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You know something is pseudoscience when you have to use the social sciences to justify conclusions that are a result of a belief system.

It's all a scam just like our government.

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I checked her bio. This "Dr. Saffron" got a grant in 2022 for $6.25M, total grants of about $7M, and she sells an encyclopedia of climate change for $650 (no doubt her students are required to buy it for her class). This is in addition to her salary and consulting fees. If only I had gotten my Ph.D. in fake climate science instead of REAL science, I would be rolling in the dough by now. How could I have been so blind!

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i'd rather be poor than live a lie

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Shut yo mouth!

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Imagine all the cognitive dissonance she must face on a daily basis.

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She probably feeds on cognitive dissonance.

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they don't. our cognitive dissonance about their lack of cognitive dissonance is a proof positive testament to their purity.

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"Global Warming" emerged as a far left globalist tool in 1972 at the UN conference on the environment. It was hawked as a way to get the public to give government control of land use in order to stop the dire consequences of global warming, that otherwise it would never agree to.Thus, Save the Planet! has become the battle cry, and the increasingly dumbed down public, much like the Germans of the 1930s, falls willingly in step. In the process, as with all fascism, the corporate grifters quickly saw huge money to be made, exploiting peoples desire to "save Thumper and Bambi". How many billions of taxpayer dollars have gone to "sustainable" schemes that raked in the cash and then declared bankruptcy? The narrative is constantly being adjusted as the lies are exposed - prime example, now climate change instead of global warming - but the goal is always government control over the ultimate means of production: land use.

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The jury's still out regarding the primary goal of these monsters of mendacity. Is it money or is it power? But the two are really inseparable, aren't they?

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Spot on. We'll met.

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It’s a religion. These people are fanatics, as there is absolutely no room for anyone to doubt or question their beliefs and they proselytize 24/7.

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That's the thing...whatever is true invites criticism and questioning whereas the false must always protect itself from scrutiny.

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Exactly, they will burn heretical climate skeptics at the first opportunity. My first reaction is anger & the urge to cut out their lieing tounges. However laughing at them will drive them even crazier. Strange though how much money flows into this scam

Seems so many people need a new religion that preaches the sky is always falling.

Chicken little all over again.

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I think you have a point, as progressives have abandoned beliefs in god and country, they fill their desperate need for meaning with the claptrap of pseudo science schemes like climate change. They are almost all uneducated. Oh, they may have an indoctrinated education but they are ignorant of the real scientific method. They are as Stalin once said, "useful idiots ".

Dick Minnis

removingthecataract.substack.com

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And in the defense of the humanities, arts and social sciences I can only say that they aren't for justifying anything: they are for studying, analysing, understanding and testing (if possible) the whats, hows and whys of human interaction, being and society.

In essence, the social sciences are supposed to be a more clinical and scientific method-based approach to the age-old "Gnothi Seauton" of the Oracle; not an ideological or faith-based blueprint for any kind of Eutopia.

But: there's very little market for that. Just as in the days of the Sybil, people want to buy affirmation and confirmation, not insight, self-relevatory experiences or any kind of meta-cognitive understanding of themselves.

And academics in social sciences like to eat too.

Plus, natural scientists have proven time and again that left to their own devices they plow ahead according to the principles of "Let's see what happens", "Let's see how far it can be pushed" and "It's wonderful science anyway, it's not like it's my fault that X happened".

One of the duties of social sciences and pals was to be a watchdog, working in concert with natural scientists to prevent repeats of their long history of vivisection, testing various stuff on humans, and so on.

Sadly, social science went from telling natural scientists "Stop!" when they were dripping corrosive substances into the eyes of animals, to saying "Inject!" when natural scientists wanted to use their new cool mRNA-technology.

I would like to, metaphorically and literally, use one to smack the other.

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very well said. some of what you mention with the social sciences is exactly what I was going for.

It is a pseudoscience to use the "soft" sciences (which many theories in social science border on pseudoscience or oblique ways to justify their own existence) to justify a position that is, in and of itself, justified by untested data in order to give cover to a belief system masquerading as a position arrived at by the scientific method.

