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Af Category: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
10:51:38 pm, Categories: Ideologi & Politik, JunkScience, global opvarmning og nedkøling, Lobbyisme, Journalistik, Klimajournalistik, Richard Rahn, David Gress, How much warmer did the Earth get in 2007?
Answer: It did not get any warmer. In fact, actual measurements show there has been no statistically significant increase in global temperatures since 2001, contrary to what the models used by the global-warming alarmists have been predicting (you might have noticed the weather models have predicted many more tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic and Caribbean for the last two years than actually occurred).
Predicting disaster and bad news sells newspapers, boosts TV ratings, enables politicians to find excuses to tax more and reduce our liberties, and creates new lobbies from those who benefit from the government grants.
Most of us have learned to question the predictions of sports figures or those trying to sell us something because they have a vested interest in the outcome. We need to treat the predictions of various disasters with the same caution and skepticism.
We would all like our politicians, reporters, lawyers, and scientists to be totally pure in their motives — but, being human, many are not.
More in The 2007 bad news quiz by Richard Rahn.
Skandinaviske læsere se også: Det urolige klima af David Gress i Jyllands-Posten.
Af Category: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
15:06:12, Categories: EU, Miljø og Teknologi, Kyoto, Innovation og Vækst, Sikkerhed og Integritet, Ideologi & Politik, JunkScience, Velfærdspsykose, Tøjleri, Økologisme, Kollektivisme, Bureaukrati, Religion, Videnskab, Socialisme, Forsigtighedsprincippet, Konsensus, Folkesundhed, Miljøbevægelsen, Planøkonomi, ITSSD, Lawrence Kogan, Overtro, Maskinstorm, Since European precautionary principle proponents advocate that ‘quality of life’ considerations, moral values, and social and environmental group (communal) concerns should serve a predominant role in international policy-making to address future potential public harms, it is incumbent upon all other nations to question the source of these beliefs. They must demand strict transparency and accountability from those who argue in favor of changing the current ‘risk-based’ global paradigm to a new ‘precautionary principle’ hazard-based paradigm, which dictates the extent to which all societies may use and rely upon science in evaluating potential future public dangers. After all, is it not the advocates of precaution who bear the burden of proving to the world that a paradigm shift focusing primarily on the ‘unknowables’ of life is actually necessary? Mustn’t they prove beyond a preponderance of the evidence that this utopian vision can not result in greater harms to global society than those they are intended to eliminate? And, isn’t it they who must demonstrate that the assumptions underlying these beliefs reflect a reasoned rather than a desperate, pessimistic view of reality? [...]
As in Plato’s utopian republic, European regional policy is crafted by an exceptionally educated class of ‘guardian philosophers’ namely, EU Commissioners, who love the vision of truth. This vision consists both of that which is known to be real and that which is believed/ perceived to be real. These philosophers are selected and overseen by a legislator (the EU Parliament and the Council of Ministers review laws proposed by the Commission). To the extent the guardians carry out the intent of the legislator, their rule will remain unchecked by the other citizens (e.g., the social and environmental non-governmental organizations) whose interests are represented in the Parliament and the Council. In the end, the European public (i.e., the man and woman on the street whose interests are not so represented) must trust that well-intentioned EU Commissioners, prodded by these ideologues, will adequately protect their interests. Notably, the common people and soldiers of Plato’s Republic were likewise obliged not to question their guardian philosophers, who retained the sole political power to pursue ‘justice’ for the social ‘good’ of the community. [...]
Europeans must realize that the precautionary principle will lessen Europe’s future quality of life by slowing down European economic growth, retarding European innovation and reducing the number and types of opportunities that will exist for future generations of Europeans. They must recognize, therefore, before it is too late, that a precautionary principle-based regulatory model runs counter to the vision underlying the Lisbon Strategy of neoliberal economic reform.[...]
