climatedepot--2020-05-16--The Coronavirus Fifth Column: Lockdowns are a sight for sore socialists’ eyes – Governors ‘continue

The Coronavirus Fifth Column: Lockdowns are a sight for sore socialists’ eyes – Governors ‘continue to hold people hostage to their dictatorial impulses’

Leftists the world over are exploiting the pandemic in order to create their alleged utopias .
Vanessa Vallejo , a Colombian activist and columnist explains that Whenever they come to power , communists work hard to create a clientele network that will vote for them and support them in the future .
So instead of looking for real solutions to lift people out of poverty altogether , they offer them subsidies or useless jobs where citizens are dependent on politicians .
At the same time , they make life difficult for entrepreneurs , resulting in more and more unemployed people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ network .
Many of them will not be able to get subsidies , but plunging them into poverty will make them easy prey to convince so long as the government offers them aid and blames right-wing entrepreneurs and politicians for their misery .
Sound familiar ?
This is happening all across the United States .
The governors of states like Michigan , New York , New Jersey , California , and Pennsylvania continue to hold people hostage to their dictatorial impulses .
Excerpt : Leftists the world over are exploiting the pandemic in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vanessa Vallejo , a Colombian activist and columnist explains that Whenever they come to power , communists work hard to create a clientele network that will vote for them and support them in the future .
So instead of looking for real solutions to lift people out of poverty altogether , they offer them subsidies or useless jobs where citizens are dependent on politicians .
At the same time , they make life difficult for entrepreneurs , resulting in more and more unemployed people who can be hooked into their clientele network .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get subsidies , but plunging them into poverty will make them easy prey to convince so long as the government offers them aid and blames right-wing entrepreneurs and politicians for their misery .
Sound familiar ?
This is happening all across the United States .
The governors of states like Michigan , New York , New Jersey , California , and Pennsylvania continue to hold people hostage to their dictatorial impulses .
After all , “ [ c ] ompanies have been forced to close , people can not leave their homes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ income on their own , many are sick or have sick relatives , and in this crisis , they have no way to pay the expenses raised by the calamity .
In just a few weeks , government spending and the people who need help have both increased dramatically because people have lost their jobs.
” Eric Levitz at Intelligencer can barely conceal his glee as he writes He believes that the COVID-19 pandemic has “ expanded the spectrum of imaginable futures and political possibilities .
And some of those possibilities have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Thus , “ there ’ s good news for progressives ” as they see a golden opportunity to assert that employer-based health care system is inadequate and the market economy which results in “ gross inequality ” must be dismantled .
To the Left , the pandemic “ provides a vivid reminder that the state is perfectly capable of sheltering its constituents from the market ’ s mercilessness [ . ]
” Enter a “ progressive movement defined by the twin goals of Medicare for All and Green New Deal [ that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wake.
” Leftists assert the need to The ultimate goal for the Left is “ to fortify the progressive project ” by “ cultivat [ ing ] border-collapsing modes of social identity and secur [ ing ] a modicum of political power for the world ’ s disenfranchised and dispossessed.
” At the Jacobin , an American socialist , Marxist quarterly based in New York , Ben Burgis emphasizes that Consequently , he emphasizes that “ the pandemic can be an opportunity for the Left if [ they ’ re ] prepared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the “ Democratic Socialists of America have an estimated 10,000 new members — growth that organizers attribute , in part , to the coronavirus pandemic.
” Since “ [ t ] he financial toll will be felt for years — maybe decades — to come , and with Congress ’ s push to expand the social safety net , more and more Americans could be open to government playing a bigger role in their lives .
There is , in other words , great potential for systemic change in this as-yet-unwritten future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of America DSA ] members recognize.
” Madeline Osburn reports that “ [ a ] network of Democratic non-profits and super PACs are funneling millions of dollars toward advertisements in key swing states , with the intent of politicizing the Wuhan coronavirus crisis and blaming the pandemic on President Donald Trump.
” Money is distributed to progressive causes by a number of Democratic PACs , e.g.
, Sixteen Thirty Fund .
In fact , “ in 2018 , Politico reported that the Sixteen Thirty Fund ‘ funneled millions of dollars to progressive causes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of other groups , which were the ‘ most prolific political advertisers of 2018 ’ when combined.
” Trevor Loudon has documented how “ communists and socialists are infiltrating the Democrat Party — some openly , some secretly and some even running for public office on the Democratic Party ballot line.
” In reality , “ politicizing the growing fears , illnesses and deaths of American citizens ” is a potent weapon in the Leftwing arsenal .
And , yet , as Vanessa Vallejo states , “ What is happening in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again , shows us how strong and important are the values and ideas on which this great country was built .
In different parts of the U.S. , there have been protests , including armed ones .
Also , in different parts of the U.S. , police have declared that they will not comply with orders to keep people completely confined by preventing activities that do not represent any danger and are necessary for the survival of many people.
” The declarations that we are seeing in the United States these days on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us who come from countries where people have simply become accustomed to obeying any nonsense spouted by the ruler of the day .
To see a policeman telling the media that he will always ‘ put constitutional rights before political opinions ’ and that therefore , he will not abide by draconian measures that go against common sense is encouraging for those of us who defend freedom .
The coronavirus has cleared the field for communists .
It is an opportune moment for the left in general , but above all , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of power and want to perpetuate themselves and implant their totalitarian paradise once and for all .
Freedom-loving Americans need to understand the existence of this fifth column and then assiduously fight the penetration of enemies to the state .
Eileen can be reached at middlemarch1 [ email protected ]


climatedepot--2020-05-18--‘Fair And Balanced’ Not Necessarily The Goal For Environmental Reporters Says Society of Environment

‘Fair And Balanced’ Not Necessarily The Goal For Environmental Reporters Says Society of Environmental Journalists

‘ Fair And Balanced ’ Not Necessarily The Goal For Environmental Reporters Says SEJ COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn may have pushed the 2020 elections out of the headlines temporarily , but leading environmental attorneys and activists have already assembled a list of Trump administration policies they hope a Democratic administration could repeal or replace .
In a webinar this week sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists ( SEJ ) , leading environmental attorneys gave reporters a list of topics for possible investigative reporting , in the process laying out a plan of action for the types of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as voter behavior .
Calling on journalists to push a particular set of policies on voters might strike some as a violation of professional standards .
However , for SEJ members , the ends increasingly justify the means .
“ Journalists should have editorial independence , ” concluded Emily Gertz , a member of SEJ ’ s board who moderated part of the discussion .
“ I don ’ t know that fair or balanced necessarily appear in our mission statement.
” The Trump administration was not represented at the SEJ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a debate .
We don ’ t have a representative of the administration here to defend their actions , ” moderator and former Los Angeles Times reporter Dave Willman said at the beginning of the event .
Though no Trump administration figures were asked to speak at the webinar , the administration loomed large over the event , as speakers described the regulatory changes and executive actions they wished to see overturned under a new administration .
Michael Burger , executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the NYU @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the dramatic changes in environmental regulation that occurred between the Obama and Trump administrations .
He described a “ comprehensive , emerging executive branch approach to the climate crisis ” under the previous administration that included guidance under the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ) , a public lands management policy that discouraged leasing for energy and mineral development , and the use of National Monuments designations to prevent development on vast swaths of land in the West .
“ Even more generally than all of this was a commitment to mainstreaming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” he said , explaining that this commitment informed how the Obama administration planned to respond to climate change impacts and to attempt to prevent them .
All of these programs changed dramatically in President Trump ’ s first months in office .
The speakers hoped that with a new president , they could change again .
“ Does everything change if we get a new president ?
The answer is yes , ” said Ann Carlson , a UCLA Law Professor with ties to the climate liability lawsuits filed by several cities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other environmental attorneys believe that , since President Trump used executive orders to drive regulatory reform at the EPA and other executive agencies , a future president could use the same tools to reverse this process .
In the meantime , the speed with which the administration acted means that environmentalists can—and should—challenge the decisions in court .
“ It is true that they acted very speedily but it is true that the wheels of justice roll slowly , ” she added .
Burger agreed , explaining that rushing the regulatory process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process .
“ Procedural violations are part of that , ” he said .
“ The administrative state gains legitimacy through the process .
If you ignore the process , you ignore the legitimacy of those regulations.
” For environmentalists , what they see in this type of erosion of trust in federal regulatory agencies is a threat to the types of aggressive clean energy policies they believe are necessary to halt climate change .
This issue is of increasing concern , they argue , as the coronavirus and accompanying state lockdowns reduce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ environmental enforcement agencies .
“ The basic take home is that states are the front line , ” said James McElfish , a senior attorney with the Environmental Law Institute .
“ If the feds walk away bad it ’ s because there is no back stop , but if the states are up to it and have capacity they can do [ regulation and enforcement . ]
But the states are in a world of hurt right now.
” The webinar encouraged environmental journalists to explore this topic , looking for ways @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hurting vulnerable communities .
These stories will also help persuade voters to make green issues a higher priority , they concluded .
“ Environmental support has long been very broad and very shallow , ” said Burger .
“ The assumption is that the stories aren ’ t registering and people aren ’ t getting the information or aren ’ t responding as fulsomely as they might , but I think there is a lot of support .
”

