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Home Grown Party of America needs you. HGPA represents the will of the productive.

America’s Tea Party taught us individuals can only rule at the poll. Putting America first means putting the individual first and that begins on home ground.

Objectivism and rationalism are our watchwords. We producers of America’s capitalist free enterprise system understand there is no value in getting something we have not earned. Our language and laws will reflect that.

For us, government taxes are only for those things we agree we all want and are willing to pay for jointly. Sure it will be administered by duly elected government employees of our choosing but our taxes will be our money not government’s revenues.

All else the productive must pay until such time as we once again have power to dictate our will we shall call donations. Those who benefit from donations will be recipients of our welfare.

This is an organic organization. It has nothing to do with growing weed. Rather, it has everything to do with bringing back liberty to America. For that we must begin by electing those to political office who support a much smaller federal government.

There will of course be some basic principles that we all stand for. Good ideas from posts below and elsewhere as time goes by will be added but we all share one thing: this is our American jihad.

Our aim is bring back the scientific method, traditional American values, respect for truth, clarity of the language and a new approach to public education based on a rediscovered constitutional system that recognizes all individuals’ inalienable human right to be free of liberal fascism.

Join in. Begin at home. Produce your power.

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power,” as lover of liberty, James Madison understood and worked so diligently and with such foresight to prevent, “than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

The storm surge is a comin’
Swirlin’ is where we’re headin’
About a minute from hell’s tornado
Reason lost its value
The West is worsenin’ more that we ever thought
Because when it comes to global warmin’
O’er the last 25 years and countin’
Global mean at the surface has really been -1°C
Not warmin’ — coolin’
So, now we hear the shoutin’
0°C is the new 4°C.

 

'All-of-the-above' approach to energy policy

Reblogged from Climate Etc.:

The U.S. energy revolution is not confined to a single fuel or technology: oil and gas production, renewable energy, and fuel-efficient automobile technologies all show great promise. To best position the country for the future, U.S. leaders should capitalize on all these opportunities rather than pick a favorite; the answer lies in ‘most of the above.’ - Michael Levi

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Not permitting the market to dictate is just another way of saying that something is illegal and freedom of choice shall be denied. Once you give government power to choose what you shall have, what you will do and how you shall live, those in government will want and take more power.

0°C Is The New Global Warming Since Spring Has Sprung

They refused to confront a global warming hoax.
Academia ran from its duty.
Engaged in scare tactics…
Where do we go now?

It was perhaps from the slow spring the idea sprang forth like a lilikoi-filled, haupia-laced and bacon-encrusted maple malasada. That’s when it was sprung on us — the Left’s new Long Range Forecast for the EU: that, if not for increased atmospheric CO2, there would be global cooling. Is that good? No– for the Left and government’s climate change machine, even no change in the global mean temperature of the Earth’s surface is bad news just as the prospect of a free man will always be anathema to their plans for us.

The degree to which reason,
has lost all value in the West,
is worse than we thought because,
0°C is the new 4°C of global warming,
since the global mean has actually been -1°C…
for, the last 25 years, and counting.

Our public school teachers refused to address the scare tactics of the climate change fearmongers; and, they participated in anointing prognostications of doom with a veiled glee that is more horrible to witness than anything extremists from Islam have visited on a post renaissance Judeo-Christian society. Academia ran from its duty to do the work any good conscience demands: to meet head-on and overcome superstition and ignorance.  What does that say about science and us as a civilization and our future as a society?

Why does anyone care to work hard for a lifetime simply to have their earnings taxed and wasted on windmills dedicated to the West’s gods of nihilism? Do you believe all of the UN/Eurocommunist-inspired green initiatives designed to eliminate free choice in the marketplace have done anything more than signal the Left’s willingness to burn down in the house they’ve torched? If so, the EU is an actual case study. They’re returning to coal. Or, they’re going down — one or the other. Where the idea of going nuclear remains unpalatable we see for example that Germany may be the first of the EU countries to begin the abandonment of the global warming house of cards in favor of coal and gas-fired power plants.

The EU is already so weak only a strong US could bail them out of their dilemma — again. But, the US is now weak. It’s looking like an intransigent and insatiable 47% will bring the socioeconomic system in the homeland to the edge — again. The US does not give a red cent to anyone that it doesn’t first  steal from granny’s savings, the futures of America’s children or borrow from China.

The anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis actually has nothing to do with “anthropos.” For those in the know AGW really means, kick an American. That America was responsible for bringing the entire globe to a white hot climax was just too spanky an idea for the Left to pass on. The federal government is incompetent but letting the market dictate how best to serve the needs and wants of the people is nightmarish to Marxists.

From that point on what we’ve seen is the continued neglect of time-honored principles and a violation of good faith in matters entrusted to academia. We’ve seen a reliance on unsound scientific methods for gathering and interpreting raw data and the wholesale abandonment of the scientific method. We’ve seen a failure to recognize the insufficiency of climate scientists and the ineffectiveness of academia to face and deal with a systemic breach of fiduciary duty and fraud in the field of climatology.

But, with our large brains some among us cannot help but notice what is happening as the Sun progresses through a long solar slump — as has happened before (e.g., 350 years ago during the little ice age). That is when we stopped listening to climate scientists and began considering how humanity might best get through the next 300 winters without their help. The weather has not cooperated with the government scientists of global warming.

There is science and there pseudo-science. Science comes up with an idea like the oceans are causing warming, and when they cool, the air cools. Pseudo-science says: well CO2 is adding to this, but how much? IT’S A QUESTION THAT CAN NEVER BE ANSWERED. Does the question then become: Would we already be heading into a mini ice age were it not for CO2 saving us? How do you answer that? Untold amounts of money are being thrown at a question that isn’t even something of consideration. ~Joe Bastardi

Facts have nothing to do with global warming politics. AGW is really about Left vs. Right —i.e., Secular-Socialism vs. Individual Liberty. And, it matters not one wit how many millions will suffer and die for lack of energy.

