No nirvana, no relief, no destiny, no apocalypse
*
I dreamt of satori a sudden crystal wherein civilisation was
seen
more truly than with cameras but it was your world not ours
yours is a glut of martyrs money and carbon monoxide
I dreamt of next week perhaps then we would eat again sleep
in a house again
perhaps we would wake to find humanity where at present
freedom is obsolete and honour a heresy. Innocently
I dreamt that madness passes like a dream.
Michael Dransfield
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080303154249.aspx
I think the question you’re asking is who’s behind the scare. There’s been a long history of scares recently and scientific frauds of various kinds. It began, I suppose, with the eugenics movement in the 1930s which led to Hitler. It followed on with the Lysenko movement in Russia under Stalin. It went on with the great leap back under Chairman Mao which led again to tens of millions of deaths. The point you’re making is that this kills people if you get the science wrong.
You sell far more papers by saying, ‘Gee, wow – World to End; Shock; Sensation’ than you do by saying ‘Climate Continues to be Changeable,’ which is the truth. So where the media is largely closed on this, but the courts are not and that is the place where if you go and make a reasoned argument based on the science, you can always beat the other side, because their science – and we heard it over and over again today – is simply incorrect.
Now here we are once again with another scare. It’s the same people behind it. It’s the international left. It’s the media wanting a scare story. … It’s not so much a conspiracy I think, as a coincidence of outer interests who is set to take and advance their causes collectively by getting behind this nonsense.
They’ve got the science wrong and it will gradually penetrate to the general public that they have got the science wrong and once the penny drops – that will be the end of this scare too. We’re not far away from it now.
Lord Christopher Monkton
There was the smell of ink and the eiry rustle of paper, scraps of newspaper floating in the wind, the dock empty now, the shouts of men, the roar of the trucks, the thump of the loads as they hit the tray, it was all gone. He was in an ethereal place. Everything he did was in the abstract. The headlines rolled down the street with the random sheets, business man exposed, worst winter in 12 years, Ronald Reagan in hospital, a generation at risk. He was at risk, he could feel it, the erosion of time, the lack of peace, the constant tension. No one was going to save him, no one.
This sense of abandonment haunted him throughout his 30s and 40s. Where were they all gone? Why had the party stopped? How had he been so badly betrayed? What was once an adventure settled into a steady, shameful, overwhelming decay. It reflected everywhere, in the sweaty smell of his clothes, in the dank feel of his skin, in the condescending smiles as he became just another management issue, another alcoholic journalist. For years nothing was written without a double shot of bourbon. He would time himself some days. It would take him 12 minutes to get from his desk, down the lift, across the six lane highway, order a double bourbon and coke, down it and be back at his desk, waiting for the words to flow.
He remembered, always, the day when he entered the mainstream, those days when he went from hapless outsider knocking on the gates, a hapless outsider whose drug and alcohol consumption made him an unlikely candidate for success. He became even more silent. Nothing was given away. He would awake on the cold floor of remote public toilets, his car still idling and its door still open outside. He passed out, it seemed, wherever it was possible to pass out, frightened of success, they said, determined to failure. And it was failure that wreathed his every move, his every expression, his every word.
There wasn't going to be a happy ending, of that he was certain. Cold rafts of icy water spilled down through the grey stone steps, the depths hazy with lichen and the smell of decay, the bracing freshness of the water concealing the darkness that lay in the back of the cave. Oh rescue me, rescue me, he pleaded with no one as he crossed the traffic, dodging cars and breathing in pollution that was killing his lungs. He smoked. He drank. He joined in the eternal party. And they smiled knowingly as they pored him another drink, those quaint old queens behind the Australia Street Hotel.
Sometimes he would join the old guard, who, except on special occasions or free drinks on offer elsewhere, gathered each lunchtime for silver side and white sauce and beer after beer, flowing into the scotch. For months after the closure of The Sun the old warriors, journalists and subs who had drunk in the string of pubs down Broadway, that dreary pollution stained stretch of Sydney, the endlessly flowing artery that opened up to the even greater dreariness of the west, lost souls suffering the retirement they never sought would show up for long drinking sessons along the strip. He watched them with fascination and awe, these old men who knew the media industry inside out. Life was crimped, contained. He said nothing in case he made a mistake. He sat in groups, silently drinking, only answering when spoken to.
