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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.