Climate Fluctuations over from 2500 B.C. to 2040 AD

Too good not to share. The following chart from a recent post I read today on Facebook:

Here is a link to the article it came from.which makes many other excellent points.

http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/simple-chart-destroys-the-liberal-climate-change-scam

The specter of Radicalized Secularism

The Guardian has actually posted an article I agree with!! "Secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians" justly calls radical secularism and it's pseudo-tolerance police on the carpet for their radical intolerance and appeasement of nothingness.

These new tolerance dictators are actually much less tolerant than Christians or other religious people who have the temerity to stand for something. They are a menace and the threat they pose to Western civilization, having gone for decades unchecked hiding amongst the culture credo of politeness and true tolerance, is severe. These are the very same people who not only object to a public Christmas tree display but even the private "brandishing" of a crucifix by a flight attendant.

Stand up for you Faith, but expect to be attacked for making a stand. Don't let these radicals destroy the last vestiges of Christian civilizations, even though it means you must be intolerant of their idiotic views. Expect to be vilified, and ridiculed for your stand.

The Death of Common Sense!

I've been intending to post on this book, The Death of Common Sense, for quite awhile. Mr. Howard has put together a very approachable and generally sound treatise on how modern legislation and the pharisitical, hyper legalistic environment it engengers is stifling America. Check it out. Not perfect, but reasonable and thought provoking.

A little announcement.. in the next few weeks I'm going to create an Amazon driven storefront for the various books I have been posting about organized around several themes. Stay tuned! I'm also going to try posting shorter pieces more often, rather than long, exhausting tirades that wear me out!

"Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc"

I have been harranguing on the malthusian, misanthropic environmenalists' obsession with making falacious predictions about the course of events. I recently stumbled across this article, which is largely a collection of juicy boneheaded comments and various, now abandoned doomsday scenarios. Particularly ironic are a number of predictions from current Global Warming fanatics like Reid Bryson and the ever quotable Paul Ehrlich with the then latest junk-science fad... "Global Cooling" Hmmm.. well, that didn't pan out.. so on to other theories! It seems rather obvious these now tenured clowns, riddled throughout academia and various government and non-government agencies can't resist foisting their misanthropic preconceptions on the public under the pretext of science. Consumed with fanatical pseudo-religious fervor that mankind is evil and desperate to prove it through "science", they regularly succumb to the logical fallacy "Post hoc ergo propter hoc", "after this, therefore because of this".

Here... let their words speak for themselves..

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

Truly Inconvenient Truth's for Climate Alarmists

Just yet another article debunking Al Gore's lies.

This article contains some really tasty nuggets because it handily debunks much of the most agregious Global Warming junk science as well as the most oft quoted common defense of the global warming chicking lickens when their beliefs are attacked.. that being only a small cadre of scientists are skeptical of the global warming bandwagon. Oh contrare!

Onto the tasty (meaty) nuggets:

"Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.

But surely Carter is merely part of what most people regard as a tiny cadre of "climate change skeptics" who disagree with the "vast majority of scientists" Gore cites?

No; Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. "Climate experts" is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's "majority of scientists" think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field...

But it becomes smaller still. Among experts who actually examine the causes of change on a global scale, many concentrate their research on designing and enhancing computer models of hypothetical futures. "These models have been consistently wrong in all their scenarios," asserts Ball. "Since modelers concede computer outputs are not "predictions" but are in fact merely scenarios, they are negligent in letting policy-makers and the public think they are actually making forecasts."

And what do policymakers have to gain... seems I've been ranting enough about socialist agendas masked by climate change fearmongering. But the author of this piece piles on even more..

"Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years... Patterson concluded his testimony by explaining what his research and "hundreds of other studies" reveal: on all time scales, there is very good correlation between Earth's temperature and natural celestial phenomena such changes in the brightness of the Sun.

Another scientist debunks the melting iceberg myth too..

Dr. Wibj–rn KarlÈn, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden, admits, "Some small areas in the Antarctic Peninsula have broken up recently, just like it has done back in time [ed: hmmmm natural phenomemon at work, not the handywork of evil mankind perhaps... just a thought]. The temperature in this part of Antarctica has increased recently, probably because of a small change in the position of the low pressure systems."

