They're Beyond the Peter Principle: They're Criminals

The Peter Principle: People are promoted to their level of incompetence. 

By Rich Kozlovich

Since Biden became President of the United States I've tried in some small way to track to important positions in the federal government.  From the cabinet, to the judiciary, the military, and to the various agencies, there are two things that stand out to those who've paid attention: They're weird and they hate America, and we're seeing the madness of King Brandon on display. 

On June 29, 2022 it was reported that Energy Secretary Granholm violated the Hatch Act by encouraging votes for Democrats during interview, and that conclusion was the result of an investigation by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.  Clearly an independent federal agency.  And she "received appropriate training and the office has advised her that any future violations will be considered a "willful and knowing violation of the law, which could result in further action."  Wow!  They were really tough on her!  Just a little snark.

 

But anyone whose paid any amount of attention to these people and watched the Senate hearings where the were questioned there's only one conclusion.  They were already at the peak of the Peter Principle before they were appointed.  But the quality of their competence is only part of the problem.

 

Secretary of Home Land Security Mayorkas has been in the news a lot these days regarding his

• Ministry of Misinformation: Freedom is Slavery!
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Did he lie?  There's been a pattern of lies to Congress by Mayorkas, as the Washington Post Says Mayorkas’s ‘Prompt Deportation’ Claim Is ‘Mostly False’.  Immigration at the border has been in reality open treason by Mayorkas and the Biden administration.  That breeds the obvious conclusion expressed by Sen. Rick Scott: Mayorkas Has Lied to Congress & the American People – He Must Resign. 

 

Silvio Canto, Jr. says there are 51 reasons for Mayorkas to resign because he's in charge of this immigration mess and recently 51 people were found dead in a trailer roasted to death, and its all on Mayorkas, but especially Joe Biden.  Their blood is on their hands. 

Then there's the energy crisis.  No advanced society can exist and prosper without sufficient energy.  America was a nation that was not only energy independent but an energy exporter less than two years ago, is now facing an energy crisis and even black outs.  Why?  America has more oil than all the Middle East combined, but we have to drill for it.  

 

We have energy issues because Biden and his crew are nuts over something that's not occurring, , and blaming something that has absolutely no impact on the world's climate, manmade and claim we need to end use and become totally green.

Kelly Haughton posted this piece, Fire Kerry, fire McCarthy, fire Granholm "Ending the "energy crisis" requires serious housecleaning."

 

“Joe Biden can end the global energy crisis in 3 easy steps: 1. Promise to stop his anti-fossil fuel-fuel agenda for the remainder of his administration. 2. Withdraw from the Paris Agreement. 3. Encourage other countries to do 1 and 2. Production will surge, prices will plummet.”

She outlines three steps in fixing that problem, First fire John Kerry for his opposition to fossil fuels, and his efforts to destroy oil producing companies.  Second, fire Gina McCarthy, Biden’s National Climate Advisor. McCarthy, a one time EPA administrator who was a disaster then and still is, is part of this insane green cabal.  She and the position she holds should be assigned to the ash heap of  history and finally, fire Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. 

 

All of these people are in opposition to America's energy production and independence.  All of these people are demanding America totally transition into alternative energy production and "go green" in our use of energy, which is scientifically and factually  impossible, and they have to know it. No amount of incremental wind and solar power can ever provide energy independence. 

 

Conclusion?  If what I've said about energy production is true, and it is, and if they're policies and actions are in direct opposition to that, and they are, then we must conclude they're consciously and deliberately working to destroy America.  

 

Why should they be allowed to continue?  

 

Biden’s electric caravan to Green utopia runs out of gas

By Larry Bell | June 28th, 2022| Energy| 54 Comments @ CFACT

The woke Biden administration is receiving loud wake up calls from appropriately alarmed constituents as their poll numbers tank.

The message is that a vast majority of the country isn’t feverish enough about global warming Armageddon hyped by a powerful coalition of globalist non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), investment corporations, well-funded environmental activist, green subsidy lobbies, far left government special interest groups—and politicos—to warrant sacrificing reliable, affordable fossil-fueled energy sufficiency essential to individual life quality and national economic prosperity.

The rude awakening is warranted.

Throughout our history, America’s rich abundance of oil, natural gas and coal has afforded US citizens the world’s highest living standards. And until very recently—just before Joe Biden took office—our nation was not only energy independent, but also a leading global oil and gas exporter.

Witness the current paradox, a presidential promise to kill the hydrocarbon industry, followed up by implementing every conceivable regulatory measure to do precisely that.

And then the hubris to demand that this same “big oil” pump more of their evil product as they simultaneously plead with Saudi Arabia, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela, and Iran to do the same.

The consequences should hardly be surprising—record gasoline and diesel prices that are rippling through every corner of business and driving up food and commodity costs with a devastating 8.6% four-decade high inflation.

Perhaps even far left liberals are beginning to realize that the idea of replacing the more than 80% of reliable energy we get from hydrocarbons by growing the less than 4% provided by intermittent wind and solar combined— plus then also try to add millions of electric vehicles to already overstressed power grids that require big batteries that depend upon rare earth minerals where 80% come from China—may not be a feasible, winning strategy after all.

Nevertheless, that’s exactly what Joe and his core White House and congressional supporters have attempted to push and sell to the public when, as a presidential candidate, he promised: “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.”

On his first day in office, President Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and halted new leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

A week later, he banned new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, and in June he shut down exploration on existing leases in ANWR.

In October, he increased the regulatory burdens on building pipelines and other infrastructure, and last February, he limited leasing in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A).

Then, in April, almost a year after a federal judge enjoined the White House from implementing its pause on leases in federal lands and waters, the Biden administration finally offered 144,400 acres for exploration—only 20% of the acreage originally slated for this tranche of leases—an area less than half the size of Phoenix.

By comparison, bear in mind here that the Federal Government owns and manages 640 million acres, 28% of all US land, totaling about six times the size of California.

The feds also raised the federal royalty rate for new leases 50% from 12.5% to 18.77%, the first increase since they were first imposed in the 1920’s.

On top of that, the Biden White House intently nominated vehemently anti-fossil energy officials to shepherd draconian regulatory policies including climate impact disclosures to dry up industry investment capital in favor of preferred “clean” alternatives.

Enter the administration’s Department of Energy Secretary, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who supported every failed government subsidized green boondoggle the Obama-Biden administration threw in her lap.

The Mackinac Center, a Michigan think tank, reported that only 2.3% of Granholm’s hundreds of millions of handouts for favored start-ups in her state during her governorship from 2003 to 2011 met their advertised job creation promises.

Appearing recently on CNN’s “State of the Union,” ahead of President Biden’s plan to meet with the Saudi’s once again seeking relief from his self-inflicted policies, Granholm said, “we need to have increased production, so that everyday citizens in America will not be feeling this pain that they’re feeling right now.”

This national indignity, after the Saudi crown prince previously refused to take our president’s call, followed Biden’s letter to seven major oil producers and refiners in June, demanding them to take “immediate action” to increase the supply of gasoline, and blasting them for record prices at the gas pump—which he also conveniently blamed on Vladimir Putin.

After all, it was Biden’s war on America’s hydrocarbons, not Putin’s war on Ukraine, that reduced supplies and drove up prices.

In January of 2021, the average price of regular gasoline was $2.33 a gallon.

By February of this year, it was up to $3.52.

Since as of May, the average price was $4.44, 56% of that rise predated the invasion.

Rapidly approaching midterm elections leave Democrats little time to relieve inflationary pump pains. Other than return to Trump-era policies—which his party’s far left wing won’t possibly allow, Joe Biden’s only remaining options are short-term gimmicks intended to appear show he’s doing something helpful.

A total public feel-good deception was to have his EPA increase the maximum allowable amount of ethanol additive in petroleum from 10% (E10) currently, to 15% (E15) over summer driving months between June 1 and Sept. 15.

The ethanol strategy is a sham “fix” which will only add to inflationary food costs by consuming more of our nation’s corn supply, provides about 40% less energy than petroleum (reducing milage efficiency); and offers no environmental advantages or CO2 emission reduction benefits whatsoever.

The White House is also pushing for Congress to suspend the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax for three months, primarily a public relations play that could save about $3 on the $75 it costs to fill up an average 15-gallon gas tank at $4.98 per gallon.

New York’s June 1st suspension of its 16-cent gas tax—out of roughly 46 cents a gallon between state and local taxeshas had notably little consumer benefit, leaving the $4.98 a gallon pump price nearly unchanged.

