Stop Climate Cult Establishment!

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The so-called “climate science” is based on the output of extremely complex computer climate models that cannot be understood by humans.  Even worse, these models are incorrect, because they contradict well-known principles of mathematics and the information theory.  Other important points:

• Computers are built around silicon chips.
• Silicon (in the form of silicon oxides) is the main component of ordinary stones and rocks.
• The output from the silicon chips is interpreted by so-called “climate scientists” as the prophecy of future climate changes, decades, hundreds, and thousands of years into the future.  The prophesies that were made 20-30 years ago are already proved to be false.
• The so-called “climate scientists” form a closed cast that claims that nobody else can understand their “science,” including famous physicists and mathematicians.  Also, very few of these “climate scientists” have scientific achievements outside of the “climate science” or related environmentalist frauds.  These “climate scientists” and their political/financial sponsors have also persecuted dissenters, and have used the power of governments in this persecution.
• Thus, these “climate scientists” are not scientists and even not ordinary frauds, but the priests or shamans of the climate cult.

The so-called “climate science” is a cult, and has been called a cult by distinguished scientists many times.  This is not a metaphor.  The climate cult is a modern form of the most primitive idolatry, like that practiced thousands of years ago.  Ignorant savages were making stone idols, worshiping them, and making sacrifices.  The climate cult has resurrected this practice, but on the huge scale.  So far, billions of dollars have been spent on the sacrifices to climate cult idols.  Hundreds of billions have been spent to convince or force others to join this cult.

But financial sacrifices are not enough anymore.  The climate cult demands and attempts human sacrifice.  The effort to shut down U.S. energy industries is just one attempt to sacrifice humans on a massive scale.

Obama administration followed the climate cult and attempted to establish it as the state religion.  Trump administration must stop that:

• Immediately remove all materials promoting climate cult from the government websites and other publications.
• Stop supporting climate cult in the government agencies and quasi-governmental institutions.
• Stop funding organization that promote or practice the climate cult, including under the guise of “climate science” or “climate communication.”
• Take all necessary steps against illegal activities of the climate cult within and outside of the government.

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March 16, 2017 at 04:17AM

Obama’s $77 Billion climate funds stash found – will be gutted

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March 16, 2017 at 04:08AM

Outwitting climate change with a plant ‘dimmer’?

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From the TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (TUM) and the “dim and dimmer” department comes this finding that suggests GMO tweaking of plant DNA is the way to “outwit” the apparent nefarious intelligence of climate change.

Molecular mechanism responsible for blooming in spring identified

For many plant species, such as the thale cress, which is often used in research, but also for food crops such as corn, rice and wheat, there are now initiatives currently mapping the genome of many subspecies and varieties. CREDIT Photo: Regnault/ TUM

Outwitting climate change with a plant ‘dimmer’?

Plants possess molecular mechanisms that prevent them from blooming in winter. Once the cold of win-ter has passed, they are deactivated. However, if it is still too cold in spring, plants adapt their blooming behavior accordingly. Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered genetic changes for this adaptive behavior. In light of the temperature changes resulting from climate change, this may come in useful for securing the production of food in the future.

Everyone knows that many plant species bloom at different times in spring. The time at which a plant blooms in spring does not follow the calendar, but is instead determined by environmental factors such as temperature and day length. Biologists have discovered that plants recognize these environmental factors via genetically determined programs and adapt their growth accordingly.

In order to adapt to new climate zones and to ensure the evolutionary success of the species, these genetic programs may be adapted over the course of evolution. These adaptive processes take place passively: Minor changes (mutations) take place in the genetic material (DNA sequence) of the genes involved. If an adaptation proves successful over the following years, a new population establishes itself as a genetically distinct subspecies.

Comparison of Biological Adaptations with Genetic Changes

In order to find out which mutations were used particularly frequently over the course of evolution, scientists compare biological adaptations such as shifts in the point in time at which blooming takes place with existing genetic changes. For many plant species, such as the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), which is often used in research, but also for food crops such as corn, rice, barley and wheat, there are now initiatives currently mapping the genome (entire DNA sequence) of many subspecies and varieties. This makes comparisons at the DNA level particularly simple and efficient.

In the journal eLife, Ulrich Lutz from the Chair of Plant Systems Biology at the TUM and his colleagues from the Helmholtz Zentrum München jointly describe the results of a comparative sequence analysis of the FLM (FLOW-ERING LOCUS M) gene from over a thousand Arabidopsis genome sequences.

