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    Thanks Hervé

    Here's a handy link where you can see the internal exchanges at UEA/CRU from a select 250 very revealing email exchanges: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/...te-2-0-emails/

    I'm hunting around to try and locate the leaked emails (from 2009) and have found our good friends at Wikileaks have been, as ever, on the ball.

    Link: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic_...els,_1996-2009
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    From Steven F. Hayward's presentation at Hillsdale College in 2014 and well worth a listen:
    @16:07 - "The result of the latest catalog of exaggerated claims and appalling clichés is, you know, it's endless, but the most egregious one is one that I'm sure many of you have heard of or seen on T.V. It's the ubiquitous refrain that 97% of all scientists believe in climate change. By the way, they even use that word; believe, like it's an article of religious faith, which I think is also a curious thing. And it's not just climate advocates. NASA, a federal government agency, says ... they have a web page that says, that phrase, 97% of scientists believe in climate change.

    That's our government speaking, now.

    And, of course, the political suggestion behind this is, if 97% of scientists believe in climate change, then, therefore, they must all agree with the environmentalist agenda to suppress energy.

    So, where did this 97% figure come from? When you explore its lineage, it turns out to be about as convincing as a Chicago election.

    No, you can't believe that, right? ...

    The most prominent form of it comes from a paper by a professor in Australia named John Cook at the University of Queensland, and he published this paper in an obscure journal, and it's just rocketed around and it's become the big thing.

    And what this study purported to do was review the abstracts of 11,000 climate science articles. Now, just stop right there. It's important they say, abstracts. No one's going to read 11,000 climate articles. Even a whole team of graduate students is not going to read through 11,000 science articles.

    So they read the abstracts, fair enough. The abstract is always that one paragraph summary at the head of any academic journal article.

    Well, here's the abstract to the Cook paper, which no one in the media seems to have the wit to read for themselves. First sentence: "We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on anthropogenic global warming, comma." I'll stop right there. Two thirds--66%--two thirds of the papers express no opinion on human-caused global warming. Let's keep going.

    Thirty-two point six percent endorsed anthropogenic global warming. Zero point seven percent rejected it and 0.3% were uncertain. Okay. So that means a third of those papers had an opinion on human-caused global warming. So, the next sentence says this:

    "Among abstracts expressing a position on human-caused global warming, 97.1% endorse the consensus positions that humans are causing the warming."

    Somehow this has become 97% of all scientists, when it's 97% of a third of scientists. Or, you might put it this way: you could just as easily say, 66% of scientists publishing in the field have expressed no firm opinion on the matter.

    Or, still another way to think about it is, this is the grandfather of all simple-minded tautologies.

    Among all the scientists who agree with the consensus, are all the scientists who agree with the consensus.

    That would be an adequate way of saying it.

    Now, initially Professor Cook refused to share the data with anybody else to how they've been coded, and, what have they matched up. That's always a bad sign right there, isn't it? But, of course, in the modern world, with things planted on internet databases, somebody found the data.

    And, lo and behold, some of the articles turned out to be not really about climate science at all. One article that was billed as a science article was about U.S. media coverage of climate change issues. Strangely, in those 11,000 papers, there's not a single one from Richard Lindzen of M.I.T.

    He's the most prominent skeptic in the climate science community, who has been publishing on the subject since 1961. None of his papers were included, somehow. And yet, this phrase ... I mean, you can't go anywhere now without seeing it or, you know, get on the center for climate progress without seeing that 97% of scientists agree. Or believe in, right? Well, it's clear that the climate establishment has become as narrowly intolerant as any department of gender studies on a college campus, and for much the same reason. What this really masks is a will to power, as I said at the beginning
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    ... worth a listen...
    How to Destroy the Climate Change Hoax
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    Celebrities, activists, environmentalist organizations, the UN, government entities and sadly, even the Vatican support the theory that humans cause climate change. However, in this exclusive interview, “global warming” expert and author Marc Morano gives you hard-hitting arguments and facts that dispel the artificial fear propagated by “climate emergency” alarmists.

    Marc Morano talks about:

    #Climate #change (min 2:58)

    Population control (min 14:24)

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    Best arguments against climate change (min 33:03)

    The fake 97% scientific consensus (min 34:17)

    The Green New Deal (min 38:23)

    Pope Francis and Laudato Si (min 48:11 )

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    His book, Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change (min 57:38)

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    Default Re: "Climate Change" (AKA "Global Warming")... is it a scam?

