Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball
It is common sense to protect our environment, but what has occurred for 50 years is exploitation of that idea for a socialist agenda. We wasted 50 years believing that humans are not natural, and everything they do is destructive. We wasted and continue to waste trillions of dollars on unnecessary policies and useless technologies, all based on false assumptions, pseudoscience, and emotional bullying.
We now know 50 years later that every single prediction concerning the environmental demise of the Earth and the people made in the original Earth Day Report was wrong. We also know that every additional claim, such as overpopulation, global warming, sea level rise, desertification, deforestation, and sea ice collapse, among many others, were wrong. I challenge anyone to produce empirical evidence that proves anything happening today is outside any long-term record of natural activity.
Convince the people that the entire world is threatened, and you can convince them that no nation can save it. It is then easy to convince them that a world government is the only way to save the planet. The trouble is that none of it is true. The World is in good shape, and people are living longer and healthier lives in every nation.
Like the majority of people, Elaine Dewar assumed environmentalists were commendable even heroic people. She began research for a book singing their praises. It didn’t take long to learn the basic premise was wrong. Following the traditional and proper methodology, rarely seen these days, Dewar identified the duplicitous characters involved in the Canadian environmental movement and laid them out in her book Cloak of Green. She spent five days at the UN with Canadian Maurice Strong arguably the world architect of official environmentalism. He was praised excessively, as in this article, “The World Mourns One of its Greats: Maurice Strong Dies, His Legacy Lives On.” Another article recognized the evil he personified, “Who is Global Warming Propagandist Maurice Strong?” After the five days, Dewar concluded,
“Strong was using the U.N. as a platform to sell a global environment crisis and the Global Governance Agenda.”
The environmental movement as the basis for a socialist world government was in the minds of people like Strong and fellow members of the Club of Rome in the late 1960s. However, it was launched on the world on April 22, 1970, by a small group centered at Stanford University. The date is critical because it was the first Earth Day. It is also very important to know the choice was deliberate because it is the birthday of Vladimir Lenin. The environmental movement was a deliberate program to impose communism on the world.
The underlying theme of the environmental movement makes the following false assumptions.
- That almost all change is a result of human activity. The UN claim, using computer models, that 95%+ of temperature increase since 1950 is due to human-produced CO2. This works because they don’t consider most natural causes.
- That humans are unnatural. The 1990 “Greenpeace Report on Global Warming” says CO2 is added to the atmosphere “naturally and unnaturally.” Yes, that unnatural production is from humans.
- That we are not part of nature. Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) comment explains.
“Mankind is a cancer; we’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” “If you haven’t given voluntary human extinction much thought before, the idea of a world with no people in it may seem strange. But, if you give it a chance, I think you might agree that the extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.”
- That we should be eliminated or dramatically reduced in number. In May 2015, the Pope produced Laudate Si an Encyclical about his view of the state of the Earth. It is a socialist diatribe, but that is not surprising since the main contributor was Hans Schellnhuber, a pantheist. This group believes the world population should be below 1 billion people.
- That if the western world reduces levels of CO2 production, the rest of the world will follow. China has 2,363 coal plants and is constructing 1,171 more. The US has 15 and is not constructing any.
The US can build as many clean-burning coal plants as they want and burn coal pollution free. They don’t have to worry about CO2 because it is not a pollutant and is not causing climate change. No significant environmental problems are threatening the world. All the stories about impending environmental doom are fictions deliberately created to make people surrender control to the government. It is time to break the emotional stranglehold of those who used the environment to create global socialism.
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All hail the Kleptocracy.
If you are on the right side it sure beats working.
Dr Ball is correct,the likes of Maurice have been lusting for power and control forever,Mr Strong unfortunately had all kinds of help from the Canadian Political structure.
CAGW is an open assault on the citizen.
Blatant ,naked powergrab by our Bureaucracy.
“Civil Servant” indeed.
Unionized parasites in reality, Confederated Canada is broke and broken thanks to the fine work of all the Maurice’s raised up amongst us.
Perhaps Maurice Strong will leave a legacy, the breakup of Canada,due to the destruction of all vital civic institutions, for corruption of these institutes is essential to establish a big lie.
So far they are doing real well.
Truth is NOT a defence against a Human Rights Tribunal.
Private Law is a real thing (See Restore CSA), Supreme Court Ruling 23 May 2019.
Speech is being throttled.
controlling this medium is being legislated.
Our media is being bribed with $600 million per year.
A tax on air,(includes everything transported anywhere)but not a tax when in court.
Dr Ball is not wrong.
Whenever the global Marxist/Socialist movement is tied to AGW there’s people that quickly attribute it to conspiracy theory and any supporting evidence is ignored, discounted, or ridiculed. That just shows you how effective the propaganda is and how easily people are duped.
