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But that figure must be massively out. Because if you divide the cost by the jobs, that some $20million a job. Even if not a penny were invested that $20million could pay one $100,000 for 200 years … or 5 people the same for 40 years.
The real number of jobs lost by sucking that much out the economy will be much higher and likely in the millions or even 10s of millions.
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I’ve been reading the news, and like the Pope’s endafticle, there’s a lot of really emphatic articles, but I just don’t feel they are getting any traction with the rest of the media, the public or politicians.
I was trying to think what it reminded me of, and I’ve now worked it out: it’s like getting caught in the snow – and some idiot putting their foot down and the wheel spinning and spinning. Far from going faster forward, the car just gets more and more bogged down.
The general advice in such a situation is always to “ease off the accelerator” (gas) so as to regain traction.
What that means in terms of this scam, is that when the publicity and political rhetoric is so far out of kilter with the everyday experience of people, all that happens by upping the rhetoric is to cause people to be even more sceptical.
Global warming, is and has always been, a propaganda campaign with a thin veneer of “science”. As the evidence against the scam built up year upon year as mother earth steadfastly refused to warm as instructed, it was inevitable the scam would fall apart. This year, when I heard Greenland was refreezing I finally realised that there was not a shred of evidence to support the scam and so it will inevitably die.
But, the big question was this: will it fade away, go out with a big bang, or will this scam have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the execution chamber.
With the UK slowly dismantling support for gullibles (aka renewables), I was starting to see that politicians would just slowly change the goal posts and like Bird Flu, the Millennium bug, BSE, Ozone, Acid rain – the scam might have just quietly been forgotten as government ease themselves out of the mess they got themselves into. But then along came Obama + Clinton
I really do not know how these two managed to get themselves tarred with the global warming brush so late in this scam. I’m not going to speculate how it was done, but the simple fact is that the Republicans now have two democrat fools with huge targets painted on their backs and a heap big pile of ammunition and some of the best crack shots I’ve seen.
With figures of $2,000,000,000,000 being banded about as the cost, I’ve got to wonder where Clinton and Obama might not understand the different between a billion ($1,000,000,000) and a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) after all it is very easy to mistake one for the other! The difference is that rather than a few dollars for each American, the cost is a few 10s of thousands per household.
And from the way Clinton was so easily caught getting on her private jet shortly after delivering a speech saying everyone (else) must cut down on fossil fuel use, I don’t believe she actually cares much for the policy herself. So why? At the very best, Clinton has a hugely costly policy she does not personally endorse.
But the reality is that having personally committed to this policy, Clinton’s massive spending commitment and illegal use of presidential power will have outraged all those Americans who might not have cared much about the climate and might have just turned a deaf ear to sceptics thinking to themselves “we should help the environment”. Now, these people can see the real cost, they can see that the Democrats are hell bent on this political power grab . Clinton and Obama will just galvanised the Republicans and many of their own (previous) supporters to fight against them. Complete disaster politically!
Now “fading out” is not an option. The Republicans with such an open goal left by the Democrats will be setting their phasors to kill and start gunning for it.
So, it is now almost certain we will see this scam blow up in the run up to US presidential election with a massacre of the Democrats and any other climate extremists caught into the crossfire will just be collateral damage!
Let’s put it this way, I will be very surprised if the Republican don’t already have the ammunition to ensure there aren’t criminal prosecutions started against climate extremists before the US presidential election.
This is a spoof article whereby I’ve used the BBC Libor rigging article from today and changed it to see what it would sound like when the same laws are applied to those rigging the global temperature rate as those rigging Libor.
The name is a fictitious one (I searched and nothing similar came up, but if by some chance there is someone with this name then apologies it was not intended to be you.)
Note: “scientist” is clearly a false term, especially applied to those rigging global temperature, but it is the one the media will use.
Climate scientist jailed for 14 years over global temperature rate-rigging
Former climate scientist Michael Deva-Jones has been found guilty at a London court of rigging global temperature rates.
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud.
The 35-year old is the first individual to face a jury trial for manipulating the rate, which was used to justify trillions of pounds of global warming spending and climate research.
Many of the world’s leading Climate institutes have already paid heavy financial penalties for tampering with the key benchmark.
The jury found Deva-Jones guilty on all eight charges of conspiracy to defraud.
From Anon, at Southwark Crown Court
Deva-Jones stood impassively as the foreman on the jury read out all eight guilty verdicts.
His wife noted down the verdicts as they were read out.
At one point, he shook his head and looked across at his wife, mother and stepfather in the public gallery.
Deva-Jones held his head in his hands while his lawyer read out a list of mitigating factors.
Deva-Jones was sentenced to 14 years, half to be spent in custody before any possibility of release on licence.
Justice Cooke said Deva-Jones was the “centre and hub” of the manipulation.
He said: “You succumbed to temptation because you could manipulate the global temperature and so gain status, seniority and remuneration,” adding that Deva-Jones’ actions were “dishonest and wrong”.