In the end, President Biden and his progressive playbook have successfully accomplished what they set out to do—to make fossil energy prohibitively expensive so that we use less of it.

Their major failure in the process was attempting to replace those marvelously abundant and efficient hydrocarbons with magical green alternatives before their empty promises ran out of gas, their midterm polls tanked, and their roadmap to Utopia led the country to nowhere any of us should ever wish to be.

This article originally appeared at NewsMax

Author

•   Larry Bell

  CFACT Advisor Larry Bell heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of "Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax."

Who knew CO2 was vital to human health? Scientist — Parts one and two

By Dr. Jay Lehr |June 20th, 2022|Science| 267 Comments @ CFACT

 

In 1904 Christian Bohr, a Danish biochemist discovered that carbon dioxide (CO2) facilitates the release of oxygen (O2) to our cells. Oxygen is carried through our body by the hemoglobin in our red blood cells. Bohr discovered carbon dioxide acts as a a catalyst for hemoglobin to release its oxygen for use by our bodies. When levels of carbon dioxide in our bodies become too low the bond between the oxygen and hemoglobin increases making it more difficult for the oxygen to be released to our cells. Poor physical oxygenation leads to many unhealthy problems within our bodies. Conversely it is actually difficult to have too little oxygen in our bodies. For a healthy body, over breathing or inhaling pure oxygen has little benefit delivering to our tissues and organs.

In other words the pure oxygen your favorite quarterback is inhaling on the sidelines between offensive drives does him little good. The money a jet lagged traveler might spend at an airport oxygen bar is also wasted.

Additional understanding of this new knowledge was increased only recently in 2017 when Dr. U.P. Singh at the Suharto Medical College in India discovered that there were many relationships between yoga breathing and CO2. He wrote in his paper referenced below that CO2 stimulated the vagus nerve. He discovered that increased levels of CO2 in the blood could activate the vagus nerve and slow the heart rate. He describes carbon dioxide as a “natural sedative.” It soothes the irritability of the brains conscious centers, promoting our ability to use logic, reason and common sense. Without CO2 we become anxious, depressed, and angry.(1)

By the 1930s physicians were administering CO2 directly to the lungs at the Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital. They ran several innovative studies with CO2 exploring its clinical applications for physical and mental conditions.

Trials of CO2 therapy in epilepsy patients found that after only a few treatments, onset of seizures was reduced. Yandle Henderson, a Yale physiologist found a mixture of oxygen (O2) and 5% CO2 could generate excellent results in patients with asthma, stroke, pneumonia, heart attack and asphyxia in newborn babies.

Patrick Mckeown in his 2021 book THE BREATHING CURE says the therapy increased in pace during the 1940’s and 50’s bringing forth more research into its benefits. It was actually cheap and easy to administer, a fact he says which may have lead to its demise. When a single doctor in Ohio, Ralph M. Waters who specialized in anesthesia claimed CO2 was a bad idea its use declined. It is believed he used a 30% solution of CO2 gas rather than the proven 5%. It was known that 30% CO2 was potentially dangerous.

Whatever Waters’ intention, he succeeded in damming the medical use of carbon dioxide. The therapy was forced underground and its purpose distorted by false claims, lawsuits and selective scientific studies. A century’s worth of medical research showing carbon dioxides clinical applications for many conditions was almost entirely forgotten.

I believe that it is a safe guess that less than 10% of our readers are familiar with these positive aspects of carbon dioxide in our bodies. However I embarrassed myself on our radio show ,THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY at AmericaOutLoud.com on April 30, 2022 when my guest was Dr. Will Happer. I consider him to be the leading climate physicist in the U.S. but told him I thought he would be unfamiliar with this health information regarding CO2. He went on to describe it all, chapter and verse, as I cowered in embarrassment.

Let me summarize what are now the unquestioned benefits of adequate carbon dioxide gas in the human body. First contrary to what might be expected from fraudulent environmental concerns relating to global warming carbon dioxide health effects for the human body are innumerable.

Life originated and had existed on Earth for millennia under conditions of very high CO2 content in surrounding air. According to published studies CO2 content was between 7 and 12 percent of the air when the first creatures with lungs were evolving.

CO2 helps dilate the smooth muscle tissues and helps regulate the cardiovascular system. CO2 gets converted to carbonic acid thereby becoming a primary regulator of the alkaline/acid balance of the body. It also plays an important role in the proper functioning of the digestive system.

