Climate emergency an ‘expensive myth’ – Politics, Policy, Political Views (politicom.com.au)

Posted on : 19/02/2023 

by Ian Plimer

We are wasting trillions of taxpayers’ dollars trying to prevent mythical human-induced global warming.

Ian Plimer Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences

• Past warming has never been driven by an increase in carbon dioxide.
• If activist governments want to stop the normal planetary process of climate change, then they need to stop plate tectonics.
• We have a crisis of single-minded stupidity exacerbated by a dumbed-down education system.
• FOR more than 80 per cent of time, Earth has been a warm wet greenhouse planet with no ice. 
• We live in unusual times, when ice occurs on continents. This did not happen overnight. 
• The great southern continent, Gondwanaland, formed about 550 million years ago. It occupied 20 per cent of the area of our planet and included Antarctica, South America, Australia, South Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

Gondwanaland was covered by ice when it drifted across the South Pole 360-255 million years ago. Evidence for this ice age is in the black coal districts of Australia, South Africa and India.

The breakup of Gondwanaland started about 180 million years ago.

EVOLVED

About 140-120 million years ago, Australia was joined to Antarctica and enjoyed a temperate climate, had alpine glaciers that shed icebergs into warm seas and plant and animal adaptations evolved to cope with the long periods of winter darkness.

If Antarctica is to lose its ice sheets to end the current ice age, plate tectonics must move the continent northwards or fragment Antarctica into smaller land masses.

Parts of Antarctica are currently being fragmented which is why there are more than 150 hot spots and volcanoes in rift valleys beneath Antarctic ice.

Plate tectonics must also widen the Bering Strait to allow more warm Pacific Ocean water to enter and warm the Arctic.

Australia separated from Antarctica 100 million years ago and continues to move northwards at seven centimetres per year.

The current ice age started when South America separated from Antarctica some 34 million years ago. Plate tectonics isolated Antarctica after South America had moved northwards and the Drake Passage formed.

Circum-polar currents formed and prevented warm, southward-moving water from reaching Antarctica. As a result, the Antarctic ice sheets formed.

Arctic ice formed 2.5 million years ago when plate tectonic-driven volcanoes in central America joined North America to South America and stopped Pacific and Atlantic Ocean waters from mixing.

This was exacerbated by a supernova explosion that bombarded Earth with cosmic particles to produce cloudiness and cooling.

COOLING

The Earth has been slowly cooling for the past 50 million years from times when life thrived and rapidly diversified. In these warmer times, there were no mass extinctions due to natural warming and, if the planet is warming today, the past shows us that life will thrive and diversify even more.

Once the Antarctic ice formed, ice sheets waxed and waned depending on whether Earth was closer or more distant from the Sun.

Within these cycles there were smaller cycles driven by variations in energy emitted from the Sun producing many short warm spikes during long glaciations and very short cold spikes during short interglacials with average temperature rises and falls of more than 10°C a decade.

On a scale of tens of millions of years or more, the Earth’s climate is driven by plate tectonics. On a scale of hundreds of thousands of years, the Earth’s climate is driven by orbital cycles which bring Earth closer to or more distant from the Sun.

On a scale of thousands of years to decades, the Earth’s climate is driven by variations in energy emitted from the Sun.

If governments, the UN or climate activists want to stop the normal planetary process of climate change, then they need to stop plate tectonics, stop variations in the Earth’s orbit and stop variations in solar output. Even the omnipotent, omnipresent Kevin Rudd couldn’t manage this!

No past warming events have been driven by an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

No past cooling events were driven by a decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Six of the six most recent ice ages were initiated when the Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present.

Atmospheric temperature rise occurs before the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere rises. It has never been proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming despite numerous requests to climate activist scientists for the published evidence.

INVALID SCIENCE

Trillion-dollar bankrupting decisions on energy policy are being made using invalid science.

The peak of the last orbitally-driven interglacial was 7000 to 4000 years ago and for the past 4000 years the Earth has been cooling as the climate changes from an interglacial into glaciation.

There were solar-driven warm spikes such as the Minoan Warming, Roman Warming, Medieval Warming and the Modern Warming and cold spikes (eg Dark Ages, Little Ice Age) during this 4000-year cooling trend.

