Cabeza Revisited and Updated 2

Chapter 22, Of Life… And Death

 

Page 211. “I’m a son who seems to have pleased his mother.” — Wonder if she’s still so pleased. Wikipedia:

 

“Armstrong became the subject of doping allegations after he won the 1999 Tour de France. For years, he denied involvement in doping. In 2012, a United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation concluded that Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs over the course of his career[5] and named him as the ringleader of "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".[6]

 

While maintaining his innocence, Armstrong chose not to contest the charges, citing the potential toll on his family.[7] He received a lifetime ban from all sports that follow the World Anti-Doping Code, ending his competitive cycling career.[8] The International Cycling Union (UCI) upheld USADA's decision[9] and decided that his stripped wins would not be allocated to other riders.[N 1][10] In January 2013, Armstrong publicly admitted his involvement in doping. In April 2018, Armstrong settled a civil lawsuit with the United States Department of Justice and agreed to pay US$5 million to the U.S. government after whistleblower proceedings were commenced by Floyd Landis, a former team member.”

 

Page 216. “Christians are being increasingly marginalized in that society.” — See: Blasphemy, A Memoir: Sentenced to Death Over A Cup of Water, by Asia Bibi (a Christian in Pakistan).

 

Page 45: “Why am I so different? Why don’t I feel pleasure at the site of the sufferings of others? I’m not made the same way as them; that must be why they reject me, why they want to see me gone."

 

“Page 110: “There are around 100 of us women locked up here mostly accused of adultery. But in reality many of them have been raped. Although these women are victims, they are regarded as guilty.”

 

From an online article by the BBC: “In one of the most disturbing incidents she recounts how she had her neck put in a brace that was tightened with a key, and was pulled about on a chain by guards. Pakistani authorities have dismissed the allegations, saying her claims of torture were ‘not plausible.’ A year later she became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, causing an international outcry. The death sentence was quashed by the Supreme Court in 2018, triggering violent protests by religious hardliners.… She recalled how, in 2009, a longstanding dispute with neighbors culminated in a group of local women accusing her of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. "My husband was at work, my kids were in school, I had gone to pick fruit in the orchard," she said. "A mob came and dragged me away. They made fun of me; I was very helpless."

 

In her book, Ms Bibi tells how she feared for her life in prison, with other inmates calling for her to be hanged. She also recalled mistreatment at the hands of the prison guards. “I can't breathe,” she writes. “My neck is compressed by a neck brace that the guard can tighten as much as he wants with a big key. A long chain drags on the dirty floor; it links my throat to the guard's handcuffs that drags me like a dog.”

 

She also recalled her sorrow at hearing while in jail that two politicians who tried to help her - Shahbaz Bhatti and Salman Taseer - had been murdered.

 

“I cried a lot. I cried for more than a week for them. Even today, my heart is full of sadness for them and I miss them,” she said.

 

Ms Bibi told the BBC that her Christian faith helped her through the ordeal. “They said change your faith, and you'll be freed. But I said no. I will live my sentence. With my faith," she said. (This is standard Muslim practice, 1400 years old: either convert to Islam, pay a special tax, or die.) But, she says she feels no bitterness to those who called for her to be killed. “I’m not angry at all, I've forgiven everyone from my heart and there is no hardness in me, there is patience in me because I learned how to be patient after having to leave my children behind," she said.

 

It seems there’s virtually no coverage of the killing of Christians by Muslims that’s going on constantly worldwide — even by the supposedly conservative New York Post. Yes, the editorial board and the columnists are conservative — but the reporters are often woke. I regularly see such articles as “Militants kill villagers in Nigeria,” never mentioning that it’s Muslims killing Christians.

 

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2023/04/17/a-massacre-like-killing-animals-the-muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2023/

 

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/

 

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2023/04/27/christians-the-victims-that-must-never-be-named/

 

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2023/04/04/un-lies-about-muslim-history-the-koran-and-even-arabic/

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2023/05/04/huge-rise-in-hate-crimes-against-american-churches-and-crickets-in-the-media-n1692629

 

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2023/05/17/a-global-pandemic-the-jihadist-rape-of-christian-women/

 

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2023/06/30/the-horror-of-being-christian-in-muslim-pakistan/

 

Page 217. “US Muslim Clerics Seek a Modern Middle Ground.” — I discovered that The New York Times has been going back and deleting passages from articles — or entire articles — that no longer fit their narrative. So if you can’t find these articles you can at least go to Mark Steyn’s book, America Alone, to see that I’m not making this up.

 

“Funded by Saudi Arabia?” — The article below shows how Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic institution in the United States has just allowed the opening of a mosque… and they just happen to have received tens of millions of dollars from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. 

 

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/05/05/georgetown-the-oldest-catholic-university-in-the-u-s-opens-a-big-mosque-on-campus-n1692878

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/05/10/texas-am-received-almost-500-million-from-terrorist-supporting-qatar-n1694252

 

Page 218. “She is also shocked how the media accepts Muslim propaganda, e.g. that jihad means spiritual struggle, without questioning or investigating.” — I now think it’s absolutely deliberate by the media as they are trying to do everything they can to destroy Western civilization. Full of hatred, they are programmed to fight, utterly regardless of the consequences.

 

From The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), by Robert Spencer:

 

Page 131 . . . What’s more, the Spanish Muslim Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217), traversed the Mediterranean on his way to Mecca in the early 1180s, and found that Muslims were better off in the lands controlled by the Christians than they were in Islamic lands. Those lands were more orderly and better managed than those under Muslim rule, so that even Muslims preferred to live under the Crusader realm. He recorded that: “upon leaving Tibnin (near Tyre), we passed through an unbroken skein of farms and villages whose lands were sufficiently cultivated. The inhabitants were all Muslims, but they live in comfort with the Franks or Crusaders —May God preserve them from temptation! Their dwellings belong to them and all their property is unmolested. All the regions controlled by the Franks in Syria are subject to the same system: the land domains, villages, farms have remained in the hands of the Muslims. Now doubt invests the heart of a great number of these men who hear their lot compared to that of their brothers living in Muslim territory. Indeed, the latter suffer from the injustice of their coreligionists, whereas the Franks act with equity.

 

“So much for the convention that crusaders were barbarians attacking a far superior and more advanced civilization.”

 

Page 25. Alexi de Tocqueville on Islam: “I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there been few religions in the world as deadly for men as that of Mohammed. So far as I can see, the principal cause of decadence so visible today in the Muslim world, and though less absurd than the polytheism of old, it’s social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”

 

Page 221. “The much-touted tofu.” — After being diagnosed with prostate cancer (at a level that may not progress) I replaced the cheese I was eating (which may promote cancer) with tofu (which may help prevent prostate cancer). Since we eat lots of berries — good for the brain — and other good foods, as well as doing regular exercise, which are all good for the brain, hopefully we will be okay. Again, for those who may have skipped it: 

 

https://www.meaningofwilderness.com/eating-right-to-save-oneself-and-the-planet/

 

https://www.meaningofwilderness.com/exercise-a-spiritual-necessity/

 

Page 224. “Into Thin Air.” — I looked through all of Jon Krakauer’s book trying to find this episode regarding Lou turning back and couldn’t find it. Finally I realized it was in a book by a Russian who had climbed with another exhibition at the same time. The Russian later died on another mountain. And Lou himself wrote a book. Want to be an author? Climb Everest and survive long enough to put it down on paper. Then quit while you’re ahead.

 

Page 228. “Cultural explosion.” — See also The 10,000 Year Explosion mentioned earlier.

 

 

Page 231. “She could shoot him.” — The case of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie was the epitome of this. Oh, they were so in love! Went on a road trip to the national parks out West. But she had obsessive-compulsive disorder and was constantly wiping the dust off the dashboard while he was driving — and driving him nuts. In Wyoming he strangled her to death, drove back to Florida, and put a bullet through his brain. Terribly sad.

 

“I wanted to take a few pictures… told Anne to go ahead.” — Almost exactly the same thing happened in the Mohave Preserve (where we’ve gone several times) — but without the happy ending. It was over 100°F and Barbara Thomas was wearing just a bikini and a baseball cap when she and her husband went for a walk from their camper. He told her to go back while he took a few pictures. But she wasn’t at the camper when he returned. He searched and searched and searched. Called authorities who, suspecting it foul play, gave him a lie detector test which he failed — because he said he was so upset and short of sleep.

