Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the Huffington Post author and historian Evaggelos Vallianatos, climate wisdom ended when the rise of technology displaced Renaissance appreciation of the Greek Gods.
Global Warming Is a Slow-moving Civilization-ending Catastrophe
12/26/2017 02:38 pm ET
Evaggelos Vallianatos, Contributor
Historian and environmental strategist
Ancient Greeks worshipped the Earth. In the fourth century BCE, Plato’s cosmological dialogue, Timaeus, left us a picture of a mathematical, rational, and beautiful cosmos, including a spherical Earth, “the maker of day and night and the first and oldest of the gods.”
However, eight hundred years after Plato, the world changed dramatically. With the support of Roman emperors, Christianity triumphed over the many gods of the Greeks. It denounced Plato and nearly destroyed Greek civilization.
After nearly a millennium of darkness, Europeans put a break on Christianity, which gave birth to the Renaissance. This meant scholars rediscovered Plato’s vision of the heavens and Greek learning.
The Renaissance brought our modern world. Unfortunately, modernity sidelined Greek wisdom for narrow technical achievements like burning fossil fuels (petroleum, coal and natural gas) for energy. In fact, in the twentieth century, “civilized” Europeans and Americans fought WWII with unimagined savagery that culminated in the development and use of nuclear weapons.
The savage thinking that legitimized nukes also legitimizes the burning of fossil fuels. In both cases, human hubris triumphed.
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The federal government is now hiding the risks of global warming. Indeed, it is resurrecting the “1984” terror world of George Orwell. The Trump administration “sees burning more fossil fuels as the path to global energy dominance.” This kind of thinking and policy defies reason and national security. It delays actions against fossil fuels. It fails promoting life-saving conversion to solar power and other technologies that might minimize the violence of global warming.
How are Americans reacting to this macabre reality? Unfortunately, not as they should. After all, they elected Trump. Fact has been drowned by the fiction of the Trump administration, the industry and its media. But not everything is lost.
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Why are they not leaving fossil fuels in the ground? Don’t they love their grandchildren?
The Renaissance was in many ways a flowering of Western civilisation, but it was also an age of early death, near constant warfare, slavery, disease and brutish poverty. A good time to live if you were a member of the elite, with the idle wealth and leisure time to explore the wonder and beauty of newly rediscovered Greek culture – at least until you got sick. Not so good if you were one of the far more numerous menials or slaves, who mostly lived their short miserable lives hoping for a painless death.
A transition time, so much better than what came before, but so much worse than what most of us have now.
This romantic worship of pre-technological “goodness”, an imaginary golden age before we spoiled the Earth with progress, in my opinion is endemic in the green movement. Many of them would roll back progress and modernity if they could.
In my experience, the people who imagine returning to an idyllic peasant lifestyle living off the bounty of the Earth are mostly people who haven’t tried it for themselves.
Growing a few weeds in the back yard is not the same as trying to feed your hungry family from a small patch of farm, without the benefits of modern farm equipment, fertiliser and pesticides. Working the land with hand tools on any kind of scale is hard work, a constant back breaking contest against weather, weeds and pests. Fall sick a few weeks, injure yourself, or simply suffer a little bad luck, and all your hard work is for nothing.
Update (EW): Clyde points out that providing people survived infant mortality, military service or the dangers of giving birth, people in the Renaissance lived to a similar age to today.
Without fossil fuels, we’d have all frozen to death and had no grandchildren to love.
This why I never click on Huffpost.
The common observation about these virtue signaling folks is that by and large they are hypocrites. They want to roll back modern progress and civilization but in no way want to start with themselves. Underline this for the big living Hollywood style elites.
If they had their way, they’d need totalitarian governments to accomplish their form of eco-tyranny. Or the blind to facts collusion of a willing media to sway opinion to their own mutual doom.
As I drove to work this morning it was 9 below zero (F). I was quite thankful for our cost efficient, just pump it from the ground, fossil fuels. I was driving a volt and while in electric mode it runs the gas engine to heat the car. It’s its own hypocrite 🙂
No mention of the destruction wreaked by Islamic imperialism on the Hellenic civilisations of the Mediatorranean and Mideast. Huge hole there.
