Sunday, 19 May 2013
Carter Shreds the Climate Propaganda Pumped Out to Children for Decades
Prof Bob Carter shreds the case for alarm over CO2 and climate in this lecture from 2011, recently put on toYouTube. It is a public lecture on "Climate Context as a basis for Better Policy",
given at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, June 2011 (h/t http://spielclimate.blogspot.co.uk/ and through them https://twitter.com/Climate_con/statuses/336167271582035968)
This deserves the 'must-see' label! Not only does he expose the shoddy science, he also exposes the shoddy policies and shoddy politicking and shoddy PR efforts that have thrived upon it.
This should be recommended viewing for every teacher in the world.
I also think there are seeds in this video for ideas that could be used as and when the 'authorities' get round to creating a decent curriculum on climate for schools. That might have to precede publishers willing to risk new books aimed at the young, and suitable for schools, with a more realistic and optimistic view of our climate system and our impact on it.
That might include the fact that we have never been in a stronger position than we are now to cope with climate variations. So parents might like to take the initiative and tell their children that. There will be troubles ahead from climate, just as there have been in the past. But we are more ready than ever before to handle them. Our abundant supplies of affordable energy are part of that.
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
‘Fifty to One’ sounds like it would make a good resource about climate policy for use in schools
As someone who has not been convinced that recent increases in CO2 are an important or dominating driver of the climate system, I find the speculations about temperature changes as promoted by the IPCC quite hard to get excited about. However that is not the case with many influential or powerful people – they are very excited indeed, and want us all to put a stop to world development in a dramatic fashion. Dramatic reductions in fossil-fuel consumption along with dramatic increases in the use of inefficient generation technology such as windturbines, will in my view increase the cost of energy supplies and thus make it harder to cope with climate variation in years to come.
The discussion of climate change is now so heated, and polarised,
that it will take remarkable efforts for one side to get through to the
other. This proposed video, 50 to 1, is
one such effort, or so it seems to me.
Remarkable because it will take the IPCC methods and use them to
demonstrate that the actions proposed to ‘stop climate change’ are many times
more expensive than those that would be involved in adapting to it. About fifty time more, according to some!
The appeal has not reached the halfway mark in sums
promised, and we are at the halfway mark of the appeal’s planned duration. I hope all readers will consider
donating. Lots of small donations might
inspire a few huge ones.
Donations by credit-card or PayPal can be made here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/50-to-1-project-the-true-cost-of-action-on-climate-change
They will only be taken up if a sufficiently large sum is
reached to enable the project to proceed.
Note added 30 May 2013. Good news - the project is going ahead! Details here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/50-to-1-project-the-true-cost-of-action-on-climate-change?c=activity
Note added 30 May 2013. Good news - the project is going ahead! Details here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/50-to-1-project-the-true-cost-of-action-on-climate-change?c=activity
Friday, 10 May 2013
Children and Carbon Dioxide: don't let the zealots terrorise one by demonising the other.
'Of all of the world's chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation
than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonisation of this
natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control
of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is
that it is a dangerous pollutant. That's simply not the case. Contrary
to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by
increasing agricultural productivity.
The cessation of observed global warming for the past decade or so has shown how exaggerated NASA's and most other computer predictions of human-caused warming have been—and how little correlation warming has with concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. As many scientists have pointed out, variations in global temperature correlate much better with solar activity and with complicated cycles of the oceans and atmosphere. There isn't the slightest evidence that more carbon dioxide has caused more extreme weather.'
Extract from a Wall Street Journal piece by Harrison H. Schmidt and William Happer, 8th May, 2013.
Note added 18 May 2013 Here is a video clip showing Happer participating in a tv discussion triggered by the above letter (h/t Bishop Hill):
The cessation of observed global warming for the past decade or so has shown how exaggerated NASA's and most other computer predictions of human-caused warming have been—and how little correlation warming has with concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. As many scientists have pointed out, variations in global temperature correlate much better with solar activity and with complicated cycles of the oceans and atmosphere. There isn't the slightest evidence that more carbon dioxide has caused more extreme weather.'
Extract from a Wall Street Journal piece by Harrison H. Schmidt and William Happer, 8th May, 2013.
'Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 astronaut and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico. Mr. Happer is a professor of physics at Princeton University and a former director of the office of energy research at the U.S. Department of Energy.'
Note added 18 May 2013 Here is a video clip showing Happer participating in a tv discussion triggered by the above letter (h/t Bishop Hill):
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Colorado Climate Nightmare: the recruiting and training of young children to indoctrinate even younger ones in schools
This gruesome display of young victims performing an absurd and inappropriate anti-fracking rap to a group of even younger children in Colorado is shocking. The youngsters in the audience may well shrug it off as a largely incomprehensible diversion from schoolwork, but what of the two performers?
