minimum wage: You got the "epi," front end, now all you need is the "phany," the back end!6/23/2016 What the World Looks Like to Someone Who Doesn't Understand Economics - Cafe Hayek
See what I did there?! Heh. More after the break.
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Climate and Human Civilization for the Past 4,000 Years Global warming looks terrifying if you only look at the last 50 years or so, but if you stretch it back to 4,000, 8,000, or 12,000 years, it suddenly looks like we are attempting to regain average after a serious, if only short term deep freeze. Notice how quickly the temperature rises and falls. 4,000 Year Climate Timeline: "The Holocene Thermal Optimum ended at different times in different parts of the world, but it had ended everywhere by 4,000 BP (BP here means the number of years before 2000) and the world began to cool. The timeline shown in Figure 1 shows the GISP2 Central Greenland ice core temperature proxies in blue and the HadCRUT 4.4 surface temperature estimates for the same area in red."
The last 4,000 years shows a serious declining trend in temperature. Declining temperatures are much more damaging than are rising temperatures. Cold kills far more human, plant, and animal life than does heat. Excessively low carbon is an existential threat to life on earth, the moderate atmospheric carbon levels we live with today, are a benefit to life, and act as a natural fertilizer for plants, and thereby life. Increasing the atmospheric carbon would be a huge boon to life. Here is the timeline going back 18,000 years: Climate and Human Civilization over the last 18,000 years, updated "The timeline begins at 4,000 BP and it shows steady cooling to the Little Ice Age (roughly 1250 to 1850 AD). It is easy to see that the Roman Warm Period was cooler (at least in Greenland) than the Minoan Warm Period and the Medieval and Modern Warm Periods are cooler than the Roman Warm Period. The Little Ice Age was a horrible time for mankind according to Behringer. Glaciers advanced in the Alps and destroyed homes, it was a time of perpetual war, famines and plagues. Horrible persecutions of Jews and “witches” were common. Society was suffering from the cold and lack of food and they needed to blame someone. They chose Jews and old unmarried women unfortunately. Over 50,000 witches were burned alive. Tens of thousands of Jews were massacred. Not because there was any proof, just because someone had to suffer for the bad climate. Some people, the masses mainly, seem to need to blame someone or humanity’s sins for natural disasters. Behringer notes that in The Little Ice Age: “In a society with no concept of the accidental, there was a tendency to personalize misfortune.” Today environmental zealots assume that climate change is not only man-made but dangerous. They have no proof of either assertion, of course, but they “believe” with religious fervor in both ideas. Then we see, in Behringer’s book, the following quote from Archbishop Agobard of Lyons (769-840 AD) in his sermon “On Hail and Thunder:” “In these parts nearly everyone – nobles and common folk, town and country, young and old – believe that human beings can bring about hail and thunder…We have seen and heard how most people are gripped by such nonsense, indeed possessed by such stupidity…" * * * There are several lessons to be learned from Behringer’s book and the timeline. First, there is no perfect temperature. Man, even in pre-industrial times, adapted to a variety of temperatures and he has always done better in warm times and worse in cold times. Second, why would anyone want to go back to the pre-industrial climate? The Washington Post says the goal of the Paris Climate Conference was get the world to agree to limit global warming to less than two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures. Pre-industrial times? That’s the Little Ice Age, when it snowed in July, a time of endless war, famine and plague. According to the Greenland ice core proxy data, temperatures 180 years ago were the nearly the coldest seen since the end of the last glacial period 10,000 years ago! Why measure our success in combating anthropogenic warming, if there is any such thing, from such an unusually cold time? It makes no sense, those times were awful." Agreed, no perfect temperature, but warmer is better, more carbon is better, not just for humans, but for everything. Then again, the past 4,000 years don't seem to show any global warming, they show global cooling, dramatic cooling, pray for warm! So, ignore the nattering nabobs of CAGW negativity, and learn to love the change. California's state religion
We have written about this cancer in the California body politic before. The Official Religion of California is about to round up Witches, er, Heretics More below the break. Instapundit » Blog Archive » PROFILES IN GYNO-SUPREMACY: No wonder men are going on strike…. . . . feel free to get your bearings, it is nothing like the 19th century which you just came from. Time travelers need to take time to adjust. During this time it is best not to tweet, or make any pronouncements, they will make you look foolish. Opps, my bad, I'm too late! Per the golden rule, sweet pea, I intend to treat you just as you treat me. For you must be treating others, that would be me, just as you wish to be treated. I expect women to stop killing their children, and raping the students they are tasked to teach. These are both epidemic. By simply looking at how many mothers kill their children perhaps we can all hope that mothers will finally follow fathers in their competent treatment of their children, especially boys.
Breaking the Science: 71% of Children Killed by One Parent are Killed by Their Mothers; 60% of Victims are Boys Teach Women Not to Rape Still feeling perfect? Prat. BP 2016: Global Energy Production at a Glance
. . . now if we were subsidizing them in the trillions they might be all the way up to 10% of the global energy mix! Oh, and there is the whole problem that they don't actually reduce carbon. So, huge subsidies, failure to achieve the desired results, tiny footprint. What's not to love? Utilizing wind, and solar electrical energy generation, causes an increase in carbon emissions . . . Hearing renewable energy is useless . . . Fracking is the green energy alternative, while wind, and solar are not. We have reached peak alternative power in a system which needs dispatchable power generation systems On the other hand, moving the world to natural gas would result in a huge decrease in carbon output, without subsidies. Religion, or reality, you will need to make a choice. Hat tip: We Don't Need No ... - Small Dead Animals A measured response to the Progressive Attorney's General climate change litigation abuses6/18/2016 AG’s striking back at #ExxonKnew and #RICO20 say – “we can come after climate alarmists for fraud, too”
"If Democratic attorneys general can pursue climate change skeptics for fraud, then also at risk of prosecution are climate alarmists whose predictions of global doom have failed to materialize. The “cuts both ways” argument was among those raised by 13 Republican attorneys general in a letter urging their Democratic counterparts to stop using their law enforcement power against fossil fuel companies and others that challenge the climate change catastrophe narrative." This clearly delineates these AG's as religious adherents to a malignant secular religion, who will brook no apostasy, heretics, or unbelievers. Your ideas will conform or you will be sanctioned, today, tomorrow, re-educated, and the day after murdered. This path is well trod, and clear. Below the fold is the full text of the letter: Gore Takes Global Warming Message to Congress
Unfortunately for "Little" Al, the science is not settled the way he wanted. Is Climate Science Settled Because It Cannot Be Settled? More below the fold. The End of the Free-Speech Consensus | The American Spectator
21st century California apes the 17th century?! More California lunacy below the fold. Friday Funny: Study claiming psychotic traits linked to conservatism gets reversed–finds liberalism more likely to have those traits
This is beyond funny it is hilarious. Unfortunately it is hilarious with our money, and it is a magnificent waste of our money. More below. High-Fat Mediterranean Diet Does Not Lead to Weight Gain
Healthy diets don't lead to weight gain, who could have guessed. It seems that the FDA can't catch a break. Nearly all of the FDA's advice for the past 50 years has been wrong, no reason to expect a change anytime soon. No reason to start listening to them now. Here is one of my prior articles on the FDA and food. Salt |
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