I am… giving you the ‘why’ before the ‘what’. What I’m amazed at is how people can keep seeing things that are opposite of what they claimed would happen 5 years ago, simply change the terminology, and then say the things they say. That kind of mentality is one that does not accept any answer except the one they think it should be. So the fight is not on a level of a normal argument. The arguing is with people who believe they possess the “truth” and that anything short of their “truth” cannot be tolerated. ~Joe Bastardi

The current situation is easy to describe. The Earth warms and cools over time. That is a fact. Currently, it is politically attractive for the Left to claim a bigger government with greater control over the economy will save the world from being too hot; and, it sounds  silly but it is a fact that many people — generally all on the Left of the political spectrum — say they believe this. Similarly, it is inconvenient for the Left to concede that if the mean global surface temperature of the Earth continues to drop at the same rate as over the last 25 years — i.e., going down a -1°C — the Earth will be “in an ice age” by 2100. Even so, they cannot get over it —i.e., “Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential.” ~William Gray

What is the Left really trying to accomplish? Is the ultimate goal of the Left that no one should feel inconvenienced in the slightest by their lack of desire to provide anything of value to society? Is the safety valve on secular, socialism to simply abort all the new entrants into the civilization? What happens when, for example, the Eurocommies finally run out of other people’s money?

Rather than worrying about how we can stop global warming, we need to do the sensible thing: realize the Left fed us made-up data, stop bitching about it and just defund the bastards. Do that and watch a real real melt-down begin. Fixing climate change requires fixing the government–sooner or later; and, it begins with eliminating about half of it. The EU-UN global warming hypothesis was founded and maintained on ‘fixed’ data. The real data stopped being alarming a long time ago and by using ‘fixed’ data government scientists’ GCMs (global circulation models) have become little more than briefcase bombs carried by blinded sheiks of nihilism into crowded cafés. The time has come for taxpayers to ‘fix’ things before they are nailed to the frail cross of government-funded UN-ized science.

The perturbations caused by the Left’s disruption of the free market system and their bridges to nowhere are far more destructive of society than a cigarette smoker. Leftists hate the automobile. Now, the government owns GM. Comparing Tesla to free-market principles is like comparing Chicago politics to the Ten Commandments. There is $45,000 in government credits for every “S” class Tesla that is sold.

The Precautionary Principle as the Left defines it is that nuclear energy is so dangerous, preventing the construction of nuclear power plants should be made as easy for the Left. And doing what is required to construct a nuclear power plant — any power plant — must be devilishly expensive and nigh unto impossible for a market-based energy industry to bring off. Can you imagine getting the Hoover Dam constructed today? Moreover, Leftists believe the secular, socialist pinkonomy of the French is what we should emulate in every state in the Union except that no state in the Union should be permitted to emulate the French nuclear-energy-production model. Nuclear energy is okay for the French and the Germans who buy energy from the French and it is okay for America’s enemies and competitors but “made in the USA” nuclear energy is verboten.

The AGWeebs are part and parcel of the 47% head start the Left counts on to push its liberal fascist socioeconomic agenda against the productive sector. It would be great if more people had the courage of a Greenpeace founder like Patrick Moore and campaign against all of the environmentalist bullcrap they’ve ingested instead of against capitalism that has afforded  them the many luxuries that they enjoy and the rest of us want and are willing to work for.

“At about the same time, as Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore explains on-camera, environmentalism became more extreme. By the mid-1980s,” says John Ray, “environmental goals —e.g., clean air and clean water — had become so mainstream that activists had to adopt more extreme positions to remain anti-establishment.” And then, “the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended,” which is when Ray says, “many peace-niks and political activists moved over to environmental activism, bringing their neo-Marxist political philosophy with them. As Moore puts it, environmentalism became the new guise for anti-capitalism. Global warming alarmism was thus borne… political opportunism by unemployed left-wing political activists.”

On the Left of the political spectrum — which is where as we see the most support for fixing the non-problem of AGW — that is the cause and effect relationship of global warming: it has nothing to do with CO2. Rather than climate change there is a far greater causal connection between the global warming alarmism of the Left and a moribund economy, staggeringly high real unemployment, and the Left’s war on everyone and everything from William Gray, George Bush, Gov. Palin to oil companies, hamburgers, big Cokes and the Tea Party.

The EPA has become so politicized the obvious thing to do is simply eliminate the agency altogether. Iraq should be the model for government downsizing—e.g., start with those who stand up and cheer the razing of Americanism and then pull the plug. We can get by without the EPA. California has its own EPA. How many paid gadflies do we need? Isn’t the attorney tax already too large? Government has become a clot going to the heart of commerce.

If we fail to act PDQ how much longer before cyber-espionage on the people, control of capital, energy, free enterprise and a jihad on capitalism, science and individual liberty becomes the new social order of a liberal fascism in America? The Left will continue to look to Al Gore as representative of consensus opinion and will continue to claim that climate change is a genuine threat even as the globe cools. That is why the EU awarded Al Gore (not Bill Clinton) a Nobel; and, Barack Obama too. Perhaps the next Nobel should be awarded to the entire US Senate. What global warming alarmists find Impressive seems to be influenced a lot by the urban bullcrap effect. They’re full of it and have become experts in turning wine into piss.

The ‘new approach to environmentalism’ – according to Dr. Patrick Moore (co-founder of Greenpeace who authored “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout) — ‘requires embracing humans as a positive element in evolution rather than viewing us as some kind of mistake.’ Patrick has essentially outed Leftists as perpetrators of the anti-humanist and anti-capitalist agenda of the Eurocommies.

True, true, if not for the fact that the ‘hockey stick’ by Michael Mann was put forward with an imprimatur of credibility by government and EU/UN-approved scientists it would be a humorous caricature of science-based alarmism. In calling CO2 a poison the EPA proves climatology is not just a caricature of science it is a science-based tragicomedy.

