Among the many false beliefs with which people have been brainwashed, the belief that human generation of carbon dioxide is causing the Earth’s atmosphere to heat up is one of the most pervasive.
It’s disappointing to see public officials like Brownie Newman forcing this false belief on the rest of us [“Buncombe Commissioners Set Bar High for Carbon Reductions,” Dec. 17 Xpress].
They do it by repeating, parrot-like, the same false assertions that they themselves have been brainwashed with, e.g., the science is settled — humans are causing climate change.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels formulated the principle of “The Big Lie.” If you choose a lie that’s big enough and keep repeating it over and over, the people will come to believe it. Such is the case with the big lie that CO2 caused by human activity is causing global warming, now deceptively termed “climate change.”
Just dress it up with an appearance of science and environmentalism and people will believe anything.
CO2 is not a pollutant and has never caused the atmosphere to warm. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admits that there has been no warming over the last 16 years.
The pursuit of energy efficiency is worthy, but basing it on a false premise is deluded.
— Michael Ivey
Haw Creek
This is so crazy. Michael are you a Koch kin? There is so much proof, consensus and agreement about CO2 and human influence on climate change that seeing this is like seeing evidence that smoking is not linked to lung cancer.
2 reasoned articles
http://climate.nasa.gov/causes
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/18/7_ways_to_shut_down_a_climate_change_denier_partner/
um, no, there is conjecture from computer models that don’t compare well with observed data…that’s not the same thing as proof. Science isn’t based on consensus, it’s based on observable data that either supports or negates a hypothesis. In Galileo’s time, there was consensus that the earth was the center of the universe, but he demonstrated with careful observation that it wasn’t and the consensus believers labeled him a heretic (denier nowadays) despite the data. No observed data today shows any statistically significant temperature rise or sea level rise worthy of alarm in the last 17 years…this is the data as reported by the latest IPCC reports itself. Read it. At a loss for why the data doesn’t support them, they are now trying to claim the energy has gone into the deep ocean….a scientist must entertain that it was a poor hypothesis to begin with and note that it was politically motivated. Besides, you should probably take anything politicians say as “Truth” under the guise of science that they are using to justify raising taxes with a healthy dose of skepticism instead of merely parroting what is being said by them. Good luck thinking this through, it’s hard to wake up from constant media brainwashing.
Right, and smoking doesn’t cause cancer, the world is flat and the sun revolves around it. Bury your head in the sand all you want but the big lie that is repeated over and over is the one that has been repeated enough that Mr. Ivey now believes it and is writing letters to MX to perpetuate.
Cheer up, every year almost without fail some climate scientists get stranded in the ice or have to cancel their winter meeting due to unusually cold weather and Al Gore’s “the polar regions ice-free by 2013” threats become more comical than frightening. The Earth don’t care.