- urbi et orbi
To videoer om samme emne – en kort og en lang. Fra 7. maj 2012:
Ezra Levant: Ethical Oil or Conflict Oil
Ezra challenges the West-hating NGOs to spend a small fraction of their efforts criticizing the scumbags who supply most of the world’s oil, not Canada.
Foredrag fra Economic Developers Alberta 11. – 13. april 2012:
Ezra Levant – EDA Conference 2012
Ezra Levant – TV anchor, newspaper columnist and author speaks about “Ethical Oil” at a keynote address at the 2012 EDA Professional Conference.
Der kommer hele tiden rapporter om valgsvindel i USA, sære Acorn aktiviteter, ligesom der er en lind strøm af beretninger, der fortæller at præsident Obama er endnu mere rød end ellers antaget. Anita Moncrief beretter om alle tre dele:
Anita Moncrief at C-PAC
Part 1 of Anita Moncrief’s speech at Americans For Prosperity Foundation’s Suite Tea Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart in Orlando, Florida, September 23, 2011.
Part 2 of Anita Moncrief’s speech at Americans For Prosperity Foundation’s Suite Tea Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart in Orlando, Florida, September 23, 2011.
Der er ikke meget nyt i denne Scruton-video, men jeg var lige i humør til lidt Scruton her i formiddag:
Roger Scruton – The Importance of Locality
Roger Scruton (philosopher, author of more than 30 books, including works of criticism, political theory and aesthetics, novels and short stories) opened the event with a discussion of the importance of locality and local loyalties in motivating English society. From Wildlife Trust Seminar – Winners and Losers: thinking seriously about Wildlife Conservation in the UK today at Churchill College, Cambridge on 28th March 2012.
Interviewet her stammer egentlig fra The Wall Street Journal, men skal læses hos AEI fordi WSJ har låst det inde:
Roger Scruton: Want to Save the Planet? Turn Right
Roger Scruton, Britain’s foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers. .
By Ramond Zhong – April 13, 2012 – Brinkworth, England
Environmentalists might think they’ve scored an unlikely ally in Roger Scruton, arguably Britain’s most famous philosopher—and a proud conservative. But Mr. Scruton’s case for environmentalism is classically conservative, centered on the love of home, the importance of local institutions, and especially the suspicion of state power.
With “How to Think Seriously About the Planet” (out next month in the U.S.), Mr. Scruton casts his lot with environmentalism but not with the contemporary environmentalist movement. The book is something of a cry in the wilderness, keeping wary distance from all sides of the current political debate. “It’s an attempt,” as he puts it, “to say, ‘Look, wake up, here is what it’s all about really.’”
Mere HER hos AEI. Og lige et par gode citater:
“Conservatism, Mr. Scruton wrote, had been “betrayed by the free marketeers” and misunderstood by almost everyone on the left and right”
“And there’s always some sense on the left that power is in the wrong hands”
Roger Scruton
Andre kilder: The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, Gds44′s Blog, The American Spectator,
Der er ingen Global Opvarmning – pressemeddelelse:
49 former NASA scientists go ballistic over agency’s bias over climate change
[...] 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent the following letter asking the agency to move away from climate models and to limit its stance to what can be empirically proven.
[...] We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.
The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.
As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.
For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.
Mere HER i The National Post (mit fremhæv).
The Ideology Of Catastrophe
Pascal Bruckner – 10 April 2012
A time-honored strategy of cataclysmic discourse, whether performed by preachers or by propagandists, is the retroactive correction. This technique consists of accumulating a staggering amount of horrifying news and then—at the end—tempering it with a slim ray of hope. First you break down all resistance; then you offer an escape route to your stunned audience.
As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of Brussels to stare at the mammoth object growing before their eyes. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by—but first, a strange old man, Professor Philippulus, dressed in a white sheet and wearing a long beard, appears, beating a gong and crying: “This is a punishment; repent, for the world is ending!”
We smile at the silliness of this scene from the Tintin comic strip “L’Étoile Mystérieuse,” published in Belgium in 1941. Yet it is also familiar, since so many people in both Europe and the United States have recently convinced themselves that the End is nigh. Professor Philippulus has managed to achieve power in governments, the media and high places generally. Constantly, he spreads fear: of progress, science, demographics, global warming, technology, food. In five years or in 10 years, temperatures will rise, Earth will be uninhabitable, natural disasters will multiply, the climate will bring us to war, and nuclear plants will explode.
Mere HER hos Global Warming Policy Foundation. City Journal her.
