I am sadly disappointed by the alarmists. I was led to believe we would have weeks of laughing at crazy videos, demos and generally idiocy from the alarmist camp, but just two days after the encyclical the news is dead with nothing more than a few stragglers and a couple of ridiculous rather than amusing stories.

This has been one of the shortest duration peaks I’ve seen for any news story on global warming.

I am now seriously wondering weather the “run up” to the Dead Parrot talks this December will turn out to be more of a “run down”.

 Come on alarmists – you’re getting shed loads of public funds – what on earth are you doing with it except paying expensive marketing consultants to sit around on their fat arses?

Indeed, there’s so little news, I am starting to wonder whether it is possible that this is intentional. Have the alarmists got some idiotic academic (Lewandowsky springs to mind) producing “research” that suggests that if they keep quiet and don’t tell anyone about global warming, then that’s the way to revive the dead parrot and make the world population born again global warmists?

Indeed, it does seem that every time there is a high profile media campaign like this encyclical, that rather than increasing support, the result is that even more sceptics appear! So, there is a kind of perverse logic that says that keeping quiet about global warming will cause everyone to believe!

I’m starting to think there’s something wrong with me, because for the last few days I’ve started hearing someone singing and humming in the room when I’m the only person in it. Also, I seem to have changed my appearance with strange lines emanating from the corners of my mouth and heading up to indentations on my cheeks.
When I realised it was me making this horrible noises, I had a look on line to see what was wrong with me and found that I cannot match it to any known medical condition.
Also, despite being reported as the coldest June in 40 years – I keep looking outside and seeing how wonderful everything looks. Last night the moon was just spectacular seating in amongst the clouds. I thought it was a painting it was so beautiful.

Help!

PS. These symptoms first appeared after the announcement to end wind subsidies.

According to the Times, after recently departed UK Labour leader Ed Miliband managed to thwart all the opinion polls and grasp election defeat for Labour, he plans to help global warming the same way:

“Ed Miliband intends to take on a significant role in the forthcoming global climate change debate. In the first indication of what life will be like for the former Labour leader, a spokesman for Mr Miliband confirmed that he is turning his attention to November’s climate change talks in Paris.”

And for those in the US – Millband is part of the “borrow today – let our kids pay it back” Labour party that almost led to the UK going bankrupt – and undoubtedly would be leading us to bankruptcy if he had been Prime Minister now.

But what a twit!

In one simple act, he has ensured that not one single Tory or Republican will want to support the Dead Parrot talks.
Article behind paywall:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4475331.ece

For those who do not know, the “Dead Parrot Sketch” is a very famous sketch by Monty Python in which a customer comes in to complain about a parrot they bought from a pet shop owner. The customer complains that the parrot is dead, the pet shop owner refuses to admit the parrot is dead, despite the parrot being nailed to the perch.

I was just reading the climate depot article “Aussies get traction on the issue of ‘temperature data homogenization’ and thinking that yes, there is growing coverage of data tampering in the media and it is almost becoming widely accepted that the “academics” have been tampering the temperature record, when I suddenly realised I had the answer to the question in my last article:
“What happens to the pope [when real world data proves him wrong]”, because they can’t sack a pope.
And the answer is simple: the catholic church as one body will unite and turn against those who caused him & the whole catholic church to be misled. The pope will not be to blame but those academics advising him. And I doubt they will distinguish between the honest and the deceptive, between those who have set high standards and those with no standards.

The”news” rush from the pope’s encyclical is now well and truly over as today I see the coverage is now of sceptics pushing back. But whilst we climate sceptics might focus on the science, the climate doesn’t actually appear to have been the purpose of this document.
Instead, reading between the lines,  climate seems to have been just a useful hook on which to hitch a lot of political ideas which the climate allows to dress up as “concern for nature”. So basically, not only is “science” being abused, but also environmentalism is being used as a political tool to push a political agenda. And to do that, the catholic teachings have to be turned into pagan environmentalism, so also the catholic church itself is being abused.
And just to explain that “one world government”. To be honest, I’ve heard some sceptics talking about “one world socialist government”. I  thought they were reading far too much into what was happening. What’s more I focussed on the science because the science clearly supports us sceptics – and I thought this “one world government” was just an obsession by those on the political wing of scepticism. But now that I see what is in the Pope’s encyclical it is clear to me they were right, and so apologies for doubting you.
I couldn’t see the harm of more decisions at a world level – co-operation at a global level is a good thing. However it’s clear that those pushing the political vision in this encyclical don’t have cooperation in mind. Instead their vision will enforce a very extreme “left” utopian idea on that world government, not in the sense of helping the poor, but in the sense of behaving like extreme left regimes tend to behave (to the detriment of the poor). So we will have something very much like Stalin in Russia, with grand utopian “5-year plans” forcing everyone to comply with some utopian anti-science vision. And because those endorsing such utopian views are always totally economically & scientifically incompetent their plans “to help the poor” will instead kill millions if not billions.

