The science teacher said we were all going to suffer because of the mistakes her generation had made (the baby-boomers) and that we had to stop it. She was an ardent environmentalist and talked about many other subjects with which my parents and I agreed. She was against the destruction of wetlands and the overdevelopment of sensitive areas which is destroying the aquifer, the overabundance of golf courses and people fertilizing their lawns which contributes to nutrient runoff and red tide, and a certain loathing of the oil companies which is almost universal among Floridians in the decades-long campaign to secure offshore drilling rights. They always say that their drilling is clean and won't impact the beaches, but the experience of Louisiana and Texas suggests otherwise.
Bush was president, it was known that he was a big oil man, a global warming skeptic, and basically wanted to bomb everyone in central Asia. He was held up as the epitome of the 'boomers ruining the planet' meme before memes even really existed. Furthermore, he had the support of conservatives, of whom most of my neighbors and classmates' parents were (although it eroded considerably in his second term), and this was seen as something to be resisted. Conservatives were ruining our future because they were stuck in old outdated ideas and all they cared about was getting their retirement while everyone else was left to clean up the mess. I remember feeling disappointed and irritated about being screwed by the 'old people', but I didn't care enough about it to become militant. I was more interested in high strangeness and paranormal subjects, and was convinced that the planet was being scouted for an alien invasion at some point, and that that would supersede any of these other concerns.
There was also physical experience that sort of backed up the global warming claim. In the summer it is hot, and in December it is oftentimes still kind of hot. For about 6 months out of the year the sun has a certain "sizzle" to it. I had a sort of love-hate relationship with sunscreen; I hated the way it made my skin goopy and grimy, but it was better than being cooked and becoming totally debilitated. Staying covered up wasn't an attractive option either, because that usually just increased the temperature from hot to miserably hot. Several times, I remember coming home from sailing on a boat and basically being unable to move due to sunburn and just laying in bed moaning and wallowing in aloe vera for a day or so. My grandma scolded me for not using sunscreen so I worked out a compromise where I would apply the sunscreen when I started to turn pink. As I got older, I built up more of a tolerance to it where I could get through just about a full day without turning pink, but that is the limit, and the next day I either have to stay inside or get the sunscreen out.
My grandparents, who were getting older and more sensitive to heat, also reported that the sting of the sun on their skin was worse than they remember, and that it must be due to global warming. It was difficult for me and my friends to imagine anyone being able to live in this environment. It was one thing to spend a day mowing lawns and come home at the end of the day into the air conditioning and a cool shower (although even this was fairly miserable); it was quite another to be a pioneer with none of these things, unless maybe you lived close to a spring. We decided that the climate must have been more livable in the past and that this was another aspect of global warming. I didn't ponder until later that there was probably a reason why white people were concentrated in far northern (relative to me) climates throughout most of recorded history.
It wasn't until college that I got a slightly different view on global warming. In astronomy class there was a discussion with the professor about climate cycles going back millions of years, hothouse and icehouse earth theories, and how a Cryogenian 'snowball Earth' scenario was no longer a concern for the future because, according to the standard nuclear model of stellar evolution, solar luminosity increases as stars age and begin to fuse heavier elements in their cores. Long- term, Earth's climate was dictated by the solar energy flux and perturbations in Earth's orbit.
There was a bigger-picture view to climatology, and the scale and scope of the solar system was so much greater than the terrestrial system that the Earth had no choice but to follow suit. It was then mentioned in passing that there was a Medieval Warm Period prior to 1650, and that this was likely caused by a fluctuation in the Sun's output. I had never before heard of this medieval warm period; everything that I had ever been taught about climatology began with what I was now hearing was called the Little Ice Age. There had been some mention of the climate being warmer during the time of the dinosaurs, but this was due to very slow and gradual movements of the continents which take place over millions of years, certainly nothing that humans had been around long enough to pontificate about.