True enough. Like all civilizations, they had their times when they beat their swords into plowshares and their times when they beat their plowshares into swords.
The Renaissance like the Greek times prior where when those with the time and money could afford to think and experiment. The others were doing the work to keep the system running or just survive.
Like then the elite now don’t understand or have any idea of the support structure that exists to keep them warm, clean and fed.
James Bull
“Update (EW): Clyde points out that providing people survived infant mortality, military service or the dangers of giving birth, people in the Renaissance lived to a similar age to today”.
Errr, yes…but given the child mortality rate [ up to 15yrs] in Elizabethan England was around 30%
and 20% of women who made it past 15 died during, or from complications of, childbirth life was still a bit more risky than in current western cultures.
And then there was the problem of avoiding smallpox, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, syphilis, tetanus and the numerous minor infections that can [now] easily be sorted with antibiotics
Yes, a low dig at us couch potatoes from Clyde. I suspect that any Renaissance asceticism was making a virtue of necessity. Shakespeare gives a couple of clues in Caesar’s distrust of Cassius’ “lean and hungry look” and the fifth age of man “In fair round belly with good capon lined”.
Plenty of renaissance men around these parts of course!
You’re quite right. In fact the life expectancy was little different in the 16th century than it was in the 13th. There were many variations but the two principal ones were better diet, a result of the mass slaughter of the 14th century Black Death (more food for a smaller population) balanced against the poorer urban sanitation caused by the Church’s condemnation and closure of public bathhouses in the 14th-15th century. There are many other factors such as the post-Black Death general breakdown of government and collapse of urban infrastructure such as sewage and water systems. By comparison with earlier centuries, the 16th century was an age of personal filth.
It should also be noted that the bubonic plague came into Europe in 1347, and became ENDEMIC. It cropped up every 30-50 years or so, with the last large outbreak being in 1710. The only public health measure that controlled it was ruthless quarantine, possible only after governments had enough power and capability to enforce such measures.
As Orson Wells said in the film “The Third Man”, something like : ” In Italy they had 300 years of war, revolution and dictatorship and they produced the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had 300 years of brotherly love and produced the cuckoo clock” , Not an exact quote perhaps but you get the gist.
Switzerland also produced the Swiss Pikemen, the most efficient military machine in the World which broke the power of the medieval knights and was used by those italian renaissance rulers to win their wars.
It was the gun that broke the power of the medieval knights.
Wrong, Mark. The Duchy of Burgundy had both guns and knights, and yet in the 1470s he went crashing down to defeat repeatedly at the hands of Swiss militia armed with pikes. tty is quite right in what he states.
Heavy armoured cavalry had already been made obsolete by the English in the Hundred Years War. The Swiss pike simply finished it off long before gunpowder became effective. It was gunpowder that ended the dominance of the Swiss pike.
“After all it’s not that awful. You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Harry Lime trying to justify the deaths of children from fake penicillin. Not good morally or even historically since the cuckoo clock originated in southern Germany. An excellent film nonetheless.
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6494.full.print
Not only do sceptics love their grandchildren they also love their fellow human beings in third world countries who the AGW movement is trying to deny the use of cheap energy . There is only one side of this argument which has true compassion for future generations and all humans.
I think that the people writing these articles have lived very urban lives and have never worked on the land. .I was born in New Zealand in a country area during WW2 and brought up on a small hill farm with 4 siblings .Draught horses were the motive power for farm work and manpower did the rest .
I have cut hedges with a slasher dug drains with a shovel .spread fertilizer and grass seed by hand .
Dug post holes and placed and rammed posts and ran out the wire and erected the fences all by hand .
I can remember my farther sawing trees down and helping him on the end of a crosscut saw at age 6 to 10 years..They then cut them into post lengths and then drilled holes into the lengths to fill with blasting powder to blow them apart and then axes were used to shape the posts and the same process was used to produce fence battens to staple on the wires to keep sheep from pushing through the wires..