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climatedepot--2020-05-18--Watch: Psychic Greta Thunberg Warns of Climate Destruction in Pearl Jam Music Video – Greta plays a

Watch: Psychic Greta Thunberg Warns of Climate Destruction in Pearl Jam Music Video – Greta plays a fortune teller

Greta Thunberg stars in the music video for Pearl Jam ’ s environmental doom tune “ Retrograde.
” The teenage climate alarmist plays a fortune teller warning of imminent climate destruction , the video ’ s director revealed .
The animated music video sees a man visit a fortune-teller who presents him with a crystal ball .
As the man gazes into it , he envisions melting glaciers and devastating floods decimating Manhattan , Paris , Seattle , and London , while wildfires sweep across Australia .
In an interview with Variety , the video ’ s director Josh Wakely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Thunberg .
Wakely added that the band had planned to film live footage but were forced to scrap those plans as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic .
“ Something Pearl Jam has done so extraordinarily well for 30 years is to speak truth to power and fire warning shots , ” he said .
“ Several other Gigaton songs spoke to me , but this one kept me up at night.
” Wakely explained that he chose Thunberg because her presence provided the necessary “ emotion ” for the video to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absolute stone-cold hero ” for her climate change crusade .
Because of the circumstances surrounding its productions , he used existing footage of the 17-year-old and then super-imposed her face onto an actor .
“ She never had to act a frame , but she provided that emotion I was looking for , ” Wakely continued .
“ It was a huge thrill to see an email in my inbox from her saying that she loved it.
” Pearl Jam ’ s habit of speaking “ truth to power ” has generally involved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2018 , the rock group sparked condemnation after releasing a promotional poster featuring a dead President Donald Trump and an American bald eagle eating the remains of his corpse .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Trudeau Hikes Global-Warming Tax During Height Of Pandemic

Everyone to their cost knows Canada has been more or less shut down for over two months .
Hardly any part of business or industry has been spared .
I read somewhere that the talismanic barometer so beloved by the Greens — our so-called “ carbon emissions ” — is expected to be down by eight percent globally this year .
It sounds right .
Countries idle .
Less energy burned .
Less CO2 .
What then was the logic in the midst of the pandemic , when almost all the motors that drive industry in Canada were virtually turned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its so-called carbon tax ?
Oil prices were already at rock bottom thanks to the Russia-Saudi Arabia forced glut , gasoline cheaper than any time since Noah got off the Ark and started the first motorboat .
So from the point of view of revenue collection , the timing was certainly off .
Regardless , with so many people out of work and with personal budgets strained , more than a million jobs disappearing but still rents to be paid and bills to be met , it was not a time to raise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still some “ essential services ” — farming and trucking to name the two most obvious — that would require energy , fuels , to provide the rest of us with necessities like food .
The government in every other way was throwing billions of dollars out the Cottage door , but it still wanted to ping Canadians with the global-warming tax .
What was it thinking ?
Perhaps it was on the advice of its best astrologers that it selected April 1st , that being an auspicious day , to make the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself , as I shall demonstrate , contributed more fog than daylight to the prime minister ’ s decision to go ahead with it .
Justin Trudeau : “ Our plan on pricing pollution puts more money upfront into people ’ s pockets than they would pay with the new price on pollution .
We ’ re going to continue to focus on putting more money in people ’ s pockets to support them right across the country.
” Give that a read .
Now please explain what the first sentence can possibly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apart .
Pricing pollution ?
What does that mean ?
Well , we know what “ pricing ” means .
In Trudeau-speak , pricing means “ to put a tax on , to make more expensive , to enlarge the cost of any and all industrial activity that uses oil or gas as its necessary energy.
” And now “ pollution.
” We all know what pollution is .
It ’ s sewage dumped into lake and harbor , poisonous chemicals sluiced into pristine streams , mounds of rotting garbage on any city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ familiar with pollution .
But is carbon dioxide , part of our life-giving air , a pollutant ?
Well , if Mr. Trudeau says he ’ s “ pricing pollution ” and if it ’ s carbon dioxide he ’ s pricing , then Q.E.D.
, it ’ s a pollutant .
Probably right up there with that other hell gas , oxygen .
The rest of us , however , are open to the question : when did life-animating carbon dioxide , without which there would not be a green tree on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grass , not a flower with its blossoms or bee to visit it , join ranks with industrial effluents , garbage , and human excrement ?
CO2 is the very Santa Claus of gases , it puts the green in our green planet .
I ’ ll bet you didn ’ t know this : when roses hear carbon-dioxide is wafting by , they smile and blush and lay on the perfume .
Thus , when Trudeau talks of “ taxing pollution ” in his peculiar vocabulary , meaning carbon dioxide , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is maligning one of nature ’ s most beneficent miracles .
If carbon dioxide was a person , it would sue him for misrepresentation .
Now let us get back to the first sentence as a whole : “ Our plan on pricing pollution puts more money upfront into people ’ s pockets than they would pay with the new price on pollution.
” I am tempted to offer any reader who can decipher this all the Canadian Tire money I have in the home safe .
And all the Air Miles , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I have collected at Sobeys .
Does it say anything , does it bump into coherence , even by chance , at any point ?
Is this some form of code ?
He goes on .
“ We ’ re going to continue to focus on putting more money in people ’ s pockets to support them right across the country.
” And how do you keep “ putting money in people ’ s pockets ” by imposing a tax hike on those people ?
A tax — here ’ s an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s pockets .
It can not be passed back to them in a greater amount than it takes out , or it is a subsidy .
If that was the way taxes worked , that you got more back than you paid in , well , in the words of the world ’ s most illustrious economist — “ Hit me baby , one more time.
” The logic , rather the illogic , of the announcement was at one with the utter illogic of the ill-named carbon tax itself .
Why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ historic downturn in almost every sector of the economy , does the government of Canada increase a tax on the energy needed for the very few , but absolutely essential services , that keep us going ?
An increased tax on those who produce it , and those who have to use it , if our country is to continue to operate during a crisis .
The only answer has to be , that even during this most exceptional of crises , the government will not , for a second , abandon its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that same obsession that makes it a condition for large industrial concerns applying for emergency relief “ to demonstrate some degree of environmental commitment and vow to report annually on its climate and sustainability initiatives.
” Why is the government ’ s climate-change agenda being imposed with such rigor , and being made a condition of emergency support , during a crisis ?
That is a good question .
And if we had a Parliament in Canada maybe someone would ask it .
It was folly to hike the tax on fuel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kind of extortion to demand subservience to a climate-change agenda as an entry condition on a decision whether a company will live or die .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Not Guilty! Jurist Legal News Prosecutes False Case Against Climate, Hunger

Jurist Legal News is doing its best Michael Avenatti impression , prosecuting false claims that climate change is causing hunger and malnutrition .
In a May 14 article , “ The Link Between Climate Change and Human Health , ” Indian law students Sakshi Agarwal and Aniket Sachan quote speculative World Health Organization ( WHO ) predictions as proof that climate change is causing starvation and malnutrition .
That is the same WHO , by the way , that reassured us that Chinese officials found no evidence of human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 , that wearing face masks makes you more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ massive government efforts to “ socialize the economy.
” “ The World Health Organization ( WHO ) back in 2018 said that climate change will cause around 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 due to malnutrition , malaria , diarrhea and heat exhaustion , ” the Jurist Legal News article reported .
Of course , predictions are not proof , or even evidence .
They are merely predictions .
Let ’ s take a look at what scientific evidence shows .
History shows colder periods of time are linked to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as during the little ice age .
By contrast , hunger and malnutrition both decline sharply during relatively warm periods .
Indeed , food production , rather than declining as the climate has modestly warmed , has increased dramatically in recent decades .
This is thoroughly documented in Climate at a Glance : Crop Production , as well as in a video-archived panel discussion alongside the United Nations Civil Society Conference in August 2019 .
Climate Change Reconsidered II : Fossil Fuels , shows how modern agriculture , built upon and entirely dependent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to produce more food than ever on less and less land .
In addition , as detailed by CO2Science.org , the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere over the past century , along with modest warming , have resulted in crop yields setting records nearly every year .
The two factors combined have resulted in the largest decline in hunger , malnutrition , poverty , and starvation in human history .
Forty-four percent of the world ’ s population lived in absolute poverty in 1981 – 40 years of global warming ago .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ living in such poverty fell below 10 percent in 2015 .
And although 700 million people worldwide still suffer from persistent hunger , the United Nations reports the number of hungry people has declined by two billion since 1990 – 30 years of global warming ago .
Hunger and malnutrition , like a changing climate , have always been with us .
The evidence , however , shows the only climate change consistently linked to increases in hunger , malnutrition , and premature mortality is a cooling climate .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Geologist: The ‘Lockdown Depression is giving us a taste of ‘Zero Emissions.’ It is a bitter taste’

