Years back when I blogged on myspace I had a series of blogs titled, Everything I need to Know About...

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

We have postal votes and absentee votes... yet we still usually have a result on the night. Perhaps this "mail" vote problem is being overblown.

If this doesn't make you laugh, maybe you're dead already or worse indoctrinated into the cult of ...

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Sorry even my patience wore out with that one. Sometimes getting to the point quickly and clearly wins the day.

Believe it or not, little comrades, once upon a time talk was cheap--just before your ancestors ...

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Utopia? hahahahahahahaha There are no Utopias

Let’s get real here.

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Seems to me from what I've read and heard, that she had an unrepresentative influence on the court and government legislation especially under Obama. A judge should uphold the law and not advocate for their own beliefs, if they want to do that they should stand for election to government.

That's it. I Kant.

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

You can can can.... Or maybe you should recant...

BLM just scrubbed this from their web site.

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Da Comrades... especially you useful idiots of the indoctrinated "white" variety. We indoctrinate, we disrupt... we dismantle the world of the Bourgeoisie, by following the true path of the Bolsheviks. Under our benevolent leadership.... We will use the Internet to recruit peasants and uneducated workers by promising them how glorious life would be after the revolution and granting them temporary concessions, until our mission is complete and secure.

"Unconscious anti-racist bias training?

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Cuckoo... cuckoo... cuckoo... cuckoo... cuckoo... We really need to destroy the Woke and free the world.

“Wires crossed” is a charitable way of putting it, holy shit.

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

What is wrong with Pelosi? Wow, that is a question that would requires pages and pages to fully answer. The word that stuck with me was HENCHMEN She likes to pretend she has no bias, she has no political motives, etc, etc, etc... but hey she just cant help putting her foot in it every time. As for "good morning"... she was probably reading off an autocue or teleprompter. People of her and Biden's age are mostly too old to be competent in government.

Do we really need technology like this?

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Ah.... much is known about the virus particularly how it is spread.

The Cringe fest [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Yes, totally agree.... cringe fest. but these people think they are the moral majority...

Do your neighbors scare you?

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Of course there are those Progressives (even here) that deny that. I have mentioned it before. But... Denial is strong in that one.

Portland ANTIFA block cars, demand people raise fists for BLM, vandalize businesses in memory of ...

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Can't we just go in and eradicate these people due to their inability to pass a simple intelligence test?

Great debate from Sky News Australia, featuring the newly-Aussie Lauren Southern, over the classist ...

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

1. we do not have 9am-5pm curfews... not even in Victoria. (9pm-5am) 2. there are some stupid rules and laws and their interpretations by the police etc are OTT stupid. But that is mostly do to bad governance. Thanks to Comrade Dan and his sidekick Commisar Sutton.

“Modern leftist philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that...

Lightman comments on Sep 20, 2020:

That is because they are POSTMODERNISTS

Please note the article about 'poisonous gas from vaccine plants.

Lightman comments on Sep 20, 2020:

What!!!!!!??????!!!!!

A dying wish ??? Bouaaaaaaaahahahahaha.. Who wrote this ? [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 20, 2020:

She can wish for whatever she wants doesn't mean she will get it. Over here this weekend there were 2 major attacks in the media on Trump. Here our MSM is very Left leaning. 1/ was an attack on Melania and her marriage to Donald. By Prime time current affairs show 60 minutes. 2/ was the showing on TV Prime time Fahrenheit 11/9 by Michel Moore obviously a Trump HATER. I have never seen a more infantile or politically biased diatribe.

Mulan - Movie Review - YouTube

Lightman comments on Sep 20, 2020:

Haven't seen it due to covid. But disagree with many of the points in the review, that doesn't require me to see the film, just disagree with the interpretation of the reviewer.. 1 point is this... there are the world over people who are more talented than other people and no amount of practice etc will ever make everyone equal. And I'm not even going to mention the communist socialist propaganda re equality. As for the film being mine and a disappointment/failure... I find many films made by Disney since Walt's death, a disappointment

NOTHING IS OFF THE TABLE So says Upchuck Schumer to his caucus, an apparent threat in the event ...

Lightman comments on Sep 20, 2020:

Well said... Schumer is just one of many Democrats that have to go...

