Reasons Why I Don't Believe in it Anymore - Be Skeptical of Everything You Hear

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan (1986)


I don't believe anything I see or hear on TV or radio and read in magazines anymore. Thirty plus years in mass media will make anyone very jaded and skeptical of everything coming out of the mouths of newscasters, scientists and politicians.

You wouldn't know it to read what I write about these days, but when I was a university student, I was pretty much a hard-core socialist, perhaps even a communist. Many people today are that way too but they don't like to use those words. Many people have been confused from decades of government run schooling.


I used to think - and I was taught in school - that the government is benevolent and needs to provide for people because the people are too useless and stupid to provide for themselves. That the people are stupid and useless is a pretty solid argument. But as I grew older, I began to learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch and for the government to take care of someone means that they are taking money from someone else.


You cannot keep taking money from the productive part of society and keep giving it to the unproductive part of society. We've been doing this for decades and not that's how we've gotten ourselves into the financial mess we're currently in.

Yep. Learn to live with it... Or marry a rich guy.

For example, the idea that the government should provide medical care, retirement care, or a so-called "free" education to everyone was some of the ideas that I believed were the duty of government. I believed those ideas because I went to government run public schooling. Of course, in government run schools, they will teach you that government run schooling is the best. That's what government's do. Is there a government in the world today that tells their public, "We are not the best government for you. Vote for another party!"


I clearly remember my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Demuth sitting us in class and saying, "The United States has the best and the freest government in the world. And the proof of that is that we have had the same government for 200 years." That, my friends, isn't true. We've had the same political system for 200 years, but not the same government for 200 years. If longest running means that it is the best (typical American exceptionalism type of twisted thinking and logic) then I don't think America even comes close. The longest running government in the history of the world is probably Mao's China. Can anyone verify that for me? Not that it matters.

Cooler than any US president. How many of them can say "Warhol did me"? 

I knew, even then, that what my teachers were telling me wasn't true. That's one reason why I don't carte blanche believe anything that teachers say and am very skeptical about their pronouncements.


Then, in high school, I was president of the Science Class. We were told that the entire world was heading into a new Ice Age. Scientists were absolutely sure about that one too. There were even some scientists who said that we should put ash and salt on the polar ice caps to melt them so that would warm up the earth. That was 1975. I even wrote a 140 page thesis on it for my senior year. I was proud of that paper. But guess what? Even though the scare last a few more years, the Ice Age never happened. I became skeptical of science.


I became a devout disbeliever when, not trusting the media I worked in, I studied the subject. This from the Business and Media Institute of America:

"Many publications now claiming the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster said the same about an impending ice age – just 30 years ago. Several major ones, including The New York Times, Time magazine and Newsweek, have reported on three or even four different climate shifts since 1895."

Yes. Big disasters sell advertising space and create revenues. Follow the money if you are ever wondering about the validity of anything you are told on the mass media.

I makes sense when you think about it; they can't even predict next week's weather with better than a 50% chance of accuracy, what kind of fool thinks they can predict the weather 50 years from now?


A few years later, I became old enough to vote. The very first time I had the chance to vote for president. I voted for Jimmy Carter because I didn't want war. Carter won the first time. I was happy. Then, during his tenure, inflation hit 22% and I was a university student. I realized that, at that rate, there would be no jobs even if I did graduate. Then when it seemed like he would lose re-election to Ronald Reagan, he committed a crime by sending the military into Iran to try to rescue hostages. The mission was called Operation Eagle Claw. It was a disaster. Two of the helicopters crashed into each other and eight US servicemen died. The mission was called off.

Ruins of a burnt out Hercules troop carrier helicopter in Iran April 1980.

This was the guy I voted for!? I voted for him because I didn't want war yet he was sending our military in on military adventures in countries that we weren't at war with? I have never voted again, even once, since then.


Political hypocrites! That's one more reason why I don't believe anything that politicians say and am very skeptical about their pronouncements.

After that I worked for a Republican congressman from California named Bob Largomarsino. I was his chief staff cameraman. Congressman Bob was a nice guy. I travelled around with him and took photos of him visiting old folk's homes and shaking hands with people or going to lunch with other people. In the two years I worked for him, I never once took any photos of him actually doing an work besides schmoozing people. Then Reagan invaded Grenada.

This photo was congressman Bob's favorite. Him sitting between Reagan and Bush I.

This photo hung in his office. I didn't take this one.

They said they were invading Grenada because US students were being held hostage. We'd find out later that this wasn't true at all and many nations, including our allies like Britain were angry and upset about the USA breaking international law.


"What's the land of the free doing invading tiny Caribbean nations?" I thought. That was one more reason why I don't believe anything that politicians say and am very skeptical about their pronouncements.


The litany of being told one thing but later on finding out that the facts are different from what we were told is long. I could never name them all. Rick Gee had a good short list of government lies: 

• Woodrow Wilson: won reelection with the prevaricating slogan, "He kept us out of the war." (Well, at least he did until after the election. Typical politician).
• Bush I: "Read my lips: no new taxes." (Well, maybe just a few).
• Ronald Reagan: knew nothing of the Iran-Contra shenanigans. (The Teflon President, indeed).
• Bill Clinton: "I experimented with marijuana a time or two and I didn’t like it, and didn’t inhale and never tried it again." (Do you know anyone who tried it but didn’t like it?)
• Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." ("Hey, I just sat there; she did all the relating herself.")
• Vince Foster committed suicide (how convenient).
• Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook." ("I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.")
• Marijuana has no medicinal benefits. (Tell Peter McWilliams’ survivors that).
• Children are being molested in a compound in Waco (to protect them, we must kill them).
• "Let’s Roll." Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania because heroic passengers thwarted the hijackers. (That the U.S. Air Force shot down Flight 93 seems far more likely).
• Bush II: We must take the war on terrorism to Afghanistan because the Taliban are harboring Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks (never mind that the U.S. government had already planned to invade Afghanistan long before 9/11).

There's all sorts of others too (for too many to name) but another short list: Flouride in the water is good for you; the IPCC (a government agency by the way) says there is a "consensus on Global Warming" but there isn't at all; Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons; the USA is spreading democracy; we are the "good guys;" the Japanese government saying that there was no problem at Fukushima; being the news director of a major Japanese broadcasting station and telling people that SARS, Bird flu and Swine flu were going to kill well over 250 million people worldwide (in total, until today, the three of them together have killed less than 300 people) the list goes on and on... 


These are all the million and one reasons why I am very skeptical about the pronouncements of teachers, scientists and politicians. 

Photoshop did wonders for the Man Made Global Warming movement...

That's why whenever I hear some politician say that they need to tax us to "help the children" or "save the environment" or "stop global climate change;" whenever I hear that we must go to war to stop some country from harming their people (as if bombing those same people is helpful) or that, in the worse case of an Orwellian nightmare, that "We must go to war in order to have peace" I am very skeptical.


I think, in this modern age, we need, we must to have a very strong and healthy skepticism about anything we hear, see or read on the mass media and that includes the Internet.


To do otherwise is to be foolish and completely ignore the historical record.

More Today on the Collapse of Global Warming Belief

This just out today and signed by sixteen of the world's top scientists.


Here's a snippet from Wall Street Journal:  

In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"

In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts.

Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.

Read more here.


Here are the names and positions of the people who signed this document:


-Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; 
-J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; 
-Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University; 
-Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; 
-Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; 
-William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; 
-Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; 
-William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; 
-Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; 
-James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; 
-Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; 
-Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; 
-Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; 
-Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 
-Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; 
-Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.


Emphasis on individuals and titles that should cause alarm for believers in AGW are mine. Follow up counters and rebuttals (Youtube links, etc.) from readers referring scientists who earn their income in studies that obtain grants and financing from Global warming Studies not welcomed (for obvious conflict of interest reasons). 


Read more here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html

Still Believe in Global Warming? Jan. 19th, 2012 Was the Coldest Day Globally Since 2002

Man Made Global Warming is a scam? It always was a scam? There is one thing that we can all take as a lesson in life and society and politics: When the government says that there is some problem and to fix that problem they need to tax "We the People" more, you'd better run as fast as you can the other way.


Like the war on terrorism, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on whatever you want; they are all scams and failures. Think about it: Is there anyone of us who thinks the government is competent? Is there anyone who thinks the government can fix even a pothole in the road without being over budget and way past deadline? No, right? Why does anyone think that the government could increase our taxes and fix the weather? 

The government of Florida wasted $78,000 dollars on, get this; buying Super-Hero capes for unemployed people. The Japanese government wasted $78 billion on Global Warming research. 

