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Climate change hysteria is the smokescreen for communism’s advancement in America

  
Via:  XXJefferson51  •  5 years ago  •  91 comments

By:   JD Rucker

Climate change hysteria is the smokescreen for communism’s advancement in America
But just as these people willfully ignore actual scientific data in favor of the pseudo-science cited by their movement, so too have they willfully ignored the fact that the only possible “solution” to the climate change “problem” is giving up everything: Our property, our rights, and ability to act as individuals. But that has changed. Many have stopped ignoring this fact and have started embracing it instead.

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Climate change is a total fraud.  Global warming is a great hoax. The man is all responsible and can control climate pseudo science hucksters and charlatans are selling socialist propaganda as they run around like chicken little crying that the sky is falling.  Since the fall of communism/ socialism, tree hugging eco freaks have been coopted by the left to use climate as a tool to have political and economic control over us.  


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There was a time when conservatives needed to read between the lines in commentaries and editorials to isolate creeping socialistic ideas being pushed onto an unsuspecting audience. It was like searching for subliminal messages in television ads; you had to slow it all down to see what the underlying message really was. Today, that need has diminished. They don’t try to sneak in Marxist, communist principles under any guise. Today. they’re just saying it.

They can do that because of two important changes in modern society. The first is the acceptance of cultural Marxism, which I’ll cover in the near future. The second is climate change hysteria which is spreading like an intellectual plague through the masses. Many have become such adherence to the tenets of climate change activism that it has become more of a religion than actual religions. It’s a cult, but not one that hides in the shadows. If anything, it’s doing its best to stay out of the shadows and shove its ideological premises in our faces. And that’s the point. They want to be able to make any claim or ask for any sacrifice by the people. Climate change is the trump card they can play to try to shield any of their demands from reproach. If you won’t give up ______ for the sake of saving the planet, then you must be a selfish climate change denier in their books.

Just as we are fully aware (at least  we should be ) that the Green New Deal is an economic plan clothed in the glossy robes of climate change, so too should we be realizing that the entire climate change movement is being driven by a desire for a communist near-future in America. I assume, or at least I hope, that most activists in the climate change movement do what they do because they sincerely believe the world is going to be uninhabitable in the near future if we don’t act immediately. But just as these people willfully ignore actual scientific data in favor of the pseudo-science cited by their movement, so too have they willfully ignored the fact that the only possible “solution” to the climate change “problem” is giving up everything: Our property, our rights, and ability to act as individuals. But that has changed. Many have stopped ignoring this fact and have started embracing it instead.

An article by  The Nation  is a perfect example of today’s practice of being forthright with their end goal. The radical progressives being targeted by articles like these are in mid-stage acceptance of communism as the only viable solution to the existential threat they’ve been sold in climate change. They believe capitalism, individualism, and freedom are the very things that hasten the impending doom they perceive in our future. Therefore, the only solution is to replace capitalism, embrace collectivism, and denounce freedoms for the sake of safety and security.

I don’t recommend reading the whole article, as it’s acute propaganda with no redeeming value for anyone who isn’t a radical progressive, but there’s an important stretch in the article that declares their communist intentions without actually invoking the term “communism”:


California’s Fires Prove the American Dream Is Flammable

Cali-wildfires-heli-water-ap-img.jpg?zoo The valorizing of homeownership and property rights results not only in increased exposure to climate-change-fueled fires, but also in our inadequate responses to them. In a suite of 22 fire-related bills signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom this fall, only two are directed at the physical conditions of settlements. Both restrict their legislation to the “hardening” of individual structures, such as fire-resistant roofing and siding, creating “defensible space” around one’s house, and some measures around community preparedness. There is hardly any emphasis on more collective action or larger-scale spatial planning, except for reassessing traffic flow for evacuations. Any suggestion that we might discourage rebuilding on privately owned land is promptly tamped down.

Our homes and neighborhoods are suffused with memories and meaning. Scenes of scorched and charred hillsides and homes tear at us in visceral ways. And so, after each devastating blaze, communities and officials pledge to rebuild. After such trauma, it seems only reasonable, kind, and dutiful to support these efforts—even if they may be perpetuating the cycle. This is not an indictment of individual homeowners, who are only trying to find stability through the sole system that has been offered to them.

The vulnerable affluence of Porter Ranch and Granada Hills, and the exposed tranquility of Paradise, are two representations of the same westward-expansionist frontier thinking that underlies modern life in the United States. This is the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal, transmuted through the urban, petrochemical century. Cheap energy—both the monetary price of subsidized gasoline and the hidden costs of fossil fuels—and the idealization of individual homeownership have created the scorching landscapes we face today. Cheap energy is untenable in the face of climate emergency. And individual homeownership should be seriously questioned.

