by Robert M. Traxler
An interesting story has appeared in the “alternative media,” attesting to the cracks we are seeing in the holy religion of climate change.
“Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and doctor of earth and climate sciences, admitted in an online article in The Free Press, a blog post and a series of social media posts that he distorted the findings of his studies to appeal to the editors at Nature and Science magazines, which are prestigious online science journals.”
“And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society,” Brown wrote in The Free Press.”
He blamed his slanted outcome on extreme pressure climate scientists face to get their papers published, to get paid by prestigious publications, and the need to create a finding that can be turned into headlines approved by the publishers and editors. Indeed, editors and publishers of “prestigious science publications” will not publish scientific studies that are not in lock step with the approved outcome; the cancel culture can be brutal.
He went on to admit that he downplayed the natural causes of climate change and over-weighted the human causes. The old adage is “publish or perish;” if a researcher at a college or university wants to make the big bucks, they must be published, and to be published in our new cancel culture you must parrot the party line. Oh, how we long for the days of a liberal defending free speech not controlling it for their own financial gain.
The American liberal movement has been replaced by the socialist/progressive movement, in bed with big corporations who pay a tithe to the leftist’s movement and pollute to their heart’s content in China, India, Vietnam, and other nations, mostly in Asia.
It is notable that polluting the earth in Asian nations, killing hundreds of thousands with polluted air is allowed, as the American progressive movement display a strange attitude towards folks of Asian descent, calling them the “new white and almost white.” A socialist government in Asia is tailor-made for the new corporate world; in a socialist nation you are not allowed to question the government, as it is the only allowable force for good and a fair judge and referee for all, at least they tell us they are.
A socialist government is a great example of what our founders wanted to avoid, an all-powerful government that exists to ensure that the rulers maintain power and enrich themselves. As the monarchy told themselves at the time of our revolution, they are the lords and ladies born to rule the people; socialists tell themselves they are in power to help the common person by controlling us all. They know what is good for us even better than we do, and their weapon is the cancel culture, a polite word for mass government/social censorship.
It is scripture in the climate change religion that pollution affects poor and minorities more than the non-poor and non-minority people; well, no crap, because of the movement of massive pollution to Asian and now African nations, it affects them more.
China and India are burning more coal every month than we did in a year at coal’s peak use in our nation. The most polluted places on Earth are not in the United States or Western Europe; that may surprise most of us, as we are told we are the cause of the Armageddon, the Judgement Day and Doomsday. It is not even close as to who pollutes the most.
Please be cautious when evaluating the data reports dated 2023; most use 2018 even earlier data, and China and India have built in excess of 60 coal plants in those few years, 2018 to 2023, while we have closed 22.5% of our coal fired plants in the same time frame. Who cares about the facts, just blame you and me for all the sins in the climate universe to justify our government paying off the green industry. My opinion.
