TO anyone who may still doubt that the quality of “the mainstream media” has not degraded to the point of being only useful for lining parrot cages, read on, for you may have missed the latest example that proves the point.
Back in November last year newspapers around the world accepted at face value i.e. without thinking, a press release centred around a petition signed by 11 000 scientists warning the world of a climate emergency.
Ho, hum. Heard that before. That should have been the response. Old news. Nope, it got the expected headline as sub-editors around the world dutifully pushed the climate change agenda along, thus ensuring continued invitations to free lunches on which they now depend.
Then some sceptics looked deeper, and lo and behold, among the signatories of scientists was the John Hancock of one Professor Michael Mouse of the University of Namibia. Needless to say the laughter was loud enough to be heard and the good professor Mouse’s name was removed.
But the digging did not stop there. Indeed, the 11 000 names revealed more, more idiocy. The usual non-scientists were allowed to claim knowledge of the climate – sociologists mainly, as you would expect, and the usual environmentalists, biologists, Vegans, and so on. I will not bore my small reading public with the whole list.
However, the 11 000 petitioners did tack on solutions to the climate catastrophe they all warn us against. Here then, from the horses’ (mouth) is what the Green enthusiasts insist the rest of us do, on pain of “Untold Human Suffering”.
The list is a kind of 10 Commandments written for the rest of us by the new wannabee High Priests. There seem to be six laws but actually there are nine on closer inspection. Read and weep.
I shall tweak the language so that Moses would agree with the tone:
- Thou shalt replace all coal, gas, and petroleum-based products in your lives.
- Thou shalt not mine or drill for any carboniferous fuels.
- Thou shalt end all subsidies to companies that produce petroleum oil and or gas. (Easily done, this one. There aren’t any)
- Thou shalt tax the petroleum companies to death.
- Thou shalt swiftly cut emissions of methane and soot.
- Thou shalt cease clearing land for agriculture especially forests, grasslands, and mangrove swamps.
- Thou shalt eat mostly plants and consume fewer animal products.
- Thou shalt stop growing your economies.
- Thou shalt stop breeding especially the poor, the uneducated and ignorant among you. (My italics. It is not said but clearly that is what they mean)
So much for these climate loons. To bring us down from unicorn land, here is a reminder of a petition signed by 31 487 real scientists. The preamble is as follows: It is short and sweet.
There is no Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. And the warming and carbon dioxide increase is mainly beneficial.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that manmade increases in carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gas is causing or will in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the climate.
Now there is no denying that the world is going crazy for alternate energy, solar panels, wind generators, LED lights and generally all existing and any new ways of getting off the grid. It’s a fact and a pretty good market opportunity that the world’s inventors and entrepreneurs would be silly to ignore. Some may grow very rich indeed. Good for them if they do.
Change in the way we live, trade and manufacture is already upon us, but if we are not to invite via the back door a new totalitarian terror driven by those who see themselves as the high priests of a new world religion, we have to be very wary of accepting their leadership.
For, that is what is happening with the climate change scare.
The grip of the Dark Ages, when Europe was dominated by priestly tribunals, was only broken by the intrusion of reason and the rise of individual conscience and therefore liberty. That priest-like class now resides in the recesses of universities and overblown civil services around the world.
Give them political power and history shows what horrors can emerge. Nazi Germany let loose loony ideas like euthanasia which, allegedly for the good of the German population, allowed the wholesale killing of physically and mentally imperfect humans first, and then anybody else the State deemed to be inferior – Jews, gypsies, male homosexuals, communists, priests and any anti-Nazis.
The other example of a generally-good-idea-at-the- time leading to mass tyranny was of course the domination by communism of Russia, China and Eastern Europe. It led to the squashing individual freedom of any kind, execution of the stubborn and drug-addled incarceration for those dissidents too prominent and articulate to kill.
It seems to me that the first petitioners above herald such a fate for us all. The second is the Voice of Reason being heard once again.
