For those who don’t know: Godwins law Via the GWPF and the department of “global warming causes everything” comes this blast from the past. It sounds just about as ridiculous as some of the claims being made today trying to link the Syrian war to climate change.
“Increasing warmer temperatures may produce a trend toward dictatorial governments”
Increasing warmer temperatures throughout the world may produce a trend toward dictatorial governments in the opinion of Dr Clarence A Mills, professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati. In fact, Dr Mills believes that the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy may be due in part to the gradual warming temperature of the world. —The Mason City Globe-Gazette, 27 March 1941
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“People are more docile and easily lead in warm weather than in cold, Dr. Mills insists.”
No, but when people or nations become prosperous, their neighbors want to invade them and take over their land..
Academics are always saying the darndest things. Your history books are full of extremely bad reasoning. I once read that the Etruscans were invaded by the Romans because of “overpopulation.” Rapine and supremacy more like.
“People are more docile and easily lead in warm weather than in cold, Dr. Mills insists.”
Anything not to notice that Germany had caused two world wars as it attempted to take over Europe twice, under the second and third Rei chs.
“Godwin’s Law” is inconsequential nonsense. It’s no different from “Jorge’s Law,” which states that if you stand at Hollywood and Vine for long, you’ll see a sports car pass by. These laws illustrate only the usefulness in their respective realms of both sports cars and the Hitler analogy, not any inherent, universal error in either.
We need to act now according to the precautionary principle.
To defeat the great danger of Jewish Bolshevism and Jewish international capitalism.
Who would not be alarmed by this.
Only the most stalwart skeptic.
This is the greatest challenge of the era.
Let’s willingly cooperate with the great project of our age, in order to save ourselves from whatever phantasm our great leaders construct in order to frighten us into compliance.
Let’s just keep falling for the same hoax in a variety of different and often implausible disguises.
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Should advocates of the precautionary principle be flying at all? To Paris of all places?
Further, what if Chicken Little really is right, and the sky really is falling? Maybe we should begin immediately spending “trillions, destroying economies and ultimately killing people to prevent that from happening. Because that (the sky falling) would be terrible.
Their behaviour reveals their true motives.
Judge them by their actions and not by their words. Since words are cheap.
Although I do not think that Christiana Figueres and the like should be teleconferencing, either.
They have no insights, no expertise and nothing of any use to contribute to this topic at all.
The Precautionary Principle isn’t a time-honored something dating from Plato or Aristotle.
Do a Google Ngram check on “global warming, precautionary principle”
Somewhat better correlated than CO2 and temperature.
I think the boffins in the UN hope this proposition is true. They want warmer temperatures so we all become so placidly docile that we will all let them take full control.
I think this proves that the thermostat is set too high in the UN buildings so they are all developing megalomania and want to rule the world HAHAHAHA
Or it could be another case of we know best syndrome.
James Bull
I think you can make the opposite argument that the end of the Western Roman Empire was caused by cooling temps. When temps begn to fall at the end of the Roman Warm Period in the early 5th Century, the Goths and other Germanic tribes were pressured to cross the Rhine and enter Roman territory (although the Romans briefly occupied territory as far as the Elbe) by the Huns & other groups seeking warmer temps causing the collapse of the already internally weakened western empire. If it had remained warm, there would have been no migratory pressure on the Goths,Vandals, VisiGoths, etc an the western Roman Empire would have tottered along for a few hundred more years.
Of course December, 1944 in and around Belgium was not so warm-
ask my late Father In law….
Witness the scoff-bot swarm. Deniers emerging from the Bog of Eternal Stench are complicit in hundreds of thousands of deaths/year 88% of them children. (WHO)
jfreed27,
You asserted that “hundreds of thousands” of deaths are the result of “climate change”. Where do you get such nonsense?
Prove to us you’re not a credulous fool: name just 10% of those who have died as a result of human-caused climate change.
On second thought, I’ll make it real easy for you: name just one-tenth of one percent of those killed by ‘AGW/climate change’. That’s only ten names.
You made the claim, now back it up. Show us you’re not a [climate propagandist] whose mind has been colonized by the ridiculous “climate change” hoax.
The truth is that more CO2 has saved millions from starvation: agricultural productivity is measurably rising in lock-step along with the increase in harmless, beneficial CO2.
But you and your ilk would put a stop to that, condemning the one-third of humanity that subsists on less than $2 a day to malnutrition and starvation. Really, could your side be any more despicable?
Since “jfreed27” has not responded, I’ll make it even easier for him: I challenge him to post the name of even one person who has been killed by “climate change”.
I’d classify jfreed as an attempt to change topic in a trollish way. It’s not proper behaviour to call troll a credulous fool. Just ignore.
Hugs,
Yep. Two days later, and jfreed27 is still nowhere to be seen…
One more for the list:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
The classic work, “The Spirit of Laws” by Charles de Montesquieu published in 1748 has some interesting chapters on the effect of climate on political systems. So the theory is quite old that different climates bring different acting people and different governments. In this particular work the conclusions are biased a bit by 18th century European prejudices. eBook is free on most of the distribution sources.
This article is much akin to the warming described in the 1922 Norwegian Monthly Weather Review found in this 2008 WUWT story below:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/16/you-ask-i-provide-november-2nd-1922-arctic-ocean-getting-warm-seals-vanish-and-icebergs-melt/
All of these causal claims for political decisions are rubbish. What can be said with great confidence, however, is that the exceptionally cold European winters in 1941-1944 doomed Hitler’s campaign in Russia. BTW, Napoleon didn’t anticipate the Russian winter much better in 1812.
If Hitler emerged today, he probably would have one a Nobel peace prize for finding a renewable fuel source to run furnaces.
Chamberlain would definitely get the prize. And probably Stalin for making peace with Germany.
Hugh, buddy, don’t go there, please.
Too dark for some.
Listening to these environmentalist schemes, I think a little gallows humor is appropriate.
Oh yea, needed a trigger warning.
“The following comment includes explicit references to WWII events in Gernany. Don’t read if you are easily offended.”
“We must continue THE BIG LIE, we’ll now say we’re 95% sure …”
https://youtu.be/4kib9asbp6s