Yes, it's time for our annual bacchanalia of the made-up holiday they call Earth Day, my very favorite holiday to make fun of. Even more than Kwanzaa.
As befitting the environmental movement, my tribute to Earth Day is almost entirely recycled, and is almost entirely useless. The only way it could fit the environmental movement better would be if everything I said was factually wrong. Everything here is factually correct.
I've posted on Earf Day so many times that it's hard not to be repetitive, even if I was trying not to be. So nothing this time about Ira Einhorn murdering his girlfriend or the completely discredited book, The Population Bomb. No, wait. I just mentioned them both. Rats!
The simple truth is that virtually everything about the holiday and the environmental movement is crap. The modern green movement is simply about rich, privileged people wanting to have places to visit that they think are pretty; and especially unspoiled. They want pretty, natural, wild-looking places to visit on vacations. If that means the people who are living in or near those places have to live lives that range from austere to practically unsurvivable, the greenies think that's just wonderful.
When you think of it that way, it's easy to realize that the greenies care only about themselves and their enjoyments of life. Of course we should all protect the wilderness! It's theirs! That was never as clear to me as it was while reading Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger a couple of years ago. He vividly talks about people in the wilds of Africa who desperately need better ways to grow food, get water and most desperately need electricity. Instead they're kept in a life of desperation by the environmentalists.
Probably the worst example is the one that we get beat up about every day: climate change. Notice they don't mention "global warming" any more. It's just "change." As if the worldwide climate has always been the same. Let's start with that simple observation. They scream that the temperature has gone up since 1850! We're all going to die! What they don't tell you is that the temperature in 1850 was among coldest periods in the last 10,000 years.
That's Indonesia. How about if we reconstruct the temperature half a world away? North Atlantic instead of south Pacific; Greenland instead of Indonesia (the scale is different, but 10,000 years ago is 7975 BC).
Sorry. The temperature has gone up not just from 1850 but from from one of the half-dozen coldest periods
in the last half billion years.
The closer you look, the worse the picture is.
Borepatch ran a piece in 2024
about one of the more insidious things they do: they change the historical
records to make the older temperatures look cooler and the newer ones look
hotter. That's right; they're lying in all the official documents and have
been for as long as this Con has been going on. One of the things that
convinced me that skepticism was proper was the Surface Stations Project that
Watts Up With That?
started back in the '00s and was closed a few years ago. Their final product was a report on the
official stations that create the weather record and how large percentages of
them weren't sited properly; over 62% were incapable of accuracy better than 2
degrees C. Another 6% couldn't measure within 5 degrees C. They're too close
to roads, too close to sources of heat like air conditioner outputs, even
airport runways, and more problems. Then there was outright fraud in editing
records.
And this isn't even going near things like how bad their models are. They still basically can't handle clouds properly. Virtually none of their predictions ever actually prove to be the case. Instead we get useful idiot celebrities who are too young to understand that both weather and climate change (to be charitable). If a 20 or a 40 year old can't remember similar weather, it doesn't mean anything.
You know the current fuss about the temperature by 2100 isn't supposed to go up more than 1 degree or "we all gonna die"? (say that like Jasmine Crockett saying "we done pickin' cotton"). In these two plots the one on the left is the prediction they push on us; the one on right is shows the error expected in yellow. For example, at the right end of the plot on the left, it shows their global temperature as increasing by 3.75 degrees by 2100. The uncertainty shown on the right is +22.5 / -15 degrees. That's over 37 degrees uncertainty out of 4? In the kind of simulations I'm used to that's so bad it's unusable. The remarkable part is how bad the people who released this plot were at doing this math (read this). They're an embarrassment to people who can do this math, and the ones who can should get listened to far more than they do.
Maybe if the people pushing this climate change stuff could do this math they wouldn't have their morons burning down cities. If the people burning down cities or ruining their lives by getting upset by this could understand the papers referenced, the world would be safe from them.
The whole point of the anthropogenic climate change hoax is to let the so called technocratic experts rule the world like all of the dictators/emperors/kings of the past that had absolute power. They have be trying to convince the people to give them the power so that the people are "safe" and have no freedom.
ReplyDeleteTo get into conspiracy level truths, a lot of the globull bullscat was funded by the CCCP and is now being funded by the CCP as it all directly attacks the western powers.
ReplyDeleteSigh.
Same garbage, just one less 'C' involved.
I love pointing out the reason Greenland was green was because it was so warm. Until it became cold, curiously right about the same time as the last colony on Greenland was no longer able to be reached, due to ice sheets around the now-frozen at that time Greenland. And it's only now, some 800 years later, finally starting to warm up.
And the reason for the 'Viking' Hordes was, of course, the Scandinavian areas, especially Norway and Sweden, were far warmer than they are now, which allowed for more food production which allowed for more people and then there's suddenly an excess of population and what to do? Well, go invade and colonize everywhere else, of course.
All proven. All true. But do leftists believe it? Noooooooo.... Of course not.
Friggin leftists.