But KarlÈn clarifies that the 'mass balance' of Antarctica is positive - more snow is accumulating than melting off. As a result, Ball explains, there is an increase in the 'calving' of icebergs as the ice dome of Antarctica is growing and flowing to the oceans. When Greenland and Antarctica are assessed together, "their mass balance is considered to possibly increase the sea level by 0.03 mm/year - not much of an effect," KarlÈn concludes.

Huh? I thought New York was about to be inundated by a massive melt off of the worlds icecaps as so dramatically demonstrated by Gore and in the precursor of Gore's junk science.. "The Day After Tomorrow". Duh.. So, when Gore drives home his dubious assertion that increased levels of iceberb calving is due to global warming, he is either TOTALLY ignorant of how glaciers work (may I suggest wikipedia Al... you invented the inernet didn't you afteral?), or, say it isn't so.. is he ... LYING? Personally.. I suspect the later, but then I don't trust the bastard.

"Dr. Dick Morgan, former advisor to the World Meteorological Organization and climatology researcher at University of Exeter, U.K. gives the details, "There has been some decrease in ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic over the past 30 years but no melt down. The Canadian Ice Service records show that from 1971-1981 there was average, to above average, ice thickness. From 1981-1982 there was a sharp decrease of 15% but there was a quick recovery to average, to slightly above average, values from 1983-1995. A sharp drop of 30% occurred again 1996-1998 and since then there has been a steady increase to reach near normal conditions since 2001."

These quotes handily debunk the most often quoted bit of junk science parroted by Gore like the wooden puppet he is.. "...Starting in 1970, there was a precipitous drop-off in the amount and extent and thickness of the Arctic ice cap." Balderdash.

What about the alarmists cry of rapidly increasing temperatures.. well, I hate to burst your bubble..

"...Concerning Gore's beliefs about worldwide warming, Morgan points out that, in addition to the cooling in the NW Atlantic, massive areas of cooling are found in the North and South Pacific Ocean the whole of the Amazon Valley; the north coast of South America and the Caribbean; the eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caucasus and Red Sea; New Zealand and even the Ganges Valley in India.; Morgan explains, "Had the IPCC used the standard parameter for climate change (the 30 year average) and used an equal area projection, instead of the Mercator (which doubled the area of warming in Alaska, Siberia and the Antarctic Ocean) warming and cooling would have been almost in balance."

Guess what folks.. the world isn't crashing in. Modern civilization isn't at risk from an environmental catastrophe, but it is threatened by an unholy alliance of Machiavellian politicians like Gore, his radical buddies with tons of dough and their loony fellow travelers on the fringe who are committed to the hilt. At best their triumph would be Orwellian serfdom, at worst, annihilation. Now that's a real Inconvenient Truth you can bank on!

NEWS FLASH.. AP Biased in Gore Reviews...Nooooooo

This is a great blog entry from Evil Conservative that attacks both the dubious veracity of the fear monger Al Bore.. er.. Gore and the AP's rather shocking (sarcasm folks) biased attempts to establish it's supposed credibility. Good quotes and solid evidence is given. Check it out.

Also, there are some juicy links to the following sites..

Junk Science.com

EcoEnquirer.com where you can read about the latest EPA nonsense to classify water vapor as a pollutant!!!!!!

More Bad News for Doom & Gloomers

Well, it seems despite the constant handwringing of media pundits and various political constituencies that thrive off government intervention, American industry continues to thrive and compete on a global scale. The press loves a good tragedy and sadly it isn't news apparently if things are going well. Doom and gloom are just around the corner, highlights at 11! If it's not the environment then it's China or India that is about to surpass our crumbling economy. Sorry Michael Moore, Howard Dean, Alec Baldwin, et al, this Economist article paints a much different picture about the REAL vibrancy of the US economy. The simple fact is that the US remains the worlds powerhouse economy and American know how is remaining very competitive out of the glare of the klieg lights. To quote the article...

“Our media act as if American manufacturing is going to grind to a halt at around two o'clock this afternoon,” says Cliff Ransom, an independent analyst who scours America for the most assiduous metal-bashers.
But someone forgot to tell American manufacturers the bad news. Most of them have enjoyed roaring success of late. Net profits have risen by nearly 9% a year since the recession in 2001 and productivity has been growing even more rapidly than is usual during economic expansions (see chart). The country's various widget-makers, moreover, show no sign of losing their innovative edge

The article goes on to make a point I have been belaboring ... American's find ways to get things done in ever more efficient ways when challenged ...