They are victims of an organisation called 'Earth Guardians, which describes itself in these words:
What we have here is a set of adults who have decided that children make good political levers, and who have not hesitated to exploit them for campaigning purposes.
The 'mentors' are here: http://earthguardians.org/team.shtml
The 'council of advisors' is here: http://earthguardians.org/council.shtml
These are irresponsible and ruthless people.
A news site in Colorado is on to the story, which it currently highlights as 'developing' (hat tip Tom Nelson):
It looks like the timely and sensible response of the school authorities may well defuse the issue, and so dash my hopes of more attention being given to this event.
Note added 29 May 2013 Pail Driessen provides more details of this shocking event in a Colorado school, and takes a very critical look at the Earth Guardians. Extract 'But the Earth Guardians still deliver outright falsehoods about fracking, by children to children, in public schools funded by taxpayer dollars. Perhaps this goes on because teachers and school administrators fail to recognize the potential harm, or are themselves devoted to promoting extreme environmentalist ideologies. Certainly they failed to exercise their responsibility and authority as educators to provide a balanced curriculum and avoid being used by groups with political agendas, to inculcate a new generation of Americans in perverse Hard Green dogmas that are harmful to wildlife, people and the environment.'
http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/05/27/mindless-green-indoctrination-of-children-n1606861/page/full
(also here: http://www.eco-imperialism.com/mindless-green-indoctrination-of-children/ )
They are victims of an organisation called 'Earth Guardians, which describes itself in these words:
The Earth Guardians are committed to standing up and protecting the Earth, the Water, the Air and the Atmosphere so that our generation, and those to follow, will inherit a healthy, sustainable and habitable planet.
What we have here is a set of adults who have decided that children make good political levers, and who have not hesitated to exploit them for campaigning purposes.
The 'mentors' are here: http://earthguardians.org/team.shtml
The 'council of advisors' is here: http://earthguardians.org/council.shtml
These are irresponsible and ruthless people.
A news site in Colorado is on to the story, which it currently highlights as 'developing' (hat tip Tom Nelson):
Students receive anti-frack rap at Evergreen Middle school
Let us hope it 'develops' into a major scandal, and that the victims of these self-styled Earth Guardians get more protection, more help, and kept out of other schools.
Update added 10 May 2013: From the update at the above link:
'Lynn Setzer, Communications Director for Jefferson County Schools explained to The Blaze.com that the students in question had been invited to the school for a different purpose, and that the fracking portion of the presentation “wasn’t specifically planned.”
According to The Blaze, “Setzer said the school is sending a letter of apology to parents, along with a list of resources for both sides of the issue for families to discuss. The school will also put in place a procedure to vet guest speakers.” According to letters reviewed by CompleteColorado.com, a vetting procedure to vet guest speakers is precisely what some parents were asking from the district in light of this assembly.'It looks like the timely and sensible response of the school authorities may well defuse the issue, and so dash my hopes of more attention being given to this event.
Note added 29 May 2013 Pail Driessen provides more details of this shocking event in a Colorado school, and takes a very critical look at the Earth Guardians. Extract 'But the Earth Guardians still deliver outright falsehoods about fracking, by children to children, in public schools funded by taxpayer dollars. Perhaps this goes on because teachers and school administrators fail to recognize the potential harm, or are themselves devoted to promoting extreme environmentalist ideologies. Certainly they failed to exercise their responsibility and authority as educators to provide a balanced curriculum and avoid being used by groups with political agendas, to inculcate a new generation of Americans in perverse Hard Green dogmas that are harmful to wildlife, people and the environment.'
http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/05/27/mindless-green-indoctrination-of-children-n1606861/page/full
(also here: http://www.eco-imperialism.com/mindless-green-indoctrination-of-children/ )
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Climate Teachers: don't add to the rotten legacy of the environmental movement
Environmentalism has a rotten legacy. The climate scaremongering is part of it.
(1) Have you checked for yourself the materials you use to teach about climate?
Teaching children that they face climate catastrophe, or even serious and imminent threats, due to rising levels of carbon dioxide is such a momentous decision that surely any conscientious teacher will at some stage do some checking of his or her own as to the credibility of such assertions. The journalist Melanie Phillips did just that, and she was not impressed with what she found.