    Armstrong: Climate Change Has Been A Routine Scare Tactic Since The 1930s

    by Tyler Durden
    Tue, 09/10/2019 - 05:00

    QUESTION: Is there a pattern?

    May 1932




    July 1932




    May 1947




    Feb 1969




    April 1994



    * * *

    ANSWER: For whatever reason, these people have been promoting that the cities will all sink and we are the cause of it all.



    They have been touting this scenario since the 1930s when there was the Dust Bowl. It resurfaced after World War II when they were trying to stop rebuilding industry and the housing market which had been destroyed. The same argument appeared again in the 1960s when there was a great expansion in housing.
    However, during the 1970s when things got colder, everything flipped upside down and then it was global cooling that would destroy civilization.



    On April 28, 1975, Newsweek magazine published an article in which they sounded the alarm bell and proposed solutions to deliberately melt the ice caps:
    “Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing variables of climate uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies.”
    Then TIME magazine’s January 31, 1977 edition had the cover story featuring “The Big Freeze.” They reported that scientists were predicting that Earth’s average temperature could drop by 20 degrees fahrenheit. Their cited cause was, of course, that humans created global cooling. It just seems that humans are so powerful we can alter the universe but cannot manage to create corrupt-free governments.



    The difference this time is they have been able to get governments interested on the basis that they can stop it by raising taxes. Canada imposed a $1,000 tax per home to stop global warming. Perhaps the theory is if the politicians get more money they will speak less and reduce the hot air they spout out by yelling the end is near.

    I see this as a derivative of the Populationists theory which was instituted by Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834). It was Malthus who first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society” in 1798. He published it anonymously, afraid to put his name on it, but he was soon discovered to be the author. Malthus argued that the resources of production would be exceeded by the population leading to real misery.

    Malthus’ theory proved to be completely wrong because he too failed to comprehend that there are cycles to everything. He never considered the cycle in technology and how farming has improved from ancient times up to his own time during the 18th century. Of course, food production has more than kept pace with population growth and even the population goes through cycles. Currently, birth rates have been declining. Then there are diseases and plagues that visit our societies, not to mention war, which all combines to thin the herd so to speak.

    The climate has ALWAYS moved cyclically. Anyone who dares to argue that climate change is NOT caused by humans is ridiculed because this is a political issue being used to raise taxes and to regulate human activity by removing ever-greater proportions of our human rights and freedom. Those who attack anyone who denies human-induced climate change are either brainwashed or have a self-interest in the entire scam.
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    WMO Secretary-General Warns Against Climate ‘Doomsters and Extremists’

    by Robert
    September 10, 2019

    London, 6 Sep 2019 – Press Release –

    The General-Secretary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the alarmist narrative on climate change has gone off the rails and criticised the news media for provoking unjustified anxiety.

    WMO Secretary-General Warns Against Climate ‘Doomsters and Extremists’


    Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

    London, 6 Sep 2019: The General-Secretary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the alarmist narrative on climate change has gone off the rails and criticised the news media for provoking unjustified anxiety.

    Speaking to Finland’s financial newspaper Talouselämä (“The Journal”) on 6 September 2019, Petteri Taalas called for cooler heads to prevail, saying that he does not accept arguments of climate alarmists that the end of the world is at hand.

    Dr Taalas also spoke of the dangers of green extremism:
    “While climate sceptisism has become less of an issue, now we are being challenged from the other side. Climate experts have been attacked by these people and they claim that we should be much more radical. They are doomsters and extremists; they make threats.”
    And he called for the media both to challenge experts and allow a broader range of opinions to be heard.

    The director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, Dr Benny Peiser, welcomed Dr Taalas’s intervention:
    “It’s very welcome to hear the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization finally challenging eco-zealots.

    “I hope mainstream climate scientists and the news media sit up and take notice; it’s high time they put some professional distance between themselves and radical greens and start to question their apocalyptic narrative of doom.”
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    Default Re: "Climate Change" (AKA "Global Warming")... is it a scam?

    While Greta Thunberg heavily pushed "Climate Change", she actually means stop destroying nature and start caring about the nature.
    In an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger she was asked what made her to speak-up and she answered that she saw a film with plastics in the ocean.
    Also in this recent video, she explains what she really wants.



