The UN’s IPCC Assessor David Shearman wants you to pay an eco tax of $18,000 for every child you have. This is to compensate the planet for you being a human. Don’t forget the eco elitists in power think you are a disease, a scourge on the planet, a virus that needs to be eliminated so the logical consequence is they want you to pay even more for being a human - that is to them of course. They have taken it upon themselves to represent the earth - no one voted them there - they elevated themselves to that position and now they feel they have the right to tell the rest of us how to live. They are taking their Malthusian steps like the Fabians - one step at a time. Putting us in a pot of cold water like lobsters and slowly heating it till it is boiling.
The UN and Barack Obama’s science czar John Holdren has always been an advocate of population control. Some of the measures he supports is compulsory abortion of American women, forcibly sterilising the country by additives to the water supply (eg fluoride). This is the same Holdren who thinks that children up to the age of two are not really human beings and so can be eliminated without any qualms. Again we have an anti-human eco elitist in power deciding whether you will have descendants or not, if so how many and of those that live how diseased they will be and what their life span will be.
Holden’s co-author Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb) was Bush’s science czar. Funny how both sides of politics have anti people advisers. Ehrlich predicted the end of the world (these eco elitists love trying to scare humanity to death) but was incredibly wrong (as they usually are). He proposed carbon offsets to stop the poor from breeding - obviously the rich like him are ok to multiply. And yet there is much more in has hatred of humanity that this eco elitist proposes it is quite appalling.
In recent days Ted Turner Chairman of the United Nations Foundation Board (also founder of CNN) has advocated a one child policy for the western world in order to save the planet. He has donated over $1 billion to the UN to further his ‘special interests’. He has also rescued the UN previously giving them huge sums of money. I wonder what the dinner party is like for these UN eco elitists? “Hey Paul I agree we must wipe 100 million out in the next 10 years”. “Yeah Ted the human pests are just doing too much damage to our world - we want to enjoy it without them getting in the way”. “How do you propose we do it John”? “‘Oh don’t worry boys the UN already has it under control - another cigar and port?”
Already we are seeing women who will get voluntarily sterilised because they’ve been brainwashed to believe that babies are not eco friendly. We are also seeing fluoride - a sterilisation agent in our water supply, GM soy - another sterilisation agent in our food supply that completely sterilises rats in 4 generations. Is it any wonder our fertility levels are plummeting. The CIA gives an interesting look into fertility rates The where the west is at the bottom of the table. GM soy like most GM products are also linked to birth defects and cancer - so even if you have kids then the diseases we are starting to see plague us will hit them even harder.
And then there’s the UN’s depopulation agenda. World population down to 500 million. The UN is monitoring the situation and the UN can see that it’s policies through puppet governments are working. It now has World Population Day for the masses - or elimination of them. Then there’s agenda 21 and it’s social engineering - placing you in prison cities. There is also codex alimentaris - making it illegal for you to use natural remedies for your health.
So as the world freezes while the UN squanders our money on global warning it is worth remembering the biggest killer in the history of the earth and humanity is the cold. Ice ages have almost wiped us out completely. But as dead bodies are being dug out of the ice the UN and it’s eco elitists will still be telling us through the lamestream media even the cold is proof that the world is warming and they will still be demanding even more money from our puppet governments in the form of trillion dollar eco debts and they will still be there putting up the cost of keeping warm. The UN will handle all the financial transactions from the guilt funds and eco taxes, making trillions in the process and living the life of excess whilst they keep us poor. Whilst UN is enriching itself they will be (as they are now) driving you into poverty. Cant afford to pay your electricity bills? Can’t afford to keep warm in a cooling world. Just think this is only the beginning and it could get a lot worse, as long as we let them and their puppets stay in power. Post here.
By Christopher C. Horner, David W. Schnare and Del. Robert Marshall 01/05/11 8:05 PM
Today, Virginia taxpayers, a state lawmaker and a public interest law firm are asking the University of Virginia to produce important “global warming” records under that state’s Freedom of Information Act. These are records the school no longer denies possessing but nonetheless refuses to release, even to Commonwealth Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. They address one of the most high-profile claims used to advance massive economic-intervention policies in the name of “global warming.”
