Review: Unprecedented Crime
The unprecedented crime Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth refer to in the title is that of willfully causing global temperatures to rise, through greenhouse gas emissions, to levels already causing large-scale loss of life while threatening human survival and that of countless other species. They might with equal accuracy speak of crimes, plural, when those who from positions of authority either actively aid key offenders or, by failing to hold them to account, betray the trust placed in them.
This is the unique selling point of Unprecedented Crime: a closely argued insistence that, under existing laws and without recourse to new ones framed specifically to outlaw ecocide, we could indict corporate and governmental bodies identified without hyperbole by the authors as guilty of crimes against humanity.
Think about it. Ninety-seven percent of scientists in relevant disciplines are telling us climate change is real, is man-made and is taking us all, meaning humanity and other advanced life forms, down a roller coaster of environmental catastrophe. Not in some distant sci-fi dystopia but on a timescale measured in decades, years even. Given this, the scale and extent of denial – literal in the case of ‘sceptics’ in the pay of Fossil Fuels Inc; de facto in that of governmental cowardice and venality – are staggering. Why then, with the stakes so high, would we not view the perpetrators as guilty of crimes of a magnitude surpassing anything the world has seen – even in history’s darkest moments?
This is the premise of Carter and Woodworth’s case. Like any good scientist, they start with observable phenomena, as indicated by their opening chapter: Extreme Weather Around the World. From here they proceed, again as scientists do, to set out in Chapter Two the underlying drivers; in this case a heightening of earth’s natural and life-optimal greenhouse effect, to unnatural and decidedly sub-optimal levels, noting along the way a 1990 assertion by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that as a matter of certainty:
Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the green-house effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface temperature.
But that second chapter does more than set out the science. It locates the birth of a small and decidedly non-scientific cabal, of pretty much the most powerful vested interests on the planet – aka the fossil fuels industry and its financiers – and charts their success in casting doubt on that IPCC certainty:
In 2010 a landmark book, Merchants of Doubt, showed how a small group of prominent scientists with connections to politics and industry led disinformation campaigns denying established scientific knowledge about smoking, acid rain, DDT, the ozone layer, and global warming.
Written by Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Harvard science historian, and NASA historian Erik Conway, Merchants was reviewed by Bill Buchanan of The Christian Science Monitor as “the most important book of 2010,” and by The Guardian’s Robin McKie as “the best science book of the year.” It was followed by the 2014 documentary of the same name, also widely seen and reviewed.
The research showed how the disinformation tactics of the tobacco companies in the 1960s to undermine the scientific link between smoking and lung cancer served as a model for subsequent oil company tactics suppressing climate change science.
Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s landmark report on smoking and lung cancer in 1964, the government legislated warning labels on cigarette packages. But a tobacco company executive from Brown & Williamson had a brainwave: people still wanted to smoke and doubt about the science would give them a ready excuse.
His infamous 1969 memo read: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.”
Here’s the thing. People exercised by a terrifying possibility, whose avoidance or mitigation will necessitate – or can be portrayed as necessitating – inconvenience and pain, will be receptive to the counter-view that it’s all hogwash, or at the very least that the doomsayers are overegging things. So eagerly receptive, in fact, that they won’t look too closely at the motives of those advancing such a counter-view. Nuff said, save that Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers For Survival’s spotlight on dirty tricks and systematic strong-arming – their attendant corruption of body politic and informed debate constituting a crime in and of itself – does not make for the most relaxing of bedtime reading.
Three subsequent chapters make the case against an unholy trinity whose crimes of commission and omission would place them in the dock, under existing laws, in a saner and less mendacious world. The headers speak for themselves: State Crime Against the Global Public Trust … Media Collusion (a chapter of particular interest in light of the recently published Media Lens book on media corruption by market forces) … Corporate and Bank Crime …
Chapter 6 discusses Moral Collapse and Religious Apathy. Well well. Search in vain for a “thou shalt not trash Planet Earth” message in Quran, Veda or Bible, but these and other revered texts from our pre-industrial past have much to say on injustice. The meek, you see, are not to inherit the earth after all. Rather, the world’s poorest – their carbon footprints negligible – find themselves at the front line of climatic catastrophes already underway as a result of corporate greed in the Global North. Here’s a snippet from the early pages of John Smith’s Imperialism in the Twenty-first Century, reviewed here, on this aspect of the matter. Having opened with the collapse of an eight-storey textile factory in Dhaka, killing 1133 workers, Smith goes on to say that:
Starvation wages, death-trap factories and fetid slums in Bangladesh typify conditions for hundreds of millions of workers in the Global South, source of surplus value sustaining profits and unsustainable overconsumption in imperialist countries. Bangladesh is also in the front line of another consequence of capitalism’s reckless exploitation of living labor and nature: “climate change”, more accurately described as capitalist destruction of nature. Most of Bangladesh is low-lying. As sea levels rise and monsoons become more energetic, farmland is inundated with salt water, accelerating migration into the cities …
I’ve a reason for citing this. Part Two of Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers For Survival moves from naming the guilty to setting out what is to be done. In doing so the authors introduce the only note I take issue with in the entire book. Chapter 10, on Market Leadership, opens with this:
Much has been written about the constraining effects of capitalism, globalization, and the debt-based economy on a clean energy transition, saying that we must begin by addressing these root issues.
Although these structural impediments may be slowing the potential pace of renewable energy growth, the climate emergency allows us no time to fix the economic system first.
For reasons I’ve gone into elsewhere – here for instance, and here – I shudder at such strawman argument. Few on the left say “fix capitalism then climate change” but many, me included, see scant prospect of stopping or even slowing this and other effects of capitalism’s destruction of nature without taking on what the authors rightly refer to in the above extract as “root issues”. The two fights are one and the same. The underlying cause of climate change is capitalism’s inbuilt addiction to growth: its constant and tyrannical drive to create ever more stuff for us to buy; its demand – no less imperious for that sly obeisance to the God of Choice – that we continually cast out the old to make room for the new and, by this and this alone, breathe life into falling profits in an endless cycle of boom and bust. Moreover, there’s only one irrefutable reply to the mantra that measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions are – like measures to rein in the lucrative death-for-profit industries – “anti-job”. That is to push back at such slick and circular ‘reasoning’ by placing wealth creation for human need, not private profit, firmly on the table.
So say I. But where does this leave the likes of me? Do we withdraw in a sulk from collaboration with those who see things otherwise while sharing our horror at the criminal insanity unfolding before our eyes? Hardly. Climate breakdown, this book reminds us, leaves no room for sectarianism. Red and Green must find common cause. To that end we should differentiate two forms of collaboration: on the one hand rainbow alliances whose shaky, lowest common denominator foundations require dilution upon dilution of principle, only to implode at the first real test of solidarity; on the other hand working alliances, united fronts, in which no dilution of principle is called for. Just shared recognition of a common goal, and willingness to engage with all who are prepared to work towards it.
To that end, Unprecedented Crime offers a resounding rallying call. It sets out with admirable clarity the nature and scale of the problem, offering a novel but logically flawless way of viewing that problem with the urgency necessary for confronting it with adequate resolve. It lays out the basis for a program of concrete demands in the here and now: demands around which an opposition movement can coalesce, demands with which to win over the undecided as well as those who have given up on hope and demands with which to counter the lies of denialists and the delusions of those who still believe we have time on our side.
Unprecedented Crime – Climate Science Denial and Game Changers For Survival can be ordered here: https://www.claritypress.com/Carter.html or in England from Amazon. It has a Foreword by Dr. James Hansen: former top NASA climate scientist, probably the world’s best-known climate scientist and the man who blew the whistle on climate change to Congress in 1988. Dr. Peter Carter, is an IPCC expert reviewer
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Nov.14 2018: Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-climate-study-error-20181113-story.html
To quote from the article, for those who will refuse to follow the link:
Quote begins:
“Co-author Ralph Keeling, climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, took full blame and thanked Lewis for alerting him to the mistake.
“When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there,” he said. “We’re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly.”
Keeling said they have since redone the calculations, finding the ocean is still likely warmer than the estimate used by the IPCC. However, that increase in heat has a larger range of probability than initially thought — between 10 percent and 70 percent, as other studies have already found.
“Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean,” Keeling said. “We really muffed the error margins.”
Quote ends.
Ralph Keeling is co-author of the Resplandy et al. study, which had claimed “that ocean temperatures had warmed 60 percent more than outlined by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” But after Nic Lewis’s review and critique of Resplandy et al, the authors of the Resplandy et al study now admit that they can’t stipulate anything about just how much warming the oceans may be undergoing.
“Oooops,” I guess.
But I wonder whether the climate alarmists who initially embraced the study’s “findings,” and thus had their hysteria further inflamed, will even notice the retraction, let alone cease to trumpet the “findings.”
To echo Lewis, perhaps that is too much to hope for.
So Lewis’ maths is good (this time). So what? Following on from the thread below:
We get to burn more carbon: because burning carbon raises all the indeces of human welfare (including environmental welfare). I’m not sure where this ad hoc, “tellytubby” pseudo-science argument is coming from …but I do know where it leads. And who it empowers. Which is all the more intriguing, given the anti-capitalist credentials of the poster.
All in all, a minor reputational resurection for Lewis: and a huge loss for life and humanity? Win, win for the capitalist oppressor …eh, Norm?
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Off-Guardian : “Facts really are sacred”
and they have deleted all of my comments showing event relationships …
Just as I thought, this place is not what it claims to be.
MG
Are you talking about the lengthy lists of numerology bullet points, repeat-posted all down this thread and almost completely OT?
Stay on topic, don’t repeat post or spam, keep the numerology on a need to know basis – and you’ll be fine
Most labour intensive spamming I’ve ever seen; longest posts too.
P.S. It was my intention to share the whole lecture, and not have the video start at 13 minutes and some . . .
My first sense of when the AGW went ‘mainstream’ was that its demonstrable failure in time would bring about a huge backlash against corrupt science that would throw the baby out with the bathwater. However, since then I have educated myself to discover that this is nothing new and that narrative continuity is soon reinstated in the population, somewhat like the ‘Men in Black’.
But I note the actual state of scientific activity is increasingly socially irrelevant – apart from the technologism that drives and sustains our corporate powers and dependencies. Sexing up the ‘science’ documentaries has reached orgasmic proportion for teletubby science. The idols of scientific ideals are like the gold that isn’t in the bank and doesn’t back the money supply. But the faith in it is… too big to fail.
Social (and geo or global) engineering in search of narratives to push it along. Or more likely, incubating and developing such movements as a proxy force from a long way back.
The stories that attract the backing of invested power and influential backing become the energy source by which power manipulates those who believe and enact them. Without that backing of power, not only would they not be able to stand up, shout or maintain themselves, but a more natural quality of growth would occur. However this is easy to say, but most automatically seek to survive in the terms of the world they are adapted to and invested in – ie: career, family and reputation. Sensing ‘which way the wind blows’ is often an unconscious positioning to align in better prospects and the moral fervour has its backlash BECAUSE it is given power by Media PR, KOLs (Key opinion leaders) and misrepresentations of science that are not allowed significant support in any mainstream as a result of a variety of ways of exerting pressure.
That applies to the identity politicking in general. A lack of challenge – not because there is none, but because it can be engineered out – just as in Corbett’s WW1 conspiracy pt1 with the account of inducing the conditions by which to destroy Germany. A few key people effecting change that the British Cabinet didn’t find out until for a decade or so later. That’s how I see networks conspiracies of mutual self interest consolidating a power class or indeed ‘sucking up the world’s wealth’ as the leverage to operate overwhelming influence. Orwell’s law if it exists, is that whatever the political slogan, its actual intent and effect is the reverse. Ie Ministry of peace, healtchare and saving the environment. The destruction of this Planet as a biological integrity for the support of life is underway – regardless this seems too insane to contemplate being by DESIGN.
Now it may be that the belief is in wiping off the vermin first and re-greening the Earth after they come out of their bunkers (?) Or that they really have somewhere else to escape (?) or that they believe that bringing on the Rapture is their ultimate fulfilment (?) but the way deceit works is to sell a story that the sucker is hooked and baited by, and as with the internet of bubbles, each is fed their own version of the ‘inside dope’.
Or then again, live this day well because that is in our power to effect.
No matter what the past suggests or demands, the future is open.
Norm You do not have to answer to me, or even reply to this: but I’m trying to understand your POV on AGW – given your normal anti-capitalist stance. I can’t. I don’t get it. Lindzen is a liar, well known for cherrypicking his data. And no, I am not going to get into a pseudo-scientific debate …he’s right in as much as this is a purely political issue. Purely political. So let’s drop the quasi-scientific camouflage? AGW boils down to a capitalism v humanism debate: the carbon bourgeois fake-left and even faker-right versus the Rest. By the Rest, I have detailed, here and elsewhere, that amounts to 80% of humanity and all of biodiversity that is under the threat of carbonist cannibalism. Ordinarily, we would agree on this? Lindzen, in quite a disgusting faux solidarity with the suffering, inverts the issue. Those that are under threat of having their lives disrupted are THE VERY FUCKING CAPITALISTS THAT ARE KILLING THE PLANET AND DEHUMANISING HUMANITY. Those who are being exploited to sustain this are the Rest of Life (born and unborn). Like Lindzen gives a fuck about the exploitation and suffering his life causes. I got to around 29:30 before I really puked my ring. Sorry, but I’m barely being metaphoric, I nearly did. Lindzen, like the anti-life uber-distorter he is, made the claim that we have had three quarters of a degree of warming in the past century …during which time: “…this has been accompanied by the improvement of all indeces of human welfare (including environmental welfare).” So the world is getting better (due to the myth of progress); and we’ve never had it so good? Better for whom? “…this has been accompanied by the improvement of all indeces of human welfare (including environmental welfare).” That is pure hyper-distorted mendacity and anti-humanism masquerading as ‘science’. Fortunately, rather than rant, there is actually data that proves he is, I would say deliberately, lying. Bill Gate’s buddy Steven Pinker cherrypicked some globalist anti-life pseudo-data earlier this year for a book. It was so wrong, even Monbiot had to debunk him. There are plenty of other debunkings. Here’s one: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-05-18/steven-pinkers-ideas-about-progress-are-fatally-flawed-these-eight-graphs-show-why/ The recent ‘dying planet index’ details this further. We are dying, and capitalism is killing us. Normally we see eye to eye on this. Lindzen is an enemy of humanity with an ethnocentric USA!USA!USA! supremacist and exceptionalist disfiguring of reality. His manufacturing of uncertainty and culturally induced inertia will get us all killed. So Norm, in posting this delusional propaganda piece: do you actually believe that humanity and the environment are just going to get better and better (for Lindzen, Gates, Pinker et al) under capitalism: the more and more carbon we burn (carbon = $$$$ as I’ve posted several times before)? What about the carbon/$$$$ distribution and inequality aspect that no one who wants us to keep burning carbon (till we can farm the Arctic) wants to talk about? There was a proposal that we (the carbon bourgeoisie) curtail our emissions, so that the dehumanised, marginalised and betrayed majority can improve their lives – within an overall carbon reduction framework. That way we get to mitigate AGW, global poverty, inequality, species depopulation and extinction, etc all at once. That way, Lindzen’s sensibilities will not be offended. Or would they? There is less than 1.5bn who are cannibalising the resources of 7.3bn people and what is left of biodiverse life.. The radical responsibility is to choose for the many, or so I thought? In an anti-capitalist, anti-war, eco-humanism we might, it’s a very small might, be able to salvage a little Life.… Read more »
There is scientific truth, and then there is, under the sway and at the behest of capital, the politics of how science is conducted.
Lindzen is, in my opinion, accurate in his description of how the politics of science, which is more of a hindrance than a facilitator of ‘scientific discovery,’ weigh upon the business — in the literal sense of that term, i.e., the ‘business’ — of climatology, and by implication, of course, upon the business of all science as it is pursued and funded in a world dominated by the interests of capital.
And that is the reason why I posted the video, to try to get the ‘believers’ to pause and think a little about why it might be that in the mainstream press ‘global warming’ is all the rage. Lindzen offers a few salient clues.
Is AGW real? I don’t know. I don’t think anybody knows. There are rational claims and suppositions on all sides, and in my mind, we have only just begun to really study climate and are therefore nowhere near understanding enough about it to be able to gauge the significance, if any, of carbon emissions.
Thus any talk about the certainty of how fossil fuels are destroying our world is ‘hysteria’ born of conjecture, of woefully incomplete information.
But even if AGW were an issue in need of being addressed, It would yet go, and will yet go, unaddressed under the rule of profit.
Thus for me, AGW is a distraction from the paramount issue of our times, that is to say, the fact that in our world ‘profit making’ counts for more than all human welfare and ecological issues.
It is to have things ass-backwards to elevate a future (possible/uncertain/unknown) catastrophe over another that we know (or should know) is unfolding now, in the present: the ascertainable mass oppression and exploitation that is the direct result of ‘money’ and ‘money making,’ of the ‘private property’ of the few that is literally premised upon the ‘destitution’ of the many.
The unprecedented crime is not the burning of fossil fuels in the face of AGW, but the fact that ‘profit making’ compels us as a society to sacrifice absolutely EVERYTHING to that end, even if it means the direct or indirect destruction of our environment, and of humans and other species of life in countless numbers.
AGW is an uncertainty. Something that may or may not even be real.
But capitalism is real. It’s effects are destructive in all kinds of different ways. It’s happening now.
Unless you remove a cause, you can’t eliminate its effects, whether potential or actual, conjectural or self-evident.
Norm You must have noticed that I have repeatedly said that $$$$ = carbon. Expressed slightly more scientifically: Output: global GDP (expressed as $$$$tns) = input: energy (hydrocarbons: measured in megatonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe)) …which correlate at near enough a ratio of 1:1 (R2 = 0.99072). The world economy is an energy economy. Carbon consumption = capitalism. PROFIT = CARBON. The two are not separable. The separation of present and future effects of profit valorisation are nominal and notional. Therefore: the future effects of burning carbon are real and tangible: as death, destruction, and dehumanisation NOW. AGW is a variable, which, if you accept (as you do) the current violence of capitalism, it becomes in effect, inconsequential. Capitalism will kill us anyway, AGW or not. Carbon consumption is becoming more and more costly, even if you bracket off AGW …due to EROI. That cost will (already is) becoming an economic drag slowing the world economy; exacerbating all the contradictions engendered in pseudo-infinite valorisation and accumulation of capital = carbon profiteering. Hyper-competition, monopolisation, super-exploitation, militarisation, imperialism and sub-imperialism will all multiply: compounding exponentially. A slowing super-indebted globalised economy, riven with fracture lines and loaded with systemic fragility is a dangerous thing. Those, other than you, that defend the status quo ante do not, and will not, admit that unmitigated capitalism plausibly entails civilisational collapse …or worse. Hell, nuclear war will probably mitigate AGW for us! The thrust of this thread is that strategic doubt, consciously created and culturally introduced, leads to a praxis of inaction …that defends the status quo. My particular take is, that instead of doing EXACTLY what is required of us to do – NOTHING …let’s get smarter. We are in a war, and the outcome of that war will decide whether or not humankind is an aberrant species or not. The status quo ante of globalised carbon capitalism is locked in to the system. At the managerial political level there is not even a whisper of an alternative. The counterfeit propaganda promulgated by many (including Lindzen, Lewis, and Curry) is that it will cost too much to mitigate capitalism (this is a bounded morality and rationality as their self-interests are capitalistic). Only, even though they mean ‘capitalism’, they say ‘AGW’ and utilise politicised, mythologised (Curry’s ‘skydragons’) pseudo-science to defend capitalism ‘scientifically’. All they actually do is say “we don’t know, so let’s do nothing”. I find this completely negligent and unconscionable. Their concern extends no further than their own bounded, and instrumental, rationality. Beyond those bounds lie the dying planet. That’s why I say it boils down to capitalism v humanism. Or individualism v holism. Or exceptionalism v universalism. It is political, purely political. Viewed politically, pragmatically, and radically humanistically: should a ‘New New Left’ re-emerge to meld Red and Green …humanity needs to find the weak spots as fulcrums and vectors of change. AGW presents humanity with a perfect tool. We cannot survive with the top heavy superstructure and architecture of oppression. It is evolutionary and bioenergetically redundant and unsustainable. Humanity will have to transversalise: absorbing the exploitative superstructure into a base of common ownership and shared, autonomous responsibility to survive. That is if humanity wants to survive, which is currently in doubt. If we do nothing, and fall back into culturally induced somnolence, well, I’ll let you contemplate the consequences. Doubt requires certitude, we do not have any mono-valent terms. Introduce enough of BOTH, and let the fragmented mind of the socius meltdown. I have’nt got time to introduce a metalingual analysis: but the Lords of Carbon use both, and we are too collectively… Read more »
Japan : The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake & tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster : Israel : Moshe Dayan Moshe Dayan : ‘Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’ * See also :Japan : The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake & tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/#comment-137063 See also : Nuclear fission : Lise Meitner and the To-hoku Earthquake & Tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Japan. https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/#comment-137216 See also : Related : Nuclear fission : Otto Robert Frisch and the WW2 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/#comment-137219 * On February 24, 2010, it was reported that Japan had offered to enrich uranium for Iran. Japan Offers to Enrich Uranium for Iran https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/10221-japan-offers-to-enrich-uranium-for-iran Report: Japan offers to enrich uranium for Iran http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3853864,00.html yandex.com search : Fukushima Israel https://yandex.com/search/?text=fukushima%20israel&lr=104986 * Japan : The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami and : Japan : Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster * Israel : Dimona / Nuclear Weapons Samson Option https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option … Some have written about the “Samson Option” as a retaliation strategy. In 2002, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter which the American Jewish author Ron Rosenbaum writes “goes so far as to justify” a Samson Option approach: Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow—it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away—unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans—have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice? Rosenbaum writes in his 2012 book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III that, in his opinion, in the “aftermath of a second Holocaust”, Israel could “bring down the pillars of the world (attack Moscow and European capitals for instance)” as well as the “holy places of Islam.” He writes that “abandonment of proportionality is the essence” of the Samson Option. In 2003, a military historian, Martin van Creveld, thought that the Al-Aqsa Intifada then in progress threatened Israel’s existence. Van Creveld was quoted in David Hirst’s The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) as saying: We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: ‘Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’ I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under. … * Note : Ron Rosenbaum’s books also featured in the Jo Cox narrative.. See these posts on the Jo Cox script : An overview of the main reasons for the “specially selected” books, allegedly belonging to Thomas Mair https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062869145#post1062869145 Thomas Mair’s alleged 3 esoteric, green hardbacks : Lord Levy : Prof Roger Pearson & Franz… Read more »
Nuclear fission : Lise Meitner and the To-hoku Earthquake & Tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Japan.
See also : Japan : The 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/#comment-137063
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Japan : The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
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Japan : Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
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Lise Meitner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
Lise Meitner ( 7 November 1878 27 October 1968 ) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics.
Meitner, Otto Hahn and Otto Robert Frisch led the small group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission of uranium when it absorbed an extra neutron; the results were published in early 1939.
Meitner, Hahn and Frisch understood that the fission process, which splits the atomic nucleus of uranium into two smaller nuclei, must be accompanied by an enormous release of energy. Nuclear fission is the process exploited by nuclear reactors to generate heat and, subsequently, electricity.