Geologist Viv Forbes : `` Abandon the Zero Emissions farce .
Bullock-drawn wagons , camel trains , and horse teams may achieve the zero-emissions dream , but they will not keep our cities fed — there are no electric tractors , dozers , or road trains .
This Lockdown Depression is giving us a taste of `` Zero Emissions . ''
It is a bitter taste .
It leads to unemployment and poverty with no proven benefits for nature or the climate . ''
The Lockdown Depression is rushing toward us .
Many in politics , media , and industry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through panic and ignorance , others cynically pushing anti-industry agendas or serving vested interests .
We will never rebuild our industries and jobs with locks , chains , hobbles , handcuffs , or handouts .
We need to recognize the realities of history , geography , geology , and economics .
Australia is a huge dry continent with an empty heart — over 70 % is desert , indigenous land , or national parks .
Outback mines provide some income and employment , but a huge area does little to employ , feed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land is a haven for weeds , pests , and bushfires ; a no-go zone for water conservation or mineral exploration ; and a magnet for overpopulated neighbors .
The foundations for today ’ s Australia were built by aboriginals , explorers , miners , farmers , and foresters .
The first European explorers marveled at the vast grasslands and open forests , which were created and maintained by frequent aboriginal fires .
Then prospectors , miners , drovers , and settlers blazed the first wagon tracks and droving trails .
Foresters followed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for small farms in fertile coastal areas .
The mighty Cobb and Co had a policy to “ Follow the Gold , ” and their coach tracks became roads , and their supply stations became towns .
The overland telegraph crossed the continent , and railways and road trains replaced horse-powered coaches , camel trains , and bullock wagons .
Mines built towns and roads everywhere .
The taxes paid by mines and their employees supported an ever-growing government/welfare sector , and their profits funded smelters , refineries , and fabricators processing iron @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zinc , and aluminum .
Our farmers and graziers fed the miners and the rest of the country .
These backbone industries have always carried Australia through wars , droughts , depressions , and epidemics .
When gold bottomed , wool boomed .
Then wheat , beef , mutton , cotton , sugar , and rice buffered the cycles in base metal prices ; then iron and coal became our backstop industries .
But these workhorses are now heavily handicapped by locked gates and no-go zones , green hobbles , inadequate education in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ excessive taxes , and export tariffs and barriers and red tape .
Government handouts will create nothing but debt and dependency .
Our real industries could pull us out of the looming Lockdown Depression , but they must be set free to do it .
The first step is to break the Green manacles on Australia ’ s backbone industries — exploration , mining , and agriculture .
Mineral deposits are where you find them — their discovery and development can not be planned by some bureaucratic model .
And it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten years or forever to get through the bloated bureaucracy .
Agriculture needs water , so build more dams .
And stop prosecuting and fining farmers and graziers for managing their own land and vegetation — this neglect and oppression is sowing the seeds of rural revolt .
Kyoto must be unwound .
Secondly , people hesitate to develop businesses or improve assets on insecure title .
Governments should quickly offer all leasehold and indigenous landowners individual freehold title to their lands on attractive terms .
Then abolish the capital gains tax so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to new owners who will immediately start thinking of productive capital improvements .
Thirdly , convert half of the land frozen in national parks and reserves to freehold forestry , grazing , or nature tourism .
Locking up so much land for weeds , pests , and bushfires is criminal waste .
Fourthly , industry needs low-cost reliable power .
We must ensure that every electricity generator who connects to the grid can supply reliable 24/7 power using its own backup facilities or via firm contracts .
Finally , abandon the Zero Emissions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and horse teams may achieve the zero-emissions dream , but they will not keep our cities fed — there are no electric tractors , dozers , or road trains .
This Lockdown Depression is giving us a taste of “ Zero Emissions.
” It is a bitter taste .
It leads to unemployment and poverty with no proven benefits for nature or the climate .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Greenie Elon Musk is rallying voters to vote for Trump

As for Musk , he 's sick of Democratic actions as they happen on the ground , doing everything they can to put him out of business , and then screaming ' f -- - you ' when he threatens to walk away . ''
`` Musk 's got 34 million followers .
He 's the emblem of the Obama new greenie economy — and now he 's going over to the Trumpside .
What do they have left after they lose him as their bright shiny bauble ?
Greenie car manufacturer Elon Musk , who has 34 million Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to go vote for President Trump , using a popular vernacular expression : Fox News calls that a “ cryptic ” tweet , but I suspect that ’ s some leftist headline-writer ’ s doing , because the story itself indicates that the writer knows perfectly well what is going on : “ Take the red pill ” is a line from the popular 1999 movie “ The Matrix ” about seeking the unvarnished truth : “ You take the blue pill , the story ends , you wake up in your bed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You take the red pill , you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
” More recently , it ’ s been slang for people abandoning the ways of liberalism for the values of conservatism .
People of all ages and ethnicities posted online videos describing “ red pill moments ” — personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends , teachers , and the news and entertainment media .
Leftists of all stripes bellowed their displeasure about this tweet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industry people who created the original story .
After all , it ’ s their movie script line has become a rallying cry to “ join the conservatives ” even though that wasn ’ t their intention — and the analogy described by Fox is particularly interesting , given that Democratic standard-bearer Joe Biden wants everything to go back to the pre-Trump era ( except more leftish ) , which is perfectly analogous with the blue pill , while Musk himself is famous for enjoying deep dives into the unknown , same as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ definitely thought that tweet through before he posted it .
Andrea Widburg explores this brilliantly in a post today here .
And as the left yelled , Musk posted yet another one for them , doubling down on his original tweet , effectively saying he ’ s through with playing both sides of the political fence as a lot of businessmen , including himself , have done , red pill or bust .
Get a load : He ’ s done with the Democrats , through , this is the end , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an appropriate response , given that mighty “ f— you !
” he got from state Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez , expressing her glee at Musk ’ s threat to pull up stakes from blue California and take his Tesla operations to Texas .
While state and county officials rushed in to assuage him like a bunch of court flatterers after he defied their shutdown orders and ramped up his manufacturing operations in Fremont , California , Musk obviously hasn ’ t been assuaged .
His red pill endorsement was positively toxic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is why so much rage and appeasement has been going on around him .
He ’ s got 34 million followers .
He ’ s the emblem of the Obama new greenie economy — and now he ’ s going over to the Trumpside .
What do they have left after they lose him as their bright shiny bauble ?
As for Musk , he ’ s sick of Democratic actions as they happen on the ground , doing everything they can to put him out of business , and then screaming ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walk away .
Who wouldn ’ t see the clarity of the whole thing after that one ?
Of course he took the red pill ; the red pill is what it means to see clearly .
The hoggish Gonzalez might just have been the creature who handed it to him .
Now he ’ s driving off , taking not just car manufacturing to red-state Texas , but millions of people to red President Trump , too .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--The Virus Lockdown is a Colossal Blunder: ‘Undoubtedly the greatest marginalization of personal libe

The Virus Lockdown is a Colossal Blunder: ‘Undoubtedly the greatest marginalization of personal liberty in American history’