The Population Control Holocaust
Robert Zubrin – Spring 2012
There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity. The founding prophet of modern antihumanism is Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), who offered a pseudoscientific basis for the idea that human reproduction always outruns available resources. Following this pessimistic and inaccurate assessment of the capacity of human ingenuity to develop new resources, Malthus advocated oppressive policies that led to the starvation of millions in India and Ireland.
While Malthus’s argument that human population growth invariably leads to famine and poverty is plainly at odds with the historical evidence, which shows global living standards rising with population growth, it nonetheless persisted and even gained strength among intellectuals and political leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its most pernicious manifestation in recent decades has been the doctrine of population control, famously advocated by ecologist Paul Ehrlich, whose bestselling 1968 antihumanist tract The Population Bomb has served as the bible of neo-Malthusianism. In this book, Ehrlich warned of overpopulation and advocated that the American government adopt stringent population control measures, both domestically and for the Third World countries that received American foreign aid. (Ehrlich, it should be noted, is the mentor of and frequent collaborator with John Holdren, President Obama’s science advisor.)
Mere HER hos The New Atlantis.
Growing Out of Poverty
A World Bank report makes clear how free markets—and U.S. leadership—have led millions to better lives.
9 April 2012 – Guy Sorman
The most significant events often escape media attention. How many would know from reading their daily newspaper or watching television that we live in an unprecedented economic period when the number of people living in extreme poverty is declining fast? According to a just-published World Bank report, the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 per day—or its local equivalent—has plummeted from 52 percent of the global population in 1981 to 22 percent in 2008. The World Bank doesn’t provide more recent data, but other indices show that the 2008 financial crisis did not interrupt this trend. For millions of households, crossing the symbolic $1.25 threshold means leaving destitution behind and moving toward a more dignified life—no trivial achievement. Moreover, this escape from poverty happens while the global population continues to grow. Doomsday prophets who warned about a ticking “population bomb” have not been vindicated, to say the least. Global warming messiahs, beware: human ingenuity proves able to cope with the predicaments of Mother Nature.
Mere HER i City Journal.
The Utter Desperation of Global Warmists
Alan Caruba – April 9, 2012
In the “glory years” of the global warming hoax, you had Al Gore picking up Oscars and Nobel Prizes (shared with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and government employees like James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies were picking up wads of cash as awards, speech fees, and grants.
The folks who conjured up the computer models featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports also did quite well for themselves, along with all the others who climbed on the gravy train of global warming grants.
And then in 1998 a cooling cycle set in. It was hard to hide because the weather satellite data was indisputable, but try to hide it they did. Even then, however, there was a handful of outspoken meteorologists and climatologists who were trying hard to get out the message that the perfectly natural warming cycle was over and had been replaced, thanks to—guess what?—a lower output of solar radiation by the SUN.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Is this finally proof we’re NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study
- Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
- Warming was far-reaching and NOT limited to Europe
- Throws doubt on orthodoxies around ‘global warming’
By Ted Thornhill | 26 March 2012
Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times areas as far apart as Europe and Antarctica both warmed up.
It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.
A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail.
Totalitaristerne er i panik – The Daily Mail:
Og så var der den Nobelpris. Hvor bliver den af? Vi venter:
Are global climate changes caused by cycles of cosmic rays?
Cliff Harris – April 2, 2012
Ever since Henrik Svensmark explained his theory concerning the connection between cosmic rays and the formation of clouds in 1996 in Copen-hagen, Denmark, I’ve received at least 100 emails and letters on the possible ‘dawn of the cosmic ray era’ in climate science.
Earlier in March, Jerry Boyd sent me this email on cosmic rays. I found his conclusions very interesting to say the least. Here’s what he wrote:
Mere HER i Coeur d’Alene Press.
UN Global Environmental Constitution: Repressive System of Global Governance
March 20, 2012
Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws. This document has a working title of “Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” and you can read the entire thing right here. Work on this proposed world environmental constitution has been going on since 1995, and the fourth edition was issued to UN member states on September 22nd, 2010.
This document is intended to become a permanent binding treaty and it would establish an incredibly repressive system of global governance. This “covenant”, as it is being called, claims authority over the entire global environment and everything that affects it. Considering the fact that everything that we do affects the environment in some way, that would mean that this document would become the highest form of law for all human activity. This proposed UN environmental constitution for the world is incredibly detailed. The U.S. Constitution only has 7 articles, but the UN document has 79 articles. If the U.S. eventually ratifies this treaty, any national, state or local laws that conflict with this covenant will be null and void. This is potentially one of the greatest threats to our national sovereignty that we have ever seen and we need to warn the American people about it.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters eller her hos The American Dream.