A lot of environmentalists are stuck in the 1970s and continue to promote a strain of leftish romanticism about idyllic rural village life powered by windmills and solar panels. They idealize poverty, seeing it as a noble way of life, and oppose all large developments. James Cameron, the multimillionaire producer of the most lucrative movie in history, Avatar, paints his face and joins the disaffected to protest a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon. ~Patrick Moore

To what extent can the global warming consensus be challenged without fear of reprisal from government, even if there could be “no possible justification” under the laws of this land? In the news today is as follows:

The Department of Justice used a secret subpoena to seize two months of Associated Press journalists’ phone records without notifying the news organization, a senior department official told NBC News. That admission came after the AP said earlier Monday that the government had seized records from its offices’ phone lines in 2012 in what it called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” The news agency’s chief executive said in a letter on the service’s website that there could be “no possible justification” for such an “overbroad” seizure of dozens of phone lines’ records, but the official who spoke with NBC News called the step necessary to avoid “a substantial threat to the integrity” of an ongoing leak investigation. The letter a U.S. Attorney had sent to the AP didn’t give a reason for the seizure, but the AP noted that he is already conducting a leaks probe to determine how the AP learned about an al-Qaeda bomb plot it reported on before the government made it public last year. Get More at NBC News

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and every Leftist in town will eat his catch. The old consensus is dead in the water. The new consensus is that we’ve got another 50 years and then we’re doomed. Keep pumping hot air into the AGW bubble.

The Left is so lost now that anything they say can be turned around and make perfect sense if only coming out of the mouth of someone who is not a global warming alarmist. For example, If we want to avoid, unnecessary and highly expensive panic-type subsidized investments driven by political whims and the expectations of quickly earned money and instead invest available means in a well thought through long- term energy research program, (the past as described by Lennart Bengtsson), the next step is simple! Simply admit we’re idiots to continue to pay Leftists to destroy the economy, even when they begin to say things (like Bengtsson above) that actually sound rational.

We need to Admit that is what has gotten us into the dilemma we face today. We must learn more quickly that if we don’t begin turning the overloaded government ship of state on its keel, Non-Westerners will be eating our lunch and roasting their game at our campfires for the next 300 winters. We can only be better prepared to face whatever comes at us by not waiting for WWIII to rediscover our strength from within — work to relearn what Amercanism is all about — and, work to take advantage of the abundant natural energy from coal to natural gas, nuclear, and whatever the inventive minds of a free people will dream up and work to achieve.

Climatists promised warming and it didn’t happen. Their Line-of-the-Day method of propaganda is all petered out: there are only so many ways to come with a non-problem in a way that frightens people. We’re no longer frightened. We’ve all heard it before already—that Marxism is the only hope and that Americanism can only lead to Catastrophic, Calamitous Runaway Global Warming and Extreme Climate Change Weather Disasters to Kill All Life. Leftist bullcrap! Environmentalists are more interested in bilking little old ladies — i.e., wealthy surviving spouses of evil capitalists — out of millions in donations to save polar bears and stopping the seas from from rising than in actually making serious and meaningful contributions to humanity and it is costing us more than jobs. They’ve set our houses afire.

Science of Al Gore Shallows Pool of Good Will

Monthly savings on your air conditioning bill could be the big unintended consequence of climate change. Going on 20 years (since 1998) the Earth has been tilting towards global cooling.

How did this happen? Let’s concede that we begin by using the same methodology that brought us fears of climate change — albeit statistical tools that are fraught with brazen threats to common sense and scientific reason — that Al Gore et al., used to conjure up fears about climate change. Still, it is hard to argue that the methodology — essentially taking the average temperature of the world on a regular basis — was completely free of bias when Western academics and politicians on the Left used it to predict out-of-control global warming due to the perfidy of America, capitalism, oil companies, cars, planes, trains, power plants and ostensibly every mechanical tool or toy that draws current to operate.

What does all of this mean? For starters, weather oscillations literally come and go, regionally, globally and on yearly to millennial time scales that trade-off, coincide, overlap, brush up against and sometimes bend over or spit in the face of the celestial winds of fortune. Let’s look as some recent examples:

Since 1990 we are looking at 1°C drop in the mean global temperature of the Earth’s surface. (See—e.g., Coming Ice Age… According To Leading Experts…!)

None other than weatherpersons’ weatherman, Joseph D’Aleo, tells us, “In the first decade since 2000, the 49th state cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit,” and asks the big question: is ALASKA HEADED FOR AN ICE AGE? “It’s most significant in Western Alaska,” D’Aleo reported, based on a paper from UAF’s Alaska Climate Research Center, “where King Salmon on the Alaska Peninsula saw temperatures drop most sharply, a significant 4.5 degrees for the decade.”

As for the rest of the country, Joe Bastardi reported, “Second Coldest Start To Spring In US History” and, “The only year when the spring started colder was 1975.” The use of coal is making a comeback in Europe. Perhaps that is why the apple blossoms were late in Washington, DC this year. “There’s less and less investment in the green energy sector and governments have even started to tax renewables,” according to Dr. Benny Peiser who warns that, “The green energy obsession is self-destructive.”

The background is important. Al Gore is a retired lifetime federal government employee. The federal government is incompetent. And, U.S. Senators are the most out of touch with the real world than anyone else in the world–no one but the devil’s spawn will ever be elected and that is why the Constitution essentially is a document to protect the public from U.S. Senators and every other elected and unelected government bureaucrat who all could care less about anything but themselves. “I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power,” as lover of liberty, James Madison understood and worked so diligently and with such foresight to prevent, “than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

Riddle me this:

Shallow government scientists,
Preach to shallow minds without ears.
As creeks shallow out,
Their courses shallowed to trickles of memories of past vigor,
Of deadly falls shallowed like placid pools, lazy fools,
I called out global warming alarmists, shallow down dudes,
As if they’d shallow up over their babbling,
Shallow commands that only nouns can be verbed not adjectives;
But, poets quickly shallow the pool of words that can’t,
Perhaps thoughts traveling at Godspeed,
With pictures that reach minds without ears,
Will shallow our relentless plummet into unknown.

