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Essay by Tom Harris, originally published in PJMedia
Over the past twenty years, we’ve been subjected to a barrage of catastrophic climate change forecasts and prophecies that would put Moses to shame. Coastal communities will be submerged due to rapid sea-level rise caused by soaring temperatures and glacier melt. Record heat waves, droughts, floods, insect infestations, and wildfires will result in millions of climate change refugees fleeing their ruined homelands. Competition over increasingly scarce water resources will lead to armed conflict. About all that has been missing from these doom and gloom predictions is alien invasion.
Like Moses’ warnings to Pharaoh in the Bible, we are told there is a high price to pay if we are to avoid climate change-driven “death, injury, and disrupted livelihoods,” to quote from the March 31 report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We must reduce our carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 70% by 2050 to keep so-called global temperature from exceeding 2° C above pre-industrial levels, the IPCC claims. This will require massive cuts in our use of coal, oil, and natural gas, the sources of 87% of world primary energy consumption. What’s also needed, according to yet another IPCC report, Climate Change 2014 – Mitigation of Climate Change, released on April 12, is nothing less than:
a tripling to nearly a quadrupling of the share of zero‐ and low‐carbon energy supply from renewables, nuclear energy and fossil energy with carbon dioxide capture and storage [CCS, a technology the IPCC admit is currently problematic], or bioenergy with CCS by the year 2050.
Former Vice President Al Gore tells us that “the survival of civilization as we know it” is at risk if we don’t take these kinds of actions.
While historical evidence increasingly suggests that cataclysm really did follow Moses’ prophesies, modern-day forecasts of climate Armageddon are not coming true. The reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) reveal that there is nothing extraordinary about late twentieth century warming, a temperature rise that stopped over 17 years ago. The NIPCC explains that ice cover “is not melting at an enhanced rate; sea-level rise is not accelerating; and no systematic changes have been documented in evaporation or rainfall or in the magnitude or intensity of extreme meteorological events.”
Contrary to the IPCC’s warnings, the NIPCC report released this month, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, shows that long-term warming and CO2 rise are benefitting nature and humanity, “causing a great greening of the Earth.”
Faced with such good news, what are global warming activists to do?
Read the entire analysis here: http://pjmedia.com/blog/telling-noble-lies-about-climate-change-will-backfire/
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There are no “noble cause lies” this false ethic is for rogue politicians and dictators. If the truth is too painful for you, , say nothing at all, better still if you are a CAGW follower – say nothing except “sorry” – we have heard more than enough of your false prophecies…
Anybody read this. It is possible to over inform.
Noble Cause Corruption is far more insidious than you write, as it can blind to believer into not being able to perceive information contrary to their belief, creating the ultimate in Confirmation Bias.
To update the old joke:
What’s the difference between a Climate Scientist and a Used Car Salesman?
The Used Car Salesman knows when he’s lying.
The comparison with Moses while not exactly on point (ahem)… is an apt one: just as the Egyptians wanted to retain the economic benefits of the slave labor of the Jews,
so, too,
the Enviroprofiteers (and their henchpersons, the Envirostalinists) want to gain (or retain) the economic benefits (for the elite) of any socialist system that has ever blossomed into full flower — the bulk of the citizens become serfs.
“Equality for the world” and “save civilization as we know it” are mere euphemisms for a harsh, bitter, existence for the many to benefit the few.
(to quote with an edit Winston Churchill — from memory, only)
“Capitalism: the unequal sharing of blessings.
Socialism: the equal {except for the elite} sharing of misery.”
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You make many good points, Mr. Harris, this, however is not one of them:
“… we do indeed face a long-term energy crisis… .”
Unless you are a prophet (like Moses really was), you do not know this. Moreover, historical evidence tells us that such doomsaying conjecture is highly likely to be wrong. You are forgetting, dear sir, that human ingenuity lives! Malthus predicted famine…. there was going to be a big copper wire shortage…. and robots were going to take away all the jobs……and on and on.
