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Source: UN Food Security Expert Warns About Impact of Climate Change – The New York Times

One of the main tenets of any successful propaganda campaign is to repeat the same thing over and over again until it becomes accepted as truth. In fact the person who revealed that strategy was a guy named Joseph Goebbels: here is the quote:

“…If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,  people will eventually come to believe it.  The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of that lie.  It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State…”

Of course the original quote may have been in German, but it still translates well.  The global warming crowd has taken this recipe even further.  Hardly a day passes when there is not some new calamity/malady/threat/danger apparently exposed by global warming.  So it’s not just repetition, which does work, but also reinforcement through supporting ‘evidence’.  The spreading of such propaganda today is aided by the fact that many use Facebook as a news source. The more the likes, the more likely the story’s veracity.

Just today, the New York Times cited an academic paper warning of declining sexual appetites attributable  to global warming.  Naturally, this study of sexual activity was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, whomever they are.  I think that their research may be skewed by the fact that economists likely don’t get much sex in any case.  While this is not the gravest of dangers to result from global warming, it’s the one that perhaps hits closest to home…unless of course, you’re an economist.  A clever website, Whatreallyhappened   enumerates a pretty good survey of the accumulated calamities ostensibly caused by global warming.  Few of them rate up there with declining sexual activity, but some of the more amusing ones are:

attack of the killer jellyfish, Baghdad snow, beer shortage, brain eating amoeba, camel deaths, creatures  move uphill, fashion disaster, football team migration, giant oysters invade, invasion of midgets, witchcraft executions and a truly scary one which has already come to pass, lawyers’ incomes increase.

The linked article above is so truly dumb, it should have its own reality show with the Kardashians.  Wouldn’t warming cause an increase in the amount of arable lands which in turn would be beneficial to feeding people?

Don’t expect opposing voices to restore some measure of sanity to the ‘discussion’.  Philipe Verdier, the chief weather garcon for French Televisions has been sacked for daring to offer opposing views to the accepted truth.  Look out for the giant oysters.

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So the other night, we finally got a chance to meet Dan.  We had heard a lot about him from others who had met him recently.  The encounter started off pleasantly enough, as he lived in a modest but well kept home in the up and coming part of the city.  Our first hint of his personality was the Prius parked out front.  Hmm, already giving off Hipster/Greenie vibes.

He answered the door politely although we could hear lots of furniture moving noises and what sounded like rushed scrambling before he appeared.  We were cheerfully invited inside, which was nice, but expected.  There was little in the way of furniture, but what was there was tasteful but not expensive.  A Le Corbusier lounge chair looked strangely inappropriate next to a later model Ikea wing chair.   We also noticed the magazines conspicuously on display including Architectural Digest and Travel and Leisure.  But in a pile just off to one side of the coffee table were also a stack of People magazines.  What this may show is cultured mind still in development.  Or it could be his girlfriend’s periodicals.

His appearance is acceptable by modern standards, with the obligatory 2 days growth of stubble and heavy framed glasses. There was no hint of Axe body perfume that so many hipsters wear these days.  Dan is about 5 feet 10 and in decent shape as others have noted.

We talked a bit about a number of topics including politics, pop culture, philosophy and also delved into a few of his hobbies and interests.  He exhibited a reasonably broad familiarity with most topics, if a bit shallow on depth.  We found that his worldviews are very much in line with populist opinions you’d find in this generation of people, but the Prius already gave us that hint.   We can see how previous raters would give Dan a good score, but for us, he was only average at best.  As someone to spend time with at social functions, he’d be a good candidate but we suspect boredom would set in after a while.  Ability to carry on a conversation was good and he was reasonably articulate. After 45 minutes, we left for another appointment and he politely showed us out.

All in all, a pleasant if unexciting experience.  That is not to knock Dan at all.  We think he would make an excellent companion and bar buddy.  Appearance is an 8 and personal deportment also an 8 if not a 9.  We would hang out with Dan again.

3 stars out of 5.