 

Search parties and helicopters went out looking for her (her husband thought someone grabbed her at the road). No sign of her. A year and one half later her body was found and an autopsy performed. But I haven’t found anything more about that online. I can only presume she got lost, had no idea which direction the road was in, and eventually perhaps sat down in the shade of a large rock — which is why the search parties never found her.

 

Any group of hikers two or more SHOULD ALWAYS STAY WITHIN SIGHT OF EACH OTHER. In the Wind River Mountains we met a man who had gotten off the trail and separated from his group and only by sheer luck refound the trail. Earlier we had met the group and they had said they were sure he would find them eventually. I find this incredibly irresponsible.

 

Page 234-235. “The big wolf brain has atrophied.” — Likewise for humans? Gregory Clark, in A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (to be discussed more later) notes that “before 1800 there were also long periods in which technology either showed no advance at all or even regressed.” For example, Australian Aborigines, 40-60,000 years after arriving in Australia by sea no longer had seaworthy craft. Even more so, Tasmanians’ material culture was “more primitive than that in which they had been endowed by their ancestors. Despite the cold they had no clothing, not even animal skins. They had no bone tools, and no ability to catch the fish abounding the sea around them. Yet archaeological evidence showed that they once had such bone tools and that fish was once an important part of the diet.”

 

Clark cites similar examples for the inhabitants of Easter Island, Hawaii, and Inuit of Canada. And even China, which was the most advanced civilization in the world in 1400 A.D. See also Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules — For Now. Also, his War: What Is It Good For? which shows how interstate violence in fact led to larger polities that were no longer, or at least to a lesser degree, fighting each other, reiterating the myth of the peaceful savage. For the average citizen, the modern world is a much safer place to live.

 

Page 235. “Dogs are the only animal with the love of humans embedded in their DNA.” — The dog discussed in the link below that was reared by a pack of coyotes, when found by humans, immediately bonded with them. 

 

https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/abandoned-dog-taken-in-by-coyote-pack-in-nevada-desert/

 

“Watching TV… once a year at most.” — Actually just twice (on a TV inherited from my parents) since 9/11.

 

Page 236. “Unchained bulldog.” — Seems almost every week I read of someone killed or mauled by their neighbor’s dogs — which is why we always carry pepper spray. One day I didn’t have it and a bulldog came out all set to maul me. I crouched down, clenched my fists, and threatened to punch it in the face it got any closer. I managed to get home and was hoping to give it a spray in the future but I never saw it again. A wild turkey did attack Anne; pepper spray doesn’t work on birds. It’d been feeding on corn people had been putting out for the birds and was very territorial. I took an old hiking stick with me and when it came after me, I gave it a whack on the back — which solved the problem.

 

“More anxious.” — For those who read Demonic Males and War before Civilization it will be clear that anyone without genes for anxiety and sensitivity to noise was more likely to wake up, or rather not wake up, with a hatchet in their head.

 

Page 237. “One of Beethoven’s last sonatas.” — As mentioned above, thanks to modern technology I have been able to perfect the greatest pieces of music to sound like the revelations they truly are.

 

Page 238: "…the cutest little black bear…" See photo of bear at our house.

 

Page 239. “Real babies having the unhappy predilection to become profoundly ungrateful for what you did to them” — New Yorker cartoon number one: a girl in her early 20s is talking to her girlfriend on the phone: “I’m old enough to not want my parents telling me what to do, but still blame them for it.” New Yorker cartoon number two (surely by the same cartoonist): “Teenage girl to her hapless mother: ‘Nature, nurture. Either way it’s still your fault.’” (I think humans are born to be miserable, and they’re also born to want to blame someone else for it.) The “Joneses”, by the way, now have two cats and no dogs. If perchance they read Cabeza hopefully they won’t take what I wrote amiss. I also hope they won’t get another dog.

 

After talking to them about our trips out West I gave them a copy. “Jack” said, “I didn’t know you were a writer.” I said, “I didn’t know either.”

 

Page 240. “Their own imminent demise… perhaps not even then” — From The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age: Page 298: Emilio found Fermi lying in his hospital bed, serene about his fate. He was “being fed artificially. In typical fashion he was measuring the flux of the nutrients by counting drops with a stop watch. It seemed as if he were performing one of his usual physics experiments on an extraneous object. He was fully aware of the situation and discussed it with Socratic serenity.” To the very end, Fermi was busy calculating. (Rather than serene about his fate, I would say he was distracting himself from it.) 

 

Also, Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir, by Kay Redfield Jamison. Page 64: When her husband Richard Wyatt’s cancer had returned: “Richard did what I had always known him to do when he was hurt or worried: he turned inward, to his imagination. One day, for diversion, he called that the names of all the rivers he knew; another day, it was stars and constellations, or viruses and bacteria. One night, during a particularly difficult time, he reconstructed in his mind, bone by bone, the skeleton of a dinosaur in Chicago’s Field Museum, which he visited as a child.

 

Page 70: Cancer comes back: “It was a long night. I slept little and badly, constantly reaching out for Richard, burrowing my head in his shoulder, listening to him breathe. Richard, more practical than I, took great prodigious amount of Valium, and slept soundly.”

 

Cancer’s back, what to do? Take some Valium, quite a few.

 

Page 241. “Tensing and sucking of my lips, providing the music with an accompaniment of squeaks.” — I have since noticed on YouTube that many pianists do the same or worse. There is one video of Pierre Aimard (since removed) and the comments say things like “He looks like he’s chewing gum.” “What kind of gum do you chew when you play Bach?” His eyebrows are also moving up and down like crazy.

 

Page 242. “But when I have [played the piano for others] it seems most people appreciate my sensitivity.” In 1974 I was the only grandchild to attend my maternal grandmother’s memorial (my mother had told me that both her parents — her father was church organist — were accomplished enough pianists to play one of Beethoven’s most famous and difficult sonatas, the Appassionata, No. 23). All of the furniture had been removed but the grand piano was still there and while the older generation discussed the will, etc. I took advantage of its presence. The room was like an echo chamber for me, and having been playing only for about four years, my technique was pathetic — but later I was told everyone was deeply impressed by the expressiveness of my playing. My aunt seemed especially moved by the second movement and its pounding bass. See what I’ve written in the discussion at YouTube and my comments, and the words of Beethoven himself and Rilke which I put with the music, but this likely was that not only had her daughter Nell committed suicide the year before, and she herself — though I didn’t know — was dying of breast cancer.

 

The next year when I told my parents I was looking for an old grand piano to fix up, as I had with the old upright I currently was playing, my father offered to buy me a new one of my choice, presumably in part due to my “performance” at the Memorial.

 

Page 248. “If that canoe should tip and our prized civilization take a deep plunge.” — Time for the second major reason for these updates: that my views on “catastrophic climate change” have completely flipped. This is in part because I’ve seen more and more how in recent years — as discussed above — the mainstream media has been intentionally lying, and one can almost bet that for whatever they say, the opposite holds true. The final nail in the coffin was the deliberate suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election just so the Democrats could gain power and open the borders wide. Even if these 5 million more (in addition to the 12 million or more already here) never become citizens and vote, they are still counted in the census (something Trump tried to change) — increasing the both electoral votes blue states have and the number of their representatives in Congress.

 

But now Robert F Kennedy Jr. is running for president against Biden and he says he will completely close the border as well as being against the war in Ukraine which can start World War III, and is also against vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Anne and I may just register as Democrats to vote in the primary for him. He must be pro-choice. Unfortunately he grossly distorted the facts relating autism to childhood vaccines. But he’s spot on regarding the Covid vaccines.

 

I apologize for putting so many links. You can tell by the titles pretty much the content. Also, many may have been removed by the time people read this.