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Thank you, I am perpetually annoyed at my fellows in the humanities et al, for how they think what they do today isn't a cult, just because they say it isn't.

It's like the perennial clichéd used car-salesman of the Piranha Club-variety: if you have to point out how honest/virtuous/whatever you are, odds are you aren't.

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Government a scam? Don't tell congress. They might begin to think they aren't needed anymore.

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“it’s like a cult doing an exposé on itself while mistaking it for a marketing brochure. worse, it might actually be both.” I kinda thought this was the money shot. But you’re right: anytime social sciences are used to justify anything, put your suspicious whiskers on

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"the venn intersect of malthus, goebbels, and sand hill road"

That line could not be more perfect.

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I'm still smiling.

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dang, I came here to say that.

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Me three! 🤣

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Why wouldn't they try this? It's worked for every big story for at least the last decade. I swear, half the "Orange Man Bad" articles from 2016-2020 didn't even have new information, they were just an excuse to recap all the reasons Orange Man was Bad.

Covid was the same way. We don't have anything new to report, but it's a good time to remind everybody that covid is super serious and if you don't get vaccinated you're going to kill your family.

Climate is even more infuriating, because the 'special people' who rail against it are constantly meeting in places like Paris to discuss how it's our fault that it's hot this summer.

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you know what sucks about this farce?

we're usually "wrong" because we're right 3-6 months early on The Truth.

this is going to take 30-60 years

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A man who's one step ahead of the crowd is a genius, but a man who's two steps ahead of the crowd is a crackpot.

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Or a conspiracy theorist. Same difference .

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Pretty hilarious because mostly we just read the source material.

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Love this comment.

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“Conspiracy theories” = spoiler alerts

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I like that...using...:)

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common among millenarian movements, since they don't want an expiration date on their religion

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That's exactly what it is...just like a doomsday cult

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Davos, as the biggest hypocrites like Leo, Kerry, Charles & all the other MF’ers swan in on their private jets instead of private-plane-pooling or Zoom. 🤡s

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Plus, the WEF perps get to have unjabbed pilots for a safer ride in those private planes.

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Make the bastards pedal bicycles, like the rest of us.

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If it's not getting hot in the summer, then I might be concerned.

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That's an interesting comment. in view of my much expressed concern that the constant barrage of climate change propaganda hides the real problem. That is that THERE IS CLIMATE MANIPULATION. Look to see if your state has a Climate Modification Board or Committee. NM does. AZ does. There really are extreme climate events that are not the "oh that happens every year" type that people sometimes talk about or the climate change people blame on cars, industry, or whatever propaganda they're currently pushing.

People in the UK say it isn't getting hot. The bought out so-called meteorologists say it is, but when the temperatures are studied, it seems it's warmer at night and colder during the day. There is a group of people looking thoroughly at this in the UK. I myself haven't delved into it. I do know that, tho' 58 years is less than a blink of an eye regarding climate, things in Northern NM have changed in the past 4 years. We haven't had the heat-mitigating, crop protecting monsoons in July and August for a couple years. I started a journal last year, so I don't have info for previous years. Just observations and that isn't good enough. For the past two years the monsoons come in May after we start with a very clear, blue sky. The planes start to fly. You can see the haze being created. Then within hours or a day - boom - some rain. In Northern NM in May. Following are some extreme weather events.

Puebla Mexico end of May - Very unusual https://www.yahoo.com/news/hailstorm-covers-mexican-city-thick-215851243.html

Sant'elpidio Italy in June - Very unusual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZe0VBntNe0

Florida (maybe this is usual for all I know) https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2024/06/13/florida-flooding-images-of-damage-from-flash-floods-heavy-rain-flash-floods/74089979007/

Floods in Dubai - here are the climate change folks at their best - cloud seeding is the euphemism for solar aerosol injection and solar radiation management

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cloud-seeding-did-not-cause-014927811.html

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That would also be your fault, somehow.

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Remember Y2K?

