{"blocks":[{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"(Corbett Report) In the modern era, when someone says, \"The devil made me do it!\" we recognize they're trying to deflect blame for their own rotten behaviour, and we rightly scoff at them."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"But how about if they use the 21st century equivalent of that rotten excuse: \"Climate change made me do it!\"?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Sound ridiculous?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Well, what if I were to tell you that climate change is causing Pakistani men to beat their wives?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Or that the climate crisis can derail trains?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Or that climate weirding is responsible for an uptick in child marriages in Pakistan?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Or that increasing temperatures are turning lobsters into cannibals?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Or that global warming can cause THE ENTIRE EARTH TO EXPLODE!"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Well, it can, and it does, and it is!"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Don't believe me? Look upon this list of things that The Science™ has officially pinned on the devil—errr, I mean \"climate change\"—and prepare to weep, deniers!"}},{"type":"header","data":{"text":"THE WARMLIST","level":3}},{"type":"image","data":{"file":{"url":"https://thefreethoughtproject.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjA5MTY5Njg3MzQ1Mzc1MDc2/ead07aa9-5f1e-4fa9-a76e-12e53055c5a7_500x542.webp"},"caption":""}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"In the year 2000, retired engineering professor John Brignell of the University of Southampton started a website called \"Number Watch.\" He then posted the following explanation of the site's purpose:"}},{"type":"quote","data":{"text":"

This site is devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media. Whether they are generated by Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), such numbers swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic. They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories. There is a growing band of people whose livelihoods depend on creating and maintaining panic. There are also some who are trying to keep numbers away from your notice and others who hope that you will not make comparisons. Their stock in trade is the gratuitous lie. The aim here is to nail just a few of them.

One of the giants in the history of the philosophy of science, Karl Popper, once famously observed that a theory that explains everything explains nothing. And, to be sure, the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change appears to explain everything.

After all, we all know that climate change makes for shorter winters . . . except for when it makes for harsher winters.

And climate change means less snow . . . except for when climate change means more snow.

And climate change causes droughts in California and floods in Texas and Oklahoma, and generally makes wet places wetter and dry places drier, except when it makes wet places drier and dry places wetter.

And climate change causes more hurricanes at the same time as it causes fewer hurricanes.

Climate change causes more rain, but less water? . . . And less rain, but more water?

Climate change decreases the spread of malaria at the same time as it increases the spread of malaria. (But don’t worry! The Terminator himself advises us not to listen to those climate change cynics, hey guys?)

Do I need to go on?

Oh, OK.

Climate change makes San Francisco foggier. / Climate change makes San Francisco less foggy.

Climate change causes duller autumn leaves. / Climate change causes more colourful autumn leaves.

Climate change makes for less salty seas. / Climate change makes for saltier seas.

Climate change causes the polar ice caps to melt. / Climate change causes the polar ice caps to freeze.

Climate change makes the earth hotter, unless the earth isn’t getting hotter, in which case climate change can explain that, too!

","alignment":"left"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Well, as it turns out, I'm not the only one who has recognized this particular problem with the global warming cult's junk science argument. Back in 2011, Watts Up With That ran an article, \"The big self parodying 'climate change blame' list,\" that assembles a similar list of completely contradictory claims that have been explained by way of \"climate change.\""}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Amazon dry season greener / Amazon dry season browner"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Avalanches may increase / Avalanches may decrease – wet snow more though [?]"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Bird migrations longer / Bird migrations shorter / Bird migrations out of fashion"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Boreal forest fires may increase / Boreal forest fires may continue decreasing"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Chinese locusts swarm when warmer / Chinese locusts swarm when cooler"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Columbia spotted frogs decline / Columbia spotted frogs thrive in warming world"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Coral island atolls to sink [?] / /Coral island atolls to rise [? – ?]"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Earth’s rotation to slow down / Earth’s rotation to speed up"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"East Africa to get less rain / East Africa to get more rain – pdf"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Great Lakes less snow / Great Lakes more snow"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Gulf stream slows down / Gulf stream speeds up a little"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Indian monsoons to be drier / Indian monsoons to be wetter"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Indian rice yields to decrease – full paper / Indian rice yields to increase"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Latin American forests may decline / Latin American forests have thrived in warmer world with more co2!"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Leaf area index reduced [1990s] / Leaf area index increased [1981-2006]"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Malaria may increase / Malaria may continue decreasing"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Malaria in Burundi to increase / Malaria in Burundi to decrease [?]"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"North Atlantic cod to decline / North Atlantic cod to thrive"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"North Atlantic cyclone frequency to increase / North Atlantic cyclone frequency to decrease – full pdf"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"North Atlantic Ocean less salty / North Atlantic Ocean more salty"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to decline [? – ? – ?] / Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to grow [?]"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Plant methane emissions significant / Plant methane emissions insignificant"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Plants move uphill / Plants move downhill [?]"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Sahel to get less rain / Sahel to get more rain / Sahel may get more or less rain"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"San Francisco less foggy / San Francisco more foggy"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Sea level rise accelerated / Sea level rise decelerated – full pdf"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Soil moisture less / Soil moisture more"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Squids get smaller / Squids get larger"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Stone age hunters may have triggered past warming [?] / Stone age hunters may have triggered past cooling"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Swiss mountain debris flow may increase / Swiss mountain debris flow may decrease / Swiss mountain debris flow may decrease then increase in volume"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"UK may get more droughts / UK may get more rain"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Wind speed to go up [?] / Wind speed slows down [?] / Wind speed to speed up then slow down"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Winters maybe warmer [? – ?] / Winters maybe colder"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"In other words, no matter what happens (wetter/drier, snowier/less snowy, large squids/small squids, earth rotation slowing or speeding up) it's ALL due to climate change. Everything. (You can't argue with that, can you, you science denier, you!)"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"In fact, in the whole, vast world of scientific enterprise, there's only one category of phenomena that scientists are absolutely forbidden from attributing to climate change. . . ."}},{"type":"header","data":{"text":"THE UPSHOT","level":3}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"What if you could demonstrate that the almost-imperceptible rise in global average temperature that the earth has been experiencing since the end of the Little Ice Age is not only a completely natural phenomenon driven by solar forcing, Milankovitch cycles, volcanic activity and other non-anthropogenic causes, but is actually a beneficial phenomenon?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Remarkably, that very idea has been repeatedly demonstrated in recent years . . . but you'd never know it from the nonstop doomscroll of fear porn that populates the newsfeeds of the mainstream popsci media."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Take, for example, this chart, compiled by noted climate realist Björn Lomborg:"}},{"type":"image","data":{"file":{"url":"https://thefreethoughtproject.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjA5MTY5NzY2ODAyMjY5ODA4/0a9d2790-64e3-41cf-9e60-02e667053c20_550x391.webp"},"caption":""}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"The chart should be completely uncontroversial. It is sourced from a 2021 Lancet Planetary Health article examining deaths \"associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures.\" It accurately conveys the fact that more people die of cold than die of heat each year, and that—even taking the attribution of these temperature-related deaths completely at face value—rising temperatures result in fewer deaths."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Strangely, however, the authors of that Lancet study did not appreciate their data being framed in this way. Instead, they contributed toward an attack on Lomberg and his inferences, accusing him of \"cherry-picking\" data from their study and \"misinterpreting\" its meaning."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"We see a similar thing taking place every single time some piece of evidence emerges to challenge the hell-in-a-handbasket apocalyptic doom-mongering of the climate cultists."}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"NASA itself can come out and tout a Nature Climate Change article confirming that the increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are in fact greening the earth, and NASA can then confirm that this greening is itself slowing global warming. But the fact checkers will never let good news get in the way of their scare story. OK, increasing carbon dioxide is greening the earth, the AFP Fact Checkers concede, but eventually these higher temperatures will have negative effects on vegetation. Trust us!"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Or remember when the Journal of Glaciology published a study on \"Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses,\" admitting that—contrary to the fear porn of the apocalypse-mongers—the Antarctic was actually gaining more mass from snowfall than it was losing to ice loss? And remember when the NASA doomsayers were able to transform this bad news into good news with a wave of their magic wand: \"But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"As I wrote at the time:"}},{"type":"quote","data":{"text":"