In 2020, we entered the Grand Solar Minimum which is calculated to end in 2053. Whether there will be a solar-driven cooling, similar to the Little Ice Age (1300-1850 AD), or a full-blown orbitally-driven glaciation, such as the last glaciation from 116,000-14,400 years ago, is unknown.

The former cooling could last for hundreds of years whereas the latter would last for at least 90,000 years. If there was another period of sustained subaerial volcanism, cooling would be accelerated.

During the last glaciation, Europe was covered with ice north of the Alps, as was Russia; Canada and northern and alpine USA were covered by ice; southern South America and the Andes were covered by ice; Himalayan ice expanded to lower altitudes; and alpine Australia, Tasmania and the South Island of NZ were covered by ice as were the southern and elevated portions of Africa.

In the last glaciation, vegetation contracted and tropical areas such as the Amazon Basin only had copses of trees occupying some 10 per cent of the area of the current Amazonian rainforests; large areas of inland Australia, China, India, USA and Africa were covered by sand deposited from cold dry cyclonic winds; inland lakes evaporated; sea level was 130 metres lower than at present; there was no Great Barrier Reef; sea ice isolated Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia and northern Canada; Antarctic sea ice extended hundreds of kilometres north and there was a reduction in rainfall and plant and animal species.

WASTELANDS

Areas that now support pastoral and grain-growing activities were sandy wastelands during the last glaciation. Humans struggled as hunter-gatherers around the edge of ice sheets and at lower latitudes.

We are putting all our efforts and wasting trillions of taxpayers’ dollars into trying to prevent mythical human-induced global warming, yet we still don’t prepare for the inevitable annual floods, droughts and bushfires, let alone longer-term solar – and orbitally – driven global cooling.

We have a crisis of single-minded stupidity exacerbated by a dumbed-down education system supported by incessant propaganda, driven by financial interests and political activist authoritarianism.PC

– Ian Plimer

French MP who got the Covid vax developed heart problems and required surgery to keep him alive.

He says: “What I did NOT KNOW was that Mr Macron was not vaccinated. I did not know that most of the members of the government were not.”

Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / March 31, 2023

A transgender Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three 9-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school.

Supposedly, she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass killing. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public.

Yet in about a nanosecond after the news was disclosed, the left-wing activist machine kicked in, led by politicians, entertainers, and the media.

Three predictable themes surfaced.

• The first was led by none other than President Joe Biden. He lectured that guns were the cause of the mass deaths, not the free will of a psychopathic killer.

Few noted that the shooter illegally purchased firearms by hiding her documented record of emotional disorders.

• Second, America was told that it would serve no purpose to publish the shooter’s manifesto. Apparently, this exception to the usual practice was due to fears her manifesto would hurt the transgender cause.
• Third, some in the activist media claimed that, while such killing was regrettable, it was also understandable, given supposed Christian, conservative America’s intolerance of transgender people. In our sick society, the targeted victims became the political victimizers.

Did the transgender shooter anticipate that violence for her “correct” cause would be either contextualized or blamed on the weapon rather than she who used it?

Likewise, at about the same time, a transgender activist entered the Texas Legislature and physically fought with the sergeant-of-arms.

Just days after the Nashville shooting, a trans advocacy group decided neither to cancel nor to change the name of its long-planned “Trans Day of Vengeance” protest in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

It was recently disclosed that federal authorities did little or nothing last year when pro-abortion mobs traveled to the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices, yelling and disrupting their neighborhoods.

That mobbing was in clear violation of federal laws prohibiting protesters from swarming the homes of justices to influence their opinions. Yet, mysteriously, Attorney General Merrick Garland demurred from prosecuting the lawbreakers or beefing up security.

Amid this environment of general chaos, a would-be assassin of Justice Brett Kavanaugh turned up near the justice’s home, but was persuaded by his own sister to surrender.

In March 2020, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had all but called for violence against the justices, when he threatened two by name before an angry pro-abortion crowd protesting at the doors to the court:

I want to tell you [Justice Neil] Gorsuch; I want to tell you Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.

What did Schumer mean by “whirlwind,” “pay the price,” and “what hit you”?

On a recent episode of ABC’s “The View,” octogenarian actress Jane Fonda reentered controversy by boasting that women were not going to retreat on abortion rights. And if their marching and protesting were not enough, Fonda smirked, “Well, I’ve thought of murder.”

