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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?
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AGW is only the softener for UN Agenda 21. Its great the AGW is getting the stick it deserves, but the poison is already laid. While a frog will jump out of already boiling water, we are the frogs who are being heated slowly and unless we realise that the water is already too warm we are going to be cooked by the UN’s real agenda, which is Agenda 21.
Check my blog http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com.
Please read all the posts and check the links. Check your local government’s website for ICLEI. Check what your children are being taught at school. You wont be telling me I’m wrong.
Cheers,
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchrstchurch.com
Sorry the last link should read http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
The liars have much to fear as they have fed a “liars line” to a carefully cossetted and guided by propaganda generation, that will suddenly realise the jobs and opportunities have been squandered along with Trillions of wasted precious tax dollars. What anger, as they wake up to the reality that in their lifetime the warming trend ceased and they were told otherwise. That immediate generation, have been sold the lie but, as they realise they have been conned by the educators, the media and the green political gravy train you will see a real climate change! That is the desperate reality, well may the guilty lie and connive, but truth will out. The shift in public opinion will be harsh when that reality sets in. Mark my words..
Meanwhile, in the empirical world…
I too am very sceptical. I suspect what happened in some cases was events would occur. Later those events were then woven into the Bible showing a prophet ‘causing’ those events. A bit like the chicken and the egg.
Sometimes science does not need to be rejected but used when people make extraordinary claims. Read about the ‘Jewish’ Lemba tribe in southern Africa and subsequent genetic tests.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/050999lemba-jewish-genes.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1914832/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707634399
The bible, in it’s old testament, 6500 years ago, there was a garden of eden. We can look back to that time and see that the climate was warmer then. Then, there was a drastic cooling period. Doesn’t surprise me at all it rained for 40 day’s and nights. The atmosphere cooling like that can’t hold that amount of moisture any longer. DUH! Why that happened, un-explained.
The “not-see’s” are driving their cult away by sheer ignorance. Let them.
All this talk of carbon dioxide capture scares me. The Lake Nyos event is a warning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos
I would be ‘relaxed’ about fracking near where I live but would not want to be even in the same county as such a dangerous thing. Deliberately pumping CO2 underground under pressure? But, of course, nothing ever goes wrong….does it?
I think he was mocking Warmists. For example I can say that Pinocchio is more honest that Al Gore. Well actually he is. LOL.
If that is what companies want to do then good on them. But the idea that such puny levels of capture will make any difference to the temperature of the Earth is a cruel joke indeed. Please do not attempt to spread such false hopes. I am not accusing you of doing it now but don’t even consider it.
As for the profit we will have to wait and see.
PS OIL companies have been pumping co2 into oil wells to extract residual oil for decades now and making a profit.
Thanks for the tip Margaret Smith.
Be very wary of carbon capture. Imagine if a gas fired power station did the following. Eco-Nuts would go eco nuts about it.
The next politician comes along, and is not really impeded by the previous bastard in office. It will go something like: I was lied to by that last guy too. He really messed things up. Here’s what we need to do to get it right this time.
Democrats and Communists have used this method for almost a century and there is no sign another gullible crop of people won’t be available in the future. The left crave being the elite non-working class overseeing the masses of workers, where they in government make all the decisions. For now, that translates to creating more voter dependency on government. Wreck the economy to make more Democrats.
Republicans are mostly spineless and self-serving, but not quite that devious. They just want to keep things stable and predictable for business, no matter how bad it gets for the rest of us. In effect, they don’t really care about Democrat power games despite the rhetoric during election season. I wonder what it would take for Boehner to do anything mildly effective.
Perhaps there is a method to the madness. When Reps nothing, it allows the Dems to hang themselves with their own rope. Too many voters are believers; they need the lies to be true. Unfortunately for them, the great Ponzi scheme can’t go on. The big question is, what will happen after the system goes broke, or breaks? The climate will take care of itself, but we will be in big trouble. We might be better off if the government crash happens sooner rather than later. There is simply no guarantee what kind of country we will be living (or not) in afterwards.
That’s why academic bickering and nit-picking gets a little tiresome for me. The arguments can be an escape to an insulated and relatively orderly world. Does it ever lead to action? Unfortunately, we are facing some very serious consequences of greedy, deceptive, and psychologically disturbed leaders taking us down unnecessary and very dangerous paths.
A deliberately misinformed and uneducated population will not be able to make good decisions. So where does that leave us? Is this how the Republic ends, everyone fighting each other to eat the seed corn? Perhaps our only hope is to take back the schools at all costs. How can we do that? Or, is there an alternative non-government solution using modern technology? Maybe we don’t actually need classrooms and centralized mass-produced phony education-info product. In other words, could we go around the problem rather than try to fight the battle directly?
Climate lies and power games are just a small facet of a much bigger problem.
One major climate change alarmist, former Australian prime minister, Kevin “rising seal levels” Rudd, preached the dangers of rising sea-levels at a time he bought an expensive sea-front property. And he hasn’t been the only climate change charlatan to have done this. Hypocrites!!!!
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Not to start a holy war here but if you’re interested, may I suggest “How We Got the Bible” by Neil R. Lightfoot.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Got-Bible-Neil-Lightfoot/dp/0801072611
More info on Dr. Lightfoot
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/325147.Neil_R_Lightfoot
Dave the Engineer says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:51 pm
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.
