Welcome to the Future

The following excerpt from a news article on news.com.au is a chilling reminder of the coming New World Order where everybody must toe the line or face the consequences.

The maker of an anti-vaccination “documentary” to be aired in seven secret locations has cancelled her tour to Australia because her visa application wasn’t determined in time. This might be welcome news to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, who has slammed British journalist Joan Shenton’s controversial film, Sacrificial Virgins, ahead of its launch in Australia on Thursday. The anti-vaccination film opposes the Gardasil vaccine, claims that human papillomavirus (HPV) it protects against does not cause cervical cancer and that the vaccine can cause “neurological damage”.  Mr Hunt says that’s rubbish, and the film spreads “false and reckless” claims. Gardasil is administered free in Australia to boys and girls aged 10 and over as part of the National Immunisation Program and government’s cancer prevention program. “The science is in and the medical experts advice is absolute — vaccinations save lives and protect lives and they are an essential part of a healthy society,” Mr Hunt told Fairfax when the Australia launch of the film was announced. “I have no time for the false and reckless claims made by anti-vaxxers and I will continue call out their dangerous claims.”

Of course gutless politicians can be expected to always toe the line and Greg Hunt is no exception as he sums up the party line quite nicely:

The science is in and the medical experts advice is absolute — vaccinations save lives and protect lives and they are an essential part of a healthy society.

Despite the massive fuckups of the past that can be attributed to "medical experts", the "science is in" and must be believed. Failure to do so will have consequences if you have a public profile like Joan Shenton. For example, other countries may refuse you a visa.

Criticism of Israel can also jeopardise entry into Australia for non-Australians. China of course is in the vanguard when it comes to restricting travel access as it does so within the borders of its own country for those who have sufficient demerit points. This is a practice that other governments are only too eager to adopt, if they can get away with it. It may not be long before an Australian citizen who is a vocal critic of vaccinations may not be allowed to travel by plane from Brisbane to attend an anti-vaccination rally in let's say Melbourne. 

Once the cashless society is implemented, fines will doubtlessly be applied to those who don't toe the line. Spreading false news about the dangers of vaccination on social media or via a blog (like this one) may attract a warning for a first notification together with a demand that the offending post be removed. Failure to do so will attract a fine and heavier fines or even imprisonment may apply for future offences. Alternatively, social media outlets or blog hosting sites will be shut down. 

Expressing opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy, such as all vaccinations are safe or Israel is serious about striving for peace in the Middle East, adversely affects career prospects even now and in the future this can only get worse. Vocal critics can be assured that career advancement will slow and finally stall.

In the meantime, Joan Shenton will be present remotely:

The planned screenings in the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Byron Bay area and Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will still go ahead, with Ms Shenton appearing via video link. Promoters will not divulge the exact locations of the screenings. They will remain secret until ticket-holders are told what the venue is two hours before the 30-minute film starts.

I guess the exact locations must be kept secret or else pressure would be brought to bear on hosting locations to rescind their authorisation to hold meetings.

Crohn's Disease

 "In Germany, it is estimated that one to two in 1,000 people suffer from Crohn's disease.

The number of Crohn's disease cases is increasing worldwide," Atreya said. "You could say that it has changed from a disease of the western world to a global disease. Crohn's disease now exists in countries where it has not been described before." 

Genetic predisposition and environmental influences play a role in the development of Crohn's disease. In addition to that, there's the influence of the microbiome, which is the totality of microorganisms that colonise us and our stomach and intestines. 

"The interaction of these factors ultimately leads to the immune system overreacting in the intestine, and this is how these inflammations occur," Atreya explained. 

This was an excerpt from DW and the date is 11.07.2018. Atreya has been the senior physician at the Heisenberg Professor of Immunology for Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2016. The statistic is insane: at least one person in a thousand in Germany is afflicted by this crippling digestive disorder. The numbers of those afflicted are growing worldwide.

Tellingly, Atreya observed that:

"More is happening in this area than ever before. We expect more and hopefully better drugs to come onto the market."