A large garden and orchard was part of life and there was little time for recreation .
I remember a city relation asking” what do you do in your spare time ” and the answer was” I sleep ”
It sounds Idyllic to grow your own food and live off the land but the only way to make ends meet was to milk a small herd of cows so that there was a monthly cheque to cover all the expenses between when the wool and lambs were sold ..The cows calved in August and dried off in May so that for 10 months the cows had to be milked night and morning No days off .
We did have milking machines and a separator that skimmed off the cream that was picked up at the end of the road in cream cans to be transported to the butter factory
The first milking machine in the world was invented by a New Zealand’er who sold the patent to Alpa Laval .
The difference now is amazing with tractors and machinery and a lot of computerized components that have lifted the output and productivity and cut down the long hours worked that was accepted as normal in the past .
And my grandchildren help on the farm and my oldest grand daughter is enrolled at Lincoln University to study Agriculture in 2018.
The original piece fails to understand that it was fossil fuels that ended slavery – we enslaved oil and coal instead.
The world needs a certain amound of work to be done, to make life tolerable. You can either get slaves to do that work, or machines powered by fossil fuels (or more latterly, nuclear). Each barrel of oil contains 10,000 man-hours of labour – or the work of one slave for 3 years.
It is fossil fuels that gave us the benign civilised world of today, that can afford to look after nearly all of its citizens.
R
Why do we learn nothing from history, we keep doing the same things but expect different outcomes
It’s who we are.
The talk is about history but there is no mention of the effect of climate changes in the past. Around 2,200 in a period of cooling the Old Kingdom of Egypt fell and the Harrappan Civilization of the Indus Valley disappeared in a long period of drought. Around 1200BC, 5 of the 6 advanced civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea collapsed during another episode of cooling and increased tectonic activity. The sharp cooling of 536 BC was the final death knell of the Roman empire with major depopulation of the known world of that time. The wars, famines and plaques of the Little Ice Age are well documented with episodes of over 50% death rates. Fossil fuels have certainly helped give us an amazing civilization, but do you really believe that they can sustain our massive, already stressed population when huge areas of our grain growing area come out of production from cold, drought or incessant rain as they did in the past?
“The sharp cooling of 536 BC was the final death knell of the Roman empire”
Make that AD.
wonders what happens to all the cherries that get picked – do they get eaten.
So.
Fossil fuel ended slavery. Fine
But recently we heard here somewhere that there is 200 years of coal ‘somewhere’ for ‘present rate of usage.
Hence, running out of coal is not gonna be *my* problem
But equally we hear that maybe half the world’s population needs energy to escape poverty.
Does that not mean there is then 100 years of coal?
Also that world population is gonna rise by maybe 50%
Am I right in saying that gives us 66 years of coal?
So, many fewer women died in childbirth. Seems nice.
I’d suggest, as did a history program on the telly recently, that that is/was mostly due to antiseptics and antibiotics. Giving birth is a fairly major ‘wound’ (for lack of a better word) so that’s exactly where antibiotics score.
So lets hear it – the most recent advance in antibiotics was when?
40 years ago by accounts
Fewer children die before age= 5
Being really really mercenary here, is this not Ma Nature thinning out the non-viables?
By example: I’ve been mid-wife to hundreds of bovine births.
Occasionally, the new mother. instead of doing all the usual motherly things, just gets up and walks away and despite all my best efforts, refuses to accept her new baby. So I take the place of mother, feeding it colostrum and milk. Yet within 10 days, that calf will be dead despite all my best efforts and those of a veterinary.
What did that mother cow ‘know’?
She was actually doing her new baby the best it could and speeding it to a rapid death before it even knew it was alive. Spooky innit.
Similarly, human monogamy.
Get real people. Its a device to force people to be ‘settled’ so that taxes can be collected.
YMMV on that but it is having the effect of reducing diversity.
So again, fewer children are being born, they’re all being kept alive and getting into the gene pool.
It is the very fact that ‘Caveman’ took a new wife every 6 or 7 years. Its why babies *always* resemble their mothers until age= 5 or 6. When they get older, the supposed father realises he’s been bringing up someone else’s children and leaves.