BREAKING NEWS!! Reliable anonymous sources report, Trump’s nominee to replace RBG on the ...

Lightman comments on Sep 19, 2020:

I heard it was going to be a woman...

Joe Biden CAUGHT Spreading The SAME LIE That RUINED His 1988 Presidential Election! Joe Is A PHONY! ...

Lightman comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Loved the meme.... lots of solid points there... why would anyone vote for a guy who's plan for the country is a chook poo led recovery?

SILLY DEPLORABLE, YOU’VE GOT IT ALL WRONG Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC anchor, voiced concern that ...

Lightman comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Well said... Progressives are a modern plague, that needs to be eradicated before it is too late.

Nice to see!

Lightman comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Masks are not necessary over most of the planet. Doesn't make them unnecessary

President Trump urges GOP to move quickly on SCOTUS nomination: 'We have this obligation, without ...

Lightman comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Biden says the position should be filled by the President's choice... hate to tell him, but Trump is the President.

Backlash [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Wasn't Andy Ngo beaten up by a bunch of these Antifa supporters not that long go, paint thrown over him and in his eyes etc...

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

**Rabid doomsayers revel in fear, ignorance and deceit** Chris Kenny 12:00AM September 19, 2020 We know fear and ignorance have a powerful and deleterious influence on human behaviour and we have tended to think that our age of instant knowledge and communications might have rendered them impotent. Now, confronted by pandemic and climate catastrophism, and deceptions, we can see that fear and ignorance are alive and amplified in the digital age. From the deserted streets and shuttered houses of Melbourne to the Californian towns razed by fire, we see how fear and ignorance do enormous damage and distract us from practical protections. In both cases an ideological approach pretends a natural threat can be eliminated by grand government interventions; and alarmist tricks are used to frighten people into compliance. No one should pretend that pandemics or wildfires are not worthy of legitimate concern. We know they are age-old natural threats that our ancestors endured repeatedly without the knowledge, contraptions and accoutrements that assist us now. We need to overcome fear, keep our challenges in perspective, confront our dilemmas with rational approaches and avoid, rather than embrace, panic. We all need leaders that can be calm in a crisis, but increasingly we have leaders advancing political arguments with hysteria and hyperbole It is instructive that the scare tactics and fearmongering come from those who want to change public behaviour and pretend they can vanquish, rather than manage, natural threats. This is a grand deceit based on a conceit — believing humanity can control the natural environment as though with an app. Examples of fear and ignorance abound. This week Joe Biden stood in a park near his home in Delaware — while people were still battling devastating wildfires in California and Oregon, and battening down for hurricanes and flooding in Florida and neighbouring states — and read words from a teleprompter, with feeling, into the camera. “If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?” he shouted. “If we give a climate denier four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised when more of America is underwater?” **Climate arsonist? This is the feral and unhinged language used by Greens senator Jordan Steele-John in this country while trying to leverage our bushfires for his climate change agenda. But Biden is running for president.** **The core case presented here, that re-electing Trump will lead to more bushfires and flooding in the US, is so unscientific, irrational and blatantly false that it would not and could not be supported by any scientist. It calls into question the intellectual ...

Multiculturalism in Australia (and the rest of the world) Same criticism and same problems the ...

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

**The downside of diversity** By Michael Jonas | August 5, 2007 *A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?* IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger. But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings. "The extent of the effect is shocking," says Scott Page, a University of Michigan political scientist. The study comes at a time when the future of the American melting pot is the focus of intense political debate, from immigration to race-based admissions to schools, and it poses challenges to advocates on all sides of the issues. The study is already being cited by some conservatives as proof of the harm large-scale immigration causes to the nation's social fabric. But with demographic trends already pushing the nation inexorably toward greater diversity, the real question may yet lie ahead: how to handle the unsettling social changes that Putnam's research predicts. "We can't ignore the findings," says Ali Noorani, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. "The big question we have to ask ourselves is, what do we do about it; what are the next steps?" The study is part of a fascinating new portrait of diversity emerging from recent scholarship. Diversity, it shows, makes us uncomfortable -- but discomfort, it turns out, isn't always a bad thing. Unease with differences helps explain why teams of engineers from different cultures may be ideally suited to solve a vexing problem. Culture clashes can produce a dynamic give-and-take, generating a solution that may have eluded a group of people with more similar backgrounds and approaches. At the same time, though, Putnam's work adds to a growing body of research indicating that more diverse populations seem to extend themselves less on behalf of collective needs and goals. His findings on the downsides of diversity have also posed a challenge ...