The Wuhan Virus pandemic is not the most significant crisis in our nation ’ s history .
It isn ’ t even the greatest public health crisis in our history .
But with the imposition of a near total national lockdown it is undoubtedly the greatest marginalization of personal liberty in American history .
Over the centuries , in virtually all societies , people known to be infected by various deadly diseases were confined and isolated in order to mitigate the spread and protect the rest of society .
Never have we confined the entire population ostensibly for the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , an ever-increasing percentage of the citizenry has been conditioned to look to the government to cure all societal and health related ills .
The ruling classes have eagerly promoted this mindset as it abets their lust for permanent power .
However , this obligates those in power to cure all ills , even a global pandemic .
Thus , it follows that the State will inevitably claim that in order to do so it must take control of our lives against our will even if we are healthy , lest we fall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Using exponentially flawed models and projections , not based on any actual evidence or experience with the virus , the government at all levels so terrified the populace that they eagerly embraced the concept of home confinement and the catastrophic collapse of the economy .
But one question that the powers-to-be never asked themselves at the time was : How do we get out of this ?
Now they find themselves trapped by their own decisions .
Recently , both the federal government and states have proposed various goals that must be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What is egregiously wrong with all these steps is that they are solely about health and arbitrary health related statistics .
Rather than look at the devastated economy as well as the unbelievable and potential life-threatening distress of the vast bulk of the American people , these politicians are hiding behind government scientist/bureaucrats , believing that focus on just Wuhan Virus statistics will shield them from criticism .
The national leadership of the Democrat party are also hiding behind the scientists to not only avoid criticism but to prolong the lockdown in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is still in shambles on November 3 , election day .
The reality is the decision to reopen the nation is a political decision , not a scientific one .
It all boils down to one simple question .
Has the lockdown been worth it ?
That depends only partly on science .
There are also three other factors that must go into that answer : 1 ) economic consequences , 2 ) constitutional values and 3 ) moral judgements .
First , the medical aspect .
The declared purpose of the lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a complete meltdown of available intensive care and hospital beds nationwide or in now common parlance “ bend the curve.
” At the height of the virus outbreak , the nation utilized less than 15 % of available hospital beds and less than 20 % of available intensive care beds for coronavirus patients .
This curve has been bent for some time .
Deaths from nursing and senior care facilities homes now account for more than 50 % of total recorded fatalities since the beginning of the epidemic .
In some states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Over the past three weeks nursing home related deaths account for nearly 70 % of reported fatalities .
As Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review recently wrote : This revelation should change everything we know about the current state of affairs with coronavirus .
Governors are still justifying the continued lockdown by pointing to rising deaths in many states and counties .
But it now appears , using simple arithmetic , that in most states , the overwhelming majority of deaths are in nursing homes , and in some states and counties , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ senior facility .
The implication is that there is no excuse whatsoever not to open up the country and throw all our resources at protecting nursing homes .
Numerous serology study results have been extrapolated to show when accounting for the true number of people who have gotten this virus , the infection fatality rate drops to 0.1 % to 0.3 % ( about the same as the annual flu ) .
A recent study at Truesdale Prison in Tennessee recorded that of 2,444 tests 1,299 were positive ( 53 % ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ showing no symptoms ) .
One inmate ( 67 years old ) has died or a fatality rate of 0.07 % .
Accounting for the fact that the deaths are lopsided among the elderly and chronically ill , the fatality rate among the younger population approaches 0.03 % .
This virus will never disappear unless and until there is enough exposure to produce a collective immunity or an effective vaccine , available to everyone in the world , is produced .
There is no scientific basis , centered on actual findings either in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for continuing for weeks or months any full or partial shutdown of the general population on either the national , state or local level .
Second , the economic consequences .
There has been the inevitable leftist decrying of any attempt to measure the mortality of the coronavirus against the economic and emotional cost of the chosen means of mitigating it .
But this is nothing but empty rhetoric as well as hypocritical .
All of us whether a tenured college professor and a grocery store clerk and a government bureaucrat and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon the economy to generate wealth .
Hundreds of thousands of businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy and permanent closure .
33+ million are unemployed , many are forced against their will to be dependent on government largess and the federal government is creating massive unsustainable debt in an attempt to keep the nation afloat .
A thriving economy , the kind we are now destroying , is the source of our security , the financing of our health care system and our children ’ s future .
Without it this nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exist .
While our leftist brothers may sneer at this reality , it should also be remembered that poverty kills as well .
And when it does not kill , it maims , mentally , physically and socially .
Third , the erosion of constitutional values .
What are the limits to the things that the State can legitimately do to a people living in a constitutional republic originally established on the basis of guaranteeing individual freedom ?
Lord Sumption , a former Supreme Court Judge in the United Kingdom , recently wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limits is the stuff of tyrants .
Every despot who ever lived thought that he was coercing his subjects for their own good or that of society .
We have to ask ourselves what kind of relationship we want with the State .
Do we really want to be the kind of society where basic freedoms are conditional on the decisions of politicians in thrall to scientists and statisticians ?
Where human beings are just tools of public policy ?
A society in which Government can confine most of the population without controversy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would want to live , regardless of their [ politicians ] answer to ” Is it worth it ?
My own answer is no .
Guidance is fine .
Voluntary self-isolation is fine , and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable .
Most of them will do it by choice .
But coercion is not fine .
There is no moral or principled justification for it .
Lastly , on moral judgement .
However valuable saving every life may be , it is not the only valuable thing to a society .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be saved and the others lost in a massive national shutdown .
Which includes those unable to access other lifesaving medical procedures , as many states effectively shut down hospitals and medical practices in order to theoretically mitigate the coronavirus epidemic .
Thus , it is empty rhetoric to regurgitate the talking point that every life is priceless whenever the subject of reopening the country is raised .
These catch phrases are emotionally satisfying , but those that mouth them do not actually believe them , as many who fall back on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to and at birth .
Societies and people make life altering choices all the time , be it going to war to protect the country , commuting two hours a day to work on crowded highways , travel by air , or working in a coal mine .
These decisions are made as mankind is fully aware that there is more to life than the avoidance of death .
The answer to the question , “ Was the lockdown worth it ?
” is a resounding no .
Ordering the citizenry to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for walking on an empty beach , and mandating small businesses close up shop regardless of their hygienic procedures has never , in the history of mankind , been demonstrated to be effective in combating any infectious disease .
In summary , lockdowns do not work .
It was common knowledge by early March , based on the experience in Italy , South Korea and other nations , that this virus was problematic for the elderly with serious underlying conditions .
( In Italy 85 % of deaths have been among those over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than focus and expend all available resources on that portion of the population , this nation decided , based on bogus science , to institute a state optioned complete or partial lockdown leaving that segment of society to essentially fend for itself — with disastrous consequences .
All the while decimating the economy , people ’ s livelihoods and marginalizing freedom of speech , religion , and assembly .
This nation has made the biggest blunder in its history .
The time has come for the politicians from the President to the Governors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientist/bureaucrats and fully reopen the nation .
Focus on that segment of the population most at risk , without compulsory isolation or de facto imprisonment .
And restore the civil liberties that have been wantonly eroded .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--The Scientism Virus: ‘Scientists have become the collective witch doctors of contemporary society’

The perception that science is an “ objective and verifiable ” approach to knowledge , free of bias and beholden to no philosophy is flawed .
That scientists have a firm grip on the physical world is not in dispute .
But just what it is they are grasping remains unknown , given the necessity of reducing everything to quantifiable data that must fit the given frame of reference .
Tailoring data to suit a given aim has a nasty way of endowing nonscientific agendas with false “ authenticity.
” This is how evolution theory becomes evolution fact , how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” how theology becomes an asset of politicians… the list of abuses of science to gain advantage and control is long .
It is not that science needs to be put down , but that science not be deified or endowed with an authority it can not possess , a too common belief among the technocrats and academics of our day .
Scientific activity that improves the human condition will always be welcome , and in that capacity may be regarded as “ authoritative.
” But scientific activity that feeds the will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beings is a corruption of the role of science and , need it be said , dishonest .
The abuse of science for nonscientific ends is a quick definition of scientism .
The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives this definition of scientism : “ an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation ( as in philosophy , the social sciences , and the humanities ) .
” We need to let science be science – a mode of acquiring knowledge that allows the world to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind .
The operative word “ human ” in this context stands to convict leaders and rulers who engage in “ science ” to lord over people .
That science must remain a tool of knowledge is a truism that got lost during the Enlightenment and is headed for replacement as a tool of power .
Lest we be carried away like the Sorcerer ’ s Apprentice , it must be understood that truly intelligent action toward human progress is grounded in what it means to be human , which is quite out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few can see it , scientists have become the collective witch doctors of contemporary society .
They have spooked the public with a dazzling array of amazing feats that would indicate an infinite power to play with the world and alter our lives .
This overlooks the fact that the world has also been profoundly altered by nonscientists like Confucius , Plato , Christ , the originators of our musical scale , Michelangelo , Gandhi , Hitler , Marx .
It is not easy for a proud species like ours to admit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world , including Homo sapiens , is at root unknowable in perfectly rational terms .
Putting the entire world into a single container may yield consistent , logical , even useful models of the world .
But is such a forced projection of the world the real world ?
More important , is it a world fit for human habitation ?
During my boyhood explorations of the American Museum of Natural History , I was enthralled by an ivory figurine in the Drummond Collection of a monkey holding a baby of its own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it through a lens in the other hand .
It hit me at once that the joke was on us .
I saw this as a metaphor for the mind that probes too far past wonder , too far beyond the need to adapt to reality , so as to lord over its own species .
The mind that starts its approach to reality by assuming that only science qualifies for the job sets a major obstacle in its way .
A world image consisting solely of what science can see keeps eluding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and methods grow in sophistication .
It is not that science is lifting more and more of the veil from the facts of the universe , but that science is constantly reshaping what it examines to accommodate its current understanding and mode of research .
That this way of learning about the world is extremely useful is beyond dispute .
But that it is the only or the best way ignores the vastness of human experience .
Belief that science is solver of all problems and instrument for all that is best is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with real science .
The late John Silber , a former president of Boston University , warned : “ Scientific programs that are powerfully effective in understanding and controlling largely isolated data in such fields as physics , have been applied crudely , reductively , and disastrously in the humanities and social sciences .
Discipline after discipline has succumbed to the dogma that only the quantifiable is true.
” [ i ] There are questions that need to be asked .
Does the public know that the real nature of the world has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for over a century ?
Do they know that the idea that science can be “ settled ” is nonsense ?
Do they know that the notion that science is “ the last word on everything ” is unscientific – that “ an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation ( as in philosophy , the social sciences , and the humanities ) ” is a definition of scientism [ Merriam-Webster dictionary ] ?
It is this exaggerated trust in the effectiveness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ program unrealistic futures for the inhabitants of Earth .
Can they really be that smart – or have they lost their minds and don ’ t know it ?
The quest for true knowledge is incompatible with scientism , a stance that leads to the formation of cults parading as “ science.
” When skepticism , wonder and exploration – assets of real science – give way to political pressure , science ceases to serve humanity .
[ i ] From correspondence I had with John Silber in 1989 .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--‘The Danger of Letting Lab Coats Run the World’ – ‘World’s leaders were stampeded over the lockdown

‘The Danger of Letting Lab Coats Run the World’ – ‘World’s leaders were stampeded over the lockdown cliff like so many lemmings’

