These are the people you might have as allies - maybe there's something rotten in the basic ideas?

I have assembled some quotes from the intellectual leaders of the global warming alarmist movement and links to some recent articles. it is amazing how completely wrong they have been, and always in the same direction. While they forecast things getting much worse, they actually got much better. To preface all this, here is a quote from Alex Epstein, author, energy expert and philosopher, who studies how supposed experts lead us astray. 

 “Imagine if we had followed the advice of some of our leading advisors then, many of whom are some of our leading advisors now, to severely restrict the energy source that billions of people used to lift themselves out of poverty in the last thirty years? We would have caused billions of premature deaths  - deaths that were prevented by our increasing use of fossil fuels. What happens if today’s predictions are just as wrong?” “Today, proposals to restrict fossil fuels are more popular than ever.” Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, (New York, Penguin), 2014, 25-26.

“Average global temperatures would rise by one-half a degree to one degree Fahrenheit from 1990 to 2000 if current trends are unchanged, according to Dr. Hansen’s findings. Dr. Hansen said the global temperature would rise by another 2 to 4 degrees in the following decade.” Philip Shabecoff, “Swifter Warming of Globe Foreseen,”, New York Times, June 11, 1986.

“A few more decades of ungoverned fossil-fuel use and we burn up, to put it bluntly.” - originally printed in 1989, Bill McKibben, The End of Nature, rev. Ed. (New York, Random House, 2006, 128.

As University of California physicist John Holdren has said, it is possible that carbon-dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.”  - Paul Ehrlich, The Machinery of Nature (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1986),274.

Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist who was co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change, stated in an interview on 14 November 2010: “The climate summit in Cancún at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War.… [I]t’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization…. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.…”

Jeremy Rifkin on the potential development of clean, cheap, plentiful fusion power: "It's the worst thing that could happen to our planet."

Prince Philip: "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation... We need to cull the surplus population."

Ingrid Newkirk of PETA: "Mankind is a cancer; we're the biggest blight on the face of the earth." "Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."

Maurice Strong: "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized nations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?"

Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider: "In searching for a common enemy against which we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill." "The real enemy then is humanity itself."

Sir John Houghton, first IPCC co-chair: "If we want a good environmental policy in the future, we'll have to have a disaster." "Unless we announce disasters no one will listen."

Phil Jones on the sharing of scientific information: "If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send it to anyone." "Why should I make the data available when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it."

A Dictatorship Of Scientists  Dropping the veil of the pretense of being a scientific body, IPCC authors have asked for political powers. These are the people who get to decide who lives and dies, who is allowed to develop beyond poverty and starvation, and what energy sources the whole world will be permitted to use? Do we need even more dictators in the world? We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say "Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in despair at the slow pace of climate action. Five lead authors of IPCC reports told the Guardian that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC)."

A Dictatorship Of Economists  Force all businesses to embrace ESG, urges New Labour think tank Andrew O’Brien, the report’s author, said: “The evidence suggests that having a purpose alongside profit helps to provide a clear target to aim for and stimulates new approaches, encouraging investment and boosting growth.” 

However, Matthew Lesh at the Institute of Economic Affairs said Demos’s call for ESG to be imposed at all companies was “an extremely dangerous proposal”. He said: “The purpose of a business is business – to maximise profits for shareholders, and in the process provide a quality product to customers and a wage to workers – not to pursue progressive left social justice goals. The golden formula, which links self-interest of business with providing a product to others, has delivered immense human prosperity over the last two centuries. Any deviation risks undermining Britain’s fundamental institutions,” he said.

Dictatorship Of Taxpayer Subsidies and Debt The Crippling Economic Costs of Green Energy Subsidies "When the subsidies are tallied and the overall impacts evaluated, the IRA is a job and economic growth killer." "One gauge of the adverse economic impacts of green subsidies is the cost to taxpayers to create the promised thousands of green energy jobs, especially for offshore wind.  Using offshore wind developers’ claimed employment impacts, the average subsidy for each green job created will be over $2 million per year.  Forcing taxpayers to pay millions of dollars each year for each job created, while claiming that doing so will bolster the U.S. economy, is Alice in Wonderland economics."

COP28 And Fossil Fuels: Showdown Between Alarmists And Pragmatists

The speeches by Western leaders at COP26 could be fairly paraphrased as follows: You must give up fossil fuels or else the planet, with all of us in it, is doomed. We pledge money to help you. There is more, we promise. And new energy technologies are available to achieve our goals of decarbonization and net zero by 2050. Indeed, with solar and wind power, electric vehicles, green hydrogen and carbon capture and sequestration, the opportunities for new jobs and economic growth are bright. But stop new coal power plants right now, and oil and gas as soon as possible. We are all in this together.

The position of India’s Power Minister R. K. Singh, representing the world’s third largest energy consumer, is unequivocal. He stated on November 6th “There is going to be pressure on nations at COP-28 to reduce coal usage. We are not going to do this... we are not going to compromise on availability of power for our growth, even if it requires that we add coal-based capacity”.

The Penalty for Opposing Global Warmists "For the last five years, Scott Smith of Tumwater was a transportation planner for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). He was the primary WSDOT employee tasked with forecasting fuel consumption, pricing and revenues from gas taxes and fees. After 35 years working as a public sector economist, Smith said his career was ruined for his refusal to lie about how a new state policy, according to his mathematical calculations in early 2023, would jack up prices at the pump by 45 to 50 cents per gallon. He said the retaliation and pressure were so great he felt forced to resign."

Breathing is bad, y'all, because 'science'  'Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming,' Dr Cowan and colleagues say. 'We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.'

Some emissions are more equal than others "Professor Palmroth’s is the the very same logic that says the emissions of John Kerry flying by private jet and Al Gore living in a huge mansion are emissions well spent because the two advocate for the end of oil, gas, farming and other good things that will fix the Earth’s climate after the rest of us breathers broke it."

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe  Note that the catastrophe is not the vicious attack, murder, rape, torture and kidnapping committed by the attackers, who have committed to repeating attacks until the most free country in the region is wiped out and replaced by a theocratic dictatorship, but the carbon dioxide produced by the victim country in the process of defending innocents from such attacks. If you ever need an example of an inverted morality, here it is.