Multiculturalism in Australia (and the rest of the world) Same criticism and same problems the ...

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

**So, the untouchables must be tolerant** Kevin Donnelly The Australian February 21, 2017 Proven by the latest bizarre ¬example, where Muslim students do not have to shake hands with females, it’s clear that education’s politically correct embrace of ¬diversity and difference — the new code for multiculturalism — reigns supreme. As reported in yesterday’s The Australian, school officials at Sydney’s Hurstville Boys Campus, based on a literal interpretation of a hadith, told Muslim students that it was permissible to refuse to greet females in the customary way. So much for the Christian ¬admonition “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”. And so much for the fact that Australian society only prospers and grows when there is a shared understanding of what constitutes civility and good manners. And Muslim students not shaking hands is not an isolated example. In 2015, a Victorian primary school allowed Muslim students to absent themselves during the singing of the national ¬anthem. At the University of Melbourne, Islamic groups have been given permission to segregate meetings involving males and ¬females. So much for the claim made on the ABC’s Q&A by the Islamic ¬activist Yassim Abdel-Magied that her religion grants women the same rights and freedoms as men and that Islam does not unfairly discriminate because of one’s sexuality. Education now embraces identity politics where the rights and privileges of particular ¬individuals and groups nominated by the cultural Left are granted positive discrimination (except, of course, if you happen to be a white Anglo-Celtic, Christian male happy to live in a hetero¬sexual relationship).Whereas in times past schools would teach all students about the values, beliefs and institutions that bind us as a nation and the debt owed to Western culture, the focus is now firmly on what ¬divides us instead of what we share in common. Even worse, instead of their ¬arguments being properly ¬analysed and evaluated, anyone questioning multicultural groupthink is quickly condemned as Islamophobic, racist and intolerant. As noted by the British journalist and author Patrick West: “Tolerance in the name of relativism has become its own intolerance. We are commended to respect all differences and anyone who dis¬agrees shall be shouted down, ¬silenced or slandered as a racist. Everyone must be tolerant. And that’s an order.” The Australian National Curriculum advocates identity politics and the belief that all cultures must be treated equally. Christianity, instead of being acknowledged as one of the foundation stones on which Western culture rests and continues to depend, receives the same weighting as Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. While the National Curriculum ...

“Multiculturalism denies historical and scientific evidence that people differ in important ...

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Multiculti is a flawed settlement policy, Assimilation or Integration are both superior

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” I tend to agree with this, which puts those who believe it at odds with policies such as Multiculturalism.

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” Not sure I totally agree with that. What is meant by educating someone in morals? Whose morals? Are there not innate behaviours that people see as moral?

2016 black vote for Trump, I am going to call it 5%.

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

One can only hope that after the recent good news for "blacks" and "hispanics" in employment and financially... before China dumped Covid on the world... That they remember what happened and who was in office when it happened

Twitter yanks C-span footage of Biden

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

A well known political pundit in Australia has this to say about Biden. > Why is it that the best the Democrats can produce is a doddery near-octogenarian flat out remembering what room he is in? Is he fit and able enough to handle all the complexities of the toughest job in the world? It is hard to come up with a confident, positive answer to that. What will this man do in a life-and-death crisis when it is his finger on the button? Will his mind be on the job or will it wander? Let us hope and pray that we never find out.

New video! Welcome to This Week in Social justice, where I discuss all the biggest and baddest ...

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Naomi probably felt pressured to make such a statement. Obviously the reality of what's been happening has somehow avoided her. Always find it odd that people of mixed race tend to forget part of the mix. As for sports people... IMO most are very limited in their intellectual acuity and understanding of the world. ps. those ignorant protestors are totally pathetic... I probably won't read "Troubled Blood"... but I can recommend "Wire In The Blood" Season 1, Episode 1... in fact I recommend all Seasons and Episodes of Wire In the Blood starring Robson Green...