 

First though, I subscribe to Webster Merriman's word of the day and this was the entry for empirical:

 

“Scholars have long tried to understand why Neolithic farmer populations go through boom-bust cycles, including ‘collapses’ when whole regions are abandoned. According to one common explanation, climate fluctuations are the main driver, but empirical tests do not fully support this claim. In a new paper, published in the latest issue of Scientific Reports, Turchin and his team seem to have come up with a new piece of information. ‘Our study shows that periodic outbreaks of warfare—and not climate fluctuations—can account for the observed boom-bust patterns in the data,’ argues Turchin...” — The Complexity Science Hub, Phys.org, 19 June 2023

 

This is from the link below. Click here to read the entire article.

 

Meteorologists, Scientists Explain Why There Is ‘No Climate Emergency’

Flawed modeling and overblown rhetoric drowning out scientific reality for the sake of money and power, climate experts say

Meteorologists, Scientists Explain Why There Is ‘No Climate Emergency’,By Katie Spence,Sep 13, 2023

Updated: Oct 01, 2023

There's no climate emergency. And the alarmist messaging pushed by global elites is purely political. That's what 1,609 scientists and informed professionals stated when they signed the Global Climate Intelligence Group's "World Climate Declaration."

"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," the declaration begins. "Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures."

 

The group is an independent "climate watchdog" founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok. According to the group's website, its objective is to "generate knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of climate change as well as the effects of climate policy." And it does so by objectively looking at the facts and engaging in scientific research into climate change and climate policy.

The declaration's signatories include Nobel laureates, theoretical physicists, meteorologists, professors, and environmental scientists worldwide. And when a select few were asked by The Epoch Times why they signed the declaration stating that the "climate emergency" is a farce, they all stated a variation of "because it's true."

 

"I signed the declaration because I believe the climate is no longer studied scientifically. Rather, it has become an item of faith," Haym Benaroya, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Rutgers University, told The Epoch Times.

"The earth has warmed about 2 degrees F since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, but that hardly constitutes an emergency—or even a crisis—since the planet has been warmer yet over the last few millennia," Ralph Alexander, a retired physicist and author of the website "Science Under Attack," told The Epoch Times.

"There is plenty of evidence that average temperatures were higher during the so-called Medieval Warm Period (centered around the year 1000), the Roman Warm Period (when grapes and citrus fruits were grown in now much colder Britain), and in the early Holocene (after the last regular Ice Age ended)."

 

The climate emergency is "fiction," he said unequivocally. . . 

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/meteorologists-scientists-explain-why-there-is-no-climate-emergency-5489139

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/peter-navarro-newsmax/2023/05/11/id/1119521/

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/medias-long-con-to-bury-hunter-bidens-laptop-scandal/

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/the-hypocritical-major-media-plot-in-advance-to-suppress-the-posts-hunter-biden-reporting/

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/06/medias-blind-eye-to-joepin-shut-case-in-biden-corruption-allegations/

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2023/05/14/what-are-all-these-illegals-going-to-do-n2623220

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/media-gaslighting-goes-to-max-as-us-border-fully-opens/

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-title-42-disaster-is-making-america-los-angeles

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/05/15/payback-leftist-media-rewards-leftist-ex-cia-hack-who-lied-about-hunters-laptop-n1695613

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/05/16/ap-headline-on-durham-report-n2623309

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/hunter-college-freakout-proves-left-loves-violence-and-hates-speech/

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ben-carson-doctor-covid-19/2023/06/19/id/1124084/

 

 

What should be most persuasive regarding the fake global warming news is this book: Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by Stephen E Koonin (he was Undersecretary for Science in the US Department of Energy under Pres. Obama. With more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics and astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and policy, and climate science, Dr. Koonin was a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, and studied under Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.) 

 

In the introduction (pages 3-6) called “Where I’m Coming from”: after serving in the Obama administration,

 

“But then the doubts began. In late 2013 I was asked by the American physical Society — the professional organization of the country’s physicists — to lead an update of its public statement on climate.… Six leading climate experts and six leading physicists, myself included, spent many days scrutinizing exactly what we know about the climate system and how confidently we can project its future.”……

 

“I came away from the workshop not only surprised but shaken by the realization that climate science was far less mature than I had supposed. Here’s what I discovered: humans exert a growing, but physically small warming influence on the climate. The deficiencies of climate data challenge our ability to untangle the response to human influences from poorly understood natural changes.…… In short, the science is insufficient to make useful projections about how the climate will change over the coming decades, much less affect our actions will have on it.

 

“Why were these crucial deficiencies such a revelation to me and others? As a scientist, I felt the scientific community was letting the public down by not telling the whole truth plainly… I began to speak out, most publicly through a 2000-word essay published in the Wall Street Journal.…… That piece received thousands of online comments the great majority of them supportive. My frankness about the state of climate science was less popular in the scientific community, however, as the chair of a highly respected university earth sciences department told me privately, “I agree with pretty much everything you wrote, but I don’t dare say that in public.” Etc. etc. [my emphasis here and below]

 

Page 179-80: A 2018 article written by one of the IPCC’s coordinating lead authors reviewed a further four years of published papers and came to a similar conclusion: “The total economic impacts of climate change are negative, but modest on average, and that the severe impacts for underdeveloped countries are caused primarily by poverty.

 

“The consensus on the minimal overall economic impact of rising temperatures is well known to experts, though it’s an inconvenient one for those wishing to sound the alarm on climate. I was dumbfounded when I asked a prominent environmental policy maker about the UN assessment and the response was: ‘Yes, it’s unfortunate that the impact numbers are so small.’”

 

Page 182: “The climate science establishment, most notably the authors [of a particularly extreme report], reacted to my op-ed with silence. They did nothing to address the media’s catastrophizing. Perhaps they were embarrassed by their own doom mongering. Or perhaps, like the policymaker I mentioned earlier who wished the impact numbers have been greater, it was precisely the coverage they’d been hoping for.……

 

It’s clear that media, politicians, and often the assessment reports themselves blatantly misrepresent what the science says about climate and catastrophes. Those failures indict the scientists who write and to casually review the reports, the reporters who uncritically repeat them, the editors who allow that to happen, the activists in their organizations who fan the fires of alarm, and the experts whose public silence endorses the deception. The constant repetition of these and many other climate fallacies turns them into accepted ‘Truths.’”

 

Page 192: Carl Wunsch, a prominent oceanographer from MIT who has long urged scientist to be realistic in their portrayal of the science, has written about the pressures on climate scientists to produce splashy results: “The central problem of climate science is to ask,  what you do, and say when your data are, by almost any standard, inadequate? If I spend three years analyzing my data, and the only defensible inference is that ‘the data are inadequate to answer the question,’ how do you publish? How do you get your grant renewed? A common answer is to distort the calculation of the uncertainty, or ignore it altogether, and proclaim an exciting story that The New York Times will pick up.

 

Page 193 “… When one of [the author's] senior scientific colleagues asked me to stop the “distraction” of pointing out the inconvenient sections of an IPCC report, this was a fingers-in-the-ears position I’ve never heard in any other scientific discussion.”

 

Page 238, regarding geoengineering: “But I soon discovered that any mention of geoengineering to governments or NGOs was met with tightlipped silence, if not actual hostility. The focus was on reducing emissions, and any distraction from that goal, that could allow the world to continue to use fossil fuels, was not to be contemplated.… But scientists are trained to explore all possible solutions, and an important part of science advising is to lay out the full spectrum of options, along with the advantages and drawbacks of each. So I persisted in learning about, and quietly discussing, geoengineering.…

 

Page 249: "Writing this book has been an opportunity to collect and synthesize experiences over a 15-year journey in climate and energy. I began by believing that we are in a race to save the planet from climate catastrophe. Since then, I've evolved to become a public critic… But I've been dismayed… By the willingness of some climate scientists — abetted by the media and politicians — to misrepresent what the science says, and then by the many scientists who were soundly complicit in those misrepresentations.…

 

He also makes clear that all the so-called extremes of hurricanes, and tornadoes, heat, can all be explained by natural variability. And also that there has been more and more development especially in areas subject to severe storms, not to mention forest fires — so there’s more damage to be trumpeted by the media even though the storms aren’t any more severe. Regarding tornadoes, while there has been a large increase in reported tornadoes, these are just smaller tornadoes that were not even recorded before the implementation of Doppler radar. For large tornadoes there's been no increase.

 

Michael Shellenberger’s Apocalypse Never provided an important adjunct to Koonin. He admits that in the past he himself was quite anxious about the coming “climate catastrophe.”