    It's about caring for the nature but the politicians and media use the wake-up call to serve their own agenda and unfortunately millions ride on the "climate change" fad.
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    greta... poor girl, it seems that the UN bastards brainwash and train kids and put them on display every generation or so: https://www.bitchute.com/video/s2doQK0wApxo/

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    mod note: these vids were suggested by former member and friend of the forum Onawah:




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    Press Release from The Global Warming Policy Forum

    Major Climate Paper Withdrawn By Nature

    Retraction exposes lack of statistical expertise in climate science

    Retraction Note: Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition

    Retraction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0651-8, published online 31 October 2018.

    Quote Shortly after publication, arising from comments from Nicholas Lewis, we realized that our reported uncertainties were underestimated owing to our treatment of certain systematic errors as random errors. In addition, we became aware of several smaller issues in our analysis of uncertainty. Although correcting these issues did not substantially change the central estimate of ocean warming, it led to a roughly fourfold increase in uncertainties, significantly weakening implications for an upward revision of ocean warming and climate sensitivity.
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    Top 10 reasons why Greta Thunberg is a fraud

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    Very pertinent analysis of science run down to a fossilized husk that seeks only to maintain the beliefs systems that support agendas of evil (live backwards). Refer to the orginal article for reference links

    Quote The State of Science in The 21st Century
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    I grew up in Australia in the 1950s and '60s. The story we were sold at school was that science was leading the brave new world. Dedicated men and women were pursuing truth in science, free from bias and influence. Scientific discoveries were lauded in the press and we were exhorted to accept these new findings as gospel truth. Science was extolled as a great even a noble career.

    As I have grown older and (hopefully) wiser I have discovered that was anything but the truth. Science today has completely lost its way. There is a crisis in all disciplines around reproducibility - other people not being able to reproduce results reported. More and more funding is provided by corporates and foundations linked to corporates and government bodies with a very clear agenda and desire for particular results. Produce results that run against the agenda and you risk having your research terminated, your funding pulled, and your reputation attacked. There are many examples of this happening.

    The way for a scientist to progress his/her career is to do research and to publish in prestige journals. In order to do that, they need to attract funding and have their research peer-reviewed. It turns out that to attract funding, avoid being attacked by one's fellow scientists and be accepted for publication, it is necessary to follow the politically-correct path. And this is true in all fields of science, be they medical, psychology, climate, smoking, diet and nutrition etc.

    John Ioannidis, a professor of epidemiology, published a study in the late 1990s which really angered many of his peers. Titled 'Why Most Published Research Findings are False', it was published in PLOS. While it focused on medical research, subsequent data has shown his results apply across the board. He came up with several corollaries which are quite illuminating:
    The smaller the studies conducted in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
    The smaller the effect sizes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
    The greater the number and the lesser the selection of tested relationships in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
    The greater the flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. Flexibility increases the potential for transforming what would be 'negative' results into 'positive' results,
    The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true
    The hotter a scientific field (with more scientific teams involved), the less likely the research findings are to be true.
    He also noted that claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. How interesting; to determine the prevailing bias in society, just look at the bulk of published scientific research.

    So take a moment to think about these points, especially point 5: "The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true". Where do we see a better example than in the field of climate science? The estimated annual value of the climate industry is around $1.5 trillion per annum. That is a LOT of money being chased by people who cannot lay claim to any of it unless their research results confirm the current bias. If you are happy to bolster the "CO2 is the control knob of climate change" story, you can tap those funds. If you are sceptical of the story or think that other factors such as solar and cosmic cycles play a part, then you will miss out on the massive pot of money.

    In an ideal world, people would be open to debating their scientific theories and adjusting them appropriately as new data emerged. But we do not live in an ideal world. That $1.5 trillion per annum is a massive incentive for people to toe the politically correct line. No wonder there is such anger and passion in attacking anybody suggesting that CO2 is not the control knob for climate and that any climate change we are seeing is not caused by mankind's activities. So much money, so much research funding, so many reputations are on the line here that we will never see a sane and reasoned debate. And that is why anybody who questions the current paradigm, who is genuinely sceptical of the interpretation of the data, is labelled a "denier".

