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HAPPY EARTH DAY 2015!

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The environmental insane asylum
April 21, 2015 by Alan Caruba

Earth Day was declared in 1970 and for the past 45 years we have all been living in the environmental “insane asylum,” being told over and over again to believe things that are the equivalent of Green hallucinations. Now the entire month of April has been declared Earth Month, but in truth not a day goes by when we are not assailed with the bold-faced lies that comprise environmentalism.

Around the globe, the worst part of this is that we are being victimized by people we are told to respect from the President of the United States to the Pope of the Catholic Church. Their environmentalism is pure socialism.

Organizations whom we expect to tell the truth keep telling us that “climate change is one of the biggest global security threats of the 21st century.” This was a recent statement by “world leaders” like the G7, a group of finance ministers and central bank governors of seven advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. On April 17 they adopted a report about the “threat” put together by think tanks that included the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

When I speak of “climate” I am referring to data gathered not just about decades, but centuries of the Earth’s cycles of warming and cooling. When I speak of “weather”, the closest any of us get to it other than today’s, are local predictions no longer than a few days’ time at best. The weather is in a constant state of flux.

The threat of “climate change” is constantly exaggerated and there has been no meaningful global warming since the 20th century. There was not much then. As Prof. Bob Carter, a geologist at James Cook College in Queensland, Australia, has written, “For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco.”

The fact that the Earth is now into the nineteenth year of a natural planetary cooling cycle seems to never be acknowledged or reported. “The problem here,” says Prof. Carter, “is not that of climate change per se, but rather that of the sophisticated scientific brainwashing that has been inflicted on the public, bureaucrats and politicians alike.”

In a book I recommend to everyone, “Climate for the Layman” by Anthony Bright-Paul, he draws on the best well-known science about the Earth noting that “Since there is no such thing as a temperature of the whole Earth all talk of global warming is simply illogical, ill thought out, and needs to be discarded for the sake of clarity. The globe is warming and cooling in different locations concurrently every minute of the day and night.”

“Since it is abundantly clear that there is no one temperature of the atmosphere all talk of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is simply an exercise in futility.” A look at the globe from either of its two poles to its equator and everything in between tells us with simple logic that being able to determine its “temperature” is impossible. The Earth, however, has gone through numerous warming and cooling cycles, all of which were the result of more or less solar radiation.

The Sun is a crucial factor that warming campaigners ignore. The assertion that humans influence the climate and nature need not be considered is absurd.

The Earth had passed through warming and cooling cycles for billions of years before humans even existed, yet we are told that the generation of carbon dioxide through the use of machinery in manufacturing, transportation or any other use is causing the build-up of “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere. We are told to give up the use of coal, oil and natural gas. That is a definition of insanity!

Here’s the simple truth that most people are not told: The Sun warms the Earth and the Earth warms the atmosphere.

As for carbon dioxide, the amount generated by human activity represents a miniscule percentage of the 0.04% in the Earth’s atmosphere. There has been more carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere—well before humans existed—contributing to the growth of all manner of vegetation which in turn generated oxygen.

Without carbon dioxide there would be no life on Earth. It feeds the vegetation on which animal life depends directly and indirectly. As Anthony Bright-Paul says, “A slight increase in atmosphere of carbon dioxide will not and cannot produce any warming, but can be hugely beneficial to a green planet.”

The Earth’s atmosphere is approximately 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.04% Carbon Dioxide, and the rest is water vapor and trace gases in very small amounts. They interact to provide an environment in which life, animal and vegetable, exists on Earth.

When you live in a Global Environmental Insane Asylum, you are not likely to hear or read the truth, but you can arrive at it using simple logic. We know instinctively that humans do not control the waves of our huge oceans, nor the vast tectonic plates beneath our feet, the eruptions of volcanoes, the jet stream, cloud formation, or any of the elements of the weather we experience, such as thunder, lightning, and other acts of nature.

Why would we blindly assume or agree to the torrent of lies that humans dominate the climate? The answer is that on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, we will be deluged with the propaganda of countless organizations worldwide that we are, in fact, endangering a “fragile” planet Earth. We hear and read that every other day of the year as well.

The achievement of the human race and the last 5,000 years of so-called civilization is the way we have learned to adapt to Nature by creating habitats from villages to cities in which to survive and because we have devised a vast global agricultural and ranching system to feed seven billion of us.

