You know, it’s incredible the way the manipulators are using scare words to constantly harangue us with the need to do something about their chosen pending disaster. We here in Austin are now faced with a new campaign to “Save Town Lake”. Evidently some developers (oh, those evil “developers”) are trying to build some high-rise condominimums somewhere on Town Lake. According to these self-appointed protectors of our environment we are supposed to fear any kind of encroachment on what “should be” (in their estimation) public property or the ability of everybody to access the water from any point. This group will labor for us alongside the Save Barton Springs coalition, the Save the Edwards Acquifer group, the Save the Barton Springs Salamander people. Maybe we need a group to Save the Austin People from Groups that are trying to Save Us from everything. The article is at the Redstate Network.
The Discovery Channel’s christian smear
You knew it had to come. The way this thing was hyped almost screamed out “LIE”. Now the truth is coming out after every major media outlet has bought into this deception. I’m talking about James Cameron’s film and claim about having found the tomb of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, et al. Of course, the truth will not be able to cover all the yellow-sheet journalists that woke up at their word processors, smelled “big story” and spread the story around the world. Winston Churchill said something on the order of “A lie will be halfway around the world while the truth is still getting it’s pants on”. Alas, that is still true.
You can read about it at Captain’s Quarters.
When gun-control laws don’t work…
There is an article at One Hand Clapping that pokes holes in British reasoning about gun control. It’s hard for me to believe that these people are still sane in some respects. Their fantasies about a world without guns is not coming true. They need to realize it, admit it and get on with life.
Military deaths in the Clinton administration
Oooh. Wait ’til the Mainstream Media get hold of this one. It’ll be dynamite. Yeah, sure.
Thanks to Right Wing News for this one.
Fiddling with Darwinism-Eugenics and Global Warming
This man has the handle on the whole picture. You must read this piece if you don’t read anything else about either subject. Wow. Why can’t liberals read stuff like this and see what they are doing to themselves and to others, as well. They are prostituting themselves for personal aggrandizement. I wonder if it is going to take something like Hitler’s concentration camps and their ovens to kill this current silliness, as they did the eugenics silliness. Come to think if it, the eugenics silliness is not totally dead. Margaret Sanger’s legacy lives on every time a woman goes into Planned Parenthood to have the unborn life inside her cut up and sucked out of her womb. Oh, by the way, plot the locations of the PP abortuaries on a city map – any city map of any city. Would it surprise you to discover that most of the abortuaries are in the areas of the city that are mostly populated by minorities? Think this is some accident? Be sure you put your tooth under your pillow so the tooth fairy can leave you a quarter.
British Gun Control bears fruit:More gun crime!
The Astute Bloggers has the article. Of course, we all knew it was coming sooner or later. Lawbreakers are not selective about which law they break. If they’re going to do something illegal in one area they certainly won’t reverse their nature and become model citizens in another area. Oh well, hope springs eternal in liberal’s hearts. I just wish some common sense would well up in their squishy brains every now and then.
Poor Darwin’s false religion
In a post at WorldNetDaily, Pat Boone makes a case (one of the many) against worshipping at the Church of Evolution. You know the church. It’s right down the street from the Church of Global Warming. You’re welcome to worship at either or, more probably, both. You will be taught how to practice your religion by poking fun at non-believers and doing whatever you can to convince other people that you are right in your beliefs.
Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
This is a copy and paste of an article that appeared in Canada Free Press while I was on the cruise – JL
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Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide
Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
By Timothy Ball
Monday, February 5, 2007
Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn’t exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was one of the first Canadian Ph.Ds. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why.
What would happen if tomorrow we were told that, after all, the Earth is flat? It would probably be the most important piece of news in the media and would generate a lot of debate. So why is it that when scientists who have studied the Global Warming phenomenon for years say that humans are not the cause nobody listens? Why does no one acknowledge that the Emperor has no clothes on?
Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. For example, Environment Canada brags about spending $3.7 billion in the last five years dealing with climate change almost all on propaganda trying to defend an indefensible scientific position while at the same time closing weather stations and failing to meet legislated pollution targets.
No sensible person seeks conflict, especially with governments, but if we don’t pursue the truth, we are lost as individuals and as a society. That is why I insist on saying that there is no evidence that we are, or could ever cause global climate change. And, recently, Yuri A. Izrael, Vice President of the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed this statement. So how has the world come to believe that something is wrong?
Maybe for the same reason we believed, 30 years ago, that global cooling was the biggest threat: a matter of faith. “It is a cold fact: the Global Cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our species,” wrote Lowell Ponte in 1976.
I was as opposed to the threats of impending doom global cooling engendered as I am to the threats made about Global Warming. Let me stress I am not denying the phenomenon has occurred. The world has warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age (LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily by changes in the sun. But there is nothing unusual going on.
Since I obtained my doctorate in climatology from the University of London, Queen Mary College, England my career has spanned two climate cycles. Temperatures declined from 1940 to 1980 and in the early 1970’s global cooling became the consensus. This proves that consensus is not a scientific fact. By the 1990’s temperatures appeared to have reversed and Global Warming became the consensus. It appears I’ll witness another cycle before retiring, as the major mechanisms and the global temperature trends now indicate a cooling.
No doubt passive acceptance yields less stress, fewer personal attacks and makes career progress easier. What I have experienced in my personal life during the last years makes me understand why most people choose not to speak out; job security and fear of reprisals. Even in University, where free speech and challenge to prevailing wisdoms are supposedly encouraged, academics remain silent.
