Of Dirty Secrets and End of Days

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"Climate change is 'UN-led ruse to establish new world order'" 02-03-2019


Of Dirty Secrets and End of Days

Happy Sunday!  My sermon will be relatively short; I merely bring brief * tidings of great wonder.

I had a dream last night that I met the man of my dreams.  It can't be former Australian PM Tony Abbot, although he's worth recalling in today's climate of climate angst.

More to the point, I guess, is his former adviser, Maurice Newman, who doesn't look anything like the man I dreamed of, but is nobody's fool, and he and I do both seem to think alike on "climate change":

• "I am an agnostic and I have always been an agnostic and I will remain and (sic) agnostic until I've found compelling evidence on one side or the other that will move me. I think that what seems fairly clear to me is that the climate science is still being developed. There are a lot question marks about some of the fundamental data which has been used to build models that requires caution."

Amazingly, he came right out early on, saying out loud what the rest of us whackos are thinking now:

The Telegraph (May 2015): Australia PM adviser says climate change is 'UN-led ruse to establish new world order'

• Climate change is a hoax developed as part of a secret plot by the United Nations to undermine democracies and takeover the world, a top adviser to Tony Abbott, Australia's prime minister, has warned.
• Maurice Newman, the chief business adviser to the prime minister, said the science showing links between human activity and the warming climate was wrong but was being used as a "hook" by the UN to expand its global control.
• “This is not about facts or logic..."

My, my; that was back in 2015, and it's taken all this time to be openly considered; to start worrying the jig might actually be up and other ostensible reasons must be found for what may or may not be coming down.

I never thought anything good would come out of the right wing Fraser Institute, but the below article excerpt contains some interesting redeeming merit.  The writer in this case, although not saying  the "climate change" plan is total hogwash, reveals some serious back-tracking since the promoters changed the buzz term from "global warming" to the more generic "climate change":

NationalNewswatch: Nov. 2019 - Climate Activists Discard the Science for the Extreme Unknown

• Interventionists used to say that only “deniers” dispute the standard modelling results codified in periodic United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, and anyone who cited uncertainties in our understanding of climate change was compared to flat-earthers.
• Yet the elevated treatment of [now deceased Harvard economist Martin] Weitzman’s work shows the tables have turned, and now it’s climate activists who discard standard economic tools and the IPCC’s literature summary, and instead appeal to our uncertainty to promote aggressive greenhouse gas controls.

Skipping to the end ...

• Finally ... the tables have turned in the climate change policy debate. It’s no longer the unscientific “deniers” who sow doubt by discussing the uncertainties in our models of global warming. It’s now those pushing aggressive targets—which include the UN’s goal of 1.5°C—who want to throw out the standard peer-reviewed (and Nobel-winning) work and focus on the “unknown unknowns” of the issue.

In other words, the closest they can now come in predicting disaster (so that the profit plans can go ahead) is that "they can't rule it out".

What really ticks me off is that, by being skeptical of the whole deal, I'm in league with rabid right wingers and religious extremists.

The Rapture Ready people present an ancient timeline of similar past warnings for which, unfortunately, they don't show sources, but are nevertheless interesting and a good indication of why radical Christian Americans are readier than ever to vote again for Trump, especially since he pulled out of the Paris agreement saying that the Chinese were using it to "hamstring" the American economy.

They'd better believe it because, if Jesus returns in a sweat wearing only a fig leaf and, placing his finger aside of his nose, quickly whisks true believers off to a big Love Boat in the Arctic, I'm going to be really ticked off.

This ends my Sunday Sermon.

* Image from ClimateChangeFacts.info.  See also: Polar Bears Cooking