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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.

link http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/205126/20110828/global-warming-climate-change-fears-concern-decline-developed-nations-rise-developing-nations-poll-s.htm

This is what happens when you spend too much time watching the adventures of Snookie and The Situation; you lose track of the  things that are really important to other citizens of the world.  According to this article, the consciousness of global warming remains high on the minds of people in less developed countries despite a slight decline over the past few years.  Apparently in places like Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore, citizens collectively fret about their carbon footprints on their daily commutes to their workplaces.  It remains the hot topic of cocktail conversations and that awareness is woven into every aspect of daily life.

Just the other day, while sitting in a bar, my friend pointed to an attractive gal across the room and mused, ” I wonder what her views are on sustainability of our fragile ecosystem”.  No doubt this scenario plays out hundreds of thousands of times every day in the world as people push aside their more pedestrian worries of mortgages, the quest for perfect abs and the best chai latte.  To be sure, this only happens in the enlightened enclaves of the world, or those that get CNN.  In other parts of the far flung planet, there are countless millions still living in ignorance of the impending catastrophe that’s looming just over the horizon.  They are still blissfully unaware of this and continue to pursue nonsensical things such as looking for food and staying alive.

This is perhaps a bit unfair, since many have been practising ‘earth friendly’ lifestyles long before Al Gore brought earth awareness to our collective consciousness.  In the Amazonian rain-forest for example, the residents there have eschewed modern frivolities such as True Religion Jeans or Columbia goretex sportswear, instead relying on the tried and true, environmentally friendly, loincloth.  Rather than waste money on things such as guns and bullets, their hunting and warfare is conducted using the eco-friendly blow tube.  This is much more sensible since any conflicts between tribes is considerably less bloody, less noisy and with almost no cases of misfiring weapons.

In China, to avoid the profligate use of resources observed in the west, it is common to see generations of families thoughtfully living in one simple house of only a few hundred square feet to reduce their carbon footprint.   Eschewing the family SUV, there is instead the family bicycle.  This is somewhat inconvenient when dropping the kids off at school, but they get used to it.  Their consumer habits are much more eco friendly as well.  For example, instead of owning iPads which consume electricity, they prefer to just go down to the community bulletin board where they can keep up on the Kardashians.   It’s not all perfect of course.  While their diet consists mainly of grains and vegetables, they do eat the occasional bear.  When chastised about this, the Chinese respond, ” If we aren’t supposed to eat them, why are they so delicious?”  Oh well, enlightenment will come eventually.