The case was brought by the Serious Fraud Office, which said Deva-Jones set up a network of data analysts spanning 10 climate institutions and cajoled or bribed them to help rig global temperature rates for profit.
During the trial, jurors were told that Hayes promised to reward one participant to keep the temperature rate “as high as possible”.
It took the jury one week to arrive at the verdicts.
Defence barrister Neil Hawes asked the judge to take into account the prevalence of Global temperature manipulation at the time, and also that Deva-Jones had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
Mr Hawes also said that managers and senior managers at Deva-Jones’ Institution knew of, and in some cases condoned, Temperature manipulation.
Deva-Jones, a former star scientist, rigged the global temperature rates daily for nearly fourteen years while working at AvCrap, from 2001 until 2015.
AvCrap says it has no comment about the verdicts.
‘Mars bar’
Hayes’s trading activities were based around movements in the global temperature rate – the rate those involved said the world was warming. Rigging even minor movements in the rate can result in bumper profits for a trader manipulating the rates, or the rate can be moved simply to make a bank look more creditworthy.
Rigging the rate hugely benefited those involved financially as well as the institutions they worked for in the form of government grants.
During the trial, the court heard that manipulating the temperature rate was so commonplace that an offer of a Mars bar could get it changed.
Deva-Jones told a fellow “scientist”: “Just give the data clerk a Mars bar and they’ll set the temperature wherever you want.”
Deva-Jones confessed, saying that he did not want to be extradited to the US.
He claimed that the manipulation was widespread.
Court case
Deva-Jones initially co-operated with investigators, confessing to the manipulation.
But four months after he was charged in 2013, he changed his legal team, and his plea.
He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, resulting in the trial, which began on 26 May.
After the fiasco with the Pope’s “endafticle”, and the drop in personal popularity and that of “global warming”, I’ve learnt my lesson, that such things don’t change much at all. So I will not be bothering saying much about the Obama as he’s always an idiot on climate and I’m sure there’s now plenty of people to tell him that.
Fortunately, that means most other climate news has been pushed out, so it’s a no news day (unless it’s news that democrats are being idiots on climate?)
A while back I started writing an article in which I wanted to be even handed and admit the debate had resulted in hurtful things being said by both sides. After a bit of research, I realised that even to suggest that sceptics had behaved anything like climate extremists was in itself dishonest and without wishing to spend too much in the cesspit of the climate extremists vitriol I more or less printed the list as I had compiled it.
Well today someone was criticising a sceptic for likening the SNP to the NSP (national socialist Party – NSP). So, I searched for my original article:
However, because there are still climate extremists (like He’sNotUnderstoodPhysics) who continue to deny this hatespeach exists and that it is largely climate extremists responsible and because I think it is vital to future historians that they have this raw evidence available to them, I want to ensure I have a copy (things like this can disappear). So, here is a copy. Note: I haven’t checked it and so cannot vouch for the truth – it is only a copy. Also -please put any comments on the original!
To put this in context:
The satellites show that there has been 18 years without warming
Whilst human-adjusted datasets show some warming, none of those predicted to warm by at least 0.14/decade by the IPCC in 2001 have warmed at even the lowest predicted rate.
Climate sensitivity has been steadily falling and is now typically under the 2C threshold below which there are more benefits than harm from CO2 and the small increase in temperature.
We see clear unequivocal benefits from CO2 the plant food as we see the planet greening and record harvest.
As far as I know all the people below either deny or knowingly mislead the public regarding this evidence supporting sceptic views.
Anti-Deformation league: “Inappropriate Comparisons Trivialize the Holocaust” – Abraham Foxman, ADL Director
While the ADL moved quickly to denounce Dr. Spencer, it appears unwilling to defend him and other climate skeptics from reprehensible analogies to “Holocaust deniers”.
Ellen Goodman
“Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.” Continue reading →
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News is just coming out on the South China Morning Post that:
“Two Chinese firms probed for spiking alcohol with Viagra
Chinese police have opened an investigation into whether two distillers in China’s southwestern Guangxi province added impotence treatment drug Viagra to their liquor in the country’s latest food-safety scare.
The Liuzhou Food and Drug Administration said it found that Guikun Alcohol Plant and Deshun Alcohol Plant in the provincial city of Liuzhou were putting sildenafil – more commonly known as Viagra – into three of their baijiu products. Baijiu is a fiery grain liquor that commands high prices in China.
Law enforcement officers confiscated 5,357 bottles of the suspect products, 1,124 kg of raw alcohol and a batch of white powder labelled sildenafil, in a case that involved more than 700,000 yuan (HK$872,000), according to a statement that the administration posted on its website on Saturday.”
Now, here is a lesson for Obama and Clinton, because if they are going to get together then they’ll need Viagra
Addendum
Forgot to mention: it’s the planet they’ll have to feed the Viagra to, if after 18 years without anything showing, they want to get a rise before the presidential election next year.