`` How much of a lemming was President Trump ?
Or the state governors ?
All of them were , to one degree or another .
Thus , we were plunged into the grandest of experiments in authoritarian paternalism , whereby we plebeians — i.e.
, those without government jobs — are deemed incompetent to judge if it 's safe to take a dip in the ocean or a walk in the woods .
We can , though , crowd into a Walmart or the local supermarke t. '' '' It should be clear by now that most of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown cliff like so many lemmings .
What caused the stampede is even more remarkable : a tiny coterie of obscure , soft-spoken epidemiologists in white lab coats playing with numbers ... the aim was to cause panic . ''
It should be clear by now that most of the world ’ s leaders were stampeded over the lockdown cliff like so many lemmings .
What caused the stampede is even more remarkable : a tiny coterie of obscure , soft-spoken epidemiologists in white lab coats playing with numbers .
Americans trying to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new developments over the past few months have been hearing about that work — the data-modeling these people do by feeding selected data and a variety of assumptions into a computer .
The computer then disgorges diagrams and charts that attempt to describe the future progress of diseases like COVID-19 .
The most frequently cited COVID-19 modelers are those at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ( IHME ) at the University of Washington and similar organizations at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Imperial College in London .
Imperial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this tiny constellation emerged .
He is Dr. Neil Ferguson , director of the Centre for Global Infections Disease Analysis at the college .
Until a little sex scandal sidelined him just recently ( delicious story for another day ) , he was also a key member of the group that has been directing the British government ’ s response to the coronavirus .
For that work , the thin , pale , bespectacled 52-year-old has been given a shorter title : Professor Lockdown .
The title is well deserved .
Mid-March saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , starting on March 11 with the World Health Organization ’ s official designation of the coronavirus as a pandemic .
At that point , the spread of the disease was obviously already global , with new cases popping up everywhere .
Frightening headlines filled newspaper pages and TV screens daily and hourly .
Nine states in the U.S. , the first being California on March 19 , started issuing statewide shutdown orders .
Boris Johnson ’ s government did the same for the entire U.K. ( There ’ s been no nationwide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coordinating with the governors on their responses and enlisting help from the private sector . )
The most frightening headlines of all were kicked off by Ferguson ’ s authorship of a report issued on March 16 .
Here ’ s the key paragraph , abbreviated , with emphasis added : Those lines went a long way toward spooking all but a handful of other states in the U.S. to join the lockdown parade .
But note the word “ unlikely ” in parentheses .
That any society in the face of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not just unlikely .
It was a ridiculous assumption to make , as was the assumption that there would be no change in people ’ s behavior .
They were great assumptions , however , if the aim was to cause panic .
What , we may ask , was Ferguson ’ s record on prognostications on epidemics prior to COVID-19 ?
Not so good , according to Brendan O ’ Neil , a British journalist and editor of the online journal Spike .
O ’ Neil writes : To this , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science reporter , James Ball , who raised other questions about the soundness of Ferguson ’ s research process .
As he writes in the Spectator : In a fairly unusual break from best practice , Ferguson did not release the code on which his model runs ( and has run in various forms for several years ) , saying it was largely undocumented and would make little sense to outsiders .
This is poor practice for multiple reasons , not least of which being that replicating another ’ s work is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to check workings .
It ’ s also well known among programmers and scientists alike that most code eventually contains errors and idiosyncrasies , for which we must remain constantly vigilant .
Far , far simpler models than Ferguson ’ s have ended up containing huge errors that have drastically altered their conclusions .
However that may be , the only thing the American public heard was that more than two million Americans might be dead in three months .
Recall , by the way , that on January 29 , which was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case in the U.S. and two days before President Trump issued his ban on travelers from China , the president announced that he was forming his Coronavirus Task Force .
But it would be almost March before the Task Force got into high gear .
It turned out to be quite a bull-riding test for Trump — being bucked by a frightened public over the looming apocalypse portrayed by the media and by the unfolding economic catastrophe he knew could not continue .
How much of a lemming was President Trump ?
Or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were , to one degree or another .
Thus , we were plunged into the grandest of experiments in authoritarian paternalism , whereby we plebeians — i.e.
, those without government jobs — are deemed incompetent to judge if it ’ s safe to take a dip in the ocean or a walk in the woods .
We can , though , crowd into a Walmart or the local supermarket .
Soon , however , the president saw the cliff ahead and started pushing against the lockdown express .
It took some delicate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever gave to the 2.2 million number , he cannily co-opted it for his political purposes , using it to boast that his administration ’ s actions have prevented such horrific numbers from becoming reality .
Ferguson has conceded a bit to his critics , but he also proudly noted that his 2.2 million number had the effect of pushing policymakers into the lockdowns he believed necessary .
But Ferguson and his fellow experts might have done well to appreciate what the 19th-century economist Frédéric Bastiat meant when wrote that the prescriber of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that which is seen , but also that which is not seen .
What is not seen , as Victor Davis Hanson notes , is “ the likely larger human toll from suicides , family and substance abuse , lapsed medical procedures and tests , and wrecked businesses and lives from the lockdown.
” Statistics , for example , from the Centers for Disease Control on May 8 indicate that vaccination against childhood measles has declined by as much as 60 percent nationally since the states started ordering the lockdowns .
Then there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United Nations policy brief on April 15 : “ Economic hardship experienced by families as a result of the global economic downturn could result in hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020 , reversing the last 2 to 3 years of progress in reducing infant mortality within a single year.
” Let ’ s sum up with a brutal truth coming from another British commentator , Toby Young , who writes that Ferguson “ suffers from the same fundamental arrogance that progressive interventionists have exhibited since at least the middle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good that governments can do , assuming there are no limits to what ‘ science ’ can achieve and , at the same time , ignoring the empirical evidence that their ambitious public programmes are a complete disaster.
” Great lesson if we can learn from it .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Fear kills: ‘The media’s deranged fearmongering over Covid-19 has had terrible consequences’

The media in this country have no shame .
For two months they ’ ve been ramping up fear and hysteria over Covid-19 .
They predicted apocalypse .
They reported the daily death tolls like gleeful grim reapers .
They said hospitals would be overwhelmed .
They interviewed doctor after doctor and nurse after nurse who told us in tearful tones that the health service was at breaking point .
They painted a picture of a nation falling apart , of a plague visiting death upon every community , of institutions collapsing under the sheer weight of this mini Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that , after pumping out 24-hour rolling doom for weeks on end , they have the gall to wonder why so many people have been too scared to visit a hospital during the pandemic .
And why there has been a huge number of excess deaths from treatable ailments other than Covid-19 .
And why there was a policy of ‘ Protecting the NHS ’ at all costs from the coming viral calamity that involved sending even infected elderly people away from hospitals and back to care homes .
‘ How could this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To which our response should be : because of you .
Because you played a central role in spreading dread and terror about Covid-19 and this encouraged some people , and officialdom itself , to behave in unwise ways .
The shamelessness of the media ’ s sudden alarm at the consequences of a culture of fear they helped to nurture was clear on Channel 4 News last night .
They were reporting on new concerns about ‘ collateral damage ’ from the Covid crisis , including the fact that far fewer people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and health services in general , and that this now seems to have caused numerous unnecessary deaths .
( This isn ’ t actually a new concern , of course .
spiked reported on it a month ago , in mid-April . )
As part of its report , Channel 4 News interviewed a poorly , 95-year-old woman who said she is too scared to visit a hospital .
She said that , ‘ like everyone ’ , she is terrified of coronavirus .
The reporter looked startled and concerned .
There will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some point in the future as to why even ill people avoided health services during the pandemic , she said .
Let ’ s not wait until the future .
Let ’ s talk about it now .
The media , including you , Channel 4 News , fed us ceaseless horror stories from hospitals , and tales of doom about the wiping out of the elderly , and grim predictions of hundreds of thousands of deaths .
So that 95-year-old lady ’ s reluctance to visit a hospital actually makes sense , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for her health if she were to take a turn for the worse .
For media outlets that stirred up terror about Covid-19 now to say ‘ Oh dear , some people are so terrified of Covid-19 that they ’ re not visiting hospitals ’ represents temerity of industrial proportions .
Channel 4 News ’ report was based on the revelation of an unprecedented fall in visits to A & E .
Last month , visits to A & E fell by 57 per cent , hitting a record low .
Meanwhile , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the ‘ staggering number ’ of deaths in the community over the past two months can not be explained by Covid alone .
‘ Only a third of the excess deaths seen in the community in England and Wales can be explained by Covid-19 ’ , the BMJ says .
Care homes and other community settings have had to deal with the ‘ staggering burden ’ of 30,000 more deaths than would normally occur at this time of the year , but of those , ‘ only 10,000 had Covid-19 specified on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , some of the other 20,000 deaths will have been Covid-related too , but just not recorded as such , for whatever reason .
But many of them will have been deaths among people who would otherwise have lived if they had easy , normal access to health services – if , as one expert puts it , ‘ they had managed to get to a hospital ’ .
As I wrote on spiked last month , there is widespread concern among health officials and experts that the reorientation of the NHS around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other forms of health treatment , and the relentless , doom-laden message that we must ‘ Protect the NHS ’ from catastrophe by steering clear of it , is raising the number of deaths from heart attack , stroke , acute appendicitis and other treatable problems among people who believe hospitals have become no-go zones .
Much health treatment is either being suspended or simply spurned by members of the public too fearful to visit a doctor .
Some cancer treatments are being put on hold , raising concerns that many new cancers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The media are reporting that during lockdown the number of children receiving the measles , mumps and rubella vaccine has fallen by a quarter .
A & E chiefs have noted a ‘ sharp rise in the number of seriously ill people dying at home ’ , partly because they are fearful about calling upon the apparently stressed-out , apocalyptic institutions that our hospitals have become since the Covid calamity gripped the nation .
Only , hospitals haven ’ t become like that .
Some are only half-full .
Hospitals in Scotland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Scottish interim chief medical officer , Gregor Smith .
That message of ‘ Protect the NHS ’ has been too successful .
The NHS has been well and truly protected – from very ill people who need its services as a matter of life and death .
Everyone who contributed to the climate of hysteria around Covid-19 needs to take a long , hard look in the mirror .
It isn ’ t only the media , of course .
Officialdom dealt in dread , too .
As government adviser Professor Robert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effectively terrorised ’ the population into believing coronavirus would kill us .
This fear had consequences .
Serious ones .
Consider , also , the care-homes crisis .
Once again , the media are only now discovering that there was an actual policy of sending sick elderly people , even those who tested positive for coronavirus , away from hospitals and back to care homes .
As a result , Covid hit many care homes very hard indeed .
This also isn ’ t new .
Fraser Myers reported on it for spiked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care-homes crisis is a product of a top-down fear-fuelled belief that hospitals would be overwhelmed by Covid patients , and of the media ’ s myopic obsession with shutting down the whole of society , which constantly drew attention away from those who were most at risk : the elderly and the vulnerable .
It is a bit much to have to listen to Piers Morgan shout about the care-homes crisis now , when it was Covid hysterics like him who relentlessly dragged the public gaze away from what should have been the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ favour of whipping up dread about the population in general and disgust against people sitting on park benches for five minutes .
The media can not now get away with stirring up rage about developments – excess deaths , fear of hospitals , the care-homes crisis – that their initial rage unwittingly contributed to .
Fear kills .
That ’ s the lesson we must take from all of this .
Roosevelt was right : we have nothing to fear but fear itself .
Apocalypticism makes reasoned thinking more difficult , and sensible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we come out the other side of Covid-19 , we need a serious reckoning with the culture of fear before it destroys any more lives .
Brendan O ’ Neill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast , The Brendan O ’ Neill Show .
Subscribe to the podcast here .
And find Brendan on Instagram : @ burntoakboy