You see, the same researchers who can’t even accurately say whether the Antarctic ice sheets are gaining or losing mass (let alone how much mass) are able to determine global sea level rise to within hundredths of a millimeter. No accuracy issues there, of course. So, you can continue worrying, I suppose. (Except for that pesky little Stanford study from September showing that previous models vastly overestimated future sea level rise.)

","alignment":"left"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Yes, it seems the one thing you're not allowed to say about this \"global warming\" bogeyman is that it could ever result in anything good for anyone, anywhere at any time. If and when you do dare say so, even if you're citing true and verifiable data, you will be dismissed just as quickly by the establishment and their media mouthpieces as are those political commentators who use true and accurate information to peddle their \"malinformation\" about the evils of the US/NATO/Israeli global empire."}},{"type":"header","data":{"text":"TRUST THE SCIENCE?","level":3}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"So, where does all this leave us?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Well, I guess we have two options."}},{"type":"list","data":{"style":"ordered","items":["We can declare our cognitive sovereignty, assert our right to do our own research and refuse to be kowtowed into submission by the very scientific and technological elite that Eisenhower warned us about; or","We can believe any old contradictory mystical woo-woo bull crap about the imminent, weather-induced destruction of the world that the establishment media and government-funded academics shovel in front of our faces."]}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Given the scamdemic we have just lived through, it shouldn't be hard to determine the correct path here. But just in case you need any further convincing, consider the level of absolute nonsense now being openly promoted by the popsci media:"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"'Bad Omen': Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapses Into Pile of Rubble"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"That's right, ScienceAlert.com has just published an article informing us that an ancient stone pyramid in Mexico has collapsed because the weather gods are angry. Specifically, the article cites \"personnel from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History\" (the \"experts,\" obviously) who blame the collapse on \"extreme weather events\" and then quotes a random self-identified tribal member who's channeling his dead ancestors:"}},{"type":"quote","data":{"text":"

According to Tariakuiri Alvarez, who identifies as a living member of the P'urhépecha tribe, his ancestors would have interpreted the crumbling of the pyramid at Ihuatzio as a \"bad omen.\"

In a recent Facebook post Alvarez said that before the arrival of foreign conquerors in Mexico, something similar happened, and it was because the gods were \"displeased\".

","alignment":"left"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"And what should one do if one wants to atone for one's climate sins? Who can absolve you of your eco-transgressions against the weather gods? Why, an eco-chaplain, of course! Yes, the hard-hitting mockingbird repeaters at National Propaganda Radio helpfully inform us that a new clergy has emerged in recent years. Going by the name of \"eco-chaplains,\" they are \"a new kind of spiritual adviser rising among clergy trained in handling grief and other difficult emotions,\" although no one knows exactly how many such eco-chaplains exist or what they do, precisely. (Thanks, NPR!)"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"One can only wonder when people will snap out of this madness. What will our grandchildren think when they look back at these times and see the idiocy that was so widely believed?"}},{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"I'm not holding my breath waiting for anyone to apologize for swallowing, regurgitating, amplifying or peddling this climate nonsense. But if we could at least get to the point where \"Climate change made me do it!\" is scorned in the same way as \"The devil made me do it!\" is today, I'd call that progress."}}]}

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