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If there is an apocalypse, it looks entirely contrived to me.

Spending untold billions to shut down the economy for most of 2 years is something I saw with my own eyes.

Sea level rises, and whatever else, not at all. The dire predictions have been coming for decades (remember Al Gore)? And nothing.. I suspect its just a trick that means we hand over greater control and money to the worst of us (government). And if it were real, I have zero trust in any governance structure to do the right thing as opposed to serving itself and its 'stakeholders' (aka corporations).



> dire predictions have been coming for decades (remember Al Gore)? And nothing.

And I suppose you think that's it's just a coincidence that we're breaking all-time-high temperature records year over year isn't it?


So we are told. If anything, the temperature seems cooler to me.

But do you recollect the climategate scandal? Where historical temperature records were altered?


So because of the way temperatures seem to you subjectively, you're going to say there is a worldwide conspiracy of everyone who works on historical climate research to fudge the numbers?


With climategate, we saw scientists falsifying the data. But you can't read about what happened on wikipedia - the entry there is an exercise in obfuscation.

You can read some bits of the emails here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220517000832/https://www.forbe... - judge for yourself!

What this tells me is that the science is highly politicised, and cannot be trusted. Too many people stand to make money and gain control from the purported threat. Al Gore is one of those. You should watch 'An Inconvenient Truth' from 2006 - it hasn't aged well. Should there be a punishment for people who shout fire in a crowded theatre?

So, I have listened (and once believed) all the alarms over the years - they have not materialised. People talk about wildfires and flooding, but these are better explained by mismanagement, despite the media hype.

So no, I don't trust the politicised science, nor the foghorn media. OTOH, I do see how an excuse of 'climate change' is valuable in handing even greater control to the governance structure, where they can micro-manage your usage of electricity, water, and even have the ability to turn it off. Do you think if they have that power they won't do it?

And yes, despite all the talk of rising water levels, I have not seen it. I have been to beaches from my youth - the water levels are the same. Certainly there have been changes - and climate is not some consistent, clockwork thing - there are probable cycles and mega-cycles in there.

The whole thing about climate changes, seems designed to be play on both our sense of importance (that we can really change the world, as if we were gods) and a self-indulgent saviour complex - we need to save the world from us. Its religious thinking to me, you feel sinful and are seeking atonement. I didn't think science was meant to work like that!




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