FLM binds directly to DNA, allowing it to influence the creation of other genes (transcription), which delays bloom-ing. Via comparisons of the FLM DNA sequence from over a thousand subspecies, Lutz was able to determine which genetic changes occurred frequently as this plant evolved: Generally speaking, these are the changes that provide the plant with an adaptive advantage found in a large number of subspecies. Mutations that did not pro-vide an advantage, on the other hand, were lost over time. The frequency of the changes is therefore an indication that these mutations were the most successful from an evolutionary point of view.

For the FLM gene he characterized, Lutz was able to demonstrate that the genetic changes that occur worldwide have an influence on how frequently and efficiently the FLM gene is read. As FLM is able to delay the point in time at which blooming occurs, a more intensive reading of the gene directly corresponds to later blooming. FLM be-haves much like a light dimmer that the plant uses to regulate gene activity — and hence blooming — on a continuous scale.

FLM Gene Acts Like a Controller

The underlying gene changes influenced this reading of FLM. Modified DNA was found in the area of the gene ‘switch’ (promoter), which regulates how much of the FLM gene is produced. In addition, the mechanism of gene splicing could also be observed: As part of this process, parts are cut out of the interim gene product. The quantity of active FLM can also be adapted via genetic changes that impact gene splicing. Hence, a direct dependency was found between the point in time of blooming and the quantity of the FLM gene, which in Arabidopsis can be finely adjusted via DNA sequence changes.

“The FLM variants we identified are ideal candidate genes that thale cress can use to adapt the point in time at which blooming takes place to the temperature changes caused by climate change,” said Professor Claus Schwechheimer from the Chair of Plant Systems Biology at TUM.

Findings May Help Plants Adapt to Climate Change

Temperature changes of just a few degrees Celsius during the growth phase of crop plants such as canola or sugar beets have a negative impact on agricultural production. In the future, the findings obtained by the team including the TUM scientists may allow the FLM gene to be used as a regulator to help adapt the blooming period to different temperatures as a result of climate change. With this knowledge, the goal of efficient food production over the long term is now within reach.

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Publication: Ulrich Lutz, Thomas Nussbaumer, Manuel Spannagl, Julia Diener, Klaus F.X. Mayer, Claus Schwechheimer: Natural haplotypes of FLM non-coding sequences fine-tune flowering time in ambient spring temperatures in Arabidopsis, eLife 3/2017.

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March 16, 2017 at 04:03AM

Trump Proposes Deep Cuts To EPA, Federal Climate Funding

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President Trump’s first budget proposal includes a 31-percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of an administration effort to slash federal climate change funding.

The budget blueprint, released on Thursday, provides $5.7 billion for the EPA, down from $8.3 billion. The budget “discontinues” $100 million in funding for several climate change programs within the agency, including enforcement for a major Obama-era climate regulation, climate change research and international climate change support.

Trump’s budget slashes funding for industrial waste clean-up through the Superfund program. It also passes along deep cuts to research and development work, the EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Office and state grant programs, and it eliminates funding for region-specific environmental work for areas like the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay.

In all, the budget “eliminates more than 50 EPA programs, saving an additional $347 million” over current levels, and would end 3,200 of the agency’s 15,000 jobs. 

Trump’s budget is only a proposal, and Congress is tasked with writing the actual appropriations bills that fund the government. Lawmakers are likely to take issue with several of his EPA plans and increase spending for the agency above what Trump wants.

The Superfund program, for instance, is popular with members, and region-specific cuts will draw objections for members who represent those areas.

The EPA has absorbed a 20-percent cut since 2010, and some key Republican appropriators — even those who oppose the agency’s climate change work — have already raised concerns about the size and breadth of Trump’s proposal.

The administration says the budget “reflects the success of environmental protection efforts, a focus on core legal requirements, the important role of the states in implementing the nation’s environmental laws, and the president’s priority to ease the burden of unnecessary federal regulations that impose significant costs for workers and consumers without justifiable environmental benefits.”

In all, the EPA was one of the federal departments hardest hit by Trump’s budget. But he takes aim at climate change and energy research in other parts of his government.

The proposal would eliminate several State Department climate programs, including funding for the Global Climate Change Initiative and American contributions to international climate change accounts.

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March 16, 2017 at 02:33AM