DaveOnTheWestBank
The constant braying of the media about greenhouse gas emissions and how we must spend more and more taxpayers dollars to investigate ways to reduce these emissions are a major source of irritation to many of us. Everyone is on board with this twaddle as far as I can tell. Every political party, all the media with the exception of Peter Williams on TalkBack – even Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb harp on about reducing so-called GHG emissions.
None of them, and I mean absolutely none of them talk about reducing the most effective GHG of them all, namely water vapour. They’d rather gabble on about CO2, CH4 and N2O, which are a miniscule percentage of atmospheric gases. And you wonder why this is.
Anyway, what’s all this stuff about ‘greenhouse’ gases? The planet is not a greenhouse. Gases that make up our atmosphere are atmospheric gases. Greenhouse gases are those gases within the confines of the glass roof and glass walls of a greenhouse.
Consider:
1. The climate is always changing; changes like those of the past half-century are common in the geologic record, driven by powerful natural phenomena
2. Human influences on the climate are a small (1%) perturbation to natural energy flows
3. It is not possible to tell how much of the modest recent warming can be ascribed to human influences
4. There have been no detrimental changes observed in the most salient climate variables and today’s projections of future changes are highly uncertain
Joint Statement of: Dr William Happer, Princeton University, Dr Steven E Koonin, New York University, Dr Richard S Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 19, 2018
Famous atmospheric physicist Dr Richard Lindzen is on record as saying
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.”
But nobody listens to Dick Lindzen, or thousands of other scientists who don’t buy into the world’s greatest rort. He is the voice of reason and scientific integrity and they certainly can’t have that! They’d far rather invite our ‘expert panels’ onto our TV shows and throw money at the darlings of the great Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming boondoggle. They’d rather lionise and fete the likes of teenage climate wunderkind Greta Thunberg who can see CO2, would you believe?
We are expected to believe in the aspirations of the Marxist Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA: that white supremacy is the apex of worldwide evil and Epstein DID hang himself, and that the 2020 US elections were totally above-board and as pure as the driven snow.
They’d rather listen to and give worldwide headlines to those quoted below in their daily quest to propagandise us into accepting carbon taxes, ETSs, electric cars, carbon credits, locking up 1000s of acres of perfectly good food-producing land to grow trees, demonising farmers, dairy cows, dairy sheep (yes, now investigating nitrous oxide production!), ad nauseam.
Our politicians are letting New Zealand down, leading us into penury chasing this dishonest and disgusting handbrake on our collective destiny. Which political leader will have the fortitude to make a break and call it out for what it is – the biggest fraud the world has seen?
Who do you trust? Those quoted above, or those below?
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations
“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination…So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts…Each of us has to decide what the right balance between being effective and being honest.”
(The late) Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”
Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment
“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.”
Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.”
Dr David Frame, climate modeller, Oxford University
“I believe it is appropriate to have an ‘over-representation’ of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience.”
Al Gore, Climate Change activist
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.“
Professor Maurice King
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 – you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC
“But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.”
Ottmar Edenhofer, UN IPCC official
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