Recently, Wayne State professor Steven Shaviro posted his views on free speech on campus: “Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.”

Shaviro apparently was referring to the mob at Stanford Law School that shouted down 5th U.S. Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, who had been invited to speak by the campus Federalist Society. Students prevented him from delivering his lecture, apparently for his past refusal to acknowledge the pronouns of a convicted pedophile.

Among the many obscene taunts that were leveled at the judge by Stanford’s future lawyers, one law-school protester shouted that he hoped Duncan’s daughters would be raped.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; House Majority Leader Steven Scalise, R-La.; and former Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin have all been the target of vicious, politically driven physical attacks.

Most Americans decried the illegal entry into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by protesting Trump supporters. Over 1,000 have been charged, or are in prison, with hundreds more facing indictment.

Yet none in the Capitol were armed. And the only ones to die violently that day were among the protesters themselves.

Not so in the summer 2020. Then the vast majority of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa-led violent protesters who rioted, burned, and looted for 120 days—injuring 1,500 police officers and causing over 35 deaths—were either not arrested or released.

For that matter, what do Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, Kathy Griffin, George Lopez, Moby, Rosie O’Donnell, Mickey Rourke, and Larry Wilmore all have in common? At one time or another, they alluded to various ways of imagining former President Donald Trump’s violent death.

What do Joe Biden; Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; and Robert De Niro have in common? They all bragged of their desire to physically assault or beat up Trump.

For the radical Left, ideology exempts its political violence. The result for everyone else is an open season and the end of deterrence—and frightening days ahead.

Above by Dr. Hanson was originally published March 31, 2023 on Daily Signal by the Heritage Foundation here: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/31/left-wing-violence-chic/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell

“One gains the impression that the frustrated derive as much satisfaction—if not more—from the means a mass movement uses as from the ends it advocates. The delight of the frustrated in chaos and in the downfall of the fortunate and prosperous does not spring from an ecstatic awareness that they are clearing the ground for the heavenly city. In their fanatical cry of “all or nothing at all” the second alternative echoes perhaps a more ardent wish than the first.

One of the rules that emerges from a consideration of the factors that promote self-sacrifice is that we are less ready to die for what we have or are than for what we wish to have and to be. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have “something worth fighting for,” they do not feel like fighting. People who live full, worth-while lives are not usually ready to die for their own interests nor for their country nor for a holy cause. (9) Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Things which are not are indeed mightier than “things that are.” (10) In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted.”

Eric Hoffer, page 73.  The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

150 pages of wisdom and several pages of excellent references.

Available to read or download for free here: https://archive.org/details/1951-hoffer-the-true-believer/mode/2up

Though this book was written by Eric Hoffer in the 1950s, I think Obama will jump out at you as the “fanatic” and Biden as “the practical man of action.”

“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.” P134

A related post on this blog:

Revolution comes from the left, revelation from the right, update

For months, the CDC reported that an estimated 4% of Covid deaths were among children, when the actual percentage based on their initial estimates was 0.04%.

In other words, CDC knew the risk of death for children was 0.04%, that is unless you believe this was an arithmetic error. (If you believe this was an arithmetic error, please contact me for a tin foil hat.)

This U.S. CDC estimate probably echoed around the world to similar agencies and policies in other countries. Some countries have wisely halted Covid injections and boosters for children and young people, but not the U.S. The U.S. CDC and FDA are still actively promoting unconscionable jabs for babies, children and young people; Is this a crime against humanity?

From archive.today https://archive.ph/zaBEq

Full pdf is here in case this internet file disappears from the CDC archive.

Hat tip to Kelly K @KelleyKga for digging this report out of the archives.

In other news…

February 23, 2023 – Under the agreement with Moderna, … as a $400 million “catch-up payment” to the N.I.H. The government will share that money with Dartmouth and Scripps. The individual scientists who helped invent the technique are also likely to receive a portion of the payment, experts said. Moderna said the agreement also required royalty payments … https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/science/moderna-covid-vaccine-patent-nih.html

U.S. government got $400 million in vaccine royalties from Moderna, company says

In addition to the $400 million payment to NIAID, Moderna will “pay low single-digit royalties on future net sales of our COVID-19 vaccines,” according to Moderna CFO Jamey Mock.

