We know there is simply no basis for climate alarm.
All “scientific” predictions have failed, life has survived happily with much higher CO2 in the past, the medieval warming period a thousand years ago was much warmer than today, the small temperature variations of the 20th century are easily explained by natural causes, and the IPCC reports confirm that there is no increase in extreme weather events and no economic harm from CO2.
And yet the hysteria is increasing by the day. The “remedies” being suggested are becoming more extreme: it is no longer just about making energy so expensive that the poor can’t afford it, it is now about removing meat from their diet as well.
So how is such an irrational project going so strong? Because it is a clever way to disguise the deep hatred so many of the elites have of the poor.
After the Hitler debacle, talking about eugenics is no longer welcome in polite company. Climate alarm provides a perfect cloak.
It achieves the same goal while signaling virtue. Climate hysteria is driven by an amalgamation of the ideologies of Malthus, Marx, Hitler, and social Darwinism.
That this is not about the environment becomes clear when we note that these people do not care about market-based remedies to save wildlife, remove waste, and reduce chemical pollution.
These people also viciously attack nuclear energy. If they cared about CO2, they would be desperate for nuclear energy, but their goals are obviously quite different.
Stephen Schneider, a key “scientist” in the climate alarm bandwagon explained how their “goals” are to be achieved.
In a 1989 interview, he said that “to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change” scientists “need to … capture the public’s imagination” by “getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”
Straight from the Goebbels’ copybook.
Malthus is the father of this anti-poor ideology. Over 200 years ago he attacked the poor even though the world’s population was a tiny fraction of what it is today.
After Hitler’s eugenic project left a permanent stink, the Club of Rome revived the idea under the guise of “optimal population.”
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Its goal: to cut the world’s population at least by two-third. A related 1980 “Global 2000 Report” wanted the US population to be reduced by 100 million by 2050.
This has never been about reducing just any population. It has a specific goal to protect first the “white” rich and then a few of the other rich while eliminating the poor, blacks and Indians.
Margaret Sanger’s goal was to “stop the multiplication of the unfit … the most important … step towards race betterment” (note the focus on “race”).
She wanted the “bloodstream of the (white) race” to be as pure as possible. She was involved in a ‘Negro Project’ to limit, if not eliminate, black births. She also detested Indians, considering India’s population (then only 300 million) a “curse”.
Nothing would have pleased her more than the total wipe-out of all Indians.
When she learned that Nehru had agreed to her persistent proposal to start a birth control program in India, she was delighted: “I cannot imagine anything more blessed happening on earth.”
In the minds of such monsters, it will be truly “blessed” when all of us Indians are wiped out.
Rachel Carson was the next prominent Malthusian. Her book, Silent Spring (1962) actively fought technologies that could improve the lives of the poor.
She lied through her teeth about DDT and tried to stop it from being used to fight malaria which kills millions of poor Indians and Africans.
Next came Paul Ehrlich with his 1968 book, The Population Bomb. His hatred for humanity was revealed in the title itself.
Not chastened by the total failure of all his predictions, he gloated in an interview in 2014 about the prospect that things could go so bad that humans will become cannibals. Nothing would please him more than the poor eating each other.
The specific issue of climate alarm originated as part of the Club of Rome of 1968 and its 1973 Limits of Growth report. One of the Club of Rome associates was a wealthy businessman, Maurice Strong, who played a particularly insidious role in drumming up a range of anti-poor hysterias.
The Club of Rome’s influence led to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Program which elected Michael Strong as its head.
Even though major climate scientists of the time were squealing about an impending Ice Age, he picked CO2 warming as his vehicle. After all, the best way to crush the poor is to choke their fossil fuel use.
He, therefore, drove the Action Plan for the Human Environment at Stockholm and Agenda 21 at Rio. This included the infamous Rio precautionary principle which underpins all anti-poor policy.
He had a revulsion for people. In his 2000 autobiography, he dreamt of the day when two-thirds of the world’s population might be wiped out.
A committed socialist, he outlined the plot for a novel in a 1992 interview in which: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Strong was widely supported by thousands of influential like-minded people, many of whom are extremely powerful today: for instance, William Nordhaus, who received the Nobel prize in economics last year.
In a major 1974 article, Nordhaus cited the Club of Rome and said its concerns about “the carrying capacity of the environment” are legitimate and the concept of economic growth itself needs to be reviewed.
He then started a life-long focus on CO2 and has long recommended a carbon tax without ever bothering to check whether CO2 is actually a pollutant.
