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The Washington Post in an editorial call out for Humans to reengineer the climate to save the planet. “Climate engineering scholars” David Keith and Wake Smith believe that we can have 15 souped up gulfstreams to put 100,000 tons of sulfur in the lower stratosphere to block solar rays only for half billion dollars over five years.  Note I put quotation over “Climate engineering scholars” since how can anyone be so stupid to actually consider having governments change the weather.  We just witnessed what happened in United Arab Emirates when the government added cloud seeding to a front coming in and flooding resulted.

In the early 1980’s, one study supposedly stated that 100 nuclear wars unleashed at one time would produce a nuclear winter along with the radiation and other impacts of a nuclear war.  This was considered a bad thing but now we have “scientists” who want to make this planet colder and produce their version of a nuclear winter only without unleashing nuclear weapons.

Of course, our brilliant scientists and thought leaders have not understand that a few nations would not like the idea United States or other Western nations changing the weather and this potentially could spark a conflict or two. 

This is not a new idea, as Marc Morano noted, “This is retro 1970s. In the 1970s, they believed fossil fuels were creating aerosols blocking the sun, creating man-made global cooling. So, they came up with the same kind of geo-engineering solutions back then. They wanted to put black soot on the Arctic to melt it. There was one proposal that was to use nuclear energy to loosen the Arctic ice caps because they thought they were growing too much. John Holdren (Science Czar) in the Obama Administration supported geo-engineering, if you will, of the climate. This is radical, risky, unproven, with unknown effects but they are doing it as a sort of lever over us…. ABC News meteorologists (Ginger Zee) talked about the cloud seeding to increase rain, snow, or storms, They will — the government will control the weather, and you will be Happy. That seems to be the new motto.”

This is one of those ideas that should be simply rejected but there are scientists, activists and politicians who love to play God and somehow the idea that a government can actually control the weather is not only delusional but dangerous  We are purposedly creating a colder planet and yet to hear one scientists tells us why we need to a colder planet when more people die during colder weather and shorter planting season for farming could lead to less yields for farmers and less food for the rest of us. 

We can only look at studies dealing with the gain of functions with virus to know the potential for disaster with geo-engineering.  Many policy makers have refused to come to grip that Covid was most likely a lab accident in a facility working on making virus more potent.  Anthony Fauci and other scientists who have supported this research did everything they could to cover up the fact that Wuhan lab was involved in gain of function research  and that United States helped finance this.  The possibility that Covid was research supported by American taxpayer and escaped from Chinese laboratory is becoming more the actual truth, millions around the world died as a result with the same brilliant experts demanding we lockdown our economy, close our schools and our businesses to no avail.

The same is true with adding foreign substances to change weather patterns.  We don’t know the results will be, but it is certainty that will have a negative impact on our planet and civilization. Play God and disaster will happen.

Here is a thought exercise.  If someone told you that over the past six decades as the weather warmed up, and CO2 increased, we would see more prosperous planet with more people moving into the middle class, the planet greener, and for many in the developed world, the Middle Class will access to increase travel and lifestyle that was only available to the rich generations earlier, you would think that was a good thing.  As the planet got greener, we would see increase agriculture production in which we are able to feed more than double population from sixty years ago better diets. Less people die in warmer weather from exposure than colder weather, you would think that was good.  As the planet got warmer, the world became a better place to live and despite predictions otherwise, a warming planet is a variable for a better future!

We live in an era in which up is down and down is up, an upside world in which our so-called experts want  a colder planet.   Makes no sense but here we are with some of the idiotic ideas to save the planet which would result in the end of civilization as we know it and the Middle class in the developed world grinded into poverty and billions of those in the developing world starving to death and the survivors will merely barely getting by. 

