The EU is anti-populist to its core. Despite all the posturing of EU leaders as the valiant defenders of Ukraine, it’s clear they are opposed to national sovereignty. Instead of viewing patriotism as the sign of a healthy and cohesive society, the EU sees it as a threat to be snuffed out.
The consequences of the EU’s war on the nation state are plain for all to see. According to a recent poll, two-thirds of Germans ‘would probably not defend their country from invaders’. In Italy, a recent survey indicated that only 16 per cent of those of fighting age would take up arms if their country was under attack. Recently, the head of France’s armed forces, Fabien Mandon, said his country needs ‘the spirit that accepts that we will have to suffer to protect what we are’. But French public opinion is not having any of it.
In retrospect, it was predictable—what climate hysterics would do as the years rolled on with more and more of their predictions being refuted by direct observation.
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was made 20 years ago; the first IPCC report of the UN was 35 years ago; Congress held hearings on global warming 37 years ago; Ayn Rand commented on a Newsweek article that mentioned scientists speculating on climate change 55 years ago (“The Anti-Industrial Revolution” in Return of the Primitive).
And none of the predicted disasters have come to pass. All the warnings and the alarms about “the death of the planet” were wrong. None of the IPCC models were right in their predictions of what global temperatures were going to be.
More than that: climate has not changed in 100 years.
There’s no obvious difference from 1925 in the weather of Paris, Albuquerque, Sydney, New York City, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv . . . you name it.
Some people are beginning to notice. Even some climate scientists. So what is the new line?
“See what we saved you from?!”
The discrepancy between how planet Earth is and what they claimed it would be is being sold as a victory for recycling, better smokestacks, and the Paris Accords. I kid you not.
Here’s my parallel.
A man comes up to you on the sidewalk and says that he has discovered that your gravity is decreasing and that in a year, your attraction to the earth will be so lessened that you will float off into the stratosphere where you will both freeze and asphyxiate. But there is a solution. If you pay him $10,000, and stand on your head for 5 minutes each day, this will keep your gravity intact.
You pay him. And try to stand on your head most days. A year later, you run into him again. You know the punchline. He says: “See, it worked!”
Returning to reality, scientists and even some regular people know that it can’t be that anything the alarmists pushed worked. For one thing, the burning of fossil fuels has not gone down over the last few decades. Here’s a graph prepared by Claude, an AI agent:
No doubt the principle that one should speak nothing except good of the recently dead is a decent and civilized one, even if it is not given to 99.99 percent of humanity to be perfectly good. The whole truth may be desirable in court, but not at funerals. One does not enumerate the faults of […]
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