    Not only are sceptics labelled "deniers" they are also accused of being in the pay of fossil fuel conglomerates. The notion is absurd. The majority of websites publishing sceptical data struggle to exist from week to week and are constantly looking for donations from their readers. And absurd when you consider the $1.5 trillion budget funding the apostle of the climate faith.

    The people I come across on a daily basis who consider themselves sceptics don't 'deny' climate change. Any fool can see that the climate is changing, and in fact has always been changing. What they question is the CAUSE of that change; is it man or is it some other cycle? And for that, for daring to question the CO2 doctrine, these people are denigrated as 'deniers', an obvious attempt to conflate them with holocaust deniers. And to those people who are sceptics, the longer they look at the paucity of evidence and see the frequent attempts to shut them down and destroy their reputations for wanting an honest debate on an important subject, the more the climate movement looks like a religion. A religion where to question the basic tenets of the faith is to be a heretic who must be destroyed.

    In the last week, an academic journal called the Conversation, which claims to provide academic rigour with journalistic flair, has banned sceptics from commenting on their articles because they are 'too dangerous'. When did attempts to engage in scientific debate become dangerous? When they are at odds with the basic tenets of faith in your religion. So much for academic rigour. Curtailing free speech is more important to these people so they can 'keep the faith pure' and 'protect' their readers from any alternative views. And they are not alone.

    Michael Mann of Hockey Stick Graph infamy bans all sceptics from his Twitter feed. He attacks scientific research produced by sceptical scientists, and urges people not to read it. This is the same Michael Mann who sued Dr. Tim Ball for criticising his Hockey Stick Graph and claiming it was incorrect. As part of the court proceedings initiated by Mann, the judge ruled Mann must produce the data his graph was based on. Mann steadfastly refused to do this and in the end the judge dismissed the case. Many people wonder why the data was not forthcoming, maybe because it wouldn't stand scrutiny. Mann continues to relentlessly attack anybody who is a sceptic, claiming that "nobody can deny that climate change is real", which is a neat piece of obfuscation, as discussed above.



    It would also appear that academic qualifications and positions fit into a hierarchical system. In this system, people with degrees and academic positions who produce research that conforms to doctrine are held as the gold standard. Nothing is higher than peer-reviewed research that is doctrinally correct. However, when similarly-qualified sceptics publish peer-reviewed research which questions the status quo, then clearly they are in the pay of fossil fuel corporates, and have sold out their integrity for filthy lucre. They are 'heretics', the worst of the worst.

    Today we hear the many activists in the climate science fraternity laying claim to science validated by consensus. Whether there actually exists a consensus is another question and there have been a number of academics and scientists who have comprehensively debunked the oft-reported 'climate science consensus'. But whether or not there is a consensus, we need to remind ourselves that consensus has never been integral to the scientific method.

    If we look back over history we find many times 'consensus' was just plain wrong. Consensus claimed the Earth was flat, and that the Sun revolved around the Earth. In 1982, two Australian scientists discovered that stomach ulcers were caused by the bacteria H Pylori and were easily treatable with antibiotics. Now you would imagine that these results would have been welcomed by the medical fraternity. But that is not what happened. There was a whole infrastructure built around the notion that stomach ulcers were incurable and that the only courses of available treatment were drugs and surgery.

    The consensus was that the only treatments were drug and surgery based. And that consensus was wrong. There were people whose income depended on it, whose reputations were built around these so-called facts. Needless to say, these gentlemen were attacked by a sceptical medical community. It took nearly 20 years before their easily reproducible results were accepted as valid by the medical fraternity and in 2005 they were awarded a Nobel prize in recognition of their work.

    Nothing has changed. Consensus has never been a line item in the scientific method. Arguing from consensus is just another attempt to force people back to the basic tenets of the climate faith, and 'damn what the data actually says'.

    Why is this all happening? There is clearly a strong group of climate activists with their very wealthy backers driving an agenda here. My observation is that they are looking to bring about a world where we are all vegan, living in a post-industrial world sans fossil fuels and associated technologies, a world with a far smaller population. They have hijacked climate science and are very successfully driving us towards a dystopian future, one which their ardent supporters are blissfully unaware is coming and who will be horrified if we indeed end up there.

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    Former IPCC Scientist Refutes New Climate Change Report
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    (It takes him awhile to get to the subject of global cooling due to the Grand Solar Minimum, but he gets there...)

