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The Failed Politics and Faulty Science of Climate Change

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Is it so? Is it not so?
Is it good? Is it bad?

What the so-called leaders and thinkers of the day fail to understand is that the truth is often somewhere in the middle. Or elsewhere entirely. For information or situations to be comprehensively analyzed, questions must be posed in four ways, not two.

Is it so? Is it not so? Is it both? Is it neither?
Is it good? Is it bad? Is it both? Is it neither?

When this expanded form of thinking is applied to the 'climate change' debate, the comprehensive question must therefore be:

Are "carbon emissions" influencing the earth and the atmosphere? Is the earth warming as part of a natural solar-system cycle? Is it both? Or is it neither?

And frankly, who the hell cares?

If you are caught up by the government-led carbon emissions/global warming debate, you have been led down a vortex of butterfly effects and chaos theories that only hold water if you ignore the obvious smog, soot and crap in your air, water, food and hair.

Drivel and Double-Think

The unscientific global warming debate continues to derail any real progress toward sustainable practice, with advocates of such destructive technologies working overtime to convince the public that poison is progress. Such confounding double-think creates the perfect scenario for those in power, who profit from our collective poisoning.

The point of the environment debate is to consider the many factors and effects of our polluting infrastructures, which we already know are unsustainable. The pollution is undeniable, and is the result of destructive yet highly profitable energy and resource industries, and the practices (both covert and overt) of the governments that protect them. While the ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilitycontinues to spew radioactive toxins in the our oceans 3 years after the first meltdown,Miami's Turkey Point nuclear facility is teetering on the brink of disaster. And yet, barely a peep is heard from mainstream news.

To learn more, please read: 3 Years After Fukushima: Behind the Skewed Data and Vested Interests.

Says Maureen E. Raymo, a research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a unit of Columbia University: "It feels like the inevitable march toward disaster".

Even scientist and self-proclaimed environmentalist James Lovelock, who originated the Gaia Hypothesis, is himself locked in this ridiculous global warming debate. In 1972, Lovelock defined Gaia as "a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet". Yet despite this self-evident perspective, Lovelock recently stated:

"So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel. We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price" (windmills) are ugly and useless."

This is some twisted "scientific" perspective when one considers the ongoing failures of our existing, ecosystem-altering industries!

Today, Lovelock is an advocate of the nuclear power generation experiment and of the expanded use of natural gas. One can only wonder what coercion or enticement might have brought on such a dramatic, scientifically unfounded about-face.

Sleepwalking to Extinction

Whole regions have been made uninhabitable via the status quo of the petrolithic era and nuclear era, and the delicate balance of the whole planet's ecosystem has been degraded by these operations. There is no question that today's oligarchical globalization are unsustainable, and beyond that totally destructive today -- like repeatedly crapping in one's own bed. And while the powerbrokers of globalization continue to exert influence over supposedly independent media and sovereign governments, the debate of global warming remains little but unscientific distraction from any real solutions. And recent history has proven this to be a fact.

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