As for the weather, John Christy, the director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, says he cringes “when I hear overstated confidence from those who describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next one hundred years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately predict that system’s behavior over the next five days.”

“Mother Nature,” says Christy, “simply operates at a level of complexity that is, at this point, behind the mastery of mere mortals—such as scientists—and the tools available to us.”


Whether it is the President or the Pope, or the countless politicians and bureaucrats, along with multitudes of “environmental” organizations, as well as self-serving “scientists”, all aided by the media, a virtual Green Army has been deliberately deceiving and misleading the citizens of planet Earth for four and a half decades. It won’t stop any time soon, but it must before the charade of environmentalism leaves us all enslaved by the quest for political control over our lives that hides behind it.

We must escape the Environmental Insane Asylum in which they want us to live.
 
I'm happy with climate change as "reality" caused by humans because we live like pigs in the trough. It may be wrong, the various groups may all be lying....don't care anymore. It's the pigs that pollute our air, frack the ground enough causing earthquakes and leave behind shit water with a "thank you very much!" attitude. It's the pigs that lay down any kind of money they've got to buy politicians for the drill oil at any cost and then spend years chasing BP after they shit all over our ocean and coast lines and run like pussy's when the bill comes in. Yah, I'm ok with anything that causes people to behave better.
 
Earth Day has been a joke since day one. Anyone who wants to drill has a free reign these days. I noticed a natural gas well maybe four miles from my home on some farmer's property. There are houses all around. I have to wonder if this farmer was that hard up. It certainly is an eyesore not to mention the locals have no idea of the pollution it may cause.

Yes, humans can be whore's more often than not. There is an old saying I heard as a teenager. You don't shit where you eat. Some people never learn.
 
Thanks for getting a discussion started Heidi. I too dislike the polluting of our air, land, water and food source.
I'm curious as to what you think about your own impact? I assume you use a computer, have a home you heat/cool and wear clothes all of which are produced by using coal and fossil fuels. Even wind and solar energies need coal and fossil fuels for production. So what do we do?
 
Earth Day has been a joke since day one. Anyone who wants to drill has a free reign these days. I noticed a natural gas well maybe four miles from my home on some farmer's property. There are houses all around. I have to wonder if this farmer was that hard up. It certainly is an eyesore not to mention the locals have no idea of the pollution it may cause.

Yes, humans can be whore's more often than not.
I agree that Earth Day has been a joke since day one. What your thoughts are on how to change our energy needs and to "clean up" the Earth?
 
I'm sorry to say it but I think the whole system of how we acquire and use energy is going to have to collapse. Just like a house of cards, it will need to be rebuilt from scratch.

I have felt that way for some time. Humans will keep doing things the same way because it is easy or it benefits certain individuals or groups to the detriment of others.
 
What I find interesting is that on the First Earth Day we were being warned that our environmental/fossil fuel sins were bringing about the next ICE AGE
 
Thanks for getting a discussion started Heidi. I too dislike the polluting of our air, land, water and food source.
I'm curious as to what you think about your own impact? I assume you use a computer, have a home you heat/cool and wear clothes all of which are produced by using coal and fossil fuels. Even wind and solar energies need coal and fossil fuels for production. So what do we do?
The powers that be have us all by the short hairs. Who can get by without a computer or a smartphone? Everyone of these devices uses oil and other precious materials to be manufactured. We either find some cave to live in and gather tree branches for heat or we play the cards in front of us. I just hope they aren't black aces and eights!
 
I'm sorry to say it but I think the whole system of how we acquire and use energy is going to have to collapse. Just like a house of cards, it will need to be rebuilt from scratch.

I have felt that way for some time. Humans will keep doing things the same way because it is easy or it benefits certain individuals or groups to the detriment of others.
I tend to agree but coal and oil has brought us out of the caves we used to live in and allows us to utilize technologies derived from coal and oil to develop alternative energy sources... and wind/solar are not the best alternatives.
 
A couple first Earth Day quotes:

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” - Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day in 1970.

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” - George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” - Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

The ice age never got here and we didn't all starve.
  • Did we change our life and energy styles enough since 1970 that we halted the looming Ice Age to the point that it turned into the Global Warming catastrophe we face now?
  • Has the additional CO2 stimulated enough plant production since 1970 that we didn't all starve?
 