The professor was very careful not to stray too far from the party line: he said that CO2 was still a very potent greenhouse gas, and that, in the short term, AGW was overpowering any effects from the Sun. Due to my interest in astronomy and the space sciences, I became curious about space-based catastrophes, such as those proposed by Clube and Napier, and how they might influence the climate to a degree that was inexplicable by terrestrial mechanisms alone. Taking all of these things together, by the time I was 25 I had done a complete u-turn on my global warming stance. If the Electric Universe theory was correct, there was no way to predict solar luminosity without having a map of the various current flows around the galaxy, meaning Earth's climate was ultimately directed from the galactic level, and it can change suddenly and chaotically, because we really have no idea about how the galaxy actually works.
So I understand why some liberals are so militant. They sincerely believe that conservatives are going to destroy everyone with their ideology. They see their role as that of protectors of humanity; the fate of their children and families depends on it. But in fact they are being manipulated to be its destroyers. (Mind you, American conservatives believe in some comparably destructive nonsense. The whole "Jehovah is going to use the Jews to save the devout" shtick, for example, is why I generally can't stand conservatives either.)
I received essentially the same education today's liberals did, except now it has a more revolutionary (in the Bolshevik sense) tone. In my case, I didn't succumb to ideological-possession, although ideology did have an influence, but I was nonetheless subtly conditioned through the cherry-picking of data to conclude that the liberal position was correct. Ironically, it was the very same educational system that was meant to enslave me that opened the door a crack to alternative explanations through explorations of the hard sciences.
Once the crack was there, the Cassiopaean experiment greatly accelerated my ability to put the pieces together. That must be why the media manipulators are working so fervently to turn science into a propaganda ministry: so that no consciousness can escape, and so that even the organized, logical, and analytical ones will have little choice but to feed energy into the grand illusion.
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I watched, I discussed it with the store owner and some friends, (I lived in a small village)
I thought it was a very depressing vision of the future, I couldn't watch to the end, I looked upon it as nothing more than a propaganda piece, and the store owner agreed, other than my friends.
And my initial observations at that time, has become a reality to my mind.
The thing that strikes me after all those years, is how little we know and understand, as the general population, the world we live in, the climate under which we live, and the cosmic forces that also influence our world and climate
And how nefarious organizations, have tapped into that ignorance to mobilize a whole slew of young people into a fear porn ideology, that the world will end if we do nothing.
And that doing nothing of course means that the people will have to pick up the tab for "Doing Nothing"
Meanwhile corporate producers of mass ecological damage and pollution, will pass on any fines to the consumer. a win win situation for the. corporation, they are fined, the consumer picks up the tab.
Without realizing, that the world has survived many disasters, mass extinctions loss of cultures (some even within our own lifetime) for eons, millions of years.Some in the historical record, there is no name or place, just fragmentary remains for the anthropologists and archeologists to ponder over.
And a few ignorant adults and children, have the hubris, that they can save the world as we know it.
'And how nefarious organizations, have tapped into that ignorance to mobilize a whole slew of young people into a fear porn ideology, that the world will end if we do nothing.
And that doing nothing of course means that the people will have to pick up the tab for "Doing Nothing"
Meanwhile corporate producers of mass ecological damage and pollution, will pass on any fines to the consumer. a win win situation for the. corporation, they are fined, the consumer picks up the tab.'
Yup, and sadly that is exactly how this STS world works, most people just act according to their programs and just stick to the party line.
Great article Nial, thank you
It's the "fake love" motivator, which is probably the best brainwashing tool ever. That's why every TV advert, billboard, supermarket window, etc, is trying to convince you that they love you, and they love 'our planet', so you buy their sh*t.
People who come out with things like "Save the planet", "Don't you love our planet?" etc, should ask themselves: Do you really "love a planet?" What does it mean to "love a planet?"
To me it all sounds like one of those arch absurd Marc Bolan lyrics: "Ah-h-h-could-have-loved-you-gurl-like-a-plan-etttt"....[Link]
LOL.
The other, more nefarious thing is deliberate falsification. Beside of Mann's hockey-stick curve, the temperature vs. atmospheric CO2 is turned on it's head, too. The CO2 follows the temperature with a lag of some months. One must have a real strong faith to believe that the cause can follow the the effect. Or, to believe cow farts and SUV exhaust gasses can heat up mars, venus,merkur, and other planets.
Roll the logic out and it becomes perfectly obvious that we have a problem.
What I do not agree with is the way the elites have shifted the blame away from themselves and are now looking for a new income revenue stream with all these proposed fines and penalties.
Weather modification/engineering seems to be left out of the discussion surrounding this topic on purpose, most of academia shy away from this elephant in the room, just as the MSM do the same, they stick to the script.
Checkout Dane Wigington's work at www.geoengineeringwatch.org
My gut instinct is that he is a honest man speaking an inconvenient truth.
I'm a Commercial pilot that flies almost every day. One of my tasks during the initial climb is to note the 'outside air temperature' at 6,000ft pressure altitude and then record a series of engine parameters, the overall task is called engine trend monitoring.
I have noticed over the last few years an ever increasing temperature at this altitude, this will naturally have an effect on the surface temperature as well.
Harvard University are openly admitting to experiments in solar radiation management (SRM) and stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), checkout: [Link]
Dane Wigington has done extensive research into weather modification that commenced in earnest after WW2, please checkout his work: [Link]
I started recording these temperatures aloft in 2007 when a typical Summer time average at 6,000ft would be around 13C-16C at my latitude, this year I have seen temperatures up to 22C at 6,000ft, this is highly unusual and we actually have to reduce power so as to not 'over temp' the turbine engine of the plane.
Just my observation as a professional pilot.
Not just possession for sale but control. All of this is about energy control. Who controls the supply of energy controls the world.
Monopolistic power grab seeks broad spectrum dominance globally - but at the same time it has a very busy and costly time trying to suppress and subject other polarities (self-interests of others) - although it always passes on the costs to take the profits.
I go deeper in recognising the mindset of control as a primary driver of thought and development of technologism towards control - which viewed from any other perspective is addiction of a driven compulsion - giving power to negative and destructive interpretation as pre-emptive attack as the best defence.
The Internment of Things IoT - with 5G+ is for the real time surveillance and control of energy - both globally and granularly (in detail). Sure it can be used to avoid 'shocks' - but who defines and programs the system as to what a threat is?
Carbon guilt - if it can be ratified into world consciousness - can be used to emasculate corporate and individual freedom. While corporates NEED holding to account for their toxic dumping and canopy regulatory denials of a truly diverse (inc micro) economy - this simply needs genuine transparency and accountability to law that protects the whole - not the protection racket.
There is no threat from CO2 unless butting a bag over your head and keeping it there - though in the short term this (CO2) can release the overbreathing of a panic attack). There are extinction scenarios mostly playing out as man made population control by stealth.
You are environmentally conditioned to self hate as a human for spoiling your Planet (You didnt) and regard people as a virus or cancer on the Planet (they are not). False thinking works like a parasite to usurp your own thoughts even while you believe you are making your own choices. Self-hate is self-judgement, rejection, denial, doubt, division - and the narrative of an apparent unity for such a split mind is tyrannous in the name of your 'survival' in terms of separation from what you hate or fear. This has worked itself to its own end-game as an internalised structure of a default of invisible consciousness usurped by fear and division.
Time for the fear to come out now - or else we choose extinction under the illusion of escaping a projected fear by denying our true presence - even unto death.
You can play with opinions about the bait - warming cooling and any of the story set up to engage in - but unless your story reflects the true of you and not the truth of fear and conflict evasion as a denial of awareness - then you knowingly are choosing unconsciousness under power given over to those who suck yours for their sustainability as controllers. Your Globalist Controller Needs You! This recruitment poster simply wouldn't work and so they present the same call to sacrifice yourself and your living world as a way to 'save your world and thus feel better about the terrible guilt that is nothing to do with the story you are being sold and everything to do with the powerlessness in both terror, rage and hertbreak of self-hate, self-judgement, self-rejection, self-denial, self-doubt, as a state of division that willingly suckles on its 'protector'. Which firstly is your OWN mind-script of control in place of a true relational presence. The rest is a matter of resonance.
