academia or normal people do that before is still mystery to me.
here in GA we had probably one of the coldest May months ever. Had to turn the heating on 2 times. Now it is June and the heating is still barely running. Older people tell me the weather is back to normal, like it used to be when they were young. May be we are going to a new ice age!
I don’t even need the data to know the climate change hysterics is wrong. The moment the climate change movement shifted to using kids to wail about an CO2 levels being an existential threat to humanity, I knew we were no longer dealing with a legitimate scientific claim. Even under the worst case scenarios, this is not an existential crisis. In their stupidity and hubris, humans may be able to destroy the Earth and themselves, but it isn’t going to be due to C02.
Thanks for the easily understood summary! I wish this was taught in school rather than climate nonsense they give these kids. My daughter teaches reading in public school and they spend a whole quarter reading climate extremist propaganda! By the way, University of Alabama Huntsville. (my son just graduated from there.)
Excellent article. I read John Dee's substack and he has just done a series on antarctic temperature data. It turns out that nearly all the substations containing the measuring equipment are on a small peninsular hence they are almost touching the ocean. There are around 3 substations in the interior but due to the extreme cold they are unable to get any measurement unless temperatures are relatively warm ie only in the summer months. Despite only getting 3 measurements or so from a potential of 365 'they' still average these 3 and show them as an annual mean average.
I'm old school. I'll stick to the potential of going to hell than creating yet another fake statistical hell and concerning myself about that for the rest of my life. It seems that many people require a fear of something bigger than them, and it's much easier to freak out about their climate god and appease it with ritual and sacrifice (that is, sacrificing others) than it is to try to clean up their lives--the latter with the cool, underrated benefit of avoiding eternal suffering. Climate fear has the added theoretical awesomeness of claiming to save the universe--by .0003 seconds--from the supposed entropy that will eventually be upon us and making all of "this" (including fearful climate graphs) lost eternally. I'll continue to be a throwback and cling to the hope that Bach's works won't be lost even after entropy--I like that better even if it's just a hope. I'm going to go outside with my hoodie on in this abnormally cold late spring.