Some of the dumb ideas include:

1. Blocking the sun to reduce climate warming what could go wrong? In 1981, Carl Sagan and others warned of a nuclear winter as result of a nuclear exchange with small percentages of nuclear arsenal release.  Now the Biden administration is seriously considering plans to do this, introduce a nuclear winter without of the nuclear weapons.  White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming – POLITICO and supported research by Bill Gates. A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? (forbes.com)  Remember more people die in cold weather and introducing cold weather would shorten growing season.  This will put billions around the world on the verge of starvation.
2. Reducing farmer yields, taking farmland out of circulations, reduced any use of fossil fuels or nitrogen for fertilizers.  Our elites want us to eat bugs in place of meat since raising cows and pigs is bad for the planet.  What we are talking about is engineering massive famines beginning in the developing world. Joe Biden’s Net-Zero Agenda Spells Trouble Down on the Farm and at the Supermarket – Watts Up With That?
3. Eliminate fossil fuels that power our civilization with no replacement. So far EV’s are not selling due to their high cost but despite that the average American don’t want them, the Biden administration will force us to buy them.  How do you recharge your EV’s without fossil fuels plant?  Without fossil fuels, we are talking about returning our world to the 18^th and early 19^th centuries.  As a result, poverty increase, and economic prosperity declines and that is a best-case scenario.

Just look at some of the ideas and the results is increase poverty and increase death from lack of food, higher food and energy prices, unreliable energy,  and widespread poverty.  The reality is that many are waking up to the cost of net zero and finding they are not interested in paying the price in higher prices and lower living standards. 

Many climates alarmist viewed the Pandemic lockdowns as a model for a future declared climate emergency and never mind the Pandemic lockdowns were a complete failure in stopping the virus and the loss of freedoms and various mandates resulted in loss of businesses and increase excess mortality.  This is the plan on a larger scale that is being planned by the climate alarmists. 

Sri Lanka has already experimented with these ideas and within two years, the country went from being a food exporter to the food importer, the economy and government collapsed, and people put on the verge of starvation. Sri Lanka Begging Russia and India for Fuel: A Nation Wrecked by Green Agricultural Policies – Watts Up With That?, From Sri Lanka to Salinas – Watts Up With That? We had a grand experiment when a warmer climate, a little extra CO2 and rise of free market economy showed that the complete opposite happened, increase prosperity, greener planet, more food being raised, higher GDP per capita.  That is what the climate alarmists want to stop and instead replace if with a world with more poverty, people starving in the billions and a decreased standard of living..  We have done our experiments and guess what the climate alarmists want to see happen.  The opposite of what will make this a better world.

A funny thought occurred to me, dealing with Michael Mann, noted climate alarmist scientist and the inventor of the famous hockey stick. The thought was Mann own hockey stick with excessive CO2 and rise in temperature coincided with the most rapid growth of prosperity world have ever seen. We have seen more people being fed better diets, less people living in poverty, and multiple rise in economic growth and GDP per capita growth.  Mann own research supports the narrative that higher CO2 and warmer temperatures are not bad for the planet but are variables that is actually good for the planet.

Climate the Movie directed by Martin Durkin and produced by Tom Nelson is full of many gems that debunk much of the science behind the recent Climate crisis scare.  Durkin interviews many experts and when I say experts, I mean some of the leading scientists in the field including Will Happier, Richard Lindzen, Steve Koonin, and John Clauser among others.  These experts have taught at Princeton, MIT, University of California among others and Clauser was just rewarded a Nobel Prize in Science. That is an elite group of experts.

The film examines the science behind climate change alarmist arguments, beginning with the actual climate history of this planet which goes back hundred of million of years of data collected. We find that our planet has been warmer and CO2 levels higher but life flourished.  Even in the past thousands of years, we have seen our planet as warm if not warmer than today including the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period. 

The scientists noted that we are living through overall cooling period that has lasted for thousands of years and many of the scientists interviewed added we are also in the midst of a CO2 dearth and as one scientist noted, we may have come close thousands of years ago of a catastrophic event when the CO2 sunk to extreme low and if it had reached lower, life as we know it would cease to exist. 