This article appeared today in Greenie Watch attributed to Melanie Phillips but without a source-link. It looks like it could be her work to me, and so I am tentatively reproducing it as such here:
I have not yet found the article at source, but the above image as published has this i.dailymail link:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/07/article-2320940-19AB0B18000005DC-854_634x407.jpg
Note added later same day: I have tracked the above article down. It appears without any explanation in this article, which though very moving and important, is not about climate. I presume it is included because it is in the book just published by Phillips. A recent article by her on climate is here.
(2) Meanwhile, the campaign continues at high levels and low:
(2.1) Outrageous scaremongering (aka 'climate diplomacy') this month at the UN:
Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims
Needless Death of over 30 Million Innocent Young Children
Loss of a Dependable Electrical Infrastructure
Dependency on Foreign Oil and Higher Fuel Prices
Endangered Species Act
Starvation
The Agents of Fear
Development of the "Precautionary Principle" into a Fear Distortion Tool
Taking of Property without Just Compensation (Private Lands)
Tying National Security Up in Knots
Eliminating or Weakening Flood Prevention Systems (Dams, Levies)
Depriving Workers of Their Livelihood
The Law of Unintended Consequences
The Destruction of Credible Science by Promoting Junk Science
The Destruction of Scientist who disagree with the Environmental Agenda
Promoting a Small Utopian World for the Elite through a Population Control Agenda (Isn't this called Genocide?)
Sponsor of Terrorism in the Name of the Environment
School Indoctrination: Driving Fear into the Hearts of Our Children
and here are the first few links in this last category:
So, next time you hear the apologist refrain about it doesn't matter if the theory is wrong, it is leading to good things anyway, you might want to dig out this list and share it around.
It makes for a rotten legacy, does it not?
(1) Have you checked for yourself the materials you use to teach about climate?
Teaching children that they face climate catastrophe, or even serious and imminent threats, due to rising levels of carbon dioxide is such a momentous decision that surely any conscientious teacher will at some stage do some checking of his or her own as to the credibility of such assertions. The journalist Melanie Phillips did just that, and she was not impressed with what she found.
This article appeared today in Greenie Watch attributed to Melanie Phillips but without a source-link. It looks like it could be her work to me, and so I am tentatively reproducing it as such here:
I have not yet found the article at source, but the above image as published has this i.dailymail link:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/07/article-2320940-19AB0B18000005DC-854_634x407.jpg
Note added later same day: I have tracked the above article down. It appears without any explanation in this article, which though very moving and important, is not about climate. I presume it is included because it is in the book just published by Phillips. A recent article by her on climate is here.
(2) Meanwhile, the campaign continues at high levels and low:
(2.1) Outrageous scaremongering (aka 'climate diplomacy') this month at the UN:
Note added 12 May 2013. Collectors of examples of over-the-top alarmism will appreciate this one from 1881: linking up telegraph wires around the globe will cause catastrophe. Description and commentary here and here.
(2.2) More subtle (but note the scary 'quadrillion') school outreach by the UEA last year (hat-tip Dave W)
(3) And for what? To contribute to the already rotten legacy of environmentalism?
The Rotten Legacy of Environmentalism
Under each of these sections taken from the site Bread and Butter Science (created by James A. Marusek) can be found links to examples of harm:
Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims
Needless Death of over 30 Million Innocent Young Children
Loss of a Dependable Electrical Infrastructure
Dependency on Foreign Oil and Higher Fuel Prices
Endangered Species Act
Starvation
The Agents of Fear
Development of the "Precautionary Principle" into a Fear Distortion Tool
Taking of Property without Just Compensation (Private Lands)
Tying National Security Up in Knots
Eliminating or Weakening Flood Prevention Systems (Dams, Levies)
Depriving Workers of Their Livelihood
The Law of Unintended Consequences
The Destruction of Credible Science by Promoting Junk Science
The Destruction of Scientist who disagree with the Environmental Agenda
Promoting a Small Utopian World for the Elite through a Population Control Agenda (Isn't this called Genocide?)
Sponsor of Terrorism in the Name of the Environment
School Indoctrination: Driving Fear into the Hearts of Our Children
and here are the first few links in this last category:
- The Child-Manipulators
- Facts, Not Fear
- The Greening of America's Youth
- Educational Indoctrination, Environmental Style
- PeTA's Propaganda: A Part of the Curriculum!
- Science vs. Propaganda
- School Reverses on Showing of Al Gore Climate Change Film
- Al Gore told there are Nine Inconvenient Truths in his Film
- Students Thrown Climate Life Preserver
- Too Much Fear, Too Few Facts
- Climate Change Scenarios Scare, and Motivate, Kids
So, next time you hear the apologist refrain about it doesn't matter if the theory is wrong, it is leading to good things anyway, you might want to dig out this list and share it around.
It makes for a rotten legacy, does it not?
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