 

 

Shellenberger asked a friend in 2019 who opposed nuclear energy in the 1970s, “What did you guys think?… That if you got rid of nuclear power plants then for some reason we would be rid of the bombs?” He paused and looked into the distance for a few seconds before chuckling. “I don’t think we really thought about it that much.” We’d be in a different place today if not for that.

 

Page 167: “a Sierra Club member who led the campaign to kill Diablo Canyon [nuclear plant] confessed, ‘I really didn’t care [about improving nuclear plant safety] because there are too many people in the world anyway… I think that playing dirty, if you have a noble end, is fine.’ Someone else: ‘if you’re trying to get people aroused about what is going on, you use the most emotional issue you can find.”

 

 

Anne and I have several environmental organizations in our will. We intend to remove them in the near future.

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/charity-williamson/2023/05/16/nuclear-now-documentary-highlights-the-need-for-permitting-reforms-now-n2623301

 

In New York State it was the wealthy Democratic donors of Westchester County that got the Indian Point nuclear plant closed. And the Democratic super majority in the legislature has now made it so the state can overrule local zoning and noise ordinances to put windmills and solar panels wherever they want. To make up for Indian point! Our hilltop is a perfect location. Lots of wind. Plus there is talk of employing eminent domain to take land for these twinkling twirly tops. There are hundreds of them on the ridge to the west of us but fortunately our trees block all but a few of their incessantly blinking red lights. Ridge to the east, which we don’t see unless we drive that way, same thing. They must be coming to ours soon.

 

Shellenberger also notes that there was a huge overreaction to the tsunami that damaged the Japanese nuclear reactors. Over 1000 people died — because of the panicked evacuation (see Patrick Moore below). Only one person died on the site: a 100-year-old man who refused to leave and committed suicide. Plus it convinced Angela Merkel to close down Germany’s nuclear reactors. And all of this with the ground-level radiation surrounding the reactors being no worse than the Colorado plateau, and “the inhabitants there do not show increased rates of cancer.”    See also:

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/dugganflanakin/2023/08/01/us-nuclear-energy-policy-stuck-on-stupid-n2626453

 

https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/climate-change-is-not-the-reason-for-the-rise-of-wildfires/

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/not-climate-change-causing-heat-waves-this-summer-explain

 

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-former-greenpeace-founder-patrick-moore-debunks-the-false-narratives-of-climate-change_4709568.html?utm_source=goodeveningnoe&utm_campaign=gv-2022-09-07&utm_medium=email&est=U%2Bhr0Ov3lEcHXqstRYpzB9fNq%2BjHn7L2XNQfrP1jio1BJOWJ95rJ9xyqwlVFkliE0n4%3D

 

Epoch Times EXCLUSIVE: Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore Says Climate Change Based on False Narratives

Prominent scientist backs up claim that there is ‘no climate emergency’

By Lee Yun-Jeong, September 6, 2022 Updated: September 8, 2022

 

Patrick Moore, one of the founders of [my emphasis] Greenpeace, said in an email obtained by The Epoch Times that his reasons for leaving Greenpeace were very clear: “Greenpeace was ‘hijacked’ by the political left when they realized there was money and power in the environmental movement. [Left-leaning] political activists in North America and Europe changed Greenpeace from a science-based organization to a political fundraising organization,” Moore said.

 

Moore left Greenpeace in 1986, 15 years after he co-founded the organization.

“The ‘environmental’ movement has become more of a political movement than an environmental movement,” he said. “They are primarily focused on creating narratives, stories, that are designed to instill fear and guilt into the public so the public will send them money.”

 

He said they mainly operate behind closed doors with other political operatives at the U.N., World Economic Forum, and so on, all of which are primarily political in nature.

 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] is “not a science organization,” he said. “It is a political organization composed of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.

“The IPCC hires scientists to provide them with ‘information’ that supports the ‘climate emergency’ narrative.

 

Their campaigns against fossil fuels, nuclear energy, CO2, plastic, etc., are misguided and designed to make people think the world will come to an end unless we cripple our civilization and destroy our economy. They are now a negative influence on the future of both the environment and human civilization.”

 

“Today, the left has adopted many policies that would be very destructive to civilization as they are not technically achievable. Only look at the looming energy crisis in Europe and the UK, which Putin is taking advantage of. But it is of their own making in refusing to develop their own natural gas resources, opposing nuclear energy, and adopting an impossible position on fossil fuels in general,” Moore wrote.

 

The Left ‘Hijacked’ Greenpeace

 

He said “green” for the environment and “peace” for the people were the organization’s founding principles, but peace was largely forgotten, and green had become the sole agenda.

 

“Many [so-called] ‘environmental’ leaders were now saying that ‘humans are the enemies of the Earth [all bold with underlining is my emphasis], the enemies of Nature.’ I could not accept that humans are the only evil species. This is too much like ‘original sin,’ that humans are born with evil, but all the other species are good, even cockroaches, mosquitos, and diseases,” Moore argued.

 

He said the new dominant philosophy is that the world would be better if fewer people existed.

“But the people who said this were not volunteering to be the first to go away. They behave as if they are superior to others. This kind of ‘pride’ and ‘conceit’ is the worst of the Cardinal Sins,” Moore said.

 

Environmental Activist

 

As a prominent scholar, ecologist, and long-time leader in the international environmental field, Patrick Moore is widely regarded as one of the world’s most qualified experts on the environment. He is also a founder of Greenpeace, the world’s largest environmental activist organization.

 

Moore received his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of British Columbia in 1974 and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from North Carolina State University in 2005.

 

He co-founded Greenpeace in 1971 and served as president of Greenpeace Canada for nine years. From 1979 to 1986, Moore served as the Director of Greenpeace International, a driving force shaping the group’s policies and directions. During his 15-year tenure, Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization.

 

In 1991, Moore founded Greenspirit, a consultancy focusing on environmental policies, energy, climate change, biodiversity, genetically modified food, forests, fisheries, food, and resources.

 

Between 2006 and 2012, Moore served as co-chairman of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a U.S.-based environmental advocacy group.

 

In 2014, he was appointed Chairman of Ecology, Energy, and Prosperity of Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a non-partisan Canadian public policy think tank.

 

In 2019 and 2020, Moore served as the Chair of CO2 Coalition, a U.S.-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group dedicated to disputing false claims on CO2 as relates to climate change.

 

False Narrative on Chlorine

“At the time I decided to leave Greenpeace, I was one of 6 Directors of Greenpeace International. I was the only one with formal science education, BSc Honors in Science and Forestry, and Ph.D. in Ecology. My fellow directors decided that Greenpeace should begin a campaign to ‘Ban Chlorine Worldwide.’”

Moore said it is true that elemental chlorine gas is highly toxic and was used as a weapon in World War I. However, chlorine is one of the 94 [naturally-ocurring] elements on the Periodic Table and has many roles in biology and human health. For example, table salt (NaCl or Sodium Chloride) is an essential nutrient for all animals and many plants. It is impossible to “ban” NaCl.

 

He pointed out that adding chlorine to drinking water, swimming pools, and spas was one of the most significant advances in public health history in preventing the spread of water-borne communicable diseases such as cholera. And about 85 percent of pharmaceutical drugs are made with chlorine-related chemistry, and about 25 percent of all our medicines contain chlorine. All halogens, including chlorine, bromine, and iodine, are powerful antibiotics; without them, medicine would not be the same.

 

“Greenpeace named chlorine ‘The Devil’s Element’ and calls PVC, polyvinyl chloride, or simply vinyl, ‘the Poison Plastic.’ All of this is fake [and] to scare the public. In addition, this misguided policy reinforces the attitude that humans are not a worthy species and that the world would be better off without them. I could not convince my fellow Greenpeace directors to abandon this misguided policy. This was the turning point for me,” Moore said.

 

 

When asked how Greenpeace utilizes its massive donations, Moore said it was used to pay for “a very large staff” (likely over 2,000), extensive advertisements, and fundraising programs. And virtually all of the organization’s ads for fundraising are based on false narratives, which he had thoroughly disproven in his books, one example being the polar bears.

