They especially wanted my input. I said I’d consider it, but was a bit hesitant given the Guardian’s reporting history. But, after some discussion with one of the reporters, it seemed like a genuine attempt at outreach. I suggested that if they really wanted to make a gesture that would make people take notice, they should consider banning the use of the word “denier” from climate discourse in their newspaper. Nobody I know of in the sceptic community denies that the earth has gotten warmer in the past century. I surely don’t. But we do question the measured magnitude, the cause, and the scientific methods. //
The claims made that skeptics are connected to tobacco companies is ludicrous. It is especially ludicrous in my case.
So here’s my challenge to Professor Sachs. Give me ten minutes in a room with you. That’s all I need. I’ll tell you about my story related to tobacco. I’ll tell you how secondhand smoke most likely contributed to my profound hearing loss through a series of badly treated ear infections as a child, I’ll tell you about my efforts to get my parents to stop smoking , and then, I’ll tell you how I watched both of my parents die of tobacco related disease. I’ll tell you what I think of tobacco products and companies. I’ll tell you to your face. I promise you it won’t be pretty, I promise you that you’ll feel my pain caused by tobacco.
Stance on Climate Change
June 28, 2020
The following is from an article Shellenberger originally published at Forbes, \32 which was later retracted (in Shellenberger’s words, “Censored”). He later republished the article at Environmental Progress33 and elsewhere. He wrote:34
“On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.”
He went on to list “some facts few people know”:
“Humans are not causing a ‘sixth mass extinction’”
“The Amazon is not ‘the lungs of the world’”
“Climate change is not making natural disasters worse”
“Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003”
“The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
“The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California”
“Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations for decades and peaked in Britain, Germany and France in the mid-seventies”
“Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor”
“We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter”
“Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change”
“Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels”
“Preventing future pandemics requires more not less ‘industrial’ agriculture”
Shellenberger added, “I know that the above facts will sound like ‘climate denialism’ to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism.”
Another version of his article, titled “Sorry for misleading you, but I cried wolf on the global dangers of climate change,” was published at The Australian on June 30.35
In a blog post on climate science denier Anthony Watts’ website Watts Up With That, Monckton wrote: [138]
“If there is going to be little more than 1 K anthropogenic warming over the next century or so, there is absolutely no need to do anything to prevent it. The flight of major manufacturing industries to China, which profiteers mightily from the climate scam sedulously promoted in the West by the fawning front groups that it subsidizes, can and should be reversed.”
Stance on Climate Change
“My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion – ‘if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who’s merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying’. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.” [2]
In an interview by “Conversations that Matter,” Dyson argued that CO2 is beneficial due to “greening” vegetation and that continuing to burn fossil fuels will probably “do us good”: [13]
“The fact is, carbon dioxide will increase. We will continue to burn oil and coal, and probably it does us good. The Earth will get greener as a result.”
“CO2 is so beneficial […] it would be crazy to try to reduce it,” Dyson said. “Man-made climate change is, on the whole, good.”
Anthony Watts is a former television weatherman best known as the founder and editor of the blog Watts Up With That (WUWT), which primarily publishes articles critical of mainstream climate change science. Watts joined the Heartland Institute, a think tank proudly at the forefront of promoting doubt about climate change, as a Senior Fellow in 2019. [1], [121]
Watts is the director and president of IntelliWeather Inc., a weather graphics company alternatively known as Innovative Tech Works (ITWorks), and Weathershop. Watts also founded Surfacestations.org, a project with the stated purpose of documenting the siting quality of weather stations in the United States
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In reality, Trump World is simply doing what Democrats always do – preparing to gut the bureaucracy and install your own people. The horrors!
The liberals in the West need to face the reality that not only does the world primarily run on fossil fuels, but energy has also become a powerful weapon in this new Cold War. The West cannot win this new Cold War with its self-defeating anti-carbon energy policies.
The 65 Project will spend millions this year trying to expose and disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Trump’s election lawsuits. //
The goal is to prevent conservative attorneys from challenging election results in the future, including the upcoming 2022 midterms. For example, the group is pushing the American Bar Association to codify rules prohibiting certain election challenges and adopting language that “fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results violate the ethical duties lawyers must abide by.” //
While such complaints are supposed to be conducted privately to protect the reputation of attorneys, the 65 Project intentionally violated that process by leaking it to the press. //
“Democrats are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on litigation to try to affect elections,” Marks said. “Republicans should raise money to create a legal defense fund to defend lawyers who are falsely accused like this. And to counterattack by filing defamation and abuse of process claims.”
Just Jim
8 hours ago
Trump pre-authorized 20k Nat Guard troups. That's in writing in a authorization from about Jan. 4. Not only were the troops pre-authorized, the administration did everything they could to stage the equipment for readiness so that, at the moment the local government and LEO requested them, they could be there and geared up as fast as possible. What is also in writing is the rejection by Mayor Bowser and the Capital Police of the use of Nat Guard.
