MY, DON'T THEY LOOK FAMILIAR !

ADMINISTRATOR PRUITT  BANNED  REPORTERS  FROM  HIS

 "SCIENTIFIC  TRANSPARENCY"  SIGNING CEREMONY

AND  INVITED  THESE  CHAPS  INSTEAD:

THEY SEEM TO HAVE DONE SOME CELEBRATING IN ADVANCE:

WHY IS JUDGE ALSUP FED UP WITH WATTS UP?

VIEW THE REST OF  THE JUDGE'S TUTORIAL HERE 

EPA DRAINS SWAMP TO MAKE ROOM FOR MORE LOBBYISTS

The EPA has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency...Members of the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) whose terms end in August will not see them renewed, says The Washington Post... five meetings of subcommittees of the board, planned for the late summer and the fall, will now be canceled because of lack of membership...

“It effectively wipes out the BOSC and leaves it free for a complete reappointment,” said Deborah Swackhamer, the current chair of the board’s executive committee and an emeritus professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota.

Per §102-3.55 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Federal Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment (Committee) charter expired on August 20, 2017. The Department of Commerce and NOAA appreciate the efforts of the Committee and offer sincere thanks to each of the Committee members for their service.

Ms. Maxine Burkett, Professor of Law, University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law

Dr. Riley Dunlap, Regents Professor of Sociology and Dresser Professor, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, Science Center Deputy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council and Assistant Clinical Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Dr. Richard Moss, Senior Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, Committee Chair

Dr. Jessica Whitehead, Coastal Communities Hazards Adaptation Specialist, North Carolina Sea Grant

Dr. Susan Avery, President Emerita, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ms. Jan Dell, Vice President - Clean Energy, Water & Climate, Wood Group

Mr. Paul Fleming, Climate Resiliency Group Manager, Seattle Public UtilitiesDr. Jerry Melillo, Distinguished Scientist and Director Emeritus, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory

Dr. Michael Prather, Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine

Ms. Ann Marie Chischilly, Executive Director, Northern Arizona University-Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals

Dr. Lucas Joppa, Lead Environmental Scientist, Microsoft Research

Dr. Maria Carmen Lemos, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

Ms. Kristen Poppleton, Director of Education, Climate Generation - a Will Steger Legacy

Mr. Daniel Zarrilli, Senior Director, Climate Policy and Programs, and Chief Resilience Officer, New York City Office of the Mayor

L'AMBASSADEUR DE CLIMAT CHOC

DIPLOMATS FEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY RECALL OUR AMBASSADOR TO  PARIS,
 AND SEND A  NEW ONE TO  VICHY,  IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT MACRON'S 
'MAKE  OUR  PLANET  GREAT AGAIN'  HAT, &  MME. MACRON'S CRITICISM OF THE CALIFORNIA GOAT CHEESE SERVED AT  TUESDAY'S STATE DINNER  

FOX UNLEASHES THE HOUNDS

ELSEWHERE ON  FOXWORLD SEASON 2,  DELINGPOLE'S  SCORE STANDS AT
0  FOXES FOR  9 FALLS AND 3 FRACTURES

HE WAS TRYING FOR KISSINGER'S CHAIR AT THE CENTURY CLUB

Has named EPA administrator Scott Pruitt among 2018's 100 most influential people

George W. Bush’s EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman explains why

FOR MORE PROMISCUOUS INTERSPECIES SEX, TRY WUWT !

NOW WITH EXTRA DAMN DIRTY APES

THIS IS JUST THE SIDEBAR-WAIT TILL YOU READ THE POST

KEEP YOUR STICK ON THE ICE

WHILE  ATTP  EXPECTS THE HOCKEY STICK TO TURN 20 THIS YEAR,  

I THINK IT  MAY RIVAL CLIMATEBALL IN ANTIQUITY

NB: Recent EPA & Heartland publications have thrown the end of the Medieval Dumb Period into doubt.

THEY'VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT

My recent article “Two CO2 climate change myths” has generated an unprecedented 4,400+ comments here at CFACT… I want to describe some of the features of the “Two myths” article, as a guide that others can use in their writing. We need a lot more writing that supports teaching that is skeptical of climate change alarmism.

This article is what I call a “gate breaker,” which means it can be used to get around gatekeepers who want to just teach alarmism. In many cases this will be the teacher.

The article is such that a skeptical student can introduce it, in order to create a proper debate.