When "the computers" would launch nukes, crash satellites, cause ships to sink, dogs and cats living together, and where we'd all be doing the "Beyond Thunderdome"-routine by May 2001?

According to media that is.

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Not only is the emperor not wearing any clothes but he has a very tiny penis.

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Re: attribution- I was chatting with my father (age 85). He said he read in The Washington Post that people were moving out of California due to climate change. I actually laughed out loud (got a dirty look from my wife, but couldn’t help myself). I replied “You sure it’s not from all the people crapping in the streets, the highest taxes in the country, and no enforcement of the laws? He’s not dumb, but he has no concept that the corporate media is not news anymore, to the degree that it ever was.

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My parent's generation is your father's age. They were all about being informed, my dad was a voracious reader. They saw the news as continued education, and back then there was at least a small amount of pretending to be balanced. But every time I read anything, even scientific studies, I am asking myself "what is the narrative here?"

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Like.

I'm in his father's age group. I question everything. I also don't watch TV or subscribe to the propaganda rags.

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Jun 18·edited Jun 18

They blame all the fires here on climate change too when the real issue is that housing construction has moved into the wildland-urban interface and they don't do proper fire prevention measures. The state just keeps paying CalFire more and more money to put the fires out. No wonder the insurance companies are leaving.

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To this day, here in the People's Republic of Silicon Valley, I would estimate 10-15% are still routinely wearing face-diapers, more in any given medical facility, but also in restaurants (even outdoors) and my favorite, alone in their cars.

Every time I see one of these brain-broken morons, I experience a mix of rage, remorse and relief. Rage that their already fragile minds were broken by utter nonsense, remorse when I see them masking their poor progeny, and relief because they are self-identifying as among the plurality of totalitarian monsters that wanted to throw me and mine into concentration camps.

The pox on them all.

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Also the widespread California jab and mask mandates prompted more than a few people to move out.

Yeah, I know, in my world a lot of people just haven't grokked it, that the mainstream media is but a shell of what it was. (Not that it was all that great to begin with.)

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I think I was pretty much over them completely somewhere in the early 2000's. But when I'd hear the stuff about Trump in 2016 I saw there was a nice big chasm between reality and fiction. And it continues even now.

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Angeleno here. Can confirm it's the latter.

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its from the crapping in the streets and no enforcement of laws…. period…..

taxes have always been high and cost of living too….

i believe california actually voted red in 2020 as well, people were PISSED…. independents and republicans were about 50% of the registered voter and then the rest were democrats……… in LA county lots of democrats were voting red…. so no way the entire state went MORE blue…. californians have zero say over there state…. sad but true

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Climate change is both a scientific fraud and a financial scam.

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And environmental ruination!

The perps are killing off the ability of the planet to support life at all, with sky-sprayed atmospheric poisons and toxic/insoluble, inhalable nano-particles and damaging frequencies, while not only dimming essential sunlight (still also pushing solar panels!) but destroying the ozone layer by spraying sulphur dioxide (sulphuric acid, once meeting moisture) in the stratosphere, making sunlight ultimately deadly to life, while acidic precipitation polishes off essential marine, soil and other organisms at the very base of Life.

Gates has been doing this as a personal project all through 2024, with a hundred planes and in-flight refueling to max out the tonnage over both Poles, so far considerably thinning the ozone layer there at both Poles, while the WEF-agents infiltrating Canadian (and globally, other) governments have already underway a 5-year stratospheric spraying program that the US has apparently been signed onto as well.

Nothing is going to survive what's being done and planned, if not stopped; when non-reality-based delusional psychopaths add in Mad Scientism even their survival instincts no longer function...

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Yay Dorothy. A woman after my own heart.

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they want all the energy to themselves.

this is so straightforward. Feed them candles!!!

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AI machines need lots and lots of energy to run…

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BOOM.

I posted this here about a year ago (it was in regards to one of gatos AI posts):

This is a toll booth model. He who controls the tollbooth, controls the future.

Now ask yourself; how will the GCC narrative be used in order for those who hold power to meet those ends?