There are other options, in theory: Rental housing serves many cities around the world well, although we should be wary about perpetuating the power of landlords in this country without delinking ownership from wealth creation. There has been resurgent interest in government-planned and -built public housing, including recent legislation proposed by Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders that would shore up and invigorate the federal system. The Green New Deal invokes prior eras of government intervention, lending itself to revitalized thinking about the social value of public goods.


If you’re a homeowner, you’re not the enemy of climate change activists. You’re simply a victim of “the sole system that has been offered to” you. It isn’t necessarily your fault that you’ve been taken into the systemic problem of the antiquated American Dream. You’re just a patsy to the evil forces of greed that have destroyed this nation, by their reckoning. You can be reformed and engage in their brave new world of climate change communism. You just have to be willing to give up everything and join their collective.

“The key thing to keep in mind with climate activism is that it is ideologically driven – and that ideology, whether they admit it or not, is totalitarian control of everything or communism,” said Steve Milloy, founder and publisher of  Junk Science . “Climate is not about the controlling the environment. It’s about controlling us.”  Climate change is the perfect vehicle through which to install communism in America and around the world. It’s technical enough that average citizens cannot test and verify results on their own. They must rely on the “experts” who are comprised of technocrats and activist scientists who now have control of the narrative. This isn’t because there haven’t been objections to their pseudo-scientific claims. Over the last four decades, scientists who examined the facts and came to conclusions that ran counter to the climate change agenda have been systematically “corrected,” bullied, or purged. Saying climate change is not a man-made phenomenon or that it isn’t real at all gets scientists the same treatment from their peers as biologists and geologists who claim the world was created by God. In both cases, truthful scientists are anathema in labs, universities, and the media.

Climate change hysteria also offers a sense of urgency without an ability to see the results in a reasonable amount of time. This is why there have been U.N. studies and scientific community warnings about how the world has one decade to take action. The problem is these final-decade warnings have been in play since the 1970s. When one doesn’t pan out, a new one is issued. And another. And another. We’ve apparently been 10 years away from cataclysm for the last half-century. It is perpetual and can never be debunked because “new” science invariably pops up that says this time, by golly, we really, really, really only have a decade to get things straight, hand over our property, renounce our liberties, and fall in line with communist solutions.

There really is an existential threat associated with climate change, but it has nothing to do with the environment. Climate change hysteria is pushing for communism around the world. If they get their way, the world really could end.


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

The radical progressives being targeted by articles like these are in mid-stage acceptance of communism as the only viable solution to the existential threat they’ve been sold in climate change. They believe capitalism, individualism, and freedom are the very things that hasten the impending doom they perceive in our future. Therefore, the only solution is to replace capitalism, embrace collectivism, and denounce freedoms for the sake of safety and security.

I don’t recommend reading the whole article, as it’s acute propaganda with no redeeming value for anyone who isn’t a radical progressive, but there’s an important stretch in the article that declares their communist intentions without actually invoking the term “communism”:



Cali-wildfires-heli-water-ap-img.jpg?zoom=2&w=200&ssl=1The valorizing of homeownership and property rights results not only in increased exposure to climate-change-fueled fires, but also in our inadequate responses to them. In a suite of 22 fire-related bills signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom this fall, only two are directed at the physical conditions of settlements. Both restrict their legislation to the “hardening” of individual structures, such as fire-resistant roofing and siding, creating “defensible space” around one’s house, and some measures around community preparedness. There is hardly any emphasis on more collective action or larger-scale spatial planning, except for reassessing traffic flow for evacuations. Any suggestion that we might discourage rebuilding on privately owned land is promptly tamped down.

Our homes and neighborhoods are suffused with memories and meaning. Scenes of scorched and charred hillsides and homes tear at us in visceral ways. And so, after each devastating blaze, communities and officials pledge to rebuild. After such trauma, it seems only reasonable, kind, and dutiful to support these efforts—even if they may be perpetuating the cycle. This is not an indictment of individual homeowners, who are only trying to find stability through the sole system that has been offered to them.

The vulnerable affluence of Porter Ranch and Granada Hills, and the exposed tranquility of Paradise, are two representations of the same westward-expansionist frontier thinking that underlies modern life in the United States. This is the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal, transmuted through the urban, petrochemical century. Cheap energy—both the monetary price of subsidized gasoline and the hidden costs of fossil fuels—and the idealization of individual homeownership have created the scorching landscapes we face today. Cheap energy is untenable in the face of climate emergency. And individual homeownership should be seriously questioned.

There are other options, in theory: Rental housing serves many cities around the world well, although we should be wary about perpetuating the power of landlords in this country without delinking ownership from wealth creation. There has been resurgent interest in government-planned and -built public housing, including recent legislation proposed by Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders that would shore up and invigorate the federal system. The Green New Deal invokes prior eras of government intervention, lending itself to revitalized thinking about the social value of public goods.