Black Lives Matter approval is falling across the nation- [redstate.com]

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Of course this was going to be inevitable... Burn. Loot and Murder... the Marxist Organisation with links to the Weather Underground has no credibility as a sound progressive organisation wanting to better society.

Black Lives Matter approval is falling across the nation- [redstate.com]

Lightman comments on Sep 18, 2020:

yay!

Who will be the power behind the throne?

Lightman comments on Sep 17, 2020:

Does anyone think that at the November election there will be a smaller than usual turnout of voters?

oh I love a good rant.. [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 17, 2020:

He has an interesting turn of phrase. It is a good rant... It is also mostly correct as well. The first things the Democrats will do if they win, is cement their future by rigging everything they can in their favour. They are their own priority and Power is their only goal.

Progressives love talking about micro-aggressions & completely ignore human trafficking.

Lightman comments on Sep 17, 2020:

When do liberals talk about "human trafficking"? What have they ever done about it? Post examples please

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The real Inconvenient Truth Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - A Ruling of the British High Court The decision by the British Government to distribute Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" has been the subject of a legal action by New Party member Stewart Dimmock. The Court found that the film was misleading in nine respects and that the Guidance Notes drafted by the Education Secretary’s advisors served only to exacerbate the political propaganda in the film. In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Nine inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children. The inaccuracies are: 1. The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct. 2. The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years. 3. The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming. 4. The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case. 5. The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm. 6. The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility. 7. The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim. 8. The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7 m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40 cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration. 9. The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government was unable to substantiate this and the Court...

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

CLIMATEGATE... The Climategate emails expose to our view a world that was previously hidden from virtually everyone.This formerly hidden world was made up of a very few players. But they controlled those critical Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) processes involv-ing the temperature records from the past, and the official interpretation of cur-rent temperature data. They exerted previously unrecognized influence on the “peer review” process for papers seeking publication in the officially recognised climate science literature from which the IPCC was supposed to rely exclusively in order to draw its conclusions.The Climategate emails demonstrate that these people had no regard for the tradi-tions and assumptions which had developed over centuries and which provided the foundations of Western science. At the very core of this tradition is respect for truth and honesty in reporting data and results; and a recognition that all the data, and all the steps required to reach a result, had to be available to the scientific world at large.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2013/09/Montford-Consensus.pdf

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/there-is-no-climate-emergency-say-500-experts-in-letter-to-the-united-nations/ Friends of Science, a Canada-based “non-profit organization run by dedicated volunteers comprised mainly of active and retired earth and atmospheric scientists, engineers, and other professionals.” On the same day last week that Greta Thunberg made an impassioned speech to the United Nations about her fears of a climate emergency, a group of 500 prominent scientists and professionals, led by the CLINTEL co-founder Guus Berkhout, sent this registered letter to the United Nations Secretary-General stating that there is no climate emergency and climate policies should be designed to benefit the lives of people. Here’s the press release, here’ the list of 500 signees, and here’s the opening of the letter: A global network of more than 500 knowledgeable and experienced scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have the honor to address to Your Excellencies the attached European Climate Declaration, for which the signatories to this letter are the national ambassadors. The general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are unfit for their purpose. Therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions of dollars on the basis of results from such immature models. Current climate policies pointlessly and grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, reliable electrical energy. We urge you to follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation Here are the specific points about climate change highlighted in the letter: 1 Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming. 2. Warming is far slower than predicted. 3. Climate policy relies on inadequate models. 4. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is a plant food that is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide. 5. Global warming has not increased natural disasters. 6. Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities. 7. There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims to represent more than 2,500 scientists who agree that man-made global warming is a serious problem. But this is misleading. While a total of 2,500 (or some similar number) scientists participate in some way in the writing or review of its reports, the IPCC’s working group responsible for assessing the causes of climate change and its future trajectory consists of only about 600 scientists, and many of those are activists working for environmental interest groups. For the Fourth Assessment Report, only 62 were responsible for reviewing the chapter that attributed climate change to man-made greenhouse gas emissions, with 55 of those being known advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Of the seven impartial reviewers, two disagreed with the statement, leaving only five credible scientific reviewers who unequivocally endorse the IPCC’s conclusion, a far cry from 2,500.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

