The climate alarmism of today, with its ruthless efforts to halt economic growth, is a descendant of the "population bomb" hysteria whipped up by Paul Ehrlich, in 1968 and the anti-progress program of the Club of Rome.
The goal is to drag humanity back to the dark ages. It's an attack on reason itself. That explains why the fanatical believers in this cult vilify evidence and facts.
I like your work. Question: You assert that climate change is a scam. What's your response to those who claim "the science is settled" and there is no doubt on that issue?
The debate was shut down formally ten years ago. I read deeply into the other side, and my opinion is that we can’t know, but any sector that cheats and lies as much as climate change advocates have is almost certainly running a scam. If you go into the position papers of the IPCC, their sourcing and footnotes are shockingly weak, or absent, or taken from advocacy outfits. 37% of footnotes have been found to be either false or propaganda. It is not settled. We do not know and we cannot until the censorship is lifted. I have lived here for 20 years. The weather has not changed at all. It was cool in the 70s when they started measuring out here, but my father used to tell us of the 1930s which had long hot summers called Pacific Highs. We are not out of historical norms yet. Not even close. And the sea is not rising, their charts are falsified.
Hi John. In short: Had science operated by majority consensus, we would be still stuck in the Middle Ages. Einstein would have ended as he started, a patent clerk with fruitless side hobbies. Science lives on controversy and breeds conflict. It’s only politics and the ideological mind that require consensus and settled science. (attrib Nassim Nicholas Taleb) All the best
Hi John. Basic math or not... you are more of a scientist than hundreds I’ve read over these last 30 sad months. Trust your instincts on this one John: “the science is settled” is condescending at best, is likely cynical, and, as you put it, is deeply unscientific. Properly understood, "the science is settled" is not in itself a scientific proposition at all, but is instead a philosophical, political, or ideological proposition. As you point out, science requires endless inquiry. Science never ends. Science is important, but only as a method for our modest attempts to discover the truth of things.
In case there is a sure road to intellectual atrophy, it is paved with the complacent certainty that one’s critics are deluded. (attrib Daniel N. Robinson) All the best
See above. I find the statement “we are not out of historical norms yet.” is useful. And true. Also Donna LaFramboise wrote a short book that took apart the sourcing of the IPCC reports. Once you read that, you cannot trust any of their papers. They are statistical cheats.
Further, species collapse is something I do understand in some depth. All the studies are so wildly corrupted you cannot trust any of them. I was willing to consider it, but then you get into the science advocacy groups assert, start pulling their charting apart and the arguments collapse. For example where I live they tried to make the Coastal Douglas Fir a threatened species, and wanted to forbid tree cutting. The Coastal Doug Fir is one of the most common tress in the world. For some reason, they think the public is so gullible they’ll believe anything. When these studies are litigated, they fail. 100%.
Come on, People! Didn’t you learn in elementary school about photosynthesis? All green plants need CO2 to survive. In turn, they produce the O2 that all people breathe in. Without CO2, our green plants and trees would die! This is an agenda used against us in order to control what we eat and plant! I learned this process in the 4th grade! I am in my 80s when they actually taught and educated children. When the Dept of Ed was forced into their unconstitutional position, the goals were to dumb down every child in the US AND to make them followers of the UN! No more are our children taught Reading, Writing and Arithmetic! I left teaching the year our governor took away the right of teachers and parents to write the curriculum for our school district(what was to be taught in grades K-12!) That was in 1978! The computers have done their part, too! Kids can no longer do math in their head! Now, the teachers spend time teaching subjects I consider taboo or spend the day on their computer where they are completely brainwashed.
Read Steven Koonin's book "Unsettled?" He explains it, and he has the resumé to qualify him: Professor, Vice President and Provost at Caltech, Deputy Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration Department of Energy, now University Professor at NYU. I don't have such an impressive resumé (53 years at a NASA lab), but read my book "Where Will We Get Our Energy?" Steve goes deeper into many topics. I cover many topics he doesn't.
Ms. Nickson, what can ordinary people do? I have done my share of activism, but the issues we were involved with were post-9/11 national security. Much more straight forward. This climate change scam is a lot harder for people to understand, and involves a level of mendacity that is mind-boggling for people. Is there an organizing group one can support that is making headway, first, educating the public, second, pushing back in a meaningful way?
The Heartland institute is leading on this, also CFACT. American Stewards is fighting the land grab. I am writing letters and pieces. Book speakers into your town or neighborhood?
Yes! Check out American Stewards. They are fighting for farmers all over the US. They recently did a symposium in Nebraska, lots of speakers. Your lives are very much at risk. Maybe not your region now, but eventually. Margaret Byfield’s father was literally persecuted for decades. Famous case. Her husband Dan, a lawyer, works on litigation with her.
The climate alarmism of today, with its ruthless efforts to halt economic growth, is a descendant of the "population bomb" hysteria whipped up by Paul Ehrlich, in 1968 and the anti-progress program of the Club of Rome.
The goal is to drag humanity back to the dark ages. It's an attack on reason itself. That explains why the fanatical believers in this cult vilify evidence and facts.