It’s the politics of the utopian vision and its inherent rejection of pragmatism. Continue reading →

Well the Pope’s encyclical has come and gone and frankly it’s not made a bit of difference – except they’ll be quite a few furious republicans and other world leaders resolved to ensure this debacle never happens again – so I expect fireworks in the near future – not necessarily all going upward in celebration but many aimed squarely at certain doors.
So I thought it was time for something more light hearted:

 

MOSCOW, June 18 (UPI) — For most conspiracy theorists, questioning the moon landing is rather passe. They’ve moved on to Benghazi, global warming and GMOs.

But one official in Russia didn’t get the memo. Russian Investigative Commission spokesperson Vladimir Markin wants an international investigation into the Apollo moon missions.
Specifically, Markin wants to know what happened to the film footage of the landings. He’s also curious about where those moon rocks ended up.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/06/18/Russian-official-questions-US-moon-landing/5401434634287/
My take
After the way NASA fabricated global temperature data by knowingly employing a self-enriching environmental activist to do that job … it wouldn’t surprise me if NASA did fake the moon landings, but I’ve yet to see any evidence suggesting it.

Just watched the headlines on BBC news at ten after pope’s encyclical. Not mentioned at all in headlines.
What’s happened to the BBC?

I’m seeing a lot of headlines which are going to be causing really sleepless nights for those who understand government security and intelligence services. It’s ones like this:

• Pope urges revolution to save Earth, fix ‘perverse’ economy
• Pope Francis Calls For ‘Revolution’ To Save Earth From Climate Change
• Pope’s bombshell climate change views could be a ‘game-changer’

And it is not just the rhetoric. In the encyclical are calls for a revolution in world governments – indeed to bring in a new world government.
I can see why it is being phrased that way. But if I were sitting in government reading about a “revolution” and a new type of government, I have to read this as replacing the present form of government by a new government in a revolution – revolution – as in chopping people’s heads off! Are you starting to see the point!
This is technically an incitement to overthrown government – coming not from some almost unknown idiotic environmentalist, but from another (idiotic) government leader.
And what is more, this is not a message directed at governments. Instead it is directed to the people within countries. In many countries the pope, if they were someone in that country, would be technically breaking the law and no doubt getting a quick knock at the door and a few very difficult questions.
And OK, the Pope is hardly going to pick up a bomb and walk into the government offices and blow himself up – but there are many idiots who will! And the intelligence services never get praised for what they don’t let happen – but they get shit loads of criticism if some idiotic fanatic does take the pope to heart and try to start “the revolution”.

There are going to be a lot of really annoyed people after today!!

And a lot of people in the intelligence services are going to have to focus far more carefully on the activities of extremist environmentalists than ever before.

They are not going to like it!

Looking at the news coverage, a very profound realisation has occurred and it is this: most governments will be horrified by at least some aspect of this encyclical.
Basically it is nuts. And to be frank it seems many governments have gone along with these nutty ideas because they couldn’t see the harm in pandering to a few environmentalists as it kept a sizeable – but deluded number of their electorate content.
In other words, governments have tolerated this rising eco-fascism that has created a whole industry of green blobbiests who more and more try to dictate everything we do.
So, far from unite the world into action to “end fossil fuels”, a far more likely outcome appears to me that governments will end their toleration of the eco-fascist elements that have allowed these nutty ideas to flourish and seem to be advising the pope.
We’ve already seen countries like India moving against “Greenspin”. The UK government is ending onshore wind subsidies. Germany is increasing coal use. That is the real world. What the pope represents is a fictional idea of the world where energy is produced by magic where changing to bio-fuels does not lead to mass starvation of the poor.
The pope’s “vision” represents the worst possible scenario for the world: a utopian anti-science vision that not only fails to reduce CO2 but because of the stupid ideas it contains, will likely leads to mass starvation and then wars. In short, it is like Stalin’s five year plans – a great idea for the intellectuals to discuss at dinner – but appalling for those that suffer its implementation.
So, basically, I think this encyclical will be a wake-up call. The silent sensible majority will view it with horror and resolve to severely reduce the power and influence of the “grand-plan” eco-fascists whose ideas the pope now so enthusiastically proclaims.