"These days, however, American manufacturers of all sorts—not just the big durable-goods makers—are quickly improving their efficiency."

Americans are some of the most inventive, creative and hardworking people in the world. Our economy and relatively open system allows for radical innovation and change. There is a huge braindrain going on with the best and the brightest coming to the US where they can innovate, invent and create wealth. This isn't a naked pursuit of greed as the left declares with self importance, rather wealth creation improves the human condition worldwide. Where would the the innovations in systems and technology for cleaning water, creating groundbreaking medicines, or devise ever more efficient methods and machinery necessary for helping ever larger groups of the human population escape starvation and disease come from if not for the profit motive? They wouldn't.
Let innovation continue to reign and the next time you find yourself getting sucked into the next doom-and-gloom scenario portending the imminent collapse of the economy, remind yourself about the 100 or more other success stories not reported by the media because the only news fit to print apparently is negative. .... or could it be something more perverse... hmmm.

Regardless, one last quote from the article that really underscores my point...

"....Gordon Hunter, Littelfuse's chief executive, is confident that America can maintain its edge in manufacturing. He is an engineer from the north of England who spent much of his earlier career working for Intel, a semiconductor firm, in California. American firms will keep on improving their productivity, he says, because of a business environment that embraces innovation. “Being flexible and willing to learn are skills that America still excels at,” he says. Eventually, perhaps even GM will get the hang of it."

Makes me proud to be an American!

The Slippery Slope to Tyranny

I can't get enough of Walter Williams, cogent, reasoned and succinct prose.

Being a cigar smoker this article is near and dear to my heart since it very succinctly explains what a slippery slope anti-tobacco legislation has put us on. Mr. Williams does a greate job describing the impact of anti-smoking legislation on basic freedoms and a likely deluge of nannystate laws.

Tobacco may be reviled by many, but it once wasn't, is your steak next? Socialist nannies seem to be around every corner dictating to us what we should or should not eat, wear, buy, etc.. seemingly to suck the joy out of life (perhaps they are unhappy people.. hmmm) (although I'm sure soylent green may be the only acceptable comestible, but then again only as long as it's free of transfats, corn syrup and artificial preservatives). Next we'll be hearing about how much sleep you should get, how much gas you can use, how much soda you can drink at one sitting.. etc.. where does it end? Now that smoking is viewed with universal disdain, are big macs next? Is it going to take someone trying to outlaw a favorite pasttime or hobby of yours to get you to defend the privilege of others as do as they see fit? All of you that were so eager or at least complicit in abridging the privileges of us smokers, distateful to you as our habits may be, you're going to pay dearly because leviathan is gunning for you next! Good luck, you'll need it.

[Updated]

Couldn't resist posting this great Mencken quote..

"I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave." H.L. Mencken

A Short History of Environmentalist Predictions

I promise to make this one short.

This article by an eminent thinker Walter Williams chronicles just a few of the countless, dubious blown predictions by environmentalists over the last 100 years.

Here is a good quote to chew on..

"Our continued belief in environmentalist mistakes, manipulation, lies and fear mongering leads us to establish public policies that kill people and reduce standards of living such as CAFÉ standards that downsize autos and cause unnecessary highway deaths, energy saving regulations that produce airtight sick buildings and the international push for birth control. The next time an environmentalist warns us of disaster we ought to ask: when was the last time your prediction was right?"

Satanic Gases... The Political Agenda of Pseudo Science.... the Feudal State

I blogged last week about a little book called "Satanic Gases".