The Club of Rome and its associate organizations remain active and operate behind the scenes. There is a powerful network of people determined to use climate alarm and anti-GM propaganda as instruments to curb agricultural productivity and choke energy use by the poor.
Al Gore is perhaps the most well-known but the group includes innumerable “scientists” who are happy to fudge data. The Climategate emails demonstrate how these “scientists” operate in the shadows to distort facts and mislead the public.
Our party is keenly aware of the intense hatred these “white” elites have towards India’s poor. We won’t let them get the upper hand. Scientific debate won’t work with them. So we call upon the Modi government shut down the IPCC.
Read more at Times Of India
The trouble with papers like this they oppose wind, and rightly so, but support with open arms farmers poisoning their families!
Sanjeev Sabhlok is right that there are motivations driving that climate change movement that have nothing to do with the climate. Nuclear energy is carbon dioxide emissions free and despite the few disasters has the best safety record per unit of energy. Yet, the activists are hostile to it. An alternate proposal of releasing sulfur aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect heat back into space was meant with instant hostility before its pro and cons could even be considered. It is very obvious the only acceptable course of action to these people is to make energy scarce and expensive.
The motivations that Sabhlok gives are plausible, but there are others that are more probable. The people who advocate and some times succeed in extreme measures often tell us what their real goals are. The leaders of the extinction rebellion want to implement socialism and destroy Britain’s economy. It appears they will be successful with the last goal. I have read many alarmist’s articles that concluded climate change can’t be solved in the capitalistic system. It is very obvious that one major goal of the movement is to implement new taxes. It doesn’t matter what the motivations are, as other comments point out, it is vital that we win this battle.
Remember that the British gave Hong Kong back to China when the 99-year lease was over. Seemed like the right thing to do at the time, before China became a ‘roid-raging behemoth.
Would you give your current standard of living away to nutters like AO-C and Bernie? What would happen if they had the keys to everything? Nothing good.
A perfect characterization of the world’s greatest con! Never forget it’s the arrogant liars pushing “climate change” that are THE existential threat to humanity. CC is simply the vehicle to accomplish dictatorial control over our lives.
Agreed BOXOROX . This is no dress rehearsal . If they could do it the ‘”deniers” would be wiped out hence the threats from the ring leaders. They are desperate the scam is unwinding and they know it . Tens of thousands every year are fuel poverty casualties of the worlds biggest fraud and millions will be next if they pull it off . Thankfully more and more scientists are getting their mojo back .They can no longer stand by while the con men trash their reputations , the scientific method , and sell an overblown irresponsible lie .
It is a trillion dollar scam so it was never going to be easy . Just necessary .
It is wisely stated among educated people that we must choose our battles. This battle is one worth fighting, to keep the global warming gambit from taking over and destroying our lives. To that end, this is also a life-or-death struggle, if the forces insist on taking the issue to that extreme. I’d rather live a quiet life in the way that I have become accustomed. I’ll fight to achieve that.
Gee the Club Of Rome plans seem transparently racist . Who knew ?
Wipe out the poor and weak where have we seen that before ?
The liberals I know cannot talk for 5 minutes on the earth has a fever before they go …. and besides there are just too many people .
When you think about it the UN plan to use global warming as a front aligned a lot of interest .
1. Justified (humane ) mass murder Hitler and Stalin would be envious .
2. Make the rich richer
3. Further wipe-out the middle class and produce more serfs for future slaughter
4. Tax something different just when the people are starting to figure out how screwed they are . Governments almost never cut back and $trillion dollar deficits are approved faster than a bike lane to keep the whole scam afloat a while longer .
5. Rent seekers get to rob tax payers through the government . What an inconvenient truth .
The mass genocide agenda is definitely part of it but it’s just a piece .
6. There is an increasing urgency to the plan and that is the last piece
that commie loving Maurice Strong articulated for the globalists at the UN .
They needed something to galvanize public support … fake global warming
was their Trojan Horse . UN bought and paid for science fiction to justify the scam . The MSM are in on it big time but this Al gore internet thing threw the scam a road block .
Not everyone is drinking the cool aid and the Wizard of Oz is being revealed so there is hope . Just don’t take the foot off the gas or hundreds of millions will get wacked … humanly of course .
This is not about saving the planet from a fake crisis its all about controling our lives its about controling the way we live what we eat or drink and what kin of home we live it its the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons and the Back to Nature freaks its about reducing us all back to a primative state
As your post makes clear, this is not now, nor has it ever been, about climate. It is about the most compelling human motivation, power.