Unfortunately excessive breathing always reduces the amount of carbon dioxide without improving the oxygen content. Significant research has now linked insufficient carbon dioxide in the body to the following medical problems: Heart Disease, Diabetes, Asthma , COPD, Cancer, Sleep Apnea, Liver Cirrhosis, Hyperthyroidism,

Epilepsy and Panic disorder.

Now you all know the other side of the story. I will build on it next week when I explain the many benefits of breathing through ones nose and taking less breathes per minute. Both of which relate to the importance of CO2 in our bodies which I have referred to in this article.

1- Songhai U.P. Evidence-Based of Hypercapernia (excess CO2) and Exhaustion Phase in Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Insights into Hypercapernia Yoga Breathing Exercises” J. Yoga Physics Ther 7, no 276 (2017):2

CO2 important for human health: Who knew? Scientists—Part Two

By Dr. Jay Lehr June 27th, 2022 Science  45 Comments

I believe this topic is so important that I will make it a bit personal at least anecdotally from my experience. I am sure exceptional health which has followed me for 85 years till the China virus interfered for a few weeks, has been the result of a great deal of exercise, a good diet, and good genes. However, my reading of two books (mentioned below) taught me how unwittingly lucky I have been to have adopted two extremely healthy habits: 1- breathing through my nose primarily rather than my mouth, 2- breathing at the unusually low rate of 6 breaths per minute. In part one of this series, I explained how rapid mouth breathing depletes the carbon dioxide in your body. The healthiest range of carbon dioxide in your body is 30 to 40 mmHg (millimeters of mercurial pressure) which relates to a variety of increased health problems if one is far off this range. I take no credit for having unknowingly found myself doing this as far back as I can remember.

Although breathing is an involuntary action and we don’t usually give it much thought, the way we breath has an enormous impact on our health. We normally pay it no attention unless something goes wrong. Todays experts tell us that during rest, light movement such as walking and yoga, should make breathing almost imperceptible, never noticeable. Healthy breathing should be through the nose driven by the diaphragm. It should be regular, quiet, slow, and almost undetectable. Unhealthy or dysfunctional breathing involves breathing through the mouth, using the upper chest, irregularly and audible. Many large studies show that nearly 60% of people do breathe through their mouths.

Slow breathing practices have been adopted in many areas of the world due to their claimed health benefits. This has piqued the interest of researchers and clinicians who have initiated investigations into the physiological (and psychological) effects of slow breathing techniques and attempted to uncover the underlying mechanisms.

It is a topic that warrants further research, understanding and discussion, but is very well covered in two books from which I gained most of my knowledge: THE BREATHING CURE (2021, 534 pages) by Patrick McKeown, and BREATH (2020, 280 pages) by James Nestor.

• Investigations into the physiological effects of slow breathing have uncovered significant effects on the respiratory, cardiovascular, cardiorespiratory, and autonomic nervous systems.

• Key findings include effects on respiratory muscle activity, ventilation efficiency, heart rate variability, blood flow dynamics, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, cardiorespiratory coupling, and perhaps most important, slow breathing impacts our vagus nerves. The vagus nerves, the longest nerves in our autonomic system can regulate inflammatory responses associated with blood vessels, the lungs, heart, stomach, esophagus, circulation, digestion and more.
• There appears to be potential for use of controlled slow breathing techniques as a means of improving physiological aspects of health and longevity and may even extend to some disease states.

The last decade has seen the emergence of literature documenting the effects and potential clinical benefits of slow breathing techniques, predominantly in disease states. The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human, however, are yet to be comprehensively reviewed. Documented effects predominantly include the cardiovascular, autonomic, respiratory, and endocrine aspects.

HISTORY OF SLOW BREATHING

The act of controlling one’s breath for the purpose of restoring or enhancing one’s health has been practiced for thousands of years amongst Eastern cultures. For example, yogic breathing (pranayama) is a well-known ancient practice of controlled breathing, often performed in conjunction with meditation or yoga, for its spiritual and perceived health-enhancing effects. Their claimed health benefits and potential to treat a range of medical conditions has piqued the interest of the medical and scientific communities and is stimulating research.

Since the 1990’s, a system of breathing therapy developed within the Russian medical community by Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko has made its way across several continents. He began treating patients with respiratory and circulatory diseases using breathing retraining in the 1950’s and 1960’s . Other clinicians adopted his methods and claimed success in treating a wide range of chronic disorders.