If Reality Backs A Climate Change Apocalypse, Why Do Elections Change Politician’s Minds? Climate Change Is and Always Will Be A Non-Scientific Political Issue
If Climate Change is really going to end life on earth, why do the Climate Alarmist Politicians abandon the issue once its Political Liability becomes apparent? Are these Politicians suddenly interested in ending all life as we know it, including their own, or are they simply proving what most people have known all along, that Climate Change was and is nothing more than the latest in a long line of Progressive Hoxes to fool the public into voting away their freedoms and empowering the Government?
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/if-reality-backs-a-climate-change-apocalypse-why-do-elections-change-politicians-minds-climate-change-is-and-always-be-a-non-scientific-political-issue/
Tim Ball. Please stop holding back. Tell us what you really think. LOL😁
There is only one way to look at this. These people are crazy.
You state, “I challenge anyone to produce empirical evidence that proves anything happening today is outside any long-term record of natural activity.” The empirical evidence doesn’t exist. Likewise, where is the empirical evidence that any additional carbon dioxide will affect the earth’s temperature. It was discovered in the early 1900’s that CO2 absorbed infrared radiation. It was also determined the frequency bands of infrared radiation that CO2 absorbed. There are satellites that measure radiation at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and there are ground based stations that measure radiation, but I have been unable to find data that specifically covers outgoing long wave radiation at the TOA and down welling long wave radiation at the earth’s surface in the CO2 absorption bands and their changes over time. The whole concept that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will impact climate depends on the ability of the carbon dioxide to trap infrared radiation and if that cannot be measured, the the impact must be minuscule.
Yes, the science on the absorption bands is understood. We know that CO2 absorbs sunlight and then emits some of that energy at the infrared, thus causing a small amount of warming. The action of “trapping” heat as it’s so often repeated, means that CO2 would also need to be an insulator, just as Styrofoam is an insulator. I’ve yet to see an explanation of how CO2 traps heat like Styrofoam in a freely convective atmosphere. The glass in a greenhouse traps heat by putting a stop to convection, thereby, trapping heat. To accurately portray CO2 as a greenhouse gas, CO2 would have to limit convection. Again, I’ve never seen an explanation of how CO2 exhibits this property.
But… You’re just an anti-science denier steeped in denial rhetoric about denial. You even deny denial, which just goes to show how much of a denier you are.
Andrew Klavan made a great comment recently when talking about the green meme of 10-12 years left before… something. They keep saying we have to act now or we’re going to die. We have to act now before time runs out. Klavan said, and he’s right, that’s what you hear at the end of every used care salesman’s pitch about the car he’s attempting to sell you. It’s an attempt to get you to act out of fear and when we act in haste out of fear, we make mistakes. Again, he’s right. It’s just a heavy-handed attempt at controlling people through fear. Unfortunately, the intelligence of the average person is, well, average. I’m not sure the average person would spend more than a moment of thought on this issue or take the time to research both sides of the argument. National polls seem to reflect this very thing.
My own thoughts here; we have a government that works (or doesn’t sometimes) through a system of checks and balances. We have coequal branches of government providing oversight over each other as a means of limiting the power of government. We also have the scientific industrial complex, as it were, often funded by government money. Those in favor of creating radical green policy use a great deal of the science produced by this government funded money, but there’s no actual oversight of the product of these scientists. Yes, peer review is supposed to act as an oversight mechanism, but we know that peer review, especially in climate science, often turns out to be pal review. We know there’s a problem with science due to the reproducibility crisis we’re currently experiencing. Creating policy without this oversight means that any insidious ideology could creep in and corrupt the science, therefore co-opting and creating policy based on this corrupted science. How would you stop this corruption once it’s started? We need to overhaul the way we peer review science in a way that ideology can’t corrupt. If we don’t do this, we’ll be dead in 10 years. Or 12.
The most-overlooked factor in the cause of temperature increase since the depths of the Little Ice Age is the rise in water vapor. A top-down analysis can be a do-it-yourself project on a personal computer. The analysis at http://diyclimateanalysis.blogspot.com shows the water vapor increase caused about 70% of the temperature increase since 1909
‘It is time to break the emotional stranglehold of those who used the environment to create global socialism.’
True. But . . . .
Success will NOT end global socialism. They will exploit anything they can to gain a foothold. Especially to destroy Western Civilization. They are currently exploiting environmentalism. End that, and they will just find something else to exploit.
They aren’t going away. There is no finish line.
Think again…
The point I think is this: it doesn’t really matter what label we give to this bid to control through AGW climate science or eco-smart agendas or postmodernism in universities, marxist resurgence or cartel capitalism etc. – it’s all part of the same package, albeit with factional interests. It’s whatever ideology is most useful in providing camouflage for what is essentially predatory behaviour of psychopaths.
In that sense, there is no conspiracy, only two types of human being: one with the capacity for conscience the other with no such capacity. Then the blood and carnage of history begins to make sense, not least the endless diet of tribalist beliefs creating the perpetual noise of division so useful to any manipulator. Regime change, shock doctrine economics or goldman sacs investing in cap and trade – It’s all rooted in the same patterns of pathology to which much of the global population has been normalised.
