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Vote For Better Weather

February 24th, 2011 1 comment

link Bundle up as temperature drops below zero in Metro Vancouver.

It doesn’t really matter how much factual information is available to the public.  Ironically, though we live in a time when freedom and access to information has never been greater, so has the exposure to misinformation. As a result, we have not only more enlightenment, we also have more opportunity to spread stupidity and banality disguised as useful  information.  It’s as if we opened the door to let the dog in and all the rats and insects flooded in as well.

With the explosion of information platforms such as IPads, Smartphones and Social Networking apps, we can all know that Jennifer Aniston has a new hairstyle.  We know that Charlie Sheen goes on the occasional bender.   We can also learn what’s happening on the other side of the world in real time.  For instance, we know that Mohamar Gaddaffi may be at risk of losing his seat on the United Nations human rights council and may drop out of the running for the Nobel Peace prize.  But at least these are all observable events.  They really don’t need anyone to explain what happened.

Sadly, many people don’t consume news and information critically, they swallow it whole without any thought as if it were Flintstones multivitamins.  It’s easy to find these people because when you ask them to elaborate on why they believe what they believe, they parrot the standard talking points lines they’ve been conditioned with from the popular media.  What they are often unable to distinguish however are facts from opinions.  In this day and age, there are those who still think the moon landing was a hoax.  There are those that think that the terrorist acts of 9-11 were inside jobs perpetrated by the U.S. government.  There are those that still think rap music has any redeeming value and is a legitimate art form.

And of course, there are those that still believe two of the biggest fibs ever foisted on the public.  One is old and classic, the other one a relatively new whopper.  Both are related and both are nicely summed up by a comment on a recent snowfall in Victoria, B.C. by an unknown writer in response to the news story in the above link:

“…Sooner or later, people will need to come to grips with the extremes in weather which have taken place worldwide the last decade, due to climate change. I don’t know how much worse things need to be, before a majority of people demand more action from governments…”
Speaking only for myself, when I read drivel like this, which incidentally is common for this part of the world, I want to track this person down and pour the cup of low fat, cappuccino latte which they are probably drinking  onto the unwashed hair of their toque covered head.   This individual manages to combine the old standby bleat of  ‘action from governments’  to fix all ills with the elaborate fiction of global warming.   In this simple utterance, he or she betrays the waste of whatever education they may have received up to this time.  The ludicrous fiction that governments can be relied upon to fix anything, much less the weather, is still somehow implanted in their brain despite ample evidence to the contrary on both issues.   Any and every incidence of extreme weather is evidence of climate change which can be alleviated by governments.  I can’t wait for the day when the global warming nuts have their Milli Vanilli moment.
Think of the reasoning here.  For better, normal weather, whatever that is, we need only elect the right government that will do something about it.  We can imagine the election promises, of more jobs, secure borders and benign weather.  Gee, if only Tyrannosaurus Rex and Pterodactyl  had better leadership back in the day, they could still be roaming the earth today.  Instead they probably pursued non green policies which caused the great ice age and ended in their demise.  Stupid dinosaurs.  Good thing we’ve evolved since then.  Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows for all.  Voting to ensure better weather.  Hmm.  It makes the classic promise of ‘a chicken in every pot’ pretty lame.
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Hook, Line And Sinker

February 21st, 2011 No comments

link  SEC Charges Seven in Global Warming Pump-and-Dump Scheme; 2011-46; February 18, 2011.

Hmm.  When you read some of the language used in the charges against these fraudsters, it makes me wonder exactly how that is materially different from the entire industry of global warming.   For instance:

“…Zigdon caused the materially false and misleading information about CO2 Tech to be disseminated in press releases and on CO2 Tech’s website…”   and,

“…thereby creating the false appearance that the market for the stock was deeper than it actually was. This coordinated misconduct enabled stock sales at artificially inflated prices for profits of more than $7 million at the expense of unsuspecting investors…”

Just replace the name CO2 Tech with global warming and reference to stock market with the word hysteria and you have essentially the same charade going on with global warming.  Except that it’s blessed by a Nobel Laureate and the financial swindle is of an order many, many magnitudes higher.   The victims however are different.  In the case of CO2’s victims, they were characterized as ‘unsuspecting investors’, which really means gullible people.  The victims in the global warming charade encompass vastly more people creating innumerate losses, mainly on the part of taxpayers.  The worst part is, people who aren’t even naive enough to buy into the pump and dump are victimized anyway because of policies implemented by the influential promoters, I mean Nobel winners. 