To begin with the article is short … brevity is important because class time can be very limited. A lot of proposed educational material is far too long to be useful.

Second, the article is focused …it is easy to bite off more that the class can chew on. Each session must be confined to a few very narrow issues. Mentioning a lot of different issues is useless.

Third, the issues focused on are fundamental. In this case, CO2 is often described in the press as “heat trapping pollution” and the point of the article is simply that this is false.

This issue is the starting point for really understanding the science… it is very important to correct the most common alarmist falsehoods.

Fourth, what is said is nontechnical…Which technical concepts you use will tend to determine which readers will not be able to fully understand the article. For example I use the concept of long wave radiation to explain the greenhouse effect and why CO2 does not trap heat. In most states this concept is first taught in middle school physical science, so that may set a lower limit to the readership.

… the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) …move a lot of climate change science that is traditionally taught in high school into middle school. This means that many relevant high school level concepts will not yet have been taught when the climate science is.

Fifth, while nontechnical, what is said has to be scientifically accurate. This is something of an art, but it is very important. Since the content is nontechnical, a lot of scientific nuance and special conditions have to be left out.

In sum ... A lot of teachers want to question climate change alarmism and they need good material to help them do it. But many want to teach alarmism and here it is the questioning student that needs support. Either way we need more good stuff in the classrooms of America.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Journalist & PR analyst David Wojick , “scientific advisor” for the now-defunct Greening Earth Society  created by the Western Fuels Association, now works for  the Heartland Institute. His  fossi; fuel clients have included AES Corporation & Allegheny Energy,which  generates 95% of its power from coal. [12], [1] He owns  Climatechangedebate.org. He was a  columnist for the Electricity Daily, a now-defunct electrical industry trade magazine, and a “founding member” of  Clexit (Climate Exit) whose  founding statement says : “Global warming has occurred naturally many times in the past and is not to be feared – it is not controlled by carbon dioxide or humans.” 

THE NEW NORMAL IN NORMAN : APRIL FIRE SHOWERS

WELCOME  TO  PRUITT  COUNTRY !

Oklahoma  Attorney  General   turned   Environmental Protection Agency Administrator  Scott Pruitt  has yet   to respond to the lethal Rhea Fire, which The National Weather Service in Norman says continued its spread across the state Tuesday, having so far burnt through nearly 400,000 acres, and claimed at least two lives.

The NWS issued a fire warning at the request of the Rhea Fire Incident Command and the Dewey County Sheriff's Office asking  residents  along  Highway 60  and east toward Chester to evacuate north and northwest toward Woodward.

The U.S. Drought Monitor  lists conditions in western Oklahoma as “exceptional” the highest ranking on its drought intensity scale.  Some areas have gone more than  185 days without more than one-quarter inch of rain.

Oklahoma's  Department of Emergency Management requested the air support assistance of the Oklahoma National  Guard  to  help  fight  the rapidly spreading wildfire Tuesday.











The NWS issued a fire warning at the request of the Rhea Fire Incident Command and the Dewey County Sheriff's Office asking residents along Highway 60 and east toward Chester to evacuate north and northwest toward Woodward.

The U.S. Drought Monitor lists conditions in western Oklahoma as “exceptional,” the highest ranking on its drought intensity scale. Some areas have gone more than 185 days without more than one-quarter inch of rain. 

The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management requested the air support assistance of the Oklahoma National Guard to help fight the rapidly spreading wildfire Tuesday. 

THE PALAEO DIET EXTINCTION

Researchers  led by  University of New Mexico biologist Felisa Smith report in  Science  that on all continents, large mammals started to die out  around the same time  humans first showed up.  According to Scientific American :

modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation. The largest terrestrial mammal 200 years from now could well be the domestic cow …  

In the time line of mammalian extinctions, large animals started to disappear only after humans or their hominid cousins showed up. But could that be a coincidence? Others have argued the main culprit behind these die-offs was the changing climate. 

In their new study Smith and her team compiled a database of all terrestrial mammals that lived from 65 million years ago until today. They divided that time line into one-million-year chunks, and analyzed extinction trends for each of them.

 "We found absolutely no effect of climate on mammalian extinction over 65 million years"  she says.

But starting around 125,000 years ago and continuing until today, large-bodied mammals have been more likely to go extinct than smaller ones, the researchers found. The average size of surviving mammals has decreased as a result... 