He gave nothing away, and nothing was given. This was the planet surface and these were his dying days. He could feel his spirit decaying by the day, dying under the weight of the alcohol, unable to stop. It was a brutal drug to be addicted to, and increasingly he was. They shouted, hey soldier, hey Stapo, his nickname, and nothing mattered as these shouts, far above the surface, never reached him. The world's not going to end today, people said, when they saw his long face. He grimaced what was meant to be a smile, and grew even more silent. They weren't struggling everyday to survive, not to die. They were born naturally happy, and he never was.
The world had been ending throughout his childhood, the coming apocalypse and the second coming inching closer by the day. But before paradise, before God remade the world, before he stepped in and saved the believers, he was to make mankind suffer with pestilence and disease, his wrath would wreak havoc amongst the non-believers, teach humanity an unambiguous lesson they could never forget. And yet in all this, the days kept coming afresh. He woke up each morning and the world had not ended. No matter how drunk he got he woke up the next day. No matter how bad the hangovers, he had to go to work. No matter how wicked the nights, how troublesome the orgies or crazy the person he woke up with was, he still came to consciousness in the frightening glare of morning, he still showered and dressed and started again. There was no nirvana, no relief, no destiny fulfilled, and certainly, no apocalypse. Was Revelation wrong after all, or had they just misinterpreted the timing?
THE BIGGER STORY:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientist-predicts-ice-age-within-10-years.html
As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant.
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican newspaper Milenio Diario.
Herrera slammed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) stance on global warming as “erroneous” because of their failure to factor in the impact of solar activity.
The models and forecasts of the IPCC “is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity,” said Herrera.
Herrera states that the earth is entering a natural phase of climate transition during which solar activity will diminish considerably, “so that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years.”
Herrera cited the growth in glaciers observed at the Andes, Perito Moreno, Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
A dramatic cooling trend is being observed across the planet even as people like Al Gore continue to claim that the threat of global warming mandates the poor and middle class be hit with CO2 taxes in order to prevent climate change.
Both anecdotal evidence and hard data indicates that the planet is in the beginning stages of a significant downturn in global temperatures.
Following the end of the Sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now plummeting.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-per-cent-in-a-year.html
Alarmist scientists who predicted that the North Pole could be “ice free” this summer as a result of global warming have been embarrassed after it was revealed that Arctic ice has actually grown by around 30 per cent in the year since August 2007.
Back in June, numerous prominent voices in the scientific community expressed fears of a mass melting of the polar ice caps, including David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, who told National Geographic Magazine, “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history].”
“This summer’s forecast—and unusual early melting events all around the Arctic—serve as a dire warning of how quickly the polar regions are being affected by climate change,” adds the article.
In February, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, told Xinhua, “If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions.”
As per usual, the reality has failed to match the hype of the climate doomsayers.
According to collated data from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Illinois, Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007. This is a conservative estimate based on the map projection.
But what of the Antarctic down south? Figures tell us that ice coverage in the year since August 2007 has grown by nearly one million square kilometers.
As The Register article notes, “The Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally, some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss.”
A general cooling trend across the planet is now clearly apparent as sunspot activity, the main driver of climate change, dwindles to almost nothing.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080303175301.aspx
Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
3/5/2008 9:00:18 AM
The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.
“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”
The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.
Coleman also told the audience his strategy for exposing what he called “the fraud of global warming.” He advocated suing those who sell carbon credits, which would force global warming alarmists to give a more honest account of the policies they propose.
“[I] have a feeling this is the opening,” Coleman said. “If the lawyers will take the case – sue the people who sell carbon credits. That includes Al Gore. That lawsuit would get so much publicity, so much media attention. And as the experts went to the witness stand and testified, I feel like that could become the vehicle to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming.”
Earlier at the conference Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told an audience that the science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away. He also said the courts were a good avenue to show the science.
