A dear friend sent me a note the other day that I thought was prescient, as it relates to the alarmism side of climate, where we see fear stories being propagated by the media on an almost daily basis. Many of the fears spread by climate alarmism pander to the base emotions of people.
So with permission, I repeat it here.
Fears are all subject to the climate, just sometimes it’s an emotional climate.
– A friend who remains anonymous
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“There is nothing to fear but our emotions…. and the boogeymen they invent”
Steve Oregon circa 2014
When people fear their government, people live under the tyranny of Democracy.
When governments fear the people, people live in freedom protected by a limited-government Republic.
CAGW is simply one manifestation of the democratization of “science”.
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling …
but I hope, not yet for me! (sorry, can’t hit that high note) 🙂
the word ‘catastrophe’ doesnt bear a meaning good / bad.
just says ‘starting something new’.
Wikipedia has an article on:
Catastrophe
Wikipedia
Alternative forms
catastrophë (now rare)
catastrophy
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καταστροφή
(katastrophḗ), from καταστρέφω
(katastréphō, “I overturn”), from
κατά (katá, “down, against”) +
στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”)
igniting the car’s engine awakes a series of controlled combustions – the motor is running.
switching the light on is done by changing the mode of an electrical contact.
and breathing is a series of controlled catastrophes:
chemical reactions, gaining energie by combustions producing CO2.
brg Hans
dbstealey,
The IPCC was formed in 1988. Those last two letters stand for Climate Change.
While it is true that as Global Warming stuttered in the metrics, it became easier to fall back on the more scientifically neutral term, but to say it was fabricated Post hoc is a stretch, and not a good place to stake your position.
Hi Charles,
Well, you’re right as usual. The point [probably badly] made was that the term keeps shifting with the alarmist crowd, as the planet refuses to cooperate with their carbon scare.
Here is the function of the IPCC according to Wikipedia:
“The IPCC produces reports that support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), which is the main international treaty on climate change”. (so a convention has morphed into a treaty, let’s not go there)
As has been stated here before, if the function is to support a certain theory then that is all we will ever get.
Of course that last C in IPCC can stand for lots of things, regardless of what the official version is.
Catastrophe, Cacophony, Conundrum, Codswollop ( apparently not a real word, but meaning nonsense in some parts of this globe), Chicanery and so the list can go on.
Now the P however can be more interesting, officially (in IPCC) it stands for Panel, however in some countries P is synonym for a hallucinating drug with disastrous and very aggressive side effects. (Both product and side effects Man Made, of course). In other countries P stands for Pot or as in some others Wackybacky.
Pot is also called Cannabis which brings us back to the C.
Next week we fly off to Hawaii to enjoy some more warmth before the eventual cooling of winter must be faced, while I thumb my nose in the general direction of the voluntary donation pot for purchasing carbon offsets.
How about a serenity prayer for Notorious Alarmists Group (NAG) or similar?
‘Gaia, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.’
On fears and hauntings
The Amityville, the most famous haunted house, is a fake. The buyer of the house couldn’t pay his mortgage so he made up a horror story and earned royalties on the bestselling book. The hoax is not surprising. That people readily believed it is. Our beliefs are colored by our primal fears, religion and culture. A ghost would never occur to a Martian because it is so absurd. Like claiming a dead cat ate your pet fish. That many people have strange experiences doesn’t prove ghosts despite their belief.
I too have strange experiences such as light switch turning on by itself and loud banging noises in my room. I’m not impressed. The feats are not enough to win the Randi Prize. With so many purported haunted houses, there should be Randi Prize winners everyday. The prize remains unclaimed. Either the ghosts are afraid of James Randi or they are a figment of our imagination. Witches on broomsticks are so lame so we have come up with the Amityville horror and the Exorcist.
Happy Halloween!
P.S. Many exorcists vied for the Randi Prize. But according to Randi, loud screaming and projectile vomiting are not paranormal. None of the candidates could turn his/her head 360 degrees. Randi would have accepted that as paranormal.
Dr. Strangelove
November 1, 2014 at 2:11 am
“I too have strange experiences such as light switch turning on by itself and loud banging noises in my room.”
I had those loud banging noises as well, at the time I thought, boy, that sounds like a capacitor blowing. After a few months and more loud banging, the screen began to show a moiré pattern of pink dots while watching a youtube video, and I thought, that’s a funny Flash virus, it even manages to produce pink dots outside the flash video window. I restarted the computer in safe mode and virus checked and the dots started reappearing; so I switched it off and checked the NVidia graphics card. In fact, 5 capacitors had blown.
I have a simple question for anyone that expresses a belief with unrestrained fervor.
“Why do you want to believe what you want to believe?”
This question is impossible for emotional beliefs and easy for scientific beliefs.
Climatism certainly peddles fear, particularly when a nice, scary storm like Sandy comes along, and with Warmist mouthpieces like Borenstein bleating about “hottest year ever”, but the real action lies with their use of guilt on the one hand and the promise of salvation on the other as long as you Believe, and act on that belief.
If I hear climate scientists warning me of catastrophe, I can rest assured that their predicted disaster won’t happen. Their record of successful predictions is so dismal that I think we should use the number of successfully predicted climate catastrophes as the new definition of absolute zero. Their attempts to instill fear instead brings me peace of mind.