The case made by the scientist are far superior to the arguments of the alarmists and this has been shown when these ideas get explored side by side.  A few years, Richard Lindzen and a team debated a team led by Galvin Schmidt and after the debate, many who sided with Schmidt reversed their position and changed over to Lindzen  (going into the debate, nearly two out of three favored Schmidt assertion we had a climate crisis but afterwards a plurality sided with Lindzen.  Schmidt never has debated a climate opponent again.)  Two years ago, Steve Koonin debated Andrew Dessler in Greenwich village and again the results were the same, Koonin changed 20 percent of the audience over to his side and easily won the debate.  It got so bad for Dessler that he was forced to apologize to Koonin about an article he coauthored attacking Koonin position and Koonin’s book, Unsettled.

So why isn’t the position of climate skeptics taken more seriously?  As the film makes clear, despite the expertise of these individuals, the reality is that there is a systemic censoring of their ideas.  Many scientific journals will not publish their ideas, they are attacked as deniers and many younger scientists understand that to take a position counter to the narrative will cost them their academic career plus government grants goes to those who accept the narrative of climate crisis. They are shunned and there is an attempt to silence anyone who dares to oppose the climate alarmist point of view.  The term denier was originally designed to equate these brilliant minds as no better than holocaust deniers.  During the recent Pandemic, we saw similar attempts to censor opponents of the lockdowns, but the evidence was so overwhelming that the lockdowns were failures, it was hard not to hide the anti-lockdown arguments.  The one optimistic view  that film leaves us with is that when the average voters see the price of the alarmists ideas of dealing with the crisis, they are starting to rebel including farmers who being told, don’t farm, to the rise in energy cost for the average consumers.  Developing nations around the world, in particular Africa, are being told they have to forsake fossil fuels that led to prosperity of much of the  developed world and many don’t like the message they must continue to live in poverty.  China and India are developing coal plants for energy and ignoring by policies that will reduce their own ability to prosper.   They may pay lip service to green arguments but in practices, they simply don’t care and ignore the alarmists arguments.

This film is worth the view and remember that when fossil fuels along with free market economics began to take hold on a worldwide basis, we saw prosperity never before experienced.  While much of the environmentalist movement has used this “crisis” to declare war on free market, the reality is that without fossil fuels whose development came as result of market economy has allowed much of the middle class to enjoy a lifestyle that was reserved only for the rich a century ago.  One place you can see the film is here Climate The Movie: Watch Here – Watts Up With That?.

Do I believe that the climate is changing?  Yes, but that like saying I believe that sun will rise in the East and lower in the West or that the world is really round.   Climate has been changing since the time this planet was formed and will continue to change over the next millennium.  Here is what I do believe, first there is no climate emergency that needs to be addressed and the second, if we actually follow the advice of climate alarmist, humanity will be worse off.  Their cure for climate change is the end of civilization and the death of billions.  They want to destroy the planet to save it.

Michael Walsh in pipeline noted, “Only an illiterate or a fool cannot understand this elementary concept. There is no need to delve into any scientific studies based on wildly or deliberately inaccurate computer “models” to know this. There is no need to be emotionally stampeded by tiresome, and always wrong, Jeremiahs of doom like Paul Ehrlich. There is no truth in the statistical manipulation that proclaims a full 97 percent of “climate scientists” agree that changes in the climate are the work of mankind. You don’t have to worry about carbon emissions. The Last Days are not upon us.”   And what are the goals of the Climate alarmists? About their goals, Walsh observed, “But the “climate movement” bids fair to undo everything Western man has accomplished in the fields of science, technology, and religion and replace it with a savage new primitivism that is both inhuman and godless. It relies on the patina of science to promote a culture based on fear and guilt, with the goal of reducing and taming the human population under the aegis of a small group of self-appointed bonzes.”

