Greta Thunberg--A Useful Tool, Easily Dismissed

Playing the Game

Greta Thunberg is a blame-shifter extraordinaire.  She finds it entertaining to point the finger at people older than herself.  She wants to place all that is wrong in the world at the feet of her parents.  And she carries a big stick.  If we will not listen to her, she will damn and condemn us for eternity.  

Thunberg tells us that things are obvious.  The threats from climate change are obviously real.  Older people have known all about this and done NOTHING! 

"For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear," Thunberg said. "How dare you continue to look away and come here and say you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still no where in sight.

"You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that, because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe."  [Stuff]

Well, have we got unfortunate news for poor Greta.   Nothing is going to change.  Nuffing.  Get that.  The reason is that poor Greta has been hoodwinked.

Broken Records

Last Year's Apocalypse

It's amazing how the worm has turned on the Great Global Warming crusade.  It has happened so quickly.  Suddenly its not fashionable nor feasible any longer to blow the trumpets to marshal the troops to fight global warming.  Grand colloquies of nations now deign not to make mention of it when a year ago they would have been blowing the trumpets and sounding the klaxons.

Why?  Exhaustion must be a factor.  Another might be that its yesterday's cause, and the world is facing other apocalypses du jour, like evil Mr Putin spoiling Hillary Clinton's chances in the recent US election.  The globalists in general are feeling cold winds blowing up their drawers, what with the US declaring it's going to reduce its funding of globalist causes, and become much more critical of the UN, and cut unnecessary spending.  Turning off the money spigot will have the effect of discarding "nice to haves".  Fighting global warming was always a cosmetic campaign.  The longer it has continued, the more the make up has dried and peeled off.

The longer it has continued, the global warming cause has become more and more ridiculous.  Here is an example:

Bread Causes Global Warming Shock

Tears Dropping Upon the Bowl of Morning Porridge

It's All Over, Rover

Doomsday has arrived for the Doomsday Clock.  We at Contra Celsum are enjoying hearty chuckles over the dissipation of angst that will now attend the Doom Ticker.

Columnist Bob Brockie described the history of Doomageddon's clock, and how it has morphed into meaninglessness.

The Doomsday Clock is not what it used to be. In its early days, the clock simply measured the threat of nuclear war but this year is quite different. The atomic scientists have widened the range of world threats to include climate change, genetically engineered alien flu strains, transgenic plants that could be malignly used to produce toxic proteins, potential paramilitary robots with a license to kill, hackers crashing the grid, giant asteroids, fake news but, above all, that horseman of the apocalypse, Donald Trump, whose strident nationalism, inflammatory rhetoric and his dismissal of scientific expertise threatens us all.  Scary stuff. No wonder that they've moved the clock 2.5 minutes closer to midnight.  [Stuff]

The multitudinous Apocalypse du Jour crowd have taken over the Doomsday Clock.  It seems that folk cannot live without the chill winds of fear cooling down their morning porridge into a tepid slurry of multi-variate, competing dooms.  The problem with this is twofold.

Manic Passion

Saving Mankind Is Exhausting

About once a week we get messages alerting us to the latest Apocalypse D'Jour.  Recipients are invited to sign an e-petition to save the world from this or that.  The apocalypse changes its shape, but the passion attending each threat is compelling.  We absolutely have to save the planet, mankind, the wilderbeests, the inverted grey snail darter, etc. etc.

One can understand the frantic exhaustion so often displayed upon the faces of the left of left-centre Leftists.  So many vital causes, such little time.  Here is the latest offering, entitled "One Man To Destroy Us All":

Catastrophism and Greenmail

The Great Irony of our Day

When C0₂ is released into the atmosphere, wonderful things happen.  These things are so basic and obvious that a ten year old middle schooler can grasp them (provided they attend a reactionary institute that still teaches science).  But adults long ago gave up on science and replaced it with ideological catastrophism.  There is a certain attraction to believing the world is on the verge of destruction.  It relieves the general ennui.  It makes one feel alive.  Much like the endorphin laden thrill anticipating a bungy-jump. 

Carbon dioxide, we are told, is going to destroy the planet by heating the atmosphere and baking us all to death.  Except for a couple of realities.  The first is that C0₂ is a "heavy" gas and one would expect that it would naturally slurp around the surface of the earth, rather than head off into the upper atmosphere.  This is good news because of another reality: large amounts of carbon dioxide are absorbed by the oceans and green growing things.  It is the latter which interests us.

The reality is that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide greens the earth.  It is the greenest gas there is.  Ideological Greenists stupidly oppose the cutting down of the world's forests and the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The latter is critical to the preservation and growth of forests.  What the left hand gives, the right hand would snatch away.  Despite the best efforts from the luddite Greenists, it turns out that the world's forests are growing much faster thanks to all the wonderful food they are getting from increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The Greening of the Earth

90 Percent of CO2 Emissions Go Towards Fuelling Rapid Forest Growth Rate

by Donna Rachel Edmunds  

The End is Nigh

Fashionable Nutters

The Climate Change Doomsday Cult has tossed up more than its fair share of nutters.  If you stupidly, but genuinely, believe that "the end is nigh" for the human race, let alone the planet, then such desperate times call for desperate measures.  We can understand the logic, just as we grasp the logic of those who have believed that the world will end at midnight on the 13th of June, 2001 (or whenever) and who have traipsed out into the desert to set up survivalist compounds, thereby avoiding the worst of Armageddon.

In each case, the logic is sound; it's the premises that are false.  The Climate Change Doomsday Cult has  this one distinction from apocalyptic forbears, however.  It has managed to capture the fears and febrile imagination of the chattering classes and the Commentariat, normally too urbane and sophisticated to get taken in by Doomsday cults.  Here are a couple of examples of the elites having been suckered.  First, the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, as reported in BreitbartNews: