The wind and sun cult reckon that with a few tweaks and twists we’ll soon be running on nothing but sunshine and breezes. It is, of course, a collective delusion, bound up in a woolly-headed brand of undergraduate Marxism – the kind enamoured of starry-eyed arts and sociology students, around the globe.
On their world view, if we only left them in charge for long enough, all the world’s faults and ills would be fixed in a jiffy.
The latest wheeze is controlling the weather. Unable to demonstrate global warming (strangely deemed ‘catastrophic’) – the data simply wouldn’t cooperate – the propagandists within their ranks flipped the switch to ‘climate change’, as ill-defined and unscientific a tag as could ever be imagined. The climate has never been ‘constant’, change is endemic to the model.
But, having invented something to be afraid of, the cult assures us that they have all in hand, if only the rest of us would either get out of their way or simply follow their lead.
In the Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Adam Smith identified the character in question as ‘the man of system’:
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess–board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess–board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess–board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it.
Then, as now, the ‘man of system’ looks to invent an urgent ‘crisis’ and profit from its (bogus) solution. These days, it’s the push for Net-Zero carbon dioxide gas emissions targets as a ‘solution’ to every unwelcome weather event, as Viv Forbes explains below.
Achieving Net Zero
Richardson Post
Viv Forbes
2 February 2023
According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter and the hills with wind machines and then slaughter all of our cattle. . . global climate will become serene – not too warm, not too cold. Wild weather will cease, and there will be no more droughts, floods, cyclones or snow storms and no more plant and animal extinctions.
But the records written in the rocks tell a far different story about climate changes. Even when nature was in full control, it was not a serene place.
Long before the first steam engine puffed along the first railway, earth was periodically battered by natural disasters – earthquakes, tidal waves, pole shifts, magnetic reversals, volcanic eruptions, wild weather and droughts. Huge areas were covered by suffocating continents of ice, desert sands, massive flows of mud and lava, beds of salt and thick coal seams. Thousands of species disappeared including dinosaurs, mammoths and Australia’s megafauna.
Modern humans are not immune to the threat of extinction, but it will not come from today’s warm, moist, atmosphere or from the gas of life, carbon dioxide. It will probably come from the next glacial climate cycle of this era, where long bitter glacial eras are separated by short warm periods. These global weather cycles are triggered by changing orbits in the solar system.
In every short warm era like today’s Holocene, the warming oceans expel enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to support the abundant plant and animal life that currently surrounds us. But never has this “global warming” prevented the cyclic return of the ice. The Holocene warm era in which we live has already passed its peak and long before we reach Net Zero Emissions, the cold will return.
When blizzards blow and glaciers grow, the great ice sheets will spread again. Carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere into the cooling oceans and most of mankind will be threatened by frosts, droughts, crop failures and starvation. A lucky few living in equatorial regions or clustered in shelters and hot houses around coal or nuclear power stations may survive.
Those still able to extract uranium, coal, oil or gas may manage to generate enough warmth and carbon dioxide plant food to partly offset the cold sun, the permafrost and the dry, barren atmosphere. And a few with appropriate skills and tools may become hunters and gatherers again (but most Neanderthals did not survive the last glacial cycle).
We should celebrate, not fear, the Modern Warm Era and give thanks for the many benefits gained from using those marvellous natural stores of hydro-carbon and nuclear energy to warm our homes, pump water, recharge batteries and feed our animals and plants.
These good times will not last forever.
When the ice returns, derelict wind turbines and snow-bound solar panels will remain as stark tomb-stones in the graveyard of the failed Green religion.
Richardson Post
About stopthesethings
STOP THESE THINGS 
Renewables only generate electricity, but manufacture nothing for society.
What is the plan to identify the replacement for the oil derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products and all the fuels for the merchant ships, aircraft, militaries, and space programs that support the 8 billion on this planet?