I will not believe, Mr. Harris! No, I will not believe your prophecy, for I have far too much FAITH IN OUR WONDERFUL ENGINEERS AND CHEMISTS (have you even looked at what nanotechnology is doing, esp. re: synthetic petroleum products?) to believe for one second that our fuel needs will not be met …. or redefined.
And not one government regulation is necessary. Free markets will do it all.
So, take heart!
On Good Friday, things looked pretty bleak for a bunch of Jewish followers of a certain Jewish rabbi 2,000 years ago… GOOD THINGS LIE AHEAD!
REJOICE!
#(:))
You are dealing with a bunch of idiots. They think they can tell everyone what to do. What if I pointed out that increased deforestation would be the result of concerted international ‘action to tackle climate change?’ They would say that I am wrong. How can I be wrong when deforestation is taking place right now? Even in wealthy Germany some have started stealing wood from the forests due to high energy prices. What the heck should a poor country like Haiti do? Did I mention Indonesia’s massive deforestation in order to make way for oil palms for biofuels?
How the heck can we adjust the temperature control knob for Earth’s temperature? The whole thing is a sham and a con.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/tree-theft-on-the-rise-in-germany-as-heating-costs-increase-a-878013.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/01/24/greeks-fell-trees-for-warmth-amid-economic-chill/
@ur momisugly Charles the Mod — LOL.
And, very true. Sad, but TRUE.
The most noble of causes to exposing the the climate scam for the scam that it is.
+2 for Charles.
MISTER JIMBO!
Thank you.
You’ve been ALL OVER WUWT recently (and over the years!) with GREAT information.
WAY — TO — GO!
The Noble Lies led to the Nobel Prize.
A truly noble cause neither requires nor desires to be defended by l1es.
Plato was wrong.
Al Gore is now world famous for his astonishing level of brazen, bare faced hypocrisy. What is a mansion and an $8 million villa with 6 fire places between friends? Private jet flights? TV station sale to an oil funded broadcaster called Al Gore Zeera? Let us look away and pretend that Al Gore is not a hypocrite and a liar.
Oh crap, you should not have mentioned alien invasion. I fully expect a peer reviewed paper in the next month claiming that aliens will invade and destroy earth because they want to take our excess CO2
charles the moderator says:
April 18, 2014 at 3:52 pm
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“The Used Car Salesman knows when he’s lying.”
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This may be true for many of the global warming fellow travellers, but not all. Between 1990 and 1995 it appears a decision was made to push on with the “useful crisis”, despite the growing evidence against it. Some of the key players clearly did know they were lying. I would go as far as raising serious questions about the actions of some well before this. Tom Karl’s 1985 paper on TOB adjustment is one such concern.
For the doubters it is backed up by the peer review HERE.
As this sorry hoax collapses, there will be many who will try to use the claim of “noble cause” to excuse their vile assault on science, reason, freedom and democracy. “we thought we were saving the planet”, “precautionary principle”, “but we have to get of “fossil” fuels anyway”, blah, blah blah..”
Good news! None of it is going to work.
You don’t get to use “noble cause” as an excuse when you vilified sceptics to silence them.
“holocaust deniers”
“equivalent of paedophiles”
“comparable to Hitler appeasers”
“Flatearthers”
“Anti-science”
“big oil shills”
“using big tobacco tactics”
“conspiracy ideation”
The Internet remembers. Forever.
They are in the minority because of the silent majority. That’s why WUWT and other sceptical blogs kept on winning the blog Bloggie Awards. That is the only explanation. Leo Hickman of the Guardian sounded shocked by this because he continues in his echo chamber thinking that there is a global movement when it DOES NOT EXIST in the public. It only exists in the minds of carbon opportunist traders, ministers and the failed media.
Even after Leo got his wish and the science category was removed the sceptics still won. What a shame.
I told ya so.
I heartedly disagree with the claim that we need to “find cheap sources of non-fossil fuel energy.”