https://judithcurry.com/2012/10/28/climate-change-no-consensus-on-consensus/ **Climate change: no consensus on consensus** **by Judith Curry** The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public’s trust in the IPCC. Our paper has just been accepted for publication. A link to the final manuscript is provided here [consensus paper revised final]. Below is a ‘reader’s digest’ version of the main arguments made in this paper Introduction The United Nations initiated a scientific consensus building process with the objective of providing a robust scientific basis for climate policy, under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). The key IPCC consensus finding from its latest assessment report is this statement: “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.” The IPCC consensus findings on attribution have been echoed in position statements made by many scientific organizations. The IPCC consensus is portrayed as nearly total among scientists with expertise and prominence in the field of climate science. The idea of a scientific consensus surrounding climate change attribution has been questioned by a number of people, including scientists and politicians. **Much effort has been undertaken by those that support the IPCC consensus to discredit skeptical voices, essentially dismissing them as cranks or at best rebels, or even politically motivated ‘deniers’.** Students of science are taught to reject ad populam or ‘bandwagon’ appeals, a sentiment is articulated by the motto of the UK Royal Society: ‘nullius in verba’, which is roughly translated as ‘take nobody’s word for it’. ** How then, and why, have climate scientists come to a scientific consensus about a very complex scientific problem that the consensus-supporting scientists themselves acknowledge has substantial and fundamental uncertainties?** Consensus and dissent The debate surrounding the consensus on climate change is complicated by the complexity of both the scientific and the associated sociopolitical issues. Underlying this debate is a fundamental tension between two competing conceptions of scientific inquiry: the consensual view of science versus the dissension view. Under the consensual approach, the goal of science is a consensus of rational opinion over the widest possible field. The opposing view of science is that of dissension, whereby ...

Hi everyone! So sorry I've been off Slug for a little while, manic couple of weeks.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

You have been both missed and conspicuous by your absence. Saw you on Sky, pretty much greed with your idea and my friends and I have virtually the same thoughts on it... maybe a bit of tweaking needed but mostly good.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

31,000 scientists say there is "no convincing evidence" that humans can or will cause "catastrophic" heating of the atmosphere. This claim originates from the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which has an online petition (petitionproject.org) that states: **We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.**

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joseph-bast-and-roy-spencer-the-myth-of-the-climate-change-97-1401145980

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

No one knows what percentage of scientists believe that humans are causing catastrophic warming of the planet. No comprehensive survey has ever been done. But one thing is certain. It isn’t 97 percent. It may not even be a majority.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

A study (the one cited by President Obama) by psychology P.h.D. student John Cook found that 97.1 percent of relevant published scientific articles agreed that humans contribute to global warming. This is not the same as saying that humans are a major contributor to global warming or that the effects of warming will be serious. When we look closer at Cook’s article, we find that two-thirds of the authors did not take a position on anthropogenic global warming. Of the one-third of scientific papers that took a position on the issue, 97 percent agreed that human activity was at least one cause of warming, but not necessarily a major cause.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

In September of 2019, a group of 500 scientists and professionals in related fields, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology climate scientist professor Richard Lindzen, wrote a letter to the general secretary of the United Nations. The letter states in part: “There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050.”

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

In 2015 over 30,000 scientists, including over 9,000 P.h.Ds, signed a petition expressing doubt about the dangers of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to petitionproject.org. I quote from the petition: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The Canadian government has the unenviable task of defending the interest of the energy producers and consumers of a cold, thinly-populated country, in the face of furious, deafening global warming alarmism. Some of the worst of it is now emanating from the highest places. Barack Obama’s website (barackobama.com) says “97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and man-made … Find the deniers near you - and call them out today.” How nice. But what we really need to call out is the use of false propaganda and demagogy to derail factual debate and careful consideration of all facets of the most complex scientific and policy issue of our time.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

What can we take away from all this? First, lots of people get called “climate experts” and contribute to the appearance of consensus, without necessarily being knowledgeable about core issues. A consensus among the misinformed is not worth much. Second, it is obvious that the “97%” mantra is untrue. The underlying issues are so complex it is ludicrous to expect unanimity. The near 50/50 split among AMS members on the role of greenhouse gases is a much more accurate picture of the situation. The phoney claim of 97% consensus is mere political rhetoric aimed at stifling debate and intimidating people into silence.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

