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Global warming....er ah.....climate change is such a colossal lie. It reminds me of the book Animal Farm. All the global warming elites flying around in jets while lecturing us about carbon footprint. Most of the people who are rabid about this topic are making money from it, either directly or indirectly.

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Ely's avatar

Well if you can get hold of people like climatologist and atmospheric physicist like Richard Lindzen.

Or Astrophysicist, Garth Paltridge, who was Chief research scientist at the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies. I actually sat next to him on a flight to the U.S. a few years ago when he was retiring. He said that he would not dare speak out until he retired. He was actually going to a Climate Skeptics conference in Chicago.

Then there is geologist, Professor Ian Plimer who has been on the media a lot and has written a number of books on the subject. Plimer will definitely take on anyone. He is a very sharp and articulate fellow.

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Traffer's avatar

Slightly off subject, but are they really fossil fuels as opposed to simply hydrocarbons?

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080213.html The moon Titan is covered with the stuff. Enter Colonel Fletcher Prouty, (a very interesting guy who was in the center of the halls of power during some of the more 'colorful' days in US history. The JFK character Mr. X was based off of Prouty. You'll remember he was on his way back from the South Pole when JFK was shot.) According to Prouty, 'fossil fuels' was an invented term by petroleum companies to promote the idea of scarcity for an abundant resource, all so they could get a better price for their product, much like De Beers does by controlling the supply of diamonds. Found the Prouty interview - https://youtu.be/zSff0pwc1Xc

First comment off that video. "23 years I drilled for oil all over and not once did any geologist ever call it a fossil fuel. It’s a mineral and there is so much of it. We did core samples in southern Saskatchewan in Canada and had tens of meters of oil soaked cores. I’m talking sweet light crude. Think of that to drill 4000 meters straight down and for 100’s of meters it’s nothing but oil. That’s a lot. But nothing was said they boxed it up and we cemented the well moved the rig off they cut the casing and buried it. Makes you wonder why…cause there is more oil than you can possibly imagine under our feet."

More off topic, the series of interviews of Prouty are very interesting. One sticks out. He was in Okinawa the day the armistice was signed with Japan. Before the atomic bombs were dropped, we had invaded and defeated Japan in Okinawa. And we were staging tons and tons of munitions and supplies for the coming invasion of the home islands. Okinawa was a nightmare. Imagine the tonnage of military supplies necessary to invade the rest of the country. War's over, now what? Prouty found out that day, September 2, 1945 while the Japanese were up in Tokyo signing the armistice on the Missouri. Back in Okinawa, they were already loading the supplies; half being shipped to Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, the other half went to Korea.

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Prouty's book, "The Secret Team" is a must read, if you can find it. He knew Oswald was a "patsey" because Prouty read in an Austrlian news paper that Oswald had killed Kennedy a day before it actually happened. As an aside, my father test fired the rifle allegedly used by Oswald, and said, "It could not have been used to kill the president." There were just too many issues with it, on of which is that it was highly inaccurate. Another great book is "Me and Lee" by Judy Varey Baker. She was Lee' girl friend in New Orleans prior to the assassination, and the books explains what was actually going on. Again my father interviewed "Jack Ruby" about two years before the assassination. My dad was a "Special Agent" who worked against the Mob most of his career. Ruby was connected to the Mob.

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THE rifle? Not a Carcano M38, but the actual one found in the book depository? That's an amazing part of history. Me and Lee was a great book. Judy Baker has a very compelling story. Have you ever seen RFK Jr. interviewed by Mike Tyson, of all people. There's a part where RFK is asked about his family. Not exactly like the childhood I remember. One thing interesting came up, something I'd always taken to be true, the mob's intervention into the election for JFK in Chicago. I find RFK's take on the story to be very interesting. I always bought into grandpa Kennedy being a rum runner. Not so says RFK Jr. The Secret Team added to my list. Thank you!

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I honestly don't know which rifle. I know there was another one found in the depository that was not a Carcano. I think it was German. I think the rifle my dad tested was the Carcano, but he didn't actually say. My dad's story is corroborated by an FBI agent talking with Len Osanick. The FBI agent said he was with a Special Agent from the Western States who was purported to be an excellent marksman. That person had to be my dad, because my dad always bragged about being the only agent to qualify with a perfect score. The FBI agent said he outshot my dad that day. I don't know about the RFK interview. There is a book about the Denver Mob, but my dad is not mentioned in the book, but he should have been, because I know he worked against the Smaldones most of his career.

https://smile.amazon.com/Smaldone-Untold-Story-American-Family/dp/1555917062/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1IKUL3ABE7NW5&keywords=The+Denver+Mob&qid=1656166374&sprefix=the+denver+mob%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-5

I play tennis is a lady that went to high school with one of the Smaldone daughters. The son is my age.

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Traffer's avatar

Incredible history. I've always been fascinated with the JFK assassination. Thanks for sharing!

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Ely's avatar

Fossil refers to the compression over millions of years of dead animals and plants, so they are ‘fossilized’ remnants in rock

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IPA's avatar

It's my understanding the minerals replace the bone in an actual fossil. That's why the Mamouth Pit is not fossilized. The bones are actual bones and they are very fragile. In fact they are impregnating the bones with resin as they uncover them. The Wooly Mamouths are very large hairy elephants that were roaming the center of the present day US about 10,000 years ago. A lot of them got stuck in a single large pit. Here's another deal: There are large open pit coal mines in southern Wyoming just north of the Colorado boarder. A large trainload of coal passes through Denver every afternoon on it's way somewhere south. I've seen the coal pits from the air, and they are huge. In the same area to the west, there is a massive field of wind generators on a ridge.

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Traffer's avatar

So, fossils on Titan?

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IPA's avatar

I don't know, but I seriously doubt man set foot on the moon.

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A millenarian cult based on the lie of human-caused global warming based on the never proven hypothesis that CO2 directly causes warming in the troposphere. Just looking at historic ice cores it can be seen that warming comes before the increase of CO2! Solar activity runs in 11 year cycles and ramps up and down over many decades or longer is just one contributing factor. The complexity of a planetary climate is astounding, yet hydras such as the WEF and UN push the conceit that puny humans can control the temperature like a thermostat on an AC unit! Braindead governments just go along with that and here we are...

Australia is so backward when it comes to nuclear power - block something which would enable cheap and always-on electricity with no CO2 emissions to appease the communist Greens at the same time. Couldn't have that now could we?

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Ely's avatar

Yes, you are correct, I didn’t mention the sunspot cycle which affects the earth’s climate.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Re Steffensen, he did qualify his statements.

"But he is concerned that human activities could be “tipping the climate into an intermediate period of climate changes…. We can face a climate change that happens just as fast as the financial crisis,” Steffensen says. In that case, agricultural activity worldwide could be adversely affected … “the weather will change, and it will not change back” quickly."

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/10/humans-experimenting-with-climates-playing-nice/

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I see there is a sea level rise shill down below. Sea level has been rising for a long time. If the planet warms the 2.5mm per year rise will possibly continue. It was 1.25mm until 100 years or so ago. Even at the current rate it will only amount to ten inches by 2121. We also have the ban methane activists in the media to consider. They obviously prefer GMO plants to well raised grass fed critters. The former causes women to become less fertile but that is the aim of the UN Agenda 21 (now 2030). Population reduction is popular amongst the elite. Fewer people means easier to control and more fossil fuel left for them to use. Replacing all the current ICE vehicles will require more energy likely from coal fired power stations. I wonder which countries are building more coal fired stations? Solar panels cover good land for minimal output and wind farms only work when there is wind and miles of copper to link them to the mains. Neither work 24/7 and both will require replacement in the short term. Both have a negative effect on wild life and the poorest peoples. All of us must oppose this craziness by becoming squeaky wheels. Make a noise to drown out the idiots' lies and have our leaders replaced asap by followers of facts with some brain power to understand the world.

