Whatever happened to saving the whales?…
Corporate greed is good — as long as it supports our cause…
The New York Times says “It can’t happen” — but can it?…
Dear Reader,
Climate “deniers” beware — artificial intelligence is training its sights on you.
Reports a magazine named Geographical:
From theories of wind turbines harming whales to volcanic eruptions causing planetary warming, head to corners of the internet and you will likely find climate misinformation — and disinformation — running rife.
The spread of false information, either deliberately or without malicious intent, can undermine scientific research and cloud public judgment. But now, a new tool has been launched to equip individuals with a better ability to scrutinise the sources they find.
“Hot Air”
That new tool is of course artificial intelligence:
Known as ‘Hot Air‘, the tool — developed in partnership with the University of Exeter and supported by Octopus Energy — analysed around 300 individual actors who regularly post online about climate, in ways ranging from scepticism to complete misinformation…
Using Hot Air, it’s possible to also track posts that have posited several common — and incorrect — theories regarding the climate, such as wildfires being caused by arson and not climate change…
[Certain sources have]been linked by Hot Air to spreading misinformation that carbon dioxide is inherently good for the planet, since it is required for plants to grow. Scientists have long rebuffed such claims, citing that the planetary warming caused by carbon dioxide will produce far more ill-effects.
Just so.
Who Gets to Decide What’s True?
To dispute the theory of human-induced climate change is to dispute the undisputable reality of Genesis… of Mr. Trump’s undeniable links to Satan… indeed, of gravity itself.
Yet is it true? And who is Hot Air — its human designers in particular — to decide what is true?
Geographical labels the theory that offshore wind turbines murder whales disinformation.
Yet are the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dispensers of climate disinformation?
Is The Associated Press a dispenser of climate disinformation for reporting their findings?
Maybe It’s Not “Disinformation” After All
The Associated Press informs us that:
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released final plans to protect endangered North American right whales, of which there are only about 360 left in the world.
The agencies said they are trying to find ways to better protect the whales amid a surge of offshore wind farm projects, particularly on the U.S. East Coast. They plan to look for ways to mitigate any potential adverse impacts of offshore wind projects on the whales and their habitat.
I note that environmental advocacy organizations agitate against any land development that endangers this insect or that critter.
Yet when credible evidence that their cherished wind turbines menace the safety of whales… they glance in the opposing direction.
Whatever became of “Save the whales!”?
Corporate Greed Is Good — As Long as It’s for the Right Cause
Such environmental organizations howl that climate denialists and disseminators of climate disinformation are in the pay of “Big Oil.”
Yet perhaps these organizations are themselves in the pay of “Big Green.”
Here I refer to the monied corporate interests that profit — vastly — from wind projects.
These projects would not exist absent exorbitant government subsidy. That is, they would not exist absent exorbitant taxpayer subsidy.
Evidently corporate greed is swell… so long as corporate greed aligns with environmentalism.
The whales can go scratching.
More “Disinformation“
Geographical likewise waives aside the theory that volcanic eruptions explain warming.
Yet in January 2022 an undersea volcano near the Pacific island of Tonga underwent a savage detonation.
Scientists estimate the detonation vomited some 40 trillion gallons of water vapor into Earth’s upper atmosphere.
40 trillion gallons!
My scientific advisers inform me that water vapor is a far, far mightier greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Water vapor accounts for perhaps 70% of the greenhouse effect, I am told.
Carbon dioxide — meantime — accounts for merely 25%.
And in January 2022, 40 trillion gallons of water vapor were turned upon the atmosphere.
One scientific study claimed the inundation elevated the water vapor content of the stratosphere as much as 15%.
This study projects that the inundation may elevate Earth’s average temperature up to 0.035° Celsius (0.063° Fahrenheit) through 2027.
Yet Geographical shrieks “Disinformation!”
Scepticism Is Science
Geographical further wrings its bony hands over climate “scepticism.”
It fears dissident environmental theories may dynamite the consensus theory.
And no theory is surrounded by higher guardian walls than the mainstream theory.
Yet science is erected upon the theory, above all, of scepticism.
One single fact may torpedo an entire scientific theory.
Yet the present theorists of human-induced warming have the torpedo nets up.
Undermining the CO2 Theory of Climate Change
Carbon dioxide is the great bugbear of the alarmist argument.
Yet if Earth’s climate was so exquisitely sensitive to minor carbon dioxide rises… why did it not burst into flame long ago?
My scientific advisors inform me this planet has previously endured carbon dioxide levels 25 times or greater than today’s.
Yet the match never struck.
The catastrophists warn us nonetheless that we will roast if emissions continue.
Of course the identical individuals have been yelling wolf for years and years and years.
In 1989 NASA’s James Hanson argued the Hudson River would claim New York’s West Side Highway by 2019.
I motored an auto down the West Side Highway days ago. The river was no closer than it had been three decades ago.
100% Wrong 100% of the Time
Assume the senseless chimpanzee, strapped to his typewriter.
There you find him, banging randomly and furiously at his Corona typewriter.
I hazard this mindless creature will duplicate War and Peace in its entirety… all 1,215 pages… precise to the final comma… precise to the final dash… precise to the final apostrophe… aeons and aeons before these climate Wrong-Way Charlies give an accurate climate prediction.
Geophysicist Mr. Allan MacRae:
By the end of 2020, the climate doomsters were proved wrong in their scary climate predictions 48 times. At 50-50 odds for each prediction, that is like flipping a coin 48 times and losing every time! The probability of that being mere random stupidity is one in 281 trillion!…
The global warming alarmists have a perfect NEGATIVE predictive track record — they have been 100% wrong about every scary climate prediction — so nobody should continue to believe them.
Thus I conclude: Hot Air is itself hot air.
Yet as we enter the age of artificial intelligence — fused with the propaganda of the political classes — I ask:
Who will be able to separate Hot Air from hot air?
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News