This process is also one of the basics of nuclear weapons that were developed in the U.S. during World War II and used against Japan in 1945.
Meitner spent most of her scientific career in Berlin, Germany, where she was a physics professor and a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She lost these positions in the 1930s because of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany, and in 1938 she fled to Sweden, where she lived for many years, ultimately becoming a Swedish citizen.
Meitner received many awards and honors late in her life, but she did not share in the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for nuclear fission that was awarded exclusively to her long-time collaborator Otto Hahn. In the 1990s, the records of the committee that decided on that prize were opened. Based on this information, several scientists and journalists have called her exclusion “unjust”, and Meitner has received many posthumous honors, including naming chemical element 109 meitnerium in 1992. Despite not having been awarded the Nobel Prize, Lise Meitner was invited to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 1962.
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The 666 th Prime Number is 4973 = P( 666 ) = P666
http://www.numberplanet.com/number/136d/index.html
The 4973 rd Prime Number is 48337 = P( 4973 ) = P4973
http://www.numberplanet.com/number/bcd1/index.html
48337 = P( 4973 ) = P( P( 666 ) ) = PP666
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From Nuclear fission : Lise Meitner born on 7 November 1878
to the Japan To-hoku Earthquake Tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011 is :
INClusive =
= 48337 days
= PP666 days
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=7&m1=11&y1=1878&d2=11&m2=3&y2=2011&ti=on
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Notes :
The definition and interpretation of the 3-digit rep-digits, 111 to 999 is here :
The 3119 ( P444 ) day sequence from GHW Bush DCI CIA to WTC-1993 and 9/11
http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062656639#post1062656639
An explanation of the use of Prime Ordinals or Prime Sequence Numbers is here :
https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062727690#post1062727690
An explanation of the date arithmetic types : ILUAF and ISUAF, INClusive, INTerval and NORMAL, is here :
https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062934235#post1062934235
MG
Related : Nuclear fission : Otto Robert Frisch and the WW2 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.
See also : Japan : The 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/#comment-137063
See also : Nuclear fission : Lise Meitner and the To-hoku Earthquake & Tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Japan.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/#comment-137216
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Otto Robert Frisch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Robert_Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch FRS ( 1 October 1904 22 September 1979 ) was an Austrian physicist who worked on nuclear physics.
With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission ( coining the term ) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products.
Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement.
The two bombings killed 129,000 – 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
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The 666 th Prime Number is 4973 = P( 666 ) = P666
http://www.numberplanet.com/number/136d/index.html
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From Nuclear fission : Otto Robert Frisch born on 1 October 1904
to the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 is :
= 14919 days
= 3x 4973 days
= P666 + P666 + P666 days
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=1&m1=10&y1=1904&d2=6&m2=8&y2=1945
MG
Mark; If your examples of date arithmetic gives ‘signatures’ to events – if I got that right – who or what might be the nature of the power to synchronise such timings and what significances do you draw or seek to communicate? Or are you hoping someone else will in some way tell you?
The inference is of malign influence from a higher or dimension of which we only experience effect and assign it causes in the realm of effects – or the physical dimension.
This can of course be associated with magic, but anyone using a tool can become identified or in a sense possessed by their toolset, and so the most ‘powerful’ may simply be conduits for a sense of powerlessness that is then compelled to act as it does.
The idea of free will is inverted in the idea of magic – as it is in the idea of the free market by those who gain insider influence to capture and rig the markets to serve one group at expense of others.
Do you feel a compulsion to communicate about date arithmetic gives ‘signatures’ to events, or a movement of love – which of course extends a sense of worth to others as yourself?
I hold for free will as the capacity to accept and share in all that is worthy and wait on clarification for all that is not, rather than give power to fear and succumb to it. Because fear operates a distortion and denial in the mind of those who then cannot recognize love as who they are or of course in each other – and this effects a version of creating that is divisive, limiting, conflicting and destructive or depleting – but most of all, deceitful. Ands so vigilance always needs to be first against deceit, from the quality of our peace (or we are already divided).
Alignment in Spirit – or Purpose – can seem like magic – but is witness to a shared will and blessing, not a self-manipulated outcome into which separate wills join a manipulated from of outcome and ‘pull it off’ or rather get everyone or most everyone else to buy into a lie and operate as if it is true. IE Adjust their mind to an imposed reality.
And are such minds then owned or trapped in the framing of their deceiver? Or are they still as they are in truth created but actively denying their own witnesses in the running of a false sense of self-survival under a deceit that was designed to operate from the one place no one would challenge. Yourself.
(A) …lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
– Joseph Goebbels
I thought of this quote (I saw on SOTT yesterday) for the name similarity and the theme – but truth is perceived as enemy by mind-investment in the lie as the measure of its own act or intention. Truth doesn’t attack or destroy lies. Truth being itself true, is the condition in which untruth is undone. Hence the protection of the lie by the mind-investment in attacking it and thereby assigning or sacrificing truth to it.
As for Goebells – he also knew that suppression, and disinformation work a delay in which new lies can shift attention so that the old ones no longer hold interest – along with a conditioned sense of survival by compliance in the official narrative as self-interest – where job or physical security wins out over extreme risk under conditions lacking support or protection for honesty.
So by the time the so called settled science is revealed to be unfounded or mistaken, the object of the ruse will be achieved and set in law, while if need be some token sacrifice of ‘criminals’ can draw a line
while new forms of the old ruse are brought in.
Now if that seems depressing, it is – and so the key is to remain inspired and become responsible to yourself for thought and action that dis-inspire you by choosing differently. This may seem too high a price to pay – and in fear, the greater evil relative to the ‘world we know’. Depression and anxiety – along with rage and impotence characterise an unowned self-betrayal. All negative emotion can be tapped into as a source of power. But positive or integrated being can only be aligned in.
Hello binra
Thank you for your interest.
There’s a lot to parse in your posts, so it might be a tad more productive and certainly a lot clearer if you have any questions, to ask them one a at time so that I can answer them one at a time.
I’ll take one of your points, since you mention “magic”.
Please see these posts and the links therein :
jamesfetzer.org : Thomas Muller, Observations on the Squirrel Hill Synagogue Shooting (Updated)
MG : https://jamesfetzer.org/2018/10/thomas-muller-observations-on-the-squirrel-hill-synagogue-shooting-updated/#comment-42119
Quote :
“All false flag events, faux terrorism, mass shootings etc., use a scheduling system that relies on the use of kabbalistic numbers to define the Y, M, W & D relationships between events.”
winterwatch.net : Re-Examining the Untimely Death of a President’s Son: John F. Kennedy, Jr.
MG : Holocaust narrative : Anne Frank and the murder of JFK Jr.
https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/11/re-examining-the-untimely-death-of-a-presidents-son-john-f-kennedy-jr/#comment-7640
MG : Re: “belief in the magic of numbers”
https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/11/re-examining-the-untimely-death-of-a-presidents-son-john-f-kennedy-jr/#comment-7658
Quote :
Just to be clear :
I have never once suggested that there is anything magical, supernatural, hokus pokus, other worldly, preternatural etc etc about the scheduling of events and the selection of perps and targets etc., and nor would I.
Hope that helps.
Btw, did you know that your name is an anagram on Rabin and Brain ?
You are not the ghost of Yitzhak are you ?
MG
I was interested in what moves you. I have my own sense of the world not being actually as it is be-lived to be, where the beliefs of a mind-capture* by deceit are effectively protected from exposure or indeed healing.(mind capture*or indeed of a mind-split of dissociation from true relation as the demand for unconsciousness). Tesla’s birth – being one of your date sum examples (I did follow one of your links) doesn’t fall under the same framework as a planned event – at least not to the date. I used the term ‘magic’ because it is part of the nature of the cultural background of the secret societies – is it not? A hypnotist can elicit a blister from a cold needle believed hot, placebo can work as well or better than pharma, and a cancer diagnosis can kill – even if it turned out later to have been a mistake. So the power of the mind operates largely under the pretence that it is weak and ineffectual, which of course is also part of a strategy of stealing power from the unwary. I don’t associate with numbers so much – though I see that primes or fibonacci and other sequences and ratios are part of the ‘sacred geometry’ that can also be expressed in octaves or fractal holography. Nor do I have an insider view as to what is in the minds or purpose of those who ‘psyop-erate’ upon the human consciousness. I have my own life. I do have a sense that a common but false sense of self-protective survival running blind, delivers us unto evil and that an opportunism can take advantage of a predictable and programmable nature for its own agenda – which of course seems to be driven by perverse or hateful intent – but is that also because such is the nature of the ‘hackable human’? (Corrupt habits or desires are part of control-ability and therefore promotion – where competency matters less than compliance in key matters). When I first took a comment handle, brian was already taken, so I chose binra. Brain isn’t where Mind IS, as far as I am concerned, but it is the vehicle through which Mind extends a focus into the physical experience and it is neuro-plastic in terms of developing or changing pathways of association, thought and behaviour. I don’t know the people you mention, and I don’t know what other facets of being are in a sense part of my own expression. At some level, Everyone. No man is an island – and I see this applies in much greater terms than it was originally intended. So you don’t have anything to add to that cabalistic quote? I don’t just follow links without some sense of conscious purpose. Without being dismissive of the nature or effects of such events I wonder – ‘so what’ – which can also be – ‘so what is that all about then?’ It certainly suggests magic to me – but more of manipulating ‘source code’ as in sorcery, than in the stage magician – yet see how effectively diversion and assertive repetition works in ordinary political (or personal) manipulation. Did you post something specific to the alleged but already punishable crime of AGW? Or it that you feel the mere discovery of the number system to be an overriding communication – and if so – why? My various points are possible points of engaging discussion. Not a lack of links to follow 😉 There is much that is hidden, and not always wrongly. There is hatred in the human heart that… Read more »
Thanks for your response Admin.
Most odd. I thought those “gremlins” were all dealt with during the revamp ?
Great shame they are still occurring …
I keep copies of everything I post, so should I submit it again ?
Will it get through this time ?
I had to wait over 24 hours for the previous post to appear …
MG
We haven’t done the revamp yet. We’re hoping to launch the new site next month
Fisherman weighs in.
https://youtu.be/IFbACPh2xPA?t=143
Admin:
Yes, there is an identifiable “eugenicist phalanx” that congregate around Mikhail Gorbachev. I call their agenda ‘corporate commoning’ – which leverages the myth of the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’. We are too stupid to look after the aquifers: so Nestle and Coca Cola will do it for us. Monsanto, Cargill, and Syngenta will care for the arable land. Rio Tinto the mining for minerals. Fucking frightening.
There is another major trend of faux deglobalisation – they even have a terminology …’glocalisation’. This is the Soros Play to fracture the nation state into borderless (for them and their money) federations; smaller polis-municipalities and ‘resilient’ city-state metropolii …under a ‘Global Parliament of Mayors’ (Sadiq Khan clones). These fractured and atomised communities would be vassal (neo-feudal serfdoms) to an inverse totalitarian corporatocracy: infiltrated right down to the high ASI-surveillance street scene. (Statistics and information control are technochratically crucial).
They know resources are running out (including oil: ‘peak oil’ Hubbert was one of them): they (the Club of Rome) commissioned key studies …most appositely the Limits To Growth (LTG). This has been manipulated toward de-population. Crucially though, if you take away the spin, it does not mean the science is wrong. Many of the agendas (peak oil, peak resource; species (not ours) depopulation studies, EROI, LTG) have a wealth of corroborating data and meta-analyses. The best example of the corporate/academic spin on real data was that fellow who showed up to advocate after-birth abortion – for the sake of humanity. Fucking frightening!
So will the AGW narrative be deployed in order to leverage de-industrialisation and neo-feudalism. Of course. Let’s call it the ‘Hunger Games Future Scenario’.
The trick is to get smarter, identify the propaganda from the real, and act in our (humanities) best interests accordingly. Otherwise, they have us on one of either horns of a propaganda dilemma. If we fall back from perceived extremisation into reactionary inaction …the dilemma becomes a trilemma. That way, the PTSB have us exactly where they want us: propagandised into inaction by our own doubt.
Flip! It came in at the top again, Admin. This was a reply to you from yesterday.
I do not feel doubt is divisive if it is recognised as such and brought to curiosity. But if doubts are glossed over or forced down, then coercion is operating instead of a living communication.
I feel that you grossly underestimate the capacity of corporate capture to astroturf any movement they so choose in any institutional arena and do so as a complex mimicry of life.
I hold that there IS certainty at the level of being that is beyond the scope of the mind of ‘define, predict and control’.
And the error of any who seek to use it is always that of the attempt to USE truth as a weapon.
Can that last phrase not sink in?
Certainty is falsely gotten by setting against something that seems irrevocably evil. But such a one NEEDs the evil to support the power that then rides out to save the day. The tares and the wheat run together. This is self evident in “Too Big to Fail”.
The nature of the certainty of being is a basis from which to relate with integrity and thereby grow it as our consciously connected awareness – rather than a supplied or framed identity under fears that are assigned ‘certainty’ or reality in terms of bounding or directing thought.
All thinking that operates through the ‘lens darkly’ operates the private agenda – as IF split off from Life and then split again in the intent to subject it and the experience of subjection.
Restoring a truly relational willingness for communication – rather than persuasion or one-up-man-ship (defence within power struggle) – is what vested interests are most intent on denying by seeking and using any and every ‘trigger point’ of our respective personality structure.
My take on this is of having a crash course in identifying and integrating such ‘reactive habit’ to a more consciously aligned will, and I mean conscious in the presence of life – and because of our misuse of the will, usually use the term willingness in awakened worthy as opposed to wilful attempts to become worthy.
The investment in the AGW carbon trading and etc is so big now that it joins the ranks of “Too Big to Fail”.
However, failure is becoming too big to hide – even though the most ingenious ruses are played out to capture and divert attention from the fact.
I’m going to move your comment as it’s evidently a reply to flaxgirl
As Philip and a friend yesterday have pointed out: it’s a waste of time arguing online – you need to get onto the decision makers. I guess we recognisers of the problem would have been better devoting our discussion to solutions rather than wasting time trying to argue with those who are impervious to the scientific facts and criticality of the situation.
These are the headings under the last chapter of the book, “Evidence of the climate emergency”
—Why More Global Climate Change is “Locked In”
—The Escalating Arctic Emergency
—Multiple Arctic Feedbacks
—The Arctic is Emitting the Three Main GHGs
—Evidence Arctic and Amazon Carbon Sinks Have Switched to Carbon Sources
—Still Accelerating CO2 Rate of Increase Has Recently Reached Levels Unprecedented in Earth’s History
—Methane Concentrations
—The Multi-Faceted Oceans Emergency
—Ocean Surface Warming Dooms Coral Reefs
—Ocean Heat
—Ocean Deoxygenation
—Ocean Acidification
—The Sea Level Rise Emergency
—Human Habitability in Danger
—The Coming Food and Water Emergency
—Climate Wars
These are the legal cases where plaintiffs are pressing charges against climate change crime:
Woohoo! US Supreme Court allows historic kids’ climate lawsuit to go forward (Nov 2)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07214-2?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf201482657=1
Two states launched fraud investigations into Exxon over climate change, and one has followed with a lawsuit. Nine cities and counties, from New York to San Francisco, have sued major fossil fuel companies, seeking compensation for climate change damages.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042018/climate-change-fossil-fuel-company-lawsuits-timeline-exxon-children-california-cities-attorney-general
It has been shown to you and everyone here that:
1. the earth has not warmed in the past 18 years
2. the claims the “missing heat” is in the oceans is purely a theory
3. the theory of CO2 as a major climate forcer remains unproven and is in competition with other theories that are equally or in some cases a lot more plausible.
4. even it it’s true the idea it will lead to catastrophic temperature rises is based on a further completely speculative and evidence-free hypothesis of positive feedback loops that most climate scientists do not accept.
These undeniable facts, which you yourself have been forced to accept one after another, combine to show there is at best inconclusive evidence for manmade global warming and absolutely NO evidence for a coming climate catastrophe.
Which raises the question why the media suppresses all this data and tries to sell, not just AGW, but the completely evidence-free catastrophe scenario (CAGW) as proven fact.
Why? Why? The most important question!
You’re a freakin 9/11 Truther, flaxgirl! You know how the power structures work. You know who owns the Supreme Court, and the media, and you don’t trust anything they say – unless it’s about global warming!
Think. Just for a moment. I implore you.
Why is the US Supreme Court allowing a global warming lawsuit? Why is that getting so much attention when the 9/11 victims’ families lawsuit is ignored?
And why the fuck do you think the 9/11 families are all fake but you believe this “kids’ climate lawsuit” is beyond question genuine?
Why this one blind spot? Where’s your logic? Why aren’t you wondering why the Guardian, the BBC, George Monbiot, and the fucking Supreme Court, who are all tools of the 1%, are promoting climate change?
Why are they claiming it’s proven when it’s not? Why are they advocating the suppression of contrary evidence and opinions?
Oh and – where did the “denier” meme come from? Same place as the “conspiracy theory” meme? We all know where that is.
The point is this is going to be used to leverage a bunch of stuff none of us want. Censorship, more poverty, massive energy price hikes, more taxation for the 99% , more curtailments on freedom and privacy. But while you and those like you are so brainwashed by the media-created image of what climate change is you won’t object to anything they do in its name.
That scares the bejeezus out of me
Indeed , Flax: the internet debate is a waste of time. The real debate has moved on (elsewhere) to policy and mitigation. I tried to do the same and was largely ignored. Phillip’s article proposed the same, the merging of “red and green” – ditto. Against which we have ascientific opinions masquerading as science. And political debate masquerading as scientific debate. Among which I note that it’s not CO2 – a response to which demands a rewrite of the laws of physics; and that, in fact, we are about to enter and Ice Age – a pseudo-scientific theory which was debunked when I was a teen …but it is still doing the rounds. Championed by those that argue from quasi-scientific exceptionalism and mythology: that they know better than the ‘theory’ that shows consilience, convergence and consensus that CO2 IS the major driver of AGW (>95% – and I’m definitely not conflating it with CAGW!). [When is a theory not a theory: when it is a scientific Theory – dealt with days ago but ignored. If you know science better than scientists: enter a paper for peer review. Can’t get a paper accepted: it must indicate a conspiracy. Couldn’t be that the cherry picked data doesn’t support the bullshit theory – as has happened to the few denialists that have tried. Whereupon, they resort to internet, and sneer. Synopsis: if internet memes trump scientific Method we are back in the Dark Age with a bunsen burner and tabula rasa of scientific theory. Is science perfect? Hardly: but it trumps internet ‘scientists’ – an issue dealt with days ago but ignored]. According to Professor Kevin Anderson (previously of the Tyndall Centre – whoooh, controversial!) 70% of global CO2 emissions are from the rampant consumption (my terms) of just 20% of humanity. 50% of those emissions are from the even more rampant consumption of just 10% of humanity. Here’s an quasi-scientific observation – AGW (not CAGW!) is class warfare. Who would wager against the fact that climate denialists are ALL from the 20%? Probably from the 10%? These are the petty-bourgeois and bourgeois of the climate war. Trying to preserve bourgeois consumerism is a form of carbon imperialism: an imposed inequality over 80% of humanity. Who does “we don’t know” and “let’s wait and see” – or more emphatically “let’s do nothing” – benefit the most …the 20% or the 80% of humanity (the ones who are almost certainly going to be affected the most)? The cost benefit analysis using human capital (real lives) versus financial (carbon) capital is a moral no-brainer. Anderson’s proposal: the Eurocentric bourgeois consumers and emitters (my terms) curtail their emissions (his per capita limit would itself be an imposed inequality) would reduce global emissions by a third in a year or two. How many denialists would go for that? Shall we ask them? 😉 https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-10-09/response-to-the-ipcc-1-5c-special-report/ The imposed inequality, access and distribution of CO2 as a climate warfare is not to be discussed. A solution of CO2 – and therefore, broadly speaking, wealth* – redistribution would be a egalitarian way to mitigate two of the major issues of globalised corporate carbon capitalism. Let the carbon bourgeoisie consume less, the global carbon precariat poor consume more, toward an equality of ameliorated and mitigated AGW? Shall we put this (not new) proposal to a global referendum? Or shall we claim: “we don’t know” and “let’s wait and see”, or more emphatically “let’s do nothing” … in the interests of science of course? [The global economy is a carbon energy economy. $$$$ out = carbon in – with a >99% correlation. “Energy… Read more »
The same kind of arguments were brought up for the cholesterol theory (aka the statin fact – though that goes far deeper than milking the sick and making them sicker). The Cochrane controversy is not involved with ‘climatology’ or meteorology but the corruption of science in the medical field is of such an order as to call the whole ‘peer review system’ and institutional integrity into question …. seriously. Insofar as the AGW agenda operates the means to persist the poisoning of the Living for the sake of very ingenious deceits then your sentiment at the end fits well enough. But it is a diversion into personal SATISFACTION of hateful vendetta and this is a sweet baited hook to those who just want to be pointed at something to kill – metaphorically, legally or literally. There never was a debate or at least the freedom for debate was lost to the polarising hate (guilting) campaign that has global, national and corporate teeth – not to mention a mob. A mind that is changed against its will is of the same opinion still. Freedom of information – which is a multilevel interactive flow – is the basis in which a free choice can be aligned in as our own. There IS no freedom of information within the framing of this ‘offer you cant refuse’. ‘Post truth’ is without any intention of giving a voice to anyone who sings off-script. You think this issue is ‘different’. I think it is cunningly laid and executed as perhaps was the environmental movement itself. I know we (I include myself) felt we were waking up to and aligning in a better way of living, but to what degree has this movement been subverted and used as another proxy in the broad spectrum mind-capture. PR is an extremely well researched study of the human psyche from the point of view of the desire to manipulate it. But yes – if you articulated your outrage to the actual – not modelled or forecast – evils that best us as a result of our own corrupted systems of governance, provenance and supply, you would not be meeting what seems to you to be an anti-life agenda in your fellows. For I see an anti-Life agenda in the AGW distortion. I wont ‘stop’ the global rollout of such agenda anyway – by this and every other device because it is just as much a part of a self-programmed chain reaction as all that it pretends to oppose or ‘solve’. Only individuals are free to step out of its mindset and live from a different basis than giving power to perceived and believed evils and then seeking to overcome them. I see the cause is upstream to the level of the symptoms that are then assigned ‘causality’ in diversionary strategy against a deeper or more fundamental exposure. ‘Too big to fail’ – means something else has to take the consequences of failure – and this means those without a voice or whose voice is denied. Not least by those who could have helped bring it forth – but sell out for personal gain and abandonment of their own – and their own truth. No surprise if these become hateful and vindictive in the context of such a self-betrayal. It is said everyone has their price – but many can be simply induced to comply via old tricks such as good cop bad cop. The deceiver understands our pain – and can deeply sympathise – as a means to induce allegiance whilst confirming us in the powerlessness of the ‘victim’ and… Read more »
Public Release: 31-Oct-2018: Earth’s oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought . Princeton University https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/pu-eoh103118.php
Sounds scary, not? Quotes:
Scientists know that the ocean takes up roughly 90 percent of all the excess energy produced as the Earth warms
“Imagine if the ocean was only 30 feet deep,” said Resplandy, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps. “Our data show that it would have warmed by 6.5 degrees Celsius [11.7 degrees Fahrenheit] every decade since 1991
Back to reality: the oceans are on average 12,100 feet deep, 400 x more. So the “warming” is 400 x less, resulting in 0.01625 C per decade which gives 0.0486 C increase since 1991.