The ability to look into our behaviours and analyse for points of leverage is coupled with the intent to use anything and everything to achieve insane goals.
There is a basis to make a qualitative shift - but this is invisible and inconceivable to control addicts who see a contraction, cut back and limiting 'austerity' as the means to sustain control.
Fear is the mind killer. Fear is division under force and density by which love's inherence is ruled OUT.
Hysteria is no basis from which to act ESPECIALLY UNDER AN EMERGENCY.
But the leveraging of shock and horror to set up the MUST act now! DO SOMETHING literally casts a spell because once we act from a premise, we have internalised its belief as our reality.
Underneath all appearances we live in a world of free will - but not in the frame of internalised beliefs of a coercive intent justified by fear and grievance. They must run their course. You choose whether to walk out the frame or run away from your self - but only when you can see a choice. The nature of fear-guilt manipulation is to frame only the choice that persists the past of conflict onto the present - as if this time it will work!
They always say that their drilling is clean and won't impact the beaches, but the experience of Louisiana and Texas suggests otherwise.True that! I lived through the 2010 BP WMD attack on the gulf. I'm still amazed at how no one acknowledges both the destruction and the total media coverup that happened. 70% of the oil " just vanished ".. My ass!
The whole "Jehovah is going to use the Jews to save the devout" shtick...That annoys me too. Usually I'll hear some minister mutter about "Jews", implying that they are "chosen" but never getting into the topic. Just from my own reading and observing their actions, I became convinced long ago that while those we know of as "the Jews" may have been Gods chosen people 2000+ years ago, they aren't the same as those who torture and oppress the Palestinian people as well as doing all sorts of vile stuff, usually secretly, around the world. Just because you wear a funny hat and beat your head against a wall doesn't mean you are chosen of God. Any more then being a hate filled racist makes you a democrat
I still laugh at the notion that since we have kept spotty records of temperature observations since the 1600's that we somehow grok totally the planets climate and fully understand how both the sun and our solar system/Galaxy plays into what we see and feel on a daily basis. The trick the alarmists are pulling on the "ignorant" masses is so obvious...
Q-Boy: What would want to say to world leaders yada yada ?
GT: "Um, that we've had enough. . . uh, um. is there anyone else who'd like to answer that questiion? (I don't have an answer to it in the prepared script I'm always given before a 'performance.')
Painful and cruel. Obviously, her parents have long seen her as a potential Shirley Temple to take advantage of, by selling to the highest bidder, which - but for lookks - would have been to J. Epstein.
Whatever. It IS child abuse - far moreso than most of what is charged as such in the USA.
R.C.
Greta Thunberg is not a child, she is 16 years old, although the pigtails are obviously some kind of child abuse fetish item.
I grant that in our generation there were many 16-18 year olds who were more adult than average adults then, (and way more so comparing vs. 'adults' now) who were mature enough to go out and deal with life; in a fashion that College Graduates today cannot accomplish.
I am confident that the vast majority of folks here were emotionally 'independent' at a far earlier age than now. I moved out of home for college at age 18? And I never moved back home, either, though ,my room was still there.
Whatever. Hope your workweek goes well!
R.C.
I remember being among the first wave of True Believers. When I went to a community screening of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth", I had already nearly a decade of anti-industry propaganda tucked under my belt and was able to speak with some authority to my friends and neighbors. One must forgive one's past idiocy; I was ignorant and angry and young and I Knew It All. Pft.
Only by confronting myself (via forums like those here and learning that personality comes in layers and that much of it isn't even a product of choice but rather a series of mechanical programs linked to emotional triggers which are themselves linked to more mechanics..), and through willfully asking the question: "Well, smarty pants, if you're correct then surly you shouldn't be afraid of testing your beliefs, right?" -If it turns out you're right, then that's great, plus you'll have accumulated granular knowledge on the subject. If you're wrong, then wouldn't you want to pull false ideas and plug in accurate ones? Will you be stronger for being stubborn and not admitting you were made the fool, but rather looking your own errors in the face and fixing them, one by one?
The climate debate is a wonderful opportunity for soul growth.