tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.comments2024-03-19T04:55:07.014+00:00Climate LessonsJShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comBlogger393125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-5482210696560889232020-06-29T17:46:32.520+01:002020-06-29T17:46:32.520+01:00Many thanks!
Many thanks!<br />JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-74365934910600016322020-06-29T15:28:52.053+01:002020-06-29T15:28:52.053+01:00The source link to the Forbes article has been tak...The source link to the Forbes article has been taken down. Here is a cached version:<br /><br />https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AlM_nkr3eFO8J%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fmichaelshellenberger%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fon-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare%2F%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-b-d&fbclid=IwAR1BpWmZPvZgejO-KJasrOq-LXjrbjxKSRPVK4SDjMcR9c0JNR13VQrp07ESteve Stinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15601871956914278126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-60607370877727717042020-01-20T16:12:20.545+00:002020-01-20T16:12:20.545+00:00Thanks, still trying! Just hat-tipped one of your...Thanks, still trying! Just hat-tipped one of your posts - see next post here. Best wishes to you as well!JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-82682777407102708012020-01-20T16:04:34.133+00:002020-01-20T16:04:34.133+00:00Good to see you are still battling away here. Thin...Good to see you are still battling away here. Things are now so hyped up that there is no chance of the alarmist predictions coming true, or of policy keeping up with them. Will it all crash and burn? Happy New Year to you!Derek Tipphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07893712146272196994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-11917328101566884082020-01-05T22:27:48.455+00:002020-01-05T22:27:48.455+00:00Good.
Good.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-32456317517523836062019-09-09T14:14:04.055+01:002019-09-09T14:14:04.055+01:00I already left the comment about this incredibly i...I already left the comment about this incredibly ignorant blogdog.<br />I meant to attach my name to my comment as I thought it would be when I posted it.<br />Hooray for the estimable, brilliant Greta Thunberg!<br />She puts all you empty headed, self centered clucks to shame and rightly so.Tana Quimbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-88043232641677806472019-09-09T14:04:13.075+01:002019-09-09T14:04:13.075+01:00What a bunch of bull crappy this blogdog is!
You ...What a bunch of bull crappy this blogdog is! <br />You deliberately ignorant folks need to pull your heads out of your you-know-what and have half a heart or enough of a brain to allow you to care about future generations and the inevitable catastrophic climate change in our future. Inform yourselves!<br />By the way, Greta Thunberg is astronomically more intelligent, informed and aware than the lot of you immature sycophants put together. <br />Will this comment be posted? I doubt it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02638679601818448919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-33656010962041239852019-07-31T18:17:12.910+01:002019-07-31T18:17:12.910+01:00Statistics is an interesting and widely applicable...Statistics is an interesting and widely applicable branch of math. A thorough knowledge of statistics is necessary for students pursuing degrees in arts, science, and math courses. Here are a few pointers which make studying statistics simple. <a href="https://inspirationfeed.com/statistics-as-a-part-of-college-curriculum/" rel="nofollow">statistic help online</a><br />Ali Zaidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02583427087735684838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-58629820441984215932019-04-27T15:46:59.995+01:002019-04-27T15:46:59.995+01:00On Feb 13, 2018: The judge dismissed all charges i...<br />On Feb 13, 2018: The judge dismissed all charges in the lawsuit brought against Dr Tim Ball by BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver. It is a great victory for free speech.<br />‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science’.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzpPXuASY8<br /> “Human Caused Global Warming”, 'The Biggest Deception in History’.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzpPXuASY8<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO08Hhjes_0<br />https://www.technocracy.news/dr-tim-ball-on-climate-lies-wrapped-in-deception-smothered-with-delusion/<br />www.drtimball.com<br />Martha Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09063950155184781330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-41327572632831367442018-12-24T16:52:04.844+00:002018-12-24T16:52:04.844+00:00I have recently started a blog, the info you provi...I have recently started a blog, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. Thanks for all of your time & work. <a href="https://paulgibbons.net/podcast/climate-change-paris-accord-james-shaw/" rel="nofollow">New Zealand</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-26818056696491629292018-12-24T14:49:17.332+00:002018-12-24T14:49:17.332+00:00useful information on topics that plenty are inter...useful information on topics that plenty are interested on for this wonderful post.Admiring the time and effort you put into your b!.. <a href="https://paulgibbons.net/podcast/climate-change-paris-accord-james-shaw/" rel="nofollow">environment</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-15255369602919302018-07-27T10:37:47.340+01:002018-07-27T10:37:47.340+01:00I agree about the comments James. All very intere...I agree about the comments James. All very interesting, and informative. Thank you to Gun, David, and hunter. <br /><br />Here's another thought that mass media and the relentless flow of 'news' has served to degrade people's ability to understand things:<br /><br />'Thinking requires concentration. Concentration requires uninterrupted time. News pieces are specifically engineered to interrupt