Not just non scarey, more of a non event.
It’s even worse than that, Antonym. They aren’t even trying to measure actual temperature of the ocean. They’re monitoring something called APO (“atmospheric potential oxygen”). Based on the theory that a warming ocean would release more APO they are estimating an amount the oceans may have. warmed. They admit APO is also increased by burning fossil fuels, so they make a guess at how much of the increased APO is due to that and anything over they guess may be due to theoretical ocean warming.
In other words there is no data produced to actually show there is any ocean warming at all.
The “heat sink in the sea” hypothesis is at this point little more than a desperate attempt to explain why global temps have been stagnant since around 2000 while CO2 has continued to rise.
These facts are unacknowledged in the media, which continues to pump out scare headlines for the masses such as “Earth’s oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought”, banking that most people (like Mulga “abusive drunk at the back of the bus” Mumblebrain) will either not bother to read the text or won’t understand it if they do. But in the scientific community it’s a big deal. How long can the AGW crowd continue to ignore this major challenge to their theory?
The CAGW con- census is getting desperate: 0.01625 C per decade is only 0.001625 C per year. About impossible to measure, more than error margins, but worse – not alarming. Desperate situation calling for desperate measure(ments). In stead of taking a neutral trace gas like Argon they opt for all present O2 which is involved in many giant natural processes and cycles: lack of hockey stick blade with Argon?
And speaking of APO, this just in: A major problem with the Resplandy et al. ocean heat uptake paper
I guess that with that link I could have quoted part of the author’s conclusion:
What’s the point you are making Norm? I refer you to AtomsSanakan’s (?) reply on Curry’s blog. One bad paper does not undermine peer review, the results of which we rely on every day. Nor does a bad paper mean a conspiracy, or undermine the consensus theoretical model. We undermine science at our peril. Is it perfect, or even optimal …no. Science could be vastly improved by including the excluded observer (second order cybernetics) and introducing the First Person experiential …which is happening. Until that scientific revolution unfolds, science as it is is all we have.
BTW: did you read the post (Rand Corporation …that’s the Rand Corporation!!!) where Curry admitted her Lewis/Curry upper ECS limits were too low …and arbitrarily added a few degree to match the peer/consensus (her term)? Is that scientific? What does that say of peer review when you can change parameters on a whim? Perhaps Nic Lewis could review his own butchered estimates?
BTW: that’s Nic Lewis, capitalist and mathematician, with no training in climate science; and Curry, heroine of the corporatocracy carbonistas, who agree with the basics and bow to consensus, as suits …but who want to induce doubt and strategic non-commital into policy (very successfully so far.) That’s the Lewis and Curry who are empowering the dehumanisation, destruction and death entailed by the ultra-violent, super-exploitative carbonism. And a revolutionary socialist is quoting them?
Just sayin’ …
Norm:
Having read the post in more depth, I came across these caveats:
”Assuming I am right that Resplandy et al. have miscalculated the trend …”
”How might Laure Resplandy have miscalculated …”
Lewis castigates the press for blithe acceptance of unchecked results (that may well be right, it wouldn’t be the first time his maths and parameters have been criticised). His supporters, with blithe acceptance, rush to push his unchecked analysis (that may well be wrong, are you certain the mistake is Resplandy’s?)
The upshot is that the lower bound for ECS is anchored at 1.5 C. The upper bound can be changed by Curry on a whim to 3 C, (higher) OK …4.5 C. Cutting the carbon budget by 25% is ruled out, though. That means we burn the carbon budget for 2 C …and hope that is not in fact the carbon budget for 4.5 C. It might be, that is what the peer/consensus (her term) says …shall we try and see?
Admin do not like my terminology, but what else shall I call those who play statistical Russian Roulette with humanities future …other than heretics? Traitors? Denialists seems too respectful to me. What is respectful about gambling with human, floral, and faunal lives? If you can’t see what these thugs are up to, I can. I do not feel respectfully inclined toward their skydragons and obfuscatory games.
Lewis’ bias is toward corporate carbon capitalism and all the exploitation that entails. He might be right, he might be wrong. He could challenge Laure Resplandy through the peer review system, but he does it from a blog. Is this science, or manufacturing uncertainty? I don’t know, do you?
If in doubt, I would very much back the humanism rather than the carbonism. That means giving Laure the benefit of the doubt. I can’t be sure now that the peer review system has let a bad ‘un through. Perhaps the reviewers were correct and thorough? Will anyone check Lewis’ analysis as it disseminates through the blogosphere? Probably not. Who really has the moral highground?
In the final analysis: ending carbon capitalism by any means necessary should be the radical responsibility of every existential humanist on the planet, don’t you think? Lewis is no friend to humanity. No friend at all.
“What’s the point you are making Norm?”
Something along the lines of:
“Lewis castigates the press for blithe acceptance of unchecked results (that may well be right, it wouldn’t be the first time his maths and parameters have been criticised). His supporters, with blithe acceptance, rush to push his unchecked analysis (that may well be wrong, are you certain the mistake is Resplandy’s?)”
Doubt is everywhere and on every side, and not merely on this perticular issue in connection with that of climate change more generally.
And if one bad paper doesn’t invalidate the peer review process — which, by the way, is a process by ‘consensus,’ and thus inherently political in the sense that careers and funding very much do depend on the ‘terms of reference’ currently dominating ‘those who do the reviewing’ — it only takes one good piece of analysis to undermine it in the long run.
Am I claiming that Nic Lewis’s analysis of Resplandy et al. is definitive? Not at all. But it should invite others, who have the competence to do so, to examine these contending sides of the issue at hand.
I’m away for the rest of the week. I might be able to make some time on the weekend to discuss further.
Doubt is a given: after 560+ comments …doubt is the only certitude. My point all along, is rather than have a pseudo-scientific debate that none of us understand (some say they do, but frankly, I have my doubts). The way out seems to me to be humanist …to employ radical responsibility and a universalist Existentialist Humanism to choose the best result for the super-majority. The best result being Life and the end of the megadeath purveyor of global carbon capitalism. I do not know about you, but I do not want Nic Lewis having an elevated say in the future of life. How about we (humanity) decides? Wouldn’t that be novel?
In the attacks on cholesterol as the villain, its role as healer was undermined – (Not to mention its vital roles in the body), all kinds of toxic interventions piled in as the basis of an industry born of the narrative – (Ancel keys as the PR poster boy), and the emergence of surrogate makers instead of clinical diagnosis. Where levels are decided by which to then initiate pharmaceutical interventions. the goalposts, can and are then moved – to capture or ‘medicalise’ ever more people – as part of conditioning them TO sickness management (the Medical State). With the whole thing backed by funding, regulatory capture and applied disincentives for non compliance. Meanwhile dietary advice promotes sickness – with a sense of moral brownie points for depriving ourselves of good fats and an ongoing ignorance of very substantial dangers from refined sugars, and carbohydrate overload.
This is one among many examples. But it took 30-40 years for the ‘model’ to be shown as lacking substance and yet is STILL active as a dead man walking in the sickness industry and in the conditioned thought and habit of the population.
So for the propagandist, the shock headlines with the carefully crafted narrative distortion – works to buy time in which to reposition before the people catch up. For by them all the goalposts are moved and they are hopelessly behind the game. It doesn’t matter if the AGW is found to be flawed or wrong after the laws of power transfer are put in place.
And New Science can always be invented upon the demonisation of the old.
So I do not join your carbon certainties and even capitalism is so big a barn door to shoot at from point blank that it doesn’t mean anything to rail against it.
The nature of a technocracy is more of systems approach for not just control of capital, but of energy on all levels.
If you equate Life with an energetic exchange – then pay more attention.
It is the force which keeps in balance the contention we experience which must fist be defined. This force will also control that narrative.
You’re approach would be common sense. Sense is not common. Addressing a definition of common sense would simply facilitate the ever elusive ‘force’ again. It is rather like that ’enigma within an enigma’ It counters our every move because it is us making each move.
I read your post and felt a prompt to feel and write into ‘common sense’. If the reader finds the journey too abstract relative to the concrete, jump to the last three paragraphs. (We have to learn to ‘see’ the world, and likewise have to relearn to see beneath appearances – if we are moved to question a private sense of dispossession).
Sensing and making sense are two facets of one process or movement of being.
or rather one thing can seem to become two – and oppositional or out of alignment.
Sensing is receptive, and meaning is the the extension or projection of what is received.
It is how you know you have received and in this sense Descartes was correct.
In this sensing is undifferentiated or direct knowing of light as felt being.
The light of awareness shines upon and though the objects of its own reflection.
We can not give a meaning we have not received or conceived.
Conceiving is a creative faculty of thought as a maker of meanings that extend or filter the conception of a differentiated self.
It can thus relax to receive and express sensed being, or contract around its concept of self-becoming.
As the self-concept develops, it becomes a self-conscious inhibition, seemingly separate self from directly received being and subject to it. It becomes conditioned by its own filtered and self-reflected experience as if unsupported, to then derive meanings of threat, rejection, attack, denial, betrayal from its own oppositional reactive contractions from the field of its own being and assign these motives to its own being, while at the same time depending on and still being the ‘love’ that is direct common sense. And so the mind is split to levels and levels split to compartmented conditionality to make a narrative ‘sense’ out of a loss of true sensing – as a result of the self-inhibiting ‘thought and reaction’ of a model or reality given priority as the basis of sense, meaning and life – but as survival under threat.
Commonality can thus seem to be a set of conditioned beliefs that are mutually self-reinforcing but founded in opposition and defence against a perceived or believed threat, as a tribal or group or ideological ‘identity’. But truly common is not divided or unified over and against the targeted or projected enemy, but is innately and inherently common to all – regardless of its current state of expression, inhibition, or denial.
This is also to say that beneath the surface levels of appearances and coded meanings is a level of communication that is unconscious until relaxed into, that automatically aligns in common sense rather than attempt to force support for a private assertion that no longer makes sense from the shifted perspective.
Common sensing is not in agreeing the meanings of the forms and appearances of our world, but a reconnecting of awareness and attention to the presently or currently receptive, that then embodies through us as shared being, or the actual experience of a felt communication.
So tell me, honestly. When you take over the world, are you going to exterminate us all or keep some of us around for amusement?
There is no ‘taking over’ the world but in delusion, and you cannot get rid of or escape yourself but make a world of such delusion and suffer it as real. Of course you can follow your joy. Or you may sacrifice yourself to a false god instead. To make joy conditional upon conforming others or your world to your demands is not a real relationship with others, your world or your self. The meek shall inherit the Living Earth because only the release of distorting bias to a true receptivity can share it. You cant really ‘share’ illusion so much as mutually self-reinforce each other. Shared being is not a ‘getting or a doing’ so much as a letting that does through us. This makes no sense to the mind in power struggle and so nothing truly sensible can or does get through to such a set of mind – but Life can knock on the door of those who sacrifice and replace joy in being for such a ‘war’. You addressed me as if I represent the intent to deny Life on Earth. Perhaps Life as you define it, is War – period. Such is the belief in the exclusively ‘physical’, or rather, in the domination and subjection of Life in physical terms. I hold that definition to be a mistaken identity. And as such capable of correction. But only though willingness to re-evaluate. Insofar as I find and am found in such a willingness, I am joined in purpose with everyone who seeks a better way of seeing and being – regardless of their external circumstance or even their location in time. The Call for Help is not unequivocal when framed in sets of demands or non-negotiable conditions. How much can get through the filters even if Everything is freely given? I see life as a prior wholeness in which the mind can war with itself and be-live itself other. Divide and rule, rules out wholeness as the protection of the part against a feared whole. But the pause of the choice to enact this can become open to being aligned to a wholeness from which it never really HAD the power to divide itself from or split off. Plato’s cave indicated an reachable and seemingly unteachable addiction to shadowplay. But not a total unconsciousness. Your last point reminds me of the Matrix film in which the creative had to be maintained as the source of the Matrix itself. The reversal of consciousness operates a parasitic and destructive relationship to a source it completely depends upon – but must keep that hidden. It runs a lie and protects a lie as it ‘life’. From the point of view of the lie – truth or love calls upon total sacrifice. And so in fear of the greater evil, protects the lie of a life as a ‘partial sacrifice’ or lesser evil. Of course it doesn’t stop there for there is no resting in a lie – and so the mind of sacrifice becomes the ‘world’ gained at expense of Whole Souled Being. With power struggle operating ‘who shall pay and how much’. Side effects, collateral damage or necessary to break eggs to make an omelette or to destroy all traditional inheritance to make way for a new world. Where have you perceived me writing in support of a coercive agenda? Is it not that the threat of; ‘if you are not for us you are against us!’ is not exclusively applicable to neocon warmongers? Are you doing the thing you most hate? – but if you notice this,… Read more »
I’ll meet you in honesty when you choose to extend it. While you emulate a machine ‘intelligence’, or conditioned reaction, as an automaton or golem you have no substance from which to engage.And so there is no ‘you’ – no presence and nothing but a snark pretending to be a post.
Such a lack of presence is the condition that not only invites self illusion and subjection, (also known as unconsciousness) but demands it. While running as if in grievance and opposition. Huh? Seems like a familiar pattern.
Someone said once that an unquestioned life is not worth living – but is it better said that worth, to be uncovered must be extended (shared) to truly live?
You can of course get your identity from the Mall or the Military Industrial complex – but this is always up to you. You don’t have to react as if your thinking is unquestionable right.
Unworthy thinking fruits in unworthy actions and dumps its toxic debts on others as its way of persisting in denial of the consequences of it thoughts and behaviours. But I don’t buy into this and I write to invite walking out of the scam.
Being smeared, ridiculed or attacked without substance is an indication that I am doing something worthwhile.
If you should find me engaging in deceits and tricks instead of communication, then call out my honesty to correct it because my desire is to choose not to use guilt as a source of power and protection. Its a racket and you are working for it whether you think so or not when you seek to invalidate another so as to feel better about yourself.
Just feel yourself better. No need to put down others.
Now if you are only pretending to be here as yourself, then disinfo and division is your duty or at least your paycheque.
I don’t care who you think you are – but while I extend communication to you – it is of an equality of being, because that is the condition in which communication can occur.
Identifying against believed evils is being made in their shadow. I understand that it is easy to say “we are against murder and lies and oppressive systems of denial” – but that is too easy to use as a manipulative masking device.
What are you living FOR, axisofevil?
2018-10-31 New study estimate ocean warming using atmospheric O2 and CO2 concentrations. We are aware the way we handled the errors underestimated the uncertainties. We are working on an update that addresses this issue. We thank Nicholas Lewis for bringing this to our attention.
http://resplandy.princeton.edu/
BTW: those empowered by carbon, the Lords of Carbon, are the very upper echelons of the global possessing classes that ensure humanities enslavement. Their very edifice, the exploitative hierarchical superstructure, is an edifice built from carbon consumption. Capital = carbon. Capitalism = carbon (carbonism). Accumulation = carbon. Growth = carbon. Exploitation = carbon. Dehumanisation = carbon. Violence = carbon …can I stop yet?
Humanity has a very small outside chance of wresting the levers of power away from the Lords of Carbon by de-carbonising and negotiating a neo-optimal egalitarianism with the desolated earth. A transversalised egalitarianism without the hierarchical superstructure cannibalising the life from the foundations of nature. It is by no means certain that the earth IS still in a recoverable state to support us. Everyone just assumes that it has the resilience to recover. Anyone, like me, who dares suggest it might not, especially if we keep pushing on our metabolic bounds, is an eco-Fascist. The earths metabolic rate is currently running at 170%. Very few seem perturbed by this, most seem blasé. Carbon capitalism and carbon socialism both have growth vectors that push that rate to 180, 190, 200% (a new planet required) …even then they cannot stop.
Viewed in such light, Laure’s perhaps apocryphal 25% carbon budget reduction seems eminently sensible? Especially as it is equatable to a metabolic reduction or stability. Lewis’ induced uncertainty, even if it proves correct, seems like an unnecessary gamble? An induced metabolic increase. At what rate will a metabolic rift occur? No one knows.
Science won’t save us: its supposed inherent objectivity is being culturally manipulated. Inducing uncertain uncertainty into science certainly won’t. Fallible, emotional, intuitive and empathetic humanism, applied as a universalism, just might. On the conditional probability of the interests of the super-majority: what say you that we err wildly on the side of Laure …rather than take a very uncertain gamble with Nic?
There is an alternative view, though BigB, that decarbonising(?) is part of some social engineering plan by the same eugenicist phalanx of the 1% bringing us liberal-fascism and Agenda 21. It’s claimed they are pouring money into the AGW narrative in order to leverage de-industrialisation and neo-feudalism. Can this perspective be ignored? Is it possible there is more propaganda here than we think?
Desire and willingness for true can and shall save us from error – but not while the error is protected and defended with the status of truth. That any forms of the search for truth can be subverted to (personal and political) assertions of truth is the nature of the ‘ego’ or psyop of deceit. Where BETTER to hide the intent to persist a private power agenda than in noble causes? And failing that in the zero-tolerance (denial) seeking of the power against designated ‘evils’ threats and enemies of the state – including of course the antichrist of the denialism that DOES NOT support your ego. You can conflate your self-image with a protector of the one true faith, the Living Planet or the Last Hope for Humanity – but its a ruse by which to interject a personal sense of control instead of SIMPLY aligning in love of life and giving witness from there – instead of aligning in a hatred of fears and evils that secretly give you power in place of a directly felt dependence in Life Itself. Notice how the negative worship works – and then you are free as a being and as a scientist to predicate your terms of reference and relation directly from a movement of Life – such as wonder, curiosity and willingness to be shown what your need and desire are the shape of the willingness to receive. A sense of littleness is the basis from which self-inflation seems necessary and desirable. Conceptual frameworks have their place – but if placed OVER Life and given priority instead of Life – operate the usurpation of Life as ‘mind-capture’. Somewhere in your self you simply know this, and letting this Be – is the way to transform our conceptual and definitional structures, because what has value is purified and what hasn’t falls away of itself. The mind that made the error is not the mind of its correction – or you cannot solve an error at the level of its expression. The charging forth in righteousness is the blind arrogance that imposes the pattern of action-reaction in place of the shifting as a wholeness to a new ‘configuration’ or perspective. Recognition of truth accepted has ALREADY changed your walk and talk. Witch-hunting for the ‘guilty’ errors seeks and finds the ‘sins’ by which to initiate coercive impositions upon self and other. And so the recognition and immediate repentance of what is recognised false is an immediate realignment in the peace of being – from which to relate and communicate sanely. While the choice to use guilt as a means to persist in error – while claiming and believing to have ‘outed’ or exposed it in the other – or in the body or in the evil thoughts that now have to be denied in self – and therefore in other – is to entrance oneself into those who know not what they do. Or in Orwell’s terms, who enact slavery under belief they are free. Only seeing it in ourself can effect the release of our own feed to an ‘unconscious’ and destructive use of the mind. the attempt to wake up and tell everyone ELSE is of course another form of the same temptation to ‘survive’ in terms of a self-evasion. WHO then ‘survives’ or is ‘protected’ but the error itself? Each in our own unique way are playing a part in a conscious intent to remain unconscious of whatever has been effectively mapped out from our attention. This faculty has great benefit as learned subconscious patterns that free awareness for relational… Read more »
Nic Lewis: I wanted to make sure that I had not overlooked something in my calculations, so later on November 1st I emailed Laure Resplandy querying the ΔAPOClimate trend figure in her paper and asking for her to look into the difference in our trend estimates as a matter of urgency, explaining that in view of the media coverage of the paper I was contemplating web-publishing a comment on it within a matter of days. To date I have had no substantive response from her, despite subsequently sending a further email containing the key analysis sections from a draft of this article.
Typical response in climate “science”: ignore those auditing your work and bath in the praise of syncopates. That’s fine for social media but not for Science.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-carbon-dioxide-makes-u/
It will be difficult to slow or stop this global warming, thanks to the oceans, which are warming as well. Currently, the amount of infrared heat radiated back to space is slightly less than what we absorb from the sun due to the increase in greenhouse gases. This excess energy slowly warms the oceans. Although it takes them a very long time to heat up, once they have they will release more infrared radiation and the Earth will emit as much back to space as it receives from the sun. But the planets surface will be warmer, because a larger fraction of that infrared will be blocked by the blanket of greenhouse gases. Thus, we can expect about another 0.5 degree Celsius of warming even if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were to stop increasing today, which is unlikely as we continue to burn coal, oil and natural gas for our increasing energy needs.
Small changes in the Earths heat balance can lead to large climatic changes. For example, the ice ages during the last several million years–and the warmer periods in between–appear to have been triggered by no more than a different seasonal and latitudinal distribution of the solar energy absorbed by the Earth, not by a change in output from the sun. The geologic record shows that the differences in ice cover, sea level and precipitation as well as in plant and animal populations were quite dramatic between the ice ages and the warm interglacials. Yet the global average temperature differences corresponding to these radically different climates were only about 5 degrees C in the tropics and 8 degrees C in polar regions.
Preface all your above comments with “I believe…” (or rather “SkepticalScience told me…”) and there’s nothing wrong with it.
1. Ocean warming – as Antonym and I discussed yesterday, there is currently NO direct evidence of any significant ocean warming at all. It’s purely theoretical at this stage, and guesstimated through proxies. The theory is put forward in order to explain why there has been no detectable global warming for the past 18 years. The idea is it HAS been warming but the sea has captured all of the “excess” heat.
Like I said, no evidence the sea is in fact warmer, or at least sufficiently so to explain the “missing” heat. And even less evidence for why the oceans would act in this way.
The most important thing to take away from this though is that there has been no detectable warming for 18years.. True fact no one denies.Not even the CAGW crowd can do that.
No. Warming. In.18.Years.
If the elites and Big Oil seriously wanted to discredit manmade global warming you’d think they’d make more of that, because in scientific terms it is a major challenge to the AGW theory.
In theory. All just theory. Just try to remember every explanation about what drives the climate (even the ones the God of All Things on SS produces) is just that – theory. Might be true. Might not. The certitude is the lie.
Also note, that tiny variations in the sun’s effect having huge effects on climate is NOT under any circumstances an indicator that tiny variations in CO2 will do the same. What kind of scientist even talks like that? It’s like saying “a tiny amount of cyanide can kill a man, here is a tiny amount of something else – ergo it can kill me”.
If small variations in the “distribution” of solar energy can make the diff erence between an ice age and not, all that means is the sun is a powerful driver of climate. It tells us nothing about C02, other than to suggest it’s a less plausible hypothesis for recent warming than is the change in solar activity.
If you’re as logical as you say you are flaxgirl, you should be able to work this out for yourself. It’s a pea and thimble act being played on us. A bait and switch. In plain view.
Good explanation.