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People often say “they’re a Nazi” in order just to mean they are immoral, but following a comment I read on a forum, I want to discuss instead whether the modern green movement might be more like the Nazi in their philosophy, propaganda techniques and general politics than most people would care to admit. Left Wing
It’s often a favourite past time of the left to liken anyone on the right to the Nazis – no doubt because the left-wing were against Hitler and so they assume the German Nazis must be right wing. But even a cursory glance at the history of the Nazis tells us they were the “National Socialist Party”. (Not to be confused with the similar sounding & initials of the Scottish Nationalist Party). Fascist
Second, the Nazis were undoubtedly fascist: bypassing democratic procedures forcing through dictate. However, anyone that’s seen the unconstitutional way the EPA (Energy impoverishment Agency?) in the US can’t help seeing the similarity to the Nazis. Because like the Nazis, the EPA are bypassing democracy. They have used legislation designed to control actual pollution to control energy, which in effect means they now control all production, all food, all dwellings, all (also) water – indeed given their undemocratic and unconstitutional behaviour it is only a small step for them to pass rules to prohibit various “unnecessary” parts of the internet as “causing pollution”.
The reality is that the EPA have redefined “pollution” to mean anything they don’t like. So whilst CO2 is good for plants, it is now a “pollution”. Likewise, anything else “harmful” (meaning they don’t like it) could be deemed a pollutant.
Thus, by this word-play they are able to bypass the constitution to give themselves the power to prohibit anything they don’t like. AKA fascism.
And of course, “Greens” aren’t really “green”. Rising CO2 is causing a greening on the planet. If these people were green, they would be celebrating the benefit of CO2 on plants globally. Instead, their politics means they are against everything and anything that gets in the way of forcing everyone to accept their views – including nature itself!
So, e.g. in our local nature reserve, an indigenous tree species in a wood that has been there over 100 years was cut down because the eco-fascists deemed the area to be “bogland”. And once these nutters have deemed an area “polluted by nature” – they will just destroy nature. Pro- “hi tech/science”, anti simple engineering
One of the great divides in the war was a philosophical one about technology. In Britain and the US, we had the view that “the best technology which was not yet available was not as good as the second best that was available”. So, e.g. we focussed on producing Spitfires and other air-planes with a proven history of working reliably. In contrast, the Germans tried “inventing” new solutions: rockets like the U2, Jet planes & the atomic weapon. Continue reading →
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I was watching this video and thought Jo Nova said a really pertinent thing about Peer Review. We wouldn’t let a company trade on the stockmarket if it had been audited by two colleagues, yet they expect us to alter the whole global economy. (should auto start at 7:00)
I was going to make a bet with a prominent climate sceptic about whether the climate scam would end before or after the US presidential election (I think before, he thinks in the first term).
However, fundamentally, we have a problem which is what do we mean by “the end” of the scam. Because in some senses it has been over for years. For example, the Kyoto Commitment was time limited to … I think it was Dec 2012. That came and went without any replacement, so technically I’ve already won. Except, I can’t claim the bet because the climate extremists are constantly talking about “the next agreement” (in reality they are being led by the nose by politicians talking green with no intention of any replacement).
Likewise with “gullibles” policy. In the UK subsidy to new wind and other gullibles are coming to an end. Again, that could have been a great signal for the end, but it’s being marketed as “it’s about time gullibles stop on their own two feet”. Of course only gullible people think that gullibles could ever exist without taxpayer money.
The again, we could have had “when they accept the pause is real”. But now at the very heart of darkness of the climate extremists in wikipedia there is an article about the pause. So whilst they are clearly intending the article to “prove” the pause does not exist, the very fact they have to write the article proves it does.
I could use as an end point – when climate sensitivities are not longer extreme. But in reality, they are now coming in below 2C.
So, what is left?
We could say the end is when cynical politicians like Car Crash Clinton stop jumping on the climate extremists bandwagon … but there will always be desperate presidential wannabes like Clinton jumping on bandwagons (even ones with the wheels falling off).
I suppose, we could say when Steyn wins his case against Mann.
We couldn’t use “when the UK Royal Society admits they are wrong” … because it took nearly 300 years for them to admit they were wrong about the Longitude prize.
I could use when “global warming” on google trends falls below the noise – but it already has.
We could use when we’ve got an admission of “global cooling” – which may happen sooner than anyone likes and if it does, I doubt few of us will feel like celebrating.
We could use when the eco-fascists stop their freebie yearly meet at the “Conference of the Parties” (joke) – which must now have racked up enough air miles between them to fly out of the solar system.
We could say “global warming” is over when the next climate scam has taken over …
The problem we sceptics have, is that there isn’t much left to achieve demolishing this scam except perhaps discouraging a few grubby politicians or academics jumping on the wheel-less bandwagon (and then flying off somewhere).