 

 “The International Treaty on Polar Bears, signed by all polar countries in 1973, to ban unrestricted hunting of polar bears, is never mentioned in the media, Greenpeace, or politicians who say the polar bear is going extinct due to melting ice in the Arctic. In fact, the polar bear population has increased from 6,000 to 8,000 in 1973 to 30,000 to 50,000 today. This is not disputed,” Moore said.

 

“But now they say the polar bear will go extinct in 2100 as if they have a magic crystal ball that can predict the future. In fact, this past winter in the Arctic saw an expansion of ice from previous years, and Antarctica was colder during the last winter than in the past 50 years.”

 

Moore said that he does not pretend to know everything and predict the future with confidence like many in the “climate emergency” business claim they can do.

 

The Goal of the ‘Environmental Apocalypse’ Theory

 

“I believe the human population has always been vulnerable to people who predict doom with false stories,” Moore said.

 

“The Aztecs threw virgins into volcanos, and the Europeans and Americans burned women as witches for 200 years claiming this would ‘save the world’ from evil people. This has been [referred to as] ‘herd mentality,’ ‘groupthink,’ and ‘cult behavior.’ Humans are social animals with a hierarchy, and it is easiest to gain a high position by using fear and control.”

 

Moore said the environmental apocalypse theory is mostly about “political power and control,” adding that he is dedicated to showing people that the situation is not as negative as they are told.

 

“Today, in the richest countries, our descendants are making decisions that our grandchildren will have to pay for,” he said. “Predictions that the world is coming to an end have been made for thousands of years. Not once has this come true. Why should we believe it now?”

 

“People are naturally afraid of the future because it is unknown and full of risks and difficult decisions. I believe there is also an element of ‘self-loathing’ in this apocalypse movement.”

 

Moore said the young generation today is taught that humans are not worthy and are destroying the earth. This indoctrination has made them feel guilty and ashamed of themselves, which is the wrong way to go about life.

 

 

“Very few people believe the world is not warming. The record is clear that the world has been warming since about the year 1700, 150 years before we were using fossil fuels. 1700 was the peak of the Little Ice Age, which was very cold and caused crop failures and starvation. Before that, around 1000 A.D. was the Medieval Warm period when Vikings farmed Greenland. [And] before that, around 500 A.D. were the Dark Ages, and before that, the Roman Warm Period when it was warmer than today, and the sea level was 1–2 meters higher than today,” Moore said.

 

“Even until about 1950, the amount of fossil fuel used and CO2 emitted were very small compared to today. We do not know the cause of these periodic fluctuations in temperature, but it was certainly not CO2.”

 

Moore clarified that the “minority opinion” is not about the history of the Earth’s temperature, but it is the relationship between the temperature and CO2 that is at the center of the dispute.

 

“In this regard, I agree that many believe CO2 is the main cause of warming. CO2 is invisible, so no one can actually see what it is doing. And this ‘majority’ are mainly scientists paid by politicians and bureaucrats, media making headlines, or activists making money. [The rest are] the public who believe this story even though they can’t actually see what CO2 is doing,” Moore said.

 

Moore provided a graph of temperature continuously measured over 350 years (from 1659 to 2009) in central England. “If carbon dioxide was the main cause of warming, then there should be a rise in temperature along the carbon dioxide curve, but it doesn’t,” he explained.

 

Moore described the demonization of CO2 as “completely ridiculous.” He added that CO2 is the basis of all life on Earth and its concentration in the atmosphere today, even with the increase, is lower than it has been for a large majority of life’s existence.

 

 

A study in 2013 found that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions over the past 30 years.

The Australian government agency CSIRO conducted the research in collaboration with Australian National University (ANU). The data was based on satellite observations from the year 1982 to 2010 across parts of the arid areas in Australia, North America, the Middle East, and Africa.

It found an 11 percent increase in foliage cover in the studied area due to what’s called “CO2 fertilization.”

 

The study said a fertilization effect occurs when elevated CO2 levels enable a leaf during photosynthesis—the process by which green plants convert sunlight into sugar—to extract more carbon from the air or lose less water to the air or both.

“If elevated CO2 causes the water use of individual leaves to drop, plants in arid environments will respond by increasing their total numbers of leaves. These changes in leaf cover can be detected by satellite, particularly in deserts and savannas where the cover is less complete than in wet locations,” according to Randall Donohue, the CSIRO research scientist.

 

 

“Climate alarmists prefer to discuss climate knowledge only since 1850. The time before this they referred to as the pre-industrial age. This ‘pre-industrial age’ was more than 3 billion years when life was on the Earth. Many climate changes [occurred during that period], including Ice Ages, Hothouse Ages, major extinctions due to asteroid impacts, and other unknown causes,” Moore said.

 

“Today, the Earth is in the Pleistocene Ice Age, which began 2.6 million years ago. … So, the most recent major glaciation, which peaked 20,000 years ago, was not the end of the Ice Age. We are still in the Pleistocene Ice Age no matter how the climate alarmists wish to deny this.”

 

He said the great irony of the present panic about the climate is that the Earth is colder today than it was for 250 million years before the Pleistocene Ice Age set in. And CO2 is lower now than in more than 95 percent of Earth’s history.

“But you would never know this if you listen to all the people who benefit from the lie that the Earth will soon be too hot for life and that CO2 will become higher than in Earth’s history,” Moore said.

 

 

According to Moore, nearly all commercial greenhouse farmers worldwide buy CO2 to inject into their greenhouses to realize up to 60 percent higher crop yields.

 

 “I was impressed when flying over South Korea [and seeing] how many greenhouses there are in the valleys. Like British Columbia, Korea has a lot of mountains and not so much flat fertile farmland.

 

“I am sure the greenhouse farmers are putting more CO2 in their greenhouses, up to double and triple what it is in the atmosphere today. This is because nearly all plants growing outside in the natural atmosphere are starved for CO2, and it is what limits them from growing faster,” Moore added.

 

“Please refer to the chapter titled ‘Climate of Fear and Guilt’ in my book, [Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom], if you wish to gain a full understanding of these facts,” he said.

 

Moore said that most environmental activists, politicians, and so-called experts know that we cannot stop increasing the use of fossil fuels or reducing CO2 emissions within their proposed schedule.

 

“In 2015, while attending the COP (Conference of the Parties) in Paris, I offered a public bet for $100,000 in a broadcast media release which went out on more than 200 media feeds, that by 2025 global CO2 emissions would be higher than in 2015. I did not receive one taker, not even from the ‘greens,’” Moore said.

 

“I know that more CO2 is entirely beneficial to both the environment and human civilization. I am proud to be a director of the CO2 Coalition.”

 

 

Moore said “carbon neutrality” is a political term, not a scientific one.

“It is simply wrong to call CO2 ‘carbon.’ Carbon is an element that is what diamonds, graphite, and carbon black (soot) are composed of. [And] CO2 is a molecule that contains carbon and oxygen and is an invisible gas that is the primary food for all life. [Likewise], it is incorrect to refer to NaCl (table salt) as ‘chlorine,’ even though NaCl contains chlorine,” Moore said.

 

 “He said when elements (atoms) combine with each other to form compounds (molecules), they always have very different properties than the elements they are made from.

 

“‘Net-Zero’ is also a political term made-up by activists who are not scientists. For example, the top leaders of this crusade are people like Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Greta Thunberg, none of whom are scientists.”

 

According to Moore, Russia, China, and India are 40 percent of the human population, and they do not agree with this anti-fossil fuel agenda.

 

“If we add Brazil, Indonesia, and most African countries, it is a majority of the population who are not climate fanatics,” Moore added.

 

“Another great irony is that many countries with the coldest climates, such as Canada, Sweden, Germany, and the UK, are the most concerned about warming. For example, the average annual temperature in Canada is -5.35 degrees Celsius.”

 

Moore also said that fumes from engines are not CO2; they are other substances, as CO2 is invisible and odorless. Dust is also not CO2; it is soot and can be controlled with present technology. And coal plants built today are much cleaner than ones built 20 years ago.

 

 

“Solar and wind power are both very expensive and very unreliable. It is almost like a mental illness that so many people have been brainwashed to think entire countries can be supported with these technologies,” Moore said.

 “I believe wind and solar energy are parasites on the larger economy. In other words, they make the country poorer than if other more reliable and less costly technologies were used.”

