The Cold Truth

An eighty minute video titled "The Cold Truth", Twitter screenshot shown in Figure 1, gives a good overview of the human-induced global warming scam:

Figure 1: link

The video is current and well presented, excellent for sharing with friends and family who may be in doubt about what the "truth" is about climate change. Because of the grip that those propagating climate alarmism have over media outlets and academia, the scam will continue unless we elect politicians who have sworn to support the severing of all governmental ties with the WEF.

Meanwhile, on a micro rather than a macro level, this YouTube video titled "OREGON URGENTLY SHUTS DOWN SMALL FARMS EN MASSE “To Protect The People" gives a good account of how governments, at both the local and state level, are waging an ongoing war on small farmers. The narrator reports how one city or state will implement legislation that is obviously overreaching and monitor the pushback from the citizenry. If legal challenges fail, then other cities and states will introduce similar legislation.

The agenda to deprive ordinary people of the right to grow their own food is being pushed worldwide by the WEF but it needs to be implemented at a city and state level. It is the job of the politicians and bureaucrats, most of whom are in the pocket of the WEF, to push this agenda. Thus it is vital to support politicians who are opposed to this agenda. This is the only way to thwart the master plan short of revolution.

CONTROL

If it is not thwarted then a few large corporations will control the food supply and citizens will be totally dependent of them for survival. How this food is produced, what it contains, what is added to it and how much it costs will be decided by governments  that are monitoring these corporations. Just as with the media, it is easy to control a few big players by ensuring that their CEOs are on board with the master plan.

There is still a window of opportunity remaining to turn things around. Governments require  the police, army, tax officials and other appointed persons to enforce their dictates and not all of them may be compliant. Soon autonomous drones and robots will replace them and they will have no qualms about enforcing "the rule of law". At that point, it will be too late.

The Cost of Renewable Energy

The Jerusalem Post is proving an interesting source of information about is going on in Israel and how that country is reacting to what is going on in the world. However, in today's online edition, the following advertisement caught my eye:

Advertisement in The Jerusalem Post (online edition)
on Friday, February 8th 2019.

What is being advertised is a book, Dumb Energy by Norman Rogers, available on Amazon at only A$6.79. There is a free summary available and that's what I had a look at. A couple of paragraphs in particular caught my attention:

For certain scientific groups, green ideas and global warming alarmism are the geese that lay golden eggs. The golden eggs are not just money, but also prestige. Scientists, particularly climate scientists, benefit from global warming alarmism. They are reluctant, individually or as a group, to express skepticism or to critically examine the theories behind global warming alarmism. Peer pressure to conform is so great, that to contradict the group think is heresy, and likely professional suicide. Global warming has transformed climate scientists, formerly nerdy grinds toiling in an obscure corner of academia, into celebrity scientists. The pull of stardom and money has corrupted the scientific work. The statements that all climate scientists agree, or that predictions of global warming are absolutely solid – those things are propaganda.

I couldn't agree more with that statement but later I came across the following:

Renewable energy and its companion global warming alarmism have become a religion. There is a great danger that it will become an established religion forced on the people by the government and an elite establishment. Important believers include dignitaries such as Jerry Brown, the governor of California and Michael Bloomberg, billionaire and former mayor of New York. This is not a quiet religion. The believers don’t meditate. This is an angry religion.  

This got this me thinking. Previously, I had tended to regard the push for renewable energy sources as basically positive, not fully realising how closely this push is linked to its "companion", global warming alarmism. This led me to investigate a possible link between the rise of renewable energy sources and the rising price of electricity. I came across an article in THE CONVERSATION from January 2nd 2018 titled: A high price for policy failure: the ten-year story of spiralling electricity bills. The article looked at the rising cost of electricity bills in Australia. The following section I found particularly relevant:

Up until the late 2000s the market kept chugging along. Then two things happened. First, consumers started using less electricity. And second, the Renewable Energy Target (RET) was ramped up, pushing more supply into the market. 

Demand down and supply up meant even more oversupply, and continued low prices. But the combination of low prices and low demand put pressure on the finances of existing fossil fuel generators. Old generators were being asked to produce less electricity than before, for lower prices. Smaller power stations began to be mothballed or retired. 

Something had to give, and it did when both Alinta and Engie decided it was no longer financially viable to keep their power stations running. Far from being oversupplied, the market is now struggling to meet demand on hot days when people use the most electricity. The result is very high prices. 

A tight demand and supply balance with less coal-fired generation has meant that Australia increasingly relies on gas-fired generation, at a time when gas prices are astronomical, leading to accusations of price-gouging. 

Put simply, Australia has failed to build enough new generation over recent years to reliably replace ageing coal plants when they leave the market. 