Mural, Redfern Station, Sydney, Australia.
I dreamt of satori a sudden crystal wherein civilisation was
seen
more truly than with cameras but it was your world not ours
yours is a glut of martyrs money and carbon monoxide
I dreamt of next week perhaps then we would eat again sleep
in a house again
perhaps we would wake to find humanity where at present
freedom is obsolete and honour a heresy. Innocently
I dreamt that madness passes like a dream.
Michael Dransfield
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080303154249.aspx
I think the question you’re asking is who’s behind the scare. There’s been a long history of scares recently and scientific frauds of various kinds. It began, I suppose, with the eugenics movement in the 1930s which led to Hitler. It followed on with the Lysenko movement in Russia under Stalin. It went on with the great leap back under Chairman Mao which led again to tens of millions of deaths. The point you’re making is that this kills people if you get the science wrong.
You sell far more papers by saying, ‘Gee, wow – World to End; Shock; Sensation’ than you do by saying ‘Climate Continues to be Changeable,’ which is the truth. So where the media is largely closed on this, but the courts are not and that is the place where if you go and make a reasoned argument based on the science, you can always beat the other side, because their science – and we heard it over and over again today – is simply incorrect.
Now here we are once again with another scare. It’s the same people behind it. It’s the international left. It’s the media wanting a scare story. … It’s not so much a conspiracy I think, as a coincidence of outer interests who is set to take and advance their causes collectively by getting behind this nonsense.
They’ve got the science wrong and it will gradually penetrate to the general public that they have got the science wrong and once the penny drops – that will be the end of this scare too. We’re not far away from it now.
Lord Christopher Monkton
There was the smell of ink and the eiry rustle of paper, scraps of newspaper floating in the wind, the dock empty now, the shouts of men, the roar of the trucks, the thump of the loads as they hit the tray, it was all gone. He was in an ethereal place. Everything he did was in the abstract. The headlines rolled down the street with the random sheets, business man exposed, worst winter in 12 years, Ronald Reagan in hospital, a generation at risk. He was at risk, he could feel it, the erosion of time, the lack of peace, the constant tension. No one was going to save him, no one.
This sense of abandonment haunted him throughout his 30s and 40s. Where were they all gone? Why had the party stopped? How had he been so badly betrayed? What was once an adventure settled into a steady, shameful, overwhelming decay. It reflected everywhere, in the sweaty smell of his clothes, in the dank feel of his skin, in the condescending smiles as he became just another management issue, another alcoholic journalist. For years nothing was written without a double shot of bourbon. He would time himself some days. It would take him 12 minutes to get from his desk, down the lift, across the six lane highway, order a double bourbon and coke, down it and be back at his desk, waiting for the words to flow.
He remembered, always, the day when he entered the mainstream, those days when he went from hapless outsider knocking on the gates, a hapless outsider whose drug and alcohol consumption made him an unlikely candidate for success. He became even more silent. Nothing was given away. He would awake on the cold floor of remote public toilets, his car still idling and its door still open outside. He passed out, it seemed, wherever it was possible to pass out, frightened of success, they said, determined to failure. And it was failure that wreathed his every move, his every expression, his every word.
There wasn't going to be a happy ending, of that he was certain. Cold rafts of icy water spilled down through the grey stone steps, the depths hazy with lichen and the smell of decay, the bracing freshness of the water concealing the darkness that lay in the back of the cave. Oh rescue me, rescue me, he pleaded with no one as he crossed the traffic, dodging cars and breathing in pollution that was killing his lungs. He smoked. He drank. He joined in the eternal party. And they smiled knowingly as they pored him another drink, those quaint old queens behind the Australia Street Hotel.
Sometimes he would join the old guard, who, except on special occasions or free drinks on offer elsewhere, gathered each lunchtime for silver side and white sauce and beer after beer, flowing into the scotch. For months after the closure of The Sun the old warriors, journalists and subs who had drunk in the string of pubs down Broadway, that dreary pollution stained stretch of Sydney, the endlessly flowing artery that opened up to the even greater dreariness of the west, lost souls suffering the retirement they never sought would show up for long drinking sessons along the strip. He watched them with fascination and awe, these old men who knew the media industry inside out. Life was crimped, contained. He said nothing in case he made a mistake. He sat in groups, silently drinking, only answering when spoken to.
