Just a couple of anecdotes today…
Happy 4th of July everyone, though personally I don’t there’s really much left to celebrate anymore. Government lockdowns and social media censoring of legitimate opposing opinions remind me of Cold War time Communist countries. We’re not free anymore, and so celebrating “freedom” is a bit of joke.
Independence Day is not only a misnomer and thus meaningless, it’s also only leading to a lot of needless forest fires, and so we might just as well abolish it altogether. German journalist Axel Bojanowski tweeted a fascinating chart showing the number of western forest fires near homes.
Humans cause the vast majority of fires especially on the fourth of July when fireworks are set off.
Also note the spikes near Memorial Day and Labor Day, a popular time for cookouts and picnics.
Don’t trust science
On another note, Germany’s candidate to be the next chancellor, Armin Laschet of the centre-right CDU party, recently made a comment that gives us hope conservative politicians might be coming to their senses.
Vorläufige, zu hinterfragende und zu prüfende Erkenntnisse können und dürfen niemals Grundlage politischer Festlegungen für Jahrzehnte sein… #Klimahysterie #Coronapanik https://t.co/hozZxinAux
— Peter Heller (@TrendHeller) July 4, 2021
Mr. Laschet warned of the smart-sounding but dumb advice we’ve been hearing a lot lately: “Follow the science!”
Mr. Laschet:
I seldom agree with the AfD, actually never, but they said a sentence today that is true: Every time someone comes and says “the science says”, you are wise to question what they are up to.”
Pierre … I saw something similar but to paraphrase it read “whenever someone says the “science says” they are talking about political science”!!
Just now a fire crew with helicopter, dozers, and pumper trucks contained a small blaze about 2 km to my northwest. Cause not reported yet. {North of Ellensburg Washington}
Human activities are involved in about 84% of western fires.
Most are not purposefully set, although that happens. For example, recently a fellow pulling a trailer started a dozen fires with sparks from a set of sparks coming off a wheel and going into dry grass by the edge of the road. Once or twice a year, on local roads, a car catches fire and the driver pulls over into the grass. Poor wiring in or to outbuildings (sheds) is another way fires start here.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO ALL MY AMERICAN FRIENDS.
It seems appropriate that a new all-time cold record for this date would be set in New England, the “Cradle of the American Revolution”. One wonders how much fossil fuel has been burned since 1914, the previous all-time cold date. Climate alarmists alleged that burning fossil fuels drives dangerous global warming, but it’s not doing much warming at all. Climate catastrophe cancelled.
Best regards on the Glorious 4th, Alan MacRae in Calgary
RECORD COLD SWEEPS MASSACHUSETTS, + THE SUN FIRES-OFF ITS FIRST X-FLARE IN 4 YEARS
July 4, 2021 by Cap Allon
Both Boston and Worcester bust low temp records from 1914 (the Centennial Minimum).
I am reposting some of my recent papers today, because our once-free nations are in great peril. We have been conquered from within by our Marxist enemies, and are on the fast-track to Venezuela – poverty and dictatorship.
THE COST TO SOCIETY OF RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., July 4, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/04/the-cost-to-society-of-radical-environmentalism/
There is a reason why I published this paper on the 4th of July. Radical greens are the great killers of our age, rivalling Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
WHAT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS REALLY ABOUT — AND IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., July 19, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/20/what-the-green-new-deal-is-really-about-and-its-not-the-climate/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, said:
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all… “
“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,”
THE LIBERALS’ COVERT GREEN PLAN FOR CANADA – POVERTY AND DICTATORSHIP
by Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., October 1, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/01/the-liberals-covert-green-plan-for-canada-poverty-and-dictatorship/
The government insider outlined Trudeau’s secret plan:
“Unregulated consumerism was unsustainable and people would have to learn to make do with less. The government would have to have more control over people to enforce their austerity and the wealth of developed nations would have to be redistributed to help undeveloped nations.”
The clear intent is to use the global warming smokescreen to restrict economic and political freedoms by transforming Western countries into tightly controlled totalitarian states.
THE REAL CLIMATE CRISIS IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING, IT IS COOLING, AND IT MAY HAVE ALREADY STARTED
By Allan M.R. MacRae and Joseph D’Aleo, October 27, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/27/the-real-climate-crisis-is-not-global-warming-it-is-cooling-and-it-may-have-already-started/
Planting was ~one month late across the Great Plains of North America in both 2018 and 2019. In 2018 the growing season was warm and the crop recovered, but in 2019 there was a huge crop failure across the Great Plains; we did not read about that in the mainstream press, did we?
In 2019 fully 30% of the huge USA corn crop was never planted because of wet ground. Much of the grain crop across the Great Plains was not harvested because of early cold and snow in the Fall.
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
“There are numerous highly credible observations that falsify the CAGW hypothesis and many are listed herein, but as Albert Einstein famously stated ‘One would be enough’.“
CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID-19, AND THE GREAT RESET
A Climate, Energy and Covid Primer for Politicians and Media
By Allan M.R. MacRae, Published March 21, 2021, Update 1e published May 8, 2021
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/climate-change-covid-19-and-the-great-reset-update-1e-readonly.docx
For many more-recent extreme cold events see Electroverse.net
SUMMARY
We published in 2002 that there was NO catastrophic human-made global warming /climate change crisis, and green energy schemes were NOT green and produced little useful (dispatchable) energy. Dangerous global warming and climate change have NOT HAPPENED and green energy schemes have proved to be COSTLY, UNRELIABLE AND INEFFECTIVE.
Global warming is NOT a threat, but global cooling IS dangerous to humanity and the environment. In 2002 we predicted that natural global cooling would start circa 2020, based on low solar activity, and that prediction is strongly supported by recent evidence.
Politicians foolishly believed scary global warming falsehoods and brewed the perfect storm, crippling our energy systems with costly and unreliable green energy schemes that utterly fail due to intermittency, at a time when we need more cheap, reliable, dispatchable energy due to increased energy demand and imminent global cooling. The people of Australia, Britain, Germany, California, Texas and elsewhere have all suffered due to GREEN ENERGY FAILURES THAT WERE PREDICTABLE AND WERE PREDICTED.
We published in March 2020 that there was no justification for the Covid-19 lockdown, and that it would cause great and needless harm. The Covid-19 lockdown is now estimated to have caused 10-to-100-times the damage of the Covid-19 illness, in terms of increased harm to individuals, families and the economies they depend on.
The same leftist groups concocted and promoted the global warming fraud and the Covid-19 lockdown scam, for political and financial gain. Then these groups linked the two frauds, stating “to solve Covid-19 we have to solve Climate Change” – utterly false and foolish, not even plausible enough to be specious. Then these same groups proposed their Final Solution, the “Great Reset”, a Chinese Communist Party style dictatorship, a centrally-controlled economy where we live like poor slaves, lorded over by our wealthy political masters.
The tragic reality is that the twin frauds of Climate-and-Covid have been accepted by most politicians. Some have covertly or overtly embraced extreme-left politics, and others are so simple-minded and gullible that they believe any falsehood that is repeated often enough. We are governed by scoundrels and imbeciles.
Is Laschet testing the possiblity to open door for AfD in a future government?
It would be a bomb…
Signs that the wind is changing in Europe (Italy has the right parties leading in all surveys).
Anyway, we’ve seen too many politicians in the recent past affecting what “science” says and too many “scientists” extremely eager to please them with their results, especially in climate science and COVID.