Is it renewable energy’s fault that coal-fired power stations have closed? Yes, but this is what needs to happen if we are to reduce greenhouse emissions. Is it renewables’ fault that replacement generation has not been built? No. It’s the government’s fault for failing to provide the right environment for new investment.

The rising prices are a complex issue and the article does a good job of analysing the various components that make up an electricity bill have risen over the previous years. Nonetheless, it's clear that renewable energy initiatives have played a significant part in driving up prices. Of course, it's taken as a given that coal-fired power stations must be closed and that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced.

Getting back to the Dumb Energy summary, the author makes an interesting point when he notes:

The propagandists for wind and solar use fake photography to give the impression that smokestacks of conventional fossil fuel plants are belching toxic black smoke. This outright fakery says a lot about the ethics of the Sierra Club and similar organisations. The picture is an example that appeared on the Sierra Club website. The smokestack is actually belching harmless water vapour. When the water vapour or steam hits the cool air, it condenses into a white cloud. By photographing with the sun behind the smoke stack, the white cloud of water droplets can be made to appear black. It is revealing that, in the photo, there is no “smoke” immediately above the stack before the water vapour has mixed with the cool air sufficiently to condense. 

I don't know if that's true or not but its clear that the propaganda regarding man-made global warming and the need to develop renewable energy sources is driving up the price of electricity. There are few government's in the world that would challenge the core tenets of The Church of Climatology. The Trump administration has done so but that may prove more helpful in the long run to the global warming alarmists who can now put global warming deniers and Trump together in the same basket.

If it's true that carbon dioxide emissions are causing the planet to overheat, then of course a reduction in our dependance on fossil fuels makes sense. It's worth paying more for electricity in order to save our planet from possible catastrophe. If it's not true then why are we being led to believe that it is? Is there a hidden agenda? Cui bono? It's easy to suspect a profit motive because there is big money involved in alternative energy but, as with global elite initiative, the key issue is control. To quote from Natural Climate Change:

So where does the passion in support of the man-made global warming hoax originate? Freedom First Society believes that the best explanation for the widespread propaganda is that the “crisis” hoax supports an immense power grab. High-level internationalist insiders have selected the global warming scare as one pretext to help them drive forward their revolutionary “new world order.” In particular, they seek to persuade independent nations to submit to world government, cleverly controlled by an elite few from behind the scenes.

Incidentally, my research showed up an interesting site that curates news articles about climate change: TWTW (The Week That Was). I've signed up to receive their newsletter.

Screenshot from climate change change curation site:
http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm

One thing that this archive has already brought to my attention is that environmental degradation and man-made global warming are quite distinct. No one would deny that human activity has caused widespread environmental degradation. The mining, transportation and burning of fossil fuels have certainly damaged the environment but this does not mean that the use of fossil fuels needs to be totally abandoned. Any human activity has an impact on the environment.

A Lot of Hot Air

UK weather: Blistering heatwaves and tropical storms to last four years with 'abnormally hot' air until 2022

So touted the Mirror headline of an article from the 15th August 2018 edition. The news article was based on new research by a team led by Dr Florian Sevellec, of the University of Southampton. Brazenly she said: “Warming caused by greenhouse gas is not linear. It appears to have lapsed in the early 21st century". So wait a minute, she concedes that global warming has "lapsed" since the new century began eighteen years ago.

One might hope that this would have prompted the good doctor to review her assumption that the world is in fact warming. No way! She confidently asserts:

"A new method for predicting mean temperatures, however, suggests the next few years will be hotter than expected.” The system, developed with French and Dutch researchers, uses a statistical method to search 20th and 21st century climate simulations, find similarities to current conditions and then make forecasts.

Apparently, the "lapse" is now over and this new statistical technique ensures that from now on the world will be warming again. At least until 2022! No doubt her research was well funded by the usual interested parties and her academic career will benefit because the results obtained using this new technique support the current climate orthodoxy of relentless global warming.

This is "climate science" in the early 21st century and Dr Florian Sevellec would be regarded as an expert climate scientist. Where is the science in all of this? She admits that the globe has not warmed during the opening years of the new century and then she uses a new and clearly as yet unproven statistical technique to predict what will happen over the coming few years, based on "climate simulations"!

All that most readers will remember is that the next four years are going to be "abnormally hot". Even if they're not, I'm sure climate experts like Dr Sevellec won't be phased. They'll explain it away as a "protracted and atypical lapse" before the warming begins in earnest. They'll go off and tweak their statistical tools to take account of unforeseen variables and then reassure us that the next eight years are going to feel like a "furnace".

It's sad to see presumably intelligent scientists like Dr Sevellec abandoning the scientific method and making unfounded claims about the coming "blistering heat waves and tropical storms". It seems that all climate scientists must worship at the anthropogenic global warming branch of the Church of Climatology.