It is no longer global warming because it isn't.

It is climate change because it does.

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Monday, September 23, 2013

In A Nutshell

In advance of the release of the final draft of the IPCC AR5 SPM on Friday Sep. 27, 2013 here is my own summary of the ‘crisis’ through the warning words of astute observers and the charlatans they admonish us about.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken

Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain, (attributed)

Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Timothy Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

"The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it" -- H L Mencken

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