At least with the SEC around, there is some regulatory body overseeing and ‘protecting’ the public’s interests.  If only there were such body looking after the interests of people at large.  At the very least, if people are allowed to give speeches and influence policy with very questionable and spurious science there should be a voluminous prospectus issued spelling out the risk factors.  At the the very top in bold letters should be the disclaimer printed on most investments sold to the public with the appropriate adjustment for context.

THERE IS NO MARKET FOR GLOBAL WARMING

SOME OF THE PROJECTIONS CONTAINED HEREIN INCLUDE CERTAIN FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS  ARE BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS AND PROJECTIONS WHICH MAY BE UNPROVABLE  AND THEREFORE WHICH MAY NOT HAVE VALIDITY

ACTUAL RESULTS MAY VARY SUBSTANTIALLY FROM PROJECTED CALAMITIES

Of course, there’s no guarantee that having such warnings will deter those committed to investing in global warming.  Back in the day, Jim Jones, of Kool Aid fame, had his ardent followers in Jonestown, Guyana.  His followers fell for the promise of a communal paradise and many faithfully took the fatal swigs of the infamous drink in blind loyalty to their leader.   If anyone out there still thinks the global warming/environmentalism cult is all about healing, then they should start buying Kool Aid by the crate.

No less than the pioneer of environmentalism, Patrick Moore, one of the original forces behind Greenpeace, has been very clear and outspoken about just how the movement has been hijacked and transformed into its economically destructive guise today.  In a recent interview with a Vancouver Province reporter, Moore says:

“I’m trying to change the way people see the entire issue of environmentalism.  “I’m trying to get people to recognize that human beings are part of the environment . . . and that we are not a plague or a cancer as many suggest, and that we are part of the solution and that there are solutions to these issues.   The trouble is, he says, many of these solutions are opposed by environmentalists who, for example, say they want to stop fossil-fuel consumption, yet oppose nuclear energy and hydroelectric power…And those are the two main technologies that could actually replace fossil fuels,” he says. “Wind and solar haven’t got a hope in hell of ever doing that, partly because you can’t count on them.”Moore says the subsidies to highcost wind and even higher-cost solar power that Ontario and various European countries have adopted are unnecessarily driving up energy prices. And poverty, he notes, is the worst environmental problem of all…. Moore strongly questions the so-called consensus on human-induced global warming: “I’m a skeptic in the healthy sense…”

On the other hand, all global warming activists have at their core, one main goal; to redistribute money from mainly western industrialized nations into the hands of non-elected and non accountable bodies that would dictate which of their inner circle of supporters will get it.   The ideal outcome is to create an overriding world authority not beholden to any nation state, funded of course, by those same nation states.  Sort of like the U.N. but with even crazier people.  This movement has as much to do with world healing as the U.N. has to do with world peace.    If by a series of fortuitous events,  the alarmists get their way, some will become obscenely wealthy.  The much ballyhooed Climate Exchange in which corporations would exchange ‘climate credits’ mandated by goofy laws on cap and trade initiated by these geniuses including Al Gore, is owned in large part by…Al Gore!  What a coincidence!  Luckily, even without a prospectus, the Chicago Climate Exchange, or CCX mercifully died of stupidity. 

Whatever the perps in the CO2 fraud get in penalties, should apply infinitely more to the Global Warming proponents.  Like the defrauded investors in CO2 now, in the near future, the general public will be saying the same thing to themselves.  “How could I have been that dumb?”

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