The two keywords in the above quote are drugs and market. The pharmaceutical companies fund research for the development of new drugs to combat this scourge and hopefully some will find their way into the marketplace. These drugs will of course produce side effects but further drugs can be developed to combat these. It's madness but that is the state of modern medicine's approach to the management of chronic diseases like Crohn's. My previous post discussed Forrest Maready's book "Crooked" in which he has this to say about the disease:

Your body contains a few areas of specialised lymph tissue that provide an early warning for your immune system. Some of this tissue surrounds your tonsils and adenoids and because they tend to hold a lot of white blood cells, they will also accumulate aluminium. 

Peyer’s patches are kind of like the tonsils and adenoids of the gut — they help the immune system identify invaders in your intestine. Multiple studies have confirmed that aluminium tends to accumulate in this particular area. This is significant because Peyer’s patches are located in the terminal ileum — the same location from which Crohn’s disease nearly always originates.

Could the fact that Crohn's disease now exists in countries where it has not been described before be due to the increasing frequency of vaccinations containing aluminium in these countries? This hypothesis of course will never be tested because it would be an admission of doubt, an acknowledgment that perhaps vaccines can be harmful. Instead, modern medicine will battle a bewildering array of disorders: autism, attention deficit disorder, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimers and so on, some or all of which may well be man-made: a result of a cruel rite of passage that treats babies and infants as pin-cushions in the pursuit of pharmaceutical profits.

This is in spite of concerns being raised within medical circles about the link between the aluminium as an adjuvant in vaccines and the development of Crohn's disease. This is an abstract from a 2012 paper:

Alum (AlK(SO(4))(2)) is an adjuvant commonly utilized in vaccines, and is a ubiquitous element used extensively in contemporary life. Food, air, water, waste, the earth's surface, and pharmaceuticals all represent pathways of aluminum (Al) exposure. Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation in genetically susceptible individuals and is caused by yet unidentified environmental factors. Al is a potential factor for the induction of inflammation in CD, and its immune activities share many characteristics with the immune pathology of CD: many luminal bacterial or dietary compounds can be adsorbed to the metal surface and induce Th1 profile cytokines, shared cytokines/chemokines, co-stimulatory molecules, and intracellular pathways and stress-related molecular expression enhancement, affecting intestinal macrobiota, trans-mural granuloma formation, and colitis induction in an animal CD model. The inflamation plays a central role in Al mode of action and in CD pathophysiology. It is suggested that Al adjuvant activity can fit between the aberrations of innate and adaptive immune responses occurring in CD. The CD mucosa is confronted with numerous inappropriate bacterial components adsorbed on the Al compound surface, constituting a pro-inflammatory supra-adjuvant. Al fits the diagnostic criteria of the newly described autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. If a cause and effect relationship can be established, the consequences will greatly impact public health and CD prevention and management.

The last sentence is the most telling: If a cause and effect relationship can be established, the consequences will greatly impact public health and CD prevention and management. Despite the gap of six years since that abstract was written, it would seem that a cause and effect relationship is yet to be established. If all this does not seem crazy enough, then the following story takes the madness even further:

Professor John Hermon-Taylor of St. George’s Hospital, London, has developed a vaccination which targets MAP (Mycobaterium avium paratuberculosis) found in animals and passed into the food chain. Professor Hermon-Taylor believes that the pathogen MAP is the cause of 80% of the cases of Crohn’s disease, based on the fact that most individuals with Crohn’s tested positively for MAP. 

The Crohn’s vaccine has been tested on animals and plans exist to start human trials. The vaccine would target current sufferers of Crohn’s disease, by stimulating their bodies to rid themselves of MAP. More than 100,000 people suffer with Crohn’s disease in the UK. 

Hav Vaccines, LTD, began in 2009, is developing the vaccine which will be available for current Crohn’s sufferers along with those considered to be at high risk for developing Crohn’s disease. The phase 2 trials are predicted to be completed by January 8th, 2018.

The story from which the quote is taken however, is highly critical of this medical initiative:

While the intent of the researcher may be honourable, it is highly debatable whether another vaccination is the answer for this serious disease. 

Vaccinations have in fact been blamed for causing autoimmune disorders including Crohn’s disease. It makes little sense to use a vaccine to target a disease caused by vaccines. Crohn’s disease is a progressive, life-threatening illness correlated with gut dysbiosis and inflammation of the intestines.

It will be interesting to find out if this vaccine contains any aluminium adjuvant. It's fairly clear that this medical circus is not going anywhere except round and round. Meanwhile the vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants are still being administered to the young, the old and those in between, and more are planned.

Are You Crooked?

Following on from my last post about damage caused by vaccines, I came across a lengthy but fascinating video titled Are You Crooked?

The video is 2 hours and 15 minutes in duration but it certainly held my attention. The creator, Forrest Maready, focuses on the damage caused by Aluminium, used as an adjuvant in vaccines, and claims that white blood cells recognise this metal as a foreign substance and attack it. However, because it's not a bacteria, virus, protozoa or the like, the white blood cells cannot destroy it but it remains attached. The white cells travel to sites in the body where there is inflammation and in a vaccinated person this means that toxic aluminium arrives as well. 

He draws attention to the lymphatic system and the fact that it is divided into two very differently sized regions as shown below:

He then goes on to note that three out of the four injection sites are on the left side of the body, drained by the throacic duct (see diagram below):

The facial asymmetry that he is drawing our attention to is caused in his opinion by mild paralysis that affects the left side far more than the right. The resulting lop-sided smile is characterised by right side UP and left side DOWN because the facial muscles related to smiling are working properly on the right side but not the left. His suspicion is that this is a consequence of the greater amount of aluminium introduced by injections to those parts of the body drained by the thoracic duct as opposed to the lymphatic duct.

He identifies the cranial nerves as being particularly targeted by white blood cells during the vaccination process. In the diagram below, we see the nerves branching out from the brain stem.

Here is another view of the cranial nerves in relation to other named parts of the brain stem:

He identifies certain nerves as being associated with certain impairments when damaged by aluminium toxicity (the general area is known as the dorsal vagal complex):

 The vagus nerve has the following function:

The Dorsal Vagal Complex signals for help during the vaccination process (see below):

The more the infant or child is disturbed by the vaccination process, the more likely there is to be damage to the Dorsal Vagal Complex. He suggests it is the restraint and pain associated with the vaccination process that is the major cause of the damage to the infant. If vaccinations were delayed until the child knew what was happening, Forrest Maready claims the potential damage would be much reduced.

He also makes mention of the Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges that claims that there are two responses to threat: one is the well-known "fight or flight" and the other is the lesser known "play dead". The latter is also characterised as "tend and befriend" which seems a little contradictory but clearly I'll need to investigate the Polyvagal Theory further. What's relevant about it here, according to Forrest Maready is that boys tend to favour the former while girls favour the latter. The former produces more damage from aluminium toxicity and may be the reasons that autism is more common in boys than girls (various studies, together with anecdotal evidence have come up with men/women ratios ranging from 2:1 to 16:1. Source).

Forrest Maready is quick to point out that his ideas, arrived at after two years or so of investigation, are only theories and need to be validated by science. However, it is unlikely that there will be any scientific studies undertaken along these lines given that pharmaceutical companies provide most of the funds for medical research. It's only by accident that opportunities sometimes arise as when broad surveys are taken that include information about vaccinations or the lack thereof. Inadvertently, this provides researchers with an opportunity to compare a vaccinated group of people with an unvaccinated group. Andrew Moulden also identifies aluminium as the source of probems associated with vaccination but posits a different mechanism for the damage, one that involves altered zeta potentials (see this link for more information).

The point in common for both theories however, is that aluminium that is injected into the body via vaccinations is not eliminated, unlike aluminium that is ingested via food. In Maready's theory, the aluminium is faithfully delivered via the white blood cells to any areas of inflammation and may help account for problems later in life such as rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's and suchlike. 

Long-tailed macaques invaluable for vaccine development: Expert

It was the headline (Long-tailed macaques invaluable for vaccine development: Expert) that caught my attention in The Jakarta Post. As can be seen the story involves an "expert" and so ought to be believed. Here is the story, dated Wedneday, May 23, 2018:

Long-tailed macaques, also known as crab-eating macaques, have important value for the development of vaccines in Indonesia, the world’s largest vaccine supplier, an expert has said. 

Amir Hamidy, member of the Scientific Authority at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Indonesia, said long-tailed macaques were a non-endangered species currently listed in Appendix 2 of the Convention. This means people are permitted to hunt the species but within a quota system.   

"First we must see what benefits we can get from long-tailed macaques. Because the pressure from the international community, such as the Animal Welfare Association, on the use of wildlife, especially primates, is quite high. We are not permitted to exploit the species and must also maintain its population and natural habitat,” Amir said on Tuesday. 

The scientist was referring to the possible uses of long-tailed macaques for the development of vaccines, produced with the animal's kidney tissue culture.  

“We supply the world with vaccines. We export our vaccines to many countries and we can develop polio and TB vaccines by using long-tailed macaques. But the macaques we use must be from a breeding facility to ensure they are clean and healthy,” said Amir. 

“The use of long-tailed macaques to develop vaccines is one example of the uses of biodiversity,” he added.

Despite the involvement of a so-called expert, the story is undoubtedly and depressingly true. What surprised me about the story was that Indonesia is the world's largest vaccine supplier and that vaccines are still being developed using mashed-up monkey kidneys as a culture.

It was from another Jakarta Post article (Bio Farma temporarily suspends diphtheria vaccine exports to tackle outbreak) that I learned:

State-owned vaccine manufacturer Bio Farma has temporarily stopped its diphtheria vaccine exports to focus on vaccine distribution to fulfill domestic demand as Indonesia strives to contain an outbreak of the infectious disease.

So Bio Farma is owned by the Indonesian government. The company has a surprisingly long history dating back to 1890. While Indonesia may be the world's largest vaccine supplier, neither Bio Farma or any other Indonesian pharmaceutical company features in the top 50 companies for 2017 (link). Indonesia's largest pharmaceutical company is Kalbe Farma and has featured in the news recently (see article: Indonesia's first biomedicine factory opens) and, to quote from the article:

Apart from vaccines and antisera produced by state-owned Bio Farma, most biopharmaceutical products in Indonesia have been imported. Kalbe aims to break this dependence on biopharmaceutical imports by finally manufacturing its own biogenerics. 

Meanwhile, there have been some interesting developments regarding compulsory vaccinations in Jakarta. This story from The Jakarta Post, dated May 22, 2018 summarises the situation:

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has decided to revise a recent circular that was criticised for discouraging immunisation drives in the city. 

The circular, which was distributed at the end of April through puskesmas (public health centres), annulled a previous regulation on basic immunisation as an admission requirement for kindergarten and elementary schools. 

Anies said he did not mean to discourage immunisation campaigns, but he also did not want it to become an obstacle for children to enrol at schools. 

"The circular will be retracted and we'll issue another one, because it has generated various interpretations," the former education minister told reporters on Monday at City Hall. 

Anies said the revised circular would ensure that schools provide immunisation access to children who were unvaccinated when they applied to schools. 

Health practitioners and parents criticised the Jakarta Education Agency for issuing the new circular that stripped immunisation from admission requirements, saying that communicable diseases still plagued the nation's capital. 

The original regulation that made basic immunisation mandatory for school admission was issued by former governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama. 

Clearly the Jakarta Governor is trying appease two antagonistic sides. On one side is a lot of citizens who are suspicious of vaccinations, especially following the recent dengue fever vaccination debacle in the Philippines. On the other side is the pharmaceutical  and medical industries that makes a lot of money out of vaccinations. These are the same tensions that exist in many countries, although the latter side does not enjoy the same dominance as it does in many Western countries. However, even in the West, the number of citizens who refuse to unconditionally accept the vaccination orthodoxy is growing and becoming better organised.

In Indonesia however, Islam is also being called upon in the fight against Big Pharma, as this article reveals:

One of the leading anti-vax campaigners is Dewi Hestyawati, who calls herself a Holistic Islam Health Activist. 

She says diseases like diphtheria and polio can be warded off and treated with diet and alternative therapies. 

"The Prophet shows us that immunisation should come from the regular daily consumption of healthy substances : honey, herbs, olive oil; dates and goat's milk. If we don't follow that, we can be easily infected with diseases," she said.

Dewi Hestyawati has a Facebook page and, one thing leading to another of course when going down these rabbit holes, she makes reference to a Doctor Andrew Moulden who died prematurely in 2014 at age 49, under suspicious circumstances. A website has been set up by a friend to keep his ideas alive. Here is a link to a talk he gave in Montreal in 2009.

What particularly struck me about Doctor Moulden's comments was that vaccines can cause reduced blood to nerves connected to the eyes and face, so that eyes can become "turned" in exactly the same way as happened to my brother Tony. I remember when he was pre-school and it was suddenly discovered that he had a turned eye. He needed to wear spectacles with a patch. 

I'm wondering if he didn't suffer vaccine reactions which caused not only caused his turned eye but also his acoustic neuroma that doctors said had probably been growing since he was two years of age. Of course, there was no suspicion that vaccines might have caused these two seemingly unrelated problems and perhaps also led to Tony's behavioural problems. No one will ever know now of course but it seems highly likely that he was damaged. Being so much younger than his other two brothers (Peter - born 1953 and myself - born 1949), he would have received different "flavours" of vaccines and probably more of them.

It's interesting to compare the number of recommended vaccines in the late 1940's versus 2010 (source):

Late 1940s | Recommended Vaccines
Smallpox
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Pertussis 

2010 | Recommended Vaccines
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Pertussis
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Polio (IPV)
Hib
Hepatitis B
Varicella
Hepatitis A
Pneumococcal
Influenza
Rotavirus

Let's close this post with the following observation by Doctor Moulden:

Every Vaccine Produces Microvascular Damage 

Theodor Herzl

I've started researching about Theodor Herzl, a Hungarian Jew, who is regarded as the spiritual father of Israel and a pivotal figure in the rise of Zionism. From my reading thus far, he seems to have started out believing that the integration of Jews into European society was possible but later abandoned that idea and embraced the idea of a Jewish homeland. Argentina, Uganda and the Sinai were all considered at various points but eventually Palestine was decided upon.

Theodor presided over the first Zionist Conference in (interestingly) Basel, Switzerland, in 1897 and remained president until his death in 1904 at the young age of 44. He garnered a lot of international support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine but couldn't persuade the Ottoman sultan to allow Zionists access, despite offering to help pay off the empire's debts. It has been proposed that the Zionists decided the Ottoman empire had to be dismantled because of the sultan's intransigence. Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire at that time.

Many Jews of the time were not in favour of a Jewish homeland and some are still not. On the Torah Jews website, the following points are made regarding an upcoming seminar:

There was no classroom big enough, so they rented a stadium. Masses of authentic Torah Jews are expected to fill the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to capacity this Sunday at 4:00 PM to hear major rabbis lecture on the incompatibility of Judaism and Zionism. 

The lectures will emphasize the differences between Judaism – a religion centered around belief and adherence to the precepts of the Torah – and Zionism, a militaristic political movement designed to transform Jewish identity from religious to national, centered around a land, language, and army.

Since the state of Israel was established in 1948, Zionists have touted it as the “Jewish state,” and arrogated to it the role of representative of world Jewry. 

Opponents of Israel are silenced by Zionists with the accusation that they are “anti-Semites,” and Israel's politicians are portrayed as leaders of world Jewry. Jewish opponents of Zionism have been branded “self-hating Jews,” and Israel has employed various means to coerce and convince Jews to identify with Israel as their state. Their methods of coercion include various forms of discrimination against the Orthodox anti-Zionist lifestyle. Most recently, media has attached religious significance to the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem. 

This Sunday’s convention will be an important opportunity to hear the other side of the story, the position of Torah Jews on these subjects. Besides their opposition to the ideology of Jewish nationalism, the lecturers will also explain the traditional Orthodox Jewish view that Jews are forbidden to wage war but must live among the nations of the world in peace and with utmost loyalty, and that we must resist and fight against the draft law with all means at our disposal. 

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, noted lecturer and author on both Zionism and Judaism, says "Israel’s referring to itself as the Jewish state is a form of collective identity theft, since Jewishness is a purely religious identity, not political or national." He explains, "It is crucial for people to realise that Israel's identification as the Jewish state is a unilateral claim of Zionism. Judaism says the Jewish people are members of a religion and have no state except those in which they reside." Rabbi Shapiro will be available during the event to answer questions for the press and other interested parties.

Getting back to Theodor however, he detested Jewish bankers (Finanzjuden) and so that's a point in his favour. He was clearly an idealist and believed that the Jews and Palestians could live together in harmony. He wrote a novel called Altneuland (Old New Land) in which this sort of harmony is achieved. Regarding a possible settlement in Argentina, he displayed idealistic naïveté when he wrote:

"When we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly ... It goes without saying that we shall respectfully tolerate persons of other faiths and protect their property, their honor, and their freedom with the harshest means of coercion. This is another area in which we shall set the entire world a wonderful example ... Should there be many such immovable owners in individual areas [who would not sell their property to us], we shall simply leave them there and develop our commerce in the direction of other areas which belong to us" 

The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, vol. 1 (New York: Herzl Press and Thomas Yoseloff, 1960), pp. 88, 90 hereafter Herzl diaries.

As we now know, the private property (in Palestine) was expropriated, not gently but violently, and it continues to the present day. I think Theodor would be aghast to see how his beloved Israel has turned into a rogue state, the most violent and dangerous nation on Earth. Historically, I want to investigate to what extent the Zionists fomented the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution. It seems that they were deeply involved and if so, then again what would Theodor have thought of the millions who perished because of the machinations of a political entity that he had helped create? Perhaps he has long ago turned in his grave on Mount Herzl. Did the Finanzjuden manage to wrest control of the movement after his death and set about ensuring the destruction of the Ottoman Empire? I'm still exploring that possibility.

At a personal level, he married a woman called Julie Naschauer and they had three children: Paulina, Hans and Margaritha (Trude). Paulina died of a heroin overdose in 1930 at the age of 40. Hans committed suicide on the day of her sister's funeral at age 39. Trude died in a concentration camp in 1943. She had a son, Stephen Theodore Neumann, who was born in 1918 and who became a committed Zionist (unlike his mother or aunt and uncle). Unfortunately, he committed suicide in 1946 by jumping from the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Washington, D.C. It is certainly a very sad family history.

I'll make my way through Theodor Herzl's Diaries and see what I discover. I'm also making my way through the voluminous but fascinating The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem. The newspaper articles that comprise The International Jew were written in 1920 or a little later and they shed an interesting light on Jewish activity during and immediately after the war, especially their involvement in the entry of the United States into the war, the subsequent peace conference and the framing of the Balfour declaration.

Global Warming for Deeply Dumb Dummies

This latest conceptual aid from the Church of Climatology is simply hilarious. The motivation for its creation is described as follows:

For the average person, climate change is an abstract concept, an intangible truth, based on complex scientific data that is notoriously difficult to visualise.

Note the religious phraseology of "intangible truth". Like God, climate change is impossible for "the average person" to comprehend and really comprehension is not even necessary. Belief is sufficient. Something simple to meditate upon will strengthen this belief and so:

Climate scientist Ed Hawkins is trying to change this. He's been developing unique ways to make climate change easier for the general public to imagine. And his newest project has got to be one of the most beautiful and powerful climate change visuals we've ever seen.

Note that Ed Hawkins has the moniker "climate scientist" to remind us that he is a member of the clergy in the Church of Climatology. Here is Ed's creation:

As I said in a comment to one of Ed's tweets (https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins):

Ed, I used to think man-made global warming was a politically motivated myth until I saw this graphic. Now I realise how wrong I was. Even children in kindergarten can understand this. Sometimes a cynical, skeptical, adult brain can blind one to the truth. Now I see.

As the effusive article reporting on Ed's creation says: This Has Got to Be One of The Most Beautiful And Powerful Climate Change Visuals We've Ever Seen. Chillingly, the observation is added that We are headed into the red. I'm not arguing with the data that was used to produce the graphic, I assume it's accurate. What is annoying is the evangelical tone employed by the zealots of the Church of Climatology. There's no objective science at work here. Those who disagree with the central tenet of the Church, namely that humans are responsible for a warming planet, are branded "climate deniers". They are on a par with "Holocaust deniers". The only ones qualified to make comment on matters of climatology are the climate scientists, the high priests of the Church.

Climate scientists who hesitate to commit to the Church or who question it's basic tenet are quickly ostracised by their peers. Professional obscurity is assured and even job loss is a possibility. There are no funds for research that does not affirm the truth of man-made global warming. Ed Hawkins, with his pretty pictures, is carving out a name for himself amongst his peers, as well as attracting widespread coverage in the mainstream media. Who can blame him. More of his silly little graphs can be found at http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/warming-stripes/.

The Grand Solar Minimum

According to USA Today, "Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming". The May 17, 2018 article goes on to state that:

It was December 1984, and President Reagan had just been elected to his second term, Dynasty was the top show on TV and Madonna's Like a Virgin topped the musical charts. It was also the last time the Earth had a cooler-than-average month. Last month marked the planet's 400th consecutive month with above-average temperatures, federal scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. The cause for the streak? Unquestionably, it’s climate change, caused by humanity's burning of fossil fuels. "We live in and share a world that is unequivocally, appreciably and consequentially warmer than just a few decades ago, and our world continues to warm," said NOAA climate scientist Deke Arndt.

Despite a constant stream of such articles in the MSM, there are those to beg to differ with the prediction that our world will continue to warm. Some say that the Earth is entering a cooling phase and their claims are based on the behaviour of the Sun. They say that the Sun in entering what is termed a Grand Solar Minimum and that this will have a profound and chilling effect on global temperatures.

Who will be proved right? This 16 July 2015 article on Skeptical Science maintains that "no, the sun isn't going to save us from global warming" and goes on to say that:

Recently there’s been a flood of media stories claiming that the sun may be headed towards a quiet phase (a possibility), which could send the Earth into a “deep freeze” (a virtual impossibility). These stories appear to have originated in the biased conservative media (like the Daily Mail and Telegraph) and seeped into other media outlets (like CNN). Some media outlets, like the Washington Post, did a good job researching the story and discovering its flaws before publishing. 

The stories stemmed from a presentation at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Wales by mathematician Valentina Zharkova. Her research (not yet published) suggests the sun could be headed for a quiet phase like the one that coincided with a period known as the “Little Ice Age,” but doesn’t say anything about how this solar minimum would impact the Earth’s climate 

Some of the fault for raising this zombie myth from the dead lies with the Royal Astronomical Society’s press release, which mentioned the previous mini ice age without making it clear that it was solar activity but not the Earth’s climate that was the subject of the study. Some of the fault lies with Zharkova, who made comments ‘skeptical’ of human-caused global warming that were not supported by her research. 

And much of the fault lies with media outlets like the Daily Mail and Telegraph, which ran rather sensationalist stories about an impending mini ice age apparently without consulting a single climate scientist. It’s not a coincidence that the media outlets that didn’t contact climate scientists spread this myth, while the media outlets that did contact climate scientists debunked it.

Clearly, the MSM has not presented a united front in blocking the dissemination of these alternative views and the guilty parties are identified. The notion that the Sun could affect global temperatures is dismissed as a "zombie myth" and instead the claim in made that "research has clearly shown, it’s carbon dioxide that’s the temperature’s main control knob". This is an article of faith amongst "climate scientists" and is not open to rational debate.

I've just downloaded a book by John L. Casey called "Dark Winter" described as follows:

Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in the discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to that of dangerous global cooling for the next thirty years or more. This new cold climate will dramatically impact the world's citizens.

I'll try to ignore his White House and NASA connections and set about reading the book. I've watched an interview he gave on YouTube about his views and he was certainly presented a good argument in support of his claims. The video appears on The Grand Solar Minimum Channel, uploaded 1 Jan 2018:

Valentina Zharkova is mentioned in this interview. According to Casey, we are now entering this cooling period but he doesn't believe we are entering a mini-ice-age of the sort that is associated with the so-called Maunder Minimum of the 17th century. Rather, he is of the opinion that we are entering a so-called Dalton Minimum of the sort that is associated with the late 18th and early 19th century cooling phase. He has published a more recent book called Upheaval in which he focuses on the increased volcanic activity associated with these cooling phases.

In the following 15 Jan 2018 interview with Zharkova on The Grand Solar Minimum Channel, she states the cold period should only last 30 years and will not be as severe or as long as the Maunder Minimum (that lasted for about 60 years):

She is confident in her predications about the coming cold snap and urges governments to prepare for what is about to happen, rather than clinging to the myth that man-made CO2 emissions will continue to warm the planet.