I'll say it again, It is for the elites to control all of the world's energy, thereby giving them the power to dictate whether you can bring life into this world. Seems straightforward and...EVIL.

I can't think of a more powerful form of control than to control "power. But I'm a conspiRACIST

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Great series. Professor of climate and society is today’s Aztec shaman. Check out the Substacks Heated and Gen Dread for more examples of propaganda repetition and mental illness.

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"funded by the thompson reuters foundation"... interesting. Their Chairman's bio says he's not only the Chairman of Reuters and The Globe and Mail, but also a real estate investor. I wonder how much cheap, newly-former farmland has found its way into his portfolio in recent years.

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These "journalists" have basically become PR, and they are either too ignorant or too selfish to care.

And you have to love "11. Great climate stories are often about scrutinizing power" - yes, it sure would be nice to scrutinize why most major institutions and most governments seem fixated on a catastrophic version of climate change when almost none of the actual data indicates that. It couldn't be that this version just happens to entail giving them more power, money, or both, could it?

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they're bureaucrats by proxy for both the state and the infobahn

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Scam artist want to tax your every breath!!!

Weather wars is full on … no one ever sees CO2

but it’s the enemy. Movie THE COLD TRUTH debunks their ongoing blabbering BS.

No 1 ever sees a virus … another perfect enemy

Creating mountains out of phantoms that may exist

But can’t be seen.

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"When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-You may know that your society is doomed."

~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

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"Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light."

~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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Wow I thought you were joking until I went on link. Well Greta that’s quite amazing and what’s your next act ID THE novel sars Covid 19 virus, and then make lead into gold? How dare you!!!

I C U 2 but I don’t see CO2

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this quote is classic. thanks for sharing buddy!

surprised i never heard this one....thought i knew most of Rands good quotes.

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Ms. Rand knew about the “Rich Men in Richmond” long before the current corrupt crop of miscreants arrived on the DC scene.

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That should be “the Rich Men North of Richmond.” My bad

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Didn't many of us as well?

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She nailed it 1957 I ought to have paid attention would of saved me much grief of 67 years thinking hard work is it’s own reward ..

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You nailed the ugly facts so poetically - damn glad you're on our side!

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Thank YOU !!!

I’ve been screaming at Chem trails for 28 years or more … this is in my wheel house. They gas light everyone after manipulating the weather or use DEW and say see global warming … Plymouth Rock is still above water polar bears are flourishing … the green scam is all money. Green. I wrote a poem on my substack Jim Lee about this !!

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Polar bears aren’t drowning?

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No not at all they are Sea Bears .. Actually flourishing

Will send you video if I can locate.

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I’m going to start calling them that.

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If only people, in general, would look up at the sky, listen to the perfectly audible spray-planes and the sounds of aircraft generating wind or whatever, to actually look up such oddities on the internet and then themselves start screaming about the weather warfare/poisoning themselves.

Sorry, not sure if you meant that you wrote to/about Jim Lee on your substack?

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I agree. It's nice to have a compatriot here.

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Wrote a poem titled Jim Lee who is on this topic another really good warrior.

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The skepticism around climate change/global warming and the false solutions to such masks one of the real culprits. That is intentional climate manipulation. It gives people the opportunity to make cynical remarks and dismiss geoengineering. What do you think?

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He's great!

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He IS I just found him about 2,months ago

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Yay, another person after my own heart. Sim Com let me use his platform to write an article a while ago. I made some mistakes in the article and said I believe in climate change. I should have said I believe in climate manipulation.

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"no one ever sees CO2".

Au contraire: Great Thunberg can see it:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/02/quote-of-the-week-greta-thunberg-claims-to-be-able-to-see-carbon-dioxide-in-the-air/

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Lolol.

I hear that one of the symptoms of looooong covid is CO2 synesthesia

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I think perhaps we can agree on which part of the anatomy is being stimulated...

BOHICA.

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nice...lolol

BOHICA...TIL

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LOL Well the same people who believe in mRNA poisonings are the same ones who preach CO2

A synthesis of the 2

Ahhhh Covid sars 2

And CO2

=for short at the psych clinic we call it 22 …

So this makes perfect sense!!!