Humanity cannot cause an asteroid nor a volcano nor an iceberg but humanity can make seas rise? How awesome! Too awesome. Humanity’s contribution in the grand scheme of things is but the single beat of a butterfly’s wing — just a thought of a thing in a world we can imagine but not hear nor see nor effect in the slightest except perhaps in a part of the soul in a corner of the mind of an old man in a lounge chair nursing a Manhattan.

One explanation for the birth of global warming and endless scare tactics is that the politicians of secular, socialist Western Europe and academia conspired with the UN to run a sting on Americans, many of whom have yet to realize the Left had declared jihad on Americanism. One thing we know for sure: we have relinquished power to the Left to rule over our lives and now they are taking what they want. ‘The trouble with socialism,’ as Margaret Thatcher was keen to warn us about, ‘is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.’

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ~Emerson

Waiting for Al Gore – a Stop the World Tragicomedy

Global warming? You’re telling me something I already understand completely! Warming is something that usually happens daily. Next you’ll warn us about climate changing.

It will take a long time to undo what the Left has done to the society and the culture. A good place to start will be a serious downsizing of the government-education complex. Has the promise of universal education turned into the theater of the absurd? Whose great idea was it to have unelected bureaucrats pushing climate porn in classrooms?

When it comes to claims by Western academia that humanity’s CO2 caused global warming (AGW), why continue to pretend there is a scientific consensus of opinion on that notion? Instead of entrusting America’s fate to a jury of school teachers, maybe we should just put the finishing touches on the Utopia of the liberal fascists which comes complete with the Leftist economics of energy rationing at government-gunpoint. The Left has already commanded that the scientific method should be hung up and forgotten and all of the followers of it so that we all can better concentrate on looking for truth in all the officially-right places.

After all of these years the Left still believes Socrates is dangerous; and, there is nothing so fearsome for the Left to contemplate than the open minds of a free people who are willing to take responsibility for their own futures — hell with official truth — and live by the creations of their own hands, wits, talents and hard work.

The Greek jurors that sentenced their fellow citizen Socrates to death for the crime of questioning the official truth knew that with the help his powerful, influential, wealthy, wise and politically connected friends — who easily could buy off the legal system and pay the necessary bribes to get out of jail — Socrates could easily flee Athens. But, Socrates refused to behave as his jurors expected when he put his love for truth above his own life and drank the state’s hemlock.

The steadfastness Socrates showed by actually obeying the laws of his peers not only was the furthest thing from the minds of the jury, his refusal to do what anyone else would be expected to do in similar circumstance was an even greater crime. Like now: America’s productive are not really expected to actually listen to the Left’s nihilism and discontinue the production of CO2 as they go about their business of living. Rather, the productive should labor on and continue to provide all of the goods and services the Left demands, all the while being blamed by the Left for working hand-in-hand with the devil against nature. The Left always wants it both ways: their way, you pay.

So, has Western science become the theater of the absurd? Sure — the Left wants us all to abandon all of the usual and rational devices we normally would use to assess our circumstances and possibilities and just do what they say. Would you drink hemlock because all your friends told you to? Does anyone seriously buy into the idea that the Left’s Drama-Queen-In-Chief, Al Gore, really gives a damn about the human condition or what you think?

Al Gore and the Left say,
Do as I say, not as I do.

When Leaving Turn Out the Lights and Go Left

Global warming scare tactics are more than bad politics. They’re bad theater too. We have  humanity which is dirtying up the Earth with its marathon-producing CO2 and that is worthy of a Greek tragedy full of pessimism and nihilism. But rather than on a somber note it ends in outrageous comedy — a gut-wrench, belly-laughing finale about this F-Troop comprised of Western school teachers who valiantly try to save the world — with polar bears and islanders splashing about in hot, ice-free, rising sees — while, Neptune-sized, SUV-driving soccer moms with flaming hair, contemptuously blowing poisonous CO2 out of flared nostrils, flip-off the world as they back up onto sands and crap out surfboard-toting gremmies into the surf from their lifted tailgates.

Although not up to the standards of the latest cli-fi plots we’ve got plenty of cli-psy to add drama to the theater of the absurd –e.g., the Western climate scientists of the Left who are so accepting of this very peculiar reality of theirs’ that they cannot even tolerate an open discussion about it and amongst themselves there is this strange element that lies impervious to scrutiny, like the freakish consensus of the Heaven’s Gate Cult concerning the best method to reach their oddball destination that as it happens was located on the dark side of the Comet Hale-Bopp. What better proof could we have that reality is stranger than fiction?

Getting from here to liberal Utopia could never be easier nor crazier –i.e., a seemingly coherent group of individuals, these Hale-Boppers worked with computers, enjoyed a life of plenty in the prestigious environs of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, sharing their earnings as well as their understanding of how life works, in a common quest, so that in the end even their self-destructive acts made sense to Heaven’s Gate cult members… as they donned black Nikes and pulled plastic bags over their faces for the trip to Utopia.

What are we to make of the Hale-Boppers of Western academia? Heroes with noble motives? Climate fear-traders out to make a buck off the ignorant like ticket-sellers at the Left’s state-run lotteries? Are they potential new members of the Diviners and Dowsers Guild or union employees who work in the government climate alarmism industry? I’ll tell ‘ya what’s tragic: we’re paying these people to make up this bullcrap. Where would they be headed if not opposed? Heaven on a mule?