In response to a previous FOIA request, U.Va. denied these records existed. However, during Cuccinelli’s pre-investigation under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act ("FATA"), a 2007 law passed unanimously by Virginia’s legislature, which clearly covers the work of taxpayer-funded academics, U.Va. stunningly dropped this stance. For this reversal, the taxpayers of Virginia owe Cuccinelli a debt of gratitude.
Still, the school has spent upward of half a million dollars to date fighting Cuccinelli’s pursuit, now before the Virginia Supreme Court. However, Virginia’s transparency statute FOIA gives the school one week to produce the documents, and offers no exemption for claims U.Va. is using to block Cuccinelli’s inquiry.
These e-mails and other documents relate to claims made by Michael Mann to obtain, and claim payment under, certain taxpayer-funded grants. Mann worked at the university’s department of environmental sciences when he produced what was hailed at the time as the “smoking gun” affirming the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming.
Despite that lofty honorific, persistent controversy led promoters of this notorious “Hockey Stick” graph (principally, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC) to stop advancing it as serious work.
Leaked “ClimateGate” e-mails discussing these same controversies prompted Cuccinelli’s pre-investigation. Sadly, in order to keep the taxpayers’ advocate from examining the evidence, U.Va. has offered a series of twists on a novel defense of “academic freedom.”
Now we with the American Tradition Institute’s environmental law center have requested these documents under FOIA and will presumably put an end to these tactics of denial followed by delay.
Importantly, also under FOIA in late 2009, the pressure group Greenpeace sought, and was promised, e-mails and other materials of Patrick Michaels, who also formerly worked in the same university department.
While the university proceeded to compile the material for Greenpeace, one of us, Virginia Del. Bob Marshall, R-Prince William, thought to ask for records relating to Michaels’ former colleague, Mann. Oddly, the university informed Marshall that such records no longer existed because Mann had left the department.
Michaels has stated that the university, in explaining to him these disparate responses, asserted that some people’s records are treated differently than others. Mann’s were allegedly destroyed; Michaels’ were being packaged for delivery to Greenpeace.
One disparity possibly helping to explain the other was that Mann had been an active participant in the IPCC, obtaining many research grants for his work at U.Va. But Michaels had been a very politically incorrect, high-profile “skeptic” of catastrophist claims such as those represented by the IPCC, and particularly Mann’s Hockey Stick.
In court in August, U.Va. opted against robustly defending, as a legal argument, its academic-freedom rationale for refusing to produce the records. Yet even this week, it is asking the Virginia Supreme Court to deny Cuccinelli’s request for documents possibly showing whether the dense Hockey Stick smoke indeed indicates fire. This does Virginia taxpayers a disservice.
Other records obtained under FOIA reveal that U.Va. has been paying Washington lawyers several thousand dollars per day to deny the requested transparency. As such, in a separate request, we also seek information about this privately underwritten effort to avoid complying with Cuccinelli’s inquiry.
The university has previously demanded taxpayers pay thousands of dollars for a FOIA search for Mann’s records, on the grounds that it maintains a broadly dispersed record-keeping system. Therefore, we have specifically directed the school to only search the backup server it claimed to the attorney general’s office that it finally located as the likely home of the Mann records. As such, demands for huge search fees should not be an obstacle.
We hope for prompt university compliance with FOIA, although we are prepared to fully protect our appellate rights. As Virginia taxpayers, we also hope to see U.Va. rise to its reputation and reflect the highest fidelity toward its statutory and other obligations.
We can then, finally, determine what it is that so many have gone to such great lengths to keep the public from knowing about that for which the public has paid.
Christopher C. Horner is senior director of litigation for the American Tradition Institute’s law center and a Virginia resident; David W. Schnare, Ph.D is a Virginia resident and a federal attorney, Del. Bob Marshall is a Virginia Republican delegate representing Prince William County.
Read more at the Washington Examiner here.
