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Another Earth Day, and Comrades it's a Cooler One

4/22/2013

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Last year WE posted a bit o' history about Earth Day that's worth revisiting.

That post included an article that described the heavy environmental guilt-trip being laid on children without remorse.  Read it again, and watch the accompanying short video, Green Washing a Young Mind (below)

Earth Day's message:  Eliminate humans
by Brian Sussman, April 22, 2012

Yesterday I took a video crew to the Earth Day Festival in Santa Cruz, California.  I chose this location because this city is known for being a model of greenness, and even maintains Department of Climate Change, complete with a director making $250,000 per year.

The question I posed in my man-on-the street-interviews was, “What is the greatest threat confronting mankind?”

In almost every interview, I was told the greatest threat was the human species.

Most troubling was an interview with a 12-year old girl who said she had been taught in school that global warming was real, that there were too many people on the planet, and that she occasionally thinks it might be best to end her own life to do her part to save the planet.

Her mom stood next to her, proudly looking on.

This is an example of what I write about in chapter six of Eco-Tyranny, entitled “Green Gospel.”  What this girl has been taught is nothing less than green-child abuse. "   (continue)


Here's the video Sussman described ... "Green Washing a Young Mind"

While kids are subjected to a steady diet of dire predictions in schools, there's growing evidence that CO2 greenhouse gas correlations may be significantly wrong, and the planet's condition may even be greening.  But don't expect to get much honesty about that in Washington State, from our local governments, or in the press.  The crisis scenario is too lucrative to abandon.

'Lest you think WE make this up, check out this Reuters story published just last week in Norway:

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Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown
(Reuters) - OSLO, April 16, 2013

Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.

Getting this right is essential for the short and long-term planning of governments and businesses ranging from energy to construction, from agriculture to insurance. Many scientists say they expect a revival of warming in coming years.

Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.

The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapor in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of factors or some as yet unknown natural variations, scientists say.

Weak economic growth and the pause in warming is undermining governments' willingness to make a rapid billion-dollar shift from fossil fuels. Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a plan by the end of 2015 to combat global warming.

"The climate system is not quite so simple as people thought," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" who estimates that moderate warming will be beneficial for crop growth and human health.

Some experts say their trust in climate science has declined because of the many uncertainties. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had to correct a 2007 report that exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers and wrongly said they could all vanish by 2035.

"My own confidence in the data has gone down in the past five years," said Richard Tol, an expert in climate change and professor of economics at the University of Sussex in England.

Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius first showed in the 1890s how man-made carbon dioxide, from coal for instance, traps heat in the atmosphere. Many of the exact effects are still unknown.

Greenhouse gas emissions have hit repeated record highs with annual growth of about 3 percent in most of the decade to 2010, partly powered by rises in China and India. World emissions were 75 percent higher in 2010 than in 1970, UN data show."  
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The article goes on to say that even though anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change models driven by CO2 increases don't seem to be working very well, the IPCC will probably adjust its predictions and carry on anyway.  No surprise there.

May the sane among you, and your little ones, make it through Earth Day without suffering pangs of guilt for living.

ADULT EXTRA - If you can bear a few F-bombs (bless his heart, you know George Carlin) watch this too...

3 Comments
Karl Uppiano link
4/22/2013 02:39:55 am

Happy B-Earth Day, Vladimir Lenin!

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Skagit Razzberry
4/23/2013 01:52:10 am

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste" yet the psuedo-saviors are wasting millions of them. Its another form of child abuse.

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Joan Dow
4/28/2013 12:32:03 pm

George Carlin should be required viewing at Huxley College.

Also, I just watched Dr. John Coleman's 143 minute talk. Whew! What an eye opener. I would like to hear current talks of his.

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