It is right and wholesome to have those light comedies and entertaining shows; and I shouldn’t wish to see them diminished. But none of us is always in the comedy spirit; we have our graver moods; they come to us all; the lightest of us cannot escape them. These moods have their appetites – healthy and legitimate appetites – and there ought to be some way of satisfying them. It seems to me that New York ought to have one theater devoted to tragedy. With her three millions of population, and seventy outside millions to draw upon, she can afford it, she can support it. America devotes more time, labor, money, and attention to distributing literary and musical culture among the general public than does any other nation, perhaps; yet here you find her neglecting what is possibly the most effective of all the breeders and nurses and disseminators of high literary taste and lofty emotion – the tragic stage. To leave that powerful agency out is to haul the culture-wagon with a crippled team. Nowadays, when a mood comes which only Shakespeare can set to music, what must we do? Read Shakespeare ourselves! Isn’t it pitiful? It is playing an organ solo on a jew’s-harp. ~Mark Twain

Climate Numerology of Chas. Hatfield and Al Gore

Look at the all-seeing eye
See what comes before
And where it goes and after that…

Look into the eye

See it change a little? I see global warming. Before global warming I see global cooling. After the global warming it’s cold. I can feel it; empty as antimatter; dark as night; still as death. Now I feel it: I see the future… How about you?

The global warming Illuminati of Western civilization looked into the eye. For them it does not get cooler after global warming. It keeps getting hotter and hotter: they see the whole world going to hell in a rumble seat. Enlightening are the examples of Charles Hatfield and Al Gore, pluviculture and warmanathema experts, respectively.

Not long ago being born in San Diego, California made you a rarity because everyone was from somewhere else. I knew a San Diego native who died a few years ago. He’d be about 90 now and Red was unusual because his mother also was born in San Diego and that was so extraordinary local historians called on Red’s mother for information on the town’s past.

Red remembered trips to the family’s ranch in Poway as a kid, going over the Pomerado grade, and when the Model T would start to boil he’d receive the order to toss the log that was roped to the back of the Ford. Red’s dad would roll back against the log and use it as a brake while the engine cooled enough to continue on. Before the Portuguese-captained seiner fleet was driven to Mexico by environmentalists, Red’s mom  worked in a tuna cannery and sat in the back of the bus on the trip back to Old Town, because she smelled like steaming hot fish.

On about the same latitude as Greece and about the same weather, San Diego is a high desert rolling right up to the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean. When Red’s mom grew up there were sardines there and when Red grew up anchovies came and sardines left. About a decade or so ago sardines came back and anchovies went away. Such is the cycle of fish. The San Diego River runs through the county and you can imagine how over the last many thousands of years it was green around it and even overflowed like the Nile now and again. Like Greece, olive trees grow well there and citrus trees too and will not die of frost if planted on the side of a mountain where amidst the chaparral the laurel sumac are seen to grow; but, in this second driest county in California –  Imperial being the driest county which is just to the south where the U.S. stops and Mexico and Baja begin — water gets scarce.

My guess is you would not pay attention to someone who claimed he could bring rain — even if he was a self-taught meteorologist and pluviculture expert who claimed successes from Honduras to Montana — unless, of course, you were desperate for rain. Similarly, how much attention would you give a lifetime politician claiming he will stop global warming? Perhaps you might if you feared warming as much as San Diegans wanted rain.

There is not much rain there in the summer when people growing things really need it. That brings us to the rains of 1916 that broke the five year drought. It’s not just a legend: you can can read about in wiki –e.g., Google, Charles M. Hatfield the rainmaker.

The San Diego City Council badly wanted water: the people needed Hatfield. Their recently finished reservoir had lain bone dry for three years; and, they agreed to pay Hatfield $10,000 to fill it up — no rain, no pay, no risk: what could go wrong?  Hatfield took the job. If successful the fee would’ve been like receiving $230,000 today. With his little brother’s help he built a 20-foot tower where he mixed and burned a secret mixture of chemicals, shot off bombs into the skies and lo, Hatfield caused it to rain. The people wanted rain and it did.

For weeks it poured rain. About twenty miles long and a mile wide from El Cajon to the ocean, Mission Valley — which is now filled with freeways, overpasses, office towers, shopping centers, condos and restaurants — flooded bank to bank. Fed by the cloud bursting torrents of rain in the Cuyamaca and Laguna Mountains the San Diego River — that in earlier days flowed past the home of Father Serra and his first mission in California, and an Indian village and later on, San Diego’s Old Town, which was at Presidio Hill where Spaniards garrisoned up to about 1800 — overflowed.

It was the worst rain ever — worst flood in the county’s history. Rivers rose, water topped and broke through dams, communities became islands, roads, bridges, rails and farm animals were washed away, houses floated down the river and out to sea, settlements disappeared and many people died in the Hatfield Flood. Murder charges against Hatfield were considered. Lynching was threatened. Rather than receiving a fee — that he walked 60 miles over broken roads to collect — the ex-sewing machine salesman turned moisture enhancer, Hatfield was forced to flee.

Was Hatfield a charlatan to pledge he could attract rain and fill the Morena reservoir to overflowing? Hatfield filled it just as he claimed he would so were the people of San Diego correct to blame Hatfield for causing a devastating deluge? And if so was it the city’s fault too? Or, was it an act of God, which is what the city argued in San Diego Superior Court in response to damage claims that were brought against it. “According to later commentators, Hatfield’s successes were mainly due to his meteorological skill and sense of timing, selecting periods where there was a high probability of rain anyway.”  (wiki)

Some interesting similarities and contrasts can be drawn when comparing rainmaking to the stopping of warming (Hatfield and Gore, respectively), as follows:

Similarities

• Government involvement and funding are key elements
• Fear is a key element (i.e., fear of drought/fear of warming)
• Vagary of nature is a key element
• Proponents are good marketers of their product (make rain/stop warming)
• Weatherpersons consider both products illusory

