Save The Planet (By Calling A Spade A Spade)

"The New Agers took it up. The crystals and homeopathy crowd. Oh, I don't really mind. People can believe what they want, no problem, unless it hurts someone else."

-- James Lovelock, inventor of the "Gaia Theory" - anticipating something violent going down in environmentalism - because of the NewAge belief system.

Simon Jester seems to have gotten the point of "No Pressure", that violent 10:10 Group video, loud and clear:

"So the message here is that if you don’t agree with the Religion of the Environmentalists and the Holy Church of Global Warming, then you’ll be killed?"

Yes, Simon, that's it. But who is it, exactly, that wants to kill you?

Many would say merely "environmentalists" but that doesn't acknowledge that environmentalism, like "alternative" medicine, is an obsession of NewAgers.

Those who follow politics understand what's going on, but are reluctant to say it outright, for fear it makes them look like conspiracy theory fruitcakes-by-association. So, instead, they write long-winded articles on science, or dangerous environmentalists, while only including the Greek goddess of the earth - "Gaia" - in the titles.

Not much on who's worshipping her.

Look at that 10:10 Group video - who does it star? Why, there's Gillian Anderson of The X-Files, once again playing a skeptic.



She's not a skeptic in real life, though, as Bill Whittle pointed out way back in 2003:

"Dana Scully is a brilliant, courageous, skeptical physician who is handy with an automatic; Gillian Anderson is deep into crystals and has trouble with her shoelaces."

"Deep into crystals" = NewAge. So here we have a NewAger, who makes her living pretending to be a critical thinker, participating in a video about the NewAge desire to kill off critical thinkers.

Could NewAgers - when you include their other numerous (and we mean numerous) obsessions with nonsense - be more clear?

It is, if you follow NewAge - and, thus, NewAgers and environmentalism - and all the trouble (i.e. deaths) they've caused.

The Anchoress says of the 10:10 video:

"What a repellent bunch of people, with sick, twisted minds."

And Glenn Reynolds said:

"ECO-FASCISM JUMPS THE SHARK: 'With No Pressure, the environmental movement has revealed the snarling, wicked, homicidal misanthropy beneath its cloak of gentle, bunny-hugging righteousness.' It always ends up as mass murder, real or fantasized, with these people. That’s what they do. Treat them with all the respect they deserve."

Those are very nice words, but, if everybody will now move to defining who "these people" with the "sick, twisted minds" pushing "fascism" actually are - when it's obvious it's the NewAgers amongst us - we think America will finally start making some headway toward defeating them, once and for all.

The Heat Is On (And It's Eating Global Warmists)

"[James] Lovelock says the events of the recent months have seen him warming to the efforts of the 'good' climate sceptics: 'What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: "Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?" If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. You need sceptics, especially when the science gets very big and monolithic.'

Lovelock, who 40 years ago originated the idea that the planet is a giant, self-regulating organism – the so-called Gaia theory – added that he has little sympathy for the climate scientists caught up in the UEA email scandal. He said he had not read the original emails – 'I felt reluctant to pry' – but that their reported content had left him feeling 'utterly disgusted'.

'Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science,' he said. 'I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.'"

-- Leo Hickman, getting a quote that sounds an awful lot like a certain blogger I know - and know very well - standing up for skeptics, and standards (!) acting as The Guardian.

Yo Momma's Vagina's Got Dirt In It, Part II

"The New Agers took it up. The crystals and homeopathy crowd. Oh, I don't really mind. People can believe what they want, no problem, unless it hurts someone else."

-- James Lovelock, inventor of the "Gaia Theory" and clearly a NewAger himself ("People can believe what they want") proving he doesn't read the news much - about all the "psychic" scams and deaths by people relying on homeopathy - as he yaks away about nothing, with me as The Observer.

How Much Are You Willing To Pay For A Belief?

"Most of the 'green' stuff is verging on a gigantic scam."

-- James Lovelock, "originator of the Gaia theory, which describes Earth as a self-regulating planet," in New Scientist.

It's TMR's NewAge News (With Joe Nigro) Saying: "You Go Climb It - We're Going To Disneyland!!!"

In this thrill-packed, butt-clenching amusement that is the media and climate change (AKA the artist formerly known as "global warming"), The Independent reports:

“An emergency 'Plan B' using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading scientists carried out by The Independent. The collective international failure to curb the growing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has meant that an alternative to merely curbing emissions may become necessary.”

One part of “Plan B” is the notable:

“Pump water vapour into the air.”

Maybe it’s a typo. There’s not much scientific argument opposing the view of water vapor as the single largest greenhouse gas there is, accountable for up to 70% of the effect. Personally, we here at TMR think it’s a ploy by The Sharper Image to develop a room humidifier that actually works,....

The Independent goes on to report:

“Professor James Lovelock, a geo-scientist and author of The Gaia Hypothesis, in which the Earth is a quasi-living organism, is one of those who is less optimistic. He believes that a plan B is urgently needed. "I never thought that the Kyoto agreement would lead to any useful cut back in greenhouse gas emissions so I am neither more nor less optimistic now about prospect of curbing CO2 compared to 10 years ago. I am, however, less optimistic now about the ability of the Earth's climate system to cope with expected increases in atmospheric carbon levels compared with 10 years ago," he told The Independent. ‘I strongly agree that we now need a 'plan B' where a geoengineering strategy is drawn up in parallel with other measures to curb CO2 emissions.”

It should be noted that Lovelock is arguing against his own theory (the one he makes a living from) as described in an excerpt from Wikipedia:

“Lovelock suggested that life on Earth provides a cybernetic, homeostatic feedback system operated automatically and unconsciously by the biota, leading to broad stabilization of global temperature and chemical composition.

With his initial hypothesis, Lovelock claimed the existence of a global control system of surface temperature, atmosphere composition and ocean salinity. His arguments were:

• The global surface temperature of the Earth has remained constant, despite an increase in the energy provided by the Sun.

• Atmospheric composition remains constant, even though it should be unstable.

• Ocean salinity is constant.

Since life started on Earth, the energy provided by the Sun has increased by 25% to 30%, however the surface temperature of the planet has remained remarkably constant when measured on a global scale. Furthermore, he argued, the atmospheric composition of the Earth is constant.”

Not to worry.  Also according to Wikipedia, Mr. Lovelock (not wanting to be left out of global warming mania) has adjusted his theory in a way that excludes humans from the “life on Earth” self-regulating bio-system:

“In James Lovelock's latest book, The Revenge of Gaia, [2006] he argues that the lack of respect humans have had for Gaia, through the damage done to rainforests and the reduction in planetary biodiversity, is testing Gaia's capacity to minimize the effects of the addition of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This eliminates the planet's homeostatic negative feedback potential and increases the likelihood of positive feedbacks associated with runaway global warming.”

Maybe his next book will be called “The Planet Strikes Back” - or "black," as the case may be,...

Whatever it is, we're not sure what to make of all this, but we do know this much:

The Sun has the volume of 1,300,000 Earths.

The whole damn thing is on fire.

Even with a 30% increase of the Sun’s energy reaching Earth, it’s no match for us teeny-weeny humans.

So, as a way to relax a bit about all this, it might be a better idea if everybody goes on "Mr. Toads Wild Ride" five or six times instead.