 

Moore said that wind and solar providers rely heavily on government subsidies, tax write-offs, and mandates, where citizens are forced to buy wind and solar power even if it is more expensive, on the pretext that it is “environmentally friendly.”

“Millions of people pay more for wind and solar energy while a few people make millions of dollars, marks, pounds, etc. It is a bit like a Ponzi scheme in the stock markets,” Moore added.

 

“They require vast areas of land, are not available most of the time, and require reliable energy such as nuclear, hydroelectric, [coal, and natural] gas to be available when wind and solar are unavailable.”

According to Moore, the construction of wind and solar farms uses vast amounts of fossil fuels for mining, transportation, and construction. And in many locations, they don’t produce nearly enough energy in their lifetimes as is required to build and maintain them.

 

“Why not use reliable energy [such as nuclear, hydroelectricity, natural gas, etc.] as the primary source?” Moore questioned, adding if that were the case, “then wind and solar would be unnecessary.”

 

This interview is a compilation of an email exchange between Moore and South Korean Professor Seok-soon Park, professor of environmental science and engineering at Ehwa Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, in November of 2021. It was provided to The Epoch Times by Park with the permission of Moore on July 7, 2022.

 

Both he and Moore are among the 1,100 scientists and professionals that signed the World Climate Declaration (WCD), stating that there’s no climate emergency.

 

In his book, Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, Moore writes,

 

“It was bittersweet parting ways with Greenpeace, the organization that I had helped build, shape, and guide for 15 years. Unfortunately Greenpeace had gone from an altruistic group of volunteers with a noble vision, to a business with an ever-expanding budget, a matching payroll to meet, and was now rapidly transforming into a racket peddling junk science (page 10).”

 

Page 29: Dr. Peter Ridd, a 30-year faculty member of James Cook University in the state of Queensland, Australia dared to contend “there is extreme exaggeration and misinformation in the claims of dying reefs and is publicly criticized his fellow scientists. Rather than encouraging a civil debate of the science, University fired Dr. Ridd for not being “collegial”; in other words, he was fired for disagreeing with other scientists, which is supposed to be part of the scientific process called academic freedom.”

 

Exactly what the church did to Galileo, I myself might add.

 

Likewise, “until quite recently, despite much evidence to the contrary, many polar bear scientists continued to predict a decline in the population. Thanks largely to the efforts of Dr. Susan Crockford of Victoria, British Columbia, these scientists have been obliged to accept the fact that polar bear populations are robust and are continuing to grow in numbers as indicated by the most recent census… Unfortunately for Dr. Crockford, the nastiest cut [I’m leaving out much] was yet to come. First, after many years of speaking engagements for which she was not paid, she was excluded from the University of Victoria’s speaker’s bureau when she was accused by outsiders of “bias.”

 

Then in October 2019 the same university refused to renew her appointment as an adjunct professor, a position she had held for 15 years. No reason was given, and the University had the nerve to proclaim, “the University of Victoria, in both word and deed, supports academic freedom and free debate on academic issues.” Because she now has no university affiliation, Dr. Crockford has lost her ability to apply for research grants, or use of the University library, and her ability to collaborate with other University affiliated scientists. She describes her treatment by the University as “an academic hanging without a trial, conducted behind closed doors.” (Pages 86-91)

 

So if you, the reader, come across someone proclaiming “scientific consensus” regarding the dangers of climate change, note that in large part it’s because the scientists have been cowed into submission and fear for their careers. See:

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/john-stossel/2023/08/09/the-fake-climate-consensus-n1717386

 

But the Inuit of northern Canada know the truth. “In November 2018, the government of Nunavut tabled a draft management plan for polar bears which made the case that there are now so many bears that they have become a safety hazard for the villagers. Immediately the Government of Canada made the vague assertion that this was “not in alignment with scientific evidence” while failing to provide any evidence in support of that statement.…

 

“The use of the polar bear is an emotionally charged symbol, often used to promote the alleged climate crisis, is one of the most classic cases of self-interest among activists seeking donations, the media seeking readers, politicians seeking votes, and scientists seeking never-ending annual grants to perpetuate the fear of extinction.…”

 

And the 48 pages of Chapter 3, “Climate of Fear and Guilt,” which includes numerous charts, facts, and tables you will never see in the media, utterly demolishes all climate alarmism.

 

Page 147. “Nuclear energy is one of the safest, if not the safest technology, for generating electricity on the basis of casualties per unit of energy produced. All the same, is a serious student of science during the late 1960s and early 1970s even I came to fear nuclear energy due to the powerful propaganda campaign against it. It was not until the 1980s after I left Greenpeace, that I reeducated myself about nuclear energy and realize the truth about this fascinating invention.

 

He then discusses the three nuclear accidents starting with 3 Mile Island,

 

“which did not harm a single person and moreover no one received a dose of radiation above the background level in the environment.… It was unfortunate that the incident occurred shortly after the film The China Syndrome was released which presented a frightening plot with a potential reactor meltdown, the core of which would melt right through the earth and come out in China. This film’s concept is impossible, for even if the core melted through to the center of the earth, gravity would make sure it remains safely there rather than coming out in China. Of course, the movie involved a government cover-up which caused the reaction of panic during the real 3 Mile Island reactor failure. In the end it was just an expensive accident and important lessons were learned.

 

“The Chernobyl accident in Ukraine on April 26, 1986 really was a disaster… Two of the people who were in the reactor died from the blast. Among the 134 who were diagnosed with Acute Radiation Sickness, 29 eventually died while others recovered… Of the 4000 children who contracted thyroid cancer after the accident, 15 died mainly due to late diagnosis.

 

“One of the worst effects of the accident befell the approximately 340,000 people who were evacuated and displaced to large tenement buildings in the outskirts of Kiev. It was there that the occurrences of suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, violence, marital collapses, and mental illness and trauma that resulted from living in these crowded urban quarters clearly outweigh the possible effects of the increased radiation exposure they would have experience had they been left in their rural homes.”

 

I have read elsewhere that in reality the disaster was caused by communism. Patrick Moore notes that “the former Soviet Union took a shortcut by modifying the reactors” and that “the accident at Chernobyl was not caused by routine operations but by an experiment being conducted.”

 

 

Fukushima:

 

“I will never forget the CNN headline on the TV screen in the midst of the accident that declared: “Nuclear Crisis Deepens As Bodies Washed Ashore.”… It seemed to imply that Fukushima was responsible for nearly 20,000 tsunami caused deaths, while there was actually not one death caused by radiation from this unfortunate accident. In fact, the evacuation of 150,000 people living in the vicinity of the reactors is officially recognized as the cause of 2259 deaths, including as a result of evacuating seven intensive care wards to gymnasiums which were not equipped for that purpose.”

 

I also saw a New York Times article at the time showing a photo of a rock slab placed well up on a hillside 600 years earlier inscribed with something like: do not build closer to the ocean than this. Tsunami.

 

The bottom line of all of this and what the links below show is that scare tactics sell.

 

Finally, in the last chapter regarding walrus’s deaths he discusses “another fraud perpetrated by Sir David Attenborough.” In this case it’s the hundreds of walruses falling to their deaths from cliffs, allegedly due to climate change (one episode of the series Our Planet titled “Frozen Worlds”). But the real reason is that polar bears are chasing the walruses and, in their attempt to escape, they may fall to their deaths. “In the final analysis it is the duty of highly regarded persons, such as Sir David Attenborough, to stick to the truth and not to sell their soul by making apocalyptic predictions that they know are based on falsehoods. I personally challenge Attenborough to dispute the points presented herein regarding seabirds, plastic, walruses, and polar bears. I look forward to his rebuttal.”

 

See the links below. Again, I apologize for there been so many. Even if Moore, Shellenberger, and Koonin are totally wrong and the demise of our civilization due to climate change is a mere decades away, the manner in which the Left is shoving its so-called remedies down our throats has zero logic to it. Or, rather, there is no scientific logic to this condition—but there is the logic of this societal control.  To get the elites on top, with indisputable power.  Much safer on top.  And keep the peons like us down.

