Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Imagine ancient druids writing concerned articles about how upstart Christian missionaries are undermining enthusiasm for their annual Wicker Man human sacrifice, and you get a sense of how UK mainstream media is responding to the forces working against their glorious COP26. Though to be fair they acknowledge the sincerity of Heartland conference participants.
Welcome to anti-Cop26: The climate-change denial expo in Vegas where attendees talk anything but science
As the world’s leading scientists and climate activists prepare to gather in Scotland for the Cop26 summit, a few hundred people have convened 5,000 miles away in Las Vegas for a whole different type of ‘climate’ discussion. Sheila Flynn joined them
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There are retired teachers, scientists, engineers, members of ultra-conservative think tanks and lobby groups. The books being handed out for free look a little fringe or inflammatory – with covers featuring war scenes and explosions – but it’s not until the speeches begin at the opening dinner that it becomes abundantly clear that science and climate are not the primary focus of this conference.
Within about an hour, booming, charismatic speakers – both at the podium and through video – rope in rants about everything from critical race theory and the media to mask mandates and Marxism.
It feels like a low-level, alt-right rally – which reaches its peak with a video appearance by Naomi Seibt, the young, blonde, German rock star of the climate-denial movement. She’s often referred to as “the anti-Greta”, as she is known for pushing views diametrically opposed to those of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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This year’s UN climate summit, Cop26, is widely seen as the moment when countries must raise their ambitions and goals to avert climate disaster by reducing global carbon emission by roughly half by 2030.
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And then there’s Vegas.
The Heartland Institute was traditionally funded by fossil fuels but says most financing now comes from private donations.
Dr John Cook, professor at the Centre for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University and founder of the Skeptical Science website, told The Independent last year that Heartland was “one of the particularly prolific producers of climate science misinformation, whereas a lot of others tend to focus on policy”.
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“Try as they might, governments couldn’t keep us locked down forever,” Heartland president James Taylor proclaims in the institute’s quarterly performance report being distributed at the conference.
“Now that we are regaining some of our freedoms, Heartland is sticking it to the environmental left … The worst of the lockdowns are over, and freedom is rising again.
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Regardless of what some consider the fringe element of climate science, however, many of the attendees – the ones less concerned with politics and more interested in research – do seem to have their hearts in the right place. They feel they genuinely are environmental activists – but on a whole different plane from the mainstream.
“Everyone here is smart – and everyone is sincere,” the wife of one panellist tells The Independent.
What that sincerity might lead to, however – after the weekend’s near-palpable undercurrent of right-wing ideology – remains in doubt.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/naomi-seibt-climate-denial-vegas-b1943394.html
If you want a laugh, the full British Independent article is well worth a read. The “anti-Greta” Naomi Seibt also gets a lot of column inches, journalist Sheila Flynn seems particularly bothered by Naomi’s growing influence.
I suspect Heartland and Naomi will get more airtime in coming days. COP26 supporters have built up so much enthusiasm, such a frenzy of “last chance” rhetoric, they will need someone to blame when it all crashes in a heap. So the spotlight will likely turn to those who work to counter Biden’s green agenda, and block the cult like COP26 climate agenda.
From the article: “Welcome to anti-Cop26: The climate-change denial expo in Vegas where attendees talk anything but science”
That’s not too biased a headline, is it. The author wants to shape the narrative, right off the bat.
To be a really good propagandist, the author needs to be a little bit more subtle. My “propaganda alert” went off right at the headline.
From the article: “members of ultra-conservative think tanks”
What is an ultra-conservative think tank?
Or is the author just taking the opportunity to portray conservatives as extremists? I think that’s what it is. The only place ultra-conservative exists is in the fevered imaginations of Leftists.
This is the era of superlatives. There is no more “bad weather” there is only “extreme weather”. There are no more ” bad snowstorms”, only “extreme ones”.
This is the era of the extremist. All my fellow running dogs are extremely correct and anyone else is extremely wrong. This is the typical dialectical materialism argument style. Any proper communist recognises the technique. I learned this while debating one.
The point is to have the thesis, antithesis and synthesis planned cleverly so the communist vision is realized to be the only logical one. After a while I find it boring as hell because of the monomaniacal nature of the Believer but there are the intelligent true believers who enjoy the thrust and parry of discourse on the ultimate solution to material problems, which of course is the Party of All (sic) leading an extreme revolution.
Intelligent people raised in a spiritual vacuum often see themselves as deserving of leadership positions in a government of “experts”. They are extremely confident they will succeed.
It is now standard practice for those on the left to brand anyone who disagrees with their views as right-wing, or far-right, or ultra-conservative or equivalent. Whenever they do this they immediately betray their own ignorance and narrow-mindedness – it’s a sign that they have nothing of substance to say.
From the article: “It feels like a low-level, alt-right rally”
What do you want to bet that the author has never been to an alt-right rally.
I’ve never been to an alt-right rally. I don’t know anyone who goes to alt-right rallies. I’m not sure there are alt-right rallies. If there are, they can’t amount to much. So, again, alt-right, as being anything significant, is another fevered imagination of the Left, who want to portray anyone to the right of Marx as being an extremist.
From the article: “This year’s UN climate summit, Cop26, is widely seen as the moment when countries must raise their ambitions and goals to avert climate disaster by reducing global carbon emission by roughly half by 2030.”
It’s too late. Individual nations may make such reductions, but the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will continue to increase because any reductions in CO2 by some nations will be offset by increases from other nations.
It’s all over but the crying.
From the article: “What that sincerity might lead to, however – after the weekend’s near-palpable undercurrent of right-wing ideology – remains in doubt.”
Right-wing ideology = A desire for freedom for everyone.
One has to question why this horrifies the Left.