Nowadays the girls, not least as they are genetically programmed to seek diversity. Their sense of smell is in overdrive on first dates, they are sniffing out an immune system as far and away different from their own as can possibly be.
Of course, Coco Chanel et al have corrupted that one.
But after a while (7 year itch anyone) they realise the incompatibility and leave.
So. Roll all these things together and we’ve entirely stalled our own evolution while, via antibiotic resistance, vastly accelerated the evolution of our competitors.
Still looking rosy? (Remember, only 66 years of coal to keep us warm)
Right then.
What’s “Low Density Lipoprotein” all about?
Have you got it? Has someone you know got it? Maybe more accurately, has anyone you know NOT got it?
What is it if not your own liver struggling to make fat ‘water soluble’ (Cholesterol)
And it does by bolting protein molecules onto fat molecules.
Given lots of the right sort of protein and limited fat, it will make High Density Lipoprotein = very water soluble.
Given lots of fat and limited amounts of the right sort of protein, it will make Low Density Lala = not so very water soluble. Guess what happens next.
Sometimes the liver hangs onto the fat in the hope some protein will come along – Non-Alcoholic-Fatty-Liver-Syndrome anyone?
We are starved of the right sort of protein.
Do you have a sibling that is 4 years (or less) younger than you?
Bad news.
By that simple definition, you have Kwashiorkor.
Your brain is not fully properly developed.
Hence: You have poor memory. Poor reasoning skills. Low intelligence. Are easily irritated.
Oh no I haven’t goes up the cry!
I went to school. I passed exams. I do ‘clever stuff’. Everyone has always said how bright I am.
Yeah right.
Compared to what.
What if *everyone* has Kwashiorkor?
How would you know? If everyone at a party, self included, is drunk or stoned, how does anyone inside that party know that?
Until one of the party tries to drive a car home? Or a train? Or lead a a civilisation?
Now getting scary innit?
Lets just choose one example of bad civilisational leadership?
Climate Change Science perhaps?
Back to the younger siblings. If you have one less than 4 years younger than you, YOU were The Deposed Baby. You were yanked off your mother’s breast, by definition before you were (ideally) 30 months old. The time when your brain is being constructed. You have Kwashiorkor.
Ah you say, I was bottle-fed on the very best that modern science can provide.
Yes you were because breast feeding is THE original and best contraceptive for most mammals. But especially us
Fine. So you were bottle fed.
But we all know what goes on inside babies’ nappies do we not not?
We all have a sense of smell.
So why are bottle fed babies nappies invariably full of The Most Appalling Stink that there ever was?
Breast fed babies produce next to nothing and it does not smell.
That sense of smell is there for a reason.
If something smells bad, It Is Bad. End
Yet, is it Kwashiorkor at work when we believe what we’re told by doctors, scientists & bureaucrats when it comes to doing something that is patently wrong.
Why are these folks telling us to do something that is so bad?
Because they are ‘The Elite’ are they not? They depend on tax revenue to exist/live.
Hence they want/need lots of taxpayers and now look what they’ve got – Working Mothers.
Young women who are deliberating, encouraged by Government, deposing their own babies so they can go out and earn money. Which in the UK, 70% of which is taken, by mandate, by Government.
To do what. Plant windmills? Buy supercomputers?
recently the EU got itself concerned about the numbers of people who died before they got to ‘retirement age’
Very lovely you think. They’re concerned about us. Maybe build a few hospitals or something.
No. Some did some digging and the faceless ones inside Brussels were actually concerned about the loss of Tax Revenue brought about when people of ‘working age’ die.
And you thought they cared………………….
I wouldn’t know where to start on answering your comment…..
“It is the very fact that ‘Caveman’ took a new wife every 6 or 7 years.”
Would you care to support this claim?
deliberating = should be ‘deliberately’ or ‘on purpose’
Have I got Kwashior? Maybe.
But young brother was 6 years my junior and I was reared on raw cow’s milk and rabbit.
Haven’t got LDL neither so looking good. ish
My mother did though. One of 5 sisters born inside 6 years.