Is this true…..or no.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/21/fish-wars-loom-climate-change-pushes-lobster-cod-and-other-species-north/4uCFNQKDz3dipGaZSD7WVP/story.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50549.htm
That article only shows that PCR is no scientist and has the usually wooly grasp of the data that non-scientific climate hysterics always have. He’s all over the map, God bless him, stumbling from one garbled misrepresentation to another.
What in God’s name is a “heat extinction” event? The warmer periods on earth have been associated with increased animal life. It’s the glaciations that are the anomalies and which threaten extinctions. The temp on earth is currently colder than at almost any time in its entire existence.
Someone tell this chap we are in a period of unprecedented glaciation, with succeeding ice ages coming thick and fast. We are just lucky another one hasn’t kicked off yet. Unless the remote possibility of CAGW turns out to be true, heat is not our worry, cold is.
The disgraceful thing is that the climate scientists themselves know that 90% of the AGW scare porn in the popular media is garbage, mangled science misunderstood by journalists, but they let it stand because it furthers their own cause.
Not ok people. Not ok at all. Chickens will eventually come home to roost.
Reply to flaxgirl about the falsification of data perpetrated by Jones et al and openly admitted in the Climategate emails
Yes.They replaced the tree ring data, which didn’t show warming, with surface temperature data that did show warming, and pretended the surface data was tree ring data.
That’s data falsification, as PSJ has already told you below. It is in fact scientific fraud.
What? If the data “diverges” from your theory it’s “perfectly reasonable” to falsify the data to make it fit your claims? Even NIST never went that far/
Yes, he should. Not doing so was fraudulent.
Pretending surface data is tree ring data is not a “lack of transparency”, it’s fraud. Scientific fraud. Period. SS’s queasy excuse-making here is discreditable.
But they couldn’t admit they were using surface temp data on a tree ring graph without admitting to fraud. That’s why they weren’t “transparent”. The whole point of what they were doing was deceit. The “trick” was to make people believe surface temp data was tree ring data. Saying the only problem with that is “transparency” is like saying “well if you fiddle your tax returns it’s not a crime provided you tell the tax man what you’re doing.”
No, they haven’t. A simple description of what Jones et al did is enough to make it clear they committed fraud. The people “misrepresenting” it are the likes of SS and the mainstream media who try to blur the issue and make sickly excuses for Jones’s flagrant manipulation of data.
It’s been “rightly criticised” because it’s fraudulent.
What? So because other people are open about the tree ring data that makes Jones’s attempt to hide and manipulate that data somehow ok?
Flaxgirl, I have to ask – do you actually read this stuff before you copy and paste? is there anything SS could say that would be so blatantly deceptive, so clearly sophistic you wouldn’t just blindly accept it?
OK, point taken, MLS. It was fraudulent.
Nevertheless, the skeptics did not explain it as it is. They still misrepresented it because they inferred that “decline” related to temperature.
Steven Jones also lied about cold fusion and about thermite in the WTC. He’s also a climate skeptic, who comments here under a thin disguise, as do Tony Szamboti, David Griffin and other Truthers. At least Griffin doesn’t lie about climate change. Jones will lie about anything his paymasters tell him to lie about.
The Jones et al referred to above is NOT Dr Steven Jones, the discoverer of thermite in the WTC dust. Your position on cold fusion appears confused. We suggest you read “Fire from Ice” by Eugene Mallove for information on Jones’s role in the cold fusion story. Mallove absolutely DOES NOT accuse Jones of lying or any kind of false dealing. This seems to be a deliberately seeded internet meme designed to discredit Jones.
Addition: 15 years before 2017 = “good” data – a period with a clear warming trend – unlike the preceding 15 years, which gave “bad” data, level or cooling, hence the choice of year. CAGW language.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently made an report called SR15 of which the following is part: http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf
Page 1: an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response
to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
Little Science, much politics.
Page 5 , footnote 5: Present level of global warming is defined as the average of a 30-
year period centered on 2017 assuming the recent rate of warming continues.
Their climate is now “defined” by 15 years of data and 15 years of speculation. Even less Science.
Remember how the “consensus of Economists” failed with their predictions in 2008?
I wonder what “eliminate poverty” means in real non-manipulated language. I don’t think, given, the tenor of current government, we can assume it’s anything we’d readily agree to!
I’m baffled how people can not see the way this issue has been hijacked by the Bill Gates & Agenda 21 crowd who preach anti-human anti-freedom doctrines in the name of saving the planet. To me this is as worrying as the drift to war. It’s anyone’s guess which will get us all first.
I have serious doubts about how much longer any of us will be free to air our non-mainstream opinions at all.
It is all doublespeak.
Enforce poverty to prop up (sustain) the unsustainable.
Everything evil works a face of respectability excepting when it needs to give itself a foil.
But always and only at the level of forms of asserted and associated meanings.
A reply to flaxgirl I once again can’t post in the correct place I am not a “believer” Moriarty. I hate being accused of being a believer. I hate to break it to you flaxgirl but you are perhaps the most absolute believer I have encountered on this forum. You have incredibly strong convictions based often on the flimsiest evidence. You watched “Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” and believed everything in it. You listened to Dammegung (sp?) claiming he’d talked to a 1% insider and believed everything he said to the point it changed your entire view of the world and you suddenly “realised” no one died on 9/11 or at Sandy Hook or in the Boston bombing, or maybe ever, I don’t know. You are absolutely a believer but you tell yourself your beliefs are “facts” and “logic” and you decry everyone who doesn’t share your view, which is the part I find quite ugly and annoying. From almost the first moment I heard about man-made climate change I accepted it as quite probable simply because it made sense. No, I think you accepted it as quite probable because it fits with your pre-existing beliefs. You admit you know nothing about the science so you certainly didn’t do an evidential assessment. If there are gases in trace amounts in the atmosphere keeping the earth from being a frozen ball then it only makes sense that massively increasing that amount will have effects. Massive increase? Oh dear me flaxgirl. 400,000 years ago there was 280 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere (according to ice core samples). Today there are just under 400ppm. The lowest observed in ice core studies over the past 500,000 years is 180ppm. Imagine a bathtub full to the brim with water, around 80 litres. If the bathtub represents the atmosphere, how much of that 80 litres would be C02? Well, 400,000 years ago the answer would have been around 20 ml or four standard teaspoons. Today you can add an extra two teaspoons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere Now I won’t claim that will definitely have no effect. It may. Many scientists think it does. But it’s not a “massive” change in the composition of the atmosphere is it,and the fact you think the changes are “massive” implies you have not done even basic amounts of reading and research. You see, when you double 0.02% of something the result is still very very small, even though twice the size. (Since you’re all about the facts an logic I’m sure you’ll readily appreciate all of this and not just run off to Skeptical Science Man (aka “the Voice of God who Never Lies”) and find a handy factoid that allows you to pretend all this pesky data doesn’t in fact exist.) Speaking of data – here’s some homework. Go and do some of that research you enjoy on these questions: 1. How much CO2 was estimated to have been present in the atmosphere during the Cambrian period? Try the Triassic next. Or the Devonian. 2. For what percentage of the earth’s history has there been any ice at the poles? 3. Are current temps a) warmer than average over geological time or b) a LOT colder than average? 4. What is a “normal” temperature for the globe? 5. What indeed is a “global” temperature? we have to look at other things affecting climate and there could be natural thermostatic effects which mitigate the increased warming … or whatever. Or the warming could reverse (it actually stopped some years ago and there’s no evidence it’s started up again as… Read more »
Of course, CO2 was massively higher in the past than it is now but that was very much in other times when the earth was very, very different. Now a “mere” doubling of the CO2 level from the start of industrial times (around 280ppm) is predicted to be catastrophic. We’re at 400ppm and that is already very dangerously high in the current earth situation. No doubt, Moriarty, the climate scientists agree wholeheartedly with a number of the figures you present above – the difference is they interpret them differently. They look at the context in which those figures existed and the context is now – and that is crucial to the argument.
I completely reject that I have very strong beliefs based on the flimsiest of evidence and you are a shocking strawmanner. I believed Ole Dammegard when he said that an insider told him that the power elite justify their hoaxing of us by telling us with ridiculousness, smiling grievers, sloppiness of execution, etc because it made sense of things that previously hadn’t and the evidence is clearly there – no “belief” required, it simply made sense of information such as Robbie Parker’s performance at the microphone which made no sense before. As I say, I have put out four challenges, all languishing unresponded to, where the challenger can choose their own judge from specified professions. Do you think that might mean something?
I know that BigB completely disagrees with me that Grenfell was a staged event and he was very annoyed with me over that. We also had an interminable debate about the Seth Rich murder which I also say is staged. (I doubt there’s too many people in the world who think more events are staged than I do, however, I think I always present a good case for that belief.) People agree and disagree on things.
Actually, you’ve just prompted a thought. Just as the tobacco companies and the oil companies have blamed the customer, perhaps the perpetrators of the 9/11 hoax will defend themselves – if they’re ever charged – with: “Well, we TOLD you. We didn’t show you any terrorists boarding planes; we told you they were lousy pilots, especially little Hani, who we also told you did the amazing manoeuvre into the Pentagon; physics clearly precludes steel frame skyscrapers from crashing to the ground in perfect symmetry due to fires or 200 ton airliners penetrating those massive buildings. How could terrorists pop up alive, how could a pristine passport flutter to the ground from that fireball and, if it was so pristine, how could we get the name wrong initially? How could you possibly believe the miracle survivor stories with alleged survivors not showing a scratch – they were an obvious hilarious joke. We TOLD you but you didn’t pay attention. Not our fault if you believe our nonsense. It’s yours.” And you know, they do have a point.
“Of course, CO2 was massively higher in the past than it is now but that was very much in other times when the earth was very, very different.”
Indeed, flaxgirl. When we say “the planet is under threat from human activity” – or as I say, “from capitalism” – that’s shorthand. The Planet will shrug off anything we throw at it. The pedantically accurate version is that “the planet’s recent capacity to support human and other advanced life forms is under threat from capitalism”. By “recent capacity” I refer to the fact homo sapiens sapiens has been around some 140,000 years, while bipedal hominids – common acestors to us and other great apes – have been walking the earth some 6 million years. Temperatures in the Devonian or other prehistoric age are therefore a red herring.
Our 4.7 billion year old Earth has seen five mass extinction events, most recently when a giant asteroid hit what is now Mexico 66 million years ago to trigger volcanic activity across the globe, with loss of 75% of species. back in February I dedicated a post to Roger “Socialist in Canada” Annis, who poses the question: Will Mass Extinction Event Number Six be man made? We don’t know for sure but scenarios well short of mass extinction events, but catastrophic all the same for advanced life, seem more than likely.
My views are (a) current climate changes are real, man made and terrifying; (b) even if I’m wrong, the kinds of action required are good on other fronts (air pollution, oil wars and much more); (c) the consequences of the anti AGW camp being wrong are vastly worse than those of the AGW camp being wrong, so common sense would suggest erring on the side of the latter; (d) this debate has run its course since the anti AGW camp here is not the problem. Rather than waste time seeking to change the minds of folk with no more power than you or me, we need to focus on the inaction of corrupt leaders and journalists who in the main agree climate change is real, but at every turn prioritise “economic growth”, heroin to capitalism, over curbing greenhouse emissions.
But of course, even that last pales into insignificance against the overridingly important matter of my legal fight with Sheffield Hallam University!
SHU – So is the outcome settled?
Far from it. We’ve won an important victory with ramifications for the entire sector but two fights remain, the most wide ranging in ots implications to be decided this month, 15-16th.
Best of luck.
Phillip: you are a breath of fresh air. Good luck in your trials and tribulations. Stick it to the Man on the 15th …from me. Here’s to small victories.
The Planet will shrug off anything we throw at it. Indeed it probably will.Though a full scale thermonuclear war would probably wipe out most forms of life on land. The pedantically accurate version is that “the planet’s recent capacity to support human and other advanced life forms is under threat from capitalism”. By “recent capacity” I refer to the fact homo sapiens sapiens has been around some 140,000 years, while bipedal hominids – common acestors to us and other great apes – have been walking the earth some 6 million years. Temperatures in the Devonian or other prehistoric age are therefore a red herring. But why do you believe human beings can’t survive in a warm world? If we put aside all the CAGW-posited issues of positive feedback and runaway warming (which remain highly contentious and promoted only by extreme believers), why would a couple of degrees of warmth and reduced, or even absent, polar ice caps threaten our survival? We aren’t creatures of the cold. We are a subtropical species that thrives in temps around 70-80F. We find it much much easier to survive in extreme warm than in extreme cold. If we assume an extreme case in which the polar ice vanishes, Greenland and Antarctica would become habitable. Even with rising sea levels the amount of land available to live on and to farm would vastly increase. How is this bad, let alone a species-threatening disaster? Our 4.7 billion year old Earth has seen five mass extinction events, most recently when a giant asteroid hit what is now Mexico 66 million years ago to trigger volcanic activity across the globe, with loss of 75% of species. back in February I dedicated a post to Roger “Socialist in Canada” Annis, who poses the question: Will Mass Extinction Event Number Six be man made? We don’t know for sure but scenarios well short of mass extinction events, but catastrophic all the same for advanced life, seem more than likely. This is just an expression of the ongoing “the sky is falling” paradigm of extreme eco-activism. We don’t know how or why but by golly SOMETHING bad will happen soon and it will be all our fault! I agree on sensible efforts to curb pollutants, including GM manipulated organisms whose knock-on effect on the eco system is not yet known. I agree on efforts to maintain wilderness areas (in the Guardian today). But this hysterical and non-specific “we’re all gonna die” stuff has been going on for so long to so little result now it’s becoming ridiculous. My views are (a) current climate changes are real, man made and terrifying; Why are you terrified Mr Roddis? Of what precisely? I think you are terrified because people have written books like the one you reviewed in which they sell a terrifying vision, and not because you have looked at the science. The science isn’t terrifying. Let me explain. Even among those climate scientists who accept the reality of CO2 forcing and of manmade contributions to warming, very very few accept the extreme ideas of catastrophe put forward by the CAGW crowd (“catastrophic anthropogenic global warming”, as opposed to “anthropogenic global warming”). The media, however, is paid or prompted to promote the catastrophe angle, and conflates the two positions. You are told that a majority of scientists accept the reality of AGW, and it is implied to you this means they accept the reality of CAGW. Not so. They don’t. CAGW, as promoted in this book, and in all the popular writing on the subject of global warming, is a fringe idea that… Read more »
@BigB (reply to comment way down this thread which doesn’t allow reply)
No, they don’t. Or at least not equal access. With the current grip that AGW hysteria has on things it’s virtually impossible to get a aper accepted to any major journal that questions it.
There is however a considerable wealth of earlier papers and other data. What I’m interested in is – have you read any of it?
i Why do the corporatocracy benefit from “culturally induced doubt”? Since when has that been how political institutions work? Absolutists know that culturally induced certitude is much more unifying.
Be honest – which group right now is easier to manipulate, the ad hoc ragtag of disaffected “denier” souls who don’t feel convinced by manmade climate change; or the ideologically driven “believers” who are fervently convinced the deniers are evil and that “action” of some kind is needed to save the planet?
All our masters now have to do is convince this army of the Green God that Action X will save the world and they will not only agree to it they will be happy to scourge and punish anyone who doesn’t conform. Action X will be, of course, some money-making, power-enhamcing thing in a Green box.
ii Your claim of death and destruction is predicated on the assumption the most extreme AGW hypothesis is correct. Logical failure. You can’t acknowledge AGW is unproven and then argue we must act anyway or AGW will kill us all!
Death and destruction are theoretical outcomes of the most extreme interpretation of AGW. The probability of this extremity being reached is small. So, any action we take should be proportionate to that reality.
You agree with that right? I’m not saying we can’t afford to mitigate, I’m saying let’s do a cost/benefit study based on the actual science. Right?
Yeah. How about it? What is it? We don’t know.
Here’s another question – what’s the alternative?
Genuine question. Renewables currently are useless at providing for modern energy needs. They’re massively inefficient (solar is among the better types, but only in optimum locations), and come with their own eco-costs.
We literally can’t provide the world’s energy needs without either carbon or nuclear as of now. Literally can’t. If we actually were to stop using fossil fuels it would bring its own death and destruction. The idea it’s a no-cost win-win plan is just nonsense. It’s a potential disaster and we need to have a very solid scientific analysis of cost/benefit.
But of course those who have been programmed to believe only evil fossil fuel trolls say that will reply “how DARE you say we need more information! There’s NO TIME! The world will burn BURN if we don’t DO SOMETHING.” Because they are effectively inoculated against any kind of rational or nuanced discussion on the issue in the way cultists are.
MLS The topic under discussion is corporately introduced doubt: which you belatedly interject to deny the existence of. May I suggest you read the article, and the comments, before commenting? In the meantime, a sound, epistemic (and now circular) thesis has been put forward that the only reason NOT to act against AGW is culturally manufactured doubt. The science, per se, is not in question. In the balance of probability, erring on the side of an environmental humanism, there is sufficient consensus, and the science is sufficiently settled to concur with a politics of action. Against that, the main cultural stasis is a consciously constructed politics of doubt. So before you even start, that is where we were. No one says there are not outlying opinions. Access to the peer review journals is a separate issue. Rather than a frankly asinine reference to a Green God conspiracy: and money in a Green Box (carbon capitalism isn’t an amoral money making scam, is it?) …the issue is the corporatist v the humanist response to a sufficient consensus. Against which has to be weighed the unconscionable …that of not acting. The leveraging of this debate into the praxis of inaction is the subject of The Unprecedented Crime, The Merchants of Doom, the SCAMs paper, and my deconstruction of Curry’s mythological fire breathing Uncertainty Monsters. Which you would have known, if you read the comments. If you don’t accept that culturally induced doubt is a weapon of carbon capitalism, I suggest you read at least the reviews of any of the literature cited, or at the very least Phillip’s article. This will answer your question: “how do the corporatocracy benefit”. I do not predicate the current death, dehumanisation, and destruction on CAGW. This is another subject I parsed days ago. The conflation is purely because you have not read the comments. I base my thesis on the current state of corporate carbon capitalism. A point that should be so self-evident to all that I will not digress. It is essentially what is under discussion every day (though some people conflate the issue by referring to a form of carbon capitalism erroneously labelled ‘socialism’). We DO know the environmental cost of carbon: the slow extinction of life on earth …extrapolated from the current omnicide with AGW as a variable. Capitalism is an Extinction Level Event: end of. End of life. This is already in an advance stage. The only uncertainty is the manner of the ending. The eschatology of AGW merely contributes one of the variables. Life will survive us no doubt. I would prefer if life survived with us. As to the alternatives: I do not know. No one does. We need oil and resources for a transition to post-capitalism: not on massive military might to defend intra-capitalist interests. But that is a separate issue. The point is, the longer we squander our remaining resources, and the longer we put off transition …the less resources we have for transition, and the less to transition too. Plus the continually offset costs of mitigation of all forms of capitalist Wetiko cannibalism. In short, internalising those costs and making capitalism humanistically responsible for its costs – the mythical ethical capitalism – means capitalism is already a socially, economically, and environmentally redundant means of production and provision. Not to mention the entailed death and destruction. Where carbon capitalism is taking us may well be neo-feudalism. But don’t blame the Green God for that: blame carbon capitalism. The telos of capitalism is totalitarianism. The Green God is the only hope we have. I won’t respond to your cultist… Read more »
@BigB To sum up your post without the fog of verbiage: “Moriarty, you are talking about something I don’t want to talk about, so under the guise of a “reply”, I will ignore everything you say, and continue asserting the a priori certitudes that your comment has specifically shown to be erroneous”
If you want to address anything I actually wrote in the above comment I will be happy to continue the discussion.
No, we’re done. Comments like the one you just wrote to Phillip kept me up at night, after visiting ‘Judy’s’. Your concepts, if not your heart and soul, are fossilised in carbon. I replied to everything you said with humanity. When you find yours among the paleo-fossils, we may speak again. In the meantime, we are talking about different planets and different humanities. In different languages.
It’s not all about you and yours: there are other lives and other lifeforms you would willingly sacrifice to burn carbon. Only, what are you going to do when your precious carbon runs out? It won’t, but it will become an ever increasing drag on the economy. Another cost to add to the inhumanity of carbon capitalism.
BTW: I must have made at least three comments to clarify the AGW v CAGW issue you choose to manipulate. No one was talking about CAGW until you said we were. That’s your delusion. Your quasi-religious anti-debate is deliberately off topic …much like the rest of the denialist ‘scientific’ pseudo-thinking. Probably best leave it there.
Professors of logic and dialectic could use this reply of BigB’s to illustrate how struggling debaters hide their lack of data. It’s textbook.
Trick 1 – AD HOMINEM
Trick 2 – DIVERSION USING REAL OR ASSUMED MORAL OUTRAGE
Think for a moment. How is this a rational response to me pointing out above that we don’t currently have any alternative to fossil fuel or nuclear power? Did I say this was a good thing? No. Did I say I loved carbon? No. Why introduce these pseudo points?
And most importantly, if it isn’t true why doesn’t BigB respond by telling me I’m wrong and showing me what the alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear actually are?
I suggest he doesn’t, because he can’t. Because it is true, but he doesn’t want to admit it for some reason. So he tries to divert and instead of addressing the point he fulminates like a revivalist preacher about my moral failings. Standard technique, if rather clumsily applied.
This bit is the best bit though:
Well this means one of two things. 1. BigB has no idea what AGW and CAGW actually are and is just bluffing his way out in a rearguard action. 2. He does know and is again using obfuscation.
@BigB – let’s get this cleared up. The difference between AGW and CAGW is that AGW does not predict a major disaster and CAGW does. Judging by your posts here you absolutely do believe in CAGW, as do the authors of the book being reviewed, as does, Mr Roddis, as does flaxgirl. It’s the thing that separates you from those people who accept manmade climate change but don’t think it will be a catastrophe. You are promoting and defending CAGW every time you claim there will be a climate disaster if we don’t “do something.” Everyone who demands action on climate to prevent a coming climate catastrophe is subscribing to CAGW whether or not they use the term or even know what it means.
Okay? Are we good? All clear at last? You have been talking about CAGW from the outset. You just didn’t use the scientific term.
I’m sure you will acknowledge this openly and unambiguously in a single terse sentence (not) 😀
edited by Admin for clarity
BigB has repeatedly accepted the science isn’t proven. Aren’t nuanced positions possible? Do no believers in AGW (but not CAGW) also advocate for climate action as a precaution? Isn’t that simply good sense?
Thanks Admin! 🙂
A current sense of probability is an entirely different notion than ‘belief’.
That Climate is cyclic – as well as being affected by extreme events (Cataclysms in the past – as in the end of the younger Dryas, is simply obvious to me.
The idea that carbon dioxide gas is the cause of a ‘runaway’ process of warming with catastrophic results is possible to assert in a ‘science’ that is more politics than science. The history of science is a political history – not in terms of party politics but of the engineering of the social order.
A consideration of action to take with regard to the despoiling and degradation of Life on Earth is no more caused by CO2 than (so called good or bad) cholesterol causes heart disease . Yet that has been an official consensus that initiated adverse health for millions – while making vast profits for Pharma – who still operate damage control in retreat – as does any other ‘industry’ working a negative agenda.