In North America the average mammal weighed around 98 kilograms before the ancestors of humans showed up. Today the average size is closer to eight kilograms… 

This finding does not mean climate-related changes could not have stressed some wildlife populations, enabling humans to more easily bring about their eventual downfall

ACCORDING TO PIKETTY, SOME NEOMATERIALIST ANIMALS ARE MORE PRIVILEGED THAN OTHERS

Social equality and environmental considerations can diverge considerably regarding what types of behavioural changes are  required for attaining a better society... The social theories behind such emancipatory missions, such as Marxist and neo-materialist inspired analysis on class,  gender,  and preventive health generally take economic growth and consumption of medical care for granted 

The emphatic  interconnectedness of  different goals of environmental sustainablility for marginalised groups requires the intersectional  reconciliation of  the feminists' political projects... Klein's  insights from  post-structural feminism could serve to universally deconstruct dominant  Piagetian  and Pikettyan  ideas about ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ and create new definitions and understandings of these categories...

In order to study climate change, it is necessary ... that questions such as‘How is nature represented?’ and ‘How are relations between humans and the environment portrayed?’ be addressed in any intersectional analysis of climate change as we ... realize the hermeneutic transformation of Animal Farm into the Platonic Academy.

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO STAY AWAY FROM ME

HAVING INVITED AN ASSORTMENT OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO THE EPA, ADMINISTRATOR SCOTT PRUITT REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON CLIMATE  POLICY & TOXIC RISKS TO THE UNBORN

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt hosted a group of religious leaders in his office last week.

There were conditions: There would be no talk about climate change or Pruitt's recent bad press.

On Friday afternoon, Pruitt and several EPA staffers met with nine faith leaders from different religious backgrounds at EPA headquarters to talk about environmental justice issues, according to one attendee.

"We were not allowed to talk about climate; it was not part of it. It was apparently a condition of the meeting," said the Rev. Mitchell Hescox, president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network. "It was a cordial meeting, but I was a little disheartened that he didn't want to talk about climate."

Participants were also warned not to talk about the torrent of negative media coverage Pruitt has received in recent weeks regarding the administrator's spending while in office....

One person asked for a faith-based office in EPA... and Hescox focused on the impact of toxic chemicals on developing fetuses. Hescox said Pruitt's deregulatory actions betrayed anti-abortion values... He requested that the administrator name fetuses as an "at-risk group" under the Toxic Substances Control Act... He left the EPA boss a copy of his book, Caring for Creation: The Evangelical's Guide to Climate Change & a Healthy Environment

WHAT TIME DOES THIS EPOCH STOP AT THE NEXT ERA?

We interrupt the Anthropocene  to celebrate the coming of age of the 6,000th anniversary of the Creation

Usshering in the Millennium

by Russell Seitz

From Earth magazine, September 1997

The 6,000th anniversary of Earth's creation (4004 B.C. - A.D. 1997) is about to be celebrated by congregations that revere geochronology's founder, the good and great Archbishop Usher. Their enthusiasm seems bound to spill over into their congressional districts, with obvious ramifications for the funding of geophysical research. So it may be prudent to amend geochronology to fit a Biblically Correct 6,000-year format, at least for the fiscal year to come.

