As IF Times

link Climate envoys seek stronger warning on warming dangers in key UN report.

Anyone who’s had children is familiar with this scenario: The child whines in a monotone drone about wanting something as if stuck on grooves of a record player until either the parent relents or the kid stops out of fatigue and moves on the next thing which amuses them.

These children have grown up to become global warming bleaters.  While the notion was novel and fashionable  when first trotted out decades ago, the passage of time and evidence have shown that the dire predictions breathlessly tossed out by its exponents are, well, just so much hot air.   Not the very least is that fact that the ‘imminent’ and ‘irreversible’ damage that allowed only another few years remaining for the world’s existence hasn’t quite materialized.  Even the labeling has had to evolve as the credibility factor gets iffier.  First Global Warming, then Climate Change, now Climate Disruption.  This of course implies that without man’s influence (and that means western man’s influence ) the weather would be the same and predictable all the time.  Meanwhile, the theory’s most public proponents keep buying bigger homes on more exclusive beachfront properties which would  presumably be at risk when the oceans rise.  As well, the penguin and polar bear populations keeps increasing.

But the Global warming crowd, long used to getting acquiescence from the gullible public still haven’t tired of their monotone bleats.  Even as more and more qualified people come forth to squelch the hare brained notion, the warming crowd’s bleating gets more and more insistent.   One of the most amusing arguments offered in support of the AGW crowd is that “97%” of scientists subscribe to it; as if science were a democratic process.  Long time readers will recall that back in the day, 98% of court Wisemen agreed that the world was flat.   Fully 100% of these Wisemen agreed that the earth was the center of the universe.   And up until recently, it was widely held that if you did “that” to yourself too often,  you’d most certainly go blind.  Obviously, if this were the case, no teenager would make it into adulthood with any sight.

In the 70’s. the Hare Krishna cultists were common fixtures at all North American airports.  For some reason, they were tolerated until eventually people grew tired of them and they eventually disappeared.  Can’t wait for that to happen to the climate nuts.

link No him or her; preschool fights gender bias – Yahoo! News.

It’s not even a slippery slope, Western culture is in full free fall.  The people described in the linked article are seeking to completely eradicate any gender bias at all in the upbringing of small children.  While in today’s increasingly politically correct world, this may not seem that strange, it’s only because of the increasing tolerance to strangeness that society has been made to endure over the past few generations.  The kind of social engineering being pushed by these ‘educators’ is not that different from oh, let’s say the Amish who insist on eschewing modern conveniences in their daily lives.  Certainly, people can do what they wish in an enclosed society, but the actions of these ‘educators’ are being promulgated to society at large, at least in ‘progressive’ Sweden.   Upon reflection, how is this any different from cult behaviour?  Is the entire nation of Sweden becoming a cult?

According to the website toptenz.net, the definition of a cult is:

“…A “cult” typically refers to a  social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding population considers to be outside the mainstream. Cults usually expect a large amount of time and money to be devoted as well. And sometimes a cult will ask the ultimate price, your life…”

The website goes on to list the top organizations which they consider to be cults including, Scientology, The Unification Church, Hare Krishnas as well as the Mansons, Heaven’s Gate and The Branch Davidians.  People in the mainstream of society may find some of their beliefs strange and thus practitioners are viewed somewhat cautiously.  I wonder if the inhabitants of an entire nation can be viewed that way.  Apparently, just because people look like Bjorn Borg or Heidi Klum doesn’t exclude them from living in nutville.

To attempt to ‘de-sex’ kids at a young age is the latest in wrong headed social engineering.  People can deny all they want the different proclivities of the sexes, but it is to deny the process of nature.  As if that’s going to be a winner.  If nature had intended there to be no differences between the sexes, humans would all be hermaphrodites with both sets of sex organs.  We’d in fact be worms with better clothing. Years from now, if humans still survive, scientists will find that there is a suicide gene implanted in some humans which makes them want to destroy themselves.  Either that or a stupid gene, which incidentally would explain a lot of things. 

It’s one thing to live according to a set of beliefs, but when you start to monkey around with the very recipe of nature, the beliefs get a bit suspect.  The Amish may be considered eccentric in their beliefs, but at least they recognize that men are men and women are women.  A darn good arrangement.