John Solomon reporting: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/us-government-got-400-million-vaccine-royalties-moderna-company-says

Statistical and Numerical Errors Made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic

18 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2023

Kelley Krohnert

Independent Analyst

Alyson Haslam

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Tracy Beth Hoeg

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Vinay Prasad

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) – Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Date Written: March 7, 2023

Abstract

Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been a major source of information during the COVID-19 pandemic, guiding policies and practices in many aspects of life. As such, it is imperative that the information be free of errors, or, if errors are made, that they are corrected quickly.

Full paper in pdf:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4381627

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The life of the Thames Barrier has just been extended by 50 years. The reason? The sea is not rising as fast as they were told it would when the barrier was designed.

Fancy that!

An Al Goreithm is a piece of software that gives results that have nothing to do with reality.

From John Watkinson

Dr. Chris Shoemaker explains how DARPA recommended ivermectin for corona virus to the CDC following a 15 years study ending in 2015.

Dr. Chris Shoemaker is a licensed Comprehensive Physician in Ontario and member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CCFP) with 45 years of service in both Ontario and British Columbia. More recently in 2020 through 2022 he worked in direct patient care at the West Ottawa Covid Care Clinic, and was part of the Eastern Ontario Response Team to Covid-19. Based on studies out of Britain in Jan 2021 – May 2022, he describes a one in 3 Billion event and has declared the need to ‘Save the Children – End the Vaxx’.

In vitro inhibition of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus by chloroquine

Els Keyaerts, Leen Vijgen, Piet Maes, Johan Neyts, and Marc Van Ranst^*

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Abstract

We report on chloroquine, a 4-amino-quinoline, as an effective inhibitor of the replication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in vitro. Chloroquine is a clinically approved drug effective against malaria. We tested chloroquine phosphate for its antiviral potential against SARS-CoV-induced cytopathicity in Vero E6 cell culture. Results indicate that the IC₅₀ of chloroquine for antiviral activity (8.8 ± 1.2 μM) was significantly lower than its cytostatic activity; CC₅₀ (261.3 ± 14.5 μM), yielding a selectivity index of 30. The IC₅₀ of chloroquine for inhibition of SARS-CoV in vitro approximates the plasma concentrations of chloroquine reached during treatment of acute malaria. Addition of chloroquine to infected cultures could be delayed for up to 5 h postinfection, without an important drop in antiviral activity. Chloroquine, an old antimalarial drug, may be considered for immediate use in the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV infections.

Keywords: SARS-CoV, Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Coronavirus, Chloroquine, Antiviral activity

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has recently emerged as a new highly contagious human disease with a major impact all over the world [1]. The global SARS epidemic started in the Guangdong Province in southern China, where several cases of atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology were reported at the end of November 2002. A novel member of the Coronaviridae family has been identified as the causative agent of SARS [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. Three other human coronaviruses (HCoV) OC43, 229E, and the recently characterized NL63 are important causes of upper respiratory tract illnesses. In late fall and winter they are responsible for approximately one-third of the common colds.

The rest of the article is here: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7092815/

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Oct 8; 323(1): 264–268.

Published online 2004 Aug 28. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.085

PMCID: PMC7092815

PMID: 15351731

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“Mandating experimental mRNA vaccines with no long-term safety data was CRIMINAL. Those who were complicit should be prosecuted.” ~ Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold. March 25, 2023

“There has been a 4070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths since the release of the experimental mRNA vaccines, according to VAERS data.” ~March 23, 2023

“Health insurance companies and large corporate healthcare groups colluded to restrict access to life-saving medicine, push experimental mRNA vaccines, and ignore the science in the name of profit. It’s time to stop supporting a corrupt system…”~ March 21, 2023

Dr. Simone Gold is an MD as well as a lawyer.

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“For our analysis on CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency] in particular for general use, we tend to establish the equivalence with cash, and there is a huge difference there. For example in cash, we don’t know for example who is using a hundred dollar bill today; we don’t know who is using a one thousand peso bill today. A key difference with a CBDC is that the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that determine the use of that expression of central bank liability. And also, we will have the technology to enforce that. Those two issues are extremely important, and that makes a huge difference with respect to what cash is.” ~ Agustín Carstens, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (the central banker’s bank) at a 2020 IMF event, Cross-Border Payments—A Vision for the Future.

https://meetings.imf.org/en/2020/Annual/Schedule/2020/10/19/imf-cross-border-payments-a-vision-for-the-future