• 25 Oct. 4004 B.C.: Encounter with Nemesis knocks Lucifer out of Oort Cloud.
• 1 Nov. 4004 B.C.: Earth still largely molten; Adam and Eve invent asbestos waders.
• 3714 B.C.: The first biotechnologist, Cain, invents cyanobacteria.
• 3554 B.C.: Komatiitic lava inundates earliest crust; Noah's Ark incinerated.
• 3264 B.C.: Methuselah begins to notice passage of geological time.
• 3124 B.C.: Archaean stratiform sulfide deposits form, making Bronze Age possible.
• 2844 B.C.: Tired of reading graphic granite, Imhotep invents hieroglyphs.
• 2584 B.C.: Earliest sedimentation; discovery of slate leads to stone tablets.
• 2444 B.C.: Breathable atmosphere develops; first sermon preached.
• 2384 B.C.: Descendants of Tubal Cain inaugurate banded Iron Age. Sphinx starts to fossilize.
• 2024 B.C.: Nimrod the Hunter erects the Geosyncline of Babel.
• 1914 B.C.: Advent of diapirism; Lot's wife turned into first salt dome.
• 1794 B.C.: Children of Ham split from Israelites, insisting the Burgess Shale fauna are kosher
• 1704 B.C.: Charshumash the Hittite bitten by first vertebrate; lawyers emerge from slime.
• 1624 B.C.: Samson attempts perovskite synthesis; laboratory of the Philistines implodes.
• 1444 B.C.: War of the Chaldean Succession Pangea broken up in accordance with the Treaty of Uruk.
• 1334 B.C.: Shang Empire abandons efforts to invent compass when China drifts over south magnetic pole.
• 1264 B.C.: Moses invents hydrofracturing opening of Red Sea rift drowns Egyptian Army.
• 1194 B.C.: Odysseus runs aground on Gondwanan Riviera; Circe founds Club Teth.
• 1104 B.C.: Ezekiel see de pterodactyl 'way up in de middle ob de air.
• 1024 B.C.: Goliath stepped on by irate Barosaurus; David takes credit. 
• 794 B.C.: Jonah swallowed by Carcharas megalodon. 
• 564 B.C.: Pythagoras publishes Air-Earth-Fire-Water phase diagram. 
• 454 B.C.: Marble deposits form in Greece; Parthenon erected. 
• 338 B.C.: Aristotle concludes that quartz is just another polymorph of ice, like diamond or pearls; this is known as the Wisdom of the Ancients. 
• 48 B.C.: All of Gaul is divided into three parts by the collision of Corsica with the European Plate. 
• The Year Zero: Nothing much happened, there being none. 
• A.D. 31: Miracle of the Loaves and Ichthyosaurs. 
• A.D. 70: Paul, formerly Saul the Tarser, undergoes identity crisis on the road to Damascus and writes Epistle to the Cephalopods. 
• A.D. 344: Vanguard of Attila the Hun perishes when Romans breach Gibraltar escarpment, flooding the Mediterranean Desert. 
• A.D. 494: Snakes evolve and are driven out of Ireland. 
• A.D. 974: Lief the Unlucky is lost with all hands when his dragon ship is spotted by an amorous Kronosaurus. 
• A.D. 1066: William the Conqueror invades England by walking through northern France. 
• A.D. 1215: Magna Carta eaten by Velociraptor. 
• A.D. 1324: Gunpowder and plate armor introduced; dinosaurs hunted to extinction. 
• A.D. 1384: Dante Alighieri describes core-mantle boundary. 
• A.D. 1444: Flowering plants appear; War of the Roses commences. 
• A.D. 1484: Leonardo da Vinci designs Archaeopteryx. 
• A.D. 1492: Mesoamerica emerges, thwarting Columbus's discovery of Japan; the Santa Maria is attacked by ammonites. 
• A.D. 1522: Hernan Cortes uses asteroid impact to conquer Aztec Empire. 
• A.D. 1588: Spanish Armada frustrated by continuing absence of English Channel. 
• A.D. 1636: Earliest primates appear; Harvard founded. 
• A.D. 1664: An English primate becomes Primate of Ireland; Archbishop Ussher successfully deduces last four out of ten digits of the age of the Earth. 
• A.D. 1688: Hapsburg Iceboat Armada invades England via London-Bruges canal; Inquisition burns Isaac Newton at the stake for alchemy.
• A.D. 1754: Gibbons evolve and write masterpieces like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• A.D. 1776: Washington's Mastodon Cavalry routs Hessians at Battle of Hudson Canyon.
• A.D. 1835: Charles Darwin, attacked by giant ratite in Galapagos, returns home a convinced Neptunist.
• A.D. 1846: A milestone in ape evolution is passed; birth of a son to Bishop and Lady Wilburforce.
• A.D. 1867: COSMOS superstar Alexander Von Humboldt wins the Napoleon III Peace Prize for sabotaging the Baltimore Gun Club's lunar cannon.
• A.D. 1894: Awed by extent of glaciation, Cecil Rhodes proposes Capetown-to-Cairo bobsled run.
• A.D. 1914: Younger Dryas sea-level rise unleashes U-boats into the Atlantic; Holy Roman Empire wins World War 1.
• A.D. 1948: Harry Truman proposes using ice to contain Stalin; Cold War begins, ending Last Interglacial.
• A.D. 1954: Glaciers retreat from Fulda Gap; de Gaulle invades Russia.
• A.D. 1957: Civil Rights Movement challenges Jim Cro-Magnon laws.
• A.D. 1961: Rachel Carson links DDT to Glyptodonts' decline.
• A.D. 1969: Last sighting of saber-toothed tiger in Central Park; Elizabeth Taylor divorces Proconsul.
• A.D. 1971: Andy Warhol paints Campbell Soup cans on walls of Lascaux caverns.
• A.D. 1983: Australopithecus wins the America's Cup.
• A.D. 1988: Homo habilis volunteers to serve as Pat Robertson's running mate.
• A.D. 1990: Last Neanderthals perish in siege of Kremlin.
• A.D. 1991: Saddam Hussein discovers fire; Holocene tar sands form in Kuwait.
• A.D. 1997: Citing black smoker emissions, the EPA bans continental drift. Thermophilis wins Nobel Prize for sequencing its own DNA while trapped in amber.

WELCOME TO THE NEGATIVE SPIN ZONE

EOS CLIMATE CHANGE  

Reversing Earth’s Spin Moves Deserts, Reshapes Ocean Currents

A climate model with reversed rotation of Earth helps climatologists and oceanographers understand why our planet is the way it is and reveals how different it could have been. By Bas den Hond  10 April 2018
Suppose some cosmic event, say, an asteroid impact, stopped Earth from rotating and then set it spinning the other way. What would the planet’s new climate be like?...

The computer simulation revealed a backward spinning planet with a dramatically different distribution and abundance of desert lands, an otherworldly surge of cyanobacteria, and rerouted ocean currents, among other differences from our real, familiar planet. The findings were presented Monday at the annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna, Austria.

Climate zones on the retrograde rotating Earth. The colors indicate different climate types. The tropics remained warm and humid (red) as they are on the actual Earth, but deserts (yellow) formed mainly in the Americas, no longer dominating North Africa and the Middle East. Dark and light blue show that western Europe became much colder than on the real planet. Credit: Alexander Winkler/Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

The Expected and the Unexpected

To create their version of a retro-Earth, Ziemen’s team stopped all movement of water and air. They then reversed the sense of the Coriolis force that tugs on all moving matter on a rotating planet, so that any cyclone would henceforth go clockwise on the Northern Hemisphere. They also reversed the daily path of the Sun, with New York 5 hours ahead of London.

The retrograde rotating Earth also included an unanticipated cyanobacterial surge. In the northern Indian Ocean, the interplay of circulation and high biological production caused low levels of oxygen at greater depths, making it necessary for microorganisms there to consume nitrate instead. The resulting water with low levels of nitrate made it possible for cyanobacteria, which don’t need nitrate, to become the dominant biological producers across a broad expanse of ocean where that nutrient-depleted water reached the surface. Whereas cyanobacterial blooms occur often on the actual Earth, they remain relatively small in scale, Ziemen said. “You can find cyanobacteria, and they may locally be important, but not in a large region.”...

A Backward but Kinder Earth?

Looking at the climate of the retrograde Earth, one might conclude that the study falsifies the conclusion of the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz that for all that may be wrong with Earth, humankind lives in the “best of all possible worlds.” In some respects, the retrograde rotating Earth might seem to be the better place, with, for instance, 11 million square kilometers less desert than what is found on our actual planet...

—Bas den Hond (email: bas@stellarstories.com), Freelance Journalist

Citation: den Hond, B. (2018), Reversing Earth’s spin moves deserts, reshapes ocean currents, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO096317. Published on 10 April 2018.

CAN PENGUINS JOIN THE BILLION POLAR BEAR MARCH ?

Skip to contentScience, Philosophy and Inquiry on a Galactic Scale

A conversation with Dr. Willie Soon – on polar bears, the sun, and Earth’s climate

Contributed by Grégoire Canlorbe © 2017 Publised at WUWT by request of Mr. Canlorbe.    These are the opinions of the author and interviewee. 

• Dr. Willie Soon is an independent solar physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
• [ NO HE ISN'T ! : SEE HARVARD DENIAL AT END]
• who has been studying the Sun and its influence on the Earth’s climate for more than a quarter of a century. A short while ago, he had a conversation with Mr. Grégoire Canlorbe, an independent journalist who is also vice president of the French Parti National-Libéral (“National-Liberal Party,” conservative, nationalist, and free-marketist). Here Dr. Soon speaks for himself.  

•   Canlorbe: You say polar bears are far less endangered by global warming than by environmentalists dreading ice melt. Could you expand?

Dr. Soon: Yes, indeed. I have argued that too much ice will be the ultimate enemy for polar bears. Polar bears need less sea ice to be well fed and to reproduce. Why? Think about this for a minute: Polar bears eat a lot. Any large colony will need a great deal of food. The bears’ staple diet is seal blubber.. that means oceans warm enough to support the lower links in the food chain from plankton all the way up to seals…The so-called “environmentalists”, who seem to allow unreasoning emotion and political prejudice to stand in place of rational thought and sound science, became very angry when I asked them whether they would prefer to see a billion polar bears …

 I should say categorically that this polar bear fear-mongering is evidence of mass delusion promoted by group think...

My own examination of the Earth’s climate system extends beyond the solar system ... consider our galaxy’s interaction with passing stellar systems, especially the coming merger (in a few billion years) between the Milky Way and the M31 Andromeda galaxy to form the Milkomeda cluster.  
As A.E. Housman’s Greek chorus used to put it, “I only ask because I want to know.” It’s the Sun, stupid!..

The Philosophy of Science Hotheads and hot weather

Canlorbe: People from South America, Africa, Italy and the Middle East are sometimes thought of as having elevated testosterone levels and, consequently, a propensity to solve political conflicts through violence. These populations are thought of as being warm-blooded, or even hot-headed, owing to the hot climates in which they live. Do you warmly welcome this hypothesis or hotly deny it?

Dr Soon: I am very happy to receive such a question, for I am always trying to understand the extent to which life is dependent upon and influenced by the Sun.

Professor John Todd of the University of Cambridge has recently published a paper that focuses on how some 5,135 out of 22,822 human genes studied for immunity and general physiology exhibited seasonal dependence on incoming sunlight. This finding that the Sun directly influences about a quarter of our genome adds a profound insight and possibly legitimacy to the broad statements you list above. But far more importantly, it proffers a proper and scientific approach to such a question

Are environmentalists Fascist?

Canlorbe: Although environmentalist and self-proclaimed antifascist movements obviously share the totalitarian dimension of Italian Fascism – at least, in its final version – they may not share the anthropology and the view of nature that were at the heart of Fascist ideology… Does Trumpian conservatism or green socialism come closest to the spirit of historical Fascism as expressed above?

Dr. Soon (with help from Christopher Monckton of Brenchley):

Fascism, National Socialism, International Socialism and Communism are all disfiguring and mutually indistinguishable instances of the totalitarianism that the political philosophers of early imperial China excoriated as “legalism” and the French philosophers as йtatisme, intйgrisme and dirigisme…


Such questions, however, are more political than scientific. Beyond saying that science tends to be corrupted by cruel notions such as eugenicism or Lysenkoism under totalitarian regimes, and to prosper in a climate of freedom, I respectfully decline to address your question.

I do not do politics, as the environmentalist socialists do. I do science. As Lucretius put it, Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas … it should never be forgotten that modern environmentalist socialism was invented by Hitler in Mein Kampf as a method of exercising that fingertip control over every aspect of people’s lives and work that all totalitarians crave.

Gregoire Canlorbe is the vice president of the French Parti National-Libйral (“National-Liberal Party,” conservative, nationalist, and free-marketist)...He promotes a new form of liberalism (libertarianism), which he calls “territorial-aristocratic liberalism.”

Allegations Against Smithsonian Researcher

Bring Attention to Harvard 

By MEG P. BERNHARD and ZARA ZHANG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS February 25, 2015

Although a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has come under fire amid conflict of interest allegations has no formal affiliations with Harvard, the scientist’s use of Harvard’s name on research has brought attention to the University amid the public controversy.

Wei-Hock Soon, the controversial researcher based in Cambridge who claims that variations in the sun’s energy can largely explain climate chang...

Soon, who is also called Willie, is employed part-time by the Smithsonian side of the center and has no formal affiliations with Harvard, according to Charles R. Alcock, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon is not an employee of Harvard, and there are no records indicating that he has applied for or been granted funds administered by the University, according to a statement from University spokesperson Jeff Neal quoted in multiple news outlets.

According to W. John Kress, interim undersecretary for science at the Smithsonian Institution,... Soon does not formally study climate change...Soon did not respond to a request for comment on his relationship with and employment at Harvard.

Although Soon is not a University employee, he has a Harvard email address and... some news outlets have referred to Soon as a “Harvard astrophysicist.” Michael B. McElroy, a professor of environmental studies at Harvard, said it is common practice for scientists to submit journal articles without prior review by their affiliate organizations. Even so, McElroy said he thinks that Soon ... used Harvard’s name inappropriately.

“The sense was communicated that this was a certified Harvard piece of work. But to my knowledge, neither one of them actually work for Harvard,” McElroy said.