Andre kilder: PowerLine, The Hill, Ræson, Ingeniøren, Ingeniøren, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Fox News, The National Post, The Deal, NoTricksZone, The Daily Caller, Canada Free Press, Infowars, CBS Los Angeles,
Et essay. Lyder som historien om Ørestaden. Arkitekter og planøkonomer kan ødelægge hvad som helst. Ørestaden er den inkarnerede grimhed, men det kulturradikale segment sidder jo på “narrativet” i pressen og støtter vennerne. Vi har ingen Scruton herhjemme, der kan komme med et par borgerlige ord:
A plea for beauty: a manifesto for a new urbanism
Roger Scruton | March 29, 2012
Our culture is a culture of cities, and without cities we could not conceivably have enjoyed the enormous scientific, economic, and political advances of the Enlightenment. Cities are also the heart of the modern nation state, and every country that modernizes does so by mass migration from country to city. No environmental problem is more important, therefore, than that posed by the degradation of our cities, and we must reflect on the factors that might prevent or reverse the decay that we are witnessing. To fight the blight, some policymakers have embraced urban planning. Although some successful examples of planned cities exist, such planning has often failed to produce city centers where people want to live or spend leisure time. To plan or not to plan is a false choice. Instead, civic leaders should think in terms of fostering beauty through the use of aesthetic constraints. These constraints may help reduce sprawl and make American city centers attractive homes—in the vein of great European cities such as Paris and Florence—rather than deserted eyesores.
Key points in this Outlook:
- The decline of American cities, which saps the nation’s social, cultural, economic, and political vitality, is due largely to the ugliness of their centers.
- Neither market solutions nor centralized master planning can save our cities.
- Urban renewal depends on attracting the middle class with the kind of beauty that flourishes in cities and obeying aesthetic side constraints that create a sense of settlement.
Mere HER hos The American Enterprise Institute – AEI. Om pseudo-videnskab:
Brain drain
Roger Scruton – 17 March 2012
Neuroscience wants to be the answer to everything. It isn’t
There are many reasons for believing the brain is the seat of consciousness. Damage to the brain disrupts our mental processes; specific parts of the brain seem connected to specific mental capacities; and the nervous system, to which we owe movement, perception, sensation and bodily awareness, is a tangled mass of pathways, all of which end in the brain. This much was obvious to Hippocrates. Even Descartes, who believed in a radical divide between soul and body, acknowledged the special role of the brain in tying them together.
The discovery of brain imaging techniques has given rise to the belief that we can look at people’s thoughts and feelings, and see how ‘information’ is ‘processed’ in the head. The brain is seen as a computer, ‘hardwired’ by evolution to deal with the long vanished problems of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and operating in ways that are more transparent to the person with the scanner than to the person being scanned. Our own way of understanding ourselves must therefore be replaced by neuroscience, which rejects the whole enterprise of a specifically ‘humane’ understanding of the human condition.
Mere HER i The Spectator.
Andre kilder: Conservative Home, ABC Radio,
Fra Sun News 31. marts 2012:
Michael Coren with Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn joins Michael Coren to discuss Trayvon Martin, the Toulouse Terrorist, Justin Trudeau vs Patrick Brazeau, Human Achievement Day, and, of course, Burkina Faso.
Et lille interview:
Q&A: Mark Steyn
by Phil Morgan on March 29, 2012
commentator Mark Steyn is awfully concerned about America’s future. He’s Hillsdale’s Eugene Pulliam Visiting Fellow in Journalism and will be teaching a two-week class “How to Write a Column.” He shared his thoughts on how much of a weirdo Rick Santorum is, what’s wrong with the Hunger Games, and why there is nothing like a good game of polo with a goat’s head.
PM: In a piece you wrote on Rick Santorum called “Weird Politics” you describe him as weird because he has traditional values. Are people who are traditional really considered weird today?
MS: It was interesting. Anytime I went into an ABC show all the people said, “How can Rick Santorum be a credible presidential candidate? He’s so weird.” Then I actually asked what’s weird about him. He’s weird because he believes marriage is between a man and a woman. He’s weird because the family is the basic building block of society. In fact, it was non-weird for almost all of human history. What’s interesting to me is not Santorum’s weirdness, but the fact that so much of what he says is now presumed to be weird. I think he’s right on the basic issue, which is that the crisis America faces is not primarily an accounting problem or a bookkeeping problem. We’re broke for a reason. This country is the most broke nation in history because it is not the republic of limited government and self-reliant citizenry De Tocqueville observed two centuries ago. So he’s right in the extent that the [financial] brokenness is a symptom of the problem not the problem and in that sense I don’t find Santorum half as weird as 90 percent of his critics.
Mere HER i The Hillsdale Collegian. Omtalte artikel er denne i National Review Online:
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Earth Hour? Nej tak!