We already have it. It’s called nuclear energy. Been around for over 50 years. Perhaps the writer has swallowed the anti-nuke claims that nucear is expensive. Right this minute I can cite 20 examples of new nuclear build around the world, including the U.S., where the cost of a Generation 3+ nuclear plant is between $4 and $6 billion USD, fixed price contract. This new architecture has a more-or-less guaranteed lifespan of 60+ years, and a capacity of 1200 to 1600MW, performing , on average at over 95% capacity. Do the math and you’ll find the amortized cost of the plant is roughly between .7 and 1 cent per kWhr of power produced, or less,
depending upon its actual lifespan, and nameplate capacity. Fuel costs are roughly 3/4 cent and costs will not rise anytime soon. Operation and maintenance costs average 1.40 cents per kWhr in the U.S. Nucear waste disposal costs are less than 1/10th of a cent. Decommissioning costs would likely be less than 2/10th of a cent. All this makes nuclear power as cheap as any produced by fossil fuels. What IS expensive is the initial build cost, and the fact that it requires 3 years to build.
When utilities need extra capacity, the cheapest and fastest way to go, in the short run, is to build a gas turbine generator. But gas prices simply will not remain as low as they are today and have been rising because so many have switched from coal to natural gas.We are also exporting a lot of LNG to other countries, especially China. Nuclear power costs are virtually a known commodity well into the distant future. And since nucear fuel costs are such a small part of the total costs of nuclear power, their prices can rise significantly without having much effect on overall costs. Gas driven power, on the other hand, is dominated by the cost of natural gas that it uses, so any increases in gas prices will have a dramatic effect on gas generated electricity. Quite frankly, if Obama or his energy secretary had any sense, they would have taken one of his trillion dollar toilet flushes and provided no-interest loans to build 200 nuclear plants, which would have
provided over 50% of our power demand, and, added to the current 20% nuclear power , have resulted in at least 70% carbon free electric power from nuclear alone, with another 11% from existing hydro. Loan payback at 1 cent per kWhr produced.
Now, that wasn’t so difficult , was it?
I think the “Noble Cause” issue drives a lot of warmist followers. However, it’s not really in play with the warmest leaders. They’re just in this for a quick buck!
Jimbo says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Contrary to the IPCC’s warnings, the NIPCC report released this month, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, shows that long-term warming and CO2 rise are benefitting nature and humanity, “causing a great greening of the Earth.”
For the doubters it is backed up by the peer review HERE.
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One of the NASA spinoffs, either JPL or GSFI, formerly maintained a webpage showing how the earth was greening and the biosphere increasing. Now, they’ve gone full- on political and any information about the planet greening is couched in “sky is falling” climate change rhetoric, such as this link shows:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/growth-shift.html
Aahh, the “noble lie”. Just like what the cops do when they round up the usual suspects, especially people of a certain race say and fit them up with a convenient set of truths, made to measure.
An essential element of democracy is its evidence based discourse both informal such as a public debate, and formal such as in our representative congresses/parliaments through to our courts. Lies are fundamentally toxic to such processes so, like digging implements, lets just call a lie, a lie or if we are going to embellish the nature of the lie with an adjective, how about “goddamned” in stead of “noble” so that the adjective is an honest one also.
The NIPCC can make the IPCC look sober and moderate. That’s the problem: two groups of people with competing positions yelling over each other with red faces.
Right there is a con. Carbon capture? What a load of horse manure. How much can capturing relatively tiny amounts of co2 make to the Earth’s temperature? This is an out and out fraud. Many people are lining up to make lots of money from this fraud. Al Gorzeera tried then backed off. He subsequently decided that the way to save the planet was to sell his current TV station to the oil funded Al Jazeera. What’s not to like? THIS IS A FRAUD, and it’s time the police were called.
2012
“Al Gore bails from green-energy investment ”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/al-gore-bails-from-green-energy-investment/
Thanks, Tom. Good article.
“We must reduce our carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 70% by 2050 to keep so-called global temperature from exceeding 2° C above pre-industrial levels, the IPCC claims.”
But most probably the climate sensitivity is low, and that would happen anyway, moreover, there is nothing we could do to keep it from happening, if the Earth goes back into a warming mode.
And it should, just because it is very cold right now, if you look back some 5,000 years.
It is a Cult (yeah me again) It will collapse when the prediction the never happens gets old enough that even the cult members realize it. Then we might see some suicides, sadly. It is a Cult, you will see that I am right.