This article reviewing “Satanic Gases” refers to it as a reasonably decent treatise debunking the pseudo-science and political agendas behind the global warming hype. The authors unmask the real motives behind Al Gore (I'm using Al Gore because of his celluoid fantasies playing in theaters across the country currently and because he is continually one of the more strident members of the political caste championing the agenda) and his ilk, and the environmental activists he has been trafficking with, behind the supposed fact of global warming. “Global Warming” really has more to do with finding a reason to sell a radical left-wing socialist political agenda than about saving the earth. Here's a quote from this review summarizing points made in the book…

" In 1985 the UN Environment Program (UNEP) held a joint conference with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), into which UNEP evolved, was founded with the explicit goal of finding a ``basis for ... a strategy to address climate change.'' Founded on the assumption that global warming is occurring [emphasis added], the goal of the IPCC was to formulate an international treaty to combat it that eventually became known as the Kyoto Protocol. To this end, the IPCC needed to present a façade of consensus [emphasis added] ito convince policy makers that urgent action was needed. However, in so doing, the IPCC sacrificed its scientific objectivity. John Houghton, a senior scientist for the IPCC, made the following statement that is typical of the IPCC's partisan approach"

Such policies like cutting energy use by more than 50 percent can contribute powerfully to the material salvation of the planet from mankind's greed and indifference. "

What does cutting energy use to save the planet from mankind's greed and indifference have to do with "science." Nothing of course. Once again the environmentalists’ extreme, pseudo-religious belief that mankind is bad and nature, aka. Mother-earth..etc.., is good is unmasked. These crazy nuts at best want to send us back to a menial existence beset with squalor and misery, all for the supposed greater good of “preserving” nature from the virus of humanity. Does this sound a bit like unadulterated paganism to anyone else? Sure does to me. Countless scores of us must be directly or indirectly sacrificed and the rest made to suffer temporal purgation for mankinds' supposed sins! But are these really sins? Isn't the ruthless pursuit of survival, to overcome challenges and to thrive the conerstone evolutionary motivation of all species? Oh, but somehow mankind has evolved beyond the environments capacity to withstand our assaults. Balderdash!

Digging deaper you find more than pagan nitwittery. Political cronies like Al Gore and his buddies in the self-appointed elites and political caste sense an enormous opportunity to use politicized pseudo-science and the fringe radicals driving the environmentalist credo forward to mask their own agenda. This is the height of cynicism at best. This reviewof the “Satanic Gases”, written from a more balanced but yet stilted environmentalist perspective concedes:

"Any rush to judgment is fraught with danger, particularly one based on dubious science and shameless fear-mongering."

I couldn't agree more.. Globalist radicals at the UN and an unholy alliance of nutty minions are using dubious science to shamelessly fear-monger and cajole the average person into backing a radical, socialist political agenda that will strip them of freedom, wealth and perhaps even their existence! Do Al Gore, Kofi Anan and their club of cronies polluting the ranks of various world governments, NGOs and multi-billion dollar foundations have any intention of living in mud huts… hardly! Feudalism ho!

Prediction: Should the real power brokers succeed, count on them turning on their pagan, birkenstock clad earth worshiping pals and sacking them just as Stalin purged Trotsky, but only once they have solidified their hegemony.

Environmentalist Whackos are Out to Kill You

Sensationalist title? Sure, but as I have been haranguing for years, the radical environmentalist movement and it's many cronies hate people.

Here is the opening paragraph from "The Environmentalist Evil" by David Holcberg (July 18, 2000) published in the "American Capitalist":

"Environmentalism regards man as a spreading cancer that must be eliminated at any cost. And its leaders mean it. Environmentalism is at root a movement against man. As novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand observed, "… [their] ultimate motive [is]…hatred for achievement, for reason, for man, for life.""

Think I'm nuts.. let's see what Jacques Cousteau has to say.. most remember him how he was portrayed by fawning idealogues and the popular media in the 70's as a nice, grandfathereque figure.. this should put that myth to rest a bit....

"In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate three hundred and fifty thousand people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."

Excuse me! Advocating for the death of 350,000 people a day.. yikes!

Mr. Hoclberg goes on to cover a number of other sacred cows of the environmentalist movement his succinct and pointed essay.

Here are more essays from the "American Capitalist" emphatically debunking the pseudo-religious dytopian myths and savage hatred of mankind underlying the radical environmentalist agenda.

Global Warming: The Other Side of the Story

On Earth Day, Remember: If Environmentalism Succeeds, It Will Make Human Life Impossible

Who Will Defend Industry from Eco-Terrorism?