In essence, some sort of blurring or unnatural fusion may have occurred between the multitude of values and phobias long submerged within Europe’s collective psyche and the extreme, almost religious utopian ideologies of post-communist European social and environmental groups. This convolution of European fears, ideals and hypothetical realities has manifested itself in the form of the precautionary principle. If its underpinnings indeed manifest a disease (i.e., "Precautionus Principilitis"), its symptoms and diagnosis would be quite telling: a disorder induced by stress and repressed feelings of inferiority and desperation, marked by extreme luddism, incoherent babbling, disorientation, and a shared form of delusion. But what is worse, instead of suffering this disturbance in private, the European regionalists seek to convert the entire world to their disordered understanding of reality. They are driven to do this, as a means of denying the guilt attendant with the sociopathic manner in which they are manipulating the rest of the world, while injecting their own shortcomings into a world system over which they now claim moral superiority.[...]
Read more in Precautionus Principilitis: A Psychosocial Disorder Causing Luddite Psychobabble by Lawrence A. Kogan and Robert Stein.
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
15:26:10, Kategorier: Konkurrence og Regulering, Miljø og Teknologi, Kyoto, JunkScience, co2, global opvarmning og nedkøling, Økologisme, Videnskab, Intervention, Miljøbevægelsen, CO2-kvoter, The primer [from the National Center for Policy Analysis ] says, “Polar bear numbers increased dramatically from around 5,000 in 1950 to as many as 25,000 today, higher than any time in the 20th century.” - The primer gives detailed sources for all of its findings, and it supplies us with information we can use to stop politicians and their environmental extremists from doing a rope-a-dope on us. - Det skriver Walter E. Williams i kommentaren Global Warming Facts .
Pamfletten minder læseren om at: drivhusgasser er livsnødvendige; at de udgør en begrænset del af jordens atmosfære; at planter absorberer CO2; at menneskeheden er ansvarlig for en fjerdedel af en procent af den samlede "drivhuseffekt"; at planeten i sig selv frembringer kollosale afvigelser i CO2-indholdet i atmosfæren; at der over tid ikke er nogen snæver sammenhæng mellem CO2 og den gennemsnitlige globale temperatur; at der er cykliske tendenser, der betyder at der er altid er en udvikling i retning af enten global opvarmning eller global nedkøling; at der indenfor blot de seneste 3000 år kan konstateres væsentlige forskelle i den gennemsnitlige globale temperatur - ikke mindst før den livgivende industrialisering var en realitet (som jo først begyndte i slutningen af 1800-tallet); at den globale gennemsnitstemperatur i Romertiden var på niveau med den globale gennemsnitstemperatur i dag; at man i velstående lande udleder mest CO2; at man i USA dog alligevel har reduceret væksten i CO2-udledning mere end i EU (trods højere vækst og en større befolkningstilvækst); at omkring 40 procent af den amerikanske CO2-udledning absorberes af planter; at forudsigelser hvad angår temperatur og klimaforandringer er ekstremt usikre og ikke-konsistente; at der er ret stor uenighed blandt vidensskabsfolk om de menneskelige påvirkningers rolle i.f.t. klimaet; at stigninger i havets niveau siden 1961 ligger under det historiske gennemsnit; at der som nævnt tidligere har været en tilvækst af isbjørne siden 1950'erne; at hverken styrken eller antallet af orkaner har været tiltagende (men enten må siges at være stabilt eller aftagende); at vejr-relaterede dødsfald har været markant aftagende siden 1920'erne og 30'erne; at tørke i USA var et langt større problem i 1930'erne og 1950'erne end det er tilfældet i dag; at en øget mængde CO2 styrker planters vækst; at Kyoto-protokollen som den ser ud i dag ikke vil gøre en forskel i praksis; - samt at Kyoto-protokollen vil have betydelige negative konsekvenser for de såkaldte "udviklingslande".
Læs mere i http://www.ncpa.org/globalwarming/GlobalWarmingPrimer.pdf
Af Category: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
08:03:56 pm, Categories: Energi, JunkScience, Al Gore, Multinationale selskaber, When climate cranks came to whine about ExxonMobil's alleged corporate irresponsibility and try to get the company to accept the Gospel of Global Climate Change according to Al Gore, the oil behemoth's bosses told them to go fly a kite in a wind farm.