I like your work. Question: You assert that climate change is a scam. What's your response to those who claim "the science is settled" and there is no doubt on that issue?
The debate was shut down formally ten years ago. I read deeply into the other side, and my opinion is that we can’t know, but any sector that cheats and lies as much as climate change advocates have is almost certainly running a scam. If you go into the position papers of the IPCC, their sourcing and footnotes are shockingly weak, or absent, or taken from advocacy outfits. 37% of footnotes have been found to be either false or propaganda. It is not settled. We do not know and we cannot until the censorship is lifted. I have lived here for 20 years. The weather has not changed at all. It was cool in the 70s when they started measuring out here, but my father used to tell us of the 1930s which had long hot summers called Pacific Highs. We are not out of historical norms yet. Not even close. And the sea is not rising, their charts are falsified.
Hi John. In short: Had science operated by majority consensus, we would be still stuck in the Middle Ages. Einstein would have ended as he started, a patent clerk with fruitless side hobbies. Science lives on controversy and breeds conflict. It’s only politics and the ideological mind that require consensus and settled science. (attrib Nassim Nicholas Taleb) All the best
I am not a scientist. Basic math was enough of a challenge.
However... isn't it deeply unscientific to claim, as the climate alarmists do, that the science is "settled" on this issue?
Isn't science about endless inquiry?
Hi John. Basic math or not... you are more of a scientist than hundreds I’ve read over these last 30 sad months. Trust your instincts on this one John: “the science is settled” is condescending at best, is likely cynical, and, as you put it, is deeply unscientific. Properly understood, "the science is settled" is not in itself a scientific proposition at all, but is instead a philosophical, political, or ideological proposition. As you point out, science requires endless inquiry. Science never ends. Science is important, but only as a method for our modest attempts to discover the truth of things.
In case there is a sure road to intellectual atrophy, it is paved with the complacent certainty that one’s critics are deluded. (attrib Daniel N. Robinson) All the best
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Are computer models, the go-to support that alarmists always cite, even evidence?
So what's the best response when alarmists cite studies proving "conclusively"
that climate change is real, case closed, and that humans must revert to the dark ages to prevent the earth from becoming uninhabitable.
Because they love to lob studies at skeptics. Never mind that this movement is analogous to a millennialist doomsday cult.
See above. I find the statement “we are not out of historical norms yet.” is useful. And true. Also Donna LaFramboise wrote a short book that took apart the sourcing of the IPCC reports. Once you read that, you cannot trust any of their papers. They are statistical cheats.
Further, species collapse is something I do understand in some depth. All the studies are so wildly corrupted you cannot trust any of them. I was willing to consider it, but then you get into the science advocacy groups assert, start pulling their charting apart and the arguments collapse. For example where I live they tried to make the Coastal Douglas Fir a threatened species, and wanted to forbid tree cutting. The Coastal Doug Fir is one of the most common tress in the world. For some reason, they think the public is so gullible they’ll believe anything. When these studies are litigated, they fail. 100%.
Come on, People! Didn’t you learn in elementary school about photosynthesis? All green plants need CO2 to survive. In turn, they produce the O2 that all people breathe in. Without CO2, our green plants and trees would die! This is an agenda used against us in order to control what we eat and plant! I learned this process in the 4th grade! I am in my 80s when they actually taught and educated children. When the Dept of Ed was forced into their unconstitutional position, the goals were to dumb down every child in the US AND to make them followers of the UN! No more are our children taught Reading, Writing and Arithmetic! I left teaching the year our governor took away the right of teachers and parents to write the curriculum for our school district(what was to be taught in grades K-12!) That was in 1978! The computers have done their part, too! Kids can no longer do math in their head! Now, the teachers spend time teaching subjects I consider taboo or spend the day on their computer where they are completely brainwashed.
Read Steven Koonin's book "Unsettled?" He explains it, and he has the resumé to qualify him: Professor, Vice President and Provost at Caltech, Deputy Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration Department of Energy, now University Professor at NYU. I don't have such an impressive resumé (53 years at a NASA lab), but read my book "Where Will We Get Our Energy?" Steve goes deeper into many topics. I cover many topics he doesn't.
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Ms. Nickson, what can ordinary people do? I have done my share of activism, but the issues we were involved with were post-9/11 national security. Much more straight forward. This climate change scam is a lot harder for people to understand, and involves a level of mendacity that is mind-boggling for people. Is there an organizing group one can support that is making headway, first, educating the public, second, pushing back in a meaningful way?
The Heartland institute is leading on this, also CFACT. American Stewards is fighting the land grab. I am writing letters and pieces. Book speakers into your town or neighborhood?
Thank you. I especially like the speaker idea. I live in a farm community. Thousands of acres of farmland.
Yes! Check out American Stewards. They are fighting for farmers all over the US. They recently did a symposium in Nebraska, lots of speakers. Your lives are very much at risk. Maybe not your region now, but eventually. Margaret Byfield’s father was literally persecuted for decades. Famous case. Her husband Dan, a lawyer, works on litigation with her.
Will def check it out. Thank you.