 

They are either infinitely stupid, infinitely ignorant, infinitely obsessed with seizing and maintaining power, or, as Tucker Carlson suggests, devotees of a primitive “religion.” Clutter up pristine landscapes with windmills and solar farms. Kill whales and dolphins. Create dust storms in the desert building these solar farms that endanger the health of anyone near. Birds, animals, all sorts of wildlife to suffer. But for a noble cause. 

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/climate-change-worst-case-scenario-now-looks-unrealistic.html

 

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/11/shocker-96-of-u-s-climate-data-is-corrupted-n557210

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/12/22/in-2020-climate-science-needs-to-hit-the-reset-button-part-one/

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10483317/Are-electric-cars-new-diesel-scandal-Expert-looks-future-road-travel.html

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2022/06/07/beware-100-green-energy-could-destroy-the-planet-n2608294

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2022/04/30/real-threats-to-biodiversity-and-humanity-n2606568

 

https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/hsbc-banker-stuart-kirk-suspended-for-climate-change-remarks/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/deaths-in-climate-disasters-declined-99-from-a-century-ago/

 

https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2022/08/30/10-facts-electric-vehicle-advocates-dont-want-you-to-know-n1625157

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/hsterlingburnett/2022/09/28/north-atlantic-right-whales-are-the-latest-victims-of-democrats-green-energy-obsession-n2613659

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/10/13/florida-homes-burning-down-from-immobilized-evs-after-hurricane-ian-n2614429

 

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-emissions-do-electric-cars-produce/?utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=Display&utm_campaign=General&utm_content=EmissionsElectricCars_DesktopInterests&dicbo=v1-0da4e940b671a29f7becdbbfa45c62e4-000c0d87573c5cf1352b50453371064f3f-gqydimrtgy4tmljygy2dcljugy2gillbgbrwgljwhfsgcmjymnrdiytbhe

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/01/bidens-woke-green-energy-makes-us-dependent-on-china/

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/californias-gas-powered-vehicle-ban-difficult-meet-toyotas-president-says

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/christalgo/2022/11/07/new-poll-of-scientists-dispels-myth-of-climate-change-consensus-n2615597

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/john-stossel/2022/11/16/magic-cars-n1646169

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/11/30/study-finds-evidence-green-offshore-wind-farms-have-substantial-impact-on-ecosystems-n2616532

 

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/03/dutch-farmers-could-be-paid-to-close-their-livestock-farms-under-new-scheme#:~:text=Dutch%20farmers%20could%20be%20paid%20to%20close%20their%20livestock%20farms%20under%20new%20scheme,-he%20Farmers%20Defense&text=The%20EU%20has%20approved%20a,government%20to%20buy%20out%20farmers.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-radical-climate-agenda-keep-unplugged

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/05/04/interior-secretary-unaware-china-controls-rare-earth-minerals-market-n2622762

 

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/first-responders-ev-batteries-electric-f150s-catch-fire

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/04/16/amid-the-worst-energy-crisis-in-40-years-germany-closes-its-last-nuclear-power-plants-n1687693

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2023/03/07/americas-100-billion-climate-change-flop-n2620275 

 

https://nypost.com/2023/03/29/john-kerrys-clueless-call-to-work-with-china/ 

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/03/22/dead-dolphins-nj-n2620984

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wind-energy-developer-funneled-cash-dem-senator-pushing-offshore-wind

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-rushing-industrialize-us-oceans-stop-climate-change-environmental-wrecking-ball

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/petemcginnis/2023/05/06/the-biden-administration-continues-to-undercut-its-own-ev-goals-n2622892

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/06/budget-deal-worsens-new-yorkers-pain-from-states-lunatic-climate-law/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/scottrasmussen/electric-vehicles-epa/2023/05/01/id/1118117/

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-radical-climate-agenda-keep-unplugged

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-green-lights-nyc-climate-plan-sparking-dem-civil-war

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/05/11/biden-officially-announces-new-energy-crushing-power-plant-rule-n2623080

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dangerous-key-biden-green-new-deal-goals

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/fed-governor-tells-hard-truth-on-green-nonsense/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rick-perry-biden-clean-energy/2023/05/20/id/1120572/

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2023/05/16/the-green-movement-is-a-jobs-killer-are-unions-finally-figuring-this-out-n2623271

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-clean-green-blackouts-bankruptcy-america

 

https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/joes-new-green-energy-crisis-rons-bogus-charisma-problem-and-other-commentary/

 

 

 

Below is the link from number 11 above. Anyone who knows these facts would be insane to buy an electrical vehicle.

 

 

I’ve read elsewhere that it’s expected the price of used cars will surge as no one wants to buy a new electric one. Of course the Lefties could put $100 tax on every gallon of gas and give us no choice. Trips like ours would be impossible with electric. We often take 10 gallons of extra gas to be sure of being able to get back from extremely remote areas. Charging takes four times as long — assuming you do a fast charge which is bad for the battery! And how could the trucking industry possibly even operate?

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2023/05/30/could-industry-and-political-pushback-kill-the-epas-electric-truck-plans-n1699166

 

It is significant that not only are fossil fuels not causing global warming, but supposed “green” or “clean” energy sources are actually more toxic to the environment—not to mention inefficient and unprofitable. Solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, and windmills hurt, not help, the environment.

 

But do top climate alarmists really care about “saving the earth”? Or are they simply using climate change as an excuse to seize more power and control for themselves? Or is the bottom line  these people just absolutely hate civilization so blindly they just don’t care what the end result is. No problem destroying the planet in order to save it. AND, put/keep themselves in power. All due to fear that is never faced.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/04/22/happy-earth-day-green-energy-is-toxic-inefficient-and-unprofitable-n1689261

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-strident-green-energy-push-really-energy-destruction-that-hurts-americans

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/05/29/more-proof-your-suv-wont-make-the-earth-become-a-burning-ball-of-fire-n1698895

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/05/21/fountain-of-lies-climate-crazies-dye-trevi-fountain-black-n1697023

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/05/22/no-correlation-steve-milloy-slams-climate-alarmists-extreme-weather-claims-n1697219

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/more-150-republicans-unite-condemn-bidens-ill-considered-electric-vehicle-push

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/climate/renewable-energy-us-electrical-grid.html?campaign_id=34&emc=edit_sc_20230228&instance_id=86438&nl=science-times&regi_id=47585011&segment_id=126488&te=1&user_id=fc47faaeb17f8bd38e2e791bf0c8c7de

 

The U.S. Has Billions for Wind and Solar Projects. Good Luck Plugging Them In. 

An explosion in proposed clean energy ventures has overwhelmed the system for connecting new power sources to homes and businesses. By Brad Plumer, Feb. 23, 2023, The New York Times

 

Plans to install 3,000 acres of solar panels in Kentucky and Virginia are delayed for years. Wind farms in Minnesota and North Dakota have been abruptly canceled. And programs to encourage Massachusetts and Maine residents to adopt solar power are faltering. For the rest, see:

 

As another New York Times reporter put it, if you like wind and solar, you’ve got to really love transmission lines.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hidden-impact-of-massive-solar-farms-residents-and-wildlife-affected-aquifers-threatened_5301832.html?utm_source=open&utm_medium=search

 

Hidden Impact of Massive Solar Farms: Residents and Wildlife Affected, Aquifers Threatened

 

Giant wind turbines are powered by strong winds in front of solar panels in Palm Springs, Calif. on March 27, 2013. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

 

By Travis Gillmore May 30, 2023Updated: May 31, 2023

 

California’s deserts are transforming into a sea of solar panels, as the state seeks to reach ambitious renewable energy goals. But a growing group of residents and environmentalists say the move is coming at a significant price to wildlife, nearby residents’ health, native lands, and even property values.

 

With 776 solar power plants producing approximately 17 percent of the state’s electricity, the Golden State is awash with bright silver and blue panels dotting hundreds of thousands of acres.

 

Millions of panels have been installed east of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert over the last five years, changing the look of the landscape in the process, and bringing with it a new set of challenges for nearby residents, according to experts.

 

Dustin Mulvaney, a professor of environmental studies at San Jose State University said he is concerned about their impact on public land, including damage to ecosystems and soil and high water demand.

“There is potential concern for groundwater depletion,” Mulvaney told The Epoch Times.