Is that like over dosing by CO2 inhalation ?

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Rebreathing? Who was that masked madwoman?

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And smelling their own FEAR all day

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Lol, bet she can see viruses with the naked eye as well!

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No doubt

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Maybe she can see the crap coming out of the planes. I can actually see the haze generated. It is smog. When you look up the air quality index for your area, the weather

"service" says it's ozone. Ozone is basically smog. In a state with almost no industry and not that much traffic especially compared with Los Angeles, it's interesting our AQI is often higher (worse) than Los Angeles.

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Sickening! Plotting ahead to propagandize "news" stories and coordinate the same "news" amongst different sources is just corruption of journalism, plain and simple. I do not believe ANYTHING we are being told any more, so it doesn't affect me that much other than the fact that it would be nice to know what really important things are actually going on that we never get to hear about.

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I am an engineer/biologist who has worked in the environmental field for over 40 years. The proof of the climate farce to me is despite all the mathematical evidence the contrary (the shrinking value of COO2 equilibrium climate sensitivity as the data comes in for one) they desperately still push it, yet an actual environmental catastrophe such as the release to thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride in a populated area is ignored.

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Eh... they'll be fine...I hear vinyl chloride goes down well with fentanyl

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I'm a former earth science teacher who taught climatology to seventh graders, many years ago. I find it appalling that 'journalists' are pretending to know anything about the physical sciences. Yes, climatology is a physical science, based in physics, chemistry and higher math.

Journalists make absolute fools of themselves on a daily basis. Blind leading the blind. No, you can't see climate change happening. A season of hurricanes indicates absolutely nothing about anything but hurricanes. And CO2 is not the leading cause of climate change. Not even close.

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These so-called scientists forgot chemistry and physics....yah know because of the The First Sciencey Commandment :

Thou shalt have no other gods before me, for I am the great "CONSENSUS".

I could go on forever; but just think how sneaky they are when talking about the properties of CO2 . There may be a warming trend (so what?). The great CO2 myth has little to do with it, as each additional greenhouse gas molecule has less and less of an effect.

None of it checks out. Many of the sheep are angry but have done zero research. It's so frustrating.

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Zero research? What's research? Who needs research when 'everybody knows' that greedy capitalists are destroying the planet. To a scientist, climate change is a branch of a science. To a progressive, climate change is a branch of idiotology used to reinforce their desperate need to believe that they are ones who should be running things.

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Remember all the talking heads that said: "We KNOW masks work "?

That seems to be the same sort of "presumptive sell" they use with climate.

it's almost as if the same people are in on both grifts.......................

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It's always the same people in on the grifts. Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, Maxine Waters, Kamla Harris, Barak Obama, etc. It's interesting that the people who are most vocal about 'the science' are the least educated in actual science.

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But they just know there's a Nazi under every bed.

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"...idiotology..."

Good word! Given the etymology of [idiot], it is very apt.

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Ryan G., I have a meme that says "the more carbon dioxide you have, the more plants you have. The more plants you have, the more oxygen you have. This is 5th grade science". The Facebook fact checkers say that that information could mislead people. hahahaha

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My Golden Retriever horked up a wad of green grass this morning. I blame climate change and demand that Experts fix the problem.

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Every time I watch the local TV weather report....they never miss a chance to make a statement that would instill fear to the audience. This was not around before CVD.

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All the way through though, I couldn't help thinking it all sounds so Jesuitical. And like the foundations of the original great universities of the Western world. Jesus and the devil everywhere, no matter the specialty.

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Um... no. First, Jesus and the devil are everywhere. Second, the original great universities (even the cathedral schools preceding them) were certainly not about anything like that crude caricature (nor were those sometimes dodgy Jesuits); they were essentially humanistic, recalling and developing the patrimony of (mostly) the (pagan) Greeks, in logic, mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, metaphysics, etc.

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Thanks for proving my point.

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Which of the few facts I mentioned do you imagine proved any of your 'points'?

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"First, Jesus and the devil are everywhere."

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