In 2012 the American Meteorological Society (AMS) surveyed its 7,000 members, receiving 1,862 responses. Of those, only 52% said they think global warming over the 20th century has happened and is mostly man-made (the IPCC position). The remaining 48% either think it happened but natural causes explain at least half of it, or it didn’t happen, or they don’t know. Furthermore, 53% agree that there is conflict among AMS members on the question. So no sign of a 97% consensus. Not only do about half reject the IPCC conclusion, more than half acknowledge that their profession is split on the issue.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Surely the most suspicious “97 percent” study was conducted in 2013 by Australian scientist John Cook — author of the 2011 book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand and creator of the blog Skeptical Science (subtitle: “Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism.”). In an analysis of 12,000 abstracts, he found “a 97% consensus among papers taking a position on the cause of global warming in the peer-reviewed literature that humans are responsible.” “Among papers taking a position” is a significant qualifier: Only 34 percent of the papers Cook examined expressed any opinion about anthropogenic climate change at all. Since 33 percent appeared to endorse anthropogenic climate change, he divided 33 by 34 and — voilà — 97 percent! When David Legates, a University of Delaware professor who formerly headed the university’s Center for Climatic Research, recreated Cook’s study, he found that “only 41 papers — 0.3 percent of all 11,944 abstracts or 1.0 percent of the 4,014 expressing an opinion, and not 97.1 percent,” endorsed what Cook claimed. Several scientists whose papers were included in Cook’s initial sample also protested that they had been misinterpreted. “Significant questions about anthropogenic influences on climate remain,” Legates concluded.

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

A year later, William R. Love Anderegg, a student at Stanford University, used Google Scholar to determine that “97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field surveyed here support the tenets of ACC [anthropogenic climate change] outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” The sample size did not much improve on Zimmerman and Doran’s: Anderegg surveyed about 200 scientists.

The First Time a Canadian Crowd Chants "Trump! Trump! Trump!" - YouTube

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Yet they keep voting in Jr.

CBS News caught!!!

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Must be short sighted even I can see the I LOVE Trump hat.

More than two-thirds of American students have no idea that six-million Jews were put to death in ...

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The eduction system has been the most infiltrated, most modified system in the march of the Left through our institutions in the West. Closely followed by the media. this means children get indoctrinated from an early age almost every day and when not at school get indoctrinated by a widespread media assault.

Not only is this commercial just plain stupid, it pushes the idea of over self indulgence being a ...

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Narcissism is great.... yaaaaaaaay!!!!!! FGS I suppose its the bubble these people live in.

Study: up to ninety-five percent of 2020 US riots are linked to Black Lives Matter- ...

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

Study: up to ninety-five percent of 2020 US riots are linked to Black Lives Matter- ...

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6191345574001

Study: up to ninety-five percent of 2020 US riots are linked to Black Lives Matter- ...

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

BLM is really about revolution not Black lives. It is a Marxist organisation. It is bout ending Capitalism and changing society nothing more. Remember the Weather Underground Organisation, there is a big link there.

Unlike many conservatives, I do not view Leftism as dishonourable or deliberately evil.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Left and Right are opposites. Conservatism and Progressivism are opposites. Not Conservative and Leftist. These are political not moral.

Twitter yanks C-span footage of Biden

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Those hairy legs made him do it....

Okay, we know that the greatest minds ever were total eccentrics, and we worship them all day and ...

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

If my IQ was 100 I would be a bit worried.

It just gets more and more frightening.

Lightman comments on Sep 16, 2020:

LOL surely Americans will not vote in a man with dementia.

The many meanings of arson: When Antifa sets a fire in a city, it's a peaceful protest.

Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

LOL oh dear.... so true but so wrong that we have to put up with it and that the Democrats support them.

Good speech [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

She always talks sense.. unlike her Democrat "peers"... AOC, Ilhan, etc...

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Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Don't exactly agree with your comment, but yes everything down to the atomic level is about vibrations. From my poem... > Everything is music > All matter, light and sound. > Everything is music > To which we all are bound. > > Everything is music > The Composer shapes the tune. > Everything is music > From which, we all are hewn.