I once received a three page letter that my lawyer defined as libellous, from an academic colleague, saying I had no right to say what I was saying, especially in public lectures. Sadly, my experience is that universities are the most dogmatic and oppressive places in our society. This becomes progressively worse as they receive more and more funding from governments that demand a particular viewpoint.
In another instance, I was accused by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki of being paid by oil companies. That is a lie. Apparently he thinks if the fossil fuel companies pay you have an agenda. So if Greenpeace, Sierra Club or governments pay there is no agenda and only truth and enlightenment?
Personal attacks are difficult and shouldn’t occur in a debate in a civilized society. I can only consider them from what they imply. They usually indicate a person or group is losing the debate. In this case, they also indicate how political the entire Global Warming debate has become. Both underline the lack of or even contradictory nature of the evidence.
I am not alone in this journey against the prevalent myth. Several well-known names have also raised their voices. Michael Crichton, the scientist, writer and filmmaker is one of them. In his latest book, “State of Fear” he takes time to explain, often in surprising detail, the flawed science behind Global Warming and other imagined environmental crises.
Another cry in the wildenerness is Richard Lindzen’s. He is an atmospheric physicist and a professor of meteorology at MIT, renowned for his research in dynamic meteorology – especially atmospheric waves. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has held positions at the University of Chicago, Harvard University and MIT. Linzen frequently speaks out against the notion that significant Global Warming is caused by humans. Yet nobody seems to listen.
I think it may be because most people don’t understand the scientific method which Thomas Kuhn so skilfully and briefly set out in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” A scientist makes certain assumptions and then produces a theory which is only as valid as the assumptions. The theory of Global Warming assumes that CO2 is an atmospheric greenhouse gas and as it increases temperatures rise. It was then theorized that since humans were producing more CO2 than before, the temperature would inevitably rise. The theory was accepted before testing had started, and effectively became a law.
As Lindzen said many years ago: “the consensus was reached before the research had even begun.” Now, any scientist who dares to question the prevailing wisdom is marginalized and called a sceptic, when in fact they are simply being good scientists. This has reached frightening levels with these scientists now being called climate change denier with all the holocaust connotations of that word. The normal scientific method is effectively being thwarted.
Meanwhile, politicians are being listened to, even though most of them have no knowledge or understanding of science, especially the science of climate and climate change. Hence, they are in no position to question a policy on climate change when it threatens the entire planet. Moreover, using fear and creating hysteria makes it very difficult to make calm rational decisions about issues needing attention.
Until you have challenged the prevailing wisdom you have no idea how nasty people can be. Until you have re-examined any issue in an attempt to find out all the information, you cannot know how much misinformation exists in the supposed age of information.
I was greatly influenced several years ago by Aaron Wildavsky’s book “Yes, but is it true?” The author taught political science at a New York University and realized how science was being influenced by and apparently misused by politics. He gave his graduate students an assignment to pursue the science behind a policy generated by a highly publicised environmental concern. To his and their surprise they found there was little scientific evidence, consensus and justification for the policy. You only realize the extent to which Wildavsky’s findings occur when you ask the question he posed. Wildavsky’s students did it in the safety of academia and with the excuse that it was an assignment. I have learned it is a difficult question to ask in the real world, however I firmly believe it is the most important question to ask if we are to advance in the right direction.
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Dr. Tim Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, is a Victoria-based environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. He can be reached at letters@canadafreepress.com
new Globull Smarming news
The Texican Tattler has an article titled “Al Gore is a Greenhouse Gasbag” that pretty much lays it on the line in the contest between hype and science.
We have just returned from a two week cruise around Australia and New Zealand. The news from there is grim. Some of the pols down under have fallen under the spell of the greenies. It’s understandable since, right now, they are the homebase for all the anti-whaling freaks. This is the whaling season down there and all the freaks are there trying to interfere with Japanese whalers operations.
The New Zealand minister of the interior made an unequivocal statement the other day that the Kiwis will come down hard on the side of globull smarming and will seek to increase their committment to wind and solar power. Of course, as is standard with these statements there was only a statement of belief in globull smarming and not a whiff of science. I don’t hear any of the GW freaks talking about scientific facts anymore. They know that every “scientific fact” they have put out so far has been de-bunked by real facts or has been shown to be an outright fabrication. The only thing they have left are words such as I have actually heard lately, “trust me” or “by now global warming is an established fact”.
Blogging from Sydney, NSW
Well, here we are in Aussie-land. What a place. What people. Ever since I served in VietNam with some Aussie Marines I have loved the place. Not to mention the fact that we speak the same language. Or at least, mostly the same language. I have been keeping notes on some of the tour guides most telling quotes that mark them as distinctly different. Some of my most favorite so far – on speaking of the prospect of the weather getting better, “the weather will be fining up later today”, talking about not going out drinking the night before we leave, “you can’t be out on the grog the night before”, as well as “shopping at Woolies” (Woolworth’s dept. store).
Today we had a “free” day before we board the cruise ship tomorrow. We went cruising around Sydney harbor and visited Totaranga zoo. Absolutely beautiful. It’s a shame that all the world sees about Sydney is the opera house and the Harbor Bridge. It is an incredibly scenic city.
As I mentioned before, we will be boarding the ship tomorrow and I have no idea what the communication will be. I may or may not be blogging for the rest of this trip. Stay tuned.