 

Epoch Times Photo A solar panel range is seen in what was once a field used for agriculture, in California’s Central Valley near Huron, Calif. on July 23, 2021. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

 

A California law passed in 2014 regulates groundwater usage and is designed to preserve water supplies, but it does not apply to public lands.

Such are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency that oversees 245 million acres of land—15 million of which are located in California.

The bureau has prioritized 870,000 acres nationally for solar development, with more than 200,000 acres already sporting solar panels in California, according to its website.

 

But concerns about the impacts on wildlife have some advocacy groups calling for a halt in such expansion until guidelines can be implemented, as animals are being displaced and migratory patterns altered due to the increasing quantity of such solar farms.

Birds have been observed mistaking the shiny blue solar panels for water, and the mistake is costly, as the extreme heat from the reflective material can instantly incinerate them, according to experts.

 

Desert tortoises are being killed and displaced, and bighorn sheep and deer are restricted from accessing some areas by six-foot barbed wire fencing surrounding such solar farms, leading to a loss of grazing habitat and restricting some creatures from navigating trails and accessing water sources, according to environmentalists.

 

And corridors designed to allow movement for wildlife are inviting predators—as the wily carnivores are learning to wait for prey emerging from the narrow strips of grass—into communities, with an increase in coyote and mountain lion sightings since the fences were installed, according to residents.

 

Health Problems Driving Some Residents Away

 

Residents of Lake Tamarisk Desert Resort located halfway between Phoenix and Los Angeles in Desert Center, California, say the construction of such solar farms is causing considerable nuisance, with some reporting health problems because of increased dust in the area.

 

Patti Cockcroft said she has been seeking medical attention since she started experiencing a deep bronchial cough in March after spending two months in her desert home impacted by high winds and dust from a nearby solar field.

Tests are currently underway to determine whether she has valley fever—a serious illness associated with severe health complications and potential fatality—and doctors have told her the extreme conditions could have triggered a severe asthma attack.

 

“It’s not very enticing to think of going back to the desert,” Cockcroft said in an email sent to The Epoch Times.

 

Epoch Times Photo Vehicles drive on the California 14 Highway next to solar panels, part of an electricity generation plant, in Kern County near Mojave, Calif., on June 18, 2021. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

 

Experts agree that issues related to construction-related soil removal and the resulting human exposure to dust particles are alarming.

“The real public health issue is valley fever,” Mulvaney, of San Jose State, told The Epoch Times.

 

Investigations conducted in 2018 by the Centers for Disease Control uncovered an increased incidence of valley fever in solar farm construction employees resulting from working in dusty conditions where fungal spores in the soil become airborne.

 

After receiving reports of workplace injuries associated with valley fever, investigators discovered that solar farm workers in California were 4.4 to 210.6 times more likely to suffer from the illness than others working and living in the same counties.

 

Dusty conditions can also lead to lung disease silicosis, which is of particular concern for miners manufacturing solar panels and for workers and nearby residents during the installation process, according to experts.

 

Compounding Problems Affecting Communities

 

A vehicle pileup near Los Angeles in 2013 was partially blamed on a solar development project after six were injured when a massive dust cloud forced the closure of the Antelope Valley Freeway.

 

Efforts to mitigate dust by solar companies are compounding problems for some local communities, according to Teresa Pierce, another Lake Tamarisk resident.

According to Pierce, such companies drive diesel-powered water trucks, creating noise and dust pollution while draining aquifers not refilled regularly by nature.

“Their water trucks are going round and round our pumping station,” Pierce told The Epoch Times. “It’s been a dust bowl with constant construction noise.”

 

Prior attempts to communicate with the county, the Bureau of Land Management, and solar company representatives have been met with resistance, according to residents.

 

“They say they’re trying to work with the community, but no, they’re not,” Pierce told The Epoch Times. “They brought fake maps when they came and gave us a presentation.”

 

Epoch Times Photo-A solar panel range is seen in what was once a field used for agriculture, in California’s Central Valley near Huron, Calif. on July 23, 2021. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

 

While requesting a moratorium on future solar farms within five miles of Lake Tamarisk, local advocates told lawmakers that their community is being turned into an “island in a dead solar sea.”

Property values in communities near solar farm installations have been impacted, with once desirable lots now becoming difficult to sell, according to residents.

 

Other communities say the solar farms are too close for comfort.

 

Those around Lake Tamarisk have crept up on a residential community of approximately 500 with some residents reporting that panels are planned for installation approximately 750 feet from homes they’ve lived in for decades.

 

Residents have reached out to every responsible party, from local representatives all the way up to President Joe Biden, with the only response coming from Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), who has agreed to meet for a discussion, according to documents provided to The Epoch Times.

 

Another issue complicating matters is the destruction of cultural resources on tribal lands.

 

The Mojave Desert and other areas where installation is occurring are situated on the native territory with historical value. The loss of artifacts, ancestral burial sites, and cultural landscapes is affecting tribal communities with limited resources to contest new development, according to a series of lawsuits filed over the last 12 years seeking to stop solar project development on tribal lands.

 

“The project is located… in a region rich in cultural resources that have been used since time immemorial,” Colorado River Indian Tribe Councilwoman Amanda Barrera said in a statement released when the tribe sued Riverside County in 2014 to halt development. “These resources have remained intact for millennia, but now are threatened by ever-increasing pressure to develop … utility-scale solar facilities.

 

All attempts by tribal elders to stop solar projects with litigation have failed, with federal judges repeatedly upholding the government’s right to utilize and develop them.”

 

[We have made several trips to the nearby Mohave preserve. We love these desert areas. Or, should I say, we loved them before the greenies desecrated them. All to save the planet.]

 

“Early Primates Lived in the Arctic: Two species moved north as the region warmed, fossils hint.” Science News, February 25, 2023, by Freda Kreier. "Studying how plants and animals adapted to a warm Arctic could offer clues to how residents may do so in the future. [Beard, the author of the study] says. So why couldn't humans, the most adaptable species on the planet, do the same?

 

All this is reminiscent of Trofim Lysenko:

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/

 

The article above begins thus: “Although it’s impossible to say for sure, Trofim Lysenko probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history. Other dubious scientific achievements have cut thousands upon thousands of lives short: dynamite, poison gas, atomic bombs. But Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, condemned perhaps millions of people to starvation through bogus agricultural research—and did so without hesitation. Only guns and gunpowder, the collective product of many researchers over several centuries, can match such carnage.

 

“Having grown up desperately poor at the turn of the 20th century, Lysenko believed wholeheartedly in the promise of the communist revolution. So when the doctrines of science and the doctrines of communism clashed, he always chose the latter—confident that biology would conform to ideology in the end. It never did. But in a twisted way, that commitment to ideology has helped salvage Lysenko’s reputation today. Because of his hostility toward the West, and his mistrust of Western science, he’s currently enjoying a revival in his homeland, where anti-American sentiment runs strong.

 

“Lysenko vaulted to the top of the Soviet scientific heap with unusual speed. Born into a family of peasant farmers in 1898, he was illiterate until age 13, according to a recent article on his revival in Current Biology. He nevertheless took advantage of the Russian Revolution and won admission to several agricultural schools, where he began experimenting with new methods of growing peas during the long, hard Soviet winter, among other projects. Although he ran poorly designed experiments and probably faked some of his results, the research won him praise from a state-run newspaper in 1927. His hardscrabble background—people called him the “barefoot scientist”—also made him popular within the Communist party, which glorified peasants. [My emphasis]

 

“Officials eventually put Lysenko in charge of Soviet agriculture in the 1930s. The only problem was, he had batty scientific ideas. In particular, he loathed genetics. Although a young field, genetics advanced rapidly in the 1910s and 1920s; the first Nobel Prize for work in genetics was awarded in 1933. And especially in that era, genetics emphasized fixed traits: Plants and animals have stable characteristics, encoded as genes, which they pass down to their children. Although nominally a biologist, Lysenko considered such ideas reactionary and evil, since he saw them as reinforcing the status quo and denying all capacity for change. (He in fact denied that genes existed.)”

 

He believed in the utterly fallacious theory of acquired characteristics — and thus crops failed and millions died of starvation. Something of similar stupidity coming soon to a country near you.

 

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