In Pixel's mind, science has made no progress in 45 years.
Presuming to know what I think is not adding anything to this dialogue and could be considered "baiting". Please move along unless you have something to contribute. I am trying to have an intellectual and polite discussion here. Thanks Gene! :)
 
Knowing what was said 45 years ago when the "science was settled" on a looming ice age and mass starvation, I think we should be wary about making dire predictions of the future based on climate models of which 95% have now shown to have failed miserably in their predictions. Has the science progressed even tho it has failed? YES! That is how science works.
 
See, the thing is Pix, I don't care that they (government or political groups) use "dire" language when discussing this issue. Our population on this planet is huge, we're continually tearing down areas around the globe for more development, minerals , gold, oil, etc. Unless the government hammers down we extinct a species without a care. Unless we're fined through the ass we'll chop the last redwood. People leave a parking spot at the supermarket and dump their asstrays before taking off, or dump their Carl's Jr. bags on the ground. When it rains at the start of winter, oil floats into the drainage , slicks out the roads.
You ask what I do, I pay attention and I use what I have until it "literally" falls apart. I had my last truck for 18yrs, this one 12 so far. I use a desktop computer and will run it through. I recycle. I conserve water. I'm clearing the forest area where I live to prevent fires that will take the redwoods. I save the electric bill each month by being watchful. (notice I said bill- incentive to save).
Sadly , as humans we don't give a shit until a higher authority makes us give a shit. Yes there are people who naturally are gently giants on our earth, but mostly, no. So have I gone naked and saved a redwood? LoL, lucky for all of you, I haven't. But I try to pay attention. I also am equally caught up in being too broke to really grab at better methods to live as many others are. I can't get a cleaner car, go solar, eat fresh veggies everyday, etc. But when the prices come down I will pay attention and hop on where I can.
 
Sounds like you are mindful and caring Heidi. That is really great! :)
That said, you have to admit to supporting coal, fossil fuel, mining industries and a bigger government, right? So how do we get away from what we all dislike?
 
Heidi would you go as far as supporting the quotes below?

“We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!” – Steward Brand, writing in the Earth Catalog.

“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.” - Dave Forman, founder of Earth First

“I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” - John Davis, editor of the Earth First Journal
 
Sounds like you are mindful and caring Heidi. That is really great! :)
That said, you have to admit to supporting coal, fossil fuel, mining industries and a bigger government, right? So how do we get away from what we all dislike?
Political pressure, consumer pressure via don't buy/demand better. For example, one that makes me giggle, when Americans became more health conscious and stopped buying BigMacs , McDonalds started offering salads. Car's Jr. offered lettuce wrapped burgers. Vaping was an alternative to smoking. Solar to electric/coal. Voting against the tide of big money that shapes our daily choices. Growing our own gardens and rejecting chemical sprayed produce. Buying products such as more expensive outdoor tools vs. China made crap that you throw away next year. Showing up to local meetings to discuss town growth/changes. It really doesn't take much imagination to find something to do. One of my favorites is getting to a business by rejecting their product to produce a desired result. It's being done all the time now and it works. I already do without tons of things my friends and family enjoy and honestly it's probably more about money than being consciously careful. But there's no excuse for me to use that to justify being a pig in our collective home.
 
I think it is good to remember one factor that overall controls our environment. The Sun. It gets little mention maybe because it is out of human control and we don't like that sort of thing.

There are so many other factors in play... greenhouse gases, cows passing gas, just kidding. That is why there is so much dissension on weather change.

It sure doesn't help when you have people like Al Gore and Prince Charles of England putting their two cents in. I would hardly trust these types who tell the masses to conserve and in the same breath don't mind hopping on their private jets to fly across continents for business and pleasure.
 
Heidi would you go as far as supporting the quotes below?

“We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!” – Steward Brand, writing in the Earth Catalog.

“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.” - Dave Forman, founder of Earth First

“I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” - John Davis, editor of the Earth First Journal
Those quotes are true but not reasonable. They don't speak for the entire movement. So now I'm asking, why do you care what these three people say? P.S, have to leave for a bit and use my gas guzzling car to get to town! lol, bb shortly.
 
Those quotes are true but not reasonable. They don't speak for the entire movement. So now I'm asking, why do you care what these three people say? P.S, have to leave for a bit and use my gas guzzling car to get to town! lol, bb shortly.
Well it is not just these three, I didn't want to bombard this thread with dozens of anti human quotes. I care because I do not subscribe to the anti human/global warming rhetoric. I happen to like humans. Yes we have lots of things to work out in regards to energy and habitation needs but overall humans are pretty interesting mammals.
 
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