Knowing of Burt Rutan
since 2010,
when I saw this
endorsement on the back cover of David Archibald’s new book,
Regnery Publishing, Washington DC, 2014
and so it turned out. I let excerpts from the first two chapters speak for themselves, before giving the wider scope by showing the table of comments:
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“Do we live in a special
time in which the laws of physics and nature are suspended?
. No, we do not.
. Can we expect the
relationship between the Sun’s activity and climate, which we can see in data
going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another twenty
years?
With absolute certainty,
we can.
The Sun drives climate.
The demonstrated relationship between solar activity and climate predicts a
severe cooling out to at least the year 2040 – that is, for the next quarter of
a century or so.
Meanwhile, changes in the
atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will have a minuscule effect on
climate. Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is not even a little bit bad. It
is, in fact, wholly beneficial. The more carbon dioxide we can put into the
atmosphere, the better life on Earth will be for human beings and all other living
things.
If all that is true, you
will ask, how is it that the United Nations-derived Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) came up with its icecap-melting prediction of a 6°C increase in average global
temperature by the end of this century?” …
“The UN-EU establishment
that gave us the global warming scare in order to establish a new world order
(after the fall of Communism) …. was necessary … to negate the triumph of
liberal democracy that Francis Fukuyama predicted in 1992. As a belief system, global warming gave its
adherents some of the basics in spiritual nourishment – original sin, the fall
from grace, absolution, redemption, and sacrifice, to name a few…
“It is one thing for the
UN-EU bureaucrats to conspire against the productive elements of society. Nothing less is expected of them. Similarly,
individual scientists selling their miserable souls for thirty pieces of silver
is also completely understandable, and nothing new. What has been extremely disappointing
is the learned societies, professional societies, and other scientific
institutions accepting the global warming hoax without question, even though a
moment’s consideration would have shown that the premise is laughable.
Evidently global warming filled a sort of emptiness, a hollowness in many men’s
souls. Perhaps if people come to see through this con job and understand the
psychology behind their irrational belief, they will not be so gullible when
the next one comes along.
“Global warming did serve
a couple of useful purposes. The issue has been a litmus test for our political
class. Any politician who has stated a belief in global warming is either a
cynical opportunist or an easily deluded fool. In neither case should that politician
ever be taken seriously again. No excuses can be accepted.
“Plato said, “The penalty
good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
There is precious little time left to remain indifferent.”
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Go, get yourself a Tyger Read.
This eye opener of a book triggered a veritable brain tsunami – (not quite recovered yet) – so I now consider it a TYGER^3 read. Reason being, that it woke me from the luxury of trying to judge all energy considerations on a timescale of perhaps remaining valid at the time of my grandchildren’s grandchildren, at the same time overlooking that the immediate future could be far more pressing – as Buckminster Fuller forecast in his CRITICAL PATH of 1981. While I think that the direction and tenets I adopted and proposed as they arose from my questioning learning curve and blogging, probably remain lastingly valid – especially that you can’t have Clean Energy (whatever that might yet turn out to be) – without pervasive Honesty, Clean Science and Clean Politics; but not unless we find a way through Fuller’s Critical Path, so that there might actually be some humans around at grandchildren’s-grandchildren-time as ‘homo sapiens’ rather than as retrogressed troglodytes.
ReplyDeleteDon't, therefore, ignore reading David Archibald's TWILIGHT OF ABUNDANCE; apart from providing the ultimate debunking of the 'Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Fraud', it is also a sobering reality check of the energy conundrum here and now, and for the impending future.