If you’re a homeowner, you’re not the enemy of climate change activists. You’re simply a victim of “the sole system that has been offered to” you. It isn’t necessarily your fault that you’ve been taken into the systemic problem of the antiquated American Dream. You’re just a patsy to the evil forces of greed that have destroyed this nation, by their reckoning. You can be reformed and engage in their brave new world of climate change communism. You just have to be willing to give up everything and join their collective.

“The key thing to keep in mind with climate activism is that it is ideologically driven – and that ideology, whether they admit it or not, is totalitarian control of everything or communism,” said Steve Milloy, founder and publisher of  Junk Science . “Climate is not about the controlling the environment. It’s about controlling us.”  Climate change is the perfect vehicle through which to install communism in America and around the world. It’s technical enough that average citizens cannot test and verify results on their own. They must rely on the “experts” who are comprised of technocrats and activist scientists who now have control of the narrative. This isn’t because there haven’t been objections to their pseudo-scientific claims. Over the last four decades, scientists who examined the facts and came to conclusions that ran counter to the climate change agenda have been systematically “corrected,” bullied, or purged. Saying climate change is not a man-made phenomenon or that it isn’t real at all gets scientists the same treatment from their peers as biologists and geologists who claim the world was created by God. In both cases, truthful scientists are anathema in labs, universities, and the media.  

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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2  Perrie Halpern R.A.    5 years ago
The radical progressives being targeted by articles like these are in mid-stage acceptance of communism as the only viable solution to the existential threat they’ve been sold in climate change. They believe capitalism, individualism, and freedom are the very things that hasten the impending doom they perceive in our future. Therefore, the only solution is to replace capitalism, embrace collectivism, and denounce freedoms for the sake of safety and security.

Come on HA. This is nothing but your own form of hysteria that this article is claiming. Climate change can not be proved nor disproven. Just because you don't want to believe in it, doesn't make those who do into communists. Talk about a stretch.

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XXJefferson51
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2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2    5 years ago

[deleted] While I would have referenced the enemy as far left secular progressives or socialists rather than communist, I am n near full general agreement with what the article is saying.  

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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2.1.1  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.1    5 years ago

Wow, talk about an imagination. I don't report sources to the MBFC. And there are loads of people who would not describe themselves as far left secular progressives or socialists, some of who even voted for Trump. 

 
 
 
Raven Wing
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2.2  Raven Wing  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2    5 years ago
Talk about a stretch.

Think Plastic Man...

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cjcold
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2.3  cjcold  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2    5 years ago

This guy is completely out of his tiny diseased mind.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.3.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @2.3    5 years ago

Are you sure it was written by a guy?  

 
 
 
cjcold
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2.3.2  cjcold  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.3.1    5 years ago

As opposed to some here on NT I do the research before posting.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.3.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @2.3.2    5 years ago

That is unusual on the political left. As to the author, he is right on in the points he was making. The Heartland Institute though is the ultimate authority on this issue along with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. 

 
 
 
cjcold
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2.3.4  cjcold  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.3.3    5 years ago

So you think that the fossil fuel industry should be able to ignore the science and push their oil soaked propaganda on the world? After all, the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute are awash in fossil fuel industry money and are basically owned by the Kochs and ALEC.

Both of these 'institutes' were also well paid for denying the dangers of tobacco for many years as well.

Neither of these 'institutes' has ever done a single scientific study to prove their denier lies and propaganda.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.3.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @2.3.4    5 years ago

The carbon fuel industry has done a great job reducing the pollution effects of their products.  We also use them more efficiently.  We are using alternative energy products as they become economically viable.  

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.3.6  Krishna  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.3.1    5 years ago
Are you sure it was written by a guy?  

An excellent question! 

In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was written by...Illegal Aliens!

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Buzz of the Orient
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2.3.7  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @2.3.6    5 years ago

Oh oh.  Now the Democrats will sign them up to vote.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.3.8  Vic Eldred  replied to  cjcold @2.3.2    5 years ago
I do the research before posting.

Research needs to be done with an open mind. It's not a search for a flaw to be used in derailing a seed.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.3.9  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.3.8    5 years ago

There are no open minds among those who call themselves the “pro science consensus” crowd.  Only bigotry and an attempt to use censorship to prevent views like mine from being openly promoted.  

 
 
 
cjcold
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2.5  cjcold  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2    5 years ago

Actually anthropogenic global warming and the climate change it causes has been well researched, documented and proven. Climatologists and scientists from all around the world and from a variety of scientific disciplines all agree on this. 

There has never been an actual scientific study that has been able to refute the reality of AGW or climate change. All of the AGW deniers are paid by the fossil fuel industry, much like the author of this piece of propaganda. Follow the money.