Technological Apartheid: Europe's Biotech Food Ban Must End

Open Kyoto to Debate

Green Lies and "Open Spaces"

Global Warming, Melting Ice Caps and Rising Sea Levels

Recycling

Global Warming and Hurricanes: Still No Connection

Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Dr. Roy Spencer

Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Dr. James J. O'Brien

Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Meteorologist Dr. William Gray

Hurricane Katrina and Global Warming

Senators Were Right To Reject Limits on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Global Warming is More Scare than Science

The Left-Wing Canon of Doom

I've posted many screeds against the progressive, anti-western, radical left-wing nutjob, environmentalist radical movements in the past... and frankly I'm exhausted. But the word must continue to get out. Today I stumbled across the review of a book published in 2002 that systematically dismantles most of the key tenants of the environmentalist movement. Reason Magazine Review

Here is a key section..

The environmental canon is built on doom. In 1962 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring predicted that modern synthetic chemicals, especially pesticides, would cause epidemics of cancer and kill off massive quantities of wildlife. Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich's infamous The Population Bomb confidently asserted in 1968 that "the battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines -- hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." The Limits to Growth, a Club of Rome report published in 1972, coupled the dogma that natural resources were running out with concerns about growing population and rising pollution.

I couldn't have said it better myself.. it seems to me just about all of the radical movements with their genesis in the late 60's and early 70's are based at least in part on faulty pseudo-science, anti-western screeds and a radical self loathing by members of the tenured left-wing intelligentsia like Susan Sontag. I didn't post anything on death of Susan Sontag a few years ago but she's a shining example of the nitwits behind the post-modern environmentalist, radical progressive, anti-market, anti-human, "multicultural" agenda.. if your father or mother believed it.. it's crap.. these boomer elites are like so many bratty children biting the hand that fed and nurtured them, (western civilization) and reveling in their supposed moral superiority. The firebrand Ann Coulter rightly defines this as liberal religion.. and it really it is their religion... J.K. Chesterton once said, quite aptly, that if you don't believe in something, you'll believe in anything.

Ingrid Newkirk the co-founder and President PETA once stated, to the fawning praise and adulation of the far out eco-freak crowd:

"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." umm.. I'm sorry you hate yourself and your species.. either I was created with dominion, as scripture says, or I evolved over billions of years to be the dominate species and I'm not giving it up!!! Why should I.

If you can stand to read it.. here is a really obnoxious article equating animal slaughter with the Holocaust.. http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue3/A_Tale_of_2_Holocausts.htm written by another, tenured left-wing nut job and fellow traveller Karen Davies. Following is her monograph:

Karen Davis, PhD. is the founder and President of United Poultry Concerns (www.upc-online.org), a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. She is the author of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry; A Home for Henny; More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality; and Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless Poultry Potpourri (a cookbook). Karen is currently writing a book titled The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities"

Stick a fork in me, I'm done!

[UPDATE]
I decided to quote more of the Economist article because it very pointedly defuses so much of the eco-religios fervor running amok today.

...ideological environmentalists have simple-mindedly applied concepts from zoology and biology to human societies to create a kind of theory of political ecology. But this theory has failed. Not one of its major predictions has come true: There have been no global famines, no cancer epidemics, no massive resource depletion. The ideologues have been proven wrong because they fail to understand that the economic processes in which human beings engage are radically different from the ecological processes that govern other creatures. Human beings not only consume resources but make new resources with their fertile minds. People do not simply use up resources the way a herd of zebra would; they create new recipes to use resources in ever more effective ways. Coal, tin, fresh water, forests, and so forth may all be limited, but the ideas for extending and improving their uses are not.

But at the moment of its political ascendancy, it is environmentalism, not modern civilization, that is tottering. As more critics -- demographers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, climatologists, economists, and, yes, statisticians -- point ever more insistently at the yawning gap between the doomsayers' claims and scientific and economic reality, the ideologues are becoming ever more frantic to deny the growing contradictions.

Their variety of environmentalism is merely the latest totalizing ideology to arise in the West over the past two centuries. Like communism before it, it wants to claim the mantle of objective science to justify its political programs, because in the post-Enlightenment world science is the final arbiter of what is true. But as all totalists eventually discover, an ideologys failure to correspond to reality is ultimately fatal.

Touche'