Climate change: Four people arrested for INTENTIONALLY starting blazes on West Coast as wildfires ...

Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

But its all about climate change... ask Newsom and those dumb advisors he has backing him up. Trump my have been a tad careless with his language about this the other day... but essentially he is right. Fuel management/reduction, better forest management and of course the science is not settled re climate change. Go Donald...

What one sees when they put the glasses on... [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

**Don't have to put on glasses to see Nancy's neck forever wrapped in something to hide the wrinkles... ** Hint for Nancy.... just wear something high necked love, it wont look so stupid, obvious or make people concentrate on why you are always wearing it.

Meltdown cringe and fail [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Priceless look on Bill's face in there.

Australia Runs Out of Rice as Police Invade Farmers Market Protest - YouTube

Lightman comments on Sep 15, 2020:

1. We haven't run out of rice. 2. A few disgruntled in Vic protesting is par for the course.

The Fall... of Oprah [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 14, 2020:

Oprah will survive the fall... after all... she has that big bed of money and privilege to fall on.

ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTESTERS FACE-OFF WITH POLICE BUT NOT WITH REALITY

Lightman comments on Sep 14, 2020:

Yeah you will be dealt with.... just like he dealt with those 1000s on the BLM protest. He's a joke.

Ilhan Omar shows she’s as stupid as Joe Biden.

Lightman comments on Sep 14, 2020:

> “You can’t vote Democrat if you support the police.” How can anyone vote for people so stupid?

Ilhan Omar shows she’s as stupid as Joe Biden.

Lightman comments on Sep 14, 2020:

How can anyone in their right mind even consider voting for these people?

THEY’RE COMING.

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

No wonder they want to defund and disband the police.

The Nick Sandmann piece on 'not letting cancel culture silence him' should be no solace to you

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

I don't respect that smirking kid one little bit... what has he done but smirked while egged on by his classmates. The right complain about Obama getting the Nobel prize for nothing... this is right up there

I just watched the Governor of California claim that the fires in his state were caused by "Climate ...

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Cuckoo time.... another climate change delusionist.... they tried it on here after the last bushfires... in fact they try it on after all bushfires. Fire fuel reduction, proper forest management, allowing people to clear areas around their properties and on their properties etc, etc, etc.... We had major fires where I live early on this year, over the years you could see the build up of undergrowth and fuel, over the years, you could see it from the roads where once it was only a few feet high it was now anything up to 30 feet high.

BLM Leftists Buy Land To Make "Black Only" Village, The Left Is Pro Segregation - YouTube

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Yeah it is all rather pathetic isn't it...

🚨TOP DEMS DISTANCE FROM BLACK LIVES MATTER VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE AFTER BRUTAL AMBUSH SHOOTING ...

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Oh so now they distance themselves.... They don't need distance they need to completely disown these lunatics.

Is there any way to know what everyday life was like for regular people in different eras?

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Of course there is... its called history and every country has one.

CHINA BACKS BIDEN [youtube.

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

https://nypost.com/2020/03/12/why-china-is-rooting-for-joe-biden-to-win-2020-presidential-race/ > Joe and Hunter Biden embody the globalism that empowered a China bent on surpassing the United States. > Hunter is a winner in a globalist system that saw America hand to China its industrial base, good jobs, intellectual property and global standing in exchange for market access and flattery. China, Wall Street and the Bidens profited. > His son’s profiteering aside, Joe Biden defends this system — and has since meeting Deng Xiaoping in 1979, when he joined the first US congressional delegation to the People’s Republic. > Biden ­said: “A rising China is a … positive ­development not only for China, but for America.” Tell that to the 1 million Uighurs in Chinese concentration camps. Tell it to Asian democracies menaced by Beijing’s bullying. Tell it to the American factory workers who lost good jobs while Hunter got $80,000 a month for his princeling sinecure.

CHINA BACKS BIDEN [youtube.

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

It is obvious that China sees a Biden Presidency as a positive for them.

WOKE WARRIORS/WORRIERS.