The model is the basis for actions and interventions and when the theory is adopted or accepted into the official narrative it is when the actions and interventions are politically expedient or in such a way as to make them so.
Nothing true can be allowed in where ‘too big to fail’ operates.
Even as our (officially accepted) models of the body are mechanistic and vastly over simplified narratives made rigid by the investments and reputations of ‘experts’ and their funding sources, so also our Cosmology – which includes the nature of our Sun and its relation with Earth – which currently operates as if the primary influence of the Sun is electromagnetic radiation – and downplays or does not recognize the electrical charge relation of the Solar capacitance or plasmasphere, relative to that of Earth – which is called a magnetosphere. Nor of the changing nature of the Solar ‘communications’ as a result of its relation with its embracing galactic environment.
But much of the geological and meteorological activity has electrical underpinnings – from earthquakes to hurricanes – as does the nature and the action of living blood and the heart that is generally presumed to ‘pump’ the blood around the body. And craters are presumed to be impacts from comets or asteroids. And no end of other presumptions that once accepted, were built upon in search of ‘answers’ limited to their confirmation.
I hold that we are best to act from a true foundation regardless of external circumstances, but who can be open to truth while maintaining that stories are true. But as Thomas Khun elaborates, a model becomes unwieldy and increasingly complex as more data comes in that either gets denied and ignored or forced into convoluted extensions to the model.
This applies also to socio-political understandings and the devices by which the old defends itself against threat of change include the (further) limitation of consciousness, the withdrawal of a voice and an imposing ‘austerity’ of further disempowerment.
I don’t see merely climate change of global parameters but a most fundamental change of consciousness approaching a global convergence.
This can only be fearfully misinterpreted by the consciousness’ that runs unknowing over unconscious denials.
Persistent patterns of denial DO the thing they accuse or project to others to then attack as a justifiable defence.
Limiting consciousness is not a resolution, no matter how deep into darkness we contract ourselves.
MLS
I answered your alternatives question with an honest ‘I do not know’. I do not know because it is unclear what corporate carbon capitalism will leave. Probably not very much. Possibly nuclear ash. All the more reason to find an alternative before its too late. Not a reason to carry on regardless.
If you will keep making the preposterous claim that eco-fascists like me are too stupid to distinguish between AGW and CAGW: and if you will predicate your counter-claim on such unsound reasoning …it makes it all the easier to refute. I can simply refer you to my comment of the 28th when I wrote:
Everything I say is predicated on AGW, not CAGW, being an unconscionable outcome. That AGW does not predict a major disaster is asinine and ascientific. And anti-human. That you cannot comprehend a nuanced argument is clear: as you conflate other issues in with the imaginary CAGW club you have constructed to beat us with. Metaphorically, of course.
Once again, no one was, or is talking about CAGW before you alleged we were. It’s a figment of your imagination. For the record, I agree with you on CAGW …it is the stuff of mythology. It is predicated on climate models with the input assumption that carbon capitalism will carry on unabated until 2100 …which is of course ludicrous. It will collapse long before then.
It is my hope that AGW will not be as bad as predicted too. Not through the agency of any agreed mitigation policy: on account of the economic slowdown, and the OPEC moratorium on reduced oil production. Where we are probably irreconcilably polarised, is that for me (possibly not in person), it will be bad enough. Not catastrophic, but catastrophic enough, as I already said previously. But I was not expressing a purely personal view.
As for your mythical Professor of Logic: what would they make of an interlocutor who premised their counter-claim on a false set of predicates, misinterpreted from the original proposition? Then pursued their falsified set of predicates, despite being advised that they were in error …four times? Probably that the response was logically flawed, unrelated to the fact, and in no way refuted, or even referenced the original.
Shall we call this the MLS ‘Imaginary CAGW Fallacy’?
Surely the term ‘manmade climate change’ is an inflation. To allow for a potential human effect within a changing climate is better stated. There may also be any number of other related or less related contenders – such as the bovine effect and the microbiota effect. Not mentioned here yet – perhaps is the definite intent of largely secret technologies to effect weather – which is not climate – but could play a part in – for example – diverting the jet stream or hurricanes (Ionospheric heating).
The spraying of nanoparticulates into the atmosphere is another unacknowledged technology that could be anything or many things that affect weather which is used all the time to push the climate fear. They could also be stealth vaccines.
I also sense that as a Living System – (which is an oxymoron – but may have to suffice) – Earth is not responding in altogether predictable ways from the standpoint of the models employed.
“The spraying of nanoparticulates into the atmosphere is another unacknowledged technology that could be anything or many things that affect weather which is used all the time to push the climate fear. They could also be stealth vaccines.”
Do you care to elaborate?
‘Geo engineering’ as the criss-cross sky patterns of con/chem trails has not so much been overtly denied as ignored. Under the aegis of the ‘climate change imperative’ at least some of this activity has to some degree been acknowledged but as far as I know – without any public oversight or accountability. So something – we know not what – is being done at great expense – we know not why for reasons we are not told. When governments or corporations tell obvious lies, people speculate as to what really happened, but when the whole issue is ignored it makes those who ask open questions seem like the dissonant ones. I have seen a patent for a delivery system for nanoparticulate application of vaccines from the air. Aluminium is one of the particulates that is reported as fallout from ‘jet trails’ that stay in the air much longer than a contrail and become a hazed instead of a clear sky – and may be rightly or wrongly associated with lack of rainfall. Aluminium is also a principle adjuvant (toxic initiation of an immune response) in most modern vaccines (as a move from mercury). The theory being that proteins associated with the shock and response, condition the body to make antibodies to the profile of the associated ’causes’ which is supposed to generate an antibody response before the ‘alien’ proteins’ have initiated cellular immunity – which we know as sickness of fevers, rashes and detoxifications. I have no idea whether there is any link between ‘chemtrails and vaccines’ excepting both operate without public oversight or accountability. But rising auto-immune disease is more threatening to humankind – in my opinion – than global warming. And nano particles may pass through the skin, lungs and gut in ways that ordinary particles don’t. Aluminium is in my opinion associated with brain dysfunction – during infant and child development but also in forms of dementia. Now for all I know there may be threats that are not AGW – but of a different order that are not entrusted to public disclosure and so AGW operates as the mainstream narrative. Insiders have access to information – or perhaps their own ‘insider bubble of paranoia’ that outsiders either fear and evade or might violently reject. Notice that my conjectures are just that – but that weather modification happens is no longer hidden, that weather weapons have international treaties to limit or ban them is from a long way back. We have no idea what ‘dark’ or secretly developed technologies have been developed or are being tested on unsuspecting people. But there are documented examples of such human experimentation in the past such as studying black people allowed to unknowingly die of syphilis, and unprotected exposure to atomic radiation. HAARP or similar ionospheric heating is another. Where military and corporate operate a single agenda is in secret developments of any kind of weaponry – across the whole spectrum of ways to undermine or disable an ‘enemy’ a rival or anyone designated a threat to a ‘national or even global’ security that oversees itself in private. Giving power to fear is not my desire or intention, but hiding or pretending fears don’t exist is cognitive dissonance or a fear-directed dissociation. That weather INFLUENCE may be possible to enact without being revealed could also be a factor in generating weather and climate fear – for to most everyone, weather patterns are the nearest they get to experience climate change – including travel between poles and tropics or seal level to high altitudes. And so linking weather fear to the AGW… Read more »
March 2017 : New cloud type : Homomutatus
After years of various denials that what folk were in the sky, did not exist, ( if they bothered to “look up” and most seemingly do not ), last year the WMO and the UK’s Met Office announced updates to the International Cloud Atlas to include 12 new cloud types.
One of them was named : homomutatus
Twelve ‘new’ types of cloud finally gain Met Office recognition
https://weather.com/en-GB/unitedkingdom/weather/news/twelve-new-types-cloud-gain-met-office-recognition-named/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropogenic_cloud
But by far the greatest number of anthropogenic clouds are airplane contrails (condensation trails) and rocket trails.[3][4]
Gallery: all the new clouds officially recognised by the Met Office
https://www.wired.co.uk/gallery/cloud-formations-met-office-weather
Homomutatus
Persistent contrails (of the Cirrus family of clouds) are formed over a period of time under the influence of strong upper winds. They grow and spread out over a larger portion of sky, and eventually take on the appearance of more natural cirri-form clouds
MG
Back in the nuclear power no thanks 70’s a friend had a badge ; “Mutate now, avoid the rush!” I don’t actually see the evidence for mutations forecast from radioactivity (say in wildlife around Chernobyl). But I do see the erasure of consciousness before my very eyes. Fear works a large part of this, and if fear is contagious then guilt is toxic. Who is learning to look at the triggers for guilt or fear so as to not be under their spell? If the ‘spiritual’ aspect of direct awareness is out of range (blocked by thinking) – then improve the communication of the body-mind. There is a lot coming up now about the role of the micro-biome in the sustaining of life and function – and of the communication of the emotional being to epigenetic effects. I keep finding more that I had never heard of – such as the biological transmutation of elements – and a lot around a pervading electrical Universe that operates at the subtlest levels of our being through to the Galactic. All of which reinforce a sense that our current mind/world model is one of limitation and division under self-deceits and is not so much a true subjection so much as a development of a ‘separative and divisive attack/defence’ mind. Such a consciousness – if conscious it is – works its own checkmate or ‘endtime’, that then becomes available as the structural opportunity for the awakening of a reintegrative movement that has always ran alongside the separative – but is only noticed, aligned in or chosen from the recognition of the ‘self’ as false and therefore a curiosity of desire for true. Defence is not seeking truth but arms, armour, allies and ways to hide – and to delay the inevitable… which to the ego is an equation of truth or Reality with death of a private sense of control. But under such deceits and obfuscations, and temptations to mis-identify – the need for truth as a core quality of undefended transparency to being is in service of the Life we ‘thought’ to control. So perhaps our freedom is not in the external conditions, so much as how we choose to respond and what we choose to respond from. Conditioning runs deep set habit patterns. When crops like wheat are sprayed with Roundup to ‘ripen’ for harvest – the plant puts all its remaining energy into generating seed. In terms of Human Consciousness, seed is Idea. The idea that we are giving witness to and receiving. This is similar to releasing all that doesn’t belong – as one who approaches death may in the desire to release and be released. Spiritual life is in some sense similar in the release of the petty and the obstructive to the core sense of who and what we are. There may be a protective or defensive intent in the geoengineering relative to Solar conditions that are insider science and not for mainstream access. The Solar System moves through Galactic environments that are not homogenous and this may be subtler than simply different charge relations – though my sense is that all the planets are affected by changes in the Solar Plasmasphere for the above reasons. And that passing through a threshold may then stabilize to a new ‘order’. Changes are that which the mind seeks to ‘explain’ account for and incorporate to its 3D reality model – but much is beyond the scope of such a filtered and limited consciousness. This is no less true of non physical communication during sleep as during so called waking. But… Read more »
From what I read Moriarty’s Left Sock has made a counter point to your claim of culturally induced doubt, namely that culturally induced certitude is of more use to the PTSB.
I find that a very insightful point, actually.
In my own personal experience I have witnessed a good deal of cultist thinking. I have never witnessed it to focus on doubt. As M’sLS says, it works by inducing certitudes, and as a corollary, forcing a gulf between those who “believe” and those who don’t. Cults work by uniting people inside a cocoon of false belief and by telling them that those who don’t believe are not simply wrong but “different”, benighted, lost.
The cultist message is always built round the idea of warning the brethren against listening to outsiders preaching doubt. I have literally never witnessed a cult that warned against certitude!
Read this as a ‘Parthian Shot’ if you like. I don’t regard myself as ‘retreating’ as such (although I won’t hold it against anyone who does), rather that the unfolding of this debate on the subject matter of this book, and the interjections from OffG contributors has encouraged me to look for a different forum to discuss current affairs. Horses for courses. Disagreements with ‘Admin’ and Catte have centred predominantly on four things. Firstly a conflation regarding the question of whether or not there is a ‘debate’ about the veracity of AGW, or if in fact there is ‘consensus’. There clearly is a debate here, and on the internet generally, and in the halls of power and in the media (especially the Right wing media), and some contributors to that debate are indeed scientists. There clearly is not anything resembling a meaningful debate within the huge, worldwide community of scientists working within the field of climate research. There is indeed consensus within this latter group, as has been shown by numerous peer reviewed papers that have been linked repeatedly in these here discussions. ‘Admin’ and others keep conflating these two facts, and to my eyes, that is irresponsible. Similarly, the disagreement follows the line of what constitutes ‘proof’. BigB has written one of the clearest succinct explanations of the concept of ‘proof’ within the scientific context generally and within climate science specifically. Again, I see this ignored by opponents of AGW, and by Catte and ‘Admin’, and there has been a repeated boiler plate response that carbon gas forcing and AGW are ‘not proven’. What is? This calls to a concept which is surely close the very heart of why this website was created in the first place. Catte has written several very interesting articles over recent months exploring the relationship between groupthink, truth, perception, outliers and such. My take on these concepts is that we cannot easily substitute the very controlled procedures and institutions that have evolved over centuries which seek to get ‘the best guess that we can’. The scientific publication, academic review, judicial processes – all these are far from perfect, but they are the best that we have. (NB Piers Corbyn is nothing to do with these). Philosophically speaking, there is no absolute certainty about anything, so we are necessarily thrown back onto a moral question about what constitutes the best approach to getting as close to the ‘truth’ as possible. This website has been, I would say, a key contributor to that moral argument over the past few years, as public recognition of the immorality of corporate ‘truths’ has grown and grown. However, this episode has deviated I would say. Again, BigB, flaxgirl and others have made the moral argument for taking the factually established consensus within the climate research community as the best guide to a position on AGW generally. It reads to me that ‘Admin’, on balance, does not agree with that, and sees the moral imperative to be to keep the ‘debate’ open and ongoing regardless of the impacts on political consensus or political action that such an open ended debate might have. The key points about 9/11 is not that WTC7 fell at freefall for 2.25 seconds (although that is obviously very important), or that the wargames hampered the defensive response. Rather it is that NIST have classified and destroyed scientific data and evidence, that the FBI have classified and destroyed evidence, that the 9/11 Commission was a sham from start to finish. The key point about Kelly’s death was not that there was no blood reported at the scene when… Read more »
An anecdote about science: Today, at this very moment, Einstein’s theory of relativity is believed to be beyond dispute. Why? Because an expedition by Eddington and Dyson in 1919 “proved” what Einstein’s theory predicted would be the case: that light passing through a powerful, spherically arranged gravitational field would bend to the contours of that field. Unfortunately, there is a slight problem with this presumption: no one with the competence to do so since the time of the promulgation and acceptance of that result put forth by Eddington and Dyson has ever bothered to review the details of the manner in which that result was obtained, no one, that is to say, except for one such scientist, a Canadian physicist, Dr. Paul Marmet. Marmet has published a very succinct and accessible critique of the Eddington and Dyson “experiment,” and his critique is ’empirically’ and ‘logically’ irrefutable, and yet it continues to be steadfastly ignored by the “scientific” establishment. Why? Because a “consensus” exists presuming that a) Eddington and Dyson proved Einstein correct; that b) if Eddington and Dyson proved Einstein correct, Marmet must be a crank deserving only of being ignored and dismissed out of hand; that c) if Einstein’s theory has thus already been proved, as “everyone” already knows it has, there is no need to actually revisit the details of Eddington’s and Dyson’s foundational “proof;” and that d) (and perhaps more importantly) entire careers and reputations, staked on the validity of Relativity, would run the risk of coming undone. And yet for all of that, it very much does remain the case that Marmet’s critique is on both empirical and logical grounds unassailable. My point is, as the foregoing example amply illustrates to anyone who takes the time to familiarize him- or her-self with Marmet’s analysis, that scientific truth is not a matter of “consensus,” but of properly analysed and interpreted empirical data, and that the competent efforts of a single individual can count for more than all of the unexamined assumptions underpinning the consensual paradigm(s) of any given scientific discipline. To further illustrate the irrationality of consensus opinion to which institutional science is vulnerable, consider this remark from physicist Alexander Unzicker: In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed a theory of continental drift. Not only was the shape of the continents in favour of his idea, but he also provided further well-documented paleontological and geological evidence that backed his theory. Yet, his ideas were vehemently rejected by all leading geologists of the time. While the established theory of sunken land bridges was complicated, arbitrary and counter-intuitive, Wegener’s alternative was not accepted because nobody could imagine the physics behind the motion of the continents. One key factor, however, was the fact that he was a meteorologist. As such, he was not part of the ‘community’ and, therefore, geologists dismissed him as an ‘amateur’. Some imprecise terminology in Wegener’s writings helped his opponents ridicule his theory as ‘pseudo-science’, though his only fault was not holding the prejudices of the field. As the geologist Chamberlin put it around 1928, “If we are to believe Wegener’s hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the last 70 years and start all over again”. (Source: online, a short article titled: “IS ASTROPHYSICS READY TO DRAW A LESSON FROM THOMAS KUHN?”) By ignoring those who offer “reasons” for disagreeing with what we already believe, we deprive ourselves of the possibility of increasing the range and depth of what we actually know. Because human knowledge cannot but be an agglomeration of many perspectives, because it must mostly be second-hand opinion and thus presumptive and… Read more »
I agree with what you say about consensus. Massive consensus has so often been proved wrong. I, myself, hold a very unpopular view among both those who believe 9/11 was the work of 19 terrorists armed with boxcutters and those who think it was an inside conspiracy. I believe the evidence shows very clearly that death and injury were staged. And just as man-made climate change made immediate sense to me before I knew anything of the evidence as soon as it occurred to me that the perpetrators had targeted truthers with special propaganda to ensure they maintained their belief in death and injury (even if it took me 4 years of study to get there) it felt as if it was just a matter of confirming what struck me as making so much sense. Of course, the perps would not have killed and injured the people when they could so easily fake it (and the evidence clearly shows fakery). That would make no sense at all. But even though what I say is so very common sense, truthers simply do not want to know about it and just ignore me – very significantly though they don’t attempt to argue with me. I find it astounding.
It is not so much consensus among scientists that makes me believe in dangerous man-made climate change but what individual scientists say and – most importantly – how they say it. When I look at the clarity and conciseness of the skeptical science site and read and listen to climate scientists who talk about it elsewhere what they say seems honest, reasonable and rigorous whereas when I look at those who deny it they do not seem credible in any way. I can say the same for all the comments on this website. Those who oppose it simply pull out cherry-picked facts with no regard for how they fit into the argument or they just make assertions. They simply provide no argument.
My understanding is way too dim to have an opinion on the theory of relativity – just to say that the 1919 experiment is not the only purported evidence for the theory. There is other evidence which you can read about here.
https://www.space.com/41020-putting-relativity-to-the-test.html
Yes. This sort of thing is not the exception but the rule.
And can be observed in individuals as in group identities.
The ‘model’ as a basis of identity, and control serves a different function than that of genuine relationship.
But no one can ‘get through’ to those who see as the ‘model’ dictates – unless of course its dis-integrity breaks down the capacity to give it allegiance – and then there may be a background stirring of a discontent that initially tends to reinforce the attempt to defend and reassert the model through narrative manipulations and of course open coercion and targeted hatred.
Oh don’t dress it up Mog. You feel threatened by arguments that cast doubt on something you believe in deeply. It makes you uncomfortable and you want to blame everyone for it but yourself.
Your language is acutely dishonest. You claim you support free speech on one hand and deny it on the other with qualifiers. Free speech has limits? And what are they exactly? Your comfort zones?
I too have read through this thread and I see the admin bending over backwards, excruciatingly and unnecessarily in my view, to qualify every single intercession with “I’m not claiming either side is correct” etc. I see them actually supporting the call to action on climate which you say they don’t. I see Catte saying she’s a Green and wants to see action on AGW.
How orthodox does this site have to be in order to appease you? Do they have to sign up to that ghastly McCarthyist website where deniers such as myself are listed for punishment or vengeance?
Let’s be honest, Mog, the only comment policy you would see as appropriate on this discussion is one in which all dissenting voices were airbrushed away before you had to read them. Your free speech is the freedom to speak in theory but the freedom to merely agree with you in practice.
For my part, I think there’s no other site on the net that has a better comment policy than OffG. It’s a breath of fresh air to see moderators making an effort to keep discussion open and fair but polite. I can imagine it’s a thankless task. And for sure, you have not thanked them.
I’ll thank you for nothing.
As for OffG, I have thanked them, on numerous occasions, and I thank them again here.
I didn’t suggest or expect you to thank me. But at least you have the grace to thank these guys who give us this platform. You could also not misrepresent their editorial policy in future.
There’s just one thing I disagree on, mog. To my mind, the key point about 9/11 is that death and injury were staged and I think the concerted, ongoing effort that has gone into the truther-targeted propaganda campaign supports that view, namely, the high-profile loved ones and workers who promulgate suspicion of government/knowledge of controlled demolition while at the same time speak of their loved ones/colleagues who perished in the buildings. Not a single loved one of the 265 passengers who allegedly died in the planes though is agitating for an inquiry as far as I know. Shouldn’t they be asking questions about how the multi-trillion dollar defense machine managed to fail four times in one day regardless of whether they recognise controlled demolition or faked plane crashes?
Not to say I don’t completely understand what you say are the key points. I just think regardless of anything else the key point is that death and injury were staged.
Gosh, Mog, one of your paragons of reason thinks 9/11 was staged! Ouch, that’s gotta be embarrassing 😉
Excellent mog; though we need to be superhumanly careful to stay respectful – which in the main you do – when (a) this site is a great resource thanks to Catte et al; (b) this debate has run its course since the anti AGW camp here is not the problem. Rather than waste time seeking to change the minds of a tiny minority with no more power than you or me, we need to focus on the inaction of corrupt leaders and media who tend to agree climate change is real and man made, but at every turn prioritise “economic growth” – heroin to capitalism – over curbing greenhouse emissions.
Why not simply extend respect as you would yourself receive. What is superhuman about that?
If you are offended in your brother – why? People do not all see the world the same and this can become our strength when we open in desire to uncover why, by listening, instead of framing them as invalid heretical or enemies for not supporting the idea or cause that YOU are choosing to believe, invest in and give power to. Collective power under fear is hierarchical obedience to a top down dictate but a shared integrity of honouring communication is a collective willingness in shared purpose. The former can align actions or denials as acute instances of applied force but only the latter can grow a true cultural expression.
You pronounce your personal summary of the ‘debate’ as a waste of time, (A debate that never was or could be – because it starts from a conclusion there is no debate and that NOT conforming to such a ‘consensus’ of asserted and repeated claims of being settled science and beyond criticism is itself a crime calling on punishment).
Demonising economic growth is ju jitsu to a shift of definitions. The definitions of such growth have been corrupt and corrupting, as a result of a predatory and rapacious disregard for life. But that is NOT the basis for flip flopping to deny and limit growth under a demonisation based on ‘carbon’.
All that we need is an honesty of a qualitative discernment as for the economic activity that operates a negative ACTUAL result – regardless of GDP and other meaningless financial obfuscations.
Making disposable or toxic crap is making us into disposable units. But ‘carbon’ isn’t toxic – except in being pushed as an energy GUILT currency. Perhaps the shift from a debt based currency to a guilt based currency seems a natural progression – but if we want an energy-based currency – why not remove the blocks to the development of energy solutions that do not operate the centralised top down corporate control and consumer dependence?
