After writing and publishing this in a sleep-deprived state, I thought I ought to take it down and rework it. I slept from 8PM to 1:30AM, and then from 2AM to 4AM last night, which is 7-1/2 hours, so I ought to be rested. But I’m not. This aging thing, I don’t understand much of it. Some of it I like, as with never being expected to stay late at a gathering or participate in a family volleyball game. I’m never asked to pick up someone from the airport, 75 minutes away on the other side of Denver. It’s not all bad.
Anyway, here’s the piece, hopefully much shortened.
On July 29th of this year, DOE published a report titled A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate, commissioned by U.S. Energy Secretary Christopher Wright and written by John Christy, Ph.D., Judith Curry, Ph.D., Steven Koonin, Ph.D., Ross McKitrick, Ph.D., and Roy Spencer, Ph.D.
Those five are shut out of all climate discussion, as they are not going along with the hoax. They are called “deniers”, a propaganda term used to signal to all those participating to shun them. I hate that term, as it is so arrogant and condescending, as if the Alarmist crowd owns the truth. They most certainly do not.
On another subject, but the same thrust, here’s a snippet from Wikipedia (LOOT, Lies of Our Times, as I call it) on AIDS:
A small group of individuals continue to dispute the connection between HIV and AIDS,[312] the existence of HIV itself, or the validity of HIV testing and treatment methods.[313][314] These claims, known as AIDS denialism, have been examined and rejected by the scientific community.[315]*
*Footnote 315 takes the reader to “The Evidence that HIV Causes AIDS.” interestingly found only in the Wayback Machine. Why would that be? Only one thing is certain, the original article was scrapped. Solid reference there, Wiki.
Kary Mullis, given a Nobel Prize for his formulation of the Polymerase Chain Reaction process, used to compare different strands of DNA (and which became the misused and abused “PCR Test” used during the fake pandemic), was charged with writing a paper for his employer earlier in his career on AIDS. Here’s a brief excerpt from his book, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field:
Very little experimental verification has been done to support important societal issues in the closing years of this century. Nor does it have to be done before public policy discussions are made. It only needs to be convincing to the misinformed voter. Some of the big truths voters have accepted have little or no scientific basis. And these include the belief that AIDS is caused by human immunodeficiency virus, the belief that fossil fuel emissions are causing global warming, and the belief that the release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere has created a hole in the ozone layer. The illusions go even deeper into our everyday lives when they follow us to the grocery store.
The opening line of AIDS paper he was assigned was to be “AIDS is caused by the HIV virus.” Since he was writing a scientific paper, he could not allow the line to be unsupported – he needed scientific papers to support the case. Thus began a two-year quest on his part, where he found nothing in writing supporting the idea that HIV causes AIDS. Finally, given an opportunity, he had a chance to query Luc Montagnier, the famous French virologist, alleged with Robert Gallo to have isolated HIV :
I finally had the opportunity to ask Dr. Montagnier about the reference when he lectured in San Diego in a grand opening of the UCSD AIDS Research Center, which is still run by Bob Gallo’s former consort, Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal. This would be the last time I would ask my question without showing anger. In response Dr. Montagnier suggested, “Why don’t you reference the CDC report?”
The CDC report was not a scientific paper, merely an article that referenced HIV as the cause of AIDS, but offering no evidence. Mullis’s search had drawn a complete circle to a close. No kidding, he was told on several occasions that even though there were no scientific papers on the matter, “Everyone knows it.” There’s a name for that fallacy, argumentum ad populum, and it refers to the assumption that widespread belief in something makes it true. But what if that belief were the result of not just ignorance, but also propaganda?
I should get some more sleep.
The same kind of science is at work in the Climate Alarmism movement, where articles of truth are formulated and made to be real via groupthink and peer pressure and … propaganda.
Anyway, the Critical Review paper mentioned in the opening above was given a thirty-day comment period, and that period closed on September 3rd. Judith Curry responded to comments received on September 2nd, and wrote a long article on the matter, which I read. In my original piece, I recommended that readers read the original Critical Review and Curry’s response to comments, which is an onerous assignment. Only a few wonks travel that road. Further, Currey’s article at her website has, as of this writing, drawn 236 responses. Perhaps more than half of those comments from from three sources, B.A. Bushaw, Joe K, and David Appell. They are Alarmists, and suspicious me suspects that they are commissioned or assigned to rain hell on blogs from the likes of Curry, who is after all a … Climate Denier.
