The King Canute Effect
Climate change is a fact.
There is abundant evidence that the climate has been changing for millions of years. Even my own county bears the scars of ice-caps grinding through the mountains, and while it may be fucking freezing at the moment it is tropical compared to previous eras. Even the wee photograph on top of the site shows the scars of glacial erosion!
And then some fucking genius, realising that change is inevitable comes up with the idea that we are the cause and not celestial influences. And if we are the cause then we must pay very dearly or future generations will curse us to eternity. They know that there is a close correlation between climate temperatures and CO2 so they use that as their basis for their argument. Thus was invented the concept of “greenhouse gasses”.
So the propaganda machine gets to work. We are are killing the planet, they cry. We are condemning future generations to unimaginable tortures if we don’t cut down on our CO2 emissions they shrill. We must be penalised if we don’t toe the line and reduce our “greenhouse gasses”. Every flood, forest fire, famine, hurricane and crop failure is our fault because we aren’t doing our bit for the climate and we must try harder.
And here lies the sheer genius behind the scam. If temperatures continue to rise then we must be penalised even more because we aren’t doing enough. If the temperatures start to drop then the penalties must be working and we must be penalised even further in case temperatures start to rise again. We are like crabs on a beach being blamed for the rise and fall of the tide.
We were not responsible for the ice ages, nor could we claim any credit for when the ice caps finally thawed. If we had been around during the age of the dinosaurs, doubtless we would have been blamed for their extinction too.
In the meantime we are being fleeced. We pay extra for all our power sources. We pay subsidies to the manufacturers of wind farms an solar panels. A massive industry worth trillions has grown on the back of the scam. Only yesterday they announced that Ireland is likely to be shortly fined in the region of half a billion because our cows fart.
So “man made global warming” has to be real. There is much too much power and money at stake. It can never be allowed to be disproved.
It is literally a scam of stellar proportions.
“It is literally a scam of stellar proportions.”
It does seem to be even more of a scam than the ‘smoking’ scare scam….which takes some beating.
I reckon that the smoking scam was the initial testing and proving ground.
BTW I hate to be pedantic Grandad but I think you mean carbon dioxide rather than ionized carbon monoxide. The 2 should be subscript rather than superscript.
Bugger! I used [sup] instead of [sub]. An easy mistake?
So when did Big Business – or any organisation making money – care about real lives? The World changes over time. As a species (mostly human) we can’t understand the past few thousand years, let alone the next few thousand. But now there are plenty of people who can extract cash from the gullible on predictions promulgated by vested interests. As a certain Mr. Trump might say “Sad, but get used to it”.
And who is this Mr Trump?
All one can do is sit down smoke a bowl have a wee drop or whatever it is that one still deems enjoyable, even though the enjoyment of anything is deemed sinful by the righteous, extend two fingers into a V and wave them at their world.
Whenever I’m on the receiving end of a climate lecture by a true believer, I just look them in the eye and call them an arrogant bastard. Only an arrogant bastard could possibly believe that human beings have more influence on our climate than the colossal nuclear reactor that sits at the heart of our solar system.
“If temperatures continue to rise then we must be penalised even more because we aren’t doing enough. If the temperatures start to drop then the penalties must be working and we must be penalised even further in case temperatures start to rise again.”
It’s a variation of Morton’s Fork: “Archbishop of Canterbury John Morton in the late fifteenth century held that someone living modestly must be saving money and, therefore, could afford taxes, whereas someone living extravagantly obviously was rich and, therefore, could afford taxes.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_fork
“there is a close correlation between climate temperatures and CO2…”
Have you seen Murray Salby’s various lectures – CO2 follows temperature and not the other way around? Hypothesis derived from first principals and matching observations. And explains the T -> CO2 lag seen in ice cores.
Methinks that the climate scam is waning now (esp if it turns colder), but we still are left with the legacy of all the legislation, regulation and associated groupthink which will take a long while to overturn (unless by a subsequent Global Scaryness, need to Protect The Children, etc…)
First they came for the cows and I did not speak out, because I’m not a cud-chewer.
However, as one known to rip one off now and again (and again and again) I am more than a little concerned with this new EU initiative.
“Even the wee photograph on top of the site shows the scars of glacial erosion!”
Yeah, looks like Vermont–also sculpted by glaciers.
And I have to shake my head at how arrogant our race has become. Thinking we could actually stop the climate from warming or lessening the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Sure, it’s mostly a natural cycle but really, can we (humans I mean) put back all the millions of acres of forest we cut down? Can we suddenly pull all the crap, oil, garbage, sewage and what-have-you we dumped into our oceans out of them? Undo all the damage we’ve done to our environment? And do we really think it would make a difference if we did?
That’s us. Constantly closing the barn doors after the livestock escaped.
At first I thought there might be something in it, but then they started dealing in carbon credits. Making millions buying and selling nothing.