climatedepot--2020-05-18--CNN features Greta Thunberg as COVID-19 expert – Greta urges ‘listen to scientists & experts’

CNN reports : `` People are starting to realize that we are actually depending on science and that we need to listen to scientists and experts . ''
-Teen activist Greta Thunberg on how people are reacting to science and what that means for the climate crisis .
The money will be used by UNICEF ’ s coronavirus emergency programs to provide supplies like soap , masks , hygiene kits and gloves , she explained .
“ We ’ re talking about washing our hands and staying home but for many people in the world , they do not have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to soap , ” she said .
“ They may not even have a house to stay home in.
” “ That ’ s why we need to help the people who are most vulnerable to this crisis in ways that we might not think about in the global north , ” she added .
Despite sounding the alarm over the virus , Thunberg said she does see a silver lining to all this .
“ People are starting to realize that we are actually depending on science and that we need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And I really hope that stays , ” she said , adding that she hopes it will apply to other crises “ such as the climate crisis and the environmental crisis .
”


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Physicist: Why Both Coronavirus and Climate Models Get It Wrong

Most coronavirus epidemiological models have been an utter failure in providing advance information on the spread and containment of the insidious virus .
Computer climate models are no better , with a dismal track record in predicting the future .
This post compares the similarities and differences of the two types of model .
But similarities and differences aside , the models are still just that – models .
Although I remarked in an earlier post that epidemiological models are much simpler than climate models , this doesn ’ t mean they ’ re any more accurate .
Both epidemiological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they should , with what ’ s known .
In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic the knowns include data on the progression of past flu epidemics , and demographics such as population size , age distribution , social contact patterns and school attendance .
Among the knowns for climate models are present-day weather conditions , the global distribution of land and ice , atmospheric and ocean currents , and concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere .
But the major weakness of both types of model is that numerous assumptions must be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not known .
Coronavirus and climate models have little in common with the models used to design computer chips , or to simulate nuclear explosions as an alternative to actual testing of atomic bombs .
In both these instances , the underlying science is understood so thoroughly that speculative assumptions in the models are unnecessary .
Epidemiological and climate models cope with the unknowns by creating simplified pictures of reality involving approximations .
Approximations in the models take the form of adjustable numerical parameters , often derisively termed “ fudge factors ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mathematician John von Neumann once said , “ With four [ adjustable ] parameters I can fit an elephant , and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
” One of the most important approximations in coronavirus models is the basic reproduction number R0 ( “ R naught ” ) , which measures contagiousness .
The numerical value of R0 signifies the number of other people that an infected individual can spread the disease to .
As shown in the figure below , R0 for COVID-19 is thought to be in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much higher than for a typical flu at about 1.3 , though less than values for other infectious diseases such as measles .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Climate Change, The WHO, And An Epidemic Of Lies

The health establishment was looking away when the coronavirus struck ; it had other priorities .
If you look at the World Health Organization ’ s list of health threats , number one is climate change .
Pandemics were down in third place , behind ‘ non-communicable diseases ’ such as diabetes and obesity .
Wherever you look , you will find some of the biggest names in the public health establishment declaiming on the risks of climate change to world health .
On the eve of the outbreak , the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene declared that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , emerging infectious diseases such as dengue and a shortage of food.
’ As the first people fell ill in Wuhan , the WHO announced that in ten years we would be seeing 250,000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition , malaria , diarrhea , and heat stress as a result of global warming .
Epidemiologist Professor Andy Haines told readers of the Telegraph that ‘ climate change is a threat to global and national security that is costing lives and livelihoods right now ’ .
Haines has made a career out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to bring about a public health disaster .
As part of this effort , he was instrumental in setting up the Lancet Countdown , a coalition of 35 universities and UN agencies that produces a report to keep these ideas in the public eye .
In 2018 , it said unequivocally that climate change ‘ the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.
’ In current circumstances , this claim looks rather foolish , but a new forensic review of the Countdown suggests that it is actually worse than that .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indur Goklany ’ s The Lancet Countdown on Climate Change : The need for context , published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation , without concluding that the Countdown ’ s authors didn ’ t set out to tell the whole story .
For example , Goklany observes that the Countdown ’ s Executive Summary makes a lot of vague insinuations that climate is causing serious public health problems .
It says there are ‘ downward trends in global yield potential for all major crops ’ and that ‘ trends in climate suitability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Apparently ‘ the number of days suitable for Vibrio ( a pathogen responsible for part of the burden of diarrhoeal disease ) has doubled ’ and ‘ families and livelihoods are put at risk from increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather conditions.
’ If that weren ’ t bad enough , ‘ 77 percent of countries experienced an increase in daily population exposure to wildfires.
’ But when you look at the dataset used by the Countdown , you uncover a very different story , and one that is unequivocal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is now less than half the level it was in 1990 when the dataset starts .
This is nothing less than a public-health triumph .
The improvement is seen pretty much across the board , but diseases of the gut ( ‘ enteric infections ’ in the jargon ) are a good example .
The data shows that mortality from these conditions has more than halved over the last 30 years .
But the only mention in the Countdown ’ s executive summary is that dark warning about the ‘ number of days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And what do they mean by ‘ a number of days suitable for ’ anyway ?
This is a trick that is employed repeatedly in the report , namely the use of ‘ proxy ’ measures when perfectly good real measures are available .
So when considering hunger , the Countdown ignores crop yields , preferring to talk about falls in ‘ global yield potential ’ .
In other words , we are being told a tale about what a mathematical model tells us about food availability .
But why would anyone use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real-world data available ?
Suffice it to say that food is plentiful , yields continue to rise , and hunger is almost a thing of the past outside war zones and egalitarian paradises such as North Korea and Venezuela .
We are not just winning the battle against enteric diseases and hunger .
Another good example is tropical diseases , where mortality has fallen dramatically too .
So once again , the Countdown resorts to a proxy measure , ‘ suitability for disease transmission , ’ as well as adopting a Nelsonian focus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which has worsened .
The executive summary fails to mention malaria at all , despite the fact that it is a much bigger killer than dengue , and despite the fact , this is another healthcare war we are winning , with mortality down between 30 percent and 67 percent in various regions of sub-Saharan Africa .
It ’ s a sorry tale , and an indication of how far the vast sums of money that are available for climate change research are distorting public health research priorities , just as they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look at the destruction wrought by the pandemic , it ’ s hard not to wonder if people in the field should have spent less time poring over dubious , unvalidated mathematical models about the spread of malaria and more about whether we had the wherewithal to respond to a major pandemic .


climatedepot--2020-05-18--Vice Mag: ‘People of Color Experience Climate Grief More Deeply Than White People’ – ‘Disproportiona

Vice Mag: ‘People of Color Experience Climate Grief More Deeply Than White People’ – ‘Disproportionately affected by the climate crisis’ & ‘carry a pain that comes from a long history of racial terror’