Kash Patel lays it all out here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/kash-patel-govt-docs-shatter-insurrection-narrative-why-did-pelosi-bowser-and-capitol-police-decline-national-guard-days-before-jan-6_4615875.html
Once they finally did request the Guard, they were in place within about two hours, which is the fastest deployment in in history (or since the 1940s). //
Kash Patel: Gov’t Docs Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative; Why Did Pelosi, Bowser, and Capitol Police Decline National Guard Days Before Jan. 6?
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard, but official government documents show Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Washington mayor Muriel Bowser, and the D.C. Capitol Police each declined the offer.
“The fact that President Trump authorized security for the Capitol and he ordered the transition of government—he could legally and factually not have been orchestrating a coup to conduct an insurrection,” says Kash Patel.
Why hasn’t the FBI turned over all documentation related to January 6? Were there undercover government agents in the crowd that day? And why was Trump supporter Rosanne Boyland, who died that day, repeatedly beaten by a Capitol Police officer even while she was unconscious?
Kash Patel: Gov’t Docs Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative; Why Did Pelosi, Bowser, and Capitol Police Decline National Guard Days Before Jan. 6?
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard, but official government documents show Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Washington mayor Muriel Bowser, and the D.C. Capitol Police each declined the offer.
“The fact that President Trump authorized security for the Capitol and he ordered the transition of government—he could legally and factually not have been orchestrating a coup to conduct an insurrection,” says Kash Patel.
Why hasn’t the FBI turned over all documentation related to January 6? Were there undercover government agents in the crowd that day? And why was Trump supporter Rosanne Boyland, who died that day, repeatedly beaten by a Capitol Police officer even while she was unconscious?
As Jonathan Turley noted, they haven’t laid out anything for any kind of criminal case against Trump.
Yet, on the eve of the primetime hearing this week, committee members sound strikingly less prosecutorial. Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) told CNN that “I look at it as a dereliction of duty. He didn’t act. He did not take action to stop the violence.”
It is difficult to make a criminal case over what an official failed to do. //
Brit Hume @brithume
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This is the sort of information, while not excusing Trump, that the 1/6 committee's Republicans would have insisted be part of the hearings, if they were trying to be fair. They are not.
Just the News @JustTheNews
Trump gave order to ‘make sure’ Jan. 6 rally was ‘safe event,’ Pentagon memo shows. Gen. Milley’s recollection undercuts Democrat effort to suggest president wanted to incite violence. | Just The News https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-gave-explicit-order-about-jan-6-rally-make-sure-it-was-safe-event-dod
4:23 PM · Jul 22, 2022 //
Rosie Memos @almostjingo
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You don’t get to rewrite history @January6thCmte stop editing out “peacefully and patriotically” #Jan6thHearings #January6thHearings
8:20 PM · Jul 21, 2022 //
Then the Trump Pentagon reached out to the Capitol Police to ask if they wanted the National Guard on Jan. 2, but the Capitol Police were turned them down.
On top of that, as Just the News notes, Trump wanted to ensure it was going to be a safe event.
But the most compelling piece of evidence that Trump wanted to thwart — rather than incite —violence is contained in a lengthy memo written by the Pentagon inspector general that chronicled the assistance the Defense Department offered Congress both ahead of and during the riot
In it, the IG recounts a fateful meeting on Jan. 3, 2021 in the White House when then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with Trump on national security matters.
The complete passage — hardly mentioned by Democrats at the hearings or the news media covering them — is worth absorbing in its entirety.
“Mr. Miller and GEN Milley met with the President at the White House at 5:30 p.m.,” the IG reported. “The primary topic they discussed was unrelated to the scheduled rally. GEN Milley told us that at the end of the meeting, the President told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protestors on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or Soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event. Gen Milley told us that Mr. Miller responded, ‘We’ve got a plan and we’ve got it covered.'”
Listen and watch as Jupiter’s moons transform from rhythms
into musical notes while creating hypnotic, face-melting patterns…
…or play them yourself!
On Feb. 22 2017, astronomers announced the discovery that 7 Earth-sized planets orbit a nearby red dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1, (Gillon et al 2017, Luger et al 2017). At least two of them should have the right temperatures to host liquid water making them prime targets in the search for life beyond the solar system.
The planets of TRAPPIST-1 are locked in the longest known chain of resonances ever discovered, with each planet’s orbital period forming simple ratios with those of its neighbours. For every 2 orbits of the outermost planet, the next planet inward orbits 3 times, the next one 4, then 6, 9, 15 and 24 times. We have recently shown in a research paper that the planets can settle into this configuration while drifting in their birth disk, and this fine tuning is likely the main reason the system has managed to survive to the present day (Tamayo et al. 2017).
Since musical harmony and repeating rhythms are also a result of simple period ratios, the orbits of the TRAPPIST-1 planets can be translated into musical form. For each planet, we play one note per orbit using the pitches that result from bringing the planet’s frequencies into the human hearing range. We then add drums for every time a planet passes its neighbour to hear the rhythms of their repeated gravitational tugs. To add a little more flair, we converted the fluctuating brightness data of the star itself directly into sound. Continue reading to learn about the creation of each element of TRAPPIST Sounds or play TRAPPIST-1 for yourself!