The problem here is that she cannot (or will not) just shut them down, making room for more reasoned discussion. But that said, there is one comment posted early on after Curry’s article was published, from R.L. Hails Sr., P.E. (Ret):
Thank you Dr. Curry for your contribution, your guidance to this engineer, not a scientist, for your clear summary of the issues facing our nation. (I have summarized my professional background in earlier blogs.) I value the debate among learned scholars but recognize, from my background, significant ad hominem logic, on the effects of fire, the combustion of carbon in air, on our climate at a macro scale. Synthesizing the two professional approaches, I have come to this:
Any technologically advanced society which eschews the widespread, economic use of fire, will cease to exist. There are many sources of energy but fire will remain the bedrock supporting our way of life, through the vague prophesies decades or centuries from now, beyond the life span of my young grandchildren. Our near term threats are summarized here:
Our grid is creaky, the average age of our power generating units, in prior generations would have rendered them as candidates for shut down. They are vulnerable to forced outages, the sudden collapse or major equipment which is no longer readily available within the US. We might have to petition China or others, for long lead time replacements.
We no longer have a robust cohort of veteran engineers, technologists who have lived through the design development, A – Z, fabrication, construction, error corrections, shake out, start up and lock – in of new generation units. It takes twenty years of practice, from graduation to senior engineer but these Americans do not exist in significant numbers. We quit building decades ago; once we put a major unit on line every few weeks.
We no longer see the best and brightest go into certain STEM careers. Why should they? Have you ever read a news article praising those who made Three Mile Island safe? (I knew them.) Do you know that off normal event happened years earlier and was handled by experts with no fan fare. But TMI killed a major industry in America, which is vital to our survival. I participated in the mass lay offs of very skilled people, an order of magnitude larger than what the federal work force is now facing.
Other nations which have abandoned fire for electrical supply are seeing the cost of juice skyrocketing. It is not survivable; governments will fall, hopefully peaceably.
Our politicians can no longer kick this can down the calendar.
God bless the USA.
If you read that like I read it, the Climate Alarmism movement has achieved its underlying unstated objective, to separate us from our source of technological advancement and comfort in the modern age, fossil fuels. We’re no longer building the necessary infrastructure to maintain the grid. Collapse is imminent. I am thankful to be 75 year’s of age, even if it keeps me perpetually sleep deprived. I will have lived through our energy and advancement heyday. Is that selfish? Yes. That’s another advantage of the aging process.
Hails, Sr. references Three Mile Island, and since I do not believe in coincidences, I am very suspicious of the manner in which TMI had its meltdown on March 28, 1979. Jane Fonda starred in The China Syndrome, a propaganda film about the alleged dangers of nuclear power, which was released on March 16, 1979, a mere twelve days earlier. Nuclear Power was destroyed thanks in large part to Fonda, an ignorant soul merely carrying out her acting missions with blind zeal. She harps to this day about the Climate Crisis, knowing nothing about it as far as I can see, as depth is not her forté. But she doesn’t need to know anything! When criticized for China Syndrome’s lack of underlying scientific merit, she merely says that it was a movie, so who cares. (Has one person in history ever wrought such harm on the human family as her? The only name that comes to mind is Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.) (I can easily toss these insults Fonda’s way, as she won’t have a clue to he is. Damn! Sleep deprivation made me write that!)
So celebrate if you will the clampdown on nonsense from the Climate Alarmism crowd by the Trump Administration. It appears to be too little, too late. I doubt, in my heart of hearts, that Trump has a basic grasp of the issue any more than Fonda, and further that he, like most modern presidents, is but an actor selected for his role.
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Well, I rewrote it, but did not shorten it, bringing to mind Mark Twain’s famous (attributed) remark in a letter, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” OK, even if Twain didn’t say that, someone did.
Piece of Mindful 
Mark, for anyone who is not a cult-like fanatic of climate change, there appears to be a complete lack of interest or care about the subject. I only know a few people who actually worry about it, but really only give it lip service. No one with the monetary means actually sacrifices anything for so called climate change. The most green idiots I have known in my life think nothing of driving 2 hours each way for a day hike, or traveling halfway around the world several times a year for their adventures, and so are complete hypocrites, so to speak.
The most brainwashed appear to be the kids, they have no historical memory of what the weather, or “climate” to use a fancy word, was like 50 years ago – it was exactly the same where I come from, ayup (a New England expression). My bosses daughter was imploring him not to use ChatGTP because it creates excessive carbon emission. So we are now at the point where climate change eats AI.
One last comment on this insanity – Rogan supposedly had a show recently where he claimed global cooling based on some paper, which the authors are saying he “misinterpreted”. Seems to be Rogan is playing controlled opposition. There’s a 50% chance the globe is warming, based on random probability of cyclical climate change, so if there is “global” warming, it’s even odds it is a cyclical period of increasing temperatures. And climate changes so slowly, humanity has plenty of time to move around to cooler climates. For years I’ve told people, not joking, that if there is global warming then humanity can just move to Canada and Russia, which are massive landmasses, that are sparsely inhabited, and support billions easily, with huge reserves of fresh water and oil, plus huge areas for farming grains.