Lightman comments on Sep 13, 2020:

As I have been saying here and in other places. Postmodernism is the cause of our Progressive/Woke woes... > “The progressive left has aligned itself not with Modernity but with postmodernism which rejects objective truth as a fantasy dreamed up by naive and/or arrogantly bigoted Enlightenment thinkers,” they argue. “Postmodernism has, depending upon your view, either become or given rise to one of the least tolerant and most authoritarian ideologies that the world has had to deal with since the widespread decline of communism and the collapse of white supremacy and colonialism.” It seems now others with vastly more opportunity and academic backing are finally saying the same thing. Yet it is simply common sense.

TRUMP: Every once in a while I check out a person's Chinese sign and element.

Lightman comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Well I am an "earth dog" and while like western horoscope signs there is always some truth involved they very nearly always get things wrong as well... the problem then is individuals are shaped more by their life events than some mystic destiny. IMHO... :-)

A further descent into depravity and perversity.

Lightman comments on Sep 12, 2020:

> On Friday, September 12th, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law, passed by the Democrat-controlled state senate and Democrat-controlled state assembly, that reduces penalties for certain adults who engage in sex acts with children as young as 14 years of age. You have to be kidding... all he is doing is enabling pedophilia. Like I keep saying, Progressives are not about Progress... and their ideas are mostly lunatic.

This guy cracks me up... [youtube.com]

Lightman comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Odd that people talking common sense and speaking direct get seen as amusing or funny, when what is musing and not in good way is the Progressive mentality we are subjected to every day.

Gavin Newsom: the debate is over on climate change.

Lightman comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Mr Newsome should concentrate on cleaning up the environment by removing the fuel that feeds bushfires and be more alert about arsonists.

Did 9/11 and its aftermath change your view of the world?

Lightman comments on Sep 12, 2020:

In answer to the question... NO. But it did confirm that there are psychos in Islam willing to kill innocent people for nothing though.

I just heard that "SAINT GEORGE'S" son is complaining that saying, GEORGE's drug use may have been ...

Lightman comments on Sep 11, 2020:

I have often thought this. He seemed to be drug affected, he failed to comply to simple requests, etc, etc, etc the drugs my have affected his breathing more than the knee. Has a Coroner's report been released yet?

Looks like Volkswagen has joined the BLM plan to kill the nuclear family.

Lightman comments on Sep 11, 2020:

I'm thinking they are 3 gay males... **where's the diversity?**

In the 1980’s, as Eastern Europe was being liberated from Communism and the Soviet Empire was ...

Lightman comments on Sep 11, 2020:

It's a global thing...

WHAT HAPPENED TO JOE? [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 11, 2020:

Makes a valid point doesn't it.

Horowitz: E-MASK-ulation: How we have been lied to so dramatically about masks - TheBlaze

Lightman comments on Sep 10, 2020:

> We've know all along that masks are a social- engineering tool to herd compliant sheeple. Lie, rubbish... whatever you want to call it.

What arguments may help progressives moderate or change their views?

Lightman comments on Sep 10, 2020:

I have managed to get them to see the light individually... but eventually they all, without exception, fall back to the collective groupthink. So as much as we try, I think we will all fail with these people. Progressives cannot tolerate dissent.

Trump is right on China.

Lightman comments on Sep 10, 2020:

> “We will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world and we’ll end reliance on China once and for all, whether it’s decoupling or putting in massive tariffs like I’ve been doing already. We’re going to end our reliance on China, because we can’t rely on China,” Trump said. Anyone who has dealt with China knows this to be true, they cannot be relied on. > “In 2001 Biden said the United States welcomes the emergence of a prosperous integrated China at the global stage because we expect this is going to be a China that plays by the rules. They didn’t play by the rules … The World Trade Organization … that’s why they became a rocket ship. They were flatline for years and years and years and they joined the World Trade Organization. And frankly they cheated.” None of the things hoped for with China came about. They virtually own, the WHO, the WTO, and the UN... They're on the Security council, yet are responsible for many human rights abuses and conflicts about national boundaries, etc. They flaunt and ignore the WTO rules and rulings. They... as could be seen recently control the WHO.

Late coffee... With Mark Dice [youtu.be]

Lightman comments on Sep 10, 2020:

Ahhhh Brains vs Botox.... it's a no brainer, no contest.