With so much fear being spread about Monkeypox, I’m amazed that seemingly no one is stopping to ask whether it’s even all that deadly. Per the ABC News article that the above excerpt came from, there have been about 14,000 cases worldwide since the outbreak began. Of those, only five people have died, and all of those five lived in poorer parts of the African continent, meaning they likely lacked proper medical care.
Further, no one in the mainstream media wants to talk about how Monkeypox is spreading because that would mean having to denounce the gay orgy scene. No, I’m not trying to be snarky. The chief vector of Monkeypox spread is sex between two men (you can take it from there as far as details go), with some 95 percent of cases being attributed to it. //
So how did the WHO arrive at its decision? Apparently, Tedros overrode the panel vote on the matter, choosing to declare the emergency of his own volition.
These days, everyone wants to be “affirmed.” Everyone wants a pat on the back for who they are.
I’m gay.
I’m black.
I’m non-binary.
I’m two-spirit, transgender with multiple personalities.
Whatever. Everyone has a “thing” and it’s all aimed at forcing other people to affirm not only is that thing okay, but that thing actually makes them a better person, and someone worth valuing. It’s rooted in narcissism, but don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s only the political cultists and activists who do this. We all want affirmation. We all want someone to tell us we are good – wonderful, even – just the way we are.
It’s why the “prosperity gospel” thrives in America. We want to know we deserve good things by being good enough for them.
I wasn’t raised in the Church or even by Christians. I found faith in Christ as a teenager, on my own, and I’ve been a grateful follower ever since. I know the Creator of the universe, but even still I am often wracked with insecurities and shortcomings. Unhappiness finds me from time to time, as does tragedy. Christ has not been the cure for reality, but He has been the way through it.
Here’s the thing – I find it impossible to genuinely connect with God if all I’m seeking is affirmation. When I seek positivity and elevation for my own personal spirit above all else, it always seems shallow. It always ends in just wanting more – more happiness, more health, more money, more passion. Whatever the “more” is, I just want more of it.
The truth is, it is only in our acknowledgment of our absolute wretchedness that we can find our way to peace. After all, if I’m able to convince myself I’m happy and fulfilled by simply saying a daily affirmation, what do I need God for?
No, it is through my wretchedness that I am able to be lifted up. When I recognize that I am helpless before the Almighty, that I am helpless against my sin on my own, that I am not built for eternity and I am not equipped for holiness, I am thus able to recognize that there is One who can lift me out of my sin. There is One who can equip me for holiness and eternity. I can look to Him with clarity, rather than looking into my own muddy insides.
My wretchedness is filth in the shadow of an all-knowing Creator. Who am I compared to such incredible power and omnipotence? I am no one.
That is what makes a relationship with God so intoxicating, so incredibly satisfying, so precious. I have nothing to bring Him. I have no sacrifice that could be worthy of Him. I don’t even have a body that is made to be in His presence.
Klaus Schwab and a growing list of powerful global economic and political elites, including BlackRock CEO Larry Fink[1] and President Joe Biden,[2] have recently committed to a global “reset” of the prevailing school of economic thought. They seek to supplant the entrenched “shareholder doctrine” of capitalism, which—as Milton Friedman famously espoused over 50 years ago—holds that the only purpose of a corporate executive is to maximize profits on behalf of company shareholders.[3]
To replace shareholder capitalism, Schwab, Fink, Biden, and a legion of their peers have promulgated a nouveau “stakeholder doctrine,” commonly referred to as “stakeholder capitalism.” This approach, which aims to harness the growing clamor for more socially conscious corporate decision-making, authorizes, incentivizes, and even coerces corporate executives and directors to work on behalf of social objectives deemed by elites to be desirable for all corporate stakeholders—including communities, workers, executives, and suppliers.[4]
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores—a social credit framework for sustainability reporting—are being used as the primary mechanism to achieve the shift to a stakeholder model. They measure both financial and non-financial impacts of investments and companies and serve to formally institutionalize corporate social responsibility in global economic infrastructure.[5]
Environment, social, and governance scores are theoretically supposed to incentivize “responsible investing” by “screening out” companies that do not possess high ESG scores while favorably rating those companies and funds that make positive contributions to ESG’s three overarching categories. A company’s ESG score has become a primary component of its risk profile.[6]
limate at a Glance for Teachers and Students: Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics Paperback – April 19, 2022
Over the past half-century, politicians, pundits, and academics have been making wildly incorrect claims about the causes and consequences of climate change, confusing and misleading millions of people around the world. Students and their teachers are not immune to these problems. In fact, in many ways, they've been the biggest victims of climate change misinformation. In Climate at a Glance for Teachers and Students: Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics, authors Anthony Watts and James Taylor use cold, hard facts and well-established data to debunk some of the most prominent climate myths. This easy-to-read book is perfect for teachers and students interested in learning the truth about climate change and its impacts.
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COSMIC VIEW - THE UNIVERSE IN 40 JUMPS
by KEES BOEKE
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