Even EXXON now admits to deceiving the public for many years regarding AGW.

NASA, NOAA, USGS, NSIDC, NAS and a plethora of pure science organizations around the world are in consensus on this topic.

Please do the research Perrie! 

 
 
 
cjcold
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2.5.2  cjcold  replied to  Release The Kraken @2.5.1    5 years ago

No they didn't. That is simply more fossil fuel industry propaganda.

John Christy and Roy Spencer of UAH are the only 'scientists' to be caught and censured regarding the faking of AGW/climate change data. They are both funded by the fossil fuel industry and earn a living as professional AGW deniers.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.5.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @2.5.2    5 years ago

There are e-mail records of data manipulation in the United Kingdom by the pseudoscience advocates of man caused global warming regarding counterfeiting.

 
 
 
cjcold
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2.5.4  cjcold  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.5.3    5 years ago

Only somebody who never studied science (even in grade school) could spin the CSU emails so badly. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.5.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @2.5.4    5 years ago

...Based on the leftist lie of climate change/warming, for the last forty or fifty years Democrats have tried to convince Americans that the earth will end soon if they continue to enjoy their lives by using their air conditioning in the summer, or by using their automobile to get to work, or if they insist on flying to their favorite far-off location for a pleasant vacation. But the most insulting and demeaning thing American leftists have done to this great nation is to outlaw the 100-watt, incandescent light bulb in order to save the planet, as they like to stress it. So you and I have to live with only 60- and 40-watt bulbs to illuminate our homes, and we are expected to ride bicycles to work, and no longer drive the automobiles we worked hard to pay for.

Most recently AOS and Bernie Sanders have told us, whom they consider to be their subjects, that we have only 12 years, (now only 11 years from the date of their dire announcement in November, 2018) until the absolute end of life on earth as we know it, even though the first year of the final 12 has expired and there has been no additional warming to back-up their lying theory. Meanwhile the millionaire Bernie Sanders lives large and travels by plane and car between his three homes; multi-millionaire Elizabeth Warren enjoys her mansion in Massachusetts; and billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg live very, very large with their enormous stashes of cash. The current atmosphere in America is that of life in the old Soviet Union under the Socialist/Communists, in which everyone suffered equally, except for the top rulers, who lived in luxury and enjoyed things not otherwise available to the non-ruling citizens in the backward Soviet Union....

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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2.6  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2    5 years ago

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Kavika
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4  Kavika     5 years ago

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Raven Wing
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4.1  Raven Wing  replied to  Kavika @4    5 years ago

LOL! Good ones!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Kavika @4    5 years ago

The second is climate change hysteria which is spreading like an intellectual plague through the masses. Many have become such adherence to the tenets of climate change activism that it has become more of a religion than actual religions. It’s a cult, but not one that hides in the shadows. If anything, it’s doing its best to stay out of the shadows and shove its ideological premises in our faces. And that’s the point. They want to be able to make any claim or ask for any sacrifice by the people. Climate change is the trump card they can play to try to shield any of their demands from reproach. If you won’t give up ______ for the sake of saving the planet, then you must be a selfish climate change denier in their books.

Just as we are fully aware (at least  we should be ) that the Green New Deal is an economic plan clothed in the glossy robes of climate change, so too should we be realizing that the entire climate change movement is being driven by a desire for a communist near-future in America. I assume, or at least I hope, that most activists in the climate change movement do what they do because they sincerely believe the world is going to be uninhabitable in the near future if we don’t act immediately. But just as these people willfully ignore actual scientific data in favor of the pseudo-science cited by their movement, so too have they willfully ignored the fact that the only possible “solution” to the climate change “problem” is giving up everything: Our property, our rights, and ability to act as individuals. But that has changed. Many have stopped ignoring this fact and have started embracing it instead.  

 
 
 
It Is ME
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4.3  It Is ME  replied to  Kavika @4    5 years ago

Now that's funny.....looking back to 2016 until now ! jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif

ssssshhhhhh don't tell anyone but …… the "red menace" must be impeached for real. jrSmiley_19_smiley_image.gif jrSmiley_30_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Krishna
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4.4  Krishna  replied to  Kavika @4    5 years ago

And they are corrupting our youffs-- with de Debil's Weed-- in order to control our beloved country!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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4.5  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @4    5 years ago

LOL.. Who's afraid of the big bad commie, big bad commie, big bad commie?

Not I.

 
 
 
Dean Moriarty
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4.5.1  Dean Moriarty  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @4.5    5 years ago

The people that are being tortured are. 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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4.5.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Dean Moriarty @4.5.1    4 years ago

As grandpappy said "Don't believe everything you read or hear, and only half of what you see."