Contrasts

• Hatfield used secret chemical formulas to attract rain.
• Gore used opinions of government scientists whose work cannot verified
• The practice of rainmaking is more art than a science
• The practice of stopping global warming is more politics than science
• Making rain is local
• Stopping warming is global
• Rainmakers are positive blaming neither man nor nature for a lack of rain
• Warm stoppers are negative blaming humanity for causing warming
• Rainmakers do not get paid if they do not produce
• Warm stoppers are paid to create alarm about warming

“When I get my forces at work, so often the wind comes up and blows them all away.” ~Chas. M. Hatfield

No one is expert in accurately forecasting which way the wind will blow. There is a possibility of a coming “Mini Ice Age” that Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov says may be headed our way based on a 200-year solar cycle. In the decades ahead we may fall prey to hucksters promising to bring back global warming — especially if temperatures drop to levels experienced during 1650 and 1850. “The last global decrease of temperature,” according to Abdussamatov, ”was observed not only in Europe, North America and Greenland, but also in any other part of the world during the Maunder minimum of sunspot activity and of the total solar irradiance in 1645 to 1715.” Current falling temperatures may threaten a triple-dip recession. We’re not prepared to handle big changes of any kind given the secular-socialist gerrymandering of society that has severely weakened the economy, torched the creativity of the productive and hamstrung the ability of a free market to most effectively and efficiently respond to changes in demand. Without sufficient energy our future will always be at the whim of nature.

Superstition causes lapses in judgment, raises temperatures and stands in the way of reason and logic. Superstition causes people to do stupid and sometimes horrible things. An outlook on the world can be positive or negative and both still may be wrong. We see that in the example of the connection of sorts between seers like rainmakers and global warming alarmists. Each has a particular outlook based on their views about how the world works and a negative outlook — like that of the warm-stoppers — is especially destructive. Sacrificing fattened children to bring about change is an example of a negative outlook with horrible consequences on the business of living, whether it is done by Incas on the summit of Llullaillaco or by Leftists and liberal Utopians in Western classrooms.

That and a Nickel Will Get You Jack Squat!

The Left is selling a fresh load of global warming. Look how many Americans are buying the product –e.g.,

Put me and my party in Power!
If you do there will be less of everything.
And, you will pay more for it and,
I will stop global warming.

That essentially is what it’s all about. More expensive energy makes everything else more expensive — for everybody.  Except, of course, insiders will reap rewards. Government employees will receive cost of living increases. Damage control amounts to politicians granting exemptions to themselves and friends and contributors and as favors to others in exchange for votes in secret deals on unrelated matters. Needless to say, the taxpayer will of course be responsible for footing 100% of the bill. But, the big question remains –i.e.,

Do you believe the politicians who claim
unelected bureaucrats can stop global warming?

Anyone can answer because no knowledge of science is required. Global warming has become a question of philosophy. “The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal ‘objectivity,’ as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its ‘elegance,’ or its congruity with our residual beliefs.” (William James)

A belief that humanity’s release of CO2 is warming the globe (AGW theory) is no longer a search for objective truth. Real science involves a search for pure objective truth according to established (i.e., universally agreed upon) rules of logic. Throw out the science and while the end result may be uncertain the process is clear. Bad politics and phony religion is what we get for our money when the finding of truth is based solely on its utility to a subset of society, such as helping Leftist ideologues take over the economy and replace capitalism with Euro-communism.

Rather than science global warming has become a famous jury trial where for reasons unrelated to the crime the guilt or innocence of the defendant is totally unrelated to the actual murderer of a real victim. The defendant becomes the putative accused in a kabuki of legal theater with unrelated grievances taking center stage like a dump on a toilet seat. Guilt or innocence no longer matters; right or wrong is irrelevant. That is wedge issue politics –e.g., the use of phony pseudo-science to blame capitalism for killing polar bears and not wanting to take a bus to work.

Fear of climate change is not a reasoned response to a true understanding of reality: fears about AGW is not the product of a scientist’s pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Rather, these fears are propaganda founded on ’pragmatic’ truths as described by William James above –i.e., global warming alarmism is a sort of treasure hunt set loose by those who have scripted a conjured-up, self-interested and self-serving consensus of opinion that some find useful. It will never be useful to everyone to simply increase the cost of everything to everyone.

Who really believes government scientists can control the climate if the Democrat party is permitted to take over the economy and replace capitalism with Euro-communism? Do you believe America is destroying the Earth?

The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for ‘to be true’ means only to perform this marriage-function. ~William James

Where does it all lead? Those for whom reflexive anti-Americanism has become the prism through which truth is filtered, reality becomes belief in AGW and, for example, hatred of George Bush when Bush opposes AGW theory or disagrees with any of the other truths that prove useful to the believers.

Other truths include an end to the standard principles of Judeo/Christian traditions that will not for an instant condone an indulgence in doomsday predictions and baseless fearmongering for political purposes. That would be immoral. Obviously, the global warming alarmist is quite pius according to the Leftist, liberal Utopian belief system in which purely objective truth is irrelevant when it is not convenient.

With George Bush there was a lot about him for the Left to hate. Bush is a lover of individual liberty. Bush had principles too: he knew there was such a thing as right and wrong and that good would triumph over evil –e.g., Bush would oppose on moral grounds the killing of the innocent survivors of botched abortions and eschewed the liberal fascist tyranny of gas bag politicians full of hot air.

All the things the Leftist, liberal Utopians believe and stand for defined them long before George Bush. The Left’s truth of global warming and their hatred of Bush all are a part of the warp and woof of Western society in economic and moral decline.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. America’s vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one… So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. ~George Bush

When it comes to whether AGW theory is valid, we know what the Left wants to hear. But, what should that have to do with science? Under the Leftist scheme of things humanity is always waiting for the next champion mesmerizer to do the thinking for them, like creating a new economy by brushing capitalism aside and replacing it with the liberal fascism of Euro-communism that runs on symbolism like raising gas taxes to save the world from Americanism.