It's nonsense. The weather reports can't even predict correctly the weather next week, it is astounding that "scientists" and government claim they can predict the weather over the next twenty to one hundred years!   


In early 2006, when the Man-Made Global Warming panic was just getting into full swing, I was the producer of an early morning drive time FM radio show in Tokyo. That show was what we in this business call a "Wide Show." A Wide Show is a variety program that also has news, weather, sports and the like. Our show also had music and bits of comedy dispersed here and there. It was lots of fun and a great experience.


One day, we had a Monty Python-esque comedy skit on the show whereby we parodied the great BBC program. The skit was "The Great Global Warming Debate." In that debate, we had on two "professors" with opposite opinions and asked them to argue the question of "Is there or is there not a problem with Man-made global warming?" 


The build up to the skit was tremendous. We made it sound like the definitive argument was going to take place on our show. When the host asked the first professor, "Is there man-made global warming?" and that professor answered, "Yes!" then the host asked the next professor the same thing and he answered, "No!" That was the end of the debate and we ended the program. After all that fanfare and build up, it was a comedic anti-climax. We thought it was hilarious. One listener didn't think it was funny at all.

Writer's rendition of listener who "Didn't 'get' it."

Soon after the skit ended, the office telephone began ringing. It was unusual for that line to ring as it was early in the morning before office hours so I thought it might be an emergency so I answered. It was an extremely irate man on the other side. He was furious. He insisted that making light and fun of such a serious catastrophe as Man-made Global Warming was blasphemy and that the people responsible should be fired immediately. I told him it was and is a comedy skit and that he shouldn't mind about it.


He'd have none of that. He then demanded that I put the station manager on the line. Little did he know that I was the station manager. I told him to hold the line and then I composed myself and calmed down. I picked up the phone again and told him that I was the station manager. He reiterated his claims and I repeated mine. Finally, after he started cursing and threatening me, I told him that, "I'm sorry you are unhappy listening to the content of our station. If you really don't like it, there are other stations that you can listen to." Oh! That really set him off (I hate people who want to use censorship). It finally got so bad that he threatened to come down to the radio station and, get this, are you sitting down? He threatened to come down to the radio station and set it on fire!


I can never figure out how these Greens and earth and nature lovers can be so peaceful and at one with the universe and nature on the one hand and so militant and ready to kill people on the other. 


After he threatened to burn the station down and kill us all with it, I told him that he was welcomed to try and that we'd be waiting for him with the police and fire department when he comes. Since his phone number was registered on the call list at the telephone company I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find him. I also promised to visit him in prison. I never heard from him again after that.


That was 6 years ago. At that time, I had predicted on air and to many friends and people who would listen that this Man Made Global Warming business was all a scam.  I knew it was a scam because, even from the start, it was government's of the world claiming that they needed to increase taxes and payments from the people to finance the fight against this new global terror. As a person who has been keeping track of this sort of thing and the current financial calamity that is upon us (and has been building up for 20 years) it was obvious to me that, if you followed the money trail, there was something awfully suspicious about the government's claim of Man-Made Global Warming.

Anything to sell magazines, right? The fiction of Climate Science 1977.

Throw on top of that, my own personal experience of writing a 120 page thesis for my senior year in high school science class of "The Coming Ice Age" that we were lead to believe that was coming in 1975 ~ 1978 or so.


I predicted that this entire facade of Man Made Global Warming would collapse within 5 years. Just now, I was bragging to my wife about it and she said, "No one is talking about Man Made Global Warming anymore are they?"


Nope. Not in Japan, they aren't. That's why Japan is dropping out of the Kyoto Protocol this year. That's why any other countries, like Canada, have already quit. 

"What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it." 

Like my wife said, "No one is talking about Man Made Global Warming anymore, are they?" Well, honey, they aren't in Japan. But, unfortunately, some people overseas still are. 


Yes, that's right, Mr. Martini, there is an Easter Bunny!


Well now, here comes some more information that's just going to bunch up the underwear of some believers in the polemic of Man Made Global Warming. It seems that Jan. 19, 2012 was the coldest day globally in 10 years.


Real Science Reports it: 

Global temperatures are plummeting, and the temperature recorded by AMSU satellite of 251.858K on January 19 was the coldest of any day since at least 2002.

Yep. That's it. One sentence. Facts, ma'am. Just facts. 


I wonder if this will make some nature lovers want to set people's houses on fire? After all, that is a brilliant counter argument, isn't it?