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CLIMATE OF FEAR - Introduction

Strictly speaking, I am neither a climate denier nor a climate change denier. Every planet with an atmosphere has a climate. And the climate of this planet does indeed change: sometimes cyclically, usually gradually, but sometimes cataclysmically. I mean what I say and say what I mean. Unlike the algoreans, warmists, Green New Deal Marxists and their media stenographers, I use words precisely.

Any compendium of modern pieties must include the unquestioned and unquestioning belief in Global Warming specifically or Climate Change in general. Faith, not facts, guide the pious. They have heard the green catechism since kindergarten. The strength of their beliefs would make a Calvinist jealous. Consequently, both believers or agnostics of that dogma show little interest in knowing its origins or underpinings. They treat it like holy writ and do not tolerate heretics or doubters. It is, as they claim, settled science. But is any science ever settled? Can we know everything about a subject of scientific inquiry and be dogmatically certain no new facts will be uncovered by further research?

The pious faithful of the settled science cult suffer from the "Semmelweis reflex" or "Semmelweis effect." They tend to reject any new evidence or new knowledge that contradicts their established beliefs or paradigms. Timothy Leary, the LSD researcher, gave us a good definition of the Semmelweis reflex: "Mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished.".

For me, socialist economist Robert Heilbroner was the founding father of the modern climate cult. His article, After Communism, The New Yorker, Reflections, 10 September 1990, page 91, was his attempt to restore, “the honorable title of socialism,” after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He envisioned socialism being reborn by destroying capitalism and restoring central planning to mitigate, “the ecological burden that economic growth is placing on the environment.” Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates must have clipped that article and filed it away. Heilbroner stated, “Capitalism must be monitored, regulated, and contained to such a degree that it would be difficult to call the final order capitalism.” Are the Covid-Con and the proposed (but doomed to fail) Great Reset the result of Heilbronner's manifesto?

The pious faithful of the settled science cult also suffer from a misplaced belief in consensus. Just as might does not make right, consensus does not make anything right. Science is not decided by majority vote. Anyway, the fiction of consensus in climate "science" dates to a paper by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman of the University of Illinois. They reported the skewed results of an opinion poll of climate scientists that Ms. Zimmerman had done for her MSc thesis. They concluded that 97% of climatologists thought that mankind was having a significant impact on the climate. Though the survey was sent to over 10,000 scientists, only 79 responses were received from climatologists. The vaunted 97% figure represented just 75 out of 77 scientists. "Many participants were appalled by the survey and recorded their feelings at the time, calling it simplistic and biased, and suggesting that it was an attempt to provide support for a predetermined view."

Though the mainstream media insist otherwise, there is no consensus. See also these old links:

http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/meaningless-consensus-on-climate-change

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/01/03/lawrence-solomon-97-cooked-stats/

http://climatequotes.com/2011/02/10/study-claiming-97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-flawed/

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/the-phony-claim-that-97-of-scientists.html

http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/commissioned-work/the-%e2%80%99scientigic-consensus-on-climate-change%e2%80%99.pdf

http://sppiblog.org/news/the-97-consensus-is-only-75-self-selected-climatologists

http://tinyurl.com/Clim97pct

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/what-else-did-the-97-of-scientists-say/

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3684

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