My father’s best man did actually suggest to him, “Don’t marry into that family, something’s ‘wrong’ in there”
As events have unfolded over that last the 50 years that I’ve been aware, my father should have heeded that advice.
Quite the optimist, ain’tcha?
I made this comment elsewhere-reacting to green concern for children, but it may fit:
When I moved into my current environmentalist’s nightmare home, I was in my twenties.
The smokestacks of the local and visible coal burning power plant did leave us soot on north wind mornings,
but power was plentiful and cheap. Manatee shrived in the outflow. Fisheries renewed themselves in the mangroves in the backyard estuary, and birds nested in our garden. Thankfully, we live in a region of modest regulation and some common sense.
In my seventies, I still look upon the stacks, now water vapor stacks. The north wind cools, but there are no other consequences.
Power is still plentiful and cheap, the coal comes from a dedicated mine via a unit train that makes the journey twice a week, pulled by “hybrid” diesel-electric locomotives that have made commercial sense since the end of the age of steam. There are more fish and the water is cleaner, as cities have finally treated their sewage rather than dumping it, 25 years after requiring the same of everyone else.
There are more birds and some of their spaces are protected….we voted on that. Manatee still thrive in the heat from the power plant — there are more of them too. The regulators forced the utility to build a solar plant, thankfully this multimillion dollar virtue signal is adjacent to the coal plant without replacing it, raising rates a bit without hurting dispatch.
We still live in a region of comparatively low regulation, small government, and some common sense.
As a result of our fiscal and environmental successes, the federal folks call us stupid rednecks, dumb crackers, and yes, deplorables.
If you have a PhD AND a southern accent, you’re still stupid, ya know.
By the way, our state and city pension funds are fully funded, and bonded debt is a small fraction of cash flow. Stipulation: we do tax the heck out of the tourists, but they come anyway. Its warm. WARM. People Like WARM. Plants like WARM. And CO2.
Life’s lessons are hard for authoritarians; why are those who complain about our “undereducated, future-constrained” children worried about their dying ones?
Still speeding on the Road to Serfdom, I guess.
I suspect the historian is conflating the Renaissance with the Enlightenment.
“After nearly a millennium of darkness, Europeans put a break on Christianity, which gave birth to the Renaissance. This meant scholars rediscovered Plato’s vision of the heavens and Greek learning.”
One must hold an advance degree to write such nonsense. First of all, the Early Church didn’t destroy Greek Culture. By the time Christianity was being preached in Greece and Turkey, the civilization of Plato and Socrates was long gone. Rome ruled most of Europe, and its legions occupied most of Greece, Romania and were pushing towards Armenia. Before the Romans conquered the Balkans and Greece, most of the Mediterranean was Hellenized, this included Judea. Saint Paul himself was highly educated, and by all accounts studied Greek and was exposed to Greek philosophy. When he evangelized the Greeks, he did it from Mars Hill and used the language of Greek philosophy in order to break through several barriers.
Later, Saint Augustine, a Roman pagan, who was very well versed in both various Roman and Greek philosophies, was heavily influenced by Greek Antiquity, and his writing’s today are considered masterpieces. It was the fall of the Roman Empire that caused Greek and Roman Antiquity to be erased from the public consciousness. Six hundred years later, Saint Thomas Aquinas rediscovered Aristotle. He used the logic and influence of Aristotle to systematize Catholic thought and theology. Thomas’s rediscovery relight intellectual and artistic efforts in Europe. The great centers of learning during the High Middle Ages are indebted to him. As are concepts of the Dignity of Man, the application of logic in the pursuit of Truth, etc…
Quite right, JP. My only quibble is that it was erased in the Western Empire only, not the Eastern. In the Eastern Empire it was erased more slowly and incompletely over time primarily by religious quarrels and the burning of libraries by fanatic sects within the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Great Library in Alexandria was purged by various bishops at least four times before 700 AD. So what we were left with was a highly incomplete bibliography of what the Greeks and Romans actually wrote.