The hero was CEO Rex W. Tillerson, a business exec with old-fashioned testosterone who deserves every dime of the $8.4 million pay package he took home in 2006. He stood up to dissident shareholders (climate cranks) who wanted his company to invest more heavily in alternative energy and to stop giving money to think tanks that question the shaky scientific and political tenets of catastrophic global warming.
Read more in 'Big Oil' in the real world by Bill Steigerwald.
Seen on www.csrwatch.com.
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
20:37:50, Kategorier: JunkScience, George Reisman, global opvarmning og nedkøling, Al Gore, Se engang på de to planeter Jorden og Venus: De er næsten nøjagtig lige store og har næsten samme mængde kulstof. Forskellen er, at mens det meste af kulstoffet på Jorden findes i undergrunden, hvor det er blevet efterladt af forskellige livsformer igennem de sidste 600 millioner år, er det meste af kulstoffet på Venus ude i planetens atmosfære.
Resultatet er, at mens gennemsnitstemperaturen på Jorden er behagelige 15 grader celsius, er den på Venus hele 464 grader celsius. Og godt nok er Venus nærmere solen, end vi er men problemet er ikke vores fælles stjerne, for Venus er i snit tre gange varmere end Merkur, der befinder sig endnu nærmere solen. Problemet er CO2.
- Det skriver Al Gore i Kristeligt-Dagblad. (og mange andre steder).
George Reisman svarer på ovenstående, der også blev trykt i New York Times:
No, Mr. Gore, it’s not the carbon dioxide. If you take the trouble to do an internet search on Google for “carbon dioxide” + “Martian atmosphere,” you will learn that the Martian atmosphere is 95 percent carbon dioxide, yet the average surface temperature on Mars is -63° C (-81° F). (It's true that the atmosphere on Mars is only about .6 percent as dense as that on Earth, but it's also true that its relative concentration of carbon dioxide is about 2400 times as great as that of Earth, which appears to make up for the thinness of the Martian atmosphere about 14 times over.)
Læs mere i - Gore: Ignorant or Dishonest?
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
16:05:04, Kategorier: JunkScience, Økologisme, Verdensnaturfonden, Thomas Malthus, Naomi Klein, Civita, Where in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Malthusians warned that population growth threatened people with starvation, today’s Malthusians denounce people for threatening the planet by consuming too much. As a result, contemporary Malthusianism has an unusually strident and misanthrophic streak. In the West, the population-control lobby castigates those who have large families for being environmentally irresponsible. Having children, especially lots of children, is now discussed as an ‘eco-crime’ on a par with pollution.
- Det skriver Frank Furedi i Population control. Flere af de argumenter han har fundet hos neo-malthusianere kan i øvrigt også genfindes hos den danske miljøbevægelse. Det gælder blandt andet følgende - jævnfør også Forbrugerstyrelsens kamp mod "forbrugerisme":
The distinctive feature of Malthusianism is its profound consciousness of limits. The fatalistic Malthusian outlook looks upon people as parasitic consumers whose appetites are limited only by the obstacles thrown up by nature. Og det er præcis den samme retorik, man finder hos forbrugerstyrelsen, hvor man skriver at vores adfærd "tærer på jordens ressourcer".
Projektet efter velfærdsstaten handler for den nye økologisk bevidste venstrefløj således om at begrænse antallet af mennesker. Anti-humanisme har således erstattet troen på at socialisme kunne frembringe bedre og mere effektive maskiner. Og man har jo fra barnsben af, lært at være indædt modstander af markedsøkonomien. Derfor gælder det i stedet om at finde noget, man mener at markedsøkonomien kan få skylden for. Det store problem man nu har forbundet markedsøkonomien med er således - forbrugsevne!
(Dennis Nørmark har således ganske passende sammenlignet den venstreorienterede med hunden, der løber efter en bus uden rigtig at vide hvorfor, og som ikke ville vide hvad den skulle gøre, hvis bussen en dag stoppede.)
