When the press use a term like “falsely labeling” – it almost always means the claim was correct. “Trump again decries two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the female boxers as men” Trump again decries two Olympic gold medal … Continue reading →
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November 4, 2024 at 03:54PM
By Jo Nova
In the spirit of this strange moment, as Mark Steyn says:
But in Botswana everyone voted on Wednesday, the last up-country results came in on Thursday, the ruling party conceded and the new guy was sworn in on Friday.
That’s a normal election in a normal country.
Meanwhile, back in the greatest country in the history of countries, in twenty-four hours we shall be embarking on the usual folderol offour-hour lines to vote, malfunctioning machines, burst water pipes, court injunctions to keep polls open or close them down (according to taste), pausing the count before it’s completed, and the GDP-boosting quadrennial spike in plywood sales as storekeepers in DC and elsewhere board up their windows.
Meanwhile, nobody does advertising better than Americans — the pageantry, power, persuasion and fun:
New Trump ad just dropped
Staring Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Nicole Shanahan, JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy. pic.twitter.com/Dm4RN8oFZY
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 4, 2024
It’s not about the left versus the right, it’s the people against the corruption…
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November 4, 2024 at 03:14PM
Actually I discovered this news by way of Desmog whose report was in the spirit of Greta’s reaction to disbelief in CO2 hysteria. Alberta Conservatives Pass Climate Denial Resolution 12 to Celebrate CO2 Pollution. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
UCP pledges to abandon the province’s net zero targets,
and remove the designation of CO2 as a pollutant.
UCP members voted in favor of a resolution to “recognize the importance of CO2 to life and Alberta’s prosperity.” Credit: Danielle Paradis [Participants numbered over 6000]
Alberta’s United Conservative Party has passed a resolution to rebrand carbon dioxide — the chief gas whose overabundance in Earth’s atmosphere is causing the climate emergency — in a brazen display of climate science denial that harkens back to the 1990s fossil fuel industry playbook.
Resolution 12, which falls under the “environmental stewardship and emissions reduction” area of the policy discussion, will “recognize the importance of CO2 to life and Alberta’s prosperity.”
In approving the resolution, the UCP resolved to abandon the province’s net zero targets, remove the designation of CO2 as a pollutant, and further “recognize that CO2 is a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.”
“We must prioritize policies that protect our economy and our way of life. CO2 is an essential nutrient for mass, driving growth and boosting plant production. According to the CO2 Coalition, higher CO2 levels have led to healthier crops and improved food security worldwide,” said a UCP member speaking in favour of the policy who cited the notorious CO2 Coalition.
The resolution passed by a wide majority.
I searched in vain for any news report citing reasons favoring such a resolution. Instead, the journalists repeated the activist mantras, like lemmings impervious to any POV not proscribed by the canon. Before getting into that content, let’s remember that this political party is faithful to its constituents.
In 2015 Canadians were asked for their candid views of global warming/climate change. The two principle questions were:
1. “From what you’ve read and heard, is there solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past four decades?”
2. [If yes, solid evidence] “Is the earth getting warmer mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels or mostly because of natural patterns in the earth’s environment?”
The responses were quite diverse, to the pollsters’ surprise, yet Trudeau claimed the results justified his push for a carbon tax and other measures to regulate and reduced CO2 emissions. Buried in the supporting documents, and ignored by him and the media was this finding:
This process did determine a survey result about the size of the population who believes warming is happening and mostly caused by humans. Everything else is subject to interpretation, including how much is due to land use, urbanization or fossil fuel emissions. The solid finding is displayed in the diagram above. Yes, the map shows I am living in a hotbed of global warming believers around Montreal; well, it is 55%, as high as it gets in Canada. Yet Trudeau went on to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda despite most of the nation opposed to the idea. More to the point, that dark blue province in the west is none other than Alberta. Clearly, their common sense skepticism of climate alarm is not a recent position. [For more on that survey see Uncensored: Canadians View Global Warming]
The Offenses Taken by Warmists from Alberta’s Resolve
1. Media reports repeated the claim that CO2 is a pollutant because it has caused rising temperatures. For example, from Desmog:
Carbon dioxide is the gas principally responsible for exacerbating the greenhouse effect, the consequence of which is global warming. Whereas carbon is a foundational building block of life on Earth, carbon dioxide is an asphyxiating gas whose atmospheric proportions are so high they’re disrupting the normal function of the carbon cycle.