Human Achievement Hour: March 31 8:30 pm
Join Ezra Levant this Saturday March 31, 2012 at 8:30 to celebrate human achievement.
UKIP har lavet denne video om EUs skadevirkninger. Luk lortet:
EU politics begins at home
Is your local councillor really representing you? How local democracy is bypassed by rubber stamp.
Andre kilder: This is Kent,
Ja, jeg har set video hele søndagen, det bruger vi jo meget her på stedet. Nedenfor kommer noget af det, jeg valgte at se undervejs i mit klima-flip. Fedt interview med Monckton – fra 14. marts 2012:
Lord Christopher Monckton: The Courtier’s Conundrum
Brian Lilley & John Robson – fra 5. marts 2012:
Lilley & Robson on Climate Change Craziness
“The science is settled!” gets kookier and kookier.
Peter Diamandis og Tim Cavanaugh i Reason TV den 15. marts 2012::
Why The Future Is Better Than You Think
Can a Masai Warrior in Africa today communicate better than Ronald Reagan could? If he’s on a cell phone, Peter Diamandis says he can.
Peter Diamandis is the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, which offers big cash prizes “to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.” Reason’s Tim Cavanaugh sat down to talk with Peter about his new book Abundance and why he think we live in an “incredible time”, but no one realizes it. Peter thinks that there are some powerful human forces combined with technological advancements that are transforming the world for the better.
“The challenge is that the rate of innovation is so fast…” Peter says, “the government can’t keep up with it.” If the government tries to play “catch up” with regulations and policy, the technology with just go overseas. Certain inovations in “food, water, housing, health, education is getting better and better.” Peter “hopes we are not going to be in a situation where, entrenched interests are preventing the consumer from having better health care.”
Matt Ridley
English biologist and journalist Matt Ridley talks about our “collective brain.” This address, which was delivered on February 1, 2012, was one in a series of lectures that are sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University and named after the economist Friedrich Hayek.
Og næste – introduktion ved Christopher Monckton:
Repeal the Climate Change Act
Revised part 1 of 2 Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act Prof Richard S. Lindzen Seminar Held at the UK House of Commons on the 22nd February 2012
(Part 2 of 2) Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act – Prof Richard S. Lindzen Seminar (Global Warming: How to approach the science) held at the House of Commons Committee Rooms Westminster. London on the 22nd February 2012.
Questions & Answers Session following MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen’s seminar on Reconsidering the Climate Change Act Global Warming: How to approach the science (Climate models and the evidence ?) at the UK House of Commons in Committee Room 14 held on the 22nd of February 2012.
De to næste videoer: Philip Stott, Ian Plimer, Donna Laframboise, Ruth Lea, Matt Ridley:
Climate Change Act Reconsidered I
A public meeting held in the UK House of Commons on the 30th of November 2011
Climate Change Act Reconsidered II
Og artikler – Fakegate:
Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning
Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs.
Mar 5, 2012 • By Steven F. Hayward
The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics—the Chicago-based Heartland Institute—turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.
In an obvious attempt to inflict a symmetrical Climategate-style scandal on the skeptic community, someone representing himself as a Heartland Institute insider “leaked” internal documents for Heartland’s most recent board of directors meeting to a fringe environmental blog, along with a photocopy of a supposed Heartland “strategy memo” outlining a plan to disseminate a public school curriculum aimed at “dissuading teachers from teaching science.”
Mere HER i The Weekly Standard. The Global Warming Policy Foundation har den her. Den næste artikel omhandler en reel trussel:
The Giant, Underestimated Earthquake Threat to North America
The enormous fault off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has been silent for three centuries. But after years of detective work, geologists have discovered that it can unleash mayhem on an epic scale.
by Jerry Thompson – March 13, 2012
From the Extreme Earth special issue
Just over one year ago, a magnitude-9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years. The Japanese—the most earthquake-prepared, seismically savvy people on the planet—were caught off-guard by the Tohoku quake’s savage power. Over 15,000 people died.
Now scientists are calling attention to a dangerous area on the opposite side of the Ring of Fire, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that runs parallel to the Pacific coast of North America, from northern California to Vancouver Island. This tectonic time bomb is alarmingly similar to Tohoku, capable of generating a megathrust earthquake at or above magnitude 9, and about as close to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver as the Tohoku fault is to Japan’s coast. Decades of geological sleuthing recently established that although it appears quiet, this fault has ripped open again and again, sending vast earthquakes throughout the Pacific Northwest and tsunamis that reach across the Pacific.
What happened in Japan will probably happen in North America. The big question is when.
Mere HER i Discover Magazine. Outside Magazine skrev om “The Great Cascadia Earthquake” i august 2011:
Dying to be Green
by Daniel Greenfield on Mar 2nd, 2012
Some 8,000 people die in the UK every year due to what is being called “fuel poverty” or, more simply, when it costs too much to heat your home. Naturally the left is already on the case, staging “die-ins” outside energy companies and demanding that carbon credits be used to make homes “super-energy efficient.”
Left out of the equation is that rising fuel prices can in no small part be attributed to the environmental mania which is at the heart of the movement. It isn’t oil and gas companies that are killing the elderly with high fuel prices. It’s carbon mania and environmentalism. Energy companies are not run by saints, but they don’t have an interest in putting oil and gas prices out of reach of ordinary people. It’s hard to sell home heat to the dead or the destitute. On the other hand environmentalists do indeed have that agenda.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Canada Free Press her.
Gone With the Wind
Bjørn Lomborg – 16 Mar 12
Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy. As a result, the use of wind turbines has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with wind power often touted as the most cost-effective green opportunity. According to Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action, “People should believe that [wind power] is very, very cheap.”
In fact, this is a highly problematic claim. While wind energy is cheaper than other, more ineffective renewables, such as solar, tidal, and ethanol, it is nowhere near competitive. If it were, we wouldn’t have to keep spending significant sums to subsidize it.
Mere HER hos Project Syndicate.
Opdatering – Nej, det er ikke en aprilsnar:
Danske forskere finder fejl i klimamodel
18.03.12
Global opvarmning slår knapt så hårdt ved Middelhavet år 2100. Det bliver “kun” 3-4 grader varmere i regionen.
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.
Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Spectator, CNS News, Foreign Policy, The University of Western Ontario Department of Applied Mathematics, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, Energy Tribune, Watts Up With That?, TED2012, DR, Information, Ræson,
Det her angreb på venstrefløjen er superfedt:
Ezra Levant on anti-industry Luddites
Originally broadcast Feb 22, 2012.
Det er alvorligt, det her. Frygtelige billeder fra sidste uge:
Romania Villages Buried in 13-16 Feet of Snow – 2012
Professor Henrik Svensmark svarer på kritik – tril lidt ned inde hos Die Kalte Sonne for at finde den engelske version:
Some people, including your critic Florian Freistetter on ScienceBlog, seem to think that physics is a democratic process and what matters is to count how many papers favour or disfavour each hypothesis. That of course is nonsense. All that really signifies is the evidence from observations and experiments, and how a theory stands up to attempts to falsify it. Remember Einstein’s comment on the pamphlet Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein (1931) – “If I were wrong, one would be enough”.
Mere HER hos Die Kalte Sonne.
The Global Warming Hoax is Now Killing People
Alan Caruba – February 14, 2012
By Friday, February 10th, an estimated 500 Europeans had died from the freezing weather gripping the continent. This is the price they and British citizens are paying for embracing the global warming hoax, spending billions for wind power when they should have been building coal-fired and other sources of energy to heat their homes and businesses.
As the British daily, The Telegraph, reported on Friday, “Serbia has started implementing power cuts in a desperate bid to stave off the collapse of its national grid as the country suffers the effects of days of freezing temperatures.”
I and others have been warning for years that the Earth has been cooling since 1998 and that the planet is on the cusp of a new ice age because the average length of an interglacial period of warmth between such ages is now coming to an end after the passage of some 11,500 years.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Tragedy Unfolding in Europe – Is U.S. Media Trying to Ignore It?
Robert W. Felix – February 17, 2012
The cold snap in Europe, which began in late January, has killed hundreds and brought deep snow where it hasn’t been seen in decades,” says this article in the Seattle Times.
This should be front page news. Instead, the article doesn’t appear until page eight. And the title, “At least 3 killed in avalanche in Kosovo,” belies the seriousness of the situation. (The print version carries a different headline: “Cold snap, snow lock down Europe.”)
How about a headline that tells it like it is?
140,000 trapped by snow – Death toll rises past 550.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Big freeze tightens its grip on Europe
4th February 2012
The big freeze has tightened its grip on Europe. The death toll has risen as temperatures have dropped and snow has swept across the continent from the east.
In Ukraine, at least 101 people have lost their lives. Supermarkets are short of food as trucks struggle to make deliveries.
A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Serbia where the high winds and snow are set to continue. Emergency services are battling to reach remote areas with vital food supplies.
Europe Snow Freezes Global Warming Claims
Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her hos CBN. Dale Hurd orienterer – fra 7. februar 2012:
Opdatering 21. februar 2012:
The compelling case against Ed Davey
By Melanie Phillips on 7th February 2012
True to my warning yesterday in the Daily Mail, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has dashed the naive hope that he would end the Coalition’s suicidal green fanaticism and return Britain to Planet Reality over man-made global warming. As the Times (£) reported today, he used his first few hours in his new job to tell the 100+ Tory MPs who are in revolt over wind farms effectively to take a running jump. Insisting he was a ‘lifelong supporter’ of wind power, he argued that the case for it was ‘compelling’ and that Britain’s energy production must be ‘clean and green’.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.