So I guess it just comes down to what you see with your own eyes, or else what you WANT to believe.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

Climate change is a total fraud. The man all or mostly the cause part.  Natural and cyclical climate change happens all the time. Global warming is a great hoax. First they used the impending global ice age to try to scare us into goin much further than we had to tonfix the ozone layer, and have cleaner water and air, now it’s warming, a modest amount of which harms nothing.  The man is all responsible and can control climate pseudo science hucksters and charlatans are selling socialist propaganda as they run around like chicken little crying that the sky is falling.  There is no man caused climate change science consensus.  It’s a total fraud used to try to silence opposing views soviet style.  Since the fall of communism/ socialism, tree hugging eco freaks have been coopted by the left to use climate as a tool to have political and economic control over us.  I was very happy to find this great true pro science article to share what is also my point of view on these matters.  

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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5.1  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5    5 years ago

Prove any of that, especially the one about climate change. 

And you just got finished telling me that you don't think that it's communist and here you are saying it is:

Since the fall of communism/ socialism, tree hugging eco freaks have been coopted by the left to use climate as a tool to have political and economic control over us.

Eco freaks? Move to West Virginia and ask them how they like their cancer and autoimmune diseases from the waste water from Dupont. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.1.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @5.1    5 years ago

Why?  Do you really think that I oppose clean air and clean water?  Or support the pollution of land surfaces?  The USA has over the years I’ve been alive made great progress in reducing pollutants and having cleaner air and water.  What does West Virginia situation you described have to do with global warming or climate change? 

 
 
 
Ender
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5.1.2  Ender  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.1.1    5 years ago

Then I have to ask...why do you approve of deregulation that was instrumental in cleaning up our environment?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.1.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @5.1    5 years ago

I said since the fall of communism.....It still is green on outside red on the inside control freak at work. It still is about using excessive environmental quackery as a tool to control our personal decisions about our home and diet and transportation along with over our economic decisions.  And I don’t give a crap what Dave Van Zandt thinks about what I believe on this or any other issue.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.1.4  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Ender @5.1.2    5 years ago

I approve of deregulation in the context primarily of rolling back Obama excesses that went well beyond prior bi partisan consensus and was deliberately designed by Obama to restrain business and individual choices.  Trump hasn’t rolled back Bush or Clinton environmental regulations. 

 
 
 
Ender
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5.1.5  Ender  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.1.4    5 years ago

So you applaud just taking away anything Obama.  

 
 
 
Ender
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5.1.9  Ender  replied to    5 years ago

Do all conservatives have a disdain for research?

 
 
 
Ender
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5.1.10  Ender  replied to  Release The Kraken @5.1.8    5 years ago

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Perrie Halpern R.A.
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5.1.11  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to    5 years ago
What specific deregulation?

Here let me help you. I am only including items that have a direct impact on the public health or enviornmental health (i.e. animals):

1. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to   report methane emissions . Environmental Protection Agency |   Read more
2. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting   methane emissions on public lands , including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations. Interior Department |   Read more
4. Revoked   California’s power to set its own more stringent emissions standards   for cars and light trucks. E.P.A. |   Read more
6. Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit   toxic emissions from major industrial polluters . E.P.A. |   Read more
7. Revised a permiting program designed to   safeguard communities from increases in pollution from new power plants   to make it easier for facilities to avoid emissions regulations. E.P.A. |   Read more
8. Amended rules that govern   how refineries monitor pollution   in surrounding communities. E.P.A. |   Read more
9. Stopped enforcing a 2015 rule that prohibited the   use of hydrofluorocarbons , powerful greenhouse gases, in air-conditioners and refrigerators. E.P.A. |   Read more
13. Withdrew guidance that federal agencies include   greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews . But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews. Executive Order; Council on Environmental Quality |   Read more
14. Lifted a summertime ban on the use of   E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol . (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.) E.P.A. |   Read more
15. Changed rules to allow states and the E.P.A. to take longer to develop and approve plans aimed at cutting   methane emissions from existing landfills . E.P.A. |   Read more

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17. Proposed relaxing Obama-era requirements that companies monitor and repair   methane leaks at oil and gas facilities . E.P.A. |   Read more
18. Proposed weakening Obama-era   fuel-economy standards   for cars and light trucks. E.P.A. and Transportation Department |   Read more
21. Proposed a legal justification for weakening an Obama-era rule that limited   mercury emissions from coal power plants . E.P.A. |   Read more
23. Began a review of   emissions rules for power plant start-ups, shutdowns and malfunctions . In April, the E.P.A. proposed reversing a requirement that Texas follow the emissions rule, with implications for 35 other states. E.P.A. |   Read more
24. Proposed the repeal of rules meant to reduce   leaking and venting of hydrofluorocarbons   from large refrigeration and air conditioning systems. E.P.A. |   Read more
25. Opened for comment a proposal   limiting the ability of individuals and communities to challenge E.P.A.-issued pollution permits   before a panel of agency judges. E.P.A. |   Read more
 