I agree Dave, it is a cult. Where I disagree is about the suicides bringing sadness. Anything that takes these liars off the face of the earth is a good thing for humanity. I’ve often stated I wished they would have a “Jim Jones” revelation
Jimbo says: April 18, 2014 at 4:02 pm
You are dealing with a bunch of idiots. …. Even in wealthy Germany some have started stealing wood from the forests due to high energy prices.
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Hey, Jimbo, it is worse than you thought.
On the orders of the Greenie EU idiots, the UK is in the process of converting Drax into a wood-burning stove ! Drax is one of the largest power stations in Europe — 4 gw no less — which will now be burning every single tree in North America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_power_station
Drax power has now become Drax the Destroyer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_the_Destroyer
Enjoy those woodland walks while you can, because we are about to decimate US wildlife ….. 😉
Ralph
P.S. Does the Eu have a white cat, and laugh manically?
http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/10/18/blofeld.jpg
Janice, as usual, you are spot on. I was hoping for more comments about how we don’t need any “funding” for climate research, etc., as that implies govt money given out to people to pursue their agendas with money taken forcibly from all of us.
If private companies/individuals want to fund these efforts in pursuit of their goals, that’s great. And if there’s any real value in that pursuit they most assuredly will do so. But govt as so distorted our economy, and caused huge and destructive misallocation of resources, that it’s hard to know what a true free market would come up with. Wouldn’t it be great to see the advances that would be made without govt’s heavy hand in the mix?
“Like Moses’ warnings to Pharaoh in the Bible” Bad analogy, there’s some archeological evidence that a few of Moses’ warnings were correct and happened.
Stick to “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, it’s a much better analogy especially in the broad sense that climate alarmism is destroying scientific credibility in general which could be a very bad thing in the future.
@ur momisugly Jimbo on April 19, 2014 at 5:48 am re Carbon Capture and reuse by Skyonic.
“If that is what companies want to do then good on them.”
Yes. Free enterprise at work. Profitably, too.
“ But the idea that such puny levels of capture will make any difference to the temperature of the Earth is a cruel joke indeed.”
I know this, and many other skeptics know this, but the profit is there for the taking for those clever enough to build a Skyonic-style plant.
“ Please do not attempt to spread such false hopes. I am not accusing you of doing it now but don’t even consider it.”
That reads like a threat. Won’t work. Go threaten somebody else. And quit being a coward when you make a threat. Use your real name.
Col Mosby:
I hate to see misleading info on WUWT. It tends to reduce the credibility.
“We are also exporting a lot of LNG to other countries, especially China.”
USA exports Zero NG to any nation other than Mexico and Canada. US Exports in 2013 were 1.572 trillion Cu FT and US Imports were 2.883 trillion Cu FT while total US dry production was 24.279 trillion Cu FT. The USA in 2013 was still a net importer of NG.
So what is all this nonsense we here about shipping NG to Europe? We do import a small amount of LNG from a few countries: Trinidad, Nigeria and Norway. See below.
Import data: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_move_impc_s1_m.htm
Export data: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_move_expc_s1_m.htm
At the end of each data line there is a long history for that line.
Mods, I had a comment that was in moderation earlier but is now gone. Was it a spam filter thing or was it snipped? If it was snipped, no need to explain.
I’m not complaining but I am curious.
Mods, now it’s there again but still in moderation.
Nuclear power is not cheap. It is so expensive it can’t be insured against accidents. As we see in Chernobyl and Fukushima any sort of accident that causes a melt down leads to bankrupting a nation trying to cope…often fruitlessly…with the meltdowns.
The damage is immense and lasts for generations. One accident can wipe out entire cities rendering these uninhabitable for immense lengths of time. I can’t imagine a worst way to fuel civilization.
Cutting 40 to 70% of CO2 is impossible without replacing it with another energy source. With this level of cutting there will be massive economic and social disruptions bringing consequences far outstripping the perceived threat. The only way to make it work is to reduce the demand ie. number of humans on Earth. If the eco-activists win we will be looking at a new eco driven totalitarianism. History proved that totalitarianism is fully capable of mass murder to further its ideology, and there is no more noble cause than to save the Earth. Humans as the enemy of life on Earth is the leading motive in eco narrative. Some of them talk about shutting down skeptics and locking them up in jail just as a good start.. As far fetched as it sounds, as long as people are fed catastrophic visions of the future they may bring political forces promising decisive action to power.
That’s how Hitler did it. Once this gene is out of the bottle we will face the real collapse of the civilization.
clearsky says:
April 19, 2014 at 8:23 am
“As far fetched as it sounds, as long as people are fed catastrophic visions of the future they may bring political forces promising decisive action to power.
That’s how Hitler did it. ”
No; he didn’t have to; the present at the time under the Versailles treaty was catastrophic enough.
emsnews says:
April 19, 2014 at 8:19 am
“Nuclear power is not cheap. It is so expensive it can’t be insured against accidents. As we see in Chernobyl and Fukushima any sort of accident that causes a melt down leads to bankrupting a nation trying to cope…often fruitlessly…with the meltdowns.”
What bankrupts Japan is their demographic decline and Keynesian economics; not Fukushima. 20 km from the reactor the radiation level is 3 times the normal background radiation. Nothing catastrophic.