Cameron has the chance to end the scourge of wind turbines
By Melanie Phillips on 6th February 2012
With remarkably prescient timing, more than 100 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the onshore wind turbine industry should be ‘dramatically cut’.
The MPs warn that it is unwise to force consumers to pay such subsidies for a form of energy production that they claim is ‘inefficient and intermittent’.
They also worry that the Government’s new planning policy will diminish the chances of local people defeating unpopular onshore wind farm proposals through the planning system.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.
Andre kilder: The Seattle Times, Idaho Statesman, Orange County Register, NoTricksZone, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, CFACT, CFACT, Der Spiegel, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, TV2, BBC,
Opdateret
På YouTube uploades der omkring 50 videoer med Farage hver dag. Halvtreds! Og Farage plejer at få ret. Det gør denne video ret uhyggelig – 15. februar 2012:
Nigel Farage There is a Troika Running Greece, Not A Democracy
Fra 16. februar 2012:
Austerity is a “mutual suicide pact”
Austerity is “mutual suicide pact” – Interview with Nigel Farage EFD Co-President
Fra 15. februar 2012:
Saving the Cancer: ‘Greece sacrificed in name of dying EU’
Greek party leaders have sent written commitments to Brussels saying they will stick to the agreed austerity measures even after the general elections in April. There are still EU demands Athens failed to fulfill, which led to the cancellation of a key meeting of Eurozone finance ministers. Greece is still struggling to secure the second bailout from its international creditors, without which it’s due to default next month.
For more on that RT talks to MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage.
Fra 15. februar 2012:
Nigel Farage, “I think we’re heading for a revolution of some kind in Greece”
Mere følgetekst under videoen:
Today was supposed to be a meeting of EU Finance ministers to push through the bailout of Papademos’ technocrat led government in Greece. This decision cam after the Greek parliament already passed brutal new austerity measures and privatization plans while their people were outside rioting and burning the center of the ancient city to ashes, including the historic Attikon theater to the ground. The violence perpetrated against the protestors as well as the violence perpetrated by the protestors was extreme, and Papademos stated in Parliament that such violence “has no place in a democracy.” Unfortunately, Greece has ceased to be a democracy according to Nigel Farage. He gave a speech before the European Parliament this morning, where he took the TROIKA to task for acting like an imperial power, pressing its boot on the throat of the Greek people. The TROIKA meanwhile, has told Greek “leaders” that it needs more assurances from them. Antonis Samaras for one, has been backpedaling ever since the referendum call made by George Papandreou late last year, and his latest attempt to straddle the lines of public opinion and troika financing ruffled some feathers with his creditors. He was forced afterwards to write a letter to them committing himself to the recent memorandum after alarming eurozone leaders when he said he may seek to renegotiate the terms of the bailout after the next elections in the spring. And adding insult to injury, German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble said in a radio interview that nothing short of a technocratic government like that of Monti’s may be required to stem the crisis in Greece.
So what is going on here? What are these Greek politicians doing? What are they thinking? We have been so used to politicians always doing what is in their electoral interests — making sure, first and foremost, that they get reelected — but now they are doing the opposite of this, and all this in the face of INTENSE political and physical pressure: literally. An angry mob recently chucked molotov cocktails at the residence of the Greek president, and as recently as this Sunday night, a mob of Greeks amassed beneath the apartment building of Kostas Simitis, the former Greek prime minister from the late 90′s and early 2000′s chanting traitor and urging him to come out and face their ire. And this social unrest has political consequences that go further than just the daily electoral grind. Recent polls in Greece show that not only are the major parties losing support, but the minor, fringe parties are gaining steam, including a far right-wing party known as New Dawn (ΧΡΥΣΗ ΑΥΓΗ) which is a hairs away from getting enough support to receive seats in parliament. Is there a risk that greek politics could indeed become radicalized in ways that will make a eurzone exit seem the least of the countries worries? And what about the possibility that all this rage towards the political class could lead to assassinations of leaders? Assassinations of politicians as we have seen not only in Europe before, but in Greece as well?
