By James Stansbury, AMERICAN THINKER
Recently, I viewed a 12-minute YouTube video by Tony Heller, released 9/20/2019. He described it as “my gift to climate alarmists” and added: “This is my most concise expose of climate fraud. Please pass it around to everyone you know and your elected officials. The video is a little short, but cuts right to the heart of the matter.” Be advised that the video is totally devoid of slick Hollywood production techniques, and the narration is monotone, but does cut to the heart of the matter.
Before sharing, I took the precaution of researching Tony Heller. Google listed several negative references up front that basically discredited him as a climate science–denying fraud. However, digging deeper, I found he is well educated, often contributes to Watts Up With That?, and has occasionally used the pen name Steven Goddard. His rather uniquely formatted website, titled Real Climate Science, contains his unorthodox yet impressive résumé. Here was found evidence that Scott Adams of Dilbert fame considers Tony the skeptic he finds most convincing.
My career involved business analytics using the same math and charting methods as those applied to climate data. Therefore, I am familiar with the misleading techniques demonstrated in the video. I have also felt pressure from senior management to use questionable data, omit contradictory findings, or adjust measurement scales to exaggerate or understate trend changes if necessary to support their desired solution.
Obviously, this type of data deception works best when the intended audience lacks the technical expertise to know it is being sold a fantasy. It is even easier when the fantasy is something many truly want to believe (e.g., Greta Thunberg and other Extinction Rebellion participants). The ultimate fantasy solution to prevent a climate catastrophe requires that big government be given the power to regulate man-caused CO2 and those infinitesimal amounts of methane from cow flatulence. Never mind that total atmospheric CO2 is 0.04% (the equivalent clout of 4 pennies versus a $100 bill) and that today’s slightly higher CO2 levels have significantly increased worldwide crop yields.
Sadly, the truth contained in Tony’s video will never overcome the emotion-fueled political advantage of having a simple, taxable villain like CO2. No wonder politicians, media, academia, and the green energy industrial complex will protect this lucrative fantasy at all costs. Nevertheless, I recommend watching the video, here or below. Then you decide.
I cannot see any difference between the lies against Michael Mann and so on, and the lies of Trump to the Kurds. They both are coming from the heart of this corrupt capitalism, aka Imperialism, aka American and British Imperialism. But of the two sets of lie situations, the lies on Global Warming and against scientists like Michael Mann are far more important. Far more serious and important because involved is the issue of all life itself.
can we have some facts from the people involved
Is the rise in temperature about 1 degree centigrade?
Are we moving towards 2 degree centigrade? When and what is the tempo of this thing?
What is the effect now of 1 degree rise?
What is the truth about melting of the Arctic and melting of the Glaciers?
Have any of the commenters including Ted Belman googled these questions and have they come up with any certain answers?
if they have not, anybody, tried to come up with answers to these basic questions is it not better to say they are not interested,and end this farcical discussion?
James Stansbury should come back and explain this paragraph in scientific terms:
“Obviously, this type of data deception works best when the intended audience lacks the technical expertise to know it is being sold a fantasy. It is even easier when the fantasy is something many truly want to believe (e.g., Greta Thunberg and other Extinction Rebellion participants). The ultimate fantasy solution to prevent a climate catastrophe requires that big government be given the power to regulate man-caused CO2 and those infinitesimal amounts of methane from cow flatulence. Never mind that total atmospheric CO2 is 0.04% (the equivalent clout of 4 pennies versus a $100 bill) and that today’s slightly higher CO2 levels have significantly increased worldwide crop yields.
It may seem small but it is higher at that level than at any time in the history of earth and I believe that there is evidence to prove that.
Would mr Sansbury like to address that issue.
Mr Sansbury what is the science, the actual science, of CO2?
And it is possible as he says that some crops are growing more since there is more CO2 around, but CO2 is also an atmospheric gas and it is causing a heating of the earth, causing in turn mass desertification.
Also dealt with in the very important book facing the Anthropocene by Canadian Marxist Ian Angus is an analysis of the Fossil economy of Capitalism. What after all is the oil economy. it is the extraction and burning of oil which has been created over billions of years by nature, an extraction inside of some decades.
Do you really think it LIKELY thatcapitalism can do that and have no repercussions from nature itself? is that Likely?
Do you have nothing at all to say about that even froma common sense point of view.
Is capitalist man so arrogant that he thinks he can do what he likes with Nature?
the fraud is by Heller and it is not difficult to understand. He adopts a holier than thou attitude but his “science” is false. he tries to confuse by mumbo jumbo, and it is, over dates which are of no consequence. the science behind the graph by michael mann has been extended to a period of time of ten thousand years.
But that is not the killer punch to Heller. It is that Heller talks about America. Mann did not. Mann talked about the globe, that is Earth.
As far as the atmoshere and CO2 is concerned CO2 is a very beneficial thing indeed and has kept the earth warm during the Miocene. this has allowed agriculture to develop. but the capitalist system in its drive for profit has pushed too much of this gas out there. the oceans have tried to soak it up but again this has caused oxidation of the oceans. note this is quite apart from other issues such as plastic. I refer specifically to CO2.
the best book to understand this is “facing the Anthropocene” by Canadian Marxist Ian Angus and his blog climateandcapitalism.com