By Dr. Jay Lehr and Burt Prelutsky ~
It is a phenomenon of modern life that as membership in the old established religions wane, cults continue to sprout up like toadstools. Most of them have a very limited number of adherents and unless 75 people are killed at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, or 900 are killed or commit suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, we don’t hear about cult leaders like David Koresh or Jim Jones.
Occasionally, a smaller cult manages to make the news when they commit mass suicide in order to board a spaceship that will take them to Cloud Cuckooland.
But when it comes to sheer numbers and influence, there’s nothing to match the doomsday cult that has sprung up in the wake of Al Gore’s warning us about the imminent threat of global extinction. What makes the longevity of this cult so remarkable is that Gore’s “imminent” has turned into “eventual” and none of the true believers is questioning the ever-changing timetable. The cause of addressing climate change has become the modern world’s version of a secular religion.
There has long been a church of environmentalism having many of the characteristics of its ecclesiastical forerunners. One of course is the apocalypse that will consume us all if we do not follow the rules. The rules involve making penance for our original sin of unleashing the earth’s carbon dioxide emitting fuels from the Earth’s crust, and more recent transgressions involving plastic straws and cross country airline flights. But repentance is near. Salvation lies in eliminating our “carbon footprint”, using reusable shopping bags, and supporting MacDonald’ new meatless hamburgers.
The folks who espouse the climate change gospel know little more about the science of climatology and the greenhouse effect, than the average medieval villager knew why crops may fail or the sun and moon become eclipsed. And in complete symmetry of past religions, children are being used as effective role models in propagating faith. Millions left school to urge adults to battle this modern scourge, or perhaps they just enjoyed a day off school to speak the lines they were taught.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal on September 21, 2019, Gerald Baker wrote”the testimony of a guileless child is a powerful weapon against skepticism.” Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg has become the poster child for the religious fervor among climate change activists growing fanaticism.
Recently, A O-C and a few of the dimwits running for the Democratic nomination warned us that 2030 is absolutely the last day that this planet will be able to sustain human life. We bet confidently that by 2025, they’ll move the deadline to 2040.
Even Gore was something of a late bloomer. Starting around 1974, all the experts at the U.N., NASA, the New York Times, the AP, Time and Newsweek, were warning us of a coming Ice Age or fretting about a disappearing ozone layer or something really scary-sounding they called acid rain.
But, then, almost overnight, they regrouped and started keeping us up nights by screaming that the planet was in immediate danger of being incinerated.
When neither of those calamitous changes in the weather took place, the same folks decided to settle for a changing climate. The fact that they never explained what would be so terrible about things cooling down a little in the San Fernando Valley in California in July or warming up a bit in Fargo North Dakota in December should tell people all they really need to know about these cheap hustlers, who are in it for money, power and attention
Gore warned of melting icebergs and rising ocean levels, which simply proved that he didn’t even remember his high school science. If you fill a glass with water and ice to the very top, when the ice melts, not a drop of water will rise above the rim.
It’s now twenty years later, the ice at the North Pole and South Poles haven’t vanished. If anything, they have expanded. As has Al Gore, if you’ve seen him lately.
Dr Jay Lehr contributes posts at the CFACT site. Jay Lehr is the author of more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. He is an internationally renowned scientist, author and speaker who has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the national government, as well as many foreign countries. He is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology.
Burt Prelutsky contributes Posts at the CFACT site. He is a columnist at The Patriot Post, and is a former humor columnist for the LA Times.
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Hifast
Mon 10/07/2019
Reblogged this on Climate Collections.
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oldbrew
Mon 10/07/2019
Reblogged this on Tallbloke's Talkshop and commented:
At least carbon dioxide can take comfort from its popularity in real greenhouses, as opposed to alarm-filled imaginary ones.
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trutherator
Fri 10/04/2019
One more thing. Mallove’s open letter to the world is available on the web site I pointed to. He sent it to President Clinton, and every member of Congress at the time. With endorsements from Arthur C. Clarke!
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trutherator
Fri 10/04/2019
Another thing about the fake environmentalists.
The good folks at Infinite Energy Magazine,
http://infinite-energy.com/whoarewe/gene.html,
say that the biggest wall against advancing this promising technology is the ENVIRONMENTALISTS. It these watermelons were truly interested in clean energy,they would be rushing to demand more research money into it.
Fleischmann and Pons made their announcement in 1989 that they had run tests with a simple home-built apparatus that initiated by an electric current, over a short time returned “excess energy”. The world’s academic physics departments, swimming in oceans of government “hot-fusion” research money, soon said that their experiments proved it a sham.
Eugene Mallove was a science reporter for the MIT science magazine at the time and as such had closely followed this story and the reactions around the world to it. But then the head of the physics department held a press conference and announced that their lab experiments had proven that there was nothing to it, the results were dubious and a waste of time.
Mallove was livid with outrage. He quit MIT in utter disgust he said because he knew they MIT HAD LIED. He began his New Energy Foundation, and started the Infinite Energy Magazine to report on the experiments in this and the other promising energy technologies.
He was brutally murdered while cleaning out his rental house in Connecticut. The police arrested the first suspects too quickly and soon had to release them, settling later on the previous occupants of the house who had apparently been evicted for some reason.
Some followers of course suspected the energy industry in the murder, but the current stewards of the web site in an article tell us that oil companies have shown some interest (Be it fake or not) in what they have to say. But the biggest and loudest response has been from the so-called environmentalists, to their surprise.
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trutherator
Fri 10/04/2019
True that the Gaia cult is just that, a pagan faith, it is also ever more in the open that it is a Trojan horse for global socialism. They are really “watermelons”, green on the outside and (communist) Red on the inside.
Reminds me of the son who asked his father why he was a member of the Communist Party if he was a Christian. The dad peeled a radish and said, See, I’m a Communist like that radish. Red on the outside, white on the inside.
What most people don’t know about Jonestown is that it was NOT at all any kind of “Christian cult”. The readings blsted out on loudspeakers there were readings from KARL MARX. And in the video clip I saw of them taking turns drinking the koolaid, one woman said she was glad to die for SOCIALISM.
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Ron Clutz
Mon 10/07/2019
Bye bye Gaia cult, Hello Greta
https://rclutz.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/great-cult.png?w=1000&h=563
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gds44
Fri 10/04/2019
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chaamjamal
Thu 10/03/2019
There is a deep seated and widespread subliminal fear in the advanced economies that the rise of humans is some kind of road to hell. Anything that feeds this demand for hell becomes the next great eco wacko movement.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2010/05/16/171/
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