you. They are like viruses that steal attention for their own purposes. News makes us shallow thinkers. But it's worse than that. News severely affects memory. There are two types of memory. Long-range memory's capacity is nearly infinite, but working memory is limited to a certain amount of slippery data. The path from short-term to long-term memory is a choke-point in the brain, but anything you want to understand must pass through it. If this passageway is disrupted, nothing gets through. Because news disrupts concentration, it weakens comprehension. '<br />https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli<br /><br />Lots of soundbites and headlines out there for climate alarm (because it is easily made sensational) and hardly any for calmer points of view.JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-50163825432450612902018-07-26T13:47:12.816+01:002018-07-26T13:47:12.816+01:00Great article followed by great comments. This tot...Great article followed by great comments. This total is long, but rewarding reading. Hopefully many people will see thisAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05577460111245391882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-75285641146542786912018-07-26T02:47:45.439+01:002018-07-26T02:47:45.439+01:00Humans have lapped up scary apocalypse stories sin...Humans have lapped up scary apocalypse stories since forever.<br />And rational thinking has always been, like "common sense", all to uncommon.<br />Look at how Malthus, still wrong after 200 years, still has credibility.<br />Look at Ehrlich, proven wrong by his own words and lost wagers, is still considered a good academic.<br />Consider Gore's nonsensical pouting pose, demanding absolute credibility while refusing to even discuss if he could be even slightly mistaken. And with blatant profit motives in his demands.<br />Lewandowsky, a friggin' "social psychologist" transparently applying stale old propaganda and bigotry to dehumanize those who disagree with his faith in the great apocalypse wins *honors* from the Royal Academy.<br />The climate apocalypse religion exists because of societal failings.<br />Otherwise it would have no more credibility than a UFO believers convention.<br />One hopes that common sense and rational critical thinking will reclaim the public square, but history is not particularly optimistic on that count.hunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-75436172847880036432018-07-25T21:53:42.577+01:002018-07-25T21:53:42.577+01:00I think that looking at the problem of bad/exagger...I think that looking at the problem of bad/exaggerated science across all disciplines, is indeed helpful. I think 'climate science' is just one of a plague of examples of corrupted science that will emerge over the coming years - and yes, string theory looks like being one of them.<br /><br />As people realise that they were fooled by climate scientists into setting up hugely costly wind and solar energy schemes, and even felling US trees to feed into the DRAX power station (as if that could possibly be environmentally friendly), they will cast a wary eye over many areas of science. This is not 'anti-science', just a recognition that some scientists can let their enthusiasm run away with them, and others can become equally enthusiastic about possible financial inducements!David Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06172248428321078417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-69189067781232653022018-07-25T21:01:49.846+01:002018-07-25T21:01:49.846+01:00The key element I think is the work already done, ...The key element I think is the work already done, globally over the last two hundred years, to lower people's skepticism of ANY claim that "something bad is going to happen" - this is a general state of anxiety - whether low grade or acute. Or to put it briefly - the war of attrition on the rational skill of risk assessment.<br /><br />What was previously termed "negativity" or "paranoia" in extreme cases, is now the predominant state of mind - especially amongst people residing in relatively comfortable western nations.<br /><br />It is a fascinating illustration of the lack of self-observation and self-critique, that people can invest heavily in their own unconscious and emotional responses to the suggestion of risk, when in fact, materially, they are the most comfortable and safe people on the planet. This psychological phenomenon can be observed in inverse proportion to material comfort. The less you have to worry about, relatively, the more you believe in the suggestion of vast threats to humanity. And, armed with the highspeed internet connection that comes free with your middle class lifestyle - to enhance the propagation of "acceptable ideas" - you desire the sharing of your point of view, with vitriol for those who disagree. <br /><br />What is this war of attrition waged on the skill of risk assessment?<br /><br />And this isn't to say there aren't real risks. Nuclear armageddon for example - the US government, with Trump at the helm, is merrily dragging the world in this direction - as it has for the last 70 years.<br /><br />Two hundred years of war and economic crisis have necessitated the construction of excuses basically. If you stand to benefit materially from the status quo - you do so at the expense of vast numbers of people who don't. And the risk of them refusing to participate in their continued exploitation is something to be managed. Some of the devices employed to distract and confuse include the cold war, soviet aggression, islamist terrorism, religious fundmentalism, communist aggression - and in the last 50 years environmental calamity. From the point of view of the status quo - Capitalism and massive inequity - the blame has to be placed squarely and convincingly at the feet of "human frailty", "human nature" or "hubris" - and as far as possible from the economic organization of human society - which benefits the 1% at the massive cost in human suffering to the rest.<br />And if you don't like what I'm saying - take a cement pill or stop reading :-)<br /><br />The perfect capitalist society, given the history of relentless downward trend in profitability and recurring crisis, is once in which you can discover and deploy new ideas which keep the focus of the mechanics of the economy.