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The trolls have turned up I see Ely. With familiar follow profiles. Starting to get more like Twitter here every day.

I agree that C02 is good for plants. And that the current mess is manufactured. And that there's a lot of bullshit around electric cars.

But warmer temperatures imply less ice and that implies sea level rise. I doubt that the coastal cities of the world would like that so much. And many places would not handle another few degrees of temperature either, there is a limit for both humans and plants.

Also the guys graph was going up somewhat alarmingly after 1850. But it seems the video cut out at that bit.

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Ely's avatar

Yes I think they target key words like "abortion" and "climate change".

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IPA's avatar

I see the problem as being one of overpopulation, and products not being manufactured close to the area of end use. Just moving product consumes a massive amount of energy. I drive to a tennis court that is not the closest to my house. On the other hand, I probably couldn't find a game close by. I drive a Honda FIT, on average I get 34 MPG around mile high Denver. Many people have long commutes to work. Even buses consume a lot of fuel. It's hard to figure the mileage on a per person basis. Airplanes consume a massive amount of fuel, but apparently they allow for affordable travel to great distances. My father used to ride a horse to his one room school house which was about a mile or two from the farm house. I asked him, "What did you do when a blizzard came in?" He said, "No problem, the horse knew the way home in the most blinding snow storm."

As an aside, the original 1925 Iditarod trail serum run to Nome, Alaska used dog sleds in lieu of airplanes, because the dogs were more reliable. I highly recommend the 'The Cruelest Miles," a chronicle of the original serum run. I wrote a review of it that compares that run to the modern race:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RZEFWMNCLSQ7C/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00014WS3C

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Ely's avatar

Oh I am totally for reducing air pollution from a health perspective being a health professional. I can tell you that in the west there have been tremendous advances in reduction of air pollution. Look at the gas mileage cars get today compared to the 50s and 60s and catalytic converters that allowed cars to use unleaded fuel.

In the 60s and 70s, Pittsburgh, PA had terrible pollution. By comparison today, the air quality is so much better.

You also have to balance the fact that if we trash the oil/petrochemical industry who will suffer? The poorer countries. Millions will starve and in poorer countries wood burning will become commonplace, so what will we have really achieved.

When these people like Al Gore make insane predictions it doesn’t help create rational discussion.

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I would love to see a series of ongoing debates on the subject. Don't think it will happen. This is another area of totally corrupt capture. You can't look at global temperatures or CO2 levels over millions of years, as opposed to the minuscule rises occurring from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to realize something about the narrative is way off. Having said all that, I do believe we are destroying our health with chemical pollutants to our land, air and water. I am completely on board for cleaner energy supplies on that basis alone. Back to temperatures and CO2 levels, if you look at ice core samples, there are much bigger concerns than our contribution to global warming. Popular graph for temperature rise from 1850. https://tinyurl.com/mxuyvnce Compared to millions of years of wide climate swings. https://tinyurl.com/mry9e9k3 I just grabbed a couple of random graphs, but you can find similar with supporting data.

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There are dinosaur footprints that can be seen from the freeway next to the Morrison Ridge just west of Denver. They found a Torosaurus in Thornton, CO, just north of Denver, just a few years ago. The Wooly Mamouth pit in Hot Springs So Dakota is very interesting. They are not fossils. Nebraska had giant pigs the size of a small car sometime in the past. Another creature that has disappeared is the Antique Bison, which looks something like a long horn cattle. Along with all of this are glacial boulders in the farm fields in Southern Minnesota, just north of Spirit Lake Iowa, which may be glacial lakes, but that's not certain. Denver was underwater way back when. Where I live was the bottom of an inland sea. The Dinosaurs were walking at the edge of the sea and left their foot prints. Climate change is real.

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Bravo! I completely agree.

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