VICE MAG : `` Climate grief , a psychological phenomenon that affects Black and Indigenous peoples , and other people of color , in uniquely devastating ways ... Black and Indigenous peoples , to bear the brunt of global disaster . ''
... `` We carry the pain of the climate crisis deep inside us ... Our grief—and our anger—is rooted in centuries of painful history , and the current ecological violence hurled at our communities . ''
... “ Just like other stressors that people of color experience , ecological grief is often magnified , ” said Dr. Tyffani @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
... `` Research has bolstered the idea that white supremacy has led to the climate crisis . ''
... `` Hope is such a white concept . ''
Hope is “ such a white concept , ” Heglar said .
“ You ’ re supposed to have the courage first , then you have the action , then you have the hope .
But white people put hope at the front .
Their insistence on hope for all of these years has led to exactly where ?
Nowhere.
” ‘ White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Africa – ‘ Even the white man ’ s own science corroborates what we blacks know ’ Vice Mag : People of Color Experience Climate Grief More Deeply Than White People We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis , but we carry a pain that comes from a long history of racial terror .
When the wildfires hit Australia last year , Bee Cruse was horrified at the sight of the red sky , the black ash falling like snow , and the smoke choking the whole East Coast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the British genocide against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people like her , and the tearing of them from country and their traditional ways of land management .
In an article for Vox , Cruse , a Wiradjuri , Gomeroi , and Monaroo-Yuin storyteller , told me , “ We see and feel the spirit of our animals and our land ; they are our ancestor spirits .
We don ’ t own country , country owns us ; we come from her to protect her .
When country hurts , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spirit cousins , cry , we cry.
” What Cruse was describing was climate grief , a psychological phenomenon that affects Black and Indigenous peoples , and other people of color , in uniquely devastating ways .
Just as we are seeing with the COVID-19 outbreak , environmental racism forces people of color , especially Black and Indigenous peoples , to bear the brunt of global disaster .
We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis—breathing in more pollution , living in communities with higher temperatures , suffering from more medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and being displaced at much higher rates—but we carry the pain of the climate crisis deep inside us .
In its 2014 report , Beyond Storms & Droughts : The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change , the American Psychological Association ( APA ) found that the climate crisis was affecting human mental health across the globe .
Anyone can experience climate grief , regardless of their identity .
But for us , our grief—and our anger—is rooted in centuries of painful history , and the current ecological violence hurled at our communities .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of color experience , ecological grief is often magnified , ” said Dr. Tyffani Dent , a licensed psychologist and author , in an interview .
“ People of color know…society is going to make sure we ’ re impacted first , and impacted the hardest , ” Dent said .
The climate crisis is linked to our oppression Xiye Bastida , a youth climate activist , a member of the Indigenous Mexican Otomi-Toltec nation , and an organizer of Fridays for Future , says that her climate grief is deeply tied to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indigenous peoples , you could argue that the history of our oppression is the story of the Anthropocene itself—the current geological age defined by the dominant influence that human activity has had on mass extinction , climate , and the environment .
Without colonization , the trans-Atlantic slave trade , and the genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples around the world , we likely would be living in a different reality .
Research has bolstered the idea that white supremacy has led to the climate crisis .
Scientists from University College London found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ colonization of the Americas in the 15th century permanently altered Earth ’ s climate , due to “ a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land ” that “ pulled down enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to eventually chill the planet.
” Ravenous for the mass production of lucrative commodities such as salt , cotton , and sugar , the slavemasters and colonists stripped the land in what ’ s now known as Canada and the United States , the Caribbean , and South America , murdering countless Africans and Indigenous peoples along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of indescribable racial terror informs the climate grief of our people .
Bastida , whose hometown in Mexico experienced a devastating flood , knows how these tears can move us to action .
“ Because Black , Indigenous , and brown communities are the most affected , it is indicative of not only more grief , but also more action .
My personal climate grief was addressed when I started being an activist , having a purpose , ( saying ) ‘ I ’ m not gon na let this happen.
’ ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white-led climate community leans on the idea of hope , which can lead to inaction .
Hope is “ such a white concept , ” Heglar said .
“ You ’ re supposed to have the courage first , then you have the action , then you have the hope .
But white people put hope at the front .
Their insistence on hope for all of these years has led to exactly where ?
Nowhere.
” “ There ’ s a certain loneliness that comes with being a climate person , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s an extra layer of loneliness that comes with being a climate person of color , because you ’ re just stuck in this perpetual position of trying to save white people from themselves .
And it ’ s so fucking exhausting.
” But for Heglar , that feeling has been relieved somewhat by finding ways to help one another heal .
“ In 2019 , people of color really took up space in the climate movement in a way that had never been done before ; we made our presence known .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) feel a lot less lonely , ” she said .
People of color are connected by historical trauma .
And when we come together and share our experiences , we can help reshape this world into something new .
As Kritee said , “ We are part of a river of grief .
And we are never alone.
” Nylah Burton is a writer based in Washington D.C. , who covers mental health , climate , and race .
Follow her on Twitter .


climatedepot--2020-05-19--Paul Ehrlich on COVID: ‘We desperately need a national shutdown, and ordered from the top’ – Also ad

Paul Ehrlich on COVID: ‘We desperately need a national shutdown, and ordered from the top’ – Also admits it was ‘mistake’ to put in ‘scenarios’ (predictions) in his ‘Population Bomb’ book

`` If you think the health problems of this virus pandemic are serious .
They are nothing , absolutely nothing , compared to the health threat of climate change .
There is no chance as far as we can tell that this particular coronavirus will kill everybody , but climate disruption can kill everybody .
And we have very little time to act .
And instead of acting in the right direction , this moronic imbecile ( Trump ) is working very hard to kill Americans and other human beings in the future for his personal gain and profit .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a chance in hell that we will get the changes we need to keep civilization going .
I hate to tell you that .
But I do n't see any sign .
I ca n't be optimistic . ''
- `` I had great hopes I would die before the collapse really got going , but I missed .
The smartest thing I ever did was to be born in 1932 . ''
Ehrlich : `` Even people as smart as Obama wo n't say we have too many people , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on his book : `` The worst mistake we made was to put in scenarios .
which are little stories to help you think about the future .
But every reviewer treated them as if they were predictions .
And I would not do that again . ''
Paul Ehrlich : `` I do n't know a single person , virologist , epidemiologist on -- I know a lot of them -- I trust them all .
Everybody says the same thing .
We desperately need a national shutdown , and ordered from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book , The Population Bomb ( 49 : 00 min ) Ehrlich : “ People seem to think that a scientist always believes exactly what he or she said 50 years before .
And that , of course , isn ’ t true .
There are a lot of things I would do differently.
” … “ The worst mistake we made was to put in scenarios .
which are little stories to help you think about the future .
But every reviewer treated them as if they were predictions .
And I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall the book did what [ the Sierra club asked us to do it ] hoped it would do , it brought the population movement into the environmental movement when it was more or less starting up big time after Rachel Carson.
” 5420 : Ehrlich : “ Even people as smart as Obama won ’ t say we have too many people , we are growing too fast.
” Question : What will it take for people to actually have the courage say something about it .
Ehrlich : “ You want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think there is a chance in hell that we will get the changes we need to keep civilization going .
I hate to tell you that .
But I don ’ t see any sign .
I can ’ t be optimistic.
” Societal Collapse is inevitable : 57:30 : Ehrlich : “ I had great hopes I would die before the collapse really got going , but I missed .
The smartest thing I ever did was to be born in 1932.
” … “ My daughter lives near Washington DC and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeing her again are very , very small .
I don ’ t think that in my lifetime I will want to fly on a commercial airliner .
My lifetime being 32 minutes or something at the moment .
But Remember , I am a notorious pessimist.
” On COVID Lockdowns : 40:30 Ehrlich : “ In the short term , in the situation that we have gotten ourselves into .
I don ’ t know a single person , virologist , epidemiologist on — I know a lot of them — I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same thing .
We desperately need a national shutdown , and ordered from the top.
” … “ If you think the health problems of this virus pandemic are serious .
They are nothing , absolutely nothing , compared to the health threat of climate change .
There is no chance as far as we can tell that this particular coronavirus will kill everybody , but climate disruption can kill everybody .
And we have very little time to act .
And instead of acting in the right direction , this moronic imbecile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to kill Americans and other human beings in the future for his personal gain and profit .
”


climatedepot--2020-05-19--Overpopulation guru Paul Ehrlich still ginning up fear at age 87: ‘It’s insane to have so many peopl

Overpopulation guru Paul Ehrlich still ginning up fear at age 87: ‘It’s insane to have so many people alive at the same time’ – Claims: ‘Trump’s got a lot of blood on his hands’