Læs Population control af Frank Furedi (set via www.civita.no).
Læs også Propaganda fra staten (om malthusiansk undervisning via skatten).
Forbrugerstyrelsen: Læs kapitel 9 eller fra side 220 i Naomi Kleins bog NO LOGO om mærkerne, magten, modstanden. Hvad synes eleverne om de vilkår, produkterne bliver produceret under? og Tror eleverne, at jorden har ressourcer til at klare en videre stigning i forbruget, eller at alle mennesker i verden forbruger ligeså meget, som vi gør i Danmark.
- Hvad mon svaret fra skolebørnene bliver, når man har undervist længe nok via Verdensnaturfondens og andre Malthusianske organisationers doktriner?
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
16:38:28, Kategorier: Fedme, JunkScience, Forbrugerformynderi, George Bush, Hvad har George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Brad Pitt, George Bush junior, Will Smith, Denzel Washington samt Bruce Willis til fælles? - Svar: De er overvægtige ifølge den amerikanske stat og sundhedsformynders retningslinier for, hvad man bør veje.
Hvad så med Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone og Mike Tyson? - Ja, de er ifølge samme offentlige standarder direkte fede - på engelsk "obese".
Prøv selv at komme gennem statens nåleøje i ARE YOU "FAT"? Læs også - Hail To The Overweight Chief?
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
14:17:05, Kategorier: JunkScience, George Reisman, Økologisme, Pesticider, The reason that one after another of the environmentalists' claims turn out to be proven wrong is that they are made without any regard for truth in the first place. In making their claims, the environmentalists reach for whatever is at hand that will serve to frighten people, make them lose confidence in science and technology, and, ultimately, lead them to deliver themselves up to the environmentalists' tender mercies. The claims rest on unsupported conjectures and wild leaps of imagination from scintillas of fact to arbitrary conclusions, by means of evasion and the drawing of invalid inferences. It is out and out evasion and invalid inference to leap from findings about the effects of feeding rats or mice dosages the equivalent of a hundred or more times what any human being would ever ingest, and then draw inferences about the effects on people of consuming normal quantities. Fears of parts per billion of this or that chemical causing single-digit deaths per million do not rest on science, but on imagination. Such claims have nothing to do either with actual experimentation or with the concept of causality.
Read more in George Reismans The Toxicity of Environmentalism.
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
12:10:04, Kategorier: JunkScience, co2, Chris Horner, Uriasposten, Klimajournalistik, Myte 4: - CO2 er den mest almindelige Drivhusgas.
Fakta: Vanddampe eller skyer, der tilsammen udgør omkring 3% af atmosfæren er den mest udbredte Drivhusgas. CO2 udgør kun 3 pct. af de samlede drivhusgasser eller omkring 0,03 pct. af atmosfæren. Derudover er vanddampe - på grund af sin molekulære vægt og absorberende kapacitet - 3000 gange mere effektiv som Drivhusgas end CO2. Dem der giver CO2 skylden for klimaforandringerne nævner aldrig, - eller ihvertfald meget sjældent - dette vigtige faktum.
- Læs flere myter og henvisninger hos Uriasposten i posteringen Christopher C. Horner: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming.
Af Kategori: JunkScienceSimon Espersen,
16:52:32, Kategorier: JunkScience, Connie Hedegaard, Channel 4, Klimajournalistik, IPCC, The Great global warming swindle er titlen på en 1 time og 14 minutter lang video, som kan ses via Google. En lang række videnskabsmænd kommer til orde i den, og de giver FNs klimapanel, IPCC, og dens konklusioner et ordentligt skud for boven....
- Det skriver Niels Gundersen, der er medstifter af foreningen Frie Elforbrugere i Jyllands-Posten, og opfordrer alle - og specielt miljøminister Connie Hedegaard - til at bruge tid på at se og høre denne video og derved få en mere nuanceret opfattelse af den globale opvarmning.