That reference to “greenhouse effect” ignores the fact that changes in CO2 follow changes in global temperatures on all time scales, from last month’s observations to ice core datasets spanning millennia. Since CO2 is the lagging variable, it cannot logically be the cause of temperature, the leading variable. It is folly to imagine that by reducing human emissions of CO2, we can change global temperatures, which are obviously driven by other factors. [See Mid 2024 More Proof Temp Changes Drive CO2 Changes]
It also exaggerates the importance of the trace gas CO2 upon planetary heat transfers dominated by H2O.
The asphyxiating label denies scientific knowledge about the properties of CO2 in our environment.
2. Advocates also disputed that CO2 is the “gas of life”, claiming that CO2 diminishes rather than enriches plant life. For example, again from Desmog:
In the “rationale” section of the resolution, the United Conservative Party document argues that “CO2 is a nutrient foundational to all life on Earth.”
While plants need both light and carbon dioxide to thrive, the over-supply of CO2 in recent decades is leading to plants being deprived of their nutrients. One biologist was quoted in a 2017 Politico article describing this as akin to “the greatest injection of carbohydrates into the biosphere in human history,” and that injection is diluting the nutrients in the food supply.
Firstly, there is no doubt more CO2 is good for plants. That’s why operators of greenhouses for growing them add CO2 up to three or four times our present 420 ppm.
Experiments have confirmed the botanical principle of limiting factors. At present concentrations, rising CO2 always increases plant productivity unless another factor is sub-optimal and constrains growth. The researchers, aided and abetted by the media are spinning this to say more CO2 is not good for plants. In reality, the lack of phosphorus or other nutrients is not the fault of CO2, and will not be enhanced by somehow reducing CO2. [See CO2 Destroys Food Nutrition! Not.]
3. And media reports added the fear of extreme weather events, attributing them to CO2 emissions. Again from Desmog:
As the principal driver of the climate crisis and global warming, increasing CO2 levels will exacerbate droughts, wildfires, and floods, among other disasters, in turn resulting in loss of life and major disruptions to global supply chains. The consequent economic disturbances and their aftereffects will worsen the affordability crisis and result in increasingly negative economic outcomes for all, not just Albertans. Rather than stimulate Alberta’s agricultural sector, climate change will destroy it, and the evidence this is already happening is quite clear.
This is again the doomsday litany that rising CO2 will destroy life as we know it. None of the data support that narrative. Just one of many examples of facts vs. fears is the above showing how droughts and flooding have always happened. These events are within the past range of variability and have not increased with rising CO2. Rather than show more such graphs, this video is a brief realistic summary of our climate circumstances.
Albertans are wise and courageous to take their position, and have many experts who share their understanding.
via Science Matters
November 4, 2024 at 01:51PM
Cartoons by Josh writes:
I posted this just now
https://twitter.com/Cartoonsbyjosh/status/1853372731267453020
might work as a Monday Mirthness.
Ben’s article here
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/02/scepticisms-post-covid-problem/
All the best
Josh
Ben’s article is behind a paywall but here is his Twitter thread about his article.
https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1853039837323972934
I also weighed in on Ben’s original tweet.
Charles Rotter 📟
@crotter8
Excellent piece. Another way to put this is that we have a serious epistemological problem with ideologically captured institutions and scientific knowledge.In some cases, such as mRNA therapy effectiveness, institutions such as the CDC and NIH are caught in blatant lies, but we still look to these same institutions to collect data on non-political issues, such as a genetic mutation that causes a predilection towards specific cancers.
NOAA blatantly puts its thumb on the scale in presentations of Climate Crisis propaganda, but it seems we can still trust the National Hurricane Center’s short-term forecasts.
End users are now literally forced to distinguish between truth and fiction emanating from the same source.
A simple path is to simply trust or distrust the institution, (or academia, or corporate media), completely, embracing everything or rejecting everything from those institutions.
But that doesn’t work. Instead critical thinking must be employed to separate useful truth from propaganda fiction.
For many reasons, including the collapse of education in the West, most people aren’t up to the task so they outsource their critical thinking to intermediates, a sub authority becoming the new authority.
Without fixing the educational system, a multigenerational task, and rebuilding institutions to become trustworthy from scratch, it’s hard to see societal trust and cohesiveness returning anytime soon.
BTW, @crotter8 as well as @wattsupwiththat.com can use more follows.
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November 4, 2024 at 12:02PM