Paul Ehrlich : `` It ’ s insane to have so many people alive at the same time . ''
...
It turns out , if you want to have a maximum number of people live , the way to do it isn ’ t to see how many can cram on the planet at one time .
The way to do it is to have a sustainable society , millions , but not many billions , for thousands , or millions , of years . ''
... `` The problem is not so much making automobiles more efficient , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the automobiles . ''
`` The health threat from the COVID-19 virus is trivial , compared to the health threat from climate disruption . ''
`` Trump ’ s got a lot of blood on his hands already , but that ’ s nothing , we could lose everybody to climate disruption . ''
`` When you ask what we should be doing , the answer is : we ’ ve got to change the entire system . ''
Also see : Paul Ehrlich on COVID : ‘ We desperately need a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ top ’ – Also admits it was ‘ mistake ’ to put in ‘ scenarios ’ ( predictions ) in his ‘ Population Bomb ’ book & Reality Check : Accurate Tribute to Paul Ehrlich : ‘ Mad…Kook…Lunatic…Disgraced…Worse than Hitler…fear-monger…parasite on Academic system…Bernie Madoff of science ’ A Conversation with Paul Ehrlich “ COVID , Climate Change and Cherished Colleagues ” May 2020 Paul Ehrlich : First of all , one of the most ignored factors , certainly the most ignored major factor in the existential threats to our civilization is the size @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s growth .
From the footprint analysis , and so on , we ’ re already something like 50 % over what could be sustained in the long run , in terms of human population .
And nowhere is the population factor in our problems more obvious , than in the epidemiological department , in the area of emerging diseases .
Most of our infectious diseases all come from other animals .
The larger the human population , the greater the chance of a disease of other animals getting into our population .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because the more people you have , the more you push people into the habitats of other animals , and that makes the chances of a transfer being higher .
The more people you have , the more you tend to have large numbers of malnourished people .
For example , current estimates are , there ’ s something like two billion human beings , who have micronutrient malnourishment , which makes them immune compromised , which makes them then receptors , good receivers for animal diseases .
When people say , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to deny millions of people the chance to live by limiting the size of our population , ” well it turns out , if you want to have a maximum number of people live , the way to do it isn ’ t to see how many can cram on the planet at one time .
The way to do it is to have a sustainable society , millions , but not many billions , for thousands , or millions , of years .
So the science of the human population : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no epidemic diseases , because if a disease got into a group , they all died , or became immune , and that was the end of it .
They were not going to be flying in jets to other parts of the world .
Now , you have almost eight billion human beings , all genetically very similar , and it ’ s a wonderful target for a virus , or a bacteria .
And we ’ ve added to that gigantic amounts of biomass in cattle and chickens .
Chickens are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highest biomass of birds on the planet .
And so with our domestic animals , and huge numbers of chickens , pigs , ducks in China , again , you have a population-related generator of viruses .
When you ask what we should be doing , the answer is : we ’ ve got to change the entire system .
People don ’ t want to hear that , but for instance , there ’ s a lot of fuss in the US right now , because Trump is reducing the café standards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his friends in petroleum and the fossil fuel industry can make more money .
And the answer is , of course , the problem is not so much making automobiles more efficient , it ’ s getting rid of most of the automobiles .
It ’ s not just the carbon dioxide you get out of cars , you get air pollution from the rubber rolling on the road , you get huge amounts of environmental destruction trying to mine the metals and all the things that go into automobiles , the cost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an insane way to move people around , and it ’ s insane to have so many people alive at the same time .
The health threat from the COVID-19 virus is trivial , compared to the health threat from climate disruption .
In other words , yeah , we ’ re going to lose millions of people , particularly with people like Trump in charge , Trump ’ s got a lot of blood on his hands already , but that ’ s nothing , we could lose everybody to climate disruption @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Certainly , civilization will go down the drain , if we don ’ t do anything about it , and it is possible that it will lead to the extinction of homosapiens , although not likely .
German Climate Advisor Hans Schellnhuber : Carrying Capacity Of The Planet Is Less Than A Billion – According to the New York Times , Schellnhuber also said at a plenary session at the international climate change conference in Copenhagen ( emphasis added ) : “ In a very cynical way , it ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have stabilized something –- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet , namely below 1 billion people.
” Accurate Tribute to Paul Ehrlich : ‘ Mad…Kook…Lunatic…Disgraced…Worse than Hitler…fear-monger…parasite on Academic system…Bernie Madoff of science ’ 1972 Article Unearthed : ‘ Worse than Hitler ’ : ‘ Population Bomb ’ author Paul Ehrlich suggested adding a forced sterilization agent to ‘ staple food ’ and ‘ water supply ’ – Warned of ‘ Unpredictable climatic effects ’ — Called on U.S. to ‘ de-develop ’ – Feb. 19 , 2010 Physicist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : ‘ A kook , a lunatic obsessed with doomsdays , and a parasite on the Academic system…career built on making absolutely preposterous statements ’ Paul Ehrlich called ‘ Intellectual Moron ’ : ‘ He ’ s the Bernie Madoff of science…Ehrlich has been wrong on virtually everything he has predicted about future state of the world ’ 2020 : Envrio leftie George Monbiot takes on enviro leftie Michael Moore on overpopulation : ‘ Why do so many people in rich nations claim that the biggest environmental problem is population growth ?
’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the root of the overpopulation fears : “ So why do so many people in the rich world ( the great majority of whom , in my experience , are male , white and quite affluent ) insist , often furiously , that the ‘ real ’ global issue , the ‘ elephant in the room ’ , is population growth ?
” Monbiot ’ s answer : “ What we see is white people pointing the finger at black and brown people , saying “ It ’ s not us .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to my question – ‘ why do so many people in rich nations claim that the biggest environmental problem is population growth ?
’ – is…Racism.
” Morano responds to Monbiot .
Spot on !
It is important to note that it is not conservatives who espouse this , it is typically white male liberals who worry about “ overpopulation ” in countries with people of color .
One of the loudest cheerleaders of reducing African nations ’ population has been Al Gore .
Below is what Gore said at a Bill Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gore : ‘ Fertility management ’ is needed to reduce the number of Africans to help ‘ control the proliferation of unusual weather ’ – Gore : ‘ Depressing the rate of child mortality , educating girls , empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available so women can choose how many children and the spacing of children — is crucial to the future shape of human civilization .
Africa is projected to have more people than China and India by mid-century .
More than China and India combined by the end of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the causal factors that must be addressed ’ How They Sold Paul Ehrlich ’ s ‘ The Population Bomb ’ – Threats of famine , dead children , bombs , nuclear war , & oblivion Paul Ehrlich ’ s Epic Fail : Why The ‘ Population Bomb ’ Never Exploded Flashback 1980 : Paul Ehrlich calls oil ‘ a resource which we know damn well is going to be gone in 20 or 30 years ’ ( By year 2000 or 2010 ) Paul Ehrlich admits it : ‘ I am an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We ’ re alarmed , and we ’ re frightened ’


climatedepot--2020-05-19--Totalitarians Just Getting Started: Eager to get started on ‘solving’ the ‘climate emergency’ next

The 35 million unemployed is apparently just the tip of the iceberg of the planned catastrophe .
Eleven thousand scientists @ @ @ @ @ emergency , and that billions of people need to be removed from the planet .
@ @ @ @ @ Beat the Climate Crisis , Scientists Say There is nothing new about this .
Academics @ @ @ @ @ people for over 50 years , and have been looking for new and creative ways @ @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-05-19--Miami Herald Misleads Readers About Reassuring NOAA Hurricane Study

Among the top Google News search results this morning for “ climate change , ” the Miami Herald published an article asserting a new study shows global warming is causing more Atlantic hurricanes .
In reality , the new study shows there is a declining trend in hurricanes in many parts of the world and concludes there will likely be a declining trend globally during the 21st century .
Moreover , objective data show the number of Atlantic hurricanes is declining , just like the forecast global trend .
The Herald article , titled “ Climate change , pollution impacts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ study says , ” claims , “ In the last 40 years , the East Coast , including Florida , has been hit by dozens of hurricanes .
New NOAA research suggests human pollution may have increased the likelihood of those Atlantic basin storms….
” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) study referenced by the Herald reports , “ our climate models project decreases in the number of global TCs [ tropical cyclones ] toward the end of the 21st century due to the dominant effect of greenhouse gases on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tropics , consistent with many previous studies.
” The NOAA study reported a trend of “ substantial decreases ” in Indian Ocean and North Pacific hurricanes is already detected in the record .
The study asserts there has been an increase in Atlantic hurricanes since 1980 , which “ anthropogenic aerosols could have also influenced.
” The major takeaway from the NOAA study is there will be fewer hurricanes as the world continues its modest warming .
That is good news .
Rather than reporting good climate news , however , the Herald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pull some bad news from a good-news study .
Even the study ’ s one asserted drawback , that Atlantic hurricane activity has increased , is quite a stretch .
A 2017 article in The Economist , titled “ Hurricanes in America have become less frequent , ” documents how Atlantic hurricanes have became much less frequent during recent decades compared to the first half of the 20th century .
In the six decades between 1900 and 1960 , there were an average of 19 Atlantic hurricanes each decade .
In the six @ @ @ @ @ @ @ average of only 14 Atlantic hurricanes per decade .
In fact , there has not been a single decade since 1960 in which more hurricanes formed than the average decade between 1900 and 1960 .
The only reason the authors of the NOAA study could report an increase in Atlantic hurricanes since 1980 is because the decade ending in 1980 was an abnormally low year , with the fewest number of Atlantic hurricanes on record .
So , any trend line starting at the record-low point of 1980 will show more frequent hurricanes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ representative record shows a long-term and ongoing decline in Atlantic hurricanes .
The graph below illustrates that point .
Located in Florida , the Miami Herald surprisingly did not mention two very important facts about hurricanes and Florida .
As documented in Climate at a Glance : Hurricanes , Florida recently concluded an 11-year period ( 2005 through 2016 ) without a landfalling hurricane of any size—the longest such period in recorded history .
The Gulf of Mexico also recently benefited from its longest hurricane-free period in recorded history ( 2013 through 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the recent NOAA study , and for asserting the exact opposite of the truth regarding hurricane frequency and Atlantic hurricane frequency , the Miami Herald earns a gigantic Pinocchio award .