Straight Talk About War

Victor Davis Hanson, author of A War Like No Other and The Soul of Battle, among others, has this concise analysis of the present situation. I can think of no other essay that so entirely addresses every important point upon which our futures all depend. Please read it here.

More Cock Robin Defections

Melanie Phillips, who should be read often, has some interesting information about the expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This reminds me to go into the several reasons for Cock Robin’s recent Sky is falling obsession: human caused "Global Warming" See also here for her link to this interesting site about former believer and now enviroskeptic Claude Allegre, a French geophysicist.

Phillip quotes Mike Hulme, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, saying that

[O]ver the last few years a new environmental phenomenon has been cnstructed [sic]in this country - the phenomenon of ‘caastrophic’[sic]climate cange. It seems that mere ‘climate change’ was not going to be bad enough, and so now it must be ‘catastrophic’ to be worthy of attention.

The increasing use of this pejorative term - and its bedfellow qualifiers 'chaotic’, ‘irreversible’, ‘rapid’ - has altered the public discourse around climate change. This discourse is now characterised by phrases such as 'climate change is worse than we thought’, that we are approaching 'irreversible tipping in the Earth’s climate’, and that we are ‘at the point of no return’.

I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric…

I would add that the alarmists have other agendas. Firstly, to redistibute both power and money to multinational political institutions which can be controlled by a large number of undemocratic and anti-democratic states, to the loss of the Americans above all and to any European state that bucks the general trend to humble the US. If Kyoto were really about the environment, why would the Russians not be forced to pay instead of being recipients of "bad environmental citizens?" Look at a nighttime view of the Urals. See all those bright lights? They aren’t cities: they are 24/7 natural gas burn-offs. This stuff could be moved to market but for a pipeline. Where will they get the money if capitalists (boo!) want 50% for their risk (the gas belings to the Soviet — oops — the Russian people)?

Another one is even more amusing. Freud got a lot wrong but he’s right about this: we are witnessing his "return of the repressed content:" i.e. Christianity of the most primitive pre-scientific kind. Though about 93% of "Greenhouse gasses" are water vapour, the infinitessimal contribution of humans is said to be the thing pushing us into unavoidable chaos. We humans are evidently back at the center of the universe, as in the time of Galileo, and our actions determine the events of the universe! We have been bad and WE WILL BURN! Sound familiar?