57. Changed the way the   Endangered Species Act   is applied, making it more difficult to protect wildlife from long-term threats posed by climate change. Interior Department |   Read more
58. Overturned a ban on the   use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle   on federal lands. Interior Department |   Read more
59. Overturned a ban on the   hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges . Congress |   Read more
60. Amended   fishing regulations   for a number of species to allow for longer seasons and higher catch rates. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |   Read more
61. Withdrew proposed limits on   the number of endangered marine mammals and sea turtles that can be unintentionally killed or injured with sword-fishing nets   by people who fish on the West Coast. (In 2018, California issued a state rule prohibiting the use of the nets the rule was intending to regulate.) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |   Read more
62. Rolled back a roughly 40-year-old interpretation of a policy aimed at   protecting migratory birds , potentially running afoul of treaties with Canada and Mexico. Interior Department |   Read more
63. Overturned a ban on   using parts of migratory birds in handicrafts   made by Alaskan Natives. Interior Department |   Read more

IN PROCESS

64. Opened nine million acres of Western land to oil and gas drilling by weakening   habitat protections for the sage grouse , an imperiled bird with an   elaborate mating dance . An Idaho District Court injunction blocked the measure. Interior Department |   Read more
65. Proposed ending an Obama-era rule that barred   using bait to lure and kill grizzly bears , among other sport hunting practices that many people consider extreme, on some public lands in Alaska. National Park Service; Interior Department |   Read more
66. Proposed relaxing   environmental protections for salmon and smelt in California’s Central Valley   in order to free up water for farmers. Executive Order; Interior Department |   Read more
 

COMPLETED

67. Rejected a proposed   ban on chlorpyrifos , a pesticide linked to developmental disabilities in children. (A European Union ban is to take effect in 2020.) E.P.A. |   Read more
68. Narrowed the scope of a 2016 law mandating   safety assessments for potentially toxic chemicals   like dry-cleaning solvents. The E.P.A. said it would focus on direct exposure and exclude indirect exposure such as from air or water contamination. In November, a court of appeals ruled the agency must widen its scope to consider full exposure risks. E.P.A. |   Read more
69. Reversed an Obama-era rule that required   braking system upgrades for “high hazard” trains   hauling flammable liquids, like oil and ethanol. Transportation Department |   Read more
70. Removed   copper filter cake , an electronics manufacturing byproduct comprised of heavy metals, from the “hazardous waste” list. E.P.A. |   Read more
71. Ended an Occupational Safety and Health Administration program to   reduce risks of workers developing the lung disease silicosis . Labor Department |   Read more

IN PROCESS

72. Proposed changing safety rules to allow for   rail transport of liquefied natural gas , which is highly flammable. Transportation Department |   Read more
73. Rolled back most of the requirements of a 2017 rule aimed at improving   safety at sites that use hazardous chemicals   that was instituted after a chemical plant exploded in Texas. E.P.A. |   Read more

COMPLETED

75. Scaled back   pollution protections for certain tributaries and wetlands   that were regulated under the Clean Water Act by the Obama administration. E.P.A.; Army |   Read more
76. Revoked a rule that prevented coal companies from   dumping mining debris into local streams . Congress |   Read more
77. Withdrew a proposed rule aimed at reducing   pollutants, including air pollution, at sewage treatment plants . E.P.A. |   Read more
78. Withdrew a proposed rule requiring   groundwater protections for certain uranium mines . E.P.A. |   Read more

IN PROCESS

79. Proposed a rule exempting certain types of power plants from parts of an E.P.A. rule   limiting toxic discharge from power plants into public waterways . E.P.A. |   Read more
80. Proposed allowing the E.P.A. to   issue permits for federal projects under the Clean Water Act over state objections   if they don't meet local water quality goals, including for pipelines and other fossil fuel facilities. Executive Order; E.P.A. |   Read more
81. Proposed extending the lifespan of   unlined coal ash holding areas , which can spill their contents because they lack a protective underlay. E.P.A. |   Read more
82. Proposed a regulation limiting the scope of an Obama-era rule under which   companies had to prove that large deposits of recycled coal ash   would not harm the environment. E.P.A. |   Read more
83. Proposed a new rule allowing the federal government to issue   permits for coal ash waste in Indian Country and some states   without review if the disposal site is in compliance with federal regulations. E.P.A. |   Read more
84. Proposed doubling the time allowed to   remove lead pipes   from water systems with high levels of lead. E.P.A. |   Read more
 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
5.1.12  Ender  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @5.1.11    5 years ago

So my response was no value yet the meme I responded to was full of facts and pertained to the seed?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
5.1.13  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Ender @5.1.5    5 years ago

Obama severely overreached as I stated before.  