    "Former expert reviewer for IPCC, Dr. Madhav Khandekar, denounces man-made climate change scare narrative, says "warming due to human activity is minimal at best."

    Dr. Madhav Khandekar holds a Ph D in Meteorology from the Florida State University USA (1968) and an M Sc in Statistics from Pune University India (1957). Khandekar has been in the field of weather and climate science for over 60 years and has published well over 150 papers, reports, book reviews and scientific commentaries. His current interest is global weather anomalies and extremes and their possible linkage to climate change. He retired as a Research Scientist at Environment Canada in 1997 and lives in Toronto."
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    Viscount Christopher Monckton Speech - Climate Change: Debunking the Myths
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    "Climate Change: Debunking the Myths with Viscount Christopher Monckton at UKIP NW London on 7 October 2019."


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    The man who invented ‘climate change’

    by Robert
    October 18, 2019
    “It was never about climate change but about setting up a one world socialist government run by the UN!”
    – Don Brown
    Here are snips and pieces from an article by Christopher Booker, who describes Canadian socialist multimillionaire Maurice Strong’s “absolutely central role” in the whole story.

    In 1972, Strong, a superb political operator, set up a UN “Environment Conference” to declare that the Earth’s resources were the common inheritance of all mankind and should no longer be exploited for the benefit of only a few countries at the expense of poorer countries.

    In 1988, he helped set up the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

    In 1992, Strong pulled off his greatest coup when he helped stage and presided over the colossal “Earth Summit” in Rio, arranging for it to be attended not only by 108 world leaders and 100,000 others but also by 20,000 UN-funded “green activists”.

    And ever since, it has been Strong’s ideology, enshrined at Rio in “Agenda 21”, which has continued to shape the entire process.

    Had it not been for this man, says Booker, we would not have seen 150 heads of government joining 40,000 delegates in Paris for that mammoth climate conference.

    The UN in effect has dictated the global climate change agenda ever since. Almost yearly it has staged huge conferences, notably those at Kyoto (1997), Copenhagen (2009) and the present one in Paris.

    To this day, global climate policy is still shaped by Strong’s Agenda 21, as was highlighted when Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican Marxist now head of the UNFCCC and organiser of the Paris conference, urged that the West should give “$1 trillion a year” to the “developing” world.

    Lest you think that Strong’s motives were pure, Booker includes this amazing tidbit:
    “In 2005, Strong was caught having been illicitly paid $1 million from the UN’s Oil for Food programme, supposedly set up to allow Saddam Hussein to pay in oil to feed starving Iraqis. He retired to a flat in Beijing, where he had been close to China’s Communist leaders back to Mao.”
    Funny, isn’t it, how our self-declared ‘saviours’ so often benefit while supposedly rescuing us?

    Or maybe that’s not so funny after all.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ear...te-change.html

    Thanks to Don Brown for this link


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    Earth has been warmer than today for hundreds of millions of years

    by Robert
    October 22, 2019

    Two weekends ago I attended the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and posted a photo of this chart showing Average Global Temperature over the past 630 million years. It shows that temperatures have been far warmer than today for millions – no, hundreds of millions – of years. Several dissenters have pooh-poohed the graph, so I thought you might like to see author Gregory Fegel’s supportive response.


    Average Global Temperature – Chart courtesy the Perot Museum of Nature and Science

    As you can see, average global temperature is now lower – LOWER! – than during most of the last 630 million years.

    When someone yells at you that humans are causing a climate emergency, hold onto your wallet.

    I used to say it was a ‘hoax,’ but now I think its much more dangerous than that. As far as I’m concerned, the global warming zealots are perpetrating an outright fraud.
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    Here is Gregory Fegel’s comment:
    The graph accompanying the article shows the Earth’s global mean temperature in Fahrenheit, from 625 million years ago to the present.

    The global mean temperature (GMT) is currently about 58°F. The natural global warming period called the Eocene Optimum peaked at about 49 million years ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that during the Early Eocene the GMT was about 9 to 14°C (16 to 25°F) higher than today. So the GMT during the Early Eocene was about 74 to 83°F.

    During the Eocene Optimum, little to no ice was present on the Earth. Forests covered most of the Earth, including palm trees growing in Alaska. The warmer temperatures facilitated the intercontinental migration of animals.