“Andrew Klavan made a great comment recently when talking about the green meme of 10-12 years left before… something. They keep saying we have to act now or we’re going to die.”
It’s like that store that’s been “Going Out of Business!” for 25 years. That pitch works only on folks who haven’t lived here very long.
The Founders of the Club of Rome are Aurelio Peccei, David Rockefeller and Alexander King… These are the Apex Capitalist Predators, along with the likes of Maurice Strong and many, many more.
Right wing skullduggery that emanates from the likes of Tim Ball are claiming in essence, that the Global COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY is run by these same Apex Capitalists. Apparently Ball and his claque are oblivious to this anomaly. Their claims are childish and naive at best. They have not a clue how politics really works and who is really in charge. Pathetic.
Sarastro:
Tomato/Tomaato. Left/right political labels are not that relevant. The threat is totalitarianism.
No one is claiming that Marxists are intelligent – they clearly are not. The leadership (brutal psychopaths, aka Groucho Marxists) seize onto any notion that will disrupt peaceful society, create poverty and chaos and thus give them total control. Their followers, (imbecile minions, aka Harpo Marxists) will follow anything that moves and sounds good – this describes about the lower third of human intellect – people who are far too stupid to vote – but they do.
Marxists (aka Progressives) can only be described as insane – they want to repeat the horrors of the 20th Century, with over 200 million innocent lives destroyed by the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Mao, and lesser psychos like Pol Pot and most Tin Pot leftist dictators in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America – most recently Chávez and successors in Venezuela.
In fact, the radical greens have already destroyed the lives of almost as many people as their 20th Century counterparts. This green carnage is described in my essay “Hypothesis: Radical Greens are the Great Killers of Our Age”.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/14/hypothesis-radical-greens-are-the-great-killers-of-our-age/
Radical greens are a reboot of the old Marxists, the “useful idiots” in the West who used to support the failed Soviet Union – they seem to think it will all go better this time – it won’t.
It’s been with us longer than that. I find it interesting that in 1864 George Perkins Marsh wrote:
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.36, New York : C. Scribner and Sons
That no predictions in the last 50 years made by environmentalists have come true tells the tale. Anyone can make predictions about the environment. You don’t need some fancy degree. The latest prediction by AOC, a true dimwit in her own right, and certainly not a scientist, has the earth dying off in 12 years due to global warming. Good luck with that one. Even the totally non-scientific high priestess of trash compacting, Al Gore, made epic predictions that have never seen the light of day. Species come and go and man is a species. So if the earth needs to do something to survive, man may become the next victim in that process. The earth will be around for another few billion years with or without man. Any number a natural or even several man induced catastrophes , could end the existence of man. The liberals would then be able to die happy instead of living with such insanity and unhappiness and worry. We have no control over mother nature, our existence or our inevitable futures. Just ask the universe.
IXNAY
Every year when they celebrate Earth,
The green socialists generate mirth,
Trying not to betray
The true aim of “Earth Day,”
Which from Pig Latin translates as “dearth.”
Please see
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/02/25/un/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/05/13/greta2/
Here’s the proof demanded. Professor Richard A Muller is a climate change scientist. Like Watts, he didn’t believe the IPCC findings and conducted his own research using 14 million temperature readings going back further than the IPCC. He was amazed to find his results were stronger than those of the IPCC. https://www.nytimes.com/…/the-conversion-of-a-climate…
Muller was never a skeptic.
December 17, 2003
“Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate.” –
11/03/11
“It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic“
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/402357/medieval-global-warming/2/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/its-science-not-skepticis_n_1072419.html
CO2 is a resultant of, not a driver of, climate change! Dr Richard Alley of PSU analyzed multiple (1,000’s) of ice cores from Greenland and Vostok! His results show that:
CO2 concentrations always lag Earth’s temperature changes:
Lagging by 400-800 years as the Earth warms
Lagging by 400-2,000 years when the Earth cools!
Lagging process parameters are NEVER drivers of the process!
They’ve known this relationship[ for 30 years but never talk about it because you can’t gain power, money or a new world order if you tell the truth! Especially since there are so many scientifically illiterate people in the world who will believe almost anything from “People in Authority!”.
The thing is if you really believed the earth had a fever why would you keep using fossil fuels
in your daily life ?
Maurice Strong , Canadian diplomate , senior UN Representative,and later a Chinese resident admitted
climate change fear mongering was the tool used to pursue the globalist agenda .
Is it a coincidence that the Canadian Liberal Party leader is a kiss ass China worshiper and Canada has twice the number of immigration offices in China as any other country . Is that balanced immigration ?
How did $billions and $billions of Chinese laundered money take over the Vancouver real estate industry
while Liberal governments turned a blind eye . Pure coincidence … not .
Lets see in November if Canadians like Australians and others will send these preachy virtue signalling commies packing . They should be so lucky ?