The Anti-Intellectual And Anti-Science Zeitgeist

Here are some climate change and science articles that should make us all wonder in sad amazement about the state of science in the West. How it has been politicized and hijacked by opportunists and charlatans. One in which politicians have all too readily jumped on in a cynical play to be recognized and perhaps even profit off.

In one of the articles over at Glibertarians.com the writer put it best describing climate science as 'bad conjecture'. What's 'settled science' (science is never science nor is it formed on the basis of 'consensus') is actually junk science.

Ireland to ban cars?

"Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and behaviours, according to local media. 

“Nudge” policies such as huge tax hikes, as well as bans and red tape outlined in the plan, will pave the way to a “vibrant” Ireland of zero carbon emissions by 2050 according to the government, which last year committed to boost the country’s 4.7 million-strong population by a further million with mass migration."

Nudge is a good way to describe it. Here in Montreal, that's pretty much how it's happening as the city is slowly ceding its streets to cyclists. They also insist people use public transportation. We're a granola city now.

You can't drag me into the city anymore and I sure as hell ain't interested in crampy public services.

As if the political elites use them. That's for the icky people.

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Canada is planning to coordinate with California on how to combat climate change.

What can possibly go wrong with a Democrat dominated legislature and Justin?

Maybe California should focus a tad more on their negative net migration flow, homeless crisis and the grotesque passing and shitting fest in San Francisco.

Not a state I look for pointers.

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Fear and loathing.

Fear is a necessary tool in the climate wars.

"...And yet, Nordhaus’ own work—not shown in the figure above, but I spell it out here—clearly concludes that such an aggressive target would cause far more damage to humans in the form of reduced economic output, that it would be better for governments to “do nothing” about climate change at all."

Basically, the cure is worse than the disease.

"....Americans, especially students, are being whipped into a panic over the allegedly existential threat of climate change. Yet the actual research, summarized in the UN’s own periodic reports and in the research of a Nobel laureate in the field, shows that at best only a modest “leaning against the wind” could be justified according to standard economic science. 

By their own criteria, the alarmist activists are admitting that political measures are nowhere near achieving their goals. Their own rhetoric says that these activists are wasting everyone’s time pushing solutions that will end in catastrophe. Occasionally they slip up, as for example when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admits that her “we have 12 years left” was not to be taken literally."

It's one of the things I despise most about the climate change cult. I listen to my teenage daughter and her friends talk about it. They're filled with anxiety and it's all by design.

I had to talk them 'off the ledge' so to speak a couple of months back knocking all that Ocasio-Cortez poison out of their preciously vulnerable minds.

But leftists know darn well that's when you strike. When they're young.

It's up to us to deflect it and chart a proper course for our children.

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The Great Lakes and climate change show some flaws in the assertions.

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"Z Burger's Peter Tabibian isn't sure the ban is a great idea. But he's tossing out tens of thousands of plastic straws and promising to replace them with something safer for the environment. "I ordered metal straws," he said. "That's what's really going to help the environment."

D.C. says businesses can use bamboo, hay, steel or glass -- or no straw at all. Just not plastic.

Straws may be only a small percentage of the plastic waste we dump. But millions already pollute our waterways."It doesn't disintegrate in the water," said Benjamin Gildea, 8, sipping guiltily on a soda with a plastic straw. "So it gets in turtles' noses, so I really believe that these straws should be banned."

Here's one more wrinkle. Businesses are still required to keep a few plastic straws on hand for people with disabilities who find it tough to use any other kind."

This in a nutshell reveals how bad science leads to bad policies and outcomes.

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Good read.

"I’m going to begin with two claims about the state of #science in the United States. I use the hashtag advisedly because one of my assertions is that the majority of what passes for science in the current zeitgeist is generally non-science, or, most charitably, bad conjecture, if we’re properly classifying some of the current crop of pop-culture fads attempting to pass themselves off as real Science (yes, I’m looking at you AGW). To begin with, here are my two claims..."

From the comments:

"Just look at the language and tactics they use to sell climate change starting with climate change itself. Climate changes….duh. This term evolved from ‘global warming’ probably because the predictions they made weren’t panning out and in fact trends were going against their claims. Right off the bat the term is enough to raise a skeptical eye. Never mind, as we know, the endless failed prognostications going back to the late 60s. At the same time, like good little totalitarians, they had to attack the skeptics and not the assertions. This is where we get ‘deniers’ and calls for imprisonment. How dare they bring consensus into disrepute! 97% consensus to be exact! Do they not realize they act more like witch hunters than scientists when they behave like this? I’m a simple man. So may say a simpleton even. But gosh I can spot bull shit from miles away and this whole movement is nothing but a cynical political power play.

And dummies eat it up."

"I noticed the rather blatant (to me) drop of “anthropogenic” from “global warming” early on. It’s intermediate phase before settling on the non-falsifiable “climate change.” I mean, holy shit. How much more obvious can you be? It’s a religion and has all of the same components, right up to and including punishment for heretics, now laughably called “deniers.” It’s just… I don’t even know. I could not have imagined I would see this in my lifetime. No way – not in a thousand years would I have believed I would see something like this."

Yup and yup.

"You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal"

Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone.

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Bonus!

Meet the Illiberals! 

On this Independence Day enjoy this precious things called liberty.

Ot what's left of it because one day the Democrats will take over again and they're gonna keep chipping away at it.

All these proposals will accomplish one thing: Make citizens slaves of the state. Democrats are the party of slavery after all. Now they just want to put everyone in shackles and chains.

The Democrats are demanding reparations. I propose only registered Democrats pay for it since their party represented the institution. 

Why should Republicans pay for it? They abolished it.

Fair is fair, right Dems?

Anyway....look at these sociopaths promising stuff they can't possibly deliver on pretending to care about people. All they want is power. Simple as that.

Don't listen to me.

When the NYT says you pulled too far left, you know you're in trouble.

Notice how the party started in the median in 2008 and that by 2012 it was going left under Obama. Transformational change was under way and Limbaugh was right all along. Obama set the party on a socialist track.

The Republicans are the centrist party. As they always tended to be.

And if anyone bothered to plot how the Liberals have fared, we'd observe the exact trend pulling left as the Democrats.