WUWT reader “Newty” writes in a comment in response to the National Geographic scaremongering at 2013/11/05 at 12:38 pm
Seriously though I was terrified before I first started coming here. I’ve recently become a father and we did question bringing children into the world when the threat of global warming seemed so certain and so imminent.
I work with children and many of them are seriously anxious as a result of just this kind of article that sits in the school library.
It reminds me of how I worried about nuclear war years ago. Fear is damaging our young who should grow up with optimism and hope.
I couldn’t agree more, best wishes to you and to your family – Anthony
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Micheal Andrews writes: “Also, this is literally the most hilariously uninformed thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I can’t decide whether to be furious or laughing.”
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We understand that you can’t decide. You’ve made that clear. And we want to help you by freeing your mind. Look at the claims you made while looking at some temperature records over the past 20 years. If this does not solve your indecision, then you should be scared.
Hi, Mario!
No. Mr. Andrews’ only hope is that God will work a miracle in his brain. A mind that tightly closed can be opened only from the outside. Sad but true.
Way to go making the case for the truth! Others WILL objectively and honestly consider what you wrote above. Even if only one person is directed onto the path of truth and light from the path through the dark swamp of lies, your effort was worth it.
I am grateful that you (and several other wonderful people) are here on WUWT. Whenever I get kicked by one of the donkeys that occasionally post, here, I do 2 things: 1) consider the source; and 2) remember the kind things people like you have said — and I decide to come back.
Thank you.
Janice
[And now Mario’s, donkeys, and kicking … All in the same post? 8<) Mod]
“… destroyed my ability to spell”??
The Andrews post highlights the potent appeal that a simplistic equation can exert. Consider that for him it is now dead easy to decide any public or personal matter: “Does it produce more CO2?” Yes = bad, No = good.
Simple, and wrong. With horrific consequences for the world’s poor.
Janice Moore says:
November 6, 2013 at 10:30 pm
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Well stated Janice. Because you are impeccable with your words, and your intellect allows you to discuss and appreciate technical matters, your posts help separate the wheat from the chaff for many. Sometimes I read your summaries and then jump to the posts that led to them. So, in a way, you’ve created some “editor’s choice” microcosm’s within the wildly entertaining commentaries.
Mods’ says:
[And now Mario’s, donkeys, and kicking … All in the same post? 8<) Mod]
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Excellent – I didn't see that connection until your self-moderated post! Kids seem to love the name Mario and almost always ask if I have a brother Luigi.
Heres an interesting one. Typically hysterical Calls for professionals failing to report child abuse to be made a criminal offence.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24772777
How will that play with the bed-wetting that flows from Climate terrorising ?
Heres an interesting one. Typically hysterical Calls for professionals failing to report child abuse to be made a criminal offence.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24772777
How will that play with the bed-wetting that flows from Climate terrorising ?
Oh, Mod-er-a-tor, (re: 10:30pm last night) — cute. And I never even PLAYED Donkey Kong (my younger brothers did). Heh, heh, as I write this…. I CAN STILL HEAR THE ZANY LITTLE THEME SONG from it!!! It was fun to watch them play for a few minutes. Perhaps, my subconscious concocted that post! Thanks for a fun comment.
THANK YOU, MARIO! You are generous and kind. Thanks for some much-needed encouragement.
Well this happened to me since I was a young buck, All the stories books mags media reports had me worried since the late 80s that we would never see snow again when i’m older and this was aggravated by the warm snowless winters of the late 80s-early 90s (1988-1992).I would love to see a “global warming demolition night” where all the kids that were “indoctrinated” since that era thru now band together at some concert or sporting event like the 1979 disco demolition night in july 1979 and gather all books,movies,magazines,and any doomsday articles about the future, wrought by human activities and destroy them in one giant bonfire like the 1979 event where tons of disco records were destroyed.
Global Warmists are selfish, greedy, hypocritical and heartless. Scaring children is their speciality because they can’t deal with adult sceptics – they always run away crying, screaming and wetting their pants.
Here’s a film title (about the gravy-trainers):
Snakes on a Train
I’ll sum it up here.
AGW fear mongering leads to damaging our children now through fear while spending money that will be paid back by these children. It also attempts to set the childrens’ behavior such that it guarantees their futures to be filled with poverty and saddled with debt that cannot be paid.
A crime of ignorance is still a crime.
yup i agree 100% with Mario Lento and Jimbo. Bring on global warming demolition night, gather all books,articles,movies of “The Inconvenient Truth”,magazines,etc and promote an event where they could be destroyed like 1979’s disco demolition night with the disco records.Maybe global warming demolition night may take place on an unseasonably hot night.
Georgie: Let’s remember that there is a certain religion (of which CAGW is one) that will do terrible things to those who burn their book. The back lash could be terrible. But then again, the cause would be the opposite of terrible, I say burn-em (the CAGW paraphernalia) at least metaphorically 🙂
NO! Do not burn the books. If you do they can easily rewrite history. Heck they have done that in my life time.
Here is an example: http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/history-of-democrat-racism/
I am old enough to remember when all this happened the conversations on the subjects around the dinner table.
Besides I can not bear to even toss out paperbacks and that includes a $0.50 used coppy of Gore’s Earth in The Balance.
As far as children go, we tell parents to home school. Even if they have to ‘learn’ the global warming stuff it provides an excellent example of beware of propaganda and the people who peddle it.
Gail Combs says:
November 8, 2013 at 5:52 am:
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Of course, burning books is not the solution, which is why I tossed in (metaphorically).
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the great AIDS terror of around 1990. Anyone who had sex was going to die, if you listened to the hype. I didn’t, in spite of being preached at incessantly by ‘well-meaning’ bien-pensant friends: just the same earnest types who now believe in environmentalism and all the AGW hype.
I did enough research to understand that catching AIDs from having sex was almost entirely due to practicing anal intercourse – whether gays in the West, or in Africa where they use that method for contraception. The however media went into government and UN driven overdrive about the apocalyptic dangers of AIDS; hard to grasp unless you were around at the time and sexually active. Nobody mentions it now of course; nobody admits how completely the ‘establishment’ was taken in.
Veganism and Vegetarianism:
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“I have been a vegetarian for many years. Until the last twenty years or so it was considered distinctly odd. The idea that individualistic vegetarians somehow banded together and had the power to change govt thinking so fundamentally is frankly a conspiracy theory too far.
tonyb ”
As others have pointed out, many vegetarians and esp vegans are evangelical to the point of fanaticism. Just like the AGW brigades, they make it a moral crusade, implying that anyone who doesn’t follow their creed. I’m very involved in animal rescue, so I bump up against a lot of this esp on Facebook
But their individual efforts pale beside the manoeuvrings of the giant agrochemical businesses such as Monsanto, Bayer, and Sygentia. These multinational entities which have their operatives in key political positions in many countries, and esp the United States, do indeed have the power to change government thinking, and they put billions into the process, with great success.
They have now all but cornered the market in vegetarian foods, since they are responsible for 90% of the soy and corn grown in North America, much of the vegetarian fats such as canola, and a very large % of the wheat and legumes – over 80%.
All these foodstuffs so beloved of vegetarians are now almost exclusively GMOs, laced in chemicals and bred to be sterile. Tests have shown that rats won’t eat the stuff. Many of my American vegetarian friends are sick, with celiac disease, autoimmune disorders, ME/CFS, anxiety-related conditions, and other long term sicknesses. Trying to persuade them that their animal-free /vegan diets might be to blame is a waste of time. They are ‘Believers’, see, and ethically driven? They are all liberals and environmentalists, of course – and subscribe to the AGW meme.