    The Eocene was a boom time for plants and animals, and it would have been a boom time for humans, had they existed then. Yet the climate alarmists claim that a rise of the GMT of 2 or 3°C will cause a catastrophic mass extinction for life on Earth.
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    Dr Shiva Ayyadurai speaks of the Paris Accord as being ultimately a cash grab by the globalist elites (satanic illuminati) to steal the wealth of western countries.

    In the second part of the interview he speaks of the fact that the "fake climate science" is propaganda bought by the globalist elite via assured funding to universities and their mediocre scientist.

    This belief system is in turn passed onto students which conform to the idea's to ensure they graduate.

    'No real thinking in academia anymore'

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    Scientist Dr Shiva Ayyadurai says there is “no real critical thinking” in academia anymore as professors are “following the money” when it comes to climate science.
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    Quote Posted by BMJ (here)
    Dr Shiva Ayyadurai speaks of....

    In the second part of the interview he speaks of the fact that the "fake climate science" is propaganda bought by the globalist elite via assured funding to universities and their mediocre scientist.
    As in this example involving Dr Susan Crockford, when you speak the truth about climate change you are dismissed.

    WATCH: Canadian Professor Lost Her Job for Telling the Truth About ‘Endangered’ Polar Bears

    Video interview at the link.

    A Canadian university has frozen a zoologist out of her adjunct professor post as punishment for saying the unsayable about polar bears: that populations are thriving; that they are not endangered; that stories about how they are being caused to starve by melting summer sea ice are junk science #FakeNews.

    Dr Susan Crockford is one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears and had held her post as Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada for 15 years.


    But by speaking the truth about polar bears she fell foul of environmental activists who have long treated Ursus maritimus as one of the poster children for their “the Earth is doomed and it’s all our fault” narrative. As a result, without explanation, Crockford was ousted from her position at the university.

    In an interview with Crockford this week for Breitbart News, I ask: ‘Do you think you’ve been blacklisted for telling inconvenient truths?’

    She replies:

    “Oh I absolutely do.”

    Crockford’s “crime” was to point out that contrary to environmentalists’ computer projections, polar bear populations have increased, not decreased — despite “global warming”.

    “What happened was that in 2007 there was a prediction that when sea ice declined to about 42 per cent below what it would have been in 1979 that two-thirds of the polar bears in the world would be gone. That would be 10 out of the 19 sub populations that exist.

    But what has happened, we find from research, is that bear numbers have not gone down but in fact have gone up by at least 16 per cent and probably more. So the bears are thriving despite the fact that sea ice has declined dramatically.”

    The “polar bears starving because of melting sea ice” story has been a staple of the green scare narrative.

    In 2017, for example, footage of an emaciated polar bear rummaging pitifully through trash cans became a huge international story.

    The video for National Geographic attracted over two million views. It was set to tear-jerking music and accompanied by the utterly dishonest and misleading message “This is what climate change looks like.”

    In fact, as Crockford explains, this was the purest green #FakeNews.

    “Starving is the leading natural cause of death for polar bears. It just happens.”

    If the polar bear was starving to death, it was likely the result of its being old or sick — not because of melting summer sea ice.

    Crockford says:

    “Polar bears do most of their feeding in the spring time, not the summer. Starving polar bears don’t tell us anything about populations.”

    Link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/201...ource=facebook
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    If this is already here, apologies -

    All the above is all and only my opinion - all subject to change and not meant to be true for anyone else regardless of how I phrase it.

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    But also, there's another reason I posted the video above... and that is that if you are in Germany, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom or the United States, you are fortunate to see the following just below the video - Here's a screen shot for those who are not so fortunate -

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    Info Panel? Hummmm.... what is that?

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    Quote You may see info from third parties alongside videos on a small number of well-established [emphasis mine] historical and scientific topics that are often subject to misinformation, such as the moon landing.
    Ahhh, thank you, Youtube and Wikipedia. I needed help in knowing what the real truth is about "Global Warming." I am so fortunate to be in one of these countries or I would never know!
    All the above is all and only my opinion - all subject to change and not meant to be true for anyone else regardless of how I phrase it.

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    The Catastrophic AGW Memeplex; a cultural creature: an intersting essay looking at Global Warming in terms of memetics.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/...ural-creature/

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