The Weight of Their Lies.

Having argued with lefties, or lefty liberals on message boards for years, one thing has become utterly plain: no matter the intelligence, experience, training or vocation of these people, ideology and dogma come first. Truth, just as in Lamarckism, comes second place to dogma. A simple truth like, “If you hang a murderer he will never murder again” is immediately attacked. The point itself isn’t attacked but all its implications are and ridiculous statements are issued: “Hanging is not a deterrent” which is like saying hitting the ground at 125 miles per hour is not a deterrent to jumping off a cliff. From this point on their arguments get increasingly complex and confusing as amidst the ad hominems they set up straw men to attack, thus drawing the focus away from the central argument. Common sense itself is something they deride. People who use it are not, apparently, addressing the complexities of the ‘issue’, which they will list and debate on in endless detail, and, of course, every ‘issue’ is complex. A great haze of half-truths, denials and just plain abuse arises, but one thing never changes: their ideology remains unquestioned, written in stone. These people do not argue honestly nor are they honest about what they are arguing. Truth is alien to them.

So, when I increasingly discovered it was these people joining the AGW bandwagon, hysterically declaiming the coming catastrophe and immediately attacking anyone who raised doubts, that immediately raised doubts in me. These people were already impeached witnesses, already proven liars, so should I believe them? No, not a chance.

I started checking up on available evidence, I checked some of the mathematics in articles produced by the liberal-arts graduates in the media, and I started to find the holes. ‘Twenty Metre Sea-level Rise!’ an article would declaim, but when I checked the small print and did a few simple sums I discovered that yes, if you carried the already faulty projection through, that’s what you’d get, in about 15,000 years. ‘Polar Bears Dying!’ another would declaim, but a short search revealed Wildlife and Fisheries figures showing the population on the increase. ‘Polar Bears Drowning!’ the shout would ensue, only I discovered that this land-based mammal can swim hundreds of miles without a problem, and survived the Holocene Climate Optimum, and other subsequent warmings. ‘Greenland is Melting!’ and you discover that yes, some of the ice is, revealing the ruins of farms that were there when it got its name. Then, of course, we had the hockey stick, the disappearance of the Medieval Warm Period … and on it went.

It is in the end, not the weight of contrary evidence that has turned me against the warmists (though that is substantial), but the weight of their lies.

Copenhagen Reality Disconnect.

So, the absolute maximum sea level rise the IPCC can come up with, after perpetually getting its predictions wrong, is about 2 feet in 150 years, which in metric terms is about 4 millimetres a year. The IPCC then of course neglects to mention that the sea level has risen 120 metres since the end of the last Ice Age 18,000 years ago. Getting hold of simple figures like this is now a nightmare on the Internet, because across the board the emphasis is on present global warming and disaster scenarios. But let’s do a little mathematics. 120,000mm divided by 18,000 years = 6.7mm a year. Um.

So, the ice caps are not melting. Whilst Arctic ice has reduced, Antarctic ice is actually increasing and the net amount of ice has remained virtually unchanged since we really started trying to measure these things a mere 30 years ago. The best the watermelons can come up with is that ‘the ice is rotten so the satellite data is wrong’. Sea ice, by the way, is irrelevant, does your drink overflow when the ice cubes floating in it melt? Um.

So, the Polar bear population has quadrupled over the last forty years and a Polar bear can swim hundreds of miles. Polar bears survived the Medieval Warm period, the Roman 600 year long warming, the 4000 year long Holocene Climate Optimum – all periods when it was warmer than now. Um.

So, when its hot or the rain is heavy it’s global warming, but fifteen years of no statistically significant temperature rise, in fact four years of cooling, is just ‘the weather’. Um.

So, in Earth’s past CO2 levels have been far far higher than they are now yet, oddly, we didn’t get runaway global warming turning Earth into Venus. In fact, let’s put a little graph to illustrate that.

Note that during the Late Ordovician Period CO2 concentration was nearly 12 times higher than today at 4400ppm. This was during an Ice Age. Oh, and do you see any connection at all between CO2 levels and temperature? Um.

So, a bunch of painfully thick politicians and enviro-nazis, shivering in the snow and minus four temperature at Copenhagen, have decided that the best way to save the planet from disaster is to wreck our economies with cap and trade, tax us into utter submission, and funnel money to the Third World where it will go straight into the bank accounts of people like Robert Mugabe.