The Hardcore Hysterical Ambivalence of Al Gore

There is no indication whatever in the experimental data that an abrupt or remarkable change in any of the ordinary natural climate variables is beginning or will begin to take place.  ~Robinson AB, et al. [Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. JPANDS (2007) 12; 79-90]

The global warming debate goes on. Emotions run hot and cold. We cannot help getting angry and quixotically wanting to laugh until we cry at the hysterical blindness and mind-numbing hypocrisy on display and feeling silly when we hear or see something that gives us hope that truth will prevail over evil.

AL GORE — When it comes to running the table Al Gore really brings it home when it comes to juggling all the disparate elements involved in human persuasion — even that old time religion he learned as a seminary student. Born to wealth and privilege, Gore was raised in Washington, literally following in his fathers footsteps to become a U.S. Representative and Senator of Tennessee. Gore went to the most prestigious schools. He even claims Roger Revelle as a mentor, which is the science equivalent to a civil rights leader claiming to be there when Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered. The package includes an unrivaled talent for self-promotion —e.g., did you know Gore invented the internet and was awarded a Nobel for helping the U.N. bring peace to the world? Gore is a champion mesmerizer and left-wing hoodwinking fabricator par excellence who gives up nothing to Adolf Hitler about whom it is said, “Many  writers have commented upon his ability to hypnotize his audiences.” (see—e.g.,  Jewish Virtual Library, A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler His Life and Legend As the German People Know Him). Certainly, the powerful effect Gore has on the typical Democrat Party audience is beyond question; and, Gore could have been president: the NYT claims Gore went through a period of post-traumatic stress syndrome over his loss to George Bush in 2000.

MICHAEL CRICHTON —

There was a time when I worked in a clinic and, uh, one day a young woman came in, she was in her early twenties for a routine checkup and, I said what‘s going on with you and she said I‘ve just become blind. And, I said, oh my gosh, really, when did it happen, she said, well just, uh, coming into the clinic, walking up the steps of the clinic I became blind. And I said, oh, and I‘m—by now I‘m looking through the chart and I said, well, has this happened before, she said yes, it‘s happened before. I‘ve become blind in the past, and, what she had of course was hysterical blindness. And the characteristic of that, is that, the severity of the symptom is not matched by the emotional response that‘s, that‘s being presented. Most people would be screaming about that but she was very calm, oh yes, I‘m blind again. And I‘m reminded of that whenever I hear, that we‘re facing, whether we wanna call it a crisis or not, a significant global event, of, of, of importance where we‘re gonna have species lost and so on and so forth— that we can really address this by changing our light bulbs. Or that we can really make an impact by unplugging our appliances when we‘re not using them. It‘s very much out of whack. And so if… we’re only gonna do symbolic actions, I would like to suggest a few symbolic actions that right—might really mean something. One of them, which is very simple, 99% of the American population doesn‘t care, is ban private jets. Nobody needs to fly in them, ban them now. And, and in addition, [APPLAUSE] let‘s have the NRDC, the, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace make it a rule that all of their, all of their members, cannot fly on private jets, they must get their houses off the grid, they must live in the way that they‘re telling everyone else to live. And if they won‘t do that, why should we. And why should we take them seriously. [APPLAUSE] ~Michael Chricton

[Media Transcripts, Inc., IQ2 Program: ,” (March 22, 2007) -- Moderated by Brian Lehrer with a six-member panel: Michael Crichton, Richard S. Lindzen and  Philip Stott (for the motion); and, Brenda Ekwurzel, Gavin Schmidt and Richard C.J. Somerville (against the motion)]

Result

After our debaters did their best to sway you… you went from, 30% for the motion, that global warming is not a crisis, from 30% to 46%. Against the motion, went from 57% to 42%… And — “undecided” went from 13% to 12%. The hardcore ambivalent are still among us. So, in terms of opinion change, those in favor of the motion, have carried the day, congratulations to the team for the motion. And thank you all again very much, good night. ~Brian Lehrer

According to Dr. Spencer the null hypothesis of global warming theory — that all observed climate change is natural — has never been rejected. Like Spencer, Dr. Happer also believes in the scientific approach to knowledge; and, he probably also believes that the EPA’s politics of fear is a symptom of the moral bankruptcy that is leading to the fall of Western civilization.

Mistakes are common in science and they can take a long time to correct, sometimes many generations. It is important that misguided political decisions do not block science’s capacity for self correction, especially in this instance when incorrect science is being used to threaten  our liberties and wellbeing. Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth’s climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past. We are currently in a warming cycle that began in the early 1800′s, at the end of the little ice age. Much of the current warming occurred before the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were significantly increased by the burning of fossil fuels. No one knows how long the current warming will continue, and in fact, there has been no warming for the past ten years. Carbon dioxide is a natural constituent of the atmosphere, and calling it a ‘pollutant’ is inaccurate. ~Dr. William Happer

“The United States and other countries need to produce more energy, not less… Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living things. (Robins, Ibid.)

Do we really want to know the truth. How badly do we want to know?

One ‘sensed’ that there was something wrong. But you see, sensing isn’t knowing. One hears things which make one feel uncomfortable, without being able to put one’s finger on anything specific. It’s almost an atmosphere — a way people talk, their conduct, or perhaps their gestures or even just their tone of voice. It is so subtle. How can one explain it to anyone who hasn’t experienced that time, those small first doubts, that kind of unease, for want of a better word? We couldn’t have found words to explain what we felt was wrong. But to find out, to look for an explanation for that… that ‘hunch’, well, that would have been very dangerous… One did know very early on that there were dangers in knowledge. (Sereny 1996, 458; my emphasis, as taken from, Thomas S. Kubarych, Self-Deception and Peck’s Analysis of Evil)

“Because we have for millennia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color – but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.” ~Nietzsche

Add a Dash of Global Warming… Better to be Wrong than Bland!

