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2009-07-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-29 10:26|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Great phrase in that article:

these scientific and academic voices have fallen silent in the face of environmental Jacobinism.

Great phrase.

Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety. Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites.

Heretic, Burn Him!

Environmental Jacobism.

Exactly what it its. Intolerant, fanatical, and ultimately, not science at all.

Red meat:

atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at the lowest levels it has been for 500 million years, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is only 0.001 per cent of the total amount of the chemical held in the oceans, surface rocks, soils and various life forms... Polar ice has been present on the Earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time... He points out that for humans periods of global warming have been times of abundance when civilization made leaps forward. Ice ages, in contrast, have been times when human development slowed or even declined.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-29 11:50|| 2009-07-29 11:50|| Front Page Top

#2 FYI: Jacobism:

Jacobism is a product of the French Revolution. The Jacobins were the political party that assumed power after the overthrow of Louis XVI. As opposed to the federal concern for civil society, Jacobism is concerned with the state. This emphasis on the state was already established in Europe before the Revolution in France.

Jacobist states de-emphasize diversity and instead seek to force unanimity. That is, the aim is to find a way to bring people together under what is called the general will. Usually the general will is defined by an elite, a cadre, a political party. To implement this general will, the cadre looks for and seizes the center of power which in turn diminishes local liberties and powers in the process. The general will is expressed in a plan, often couched in revolutionary language and when successful, results in the institutionalization of a single, central power, "revolutionary" party.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-29 11:52|| 2009-07-29 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 It was 106 degrees in Tacoma yesterday, that is WARM.

Posted by 746 2009-07-29 12:00|| 2009-07-29 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Coldest July on recent record. It is fun to watch a curmudgeon geologist upset the ayatollahs of the new tyranny, environmentalism. We all take in oxygen and put out CO2. Trees and other plants love CO2. These environmentalist boobs would try upset the upset the symbiosis of our environment if we allowed them to tinker.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-07-29 20:48|| 2009-07-29 20:48|| Front Page Top

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