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The study’s authors said they found “immense” differences in both the expertise and scientific prominence of those who supported the “primary tenets” of latest assessments made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and those who were sceptical of the IPCC’s findings. – BBC News

A rigged study to lend support to the climate scientists who rig studies!

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

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There’s a distinct tendency among climate alarmists toward uncompromising radicalism, a hatred of “bourgeois” values, a disgust with democratic practices. – Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

The climate-change agents are green and red. Like most activists, agitators, facilitators, change agents, and organizers, they are socialists and not to be trusted. They pretend to serve the people as they cajole and compel us into their service. Every socialist is a liar and a thief — and, ultimately, a murderer.

A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come “not to talk but to act” on climate change. – Politico

Finally, it got to be too much for one fire-breathing female. She stood up from the table and pleaded frantically, “Let’s stop talking and do something!” – F.R. Duplantier, “The 90-Minute Radical”

People seem to understand when they’re being hustled by a salesman. “This offer will not last long,” he says. “You must act now!” Translation: “If I give you time to stop and think, I’m not going to be able to unload this crap.” He doesn’t want to help you out. He just wants to take away your money.

What is a radical but an ideological salesman? And what is “climate change” but the biggest bunch of crap any sleazeball salesman ever tried to sell? “This offer will not last long.” Let’s hope not. “You must act now!” Who says? And why is that, exactly? Could it be that the longer we stop to think about it, the more likely we are to realize what a bunch of crap it is? The radical doesn’t want to help us out. He just wants to take away our freedom.

The vast majority of the countries in the world are socialistic. Can we not have one free country where everyone can go to get away from the others?

A careful review of history should convince any objective student that there has never been an age that was not dominated by conspiracies. But we need not be scholars to reach this same conclusion. We need only open our eyes to see conspiracies all about us. – “Right in Your Own Backyard,” F.R. Duplantier, 1989

If you look closely when Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) first enters his heavily fortified apartment in the movie Conspiracy Theory, you’ll see the cover of a magazine called The New American with the words “Conspiracy Theory” on it. That’s the magazine I edited back in the late 1980s. The particular issue featured in the 1997 film offered an overview of conspiracy theory through the ages, but the focus of every issue was on conspiracy (esp., world socialism). The editorial approach of the magazine before and after my tenure was to preach to the choir, the few thousand longterm subscribers who were already steeped in the subject; but, for the five years that I was there, I tried to address the subject in such a way as to persuade people who were not already convinced — people ordinarily inclined to dismiss conspiracy theorists as kooks (which many, in fact, are). The commentary excerpted above was one such effort, dispensing with the historical approach (which has little persuasive power for historical illiterates) and encouraging people instead to simply look around them, recognize the everyday conspiracies that exist in their own lives, and extrapolate from there.

Conspiracy Theory the movie affirms the method in the madness of those who pick out patterns where others see none. At the outset, Jerry appears to be the archetypal conspiratorial nutcase, obsessed with chemtrails, fluoridation, weather machines, etc. In the end, it turns out that he was on to something: something evil, organized, and secret. A conspiracy.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

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SCIENCE SAYS
“Science says beware because
Now it’s warmer than it was.
Just listen to me
And you’ll agree:
Science says what I say it does.”

From the archive:

INSIDER TRADING
Do delusions of warming derange
And compel poor Al Gore to act strange?
No, the reason he’s fishin’
For those caps on emission
Is his stock in the carbon exchange.
(2007)

HOTHEAD
Has Al Gore taken too many tokes
On that strange cigarette that he smokes?
Still, the burden of proof
Is on every green goof
Who espouses the climate-change hoax.
(2007)

AN INCONSISTENT BOOB, CONT.
“If superior beings ignore
Certain limits and use a bit more,
Then the peons, I guess,
Will just have to use less,”
Sniffed a gluttonous, glutinous Gore.
(2007)

HOT HEADS
They defend climate change willy-nilly,
And lately they’ve gotten plain silly:
Saying snow, ice, and sleet
Must be caused by the heat –
And that’s why the weather’s so chilly.
(2007)

SNOW DOUBT
As a theory it’s cheesily charming,
Except when the neighborhood’s swarming
With snow, sleet, and ice
From unfair Fahrenheits,
And we’re longing for real global warming.
(2006)

MOWER LESS
While it has been unreasonably hot,
And I do tend to wish it were not,
I am glad to save gas
By not cutting the grass,
’Cause there’s none on my shriveled-up lot.
(2006)

AN INCONSISTENT BOOB
Al Gore worries the world’s getting hot,
And all over the globe he will trot,
Warmly warning the masses
About grave greenhouse gases
Caused by people who travel a lot.
(2006)

HEAT RASHNESS
Every Spring they start their swarming
And fantastical alarming,
Fearing and oh-dearing
That the end is nearing,
’Cause it’s April and it’s warming.
(2006)

WARM MONGERS
Alarmists like to heighten
Anxieties and frighten –
Their aim’s made clear
In State of Fear
By author Michael Crichton.
(2006)

ABATED BREATH
Whether sickly or healthy and hale,
We object when the air gets too stale,
But what shall we do
When they ban CO2
And deny us the right to exhale?
(2001)

TRUTH IN THE BALANCE
The temperature’s not getting higher.
Our environmental future’s not dire.
With the best yet to come,
There’s no need to be glum:
Al Gore, you’re an ozone liar!
(2000)

CHICKEN LITTLE
Doomsday deadlines bear recalling
When they’ve passed and we’re not sprawling:
If dreaded fate
Is running late,
Then perhaps the sky’s not falling.
(2000)

EMISSION IMPOSSIBLE
We’re faced with a problem that’s prickly.
We’d better do something, and quickly.
Forget the suspicions
About greenhouse emissions:
It’s the wind from the White House that’s sickly.
(1999)

VICTIMLESS CLIME
The penguin complained, “It’s too hot!”
The hippo replied, “No, it’s not!”
The gator, when polled,
Insisted, “Too cold!”
And the polar bear grumbled, “What rot!”
(1998)

THINK GULLIBLY, ACT LOCO-LY
The temperature rose in July
Compared to December, quite high.
It’s really alarming
This “seasonal warming.”
Oh, lordy, we’re all gonna fry!
(1997)

Last week’s limerick:

WE’RE ALL TERRORISTS NOW
If your moral convictions are strong,
You distinguish between right and wrong,
And believe in one God,
Then you’re certainly odd
And a prison is where you belong.