<br /><br />This requires the elevation of emotion over rationality. Religion, superstition, prejudice - are the building blocks of the attitudes we see thriving in the Western world.<br />We couldn't be further from a rational scientific society - yet we rely on those disciplines to generate the new technology which does at least carry some parts of the economy forward. Science and technology over here. Superstition and emotion over here.<br /><br />Climate change isn't particularly new or interesting. Since, as I'm arguing, it simply propagates and continues an already damaging set of beliefs.<br />In all things, it is the "why" but also the "why now" which matters, if you want to understand. Environmentalism brings the remnants of the left, as it has disintegrated over the last 50 years, into the fold. It's now solar panels instead of placards. Electric vehicles instead of working conditions. Recycling instead of peace.<br /><br />Whatever feels good. Instead of what can actually be demonstrated to be true.<br /><br />Cheers.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09821607520856351023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-11418387470755743892018-07-25T18:15:36.346+01:002018-07-25T18:15:36.346+01:00Thanks Geoff, much appreciated. I've left a c...Thanks Geoff, much appreciated. I've left a comment there: https://cliscep.com/2018/07/24/stringing-us-along/#comment-27462<br /><br />Thanks also, Anonymous. I think you may be right. Many decent people have no doubt been swept along with such feelings/needs, but how many have also been damaged by all the doomsterism. Doomsterism which, as you say, others have done very well out of materially.JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-77711215403652402932018-07-24T22:53:04.317+01:002018-07-24T22:53:04.317+01:00Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) s...Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) should be seen not as a science but as a religion. "O Holy Gaia, we have sinned against thee. Forgive us our sins. O Holy Al Gore and Blessed Saint Suzuki (or whomsoever), be with us now and in our hour of need."<br /><br />We all of us have spiritual needs, by which I mean a need to believe that our lives have some meaning beyond a mere struggle for existence, and, in the Western World at any rate, the continual acquisition of material goods (shop till you drop!). A generation or two ago these needs were reasonably well fulfilled by conventional religion, but this seems to have gone out of favour. A belief that the world is headed for hell in a handbasket, and that only by living pure lives (recycling, lowering one's carbon footprint, eschewing plastic drinking straws, and so on) is a very acceptable substitute.<br /><br />The real problem however is that the smart, ruthless set (who are always with us) have realised that they can use this to their advantage. So far this century the human race has spent about $3 trillion US on wind and solar energy, and estimates of the amount potentially to be spent in the future range up to $30 trillion. Ally yourselves to expenditures of this magnitude and you can be rich beyond dreams of avarice. Now ask yourselves how much of this would have been spent if the concepts of global warming and climate change had never entered our consciousness.<br /><br />Much the same can be said about government bureaucrats who build empires on the back of climate change, academics who build mightily profitable careers, and ENGOs who morph into multi-billion dollar corporations with the ears of governments around the world.<br /><br />CAGW is simply too profitable for a large minority for it to die easily, as Donald Trump is finding out to his cost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-28683954201768857632018-07-24T22:24:12.294+01:002018-07-24T22:24:12.294+01:00Most interesting. I've written a comment at
h...Most interesting. I've written a comment at <br />https://cliscep.com/2018/07/24/stringing-us-along/geoff chambersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-21388847628952286642018-05-23T22:43:32.295+01:002018-05-23T22:43:32.295+01:00Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog a...Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon. Big thanks for the useful info. <a href="https://forsundayscaries.com/hangxiety/" rel="nofollow">Hangxiety</a><br /><br />alizybethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17959360003397216742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-34228443535445958312017-05-25T14:57:45.714+01:002017-05-25T14:57:45.714+01:00ThanksThanksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16945480422986632992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-83592585289463281492017-03-23T22:28:20.684+00:002017-03-23T22:28:20.684+00:00Disgusting article in the Times. More anecdotal ga...Disgusting article in the Times. More anecdotal garbage. Duh the earth has warmed since the last ice age. So what. Keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-52470169334011136542016-08-17T08:52:41.865+01:002016-08-17T08:52:41.865+01:00This should be a part of education system..This should be a part of education system..Renie Mariehttp://www.reine-marie.qc.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-7343049612108249842016-06-17T14:02:07.922+01:002016-06-17T14:02:07.922+01:00Subsidy Sam has had a bit of a makeover, with more...Subsidy Sam has had a bit of a makeover, with more cartoons by Josh and is available as a PDF on Josh's site www.cartoonsbyjosh.com.<br /><br />He has been reborn to herald a new children's story by Lyndsey Ward, again with cartoons by Josh, which is due to come out in August Wind Energy's Absurdhttps://www.facebook.com/WindEnergysAbsurd/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-8747669220457106492016-04-22T22:11:57.865+01:002016-04-22T22:11:57.865+01:00Many thanks for the edit and for your kind words. ...Many thanks for the edit and for your kind words. <br />Wind Energy's Absurdhttps://www.facebook.com/WindEnergysAbsurd/noreply@blogger.com