He gave nothing away, and nothing was given. This was the planet surface and these were his dying days. He could feel his spirit decaying by the day, dying under the weight of the alcohol, unable to stop. It was a brutal drug to be addicted to, and increasingly he was. They shouted, hey soldier, hey Stapo, his nickname, and nothing mattered as these shouts, far above the surface, never reached him. The world's not going to end today, people said, when they saw his long face. He grimaced what was meant to be a smile, and grew even more silent. They weren't struggling everyday to survive, not to die. They were born naturally happy, and he never was.
The world had been ending throughout his childhood, the coming apocalypse and the second coming inching closer by the day. But before paradise, before God remade the world, before he stepped in and saved the believers, he was to make mankind suffer with pestilence and disease, his wrath would wreak havoc amongst the non-believers, teach humanity an unambiguous lesson they could never forget. And yet in all this, the days kept coming afresh. He woke up each morning and the world had not ended. No matter how drunk he got he woke up the next day. No matter how bad the hangovers, he had to go to work. No matter how wicked the nights, how troublesome the orgies or crazy the person he woke up with was, he still came to consciousness in the frightening glare of morning, he still showered and dressed and started again. There was no nirvana, no relief, no destiny fulfilled, and certainly, no apocalypse. Was Revelation wrong after all, or had they just misinterpreted the timing?
THE BIGGER STORY:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientist-predicts-ice-age-within-10-years.html
As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant.
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican newspaper Milenio Diario.
Herrera slammed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) stance on global warming as “erroneous” because of their failure to factor in the impact of solar activity.
The models and forecasts of the IPCC “is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity,” said Herrera.
Herrera states that the earth is entering a natural phase of climate transition during which solar activity will diminish considerably, “so that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years.”
Herrera cited the growth in glaciers observed at the Andes, Perito Moreno, Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
A dramatic cooling trend is being observed across the planet even as people like Al Gore continue to claim that the threat of global warming mandates the poor and middle class be hit with CO2 taxes in order to prevent climate change.
Both anecdotal evidence and hard data indicates that the planet is in the beginning stages of a significant downturn in global temperatures.
Following the end of the Sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now plummeting.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-per-cent-in-a-year.html
Alarmist scientists who predicted that the North Pole could be “ice free” this summer as a result of global warming have been embarrassed after it was revealed that Arctic ice has actually grown by around 30 per cent in the year since August 2007.
Back in June, numerous prominent voices in the scientific community expressed fears of a mass melting of the polar ice caps, including David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, who told National Geographic Magazine, “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history].”
“This summer’s forecast—and unusual early melting events all around the Arctic—serve as a dire warning of how quickly the polar regions are being affected by climate change,” adds the article.
In February, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, told Xinhua, “If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions.”
As per usual, the reality has failed to match the hype of the climate doomsayers.
According to collated data from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Illinois, Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007. This is a conservative estimate based on the map projection.
But what of the Antarctic down south? Figures tell us that ice coverage in the year since August 2007 has grown by nearly one million square kilometers.
As The Register article notes, “The Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally, some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss.”
A general cooling trend across the planet is now clearly apparent as sunspot activity, the main driver of climate change, dwindles to almost nothing.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080303175301.aspx
Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
3/5/2008 9:00:18 AM
The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.
“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”
The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.
Coleman also told the audience his strategy for exposing what he called “the fraud of global warming.” He advocated suing those who sell carbon credits, which would force global warming alarmists to give a more honest account of the policies they propose.
“[I] have a feeling this is the opening,” Coleman said. “If the lawyers will take the case – sue the people who sell carbon credits. That includes Al Gore. That lawsuit would get so much publicity, so much media attention. And as the experts went to the witness stand and testified, I feel like that could become the vehicle to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming.”
Earlier at the conference Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told an audience that the science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away. He also said the courts were a good avenue to show the science.
Mural, Redfern Station, Sydney, Australia.
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