Climate change believers do not love their children or grandchildren. Their actions tell us that. They love only themselves. No wonder they project that lack of concern on others. It makes them look selfish and evil, not kind and caring.
Europeans put a break on Christianity, which gave birth to the Renaissance.” Incredible ignorance. It was not Europeans but refugees from the fall if Constantinople who instigated the Renaissance. And the “narrow technical achievement” of burning fossil fuels is not the reason why Evaggelos Vallianatos is able to print his extravagant fantasies. What makes him possible is a scientifically ignorant management who still believes in the magical power of fossil fuels to heat up the world. It says something about the quality of education in high places.
I am befuddled that such an obvious bias and agenda can be passed off as history. Evaggelos Vallianatos seems a true believer of the most dogmatic sort.
I’ve never seen a word written in the Huffington Post that, in a sane world, would not be the very definition of ‘hate speech’.
They just have a stereotyped scapegoat that they tell all their marching brooms is OKAY to hate.
Gosh – where have I seen that sort of thing before?
The grandchildren? I don’t have any but at least one of my brother’s grandsons has a nice big diesel burning pickup truck and is quite happy about it, the grandson is happy that is.
Uhhh…the ancient Greeks and Egyptians and Chinese and Nordics and Aztecs and etc, etc, etc, worshiped a lot of “gods”. Some today “worship” their own brains and egos and self-righteousness.. “Romans 1:25 who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
PS If I’m not mistaken, these so pure “Ancient Greeks worshipped the Earth” AND:
Achelous
The patron god of the “silver-swirling” Achelous River.
Aeolus
Greek god of the winds and air
Aether
Primordial god of the upper air, light, the atmosphere, space and heaven.
Alastor
God of family feuds and avenger of evil deeds.
APOLLO
Olympian god of music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge.
ARES
God of war. Represented the physical, violent and untamed aspect of war.
Aristaeus
Minor patron god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping, and fruit trees. Son of Apollo.
Asclepius
God of medicine, health, healing, rejuvenation and physicians.
ATLAS
The Primordial Titan of Astronomy. Condemned by Zeus to carry the world on his back after the Titans lost the war.
Attis
A minor god of vegetation, fruits of the earth and rebirth.
Boreas
A wind god (Anemoi) and Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. Referred to as “The North Wind”.
Caerus
Minor god of opportunity, luck and favorable moments.
Castor
One of the twins, Castor and Pollux, known as Dioskouri. Zeus transformed them into the constellation Gemini
Cerus
The large and powerful wild bull tamed by Persephone and turned into the Taurus constellation.
CHAOS
The nothingness that all else sprung from. A god who filled the gap between Heaven and Earth and created the first beings Gaia, Tartarus, Uranus, Nyx and Erebos.
Charon
The Ferryman of Hades. Took the newly dead people across the rivers Styx and Acheron to the Greek underworld if they paid him three obolus (a Greek silver coin).
Cronos
The god of time. Not to be confused with Cronus, the Titan father of Zeus.
Crios
The Titan god of the heavenly constellations and the measure of the year..
CRONUS
God of agriculture, leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans and father of the Titans. Not to be confused with Cronos, god of time.
Dinlas
Guardian god of the ancient city Lamark, where wounded heroes could find comfort and heal after battle. He was the son of Aphrodite.
DIONYSUS
An Olympian god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre.
Erebus
Primordial god of darkness.
EROS
God of sexual desire, attraction, love and procreation.
Eurus
One of the wind god known as Anemoi and god of the unlucky east wind. Referred to as “The East Wind”.
Glaucus
A fisherman who became immortal upon eating a magical herb, an Argonaut who may have built and piloted the Argo, and became a god of the sea.
HADES
God of the Dead and Riches and King of the Underworld.
HELIOS
God of the Sun and also known as Sol.
HEPHAESTUS
God of fire, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture. Created weapons for the gods and married to Aphrodite.
HERACLES
The greatest of the Greek heroes, he became god of heroes, sports, athletes, health, agriculture, fertility, trade, oracles and divine protector of mankind. Known as the strongest man on Earth.
HERMES
God of trade, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and border crossings, guide to the Underworld and messenger of the gods.
Hesperus
The Evening Star – the planet VENUS in the evening.
Hymenaios
God of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song.
Hypnos
The Greek god of sleep.
Kratos
God of strength and power.
Momus
God of satire, mockery, censure, writers and poets and a spirit of evil-spirited blame and unfair criticism.
Morpheus
God of dreams and sleep – has the ability to take any human form and appear in dreams.
Nereus
The Titan god of the sea before Poseidon and father of the Nereids (nymphs of the sea).
Notus
Another Anemoi (wind god) and Greek god of the south wind. Known as “The South Wind”.
Oceanus
Titan god of the ocean. Believed to be the personification of the World Ocean, an enormous river encircling the world.
Pallas
The Titan god of warcraft and of the springtime campaign season.
PAN
God of nature, the wild, shepherds, flocks, goats, mountain wilds, and is often associated with sexuality. Also a satyr (half man, half-goat).
Phosphorus
The Morning Star – THE PLANET VENUS as it appears in the morning.
Plutus
The Greek god of wealth.
Pollux
Twin brother of Castor, together known as the Dioskouri, that were transformed into the constellation Gemini.
Pontus
ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god of the deep sea, one of the Greek primordial deities and son of Gaia.
POSEIDON
Olympian Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses.
Priapus
Minor rustic fertility god, protector of flocks, fruit plants, bees and gardens and known for having an enormous penis.
Pricus
The immortal father of sea-goats, made into the Capricorn constellation.
PROMETHEUS
Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task of moulding mankind out of clay.
Proteus
Early sea-god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water referred to by Homer as the “Old Man of the Sea”.
Tartarus
The god of the deep abyss, a great pit in the depths of the underworld, and father of Typhon.
Thanatos
A minor god and the god of death.
TRITON
Messenger of the sea and the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
TYPHON
The deadliest MONSTER in Greek mythology and “Father of All Monsters”. Last son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus and god of monsters, storms, and volcanoes. He challenged Zeus for control of Mount Olympus.
URANUS
Primordial god of the sky and heavens, and father of the Titans.
Zelus
The god of dedication, emulation, eager rivalry, envy, jealousy, and zeal.
Zephyrus
A wind god (Anemoi). God of the west wind and known as “The West Wind”.
ZEUS
God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice, King of the Gods and the “Father of Gods and men”.
(I guess didn’t know about about “Alobamamannhansius” or they would dumped all the rest!)
“Don’t they Love Their Grandchildren?” Yes I love my 8 grandchildren very much and that is why I oppose wasting money on a problem that does not exist. And we are talking big bucks not just a few million here and there. We are spending money we don’t have for a problem that exists because majorly flawed computer models say will exist a 100 years from now.
Most or those who are promoting “CAGW” are looking for Profit, either their personal gain or an ideological gain. If the former care about their own grandchildren, it’s to leave them cash. If the later care about their own grandchildren, it’s to leave them power and control.
But I doubt they really care much about much beyond themselves.
“Unfortunately, modernity sidelined Greek wisdom for narrow technical achievements like burning fossil fuels (petroleum, coal and natural gas) for energy…”
Narrow technical achievements!? This is evidence of the form of historic revisionism which is neither scientific (i.e., providing new historically significant evidence which demand re-examination of current historic interpretation) nor a legitimately historic re-interpretation through accepted special cultural or ethnic lenses.
Historian Forrest McDonald, often critical of revisionism said:
“The result, as far as the study of history was concerned, was an awakened interest in subjects that historians had previously slighted. Indian history, black history, women’s history, family history, and a host of specializations arose. These expanded horizons enriched our understanding of the American past, but they also resulted in works of special pleading, trivialization, and downright falsification.”
For Evaggelos Vallianatos, a supposed historian, to characterize burning of fossil fuels as , “narrow technical achievements” is clearly, as Forrest McDonald stated a “downright falsification” of history.
One young leftist that I know once declared that the worst mistake mankind ever made was inventing agriculture. (yes, he truly believed that the ideal state for man is the hunter/gatherer.)