The ‘carbon’ guilt-trap denies a genuine debate on actual environmental issues that include the degrading of our biology to the point of paralysis and collapse. To a very few, this is actually seen as an opportunity for power. Perhaps the ultimate victory for the worship of destruction as power over Life.
It is an interesting observation on the subject of climate change. That we the people are encouraged by the elite classes to embrace a collective guilt over something we have very little ability to change. Whether man made or a natural phenomena.
Those in the world who really care with the most passion about the planet being so damaged by pollution. Are the ones who embrace this guilt and responsibility the most. Even sadly I fear, to the point of falling out and calling out for voices to be silenced on this site.
The ones who encourage and keep reinforcing this guilt and fear are the ones responsible for the harm and damage being done. And they are the ones who could choose to stop the destruction of the environment and polluting if they were of a mind to. They could create models of sustainable living but don’t. They make gain at the expense of all else. Sustainable models do not feed the crude beast. lip service is given but nothing changes. Their continued aggression and wars to grab precious resources rolls on regardless.
This in the end all becomes another form of divide and rule and trauma inflicted onto the people. It also may if one is not very careful infect us with the sin of arrogance. Elitist and selfish in its manifestation. Who are we in the west to tell other nations that they are not able to do what we have already done.
.In spite of the constant fearmongering by the state nothing halts their march of progress and polluting habits when money rules. Anti fracking protesters are being treated criminally in the North West of England at this moment All at the same time as our government pretending they care about climate change and plastic pollution levels. Summits are frequently held by those in power giving lip service of doom quoting man made models for global warming. Then they set up and trade emissions back and fourth and continue the damage.
There have been years and years of campaigning and pushing for pollution cuts and against environmental destruction. We now all argue among our selves over things we can not prove or control. We do however have a choice. To either embrace the negative and fuel this disconnect or to embrace each others individual concepts and ideas in loving open minded discussion.
We have so little real understanding of Gaia and her ability to re balance. The science on all things is ultimately built on models of theories which may at some future time become disproved. Though whatever may be. We should all be working for ways to live respectfully in peace and in harmony within this wonderful dream. It is probably good to sometimes think that .We are maybe not as important as we would like to believe ourselves to be.in the greater cycle of Gaia.
All we can ever do is hold our own council and live our lives as truthfully and with as much care, compassion, respect and humanity as we are able. To live lightly on the earth.
Pertaining to this issue, there is the phenomenon of ‘climate change’ per se, and then there is what is very much the unsettled ‘science’ of ‘climate change.’
‘Climate change’ is something that has always happened and always will. This we know as a certainty.
The ‘why(s)’ and “wherefores” of ‘climate change,’ even in the absence of human influence, however, is something we do not know either on the whole or in detail. How, then, can we “measure’ the impact of mankind’s influence on it? You cannot get a measure of the latter without first having a measure of the former. Period.
I know the latter as ‘fact.’ If it were not a fact, then there would be no reason, among others, for the following line of inquiry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMTPF1blpQ
But even if AGW were the most pressing issue of our times — and I claim no position one way or another, because “I DON”T KNOW” that it is, however much of a ‘scientific consensus’ may be said or argued to exist — it still wouldn’t matter, and the reason it wouldn’t matter is that we live in a world where “PROFIT” (and, by implication, the largesses that fund all scientific research) trumps absolutely “EVERYTHING.”
If curtailing emissions means curtailing the bottom lines of the most powerful corporations in existence, it simply won’t happen.
Therefore, the most pressing problem facing us isn’t and can’t be AGW, but the hegemony of CAPITAL.
Unless and until the latter is either effectively dealt with or implodes all on its own, human welfare and the ecology of the planet will continue to count for very little.
And something I only just came across and that some may find relevant to the discussion:
Norman, this is what Ari Jokimaki has to say about Svensmark. I haven’t watched your video and only skimmed the article and comments – just to say that it may be worth looking at both sides if you believe that Svensmark has a valid argument.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/analysis_of_svensmark_reference_list.html
Reply in flaxgirl style:
When you name a single point that you believe supports (or even could support) the argument against significant effect of cosmic-rays to climate please name it. Until that time your insistence that a debate exists is not justified.
So Antonym, how do you relate cosmic-rays to the steep global temperature rise of the last 100 years, assuming you accept that rise – or do you have a quibble with it?
You don’t study replies made to you and therefore keep on making wrong assumptions about them, or the people replying you, resulting in a endless and meaning less repetitive word stream.
I for one give up talking to a brick wall.
I’m afraid the data does not support the cosmic rays/cloud-seeing theory, Antonym. You’ll need to pull out another skeptic argument. I’m sure you’ve got a number still to go.
https://skepticalscience.com/cosmic-rays-and-global-warming.htm
I was wondering what God had to say about cosmic rays! Aren’t we lucky flaxgirl that John Cook (aka “The Word of the Lord”) is so reliable, so honest, so completely infallible that all we have to do is run over to Skeptical Science and consult the oracle to know the Truth.
Any resemblance between you and a brainwashed cultist who simply believes his/her leader without question is entirely coincidental.
I think what I object to most in argument is derision. Not that I’m never guilty of it myself but only in small doses.
Your derision is simply complete rubbish and is the kind of argument that turns me right off skeptic argument regardless of content.
John Cook started Skeptical Science. It is now run by a number of people. The article I quoted was by someone other than JC. I just realised! His initials are JC. How about that? Some other skeptic derided him for his Christianity.
The fact that I admire SS does not make me a brainwashed cultist. That is an absurdity. Can you not see how utterly pointless and false what you say is and how you undermine your credibility with it. It is pitiful.
LOL hilarious that you can with a straight face complain about derision when you have been charging all over this thread sneering at anyone, even the mods on this site who doesn’t 100% agree with you, screaming “show me the evidence” and then refusing point blank to the point of lunacy to even read any of the evidence you’re shown!
All you do, whatever evidence anyone quotes is find something on that ONE SINGLE website that you think refutes it. Mostly it doesn’t refute it because it’s a dumbed down junk site. But you don’t notice, you don’t even bother to read the posts by the people you are talking to, or follow the links, you just run off to Skeptical Science to find something you can tell yourself proves you’re right and slap it down here going “seee!!”.
It’s totally mad. Can’t you think for yourself? Can’t you even dare to look at one single sceptical website in case it makes you doubt?
What’s that if not cultist? How would you feel if someone responded to all your 911 stuff by going to Snopes and coming back with one of their retarded bits of “debunking” and saying “see that proooooves I’m right!”
What you just can’t get in your head is that you might be that person about climate change. You have totally bought a mainstream fake news story about “the earth burning up”. You’re a mainstream dupe on this. You are. Wake up before you start thinking Russia hacked the DNC!
Skeptical Science is simply the goto website when debunking skeptic arguments on climate change, the curator of all the arguments if you will. It presents them clearly and concisely. If you can suggest a better site to go for debunking arguments, please do.
I hate the idea that people interpret what I do as sneering and deriding. Can you please let me know where you think I do this?
Yes, if you can keep up the pretence of an engagement you can elicit a slip by which another reveals their personal frustration in a leaky gut feeling given form in sarcasm. Now throw your whole weight into a righteous attack to back out of an argument you were never really engaged in anyway. I have been accused of being an AI bot or something similar simply because I do not write to a machine intelligence but to a conscious attention and intention. But the nature and pattern of a manipulative intent is not obscure but is well documented and easy to learn to spot – whether a personal resort seeking to appeal for sympathy (or induce antipathy), or a highly trained operative. That the ‘Terminator’ might not be a physical robot, but a program running in the guise of human behaviours puts humanity into the need to discern the true from the false. The hiding of the false by assigning it to others is one of the signs of artifice. But the resort to masking is not in itself a call to judge and assign penalty by accusation, but a call FOR communication. So instead of ‘taking such offence’ when you admit to behaving in the same manner yourself, why not restate relationship in terms of an opportunity to withdraw or rephrase whatever was said in a way that honours the relationship and the right to join or not join in agreement on specific ideas and beliefs? My sense is that many are devolving to become robots as part of the transition to bio-tech and A.I. However, others are choosing to honour relational being itself as the ground of being and are evolved by such alignment for a shifting of focus from reflected meanings to direct participation. I see this as the true choice that is HIDDEN by the false framing of a misidentified self interest running ‘robotically’ as a reactive defence mechanism. And so, regardless your – or any reader’s current occupation, I write to look AT the thinking of the world rather than ‘think it’ or be ‘thought’ by it. Part of the ability to look AT the reactive mind is the ability to open a choice of NOT reacting or taking the bait of reaction under triggering conditions, and the nature of the triggering conditions can be recognised as tricks or devices and deceits of thought in the mind – regardless the forms they take or who seems to instigate it. Who want freedom, learns of freedom. Because no matter what a manipulative thought or intent asserts, your ARE the freedom to choose not to persist it upon yourself, or enter its framing by engaging with it in the terms of its own assertion. But real freedom seems to cost a manipulative sense of possessive control – and there’s the rub! As that freedom you are worthy of gratitude for sharing true witness – because truth is not a personal possession, manipulation or manufacture. And so the true of you is worthy of the gift of true witness for your own release from what you have made and suffer as real. But always and only to your own willingness of acceptance. The absence of coercion is the sign of a true acceptance. Needy people want to use you to get what they believe they lack. But true need calls forth a true relationship. That’s humanity’s stumbling block – opening to and engaging in genuine relationship – because there is no specified or systematic FORM to living communication – and yet we are invested in such models… Read more »
Yes – I see this is a step into an awareness of the Electrical nature of the Universe and the release of a gravitational model – which will also find gravity to be a by product of electrical charge relation and not itself a universal absolute. (We will also release Big Bang, expanding Universe, Black holes and dark matter and dark energy). I cant believe that ‘insider’ science is not already well aware of this, but the model for the mainstream is a model of containment and entrainment – and the role of fake science is then to purvey narratives that support or are used to support political and commercial interests under a mask of fighting evils or discovering cures. The other side of the coin is that humanity may not be ready or willing to accept disclosure. If truth were openly shared, illusions would not require global defence systems. And so those who demand illusions will find them no matter what any science or simple honesty uncovers. Cosmic Rays are a function of ‘Plasma’ Physics. Plasma is electrically charged ‘matter-energy’ of ions and electrons that are phases of a Creating Universe – which is very different from a static Singularity that ‘exploded’ at a beginning from which a Universe has then expanded and ‘formed’ over billions of years. The ‘Solar wind’ is an electrical circuit – between Sol and its Galactic environment – and Earth (and other planets of our system) is within and part of that circuit. Our Solar System is moving through differing charge relations with its environment – noting that the Sun’s plasmasphere extends way past Pluto and one of our spacecraft has recently moved or is moving though this boundary to surprise surprise find a charged state that ‘we did not expect’. This line is so common with regard to electrical phenomena as to suggest either an incredible failure to join the dots due to ‘model’ blindness or a top-down narrative control as for example works with regard to vaccine critical science – and now to AGW critical science. Plasma Physics is ‘hidden’ from recognition by the ‘standard model’ which includes the Sun being believed as a Fusion reaction when in fact the fusion is occurring at the surface of a Sun which is actually an electrical transformer with a hotter surface (plasma in arc mode – as in lightning) than beneath – which is also revealed in sunspots which are temporary holes in the Heliosphere to the cooler surface below and associated with the looping ejecta of solar material (plasma), that gains in acceleration after leaving the Sun. (Due to electrically charged layers around the Sun). There is no space – in terms of a vaccuum or nothing – so much as vast regions of plasma or ionized electrically acting ionised matter and electrical charge. I don’t write to assert an argument in a contest but to share in what I am finding as a result of questioning fake science – just as with fake everything else – and that is a positive vision or indeed reintegrative understanding of Life, The Universe and Everything – but as the saying goes; ‘dont let truth get in the way of a good story’. What is a ‘good story’? Is it any narrative in which we are so invested as to only be able to experience in its terms? or is that behind us as we open to the waking up from narrative identity struggle to realignment in natural function? And I also said on this page – Corbyn, Piers – sells long range weather forecasting services… Read more »
This is old now but it irked me so I’m responding now. One thing I’d like to point out, binra. You say that I say I “take offence”. I didn’t use the word offence. I said I object to derision. The two words have quite a different force and I wonder if there’s a slight sexist overtone in your saying I take offence – as if, as a woman, I can’t cope with derision from other commenters, mostly male. Of course, I wouldn’t be arguing endlessly on these pages if I couldn’t cope with it.
While I admit that I might be derisive on the very odd occasion (and using only very few words) that is an extremely different matter to be constantly arguing with people where you have to wade through a paragraph (sometimes two it seems) of derision to get to the point. I’m only interested in the argument, not what the other person thinks of my reasoning ability nor do I feel the need to inform them of my opinion of their reasoning ability. I have complete confidence in my reasoning ability and I’m also perfectly happy to admit I’m wrong when I realise I’m wrong. Derision is offputting, a timewaster, distracts from the argument and makes it easy to miss whatever real point the derider might make.
You are free to notice when you feel irked,and can use the experience to notice the demands or conditions you have set that others or yourself are failing to meet.
I have not reread through what we have said in response to each other or to the points raised, but I write to illuminate choices being made – such as framing ‘irk’ in terms of denialist or time-waster.
What would happen if we addressed the issue without assigning invalidations to the other’s intent?
Of course it is possible to intend to deny the voice or acceptance of the meaning of another, and indeed to deny to others what in fact we are doing and saying. But this can merely be illuminated or reflected without assigning (our own) ill intent or malign motives.
I don’t know you are a woman – though your commenting name suggests so. I meet you (and anyone) in what you choose to share or give – whoever you are and whatever your background. In this thread I met your instant acceptance of recognition of the AGW assertion as true and of total faith in those individuals and institutions who are its proponents as obviously or necessarily right – with no conversation possible except the restatement of this view in such a framework as to make any other view wrong, but more than wrong; to be serving hateful and therefore ‘righteously attackable’ intent.
I have said many times that I feel the framing of the issue to be itself a trap that I choose not to enter.
I also do not share in the mainstream or official narrative of the scientific version of reality, nor in the elite and exclusive ‘priesthood’ of corporate-backed institutional investment and its denial of true witness. But that does not mean I am seeking to take away your right or power to choose for you.
But to make a choice as an actual choice, we have to know what it is we are choosing between, and this implies information as to what each choice entails. Deception can and does frame false choices so as to hide or deny the true choice from the ‘voting slip’ or ‘debate’. In this sense you are right – there IS no debate or indeed election to be engaged in – its is all sown up, done and dusted. The magical or symbolic ritual is a matter of getting people to sign away their freedom in a form that they are attracted to or compelled to ‘act now!’ – as if doing so is going to limit the freedom of those intent on its destruction and thus regain their own…
The symbol of freedom or the symbol of love and life can be set against the symbols of hateful evils and terrors so as to engage the mind as the active denial of its own true being. Such is a mind set in its own image against relational communication. This isn’t a personal accusation but a pervasive pattern of human enslavement. Ultimately or indeed truly, it is ideas that we give power to, that then disempower us. If we saw choice as only that, there would BE no choice – only creative freedom. Until acceptance of such a freedom releases false or loveless thinking, vigilance against deceit is our need for it holds for the peace in which the true can be recognized and shared. But not forced upon self or other – or world.
The LIA (Little Ice Age) is ending. Temps are rising back to pre-LIA levels. What caused the LIA? No one knows, but it coincided with very low solar activity. Is this correlation a proof of cause? No, but it’s good evidence. Is the rise in CO2 causing the recent warming or is that just correlation? We don’t know.
Are you going to listen to any of this, do some research that doesn’t involve asking Skeptical Science to tell you what to think?
Not. A. Chance. God might be cross with you if you depart from doctrine.
I use SS because it conveniently curates all the skeptic arguments and provides clear and concise debunking of them. Doesn’t it make perfect sense to use it? If you can debunk the debunking by SS by all means go ahead. If you can suggest another website I should consult please recommend it.
Of course, trusty old SS is right there with a critique of the LIA skeptic argument.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/coming-out-of-little-ice-age.htm
“The Little Ice Age remains for the present the subject of speculation. The most likely influence during this period is variable output from the sun combined with pronounced volcanic activity. We know that from the end of the LIA to the 1950s the sun’s output increased. But since WW2 the sun has slowly grown quieter, yet the temperature on Earth has gone up.
The sceptical argument that current warming is a continuation of the same warming that ended the LIA is unlikely. There is a lack of evidence for a suitable forcing (e.g. the sun) and numerous correlations with known natural forcings that can account for the LIA itself, and the subsequent climate recovery. Taken in isolation, the LIA might cast doubt on the theory of climate change. Considered alongside the empirical evidence, model predictions and a century of scientific research into the climate, recovery from the LIA is not a plausible theory to explain the observed evidence and rate of global climate change.”
Other websites have been suggested here numerous times. Climate Audit is one mentioned several times.
It’s also been alleged by several commenters SS is inaccurate and partisan and examples of said inaccuracy have been offered. I don’t verify them but they are definitely here on this page and the posters will claim they have already ‘debunked the debunker’.
You do not as a rule respond to such comments. Maybe you don’t notice them as the thread is very long and tangled. But there’s little point in asking for information, ignoring it when given and then asking for it again.
This is a bit different from the “AGW is proved, the science is settled and everyone who doesn’t believe is a heretic!” angle you and the other brave crusaders on here have been taking isn’t it.
Even supposing the claims made above are true (they aren’t completely, see below), they stop a long way short of “proof”, and SS admits the LIA is a “subject of speculation.” Good, that at least is a bit more realistic about our state of knowledge.
The truth is that everything about the climate is a “subject of speculation” for us with our current state of knowledge. We don’t know enough. Our observation windows are too narrow when measured in geological time. We have no idea why the LIA happened. SS’s suggestions are possible explanation, but the process becomes distorted and deceitful once other possibilities are not given equal weight, and certain speculations are morphed by political manipulation, into pseudo-fact.
And SS is deliberately sloppy with the data. Sun activity is decreasing NOW, but it didn’t start decreasing in the 1950s. In fact recent ice core studies (see link below) on isotope proxies have shown the sun was at a 1200 year peak of activity in the late 20th C – which exactly coincides with the period of warming between c.1950 and 2000.
Since that time the warming has all but halted, and this coincides with the sun entering a new period of low activity.
It’s way too early to draw conclusion about any of this. It’s certainly too early to rule out that C02 contributes to increased global temperatures. If the C02 continues to go up but temps don’t then in 200 or 300 years we may be able to draw tentative conclusions! But at the moment there is provisional hard evidence that CO2 is NOT a major climate forcer and that recent warming has been due to the activity of the sun.
See the ice core study here http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Eusoskin/personal/lrsp-2008-3Color.pdf
BTW, when I mentioned the LIA I said this to you:
How hilarious is it that in response you post a quote from Skeptical Science! 😀
MLS, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t expect me to go to SS as it’s the debunking go to. I’m not a scientist. Why would I spend hours researching a claim you make when I can just go to SS. I’ll return with what they say and leave it up to you to debunk them. Now I’ll respond to your alleged debunking of SS.
This is what the scientist you link to, Ilya Usoskin, says elsewhere:
https://www.mwenb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Blog-Ilya-Usoskin-def.pdf
Although the present knowledge remains poor, in particular since most of the climate models consider only the direct TSI effect which is indeed quite small, I would intuitively and subjectively say that the solar influence was an important player until mid-20th century, but presently other factors play the dominant role. However, such time-delaying processes as e.g. ocean heating, are not straightforwardly considered.
It is also interesting to note that SS use Usoskin’s work to debunk another scientist’s work:
https://skepticalscience.com/mini-ice-age-myth-still-wrong.html
And just to add. Of course, I’m no scientist but if it were solar activity wouldn’t you tend to expect just a higher temperature without so much feedback and climate change than if CO2 were responsible? With just more sun there wouldn’t be so much heat trapped in the atmosphere causing greater concentrations of water vapour, seemingly the greatest feedback. Wouldn’t just greater solar activity produce quite different results which would be of less concern?
Dear flaxgirl,
I think you inadvertently failed to emphasize in Usokin’s quote what the quote itself insists upon, something which also coincidentally the so-called gaggle of ‘deniers’ in this thread have been at pains to highlight for you.
Rather, the proper emphasis in Usokin’s quote should read as follows:
“Although the present knowledge remains poor, in particular since most of the climate models consider only the direct TSI effect which is indeed quite small, I would intuitively and subjectively say that the solar influence was an important player until mid-20th century, but presently other factors play the dominant role.”
See how that works: one quote, two very different readings,
You want to emphasize as ‘fact’ that “the solar influence was an important player until mid-20th century, but has since not been.”
But Usokin is not asserting this as fact, but as a question that needs to be properly investigated, i.e., her assertion is “intuitive and subjective,” something that remains highly speculative and hasn’t yet been shown to be either true or false.
The only factual claim that can here be said to be being ‘debunked’ is — given the question(s) being raised by Usokin — that “the science has been settled.”
As a response to MLS’s response I think my highlighting is perfectly valid, Norman.
Climate scientists are uncertain about many aspects of climate change which they readily admit to, however, they are certain enough that the rise in CO2 is causing dangerous warming and climate change. That is sufficient for me. It may not be sufficient for you but it is sufficient for me.
Right. The climate scientists in your camp don’t really understand the link between the many different aspects of solar activity and the earth climate system, but they know they can discount them in an era of rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Fascinating logic.
As I just said, Norman, this is what they say.
“Considered alongside the empirical evidence, model predictions and a century of scientific research into the climate, recovery from the LIA is not a plausible theory to explain the observed evidence and rate of global climate change.”
Just to clarify.
What I want to do is show that the scientist that MLS links to is in agreement with what SS says in terms of solar influence being influential until mid-century. That is all.
Um, if what SS says in terms of solar influence being influential until mid-century, but thereafter being negligible, as a matter of “fact,” then you fail to show that the scientist that MLS links to is in agreement with what SS contends: she is not making a statement of “fact;” she is pointing to an issue that must be further investigated before any ‘rational’ stance can be adopted in relation to it.
So which is it: does SS assert as “fact” that although solar activity was influential until the mid-20th Century, it no longer is; or does it assert, as Usokin does, that all of this is as yet unproven speculation?
Just to point out Ilya is a man’s name.
My response was very much to MLS’s claim below and really needs to be considered in that context. I’m not going to discuss the matter further.
“But at the moment there is provisional hard evidence that CO2 is NOT a major climate forcer and that recent warming has been due to the activity of the sun.
See the ice core study here http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Eusoskin/personal/lrsp-2008-3Color.pdf“
Okay, she’s a he, and it’s not Usokin, but Usoskin.
So what’s the problem with the ice core study?
I didn’t even look at it. My point is that Usoskin says that he thinks solar influence diminished mid-century (even if he’s not sure about it) – SS says the same thing (without expressing the uncertainty). MLS rejects that with the link to Usoskin’s study (but who says elsewhere as I’ve shown that he thinks the solar influence reduced mid-century). This is it – I’m not discussing it further.
And just to add further:
From SS:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/coming-out-of-little-ice-age.htm
Considered alongside the empirical evidence, model predictions and a century of scientific research into the climate, recovery from the LIA is not a plausible theory to explain the observed evidence and rate of global climate change.