Wisdom is possible. It’s precious so by definition it’s rare too. The founders had it; the keepers do not.

The ‘new approach to environmentalism,’ according to Dr. Patrick Moore (co-founder of Greenpeace who authored Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout) ‘requires embracing humans as a positive element in evolution rather than viewing us as some kind of mistake.’ It means giving up a lot of donations from old women with Alzheimers who survived their rich industrialist spouses; but, the Left must stop itself from conflating global warming with environmentalism even if it takes a come to Jesus moment to deal with the withdrawal pains.

There is nowhere to hide in these dog days of global warming alarmism when another Leftist like Moore outs the anti-humanism of the the anti-capitalist agenda of liberal Utopianism. The Left’s fix for problems they caused is bigger government, a wholesale sacrifice of universal truths and cultural loss of values. Turning a blind eye to the wisdom of common sense is the only sociopolitical strategy the Left can see and we have come to expect that. We might even lament that. And, we have come to believe there is not a damn thing we can do about it except hold onto the one truth above all else that only the individual has meaning.

The global warming bubble was built mostly behind the scenes and out of the public eye. The building of a consensus amounted to nothing more that a concerted plan by Europe, the UN, Western academia and companies like Enron and Lehman Brothers. They met over cheese fondues to work out plans on how best to fleece America as a means to keep the bubble of  Euro-communism from going bust. And then the worst thing that could happen did happen: George Bush defeated the EU, UN and Leftist/liberal Utopian presidential hopeful, Al Gore. That is when the war against Bush and reason exploded like a mushroom cloud.

The hyperventilation of global warming alarmism was born. Bush drew an “X” through the Kyoto agreement and outed Europe as working behind closed curtains to stab America in the back but the media was not on his side. Eight years of Bush allowed enough time for the hype and scare tactics of the Left to peak and peter out –e.g., the the name of all our fears was changed from global warming to fear of rivers-running-red-oceans-will-boil-calamitous-and-disastrous climate-change; but, everything calmed down and now we see a far more more bland and less excited branding of the climate change issue –i.e.,  global-warming-is-a-problem-but-it-is-not-alarming, but it is real so we must continue to fund more climate research.

Those who live off of government taxes have a vested interest in keeping the government-funded global warming charade alive. The Left has gone from stoking the fires of fear as an excuse to ring the alarm to just sprinkling salt on the wounds they’ve inflicted on us. Those in the productive sector have decided they don’t want to work to pay for the opinions of a professional class of aging government alarmists. We just don’t think their opinions are worth the money. And that has led to the current problem: without offering something that anyone is willing to pay for the Left must now just take what they want.

That is their future and ours as the Left continues to refuse to provide value to society: growing a government to give them what they demand. It should come as no surprise to anyone — especially as the economy tanks and Euro-communism implodes — that we begin to look with jaundiced eyes upon Leftist climate-fixing ideas about taxing our CO2 when at best their ideas are based on speculation, supposition, far-fetched inferences, guess work, dodgy statistics and bad data.

All we can do is hang onto our individual liberties for as long as possible and pray that nature itself will continue to prove that Democrat candidates for political office cannot control nature. We are at the point now where the productive will have to borrow a page of Mao’s little red book that the Left adores so much and start marching school teachers to the farms where they can actually provide some value to society. Government funding of global warming has been the NTA relief act for so long they’re hooked but continuing to pay the members of the National Teachers Association to be nothing more than babysitters and professional gadflies just isn’t worth what we’re paying.

It is an “inexorable, and probably inevitable, fact,” according to Philip Stott, “that climate itself increasingly fails to fall compliantly into line with the virtual world of the climate modelers. This will severely undermine the whole credibility of the Grand Narrative with the public. In addition,” to as Stott concludes, “attempts to scare the world sick, certain of the scientific claims… are even concerning some of the more serious scientists involved… [and] are so far fetched that they are just bringing down ridicule onto the basic science involved.”

Hopefully, God willing and the creek don’t rise, we will slowly begin to put things in perspective. A little common sense is what’s called for until such time as we have wiser voters –e.g., we need to realize that even if the Earth’s atmospheric CO2 content were to increase to about 3% –i.e., a hundredfold from what it is now – the current atmospheric water vapor content would only need to increase by about 5% to maintain radiation equilibrium, which is exactly what does happen as described by Ferenc Miskolczi (the atmospheric optical density of the Earth is self-regulating).

Wiser minds are needed, for our sake and especially for so many others around the world whose needs are great: they really need more not less of what America should continue to hold dear: respect for the individual’s God-given right to be free. “Unfortunately,” as Stott wisely reminds us, “both geology and history show us that the idea of a stable climate is untenable; there has never been, and never will be, a stable climate under human control. All we can do is adapt to constant change.”

“Basing policies on worries about ‘global warming’ is a serious threat to us all, but especially to the 1.6 billion people in the less-developed world who have no access to any modern form of energy. The twin curses of water poverty and energy poverty remain the true scandals.  ~Philip Stott

What human folly it is to sacrifice the freedoms we enjoy today based on fears of future climate change and promises by government that the Western climate experts will bring about climate stability. “In a system as complex and chaotic as climate, actions with just one factor out of the thousands involved,” which is what Stott says government scientists are doing with their obsession with atmospheric CO2 levels, “may even trigger unexpected consequences. It is vital to remember that, for such a coupled, non-linear, chaotic system, not doing something (i.e., not emitting gases) is as unpredictable as doing something (i.e., emitting gases). Even if we closed down every factory, crushed every car and aeroplane, turned off all energy production, and threw 4 billion people worldwide out of work, climate would still change, and often dramatically. Unfortunately, we would all be too poor to do anything about it.”

Our laws are not in concert with natural laws
and their opposition to nature and universal truths
creates injustice. When those who depend on government become
the many, the many cannot be trusted by the few because
laws become nothing more than a reflection
of what is popular at the moment.