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I get your point but one can’t simply move to Canada or Russia. Their immigration laws aren’t as generous as the USA. Which could be a topic for a future article. Rogan is 100% controlled opposition.
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Yes, I did say I was serious about the logic of migrating with the climate, as ancestors did, geopolitical restrictions, as they are, hinder easy moving between countries. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if you had truly open borders. Of course that is impractical since you would have a massive influx from third world countries into places like Europe, where a lot of arrogant rich people live in completely deluded existence. I mention that because I work with many European scientists and engineers, who are extremely arrogant and stupid at the same time.
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The “complete lack of care about the subject” you see in most people is of no consequence, as public opinion is of no consequence. It is something to be managed, misdirected, perhaps understood but never heard or acted upon.
Example: Back during the Clinton years they were doing the whole Social Security is going broke routine, and there was some push to reduce benefits, a wildly unpopular idea. So they maneuvered around it by passing a tax on benefits, but one that only affected the very wealthiest. The odd thing was that they did not index that tax for inflation, so it gradully began an upward creep. So last year our tax bill was comprised almost in total of the tax on Social Security, and we are probably upper middle to a degree, not wealthy.
One of Trump’s moves in his BBB was to eliminate this tax, which he did, but only in part. But do you see how they got what they wanted, a reduction in benefits, and how patient they were, waiting thirty years for it to take effect? The public was wildly against a reduction in benefits, but they did it anyway, without public consent or knowledge. That’s how it is done.
I suggest you read the comment towards the end of the post by R.L. Hails, as that is what prompted me to write and then rewrite the post. He is saying our power grid is being dismantled behind the scenes, no matter what anyone thinks about climate change. It is already far advanced in Europe, we are slower to catch up, and no one has voted on it, as voting does not matter. The thrust of climate change is to dismantle what we have, to make our lives worse, and ultimately for there to be fewer of us living more squalid lives. It is ugly.
I also wrote about AIDS, the thrust of which was to drive a wedge between men and women, using a fake virus, for less reproduction’s sake. They had to convince us that the virus existed and was deadly and contagious, and to reinforce this idea, they murdered many thousands of people using antivirals as treatment. If the public only knew, but then, then, public opinion doesn’t matter, does it.
And then the Covid vaccine and depopulation … are you seeing the larger picture?
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Mark, pretty much agree with your theses.
It does appear they want to return to a period where a very, very, small part of the population has any freedom of movement, and ability to evade the bullshit restrictions they pile on, like Covid vaccinations, a clean record, are narrowed to a very small number.
I recommend anyone who has not watch the Kary Mullis interviews where he talks about his work on the HIV virus, and his inability to verify such a thing actually existed, and was the cause of the so called AIDs epidemic. Personally I consider Kary to be one of the few great scientists of the modern era who are honest, and he paid a great price for it. PCR is a brilliant invention, of which he clearly was the one of the few behind this. And from my life and scientific experience I do believe HIV and AIDs are scams.
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I found another gold nugget in the Mullis wiki page, 33 and 18 are like bright shining hoax beacons:
According to California Magazine, Mullis’s HIV skepticism influenced Thabo Mbeki‘s denialist policymaking throughout his tenure as president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008, contributing to as many as 330,000 unnecessary deaths.[18]
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It does seem like they’ve been dismantling things for decades, keeping us busy with bread and circuses while setting up shop in China and the East. Hollowing out industry and financializing the US economy.
But the subject is so vast and complicated, as soon as you start to speculate, doubts and counterpoints arise.. I did in fact, and deleted a few paragraphs after reading them back..
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Just noticed this in my email feed, of which i keep Washington Post for shits and giggles
Deadly “kissing bug” disease has spread in the U.S. Here’s what to know.
If you read the story actually it has nothing to do with kissing. Or being deadly. As I mentioned before I early on found out mono, or another “kissing disease” was complete bullshit. My girlfriend in college caught so-called mono and said she wasn’t going to come over because she was infected. Me, being full of 21 year old hormones called her bluff and ordered her to come over, never got sick. Nor have I ever from being with a “lady”. All these VDs are made up BS, that you can only get if someone is completely un-hygenic and never washes their nether regions.
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Agreed.
I think the same goes for most of the made-up [feed] animal borne alleged pathogens.
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I approved this yesterday on my iPad, and here it sits in the Pending bin. I wonder if other stuff I do on the iPad, like texts to relatives, also do not get through?
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Unlikely… I just sent that this morning (6:03am Central).
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