Og audio fra King World News 15. februar 2012:
Nigel Farage – Greece Descending into Total Chaos & Violence
With the situation in Greece becoming extraordinarily dangerous, today Nigel Farage told King World News that Greece is nearing a full blown revolution. He also said a former distinguished Greek Ambassador is telling him that people with assets are now buying rifles and preparing to defend their properties. Here is what Farage had to say about Greece descending into utter chaos: “I have spoken on this Greek subject repeatedly, and on the Sunday just gone it was a very dramatic day because the Parliament held a session to vote on whether they would accept the new bailout package. There were a couple of very interesting things that happened there. Before the vote took place there were 80,000 people on the streets, outside the Greek Parliament, basically attempting to storm the Parliament.”
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 13 minutter.
Andre kilder: Russia Today, King World News,
Lidt af hvert her. I den første video hører man Scruton sige: “Well, the answer was to send them back home but you can’t say that”. Og ja, det er dem, Scruton taler om:
Roger Scruton on Moral Relativism
A conversation with Roger Scruton at Gerbeaud Cafe in Budapest, Hungary on the topic of moral relativism. Hosted by the Common Sense Society on January 25, 2012.
Audio fra RSA – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce:
Green Philosophy
RSA Keynote – 18th Jan 2012
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources.
In his new book ‘Green Philosophy’, philosopher Roger Scruton argues that this way of thinking is fallacious, and poses a danger to the ecosystems on which we all depend.
Instead, he believes that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism, and argues that rather than entrusting the environment to NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local sovereignty.
People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as a home, and to affirm themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics.
The current environmental movement directs its energies at the bigger picture but fails to see that environmental problems are generated and resolved by ordinary people – and that there is an alternative path that we can take which could ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.
Speaker: Roger Scruton, writer, philosopher and author of ‘Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet’ (Atlantic Books, 2012).
Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 46 minutter. Australske ABC Radio har lavet en udsendelse om ovenstående, men den består mest af klip fra foredraget. Audio fra 30. januar 2012 kan findes her eller her på ABCs hjemmeside.
Og en meget gammel sag fra BBC 2003 – Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards:
Nature
Og artikler:
How conservatives can help to tackle climate change
Treaty-chasing is a futile waste of time and resources – the search for clean energy begins at home
Roger Scruton – 14 February 2012
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored. The solution is to give space to the rival tendency in human nature, which is to take charge of costs, when the costs affect one’s home. So my book Green Philosophy is an exploration of the motive I call “oikophilia”, the love of home. The propensity for settlement and stewardship is at the heart of conservative philosophy, I argue, and ought to be at the heart of Conservative politics, too.
Mere HER i The Guardian.
Schubert is needed now more than ever
The composer’s musical legacy contains more consolation for our loneliness than any other human creation.
By Roger Scruton – 11 Feb 2012
Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, writing string quartets that can be set beside the greatest of Haydn and Mozart, symphonies that stand comparison with Beethoven, and works for piano that paved the way for Schumann and Chopin. His String Quintet in C major is perhaps the most beautiful piece of chamber music ever composed, while his 600 songs represent a flow of unaffected melody without compare in the history of music. He died aged 31 in 1828, leaving nearly 1,000 compositions, nearly all of which are marked by his distinctive genius.
Mere HER i The Telegraph. Synopsis-Olsen har oversat den næste artikel til dansk:
Den engelske version følger her:
Paying the Price
By Roger Scruton from the December 2011 – January 2012 issue
There’s no question but that a Greece should be “allowed” to default.
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell’s aphorism is of special relevance to us now, when we discover that, without the matter having been discussed or put to the vote, the most important economic decisions are in the hands of politicians. Democratic politicians secure their following by making economic promises–basically to steal from the few in order to reward the many. And in order to protect themselves from the cost of this they set up supposedly independent economic bodies, like the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the European Central Bank, which they place in the hands of political appointees. In all the excitement over Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s adventures in a New York hotel the media seems to have forgotten to ask the most important question: how was it that a politician, and one of the French sofa-socialist persuasion, should be in charge of the IMF? What conceivable attribute could have qualified him for such a position? Granted that a gargantuan libido might sometimes be useful in politics, in what way could it possibly contribute to the process of maintaining equilibrium in the world economy, and compensating where possible for the rash promises of politicians?
Mere HER i The American Spectator.
Årets hidtil bedste grin:
The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?
January 31, 2012 – by Zombie
I just finished reading a terrifying new book about climate change. I learned this:
- Climate change is happening faster than we realize and it will have catastrophic consequences for mankind.
- There’s very little we can do to stop it at this late stage, but we might be able to save ourselves if we immediately take these necessary and drastic steps:
- Increase our reliance on alternative energy sources and stop using so much oil and other carbon-based fuels;
- Adopt energy-efficient practices in all aspects of our lives, however inconvenient;
- Impose punitive taxes on inefficient or polluting activities to discourage them;
- Funnel large sums of money from developed nations like the U.S. to Third World nations;
- In general embrace all environmental causes.You of course recognize these as the solutions most often recommended to ameliorate the looming crisis of Global Warming. But there’s a little glitch in my narrative. Because although the book I read was indeed about climate change, it wasn’t about Global Warming at all; it was instead about “The Coming of the New Ice Age,” and it isn’t exactly “new” — it was published in 1977.
Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.
Fra Sun News TV den 26. januar 2012. Patrick Moore er en af Greenpeace’s grundlæggere:
Ezra Levant Interviews Patrick Moore
Interessant, men helt enig er jeg nu ikke…
Venstrefløjens journalister må være ulykkelige. Deres syndebuk, “folk”, har ikke gjort noget forkert. Det tonser løs med nyheder, telegrammer og artikler, der siger, at global opvarming er fup. Hele 16 forfattere her:
No Need to Panic About Global Warming
January 27, 2012
There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy.
Editor’s Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article:
A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about “global warming.” Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.
In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: “I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: ‘The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.’ In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?”
Mere HER i The Wall Street Journal. Og en til:
Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
- Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years
By David Rose on 29th January 2012
The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century. Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail.
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“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
Kevin Trenberth
Andre kilder: The Daily Mail, Family Security Matters, Stonegate Institute, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten,
BBC skriver på sin hjemmeside, at denne audio er tilgængelig indtil år 2099. Det tror jeg så ikke lige på, men jeg linker til den alligevel:
Night Waves
Matthew Sweet talks to Roger Scruton about his new book, Green Philosophy. He argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism.
W G Sebald is a writer whose reputation in Britain has soared to almost cult like status since his death in 2001. With the release of a new documentary, Amanda Hopkinson and Kevin Jackson discuss his legacy.
Susannah Clapp is here with a first night review of Nicholas Wright’s new play, Travelling Light, which stars Antony Sher as a film director looking back at his childhood.
And, as the debate over Scottish Independence continues we consider the notion of being Scottish.
Startes HER eller her – åbner BBCs hjemmeside.
Nature, nurture and liberal values
Roger Scruton – 25th January 2012
Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses
Human beings are diverse and live in diverse ways. Should we accept that we are diverse by nature, having followed separate evolutionary paths? Or should we suppose that we share our biological inheritance, but develop differently according to environment and culture? Over recent years scientific research has reshaped this familiar “nature-nurture” debate, which remains central to our understanding of human nature and morality.
Mere HER i Prospect Magazine. Og et lille interview:
World of Roger Scruton, writer and philosopher
By Georgia Dehn – 27 Jan 2012
The prolific author talks to Georgia Dehn about his daily routine, activism, education and the pleasure of drinking wine.
Mere HER i The Telegraph.
Og om skrupskøre miljøaktivister:
Ezra Levant live from the Northern Gateway hearings
John Coleman skærer det ud i pap: der er ingen global opvarmning. Mange gode folk medvirker her – fra januar 2010:
Global Warming – The Other Side
KUSI meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman, John Coleman explains the science and controversy surrounding Global Warming.
CONTENT
Segment 1 Carbon dioxide, CO2, does not cause significant warming of the Earth.
Segment 2 The amazing story of how Al Gore and the U.N. became involved in global warming.
Segment 3 The global warming frenzy is full of dire predictions. This segment debunks them.
Segment 4 Breaking news! Climategate comes to the United States!
Segment 5 John Coleman’s summation of the global warming debate.
Jeg ved ikke, hvorfor denne her video ikke allerede findes på nærværende blog, men sådan er det åbenbart. Fra Intercollegiate Studies Institute den 7. oktober 2007:
Roger Scruton – Forgiveness and Irony: What Makes the West Strong
Roger Scruton, British Author, Philosopher, and Columnist University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada – 10/7/2007
Scruton har en artikel fra 2009 om samme emne i City Journal:
Og et lille interview:
The Books Interview: Roger Scruton
Jonathan Derbyshire – 09 January 2012
Can you sum up the case for a conservative environmentalism that you make in your new book, Green Philosophy?
I’m trying to plot the structure of our thinking about environmental questions and to distinguish the positive ways of thinking from those that are dead ends. I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much prefer bottom-up solutions.
You’re not a climate-change sceptic – but is there a reason why those who are sceptical usually place themselves on the right?
I go into this in the book. I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage. And if things go wrong, you change it. They tend to exaggerate the extent of human capacities and turn a blind eye to fate and to the power of nature.
Mere HER i The New Statesman. Og endnu et angreb på pseudo-forskning, den såkaldte neurovidenskab:
Persons and their Brains – Roger Scruton
The United Nations, New York – September 11, 2009 Toward a Common Morality
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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