By Andrew Bolt
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong had an excuse worked out back in 2009, to explain why the world’s atmosphere had not warmed over the decade as the warmists had predicted.
No, no, no, she said when finally pressed for an explanation by Family First Senator Steve Fielding. The best evidence for global warming was not to be found in air temperatures but those of the seas:
“In terms of a single indicator of global warming, change in ocean heat content is most appropriate.”
Small problem. The evidence even then suggested the seas weren’t actually warming. Now Professors Robert Knox and David Douglass of Rochester University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy have even more bad news for Wong and the rest of the warmist Gillard Government. According to their latest paper, in the International Journal of Geosciences, the seas have been cooling, not warming, as measured by the Argo floats:
A recently published estimate of Earth’s global warming trend is 0.63 plus/minus 0.28 W/m2, as calculated from ocean heat content anomaly data spanning 1993-2008. This value is not representative of the recent (2003-2008) warming/cooling rate because of a “flattening” that occurred around 2001-2002. Using only 2003-2008 data from Argo floats, we find by four different algorithms that the recent trend ranges from -0.010 to -0.160 W/m2 with a typical error bar of plus/minus 0.2 W/m2. These results fail to support the existence of a frequently-cited large positive computed radiative imbalance.
So what’s the Government’s argument now?
This actually confirms a trend in Wong’s style of arguing the case - a trend of very dodgy, if not downright deceptive, behaviour. For instance, Wong has also been far too eager to exploit any hot summer day as corroboration of global warming theory, while pooh-poohing the naturally corollary - that cold and wet summers must tend to contradict that same theory:
ALI MOORE, PRESENTER: South-eastern Australia endured another scorching day today with temperatures in the 40s across South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales… Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says the heatwave is consistent with global warming predictions; bad news for those sweating through the week.
She has also been far too eager to ascribe the usual changes in the weather - especially the recent drought - to global warming:
AUSTRALIA’S top climate scientist has contradicted Federal Government claims the drought in the Murray Darling Basin is due to global warming.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, Prof Neville Nicholls, said the claim was not backed by science. “The current dry period (in the Murray Darling Basin) might still be just a fluke, or natural variability,” Prof Nicholls said. “We cannot confidently attribute it to global warming.”
Yet Federal Climate Change and Water Minister Penny Wong has repeatedly claimed the basin’s drought is due to climate change. ‘Research shows that this severe, extended drought is clearly linked with global warming,” Senator Wong said in November last year. “There is nowhere that this challenge is more serious than the Murray Darling Basin.”
Closely allied to that trick has been Wong’s participation in heads-I-win, tails-you-lose argumentation. A recent example:
Last year brought drought: “Research shows that this severe, extended drought is clearly linked with global warming,” (Climate Minister Penny) Wong said.
This year brought rain: GLOBAL warming may have given Australia its wettest September in more than 100 years, but “extreme dry years” lie ahead, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says.
And then there was her use of dodgy data to support the wildest scare-claims:
As we noted yesterday, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong this week released a suspiciously-timed report claiming 250,000 Australian homes could be drowned by rising seas by 2100, thanks to global warming.
Her much-publicised report claimed warming could cause the seas to rise not by the 59cms that the most gloomy IPCC model put as the upper limit, but by 1.1 metres - or even 1.90 metres.
Yesterday, with the help of reader Lazlo, I showed how Wong’s report, produced by her own department, in fact actually told untruths about the IPCC predictions and relied on a discredited paper to justify its much more alarmist figure.
Then in a second post, Kris Sayce, editor of Money Morning, showed even more flaws: the misrepresention and use of Bureau of Metereology data which the bureau itself said was unreliable, the use of data guaranteed to exaggerate recent rises in sea level, and a false claim that these recent rises were unprecedented.
Now reader Cohenite points out yet more flaws which turn Wong’s report into a farce...Does this really strike you as the record of a warmist driven scrupulously by science, with a keen eye for evidence? Is this the kind of case on which should rest a colossal new green tax and the complete reorganisation of the Australian economy?
Read more here.