And just to add further again:
The certainty that scientists have on the rise of CO2 being a dangerous climate forcer is sufficient for the oil companies. Their lawyers, despite the willingness of the denialists they have happily funded to support their case with their argument, ignore them and do not defend their case using any doubts on the matter. Not at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/23/in-court-big-oil-rejected-climate-denial
“From Chevron’s perspective, there is no debate about the science of climate change.”
They are using the same defence that the tobacco companies used: it’s the customer’s fault.
No skeptic, so far, has given me a possible explanation for why an oil company would not use doubt on CO2 causing a dangerous rise in temperature to defend their case, when so many of their supporters are willing to help them to use it.
Perhaps you can offer a reason, Norman?
If Big Oil is accepting the reality of manmade global warming it’s more likely to be because it can profit from green energy subsidies and oil price increases (to deter use)or other areas of leverage than because the science is just too strong to deny. If the “deniers” can deny it, why not Exxon?
But surely to defend their case it would be much better for them to claim they are not responsible for causing sea level rise because it’s uncertain what’s causing it rather than blaming it on the customer? They’re defending a very serious case here which will lead to others – lots of others perhaps. They stand to lose colossal amounts of money. I very much doubt the possibility of green-energy subsidies would be playing on their minds here – although certainly it might elsewhere. Do you understand the seriousness of the case?
I guess you wouldn’t understand the seriousness of the case because, if it’s the same Admin, you think the children’s legal case against the US government is a psyop. Please read this article and then confirm whether or not you still think it’s a psyop.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/kids-sue-us-government-climate-change/
The seriousness of the case isn’t the point. Massive corporations don’t think like that. They don’t give a stuff about data or truth or ethics. If they wanted to deny manmade climate change they would. Even if there were no evidence at all that called it into question.
If Big Oil is accepting AGW it’s because it sees a way to profit from it either directly or indirectly. Period.
When I say the case is serious what I mean is that they may suffer greatly. Nothing to do with ethics. My goodness!
That’s an assertion with zero evidence.
What about, they’re in a corner? Do you think that’s a possibility? They’re in a corner and they’re struggling to come up with something – so they blame it on the customer as the tobacco companies did – but not very successfully.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/23/in-court-big-oil-rejected-climate-denial
“That argument didn’t work for the tobacco industry in the past, because they knew of the health risks associated with consuming their products, yet engaged in campaign to manufacture doubt to convince people to keep smoking. Ultimately, a federal judge found the tobacco industry guilty of fraud to further a conspiracy to deceive the American public about the dangers of their products.”
“Perhaps you can offer a reason, Norman?”
Actually, I’d rather talk about how lacking an adequate understanding between solar activity and climate isn’t in anyway problematic for the assertion that only CO2 can be responsible for the climate change of today. Can you explain it to me?
I’ve already quoted it twice. This is what SS says. They are not presenting all the evidence right here for what they say obviously. But this is what they say. If you want to argue the case with them go ahead. I’m not saying on more on it.
Note: “recovery from the LIA is not a plausible theory” refers to renewed activity by the sun.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/coming-out-of-little-ice-age.htm
“Taken in isolation, the LIA might cast doubt on the theory of climate change. Considered alongside the empirical evidence, model predictions and a century of scientific research into the climate, recovery from the LIA is not a plausible theory to explain the observed evidence and rate of global climate change.”
Your quote explains nothing. And it is clear that the position you embrace is as I first claimed it was: “You want to emphasize as ‘fact’ that “the solar influence was an important player until mid-20th century, but has since not been.”
However, the situation is rather as follows: what is not well understood, as Usoskin and many others aver, is how solar activity in its various “transient nonstationary (often eruptive) processes” — to borrow a phrase from Usoskin — impinges on climate. Climatologists don’t know, even if only in approximate terms, the real extent or mechanics of that influence.
But if the influence of the sun on climate is poorly understood — and it is — and it is yet obviously significant for the evolution of climate — and it is — then how can the unknown approximate magnitude of this influence be presumed to be negligible in comparison to the presumed current effects of CO2? If it is unknown and undemonstrated in its extent, you cannot “know” that it is either more or less significant than CO2. Furthermore, unless the weight of this influence becomes known, you cannot determine the approximate extent of the influence of CO2 as such. For the latter cannot be known without the former also being known, and indeed, neither can be specified without also quantifying the effects of a great many other processes or factors that still remain to be taken into account.
Climate dynamics are the result of systems of processes all impinging on and reacting to one another. It isn’t only just one thing that drives climate change, but many, although some things will be more consequential than others at given moments in time or even at all times. If you don’t know the most essential parts of the system and how they interact, you understand nothing.
Understanding solar activity is critical to an understanding of climate change. For the sun is the major source of the energy that drives and modulates that change. If you don’t understand how that energy drives that change, you don’t and can’t understand climate. We have only just begun to study solar activity. We therefore have only just begun to study climate. We are only at a beginning. Everything about climate science has yet to be settled.
Norman, I’m afraid I reject your claim that I want to emphasize “fact” and what I wanted to emphasize was the agreement between the scientist MLS quoted and SS (though there is the difference that the scientist expressed uncertainty about what he thought whereas SS presented what they said more as fact – which is only reasonable because SS writers are more climate-as-a-whole-focused and are more knowledgeable about all the other factors that tend to indicate it is not solar activity causing warming while the solar scientist’s interest is narrower).
I just had a very depressing conversation with a friend who informed me of very clear indications of climate change that are evident right now and it seems completely ludicrous to keep on arguing the subject.
Assuming you are being entirely open in your communications here, I suggest that you are under the nocebo effect.
A similar thing an happen to those being told by ‘authority’ that they have a life threatening disease – ie: cancer – and that “nothing can be done” (except a load of toxic and carcinogenic ‘treatments’ to buy some time).
This is the result of giving power away as if the ‘experts’ are your protection rather than one of many information possibilities. Now others can tell you a story that completely undermines your Spirit – and you accept it!
The first need in all such matters is not a scientific debate – but a self-honesty of spiritual intention, purpose and decision. All sorts of things deceive and destroy the lives of all sorts of people because they are already disposed to believe what they are told. In this case there are themes: human guilt and unworthiness being at the core.
Science – like all perceptions and interpretations goes forth in search of specific self-reinforcements.
So it can be used to disprove its assumptions.
The bottom line – as I see it – is ‘What do you want to be true?’ – not because you can change the truth – but because whatever you actually want – is what filters or directs the focus and results of whatever you then find.
To actively desire a positive outcome means to seek and find it. Finding a negative outcome and setting measures against it (as it has been framed) is not the same as holding the focus of a truly positive outcome.
In my positive – is the capacity to recognize and release negative distortions when they are recognised. No one can release or become free of what they have not owned – no matter how much they try to change everyone else.
Nor can I force you to accept anything that you are not willing to accept.
There are all sorts of ‘reasons’ as to why people back or follow or defy any kind of ideas. Not much about science is unchanging – and yet there is this strange belief that NOW are we enlightened and the ignorant past is replaced.
So a ‘consensus’ reality is a FORM of outer agreement concealing many different inner motivations. Self-interest can be enlightened – or it can be altogether mistaken – depending on what we are accepting as true by reacting or living as if it is true.
This much I can say with certainty and that is that Existence or Life is infinitely more than anything we think – and that is Good News to anyone trapped in their own thinking (or anyone else’s media feed).
Because energy CONTROL was always what power was about and the key people in the oil companies are in with the ‘winners’ – as you believe yourself to be.
Your case all along is that you just ‘knew’ CO2 AGW was true and hold it obvious and seek and find only what supports you which is to a large degree the so called debunking of any other view.
You have your reward – that is – you are doing what you want because you wanted to. Now you have the test of whether it truly fulfils.
I feel that we all have a desire to align in a greater sense of purpose and worth than the false thinking of the world gives us – and so can believe we find it in the denial and overcoming of the false.
I have no difference with anyone as to the understanding of monopolising needs as a way to induce scarcity and control – and to do so in ways that are indifferent and callously disregarding Life and the lives of others. But I also see that new needs are set up in healthcare as a result of toxicity, and toxic or denaturing food production. New needs are set up in any arena in which the true is denied for the sake of a private agenda – and are likewise captured or manipulated and used for the fulfilment and reinforcement of private agenda.
So the web of deceit is – from where I stand – much greater, and operating as a broad spectrum dominance of thought, speech and actions. While at times this seems to be orchestrated by an evil power or conspiracy of power that is set upon destroying and or enslaving humanity and the Earth, I also see that ‘private agenda’ is the very nature of the block to a true and open Communication in which is our truly Human inheritance and appreciation of Earth.
The USE to which the AGW movement is being put is to my sense aligned in the further enslavement of our being. So – even in regard to measures that can be adopted and effected with regard to adverse conditions in which we have a part – such as pollution and denatured food – we are NOT addressing the underlying causes.
The tactic of delay uses smokescreen and diversion to throw off pursuit or exposure. It may run as a survival instinct against exposure in truth as ‘death’ or total loss of power or self or even loss of ‘face’.
The mind in defence is divinely empowered because the mind is the expression of a divine function. WE meet it in our relations with others and our world because it frames our interpretation of the world.
False flags can occur as mistaken identity or of guilt by association. And so the firemen can be associated with causing the fire (and in corrupt instances have done so!). But ‘who benefits?’ is always a worthy check on our own (and others) bias.
911 is an illustration that a very wide spectrum of institutional services can be orchestrated to a timing through which an unthinkable act was carried out in broad daylight and remained hidden. This is a form of magic trick and should alert us not to further distraction while the trick continues – but to wake in vigilance to the nature and presumptions of our ‘world’
In reply to flaxgirl re: Chevron’s position on CC :
Money. Money. Money.
Chevron : Climate Change
we proactively consider climate change in our business decisions
https://www.chevron.com/corporate-responsibility/climate-change
Chevron shares the concerns of governments and the public about climate change and believes that encouraging practical, cost-effective actions to address climate change risks while promoting economic growth is the right thing to do.
At Chevron, we believe that managing climate change risks is an important element of our strategic focus to return superior value to stockholders. Although we cannot forecast exactly what will happen in the future, we believe Chevron’s governance, risk management and strategy processes are sufficient to mitigate the risks and capture opportunities associated with climate change. Throughout our long history, we have shown our resilience through our ability to adapt to changing conditions in the marketplace, and we will continue to adjust our business as needed to effectively and proactively manage climate change risks.
Chevron strives to contribute to the ongoing conversation about climate change. To that end, we voluntarily published Managing Climate Change Risks: A Perspective for Investors in March 2017, in which we discussed our views on market fundamentals, governance, risk management and strategy. In March 2018, we issued a second, more detailed voluntary disclosure report, Climate Change Resilience: A Framework for Decision Making. We encourage interested stakeholders to review our latest report to gain an understanding of Chevron’s current views on climate change.
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MG
Of course, the oil companies say all that bullshit
This doesn’t work for their court case. They’re defending themselves in court over what they have done in the past up till now – all the puffery about what they’re about now means nothing in the court case. They stand to lose millions, if not billions. They are in a corner and they’re using the same weak argument the tobacco companies used.
Would it not be more plausible for any powerful vested interest to employ every kind of ‘futurology’ so as to position for it and where possible shape it and where not to spread assets and liabilities so as to be in the dominant position when the flip is allowed to flop. there are always sacrifices but these are token to the management of perception of those who perceive in terms of past associations rather than present discernment and discriminations.
But this ‘Climate’ business is far bigger than the wealth or influence of oiligarchs – being a kingpin for the reframing of corporate and national law under ‘energy’ debts (guilt). No less insidious is the framing of also apparently scientific medical ‘guidelines’ that become instituted in national a corporate law. Globalism is not being held back by the Trump card – but served by a perfect diversion.
I see global governance as inevitable in SOME FORM OR ANOTHER – unless the industrial, technological infrastructure should collapse – because it is that which has in a sense brought everything to a convergence.
But my caveat in capitals is that I hold for a governance of consent in which the value of human being is extended to all. This is not the same as assigning special status to victims – apart from the natural extension of compassion to the restoring of their wholeness. I believe when everything ELSE has been tried and found to fail, we will come ‘back’ to the true – not unlike the prodigal son’s willingness to be even as a servant in his father’s house (Life) under the belief that any claim to inherited worth or value has been squandered, trashed and invalidated (guilt).
The voice for guilt is also known as the deceiver. It gives a false sense of self to those who fear to face it and be undone of it. For what we run from – appears to chase us, and what we push down seems to be trying to come up.
MLS writes:
“And SS is deliberately sloppy with the data. Sun activity is decreasing NOW, but it didn’t start decreasing in the 1950s. In fact recent ice core studies (see link below) on isotope proxies have shown the sun was at a 1200 year peak of activity in the late 20th C – which exactly coincides with the period of warming between c.1950 and 2000.
Since that time the warming has all but halted, and this coincides with the sun entering a new period of low activity.”
The following graph by Dr. Leif Svalgaard corroborates MLS’s assertions:
Source: HERE
Depending on whose interpretation of the summary of experimental results you read, the CLOUD experiment at CERN would appear either to support or not support Svensmark’s hypothersis. Go figure.
In the post to which you link, we read the following:
“Surely reviewers competent to review the paper would be aware that the CLOUD project doesn’t support Svensmark’s hypothesis?
But if one takes the time to visit the CERN website to have a look at the latest update related to CLOUD, the summary of results does indeed, at least in part, lend support to Svensmark’s hypothesis.
To quote the relevant bit:
“The results also show that ionisation of the atmosphere by cosmic rays accounts for nearly one-third of all particles formed, although small changes in cosmic rays over the solar cycle do not affect aerosols enough to influence today’s polluted climate significantly.” [My emphasis. Source: here]
But I guess that the ambiguous part of the statement pertaining to ‘small changes in cosmic rays over the solar cycle not significantly affecting aerosols enough to influence today’s polluted climate’ is enough, according to some, to vitiate the apparent ‘fact’ that cosmic rays nevertheless and apparently do account for nearly one-third of all aerosol particles formed in the atmosphere, what with 33% of anything being, as everyone knows, insubstantial.
Question(s): are the changes in the cosmic ray flux associated with the solar cycle always small? Or can they sometimes be large? And if large, might they then begin to have a significant impact even on today’s polluted climate? And can large deviations be sustained over long periods of time? Or is it the case that the cosmic ray flux is always more or less constant and thus always accounts for about 33% of all cloud forming nuclei? Of course, I don’t know the answers to these questions. But then the CLOUD update, as it is written and at least to my mind, begs these questions, and given these questions, it seems to me that Svensmark’s hypothesis has yet to be dismissed.
And speaking of alternative readings of the results of CLOUD:
http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/30/though-media-refuse-to-admit-cern-results-vastly-strengthen-svensmarks-cosmic-ray-climate-theory/
‘Skeptical’ originally or properly indicates an unwillingness to accept but by definition open to the possibility of being persuaded. Much skepticism these days is in fact cynicism covering over a blind or unquestioning gullibility.
Cynicism is hate that seeks to prove or force its rightness by undermining any other view.
And so sneer and smear and smugness accompany its appeals to ‘authority’ and its willingness to bully when it feels that power is at its back. While having no conscious sense of behaving in such a manner – for they are more than ‘right’ – they are empowered to deny in the Name of THE Moral Necessity of our Time.
Would a blank cheque of signing into the whole raft of global regulations that are in place for ‘combating’ Climate Change under a false pretences be a crime similar to that rolled out immediately from 911?
Unlike Norman – I see the Corporates being reined in or at least netted within a framework in which key players get insider privileges for delivering the Corporate sector into fiscal and legal requirements that can then be adjusted to limit, break up and control what otherwise remains a vector for instability. I don’t see the ‘program’ of power struggle ever becoming ‘settled power’ or ‘consensus subjection’.
And the power that arose through such as the Carnegie Rockefeller cartel extended like a many tentacled creature into many other market captures and institutional or regulatory corruptions. So the token defeat of the oil (and coal) industries will be like the defeat of tobacco to the rise of e-vaporating smokers.
“Billions of people” will not have to wait for sea levels to rise or desertification t o torch them off of the Planet or for Prince Phillip to come back as a deadly virus, because the people are being systematically conditioned and herded into choosing to degrade, sicken and kill themselves – quite apart from the use of overt (and covert) warfare.
It can be said that we are all going to die in any case – but that there is a difference in the passing on of a gift, and of a cultural inheritance. Insofar as the ability to have children, and for them to develop in functional health into interdependent adults, we are leaving an unprecedented mess of broad spectrum degradation and debt – and of course the challenge of a lifetime. But if the current trends for toxicity related diseases (often hidden under infectious contagions that are actually expressions of toxicity and malnutrition) – along with toxic treatments continue, the hockey stick of an exponential curve will bring us to a paralysis.
I see nothing unprecedented in being lured into a dependency that then further weakens us. Buyer beware!
Show me some vision for a cooperative convivial freedom from the toxic canopy of a top down dictate and I might at least lean to the argument of ‘it doesn’t really matter if it is true because it is necessary’.
Necessary according to whom?
One of the most foolish notions that I commonly see is that if an asserted and identified tyranny can be ‘taken down’, all else will be well. Rather than uncover the underlying cause of the symptom in our collective thinking – and NOT a collective guilt.
More to consider:
I can 100% guarantee flaxgirl did not watch this video.
The way we use words often sets thm in polarised or false meanings – by being set in associations of other word-meanings. So profit can become a dirty word. No one does anything or has any motivation to do anything but that in some way they believe it profits them to do so – as they define themselves in that moment or situation to be. The last part is the significant part to our understanding and acceptance of freedom. If we define ourselves in lack and fear of loss, we will think and act to avoid loss, to shore up or armour against risk and ally or invest ourself in forms of power and protection aginst threat. All of that is a movement in being that isolates and divides. I can call it the ego – but it is belief or set of beliefs about ourselves and therefore about others and our world. The growing of appreciation by the extending of appreciating it is the economy of a cup that runneth over. Its sense of worth and connection extend out in actions but no less in the demeanour of an inspired and active engagement with life – rather than a compulsive or fear-driven dictate to save ourselves from greater loss. The nature of love is shared. It is not a ‘should’ share or a ‘share or be damned’ – but an already shared nature to our being. But the nature of a conditional love is the setting of conditions for love that of course turn to hate the moment those conditions change – as a sense of being deprived, denied, rejected and abandoned. And so those characteristics become our ‘defence’ or attempt to get back the fruits of love that are our right. Because humanity is a long way down a dark way to nowhere, it will seem naive or foolish to bring profit back into the realm of love’s awareness and recognition – but the restoration of our true inheritance as a shared or commonwealth, depends on returning or rather uncovering a true foundation from which to give and receive in a true currency of worth – which is a movement of gratitude for receipt even as it is a willingness to stand with another in true witness when they temporarily seek for love or its qualities of having and being as one – in outer forms of manipulative domination or possession and control. While these negative traits are easy to use for large examples in our world they are no less observable in ourselves and each other in the ordinary living of our day. One-up-man-ship is a sign of a lack of worth seeking self-reinforcement in the posture or forms of worth. It can just as well operate as the asserted grievance of passive aggressive refusal to join in or cooperate. My email doesn’t easily enable me to access the video in a click – and I haven’t looked at it – but the understanding of a destructive profit motive is a critical issue to what I see as actual and present danger and not just an asserted representation of such danger in forms that effectively protect the core control narrative of the negatively identified sense of self in lack while masking such a device in the token sacrifice of the oil and coal industry. It might be remembered that the lust or compulsive dictate in search o power will do or say anything to gain support in attaining such a position, and then immediately close all doors or pathways by which anyone ELSE can likewise use the… Read more »
So, to sum up: Judith Curry refers to a non-existent peer/consensus as a peer/consensus; defers to a non-existent peer/consensus as a peer/consensus; bows to a non-existent peer/consensus as a peer/consensus; raises the upper limit of her ECS estimates to a non-existent peer/consensus as a peer/consensus (twice); which brings her estimates well within the non-existent peer/consensus as a peer/consensus; which confirms the non-existent peer/consensus as a peer/consensus …but there is no peer/consensus: because (with little or no reference to empirical data) you say so? Got it. Though apparently, Ms Curry (who has reviewed quite a lot of empirical data and made her own models (with a retired financier)) disagrees with you. She seems to think the ‘no true scotsman’ scientific community DO have a peer/consensus. Which renders anything I may have said in a different context as irrelevant to this particular conversation. It also renders your own POV problematic. On what empiric grounds are you basing it? The ‘not settled’ fallacy is a SCAM, which has been dealt with several times now. A SCAM that is deliberately manipulated, by the likes of Curry, to culturally manufacture doubt. Against strongly reasoned meta-analysis: you offer ‘some might say’; ‘no true Scotsman’ SCAMs; and Piers Corbyn as an example of the large body of evidence that my use of the term ‘denialism’ negates. When I push my case, you retort with hurt feelings and faux denunciations. My I suggest that none of this would have been forthcoming, if you did what you said, and engaged with the meta-analytic argument; not dismiss it with bluff in favour of a pre-determined fixed point of view. Some might say that is an authoritarian tactic. Not me me of course, but some might. You say you want the data discussed, but actually act as though you do not. You certainly do not want anyone to draw any conclusion from the data. Do you honestly think scientifically uneducated anti-dialogue will add anything: except time and doubt? I’m still waiting for a link to the empirical data I am denying from Saturday. Instead, I was offered Piers Corbyn (who Catte hasn’t even read). Can you not see that is dismissive from our POV? With such evasiveness, you got rid of Mog, and gained Denier, which I would suggest shows that you are not creating a level playing field. Denier brought nothing but invective and negation. Mog put forward detailed and considered analysis. Which one did you label the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada? I’m biased, but I think you have lost a valuable contributor for someone who shouts a lot, but says nothing useful. Perhaps next time, things would get a little less heated if you did not make false accusations of demanding censorship. Or counter passion with reference to the Inquisition. As Catte concedes, it certainly wasn’t me who started bandying around invective. Whatever others have said, I never called for censorship: yet you bring it up again. That’s your delusion. Frankly, it’s quite demeaning and unnecessary, being as I have already refuted the claim on this forum. Some might say that is poor etiquette too. Not me, but some might say. As for the ‘hurt feelings’: please, that’s a tactic from the playground. Surely adults can engage in robust debate without such a tactic. Again, there would have been little need had you offered anything substantive to refute the meta-analysis. Or shall we refer to Nigel Lawson and ‘Lord’ Monckton? I chose Curry as she is at least ‘credible’. Her ‘analysis’ forms the basis of a large proportion of the denialist claim …including James Corbett. I asked you to check:… Read more »
That was obviously a reply to Admin.
Data? Yes, only if they would have been archived properly with public access! But that didn’t happen in Climate science: https://climateaudit.org/2018/10/24/pages2k-north-american-tree-ring-proxies/#comment-783918
There is a deliberate (and thus dishonest) game being played by a number of paleo climate scientists of hiding inconvenient data a) fully from public view, or b) to exclude then ex post if they do not show the desired trend. Too many climate science publications allow non disclosure of underlying raw data : Science and Nature don’t.