As mention, they want to destroy civilization to save the Planet and somehow this doesn’t seem to be much of suitable option.  If your goal is to destroy your civilization to save the planet, maybe you might want to reconsider the nature of the problem and whether you will do more damage than good to deal with the issue.   

Consider what Walsh has noticed, “In Holland, the leftist government is attempting to forcibly seize farmers’ land in order to take it out of food production to appease this new Moloch. Meanwhile in Ireland its government of mediocrities has been captured by the Green Party, which now holds all its important ministries, and has decreed that some 200,000 heads of cattle be culled in order to meet its “mandated” emissions targets — a report that instantly made the poor beleaguered country a laughingstock around the world, and from which Éire now seems to be backing away. The fact that, historically, cattle have been integral to the country’s sense of itself — viz. the epic poem, Táin bó Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), which dates from the seventh century A.D. — and was the standard by which wealth was measured means nothing to the Eurocrats in Dublin who function at Brussels’ behest. Expect more of the same across Europe, which even now is struggling with soaring energy costs and reduced access to dependable sources of power.”  Seizing farms in order to reduce food production is suicidal for those who depends upon the Dutch’s exports and Irish sacrifice to the gods of climate change cult is to kill 200,000 cows. 

Carbon Dioxide is an important aspect of our life, without which we could not live.  We are carbon emitters every time we breathe, and plants take that CO2 and returns us Oxygen, it is called photosynthesis.  Most of us learned this in elementary school or used to. We are a carbon form based of life and Walsh observed, “Carbon is the graphite in our pencils, the diamond in our rings, the oil in our cars, the sugar in our coffee, the DNA in our cells, the air in our lungs, the food on our plates, the cattle in our fields, the forest in our parks, the cement in our sidewalks, the steel in our skyscrapers, the charcoal in our grills, the fizz in our sodas, the foam in our fire extinguishers, the ink in our pens, the plastic in our toys, the wood in our chairs, the leather in our jackets, the battery in our cars, the rubber in our tires, the coal in our power plants, the nano in our nanotechnology, and the life in our soils… Carbon is life. It exists in every organic life form. Life is impossible without it. When combined with water, it forms sugars, fats, alcohols, and terpenes. When combined with nitrogen and sulfur, it forms amino acids, antibiotics, and alkaloids. With the addition of phosphorus, it forms DNA and RNA, the essential codes of life, as well as ATP, the critical energy-transfer molecule found in all living cells. The carbon atom is the essential building block of life.”

Walsh concluded the real goal of Climate alarmist, “There is nothing urgent about climate change. The earth will continue to warm and cool until the day the Sun dies…Nothing bad will happen in either the short- or long-term if global temperatures rise by two degrees centigrade, the arbitrary figure of alarm for the cultists. Indeed, a slight warming will help all of humanity…Many of the people promoting the panic emerge from the malign precincts of the World Economic Forum which, under its Bond villain-in-chief, Klaus Schwab, is dedicated to the impoverishment and reduction of the human population. These are the same people who gave you the recent Covid hugger-mugger, which needlessly atomized the world’s economies and illegally locked down whole populations while cowering from a bug of next-to-zero lethality in the general population…When you have “net-zero” emissions, you are dead.”  

We have taken an essential block of life on Earth and turned it into a pollutant.  We are told by our “betters” to follow the science but the science they follow is absurd.  As we witness during the Covid pandemic, following the science of the “our scientific leader” including Tony Fauci and Debbie Birks, we engaged in vaccine mandates for a less than effective vaccine, mask mandates that did nothing to stop the spread, economic lockdowns along with shutting down schools had both economic and educational disastrous results plus hiding the real origin of the virus.  Following the science did not stop the virus but it did shut down much of the world economy for no real benefits.  The lockdowns outweighed any benefits, and the solutions of climate alarmist risk outweighed any benefit.  We won’t save the Planet by locking down our economy because of climate emergency that doesn’t exist, but we will kill billions and destroy civilization as we know it.