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
5.1.14  cjcold  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.1.13    5 years ago

Obama didn't go nearly far enough.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Principal
5.1.16  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Ender @5.1.12    5 years ago

Ender,

I just checked and your comment had nothing to do with this article. I can send it to you if you like. 

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
5.1.17  Ender  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @5.1.16    5 years ago

And the fish comment did? Which was what I responded to.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
5.1.18  cjcold  replied to  Release The Kraken @5.1.15    5 years ago

I studied very hard to earn degrees in the environmental sciences. I continue to study Earth science and don't take anybody's word for anything that I can't independently verify. 

It is you and all the other AGW deniers who got sold a fake bill of goods by fossil fuel industry propagandists. The Heartland Institute being #1.

AGW/climate change is now happening even faster than the worst projections of just a few years ago. Thanks to fossil fuel industry paid deniers nothing gets done.

The positive feedbacks are coming much faster with methane playing an even larger role as the Northern tundra and the Arctic melt at increasing rates.

It's happening NOW, not at some future date down the road.

We may have already reached a few tipping points.

I lost all of the pine trees around my house in Kansas and my cabin in Colorado due to borer beetles that survived mild winters.

Used to ice skate on ponds around here growing up that haven't frozen over in years.

If you can't believe scientists, at least try to believe empirical evidence.

  

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
5.1.20  Sean Treacy  replied to  cjcold @5.1.18    5 years ago

I continue to study Earth science and don't take anybody's word for anything that I can't independently verify. 

You can’t  independently verify AGW.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
5.1.21  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  XDm9mm @5.1.19    5 years ago

There’s no way they can prove that.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
5.1.22  cjcold  replied to  XDm9mm @5.1.19    5 years ago

According to Milankovitch cycles, the Earth should be slightly cooling. It is not. Anthropogenic global warming has blown Milankovitch cycles out of the water. Milankovitch cycles were fairly weak in the first place. Anthropogenic global warming is a very strong forcing.  

 
 
 
It Is ME
Masters Guide
6  It Is ME    5 years ago

"Climate Change" is REAL ! That's a "Given". CLIMATE ON THIS PLANET DOES CHANGE !  Always has !jrSmiley_15_smiley_image.gif

What the "Left" proposes to do to fix it is ...… "Out-of-this-World" LUNACY !

The "Left" is gonna fix an entire planet …... ? jrSmiley_97_smiley_image.gif

FOR FREE ?

They can't even "Fix" themselves, or anyone else for that matter. jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
6.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  It Is ME @6    5 years ago

Didn’t you hear the news about Joe Biden?  He’s prepared to sacrifice America’s energy independence along with hundreds of thousands of working and middle class jobs in coal, oil, and natural gas in order to coerce the faster transition to “green” energy sources.  More proof that the political left hates the economic recovery of flyover America.  

 
 
 
It Is ME
Masters Guide
6.1.2  It Is ME  replied to  Release The Kraken @6.1.1    5 years ago

The "Homeless" use less energy ! They are Needed in California. jrSmiley_84_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
It Is ME
Masters Guide
6.1.3  It Is ME  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1    5 years ago

The Democrats are ALWAYS willing to sacrifice "American Citizens" for their "Own Dreams" of "Follow the Losers World Order" ! jrSmiley_13_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
6.1.4  cjcold  replied to  Release The Kraken @6.1.1    5 years ago

Funny how Trump won't let California set stricter auto emissions standards. California has long championed cleaner air and water. Exactly the opposite of Donny the environment destroyer.

Kind of blows your argument out of the water doesn't it?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
6.1.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  It Is ME @6.1.2    5 years ago

Takeout California and New York and homelessness in the rest of America is on the decline.  Actually even if you exclude on Ca. That is still true.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
6.1.6  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  It Is ME @6.1.3    5 years ago

That’s the way it is with those people.  Sad but true.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
6.1.7  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @6.1.4    5 years ago

As a California resident I’m glad about that.  It will make fixing smog issues on my car less expensive and reduce the price of any future new one or near new used one.  

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
6.1.8  cjcold  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1.7    5 years ago

So you want California to generate even more pollutants?

I think your Jeffersonian state is getting off to a bad start. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
6.1.9  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @6.1.8    5 years ago

We are the good part of the state....God’s country! 

 
 
 
It Is ME
Masters Guide
6.1.10  It Is ME  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1.5    5 years ago
Takeout California and New York and homelessness in the rest of America is on the decline.

California is Great !

They've single handedly raised the Entire Countries "Homeless" problem by over 2%. They should be proud. jrSmiley_97_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
6.1.11  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  It Is ME @6.1.10    5 years ago

We are guilty as charged and our high living cost tightly regulated government based out of the coastal urban elite are completely proud of it.  