UM!

A Hundred Reasons to Ignore the Bullshit

Here's the first five. You can find the rest here at the Daily Express.

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

** EXPRESS NEWS: 100 REASONS WHY GLOBAL WARMING IS NATURAL**

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.

5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.

Gordon Brown = Prat.

This morning, with the temperature at minus 4 and a white Christmas looking more and more likely we had a moment of pure farce. Utterly straight-faced, Gordon Brown informed viewers of GMTV that if we don’t stop global warming it could wreck the economy. It was one of those moments when the only realistic response has to be to just point and laugh. However, one has to admit that when it comes to wrecking economies Gordon Brown is certainly an expert.

Meanwhile, Copenhagen delegates queue for seven hours in freezing temperatures and snow; Zimbabwe sets an example to us all by demonstrating that the best way to reduce carbon emissions is to murder your population and destroy all your industries.; oh, and here’s a hundred reasons why you don’t need to panic just yet.

Corrupt All the Way to the Top.

Delingpole at the Telegraph informs us:

After the Climategate scandal erupted, few were quicker to dismiss the significance of the leaked emails than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In no way, he insisted, just two days after the story broke, had the integrity of the IPCC been compromised...

You know, I just love the way AGW supporters use the 'big oil' slur against those they label 'deniers', but you can guarantee they'll be fingers in ears and "La la la la la" about all this.

Richard North at EU Referendum covers the depth of the vested interest of Pachauri.

Why I Hate Television

Mummy protested at Greenham Common and now grows organic vegetables at our house in Berkshire, Daddy worked in the City trading in sub-primes and has now moved into carbon futures. I went to Oxbridge where I studied Media & Film and Political Science. I got a first for my dissertation on ‘Russian Poverty and the Rise of Social Justice Under Stalin’, which was a surprise, since I spent so much time protesting against Global Capitalism and smoking dope in Mummy’s flat in Notting Hill. Then I bought a Prius and got a job at the BBC on £50,000 a year.

It’s a given that the TV media has been taken over by lefty-liberal hypocrites and is the propaganda arm of similar lefty-liberal hypocrites who wholly occupy the three main political parties. The typical short bio of a TV producer above is why television has devalued and dumbed-down its news and entertainment, and why people seek both of these on the Internet now. And don’t expect this to change any time soon. Anyone who questions the consensus of these people won’t get past the security guard now, or, if they are already past the door get ousted in regular pogroms, hence we see David Bellamy dragged to the back of the gravy train with environmental correspondents holding his ankles and clutching his beard, then tossed off into nettles, stones and last year’s designer plastic water bottles.

Now, I cannot enjoy a wildlife program without being lectured by Attenborough on how my flat screen TV is killing Polar bears. Every fiction must have its token black man, gay with AIDs and battered mother, whilst the likes of Spooks can never venture near the truth; no Islamic murderers trying to tube-fry citizens since they’ll inevitably turn out to be working for the Mossad or the evil Americans. And every police procedural must propound the truth that thieves and granny-rapers were abused by their fathers and driven to desperation by poverty.

Floods and warm summers are always due to global warming, whilst ten years of cold is just ‘the weather’, and fraud can only be committed by ‘deniers’ and ‘flat earthers’. Gays must at once be promoted to the position of ‘quirky’ presenter whilst we must gloss over the fact that ‘peaceful’ Moslems want them stoned to death. Women’s rights are important, but you must never question the cultural diversity of those who would snip off their clits, bag them like potatoes and murder them should they try to marry outside of the religious ghetto. The Copenhagen delegates who flooded Danish airports with private jets and rented every luxury limo in the country are trying to save the planet, don’t you know? Balance in current affairs programs, say, for example, one about immigration, is essential. This requires a government spokesweasel telling us about the joys of multiculturalism balanced against the racism of crack-smoking hoodies from Hackney.

And you, dear viewer, are stupid stupid stupid, and if you don’t listen to what we’re telling you we’ll bombard you with X-factor, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and soaps until you submit. But really, we don’t care, because we’re off to do a documentary about sea-level rise in the Maldives and if you don’t pay your license fee you will be prosecuted.