The video has already been viewed by more than 800,000! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/stf2YrznkZU
Stephen Schneider is one of the deacons of the climate cult. At the time when “scientists” were worrying about the coming ice age, he wrote on page 139 in “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate,” Science, July 9, 1971.:
“From our calculation, a doubling of CO2, produces a tropospheric [lower atmosphere] temperature change of 0.8°K. However, as more CO2 is added to the atmosphere, the rate of temperature increase is proportionally less and less, and the increase eventually levels off. Even for an increase in CO2 by a factor of 10, the temperature increase does not exceed 2.5°K.
“Therefore, the runaway greenhouse effect does not occur because the 15-μm CO2 band, which is the main source of absorption, ‘saturates,’ and the addition of more CO2 does not substantially increase the infrared opacity of the atmosphere.”
The conclusion is “we can’t prevent the ice age by burning fossil fuels.”
What’s “saturation?”
Imagine that your glass greenhouse roof absorbs or reflects 90% of the infrared light that is re-radiated when plants and soil are warmed by visible light.
Adding a second layer doesn’t absorb or reflect 180% of it. The second layer absorbs 90% of the 10% that got past the first layer.
Now read this again and replace “glass” with “carbon dioxide.”
Munchhausen by Proxy?
Well hold my beer!
The zealot is truly a unique individual. I hope the twitter ramblings of such individuals could be catalogued in the Smithsonian institute and their bodies cryogenically stored so that future generations can study what the fricken hell went wrong.
Exhibit number 1
My old mate Yoda Yates is out of hibernation after a torrid couple of years and back on twitter.
The former CEO of the green bank, renewables investor and failed Kooyong candidate has long pushed the renewables bandwagon with fervent zeal.
However the zealot has no shame. In a recent twitter post he condemns the proposal of a French company of putting a floating wind farm off the Central NSW coast.
Yoda laments “..the project will destroy the sun rise every morning and the moon rise in the evenings across the central coast and northern beaches.
During the Covid pandemic lock downs, Yoda often tweeted of his joy at being able to escape to his holiday home on the Central NSW coast with an accompanying photo of the beach with waves rolling in photo.
Yoda seems to take adage from George Orwell’s quote “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
https://www.google.com/search?q=twittwe+oliver+yates&oq=twittwe+oliver+yates&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30.10380j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Welcome back SOAG.Love your work!!
Cheers Bill, always read my STT.
What’s happened to our mate Dan Van Pelican since losing his seat?
Dan the Pellicaan is probably living very well on his under the table payments from one Malcolm Bligh Turnbull.The Dirty Deals done in and around Port Augusta in the RE world should be the subject of a Royal Commission.It was only after Turnbull shafted Tony Abbott that the Willogoleeche WF went ahead. I suspect that it was part of the Deal Turnbull did with the Frogs when he ordered the Victa Lawnmower engine powered Submarines that do not yet exist.On Windy days up here in the Mid North all of the AGL branded windmills are shut off whilst the Hornsdale and Willogoleeche run at full noise. Both are owned and operated by French owned entities including Engie which is a Government owned operation. The other mob Noeon is tearing apart the hills South of Burra to plant another 28 Useless Noisy Oil Leaking Subsidy Sucking Windturbines in the ground and destroying the habitat of the endangered Pygmy Blue Tounge Lizard.All to send 100 MW of electricity to the Greentard infested ACT whenever the wind decides to blow a bit.It all seems farcical to think that the Frogs are flat out Raping the Environment here to install more Wind Capacity in SA that already has 800 MW of unwanted electricity on windy days when the mob responsible for building the new Extension Cord from Wagga Wagga to Redcliffe have gone broke big time.That just happens to the same Major Contractor that is building Turnbulls other Brain Fart known as Snowy Hydro 2. Said power cord if it ever happens has a supposed capacity of 800 MW.According to the blurb put out by the French Windweasles,Giles P and the Moose Twit CEO of the Local Council The Frogs are going to install another 400 5 MW Windturbines, 500 MW of Sunshades and the obligatory Big Battery of course at the Goyder South PBTL killing zone.Interesting times are ahead!
Brilliant and sadly more than likely true
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/holocene-context-for-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming/