GUEST POST: Climate Change and Eugenics [updated]

By Daniel Silva from the Importers Institute.

Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species (Wikipedia). At its pre-war height, the movement often pursued pseudoscientific notions of racial supremacy and purity. It was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments, and influential individuals and institutions.

The second largest known eugenics program was created by social democrats in Sweden and continued until 1975. The pseudo-science was considered as 'settled' by progressive bien pensants in Europe and the US in the early decades of the 20th century. Then, the second World War came along. Several million dead bodies somewhat discredited the 'science'. Suddenly, no one believed in it any longer but, even more remarkably, no one had ever believed in it, apparently.

Which is pretty much where we are now with Global Warming. I predict that, not before long, no one will believe in this proto fascist construct - and you will be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to admit that they ever did. But, like eugenics, not before untold damage has been inflicted on millions. The stupidity of converting crops to biofuels has consequences. Eco-entrepreneurs make millions, millions die.

The wheels are falling off the climate change bandwagon. The corruption of science evidenced by Climategate is simply too blatant to ignore. The IPCC turned out to be as corrupt as you would expect a United Nations body to be. Politicians everywhere who went along with this charade are finding out all about the Turnbull effect.

You read it here first. About three years ago, I commented on these matters in an address given to a group then celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Some extracts from that address:

"The Importers Institute is pleased to be associated with the celebration
of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. That is because we believe
that international trade is good. It is certainly preferable to war. That, we
must not forget, was the main reason why the founding fathers of the
European project sat down in Rome 50 years ago and decided to free up
trade among European countries.

"Let us celebrate the success of that project, but let us not forget
that it is under constant attack. Many Europeans seem to have forgotten
the lessons of history and are again flirting with a form of fascism.
This time, it is eco-fascism and is dressed up as a wish to "save the
planet".

"These people are opposed to free trade. They fret about "food miles"
(but, strangely, not about clothing miles or pharmaceuticals miles) and
say that the only way we can save the planet is by de-industrialising,
reducing food production and restraining the mobility of people.

"In fairness, this disease of the mind is not exclusive to Europe. You
will be familiar with Al Gore's alarmist documentary, the one that seems
to say that we must all panic now, before it is too late. Mr Gore relied
heavily on a graph showing a very close correlation between past
temperature changes and concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. What he
conveniently omitted to tell us was that the levels of CO2 changed 800
years after the temperature went up. There is a correlation all right,
it is just that it goes the other way. How inconvenient.

"All that happened about 10,000 years ago, long before humans invented
SUVs, hospitals or air-conditioning. The medieval warm period was
another inconvenient truth. So inconvenient, in fact, that the IPCC
relied heavily on a graph showing that it never existed. The now
infamous hockey stick graph showed a flat temperature line stretching
back one thousand years, rising steeply from the beginning of the
industrial revolution. Unfortunately for the alarmists, the graph was
proven to be not just scientifically wrong - it was an outright fraud.

"The more that people begin to realise the actual impact on their daily
lives of the eco-fascist agenda, the more they are likely to question
the pseudo-scientific hype used to justify it. The eco-fascists reply
against this inevitable backlash seems to be to shout that the "science
is settled" with increasing shrillness. Settled science: now there's an
oxymoron if ever there was one.

"But, is such talk really inconsequential? People bent on 'saving the
planet', with their talk of food miles and taxes on air travel, have the
potential to destroy the very basis of our economy. Instead of
countering their fallacious arguments with science, we seem to be saying
that yes, you are right, but please go easy on us because we are quite
green ourselves. What a strategy!

“We want to keep access to Northern hemisphere markets and would like
their tourists to continue to fly twenty four hours to spend their money
here, while agreeing that air travel is bad for the environment. Then,
we spend a few million dollars on a 'buy local' campaign. If madness is
defined as the ability to simultaneously hold contradictory beliefs, the
inescapable conclusion is that we are being governed by the insane.

"Let us celebrate the real success of the Treaty of Rome and that was
the opening of borders and the increase in prosperity that only trade
can deliver. Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman did not set out to create an
isolationist Europe, inimical to trade and wedded to romantic notions of
economic self-sufficiency. We should celebrate their legacy by refuting
those notions."

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UPDATE:  The worldwide collapse of the house of warmist cards continues. Now, in New Zealand, we finally have the admission by the National Institute for Water & Atmosphere (NIWA) after two years of being asked that it no longer knows on what basis it once adjusted the raw temperature data that has been collected for over a century-and-a-half.

“NIWA’s website carries the raw data collected from representative temperature stations, which disclose no measurable change in average temperature over a period of 150 years. But elsewhere on the same website, NIWA displays a graph of the same 150-year period showing a sharp warming trend. The difference between these two official records is a series of undisclosed NIWA-created ‘adjustments’.”

But NIWA now candidly admits it no longer holds “the original worksheets and/or computer records” used for its in-house manipulation of official temperature readings, leading to the NZ Climate Science Coalition to say that “NIWA has forfeited confidence in the credibility of its temperature recording procedures,” and to call for NIWA “to abandon all of its in-house adjustments to temperature records,” and “revert to the raw data record, perhaps accompanied by a statement of any known issues.”

 

These tectonic changes will demand alterations to or even cancellation of our own ETS and other responses to “global warming”

The Climate Science Coalition press release on NIWAgate is here:
NIWA Unable To Justify Official Temperature Record [hat tip Owen McShane]