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Re: Climate change is a pseudo science

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On 01/06/2016 01:31, Sam Wormley wrote:

> The Boiling Pot
>> http://www.postcarbon.org/the-boiling-pot/
>

An excercise in propaganda. It begins with an irrelevant
emotional rollercoaster to soften you up.

>> On the surface, things appear normal.

Appeal to fear. Create tension, like the ascent of the rollercoaster.

> The status quo of life in
>> America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the
>> system is still working after a fashion.

Appeal to the common man. (Yay! Sytem is working! :)

> The price of oil is going up
>> a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher,

Appeal to fear. (Ooooh! Worry, worry.)

  but
>> steeper prices provide a little welcome relief for an oil industry
>> otherwise teetering on the brink of financial ruin.

False claim.  (That's supposed to be an emotional lift, but only if 
you're among the converted.)

> There are
>> tiresomely long lines at airports,

(Booo! Long lines. Never been in an airport queue myself - propagandist
failing to connect with his audience.)

  but that means people have the
>> wherewithal to pay for plane tickets.

(Yay! People still have disposable incomes.)

Ambiguous assertion. People don't earn money by standing patiently in 
long lines. "Shows" would have been better choice than "means".

> Most people are disgusted with
>> the presumptive U.S. presidential candidates,

(Booo! Trump and Clinton. This propagandist doesn't wish to appear 
partisan - trying not to alienate the audience.)

> but at least the
>> machine of electoral politics is still marginally functioning.

(Yay! the system still works.)

> The stock market is up,

(Yay!)

> unemployment is down.

(Yay! Broke the rythym. Rule of three?)

We’re muddling through.

(Phew)

>>
>> Or are we?

(Uh-oh scared now.)

> Beneath the lid, a pot of trends is coming to a boil.

(What lid? What pot? WTF? I'm scared!)

> If Carl Jung was right about the existence of a collective unconscious,
>> it must be seething with nightmares right about now.

(OMFG! Everbody's scared!!! Time to get to work.)

>> So far, 2016 is the hottest year in history.

Lie. History is the era of writing - by definition -
which goes back to about 3600BC (Wikiped) which
covers the Medieval, Roman and Minoan warm periods -
all of which were warmer than present.

> And not by just a smidgen:

Lie, see above.

> every single month so far has set a record.

Utter drivel - and meaningless drivel at that.

>  This handy little animation

This other piece of propaganda ...

> has been making the roundsof environmental websites
> in the last couple of weeks;

... is required reading for the faithful...

> it shows a climate system that is shooting off the rails.

... and is wildly misleading.

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