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
Professor Principal
7  Just Jim NC TttH    5 years ago

In a nutshell....................

384

 
 
 
The Magic 8 Ball
Masters Quiet
8  The Magic 8 Ball    5 years ago
  1. first it was global cooling and the cure was taxing energy
  2. then was global warming and the cure was taxing energy
  3. now is climate change and the cure is taxing energy.

what is the common denominator? and how stupid does one have to be? seriously

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  The Magic 8 Ball @8    5 years ago

The so called pro science consensus gang really do think we that don’t drink the eco freak tree hugging kool aid they are offering us are stupid, when in reality it is they and those who would control the opposing viewpoints expressions are the ones that are truly and deeply stupid people.  

 
 
 
The Magic 8 Ball
Masters Quiet
8.1.1  The Magic 8 Ball  replied to  XXJefferson51 @8.1    4 years ago
stupid people.

our planet has been both hotter and colder many times in our past because the temperatures are constantly changing... but today's eco morons think they are suddenly going to stop that change with a few tax dollars. and/or they think we will believe it... LOL  these people are beyond stupid.

any global tax = creation of global government

it is that simple.

cheers :)

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  The Magic 8 Ball @8.1.1    4 years ago

It’s all about control with those “people”.  Control economic choices. Control over individual freedom and choices, control what people are allowed to say about the issue. Control what sources about the issue one can use.  Control over what people think.  After all, “those miners can learn to program for Christ’s sake.”

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
8.1.4  TᵢG  replied to  XXJefferson51 @8.1    4 years ago
The so called pro science consensus gang really do think we that don’t drink the eco freak tree hugging kool aid they are offering us are stupid , when in reality it is they and those who would control the opposing viewpoints expressions are the ones that are truly and deeply stupid people .  

jrSmiley_78_smiley_image.gif     -and-

Climate change is a total fraud .  Global warming is a great hoax . The man is all responsible [ strawman : not 'all' ] and can control climate [ strawman : can 'influence'; not 'control' ] pseudo science hucksters and charlatans [ the worldwide climate scientists ] are selling socialist [ clueless reference ] propaganda as they run around like chicken little crying that the sky is falling.  Since the fall of communism/ socialism, tree hugging eco freaks have been coopted by the left to use climate as a tool to have political and economic control over us.  

Following the evidence to wherever it leads is superior to simply believing what one wishes were true.   Luckily there are responsible adults on the planet;  but one fears there might not be enough of us.

See, HA, it is one thing to not be convinced that AGW is significant enough to act.   But to flat out deny it??   Call it a worldwide fraud??   To deem millions of scientists worldwide to be hucksters and charlatans??   That illustrates (proves) a purely talking-point mentality.   Further evidenced by a clear misunderstanding (the notion that AGW means that human beings are the sole factor in GW and that science implies that we can control the climate rather than merely influence it).   These words suggest a lack of understanding of the science and an emotional parroting of partisan hype.  This is why we need to have people challenging such nonsense.   It is dangerous for the electorate to believe slogan-level, partisan misinformation and just adopt it as truth rather than spend the time to seriously, objectively investigate the science underlying the concern over AGW.

Fascinating that you deem us to be " truly and deeply stupid people ".

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
8.1.5  cjcold  replied to    4 years ago

Fortunately, climatologists study thousands of years of changing climate.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1.7  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  cjcold @8.1.5    4 years ago

And which one do you want to impose socialism upon us to be able to try to manipulate us too?  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1.8  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  TᵢG @8.1.4    4 years ago

No, it’s your side that deem us to be all that.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1.9  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  TᵢG @8.1.4    4 years ago

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igknorantzrulz
PhD Quiet
8.1.10  igknorantzrulz  replied to  XXJefferson51 @8.1.8    4 years ago

No, it’s your side that deem us to be all that.  

cant imagine Y

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
8.1.11  TᵢG  replied to  XXJefferson51 @8.1.8    4 years ago
No, it’s your side that deem us to be all that.  

You should not think in terms of sides.   That is group-think.   Think more in terms of individual positions and (importantly) the facts and reasoning supporting same.   

In other words, it is IMO much better to pursue truth (as best as one can) than to support a 'side'.

 
 
 
The Magic 8 Ball
Masters Quiet
8.1.12  The Magic 8 Ball  replied to  XXJefferson51 @8.1.3    4 years ago
Control over individual freedom and choices, control what people are allowed to say about the issue. Control what sources about the issue one can use.

I got news for them... people like me are simply uncontrollable.

they saw me on my knees and thought they had won..
until I said amen and got back on my feet.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1.13  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  The Magic 8 Ball @8.1.12    4 years ago

Well said.  All your points are spot on.  

 
 

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