Try this about getting raw data out of climate scientists dead hands: http://www.passionforliberty.com/2013/08/19/climategate-coverup/
Of course there’s a consensus, measured by volume anyhow. That’s never been a point of controversy. The controversy is about the manipulation of the figures claimed and of what the consensus is about. It’s the same problem yet again of a complex scientific issue being dumbed down and simplified into a quasi-lie.
97% of climate scientists do NOT think the sky is falling.
A majority believe in some degree of CO2 forcing and therefore some degree of human influence on recent warming.
There is no majority consensus on the question of CAGW (“catastrophic manmade climate change”).
You and many lay people think of AGW and CAGW as synonyms. They’re not. A consensus about AGW is not a consensus over CAGW. The latter is a minority conviction only.
But the most important thing to emphasise is that science is not about consensus. It’s not about opinions at all. It’s about the pursuit of truth. And, as Norman Pilon points out, the great steps forward in our knowledge have not been made by committees on the basis of majority opinion.
I differentiated between AGW and CAGW days ago. No one is conflating them. I dismissed CAGW myself to focus on the peer/consensus for AGW …a consensus you confirm. That consensus has been under discussion for days as a good enough reason to mitigate – not just climate change, but – the root cause of climate change, (and a whole other raft of destructionism) …which is carbon capitalism.
In whose defence, you offer a false conflation, and a manufactured green certitude …which I also parsed out of the argument days ago. The only certitude is the event, science is never ‘proven’, we have to act on the balance of probability, there is enough of a consensus (given that we cannot run the real experiment in the lab of the biosphere) to demand system change on the basis of AGW.
Look at what you yourself admit to – a consensus for AGW – and tell me again that we should keep burning carbon – for humanities sake?
Perhaps you could elucidate the consequences for humanity of an ECS of 3 C (with an upper limit of 4.5 C) and explain how this will benefit humanity?
You’ll get more people to agree that:
* dependence on fossil fuel kings like the Gulf ones, the Iranian ayatollahs or Russian or American leaders is not healthy.
* air pollution from diesel, ship bunk fuel etc. is immediately unhealthy, specially for kids and elderly.
* nuclear energy is at present the only non intermittent serious alternative as Germany is going to find out soon at high cost.
Getting people to agree within a dualist linguistic framework, with binary logic, and a binary propaganda system creating eternal fissures and sectarianisms …is a separate topic: the epistemics of I am keen to discuss. But not today.
Earlier today, one of the various people who can access the ‘Admin’ epithet posted this:
Can I just intercede to say: what a patronising, dismissive and supercilious interjection this is. The data has been discussed, by people called scientists. At least two people have put forward a strong analytic case based on their empirical data. To whomsoever wrote this: just what do you think Mog and I are referring to: strawberry cheesecake?
Where I quote Curry saying “I’ll even bow to peer/consensus pressure”: the peer/consensus designation refers to ALL DATA; ALL SCIENTISTS (or at least a significant cross-section that have been personally analysed by Curry). This concept is called meta-analysis, as you seem not to be familiar with it. Ergo: my meta-analytic deconstruction of Curry is based on ALL DATA; ALL SCIENCE; though not on a paper by paper basis.
To echo Mog (who your obfuscation seems to have lost): the composite ‘Admin’ identity have offered nothing but strawmen bluffs (Piers Corbyn – really?) and used a phoney censorship shield (that you yourselves constructed) in order to negate and dismiss meta-analysis – based on ALL DATA – as mere opinion. Every objection raised has been countered empirically and academically by one or other of us (ably backed by flaxgirl). In return, you encourage mere opinion – on a paper by paper basis – contra the overall analysis? Despite the fact that it has been politely pointed out that culturally manufactured doubt is the corporate modus operandi. One of you even chose the article that points this out, FFS.
I deliberately chose Curry because she is among the most prominent of deniers …an expert witness and policy advisor (maker) for Congress. Her opinion is clearly elevated by corporate concerns beyond the peer/consensus (her terminology: I guess I will have to explicitly point out now that this alone CONFIRMS a peer/consensus) of science …in order to manufacture doubt and strategic non-committal. Unless you think black/white swans; enraged fire breathing ‘Uncertainty Monster’ dragons (admit it: you don’t know what I am talking about?) trump peer/consensus scientific enquiry – based on ALL DATA.
As I seem to have to spell it out: Curry concedes that the META-DATA points to an ECS of 3 C…that’s 3 C. Not ‘catastrophic’, but catastrophic enough. For the hard of thinking, that’s the median of her extended range of 1.5-4.5 C …based on ALL DATA; ALL SCIENCE.
Her solution – let’s do nothing. Which contra ALL DATA: seems to be what the composite Admin is advocating. Balance and neutrality are non-positions. At some point you have to come off the fence and act. Acting means choosing a side. Non-committal prioritises Corporatocracy over Humanity: or didn’t you read the review you posted?
Everyone is free to post here, but using that freedom to hurl lengthy abuse at the admins is poor etiquette.
None of us are anti-AGW, and we have been careful to maintain an evenhanded approach. The debate is NOT proven, you have admitted this yourself (though occasionally in your voluminous rhetoric you seem to forget it again).
You counter this acknowledged ambiguity with claims that IF AGW is real it needs action now, not more talk.
That’s fine. None of us would disagree. We support calls to action on climate. We hosted this review because we think it and the book are important.
But you can demand action on a probability while still permitting discussion of the data.
It’s concerning when the demands for action include demands for censorship of all dissenting opinion.
We DON’T agree with that and never will.
Hope this clarifies things and removes the need for further denunciations of the hardworking people here.
On what basis do you say the debate is not proven – in fact, I’d very much query the term debate – the existence of naysayers does not necessarily mean that a genuine debate exists. You say you’re not anti-AGW but why aren’t you PRO-AGW? Being merely non-anti in this crucial situation is effectively the same as being anti. It suggests you don’t think urgent action is required.
What is your basis for saying that the debate is not proven? Is it merely because naysayers exist? What is your basis?
Your slogan is “because facts really should be sacred” but I find that what are proven facts are simply not recognised by you as such. In fact, what you seem to promote in regard to a number of phenomena, not just climate change, is the notion that “we cannot be sure” and that it would be premature and wrong to call things out as this or that when the evidence is, in fact, very clear and it is wrong NOT to call them out. I find the idea that we must hold back on calling things out quite strange when the evidence is clear and there is nothing contradicting it.
Can you please provide a single piece of evidence that you think shows that the debate is not proven. Just one single piece of evidence. If you cannot provide that then what rationale is there for your claim that the debate is not proven?
Literally no one claims the AGW theory is proven – which is why absolutely everyone, from the IPCC down, talks in terms of probabilities. There would be no need for consensus if all the major points were proven.
We support free debate here. Stop demanding suspected heretics explain themselves. It’s just weird.
Yes, but do you yourself know of anything that you think casts doubt on it? Climate scientists say they are sufficiently sure of it that radical action must be taken so when they use the word “proven” they’re simply using the word in a very specific scientific way. Climate scientists certainly do not say, we really don’t know for sure, so don’t worry about, do they? They say most emphatically, act as if it is proven because we’re pretty sure and we’re getting surer not less sure. That is what they recommend. So to talk of it as not being “proven” is meaningless in a practical sense.
But regardless of “proven” or not, the only people who are really in a position to question anything are bona fide climate scientists. None of us non-climate-scientists can offer anything that challenges the theory. Certainly nothing has been put forward here to challenge it one tiny bit. It’s all been skeptic bunk. The fact that it may not be “proven” does not necessarily mean that it’s a subject of debate either, at least, at the non-climate-scientist level.
Fact: No one on this site has put forward anything that challenges the theory even remotely.
Fact: Man-made climate change is an incredibly important subject, if not the most important subject of our time. Being so important it should not be accepted blithely that it is a subject for debate, especially when it is obvious from the naysayers here that they simply pull out skeptic nonsense or facts that are meaningless.
Fact: In a recent court case, Big Oil’s lawyer wasn’t on the same page as the climate denialists hired to defend it. The lawyer accepted the climate science and preferred to argue that it is the fault of the energy consumers just as the tobacco companies tried to argue that it was smokers’ fault that they chose to smoke.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/23/in-court-big-oil-rejected-climate-denial
So one is obliged to ask, “Where is the debate whose right you wish to defend?” Where is it? It certainly does not exist on this page and it does not exist in the courtroom where those being charged with being massively responsible for climate change are.
Where is the debate on climate change whose right you wish to defend? If it doesn’t exist then its right to exist surely cannot be defended.
What are you talking about flax girl? You are currently involved in a debate on this page that you are simultaneously claiming doesn’t exist! Time to re-evaluate your position 😉
There is no debate where there are no valid points on one of the sides. No valid points have been put forward on this page on the non-pro-AGW side so I call that a non-debate. To back up my claim of non-debate (and BigB and others have substantiated their own claims of non-debate), the lawyer of one of the Big Oil defendants in the case of causing sea-level rise is not arguing in court against the climate science, despite a number of climate denialists putting forth their views to support the defendants, he’s arguing it’s the customer’s fault.
Naysayers does not mean debate. For a genuine debate there must be at least one valid point presented by one of the sides. We haven’t seen one so far. Have you got one?
This is nuts. There are differing opinions on the potential causes of climate change, ok! They have been referenced right here. Sometimes in direct response to you by various posters. I am not claiming these differing opinions are right or wrong. I am not defending them. But they definitely exist. Have you simply gone mad or are you playing trick or treat?
Either way, stop spamming this discussion with claims that the discussion doesn’t exist. Either respond to the various data points and opinions being offered by the likes of Antonym, PSJ, LadyDi etc or if you really don’t think it’s a debate – don’t post.
You keep talking theoretically about the existence of a debate – your rationale being that people are putting forth opinions – but you cannot name a single point that supports the argument against AGW. There must be a single valid point on the other side and so far you have not nominated a point you think is. You have come up with one that isn’t though – sea ice level rise in Antarctica.
When you name a single point that you believe supports (or even could support) the argument against AGW please name it. Until that time your insistence that a debate exists is not justified. Moriarty has just stated to me that PSJ’s mention of solar fluctuation theory is some kind of argument. Mention of a theory is meaningless. It needs to be stated how this theory contradicts the AGW theory.
Also, how on earth would you explain Big Oil’s agreement with the climate science in their defence of the accusation of causing sea-level rise if there was really any debate on the subject? Can you offer an explanation?
Please do not falsely accuse me of spamming.
Talk to the people offering the opinions. The debate about whether there is a debate is ridiculous and over.
I think we just define scientific debate differently. For me to agree that a scientific debate exists I’d need to recognise a valid scientific point from the other side – if I felt that my knowledge was too limited on the matter I’d simply admit that I was not in a position to claim whether a debate existed or not. If you’re OK that you personally cannot nominate a valid point and you think that people simply offering opinions from the other side means that debate exists then OK. We simply define what constitutes debate on a scientific subject differently.
However, I think a very compelling argument against the existence of debate is the fact that the Chevron lawyer in defending his client against the charge of climate change crime says:
“From Chevron’s perspective, there is no debate about the science of climate change.”
… and instead, Big Oil use the same defence as the tobacco companies – it’s the customer’s fault.
That to me is extremely compelling and, of course, the oil companies’ own research shows that they knew.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/two-face-exxon-misinformation-campaign-against-own-scientists.html
Just to check – do you believe an argument on a scientific subject can be considered a debate when there is no valid point produced from one of the sides?
If you think that a debate can occur on a scientific subject where no valid point is presented on the other side then OK there is a debate. I do not consider that kind of discussion a debate. If you do think that a single valid point must be produced can you please name that valid point for anti-AGW?
I don’t recognize your ‘debate’ because it isn’t one, only a ‘challenge’ to come out and be framed in criminal association, ridiculed and denied instead of a real exchange. So the claim of unprecedented crime – posits all else in the presumption of guilt for changes in climate – that are extraordinarily complex mixtures of adjusted and modelled and estimated data and diverts from ongoing and actual culpability and evaded and displaced responsibility for a wide range of actually toxic vectors of disease, death and biological/environmental degradation.
This moral certainty or guilt-driven crusade works a deceitful agenda and uses all the tricks of the trade that are the signature of a predator manipulation of the frustrated and fearful.
Fraudulent or doctored ‘science’ as self-interest under threat or inducement – as in aligning with jobs or funding and business or career opportunity is no different from any other institutional vector of social and political influence.
However those who are standing in what they hold to be an integrity of science in the face of every intent to undermine the integrity of their person – are inspiring people doing science with the potential for a cultural renewal in a time of cultural bankruptcy.
I don’t know how it can be any clearer, Binra. Oil companies being charged with causing sea-level rise due to climate change accept the climate science and use a defence completely unrelated to any doubts about what is causing it.
Many companies are also taken to court for causing pollution, including, of course, oil companies – they always get off lightly though, don’t they? It’s not an either/or situation. Many people concerned about climate change actually focus on health and environmental impacts other than the climate because they know people respond to those areas more. Most people concerned with climate change are also concerned with other environmental problems. In fact, recently I have been more active against coal and coal seam gas than against inaction on climate change – not that I’ve been all that active in regard to anything.
Campaigning against inaction of ‘climate change’ ays it all.
By giving your mind to false and destructive ideas, your mind is not your own – by your own election.
But you can choose differently, when you no longer give your self into attempting to change others instead of being yourself.
Charging oil companies with causing sea level rise is absurd. But if you can get others to join in such absurdity, you can establish new forms of ‘unprecedented crime’ that of course have all along been intended to justify and make it ‘duty’ to invoke and enact unprecedented forms of punishment.
Once humans are de-humanised, it can be no crime at all to treat them as vermin and not only unworthy of love and life but a way to become ‘worthy’ by persecution and killing.
If a true account was brought to the law and enacted proportionately then much that is considered profit now would be a loss and a criminal offence. This is not because to profit or increase in the Good in life is evil – but because the intent to profit by deceit and at expense of another is accepted in almost all as normal currency of thought and behaviour. A false selfishness ‘protects’ itself by false accounting, by shifting guilt to others, and by giving support to the call for punishment of others.
To posit sea level changes onto a single narrative as part of a shifting system of guilt-control with ‘oil companies’ dangled as the baiting target, is using the emotional charge of the recognition of their responsibility for behaving callously and destructively, as a fuel or energy source by which to consolidate a global energy control – which is the point of leverage – as is control of food and water and health.
Perhaps many are ‘convinced’ by sensing where the power runs.
Seeing some escape from penalty and a supported identity in an alignment in self interest to ‘convenient truths’.
But a love of truth is the nature of the truth of love, and is unwilling or indeed unable to deny itself.
There is no communication between the false and the true, nor indeed can there be a real competition or battle – because illusions battle only with themselves while truth simply is itself. Bringing illusions to truth is their undoing, and bringing truth to illusion is a persistence in a the futility of giving reality to illusion as IF a means to then destroy or overcome it.
However we remain capable of recognising and releasing the false within the willingness and acceptance of true.
And unable to more than cover over, hide or deny the true – because we do not create ourselves.
Denial was set in motion as a self-defence and that self can re-evaluate its need for such defence in the light of who you now accept yourself to be and what you now recognize as the ‘side effects’ collateral damage’ and overall destructive outcome of demonising the ‘other’ as a means to righteousness, self-validation or power.
I exercise my right to speak into any issued that I am moved to in the way I am moved acknowledging that all actions have consequences. Those who want to outlaw free speech and conform speech compliance to imposed dictate are at best misguided and unaware of its worthiness for protection – especially for those we disagree with.
The incitement to a mob and state mandated hate and violence under the banner of a witch hunt for ‘denialists’ is an insidious attack on freedoms that need defending by exercising them, if tyranny is not to be passively accepted.
One good reason for ACTING NOW – is that the whole case will collapse if this momentum isn’t forced through.
As I said already the agenda is being imposed through corporate transnational organisations upon the national and corporate level and the only need for the population at large is to set up this kind of ‘either you are with us or you are a terrorist’ ultimatum.
“In A Time Of Consensus Deceit, Farting Becomes A Revolutionary Act” – George Ohwell
Admin: I was going to butt out … but then you posted this. I’ve got to ask: have we been talking at cross purposes for days? Do you actually understand the scientific Method? Nothing is ever proven: or even provable. Your post takes the debate full circle: its content was addressed in literally my first reply to Phillip. So, of course AGW is not proven. Nor will it ever be. Neither is general relativity, special relativity, or quantum field theory, or even gravity – science is falsifiable. That doesn’t mean it is not settled or highly verified. To manipulate the seeming uncertainty of science is a SCAM, which is the subject of this debate. The Unprecedented Crime, the Merchants of Doom, the SCAMs paper, and a deconstruction of Curry’s Rand presentation have all been presented as sources backing the thesis that strategic doubt is the corporatocracy’s main weapon to create cultural stasis. They lobby for the science to be ‘proven’: for “full scientific certainty” – knowing this is impossible. In the meantime, they keep on doing what they are doing …killing us for profit. Semantics are important: the lexis used by scientists is not the same as the conventional or colloquial use. The word ‘proven’ is not even applicable to the Method. ‘Falsifiable’ doesn’t actually mean ‘false’. ‘Theory’ does not mean theory: more akin to a Law inscribed on a tablet of stone (highly verified – but still not ‘proven’). A hypothesis is not a guess: but a rigorously tested concept (verified – but not proven). “The human impact on climate is a theory, supported by many hypotheses, each of them tested according to widely accepted scientific standards.” Hans Custers https://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/is-climate-science-falsifiable/ If the hypothesis is falsifiable, it can be negated – but it hasn’t been. Post-Popper: a single anomalous result should negate a hypothesis. In practice, it would take a consistent set of anomalous results to negate it. Post-Kuhn: scientific revolutions occur when a new paradigm is put forward that better explains the known, observable, and verified data AND the anomalous results …the famous paradigm shift. Neither has happened. In theory, AGW is self-refutable. A serious reverse in any of its conditions negates the theory. To have any validity, any denialist would have to put forth a refutation or new paradigm in the peer reviewed literature. The mythological debate you keep referring to, but never actually post any reference to, is a bunch of people bitchin’ and moanin’ on the web, about how every element of the Method is flawed …whilst refusing to do any real science. For the umpteenth time: the real scientific debate is done – but never ‘proven’. The ‘proof’ is the event, not the conditional probability of the event (Bayesian Calculus). The ‘proof’ will occur in the only lab we have – the biosphere. When the probability reaches 100%, the event will be unfolding and unstoppable. I do not want to be confrontational or denunciatory: but your replies show a profound misunderstanding of the basic knowledge of AGW and the scientific method. Yet all of this has been posted by multiple commenters, only to be rebutted with a non-referral to a mythical debate. The one person that most contrarians point to as doing real science is Curry. I’ve shown that she has revised her ECS warming estimates broadly in line with the peer/consensus (her term). She doesn’t even dispute the greenhouse effect, or any other element of the theory. No serious scientist can. All she does is sow doubt. Check it out and verify for yourselves. There is no scientific debate. There is no logical refutation.… Read more »
Curry may not dispute the extent to which Co2 (0.04 percent in the atmosphere) forces climate but plenty of other scientists do. There are some very logical arguments for doubting the ability of something present in such small amounts to significantly affect the climate. They may not end up being correct (we don’t know as yet) but they do exist and are valid.
It seems very odd to continue to claim ”there is no scientific debate” in the face of people endeavoring to debate you. There certainly is a scientific debate to be had and such debates happen in many places, just not here apparently, or at the BBC where contrary opinions are banned, or at the IPCC where they are also banned or highly discouraged, or in Nature, which will only rarely countenance papers from skeptical authors (counter to the very principle of scientific inquiry).
Apparently the only way to establish the consensus is to ban everyone who doesn’t agree with it and then to claim “there’s no debate”. At one time we could call that Stalinist, but now it’s merely standard liberal thinking.
Have you read any of the studies that look at some of the longstanding other potential climate forcers? There’s a lot of good work out there worth reading. Solar minimums and maximums in particular show considerable correlation with previous periods of warming and cooling, which is very interesting.
Maybe you could tell us why you think such work is less robust than the Co2 studies, and indeed is so weak it does not deserve to even be considered as a valid hypothesis?
Key word, “endeavouring”, PSJ. Endeavouring without any success.
Can you offer any explanation at all for the lawyer defending Chevron which has obviously paid a motza to propagandists to spread the “message of doubt” to say in a courtroom where the charge is climate change crime:
“From Chevron’s perspective, there is no debate about the science of climate change”.
Do you think this article provides evidence that Exxon’s own research confirmed they knew about man-made climate change but did not act on that knowledge? If not, please explain.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/two-face-exxon-misinformation-campaign-against-own-scientists.html
PSJ, you have provided nada, zilch, nothing, niente in regard to any actual fact that challenges the theory of climate change.
PSJ just pointed you right to something that directly challenges the CO2 theory – the solar fluctuation theory. You are literally ignoring it, looking right past it, while at the same time shrieking in his virtual face that there’s “nada, zilch, nothing, niente”!
What’s going on here? Is something now redefined as nothing if it’s not what we want to see?
Oh dear, Moriarty. The mention of a theory does not challenge the CO2 theory. Do you think that climate scientists are not aware of solar fluctuations and don’t study their influence? Pleeeaaasee.
Please whenever you think something mentioned may challenge the theory go to skepticalscience.com and see what they have to say and then come back here and let me know what you think the validity of the mentioned item is.
Climate myth – it’s the sun
https://skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
And just to add.
The anti-AGWers and the climate scientists often actually agree on certain data, however, what the anti-AGWers do is ignore other very important data to make interpretations to suit them.
AGW and climate change, as mog has pointed out, is a coherent theory. There is no other coherent theory to explain the warming happening now. Not remotely. The more they study warming and climate change the more they understand what is affecting what and how it is affecting it and it all points to greenhouse gas emissions (as well as other things we do). The theory is becoming more and more coherent not less so.
flaxgirl, your comments are based on a complete misunderstanding about 1) the state of the science and 2) the way science works.
There are currently competing theories of what the major climate forcers are. The two strongest are CO2 or other greenhouse gases and solar fluctuation.
They both fit the observed data very well. Both have their adherents and their critics.
Your man at Skeptical Science tells you only one of these theories makes sense, and even though you don’t believe anyone died on 9/11 and don’t believe anyone died in Sandy Hook you do believe him and his one little website as if it was channeling the voice of God.
For some reason you are sure he and he alone will never lie to you. Unfortunately he is. He’s lying. he is taking one set of theories, simplifying them and selling them as fact.
He’s not lying if he believes AGW is the best explanation though is he.
Asserting a belief isn’t lying as such but of course is an investment.
One may deal in fake currency or false beliefs while under the wish or belief they are true.
So the charge of liar often unwise. Suffering under deceit or self illusion is free of personal attack.
However there is always some aspect of a wilfulness or deliberate turning a blind eye in any ongoing participation in giving false witness, false account or misrepresentation – perhaps because it suits us not to know what would trouble us, cost us our social acceptance, our career or simply our own self exposure in a sense of self-betrayal or disintegrity – bringing shame and depression if not directly addressed.
A lot of people censor or block information that makes them feel powerless and sick without any sense of perspective or direction. I feel many use the corporate provision of unconsciousness as a way NOT to feel and not to know what overwhelms them.