Slow breathing is commonly defined as any rate from 4 to 10 breaths per min. The typical respiratory rate in humans is within the range of 10–20 breaths per min. Slow breathing towards a rate of 6 breaths per min has been said to result in increased venous (blood) return. There is however a second part of the equation, which is slow and complete exhalation, certainly as important as inhaling.

This is further augmented in diaphragmatic breathing due to the anatomical fact that the diaphragm is connected to and supports the heart and provides passage for the aorta and the inferior vena cava. At around 6 breaths per min, significantly greater coupling occurred in subjects with low initial blood oxygenation.

In the process of your breathing through your nose, the air is heated, cleaned, slowed, and pressurized after leaving your nose. Therefore, the lungs can then extract more oxygen with each breath. This why nasal breathing is far healthier and more efficient than breathing through the mouth.

One poetic scientist Jayakar Nayak who James Nestor wrote about, explained that “the nose is the silent warrior: the gatekeeper of our bodies, pharmacist to our minds, and weathervane to our emotions.” Such beliefs go back to 1830 when scientist George Catlin, studying Native American health, was told that breath inhaled through the mouth sapped the body of strength while breath inhaled through the nose kept the body strong. One tribal leader said, “The air which enters the lungs through the mouth is as different from that which enters the nostrils as distilled water is different from the water in an ordinary cistern or frog pond.” These native Americans trained their children to be nose breathers and even often avoided smiling, which would open their mouths, fearing some noxious air might enter.

Catlin traveled the world studying more mouth breathers which all went into his 1862 book, THE BREATH OF LIFE. A more modern scientist Dr. Mark Burhenne agreed with all Catlin learned and wrote a book describing the contribution of mouth breathing to periodontal disease, bad breath, and cavities. Burhenne claimed mouth breathing was more damaging than sugar consumption, bad diet, or poor hygiene.

In summary when we breath too much, we expel too much carbon dioxide, and our blood pH rises to become more alkaline, but when we breath slower and hold in more carbon dioxide the pH lowers and blood becomes more acidic. Almost all cellular functions in the body take place at a blood pH level of 7.4, our sweet spot between alkaline and acid.

Slow mouth breathing could be a path to improved health but not necessarily an easy one. If you have been a rapid mouth breather it will be a difficult habit to change, but likely worth the effort.

Author

• Dr. Jay Lehr

  CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon.

Green Paganism

By CFACT Ed, Mark Hendrickson  | August 15th, 2020 | Environment @ CFACT 

 

Editor's Note:  While this article is almost two years old, it is in point of fact timeless.  Definition leads to clarity, and we need to understand all this misery being caused by the Biden administration in the name of global warming is in fact foundationally nature worshiping paganism in origin, thought and intent.  Once we understand that, everything else becomes clear.

Many zealous greens are strongly imbued with pagan values. Paganism is generally defined as polytheism mixed in with nature worship. Primitive pagans frequently cowered before the forces of nature, fatalistically resigned to being at nature’s mercy, believing that progress was not only impossible, but a criminal offense against nature. So complete was their submission to nature, and so foreign to them was the idea that individual lives have value, that pagan societies often practiced human sacrifice to appease the gods of nature, particularly the sun god (e.g., the Aztecs).

Let’s forget about polytheism for now. What’s more important are the attitudes toward nature and human life. In the modern scientific era, many people – whether prompted by theistic or humanistic beliefs and values – reject the pagan beliefs that humankind should submit to nature and that individual human lives deserves protection. However, many other people, particularly hardcore greens, reject those principles and replicate primitive paganism by exalting nature and devaluing human life.

Pagan greens insist that we cling to dependence on natural, “clean, renewable” sources of energy, namely, from the wind and sun. Try as they might, though, they can’t coax consistency and reliability out of those fickle natural sources. Nor are wind and solar energy really clean or renewable, since they depend on massive consumption of many “nonrenewable” resources, some of them highly polluting. (They also kill more wildlife than fossil fuels do, but that’s another story.)

Of particular concern are the sometimes rabidly anti-human beliefs of green pagans. They have variously labelled the human race “a virus,” “a disease” “vermin,” “a cancer.” The hatred for humanity is palpable. Here is more: “The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing”; “Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs”; “Man is no more important than any other species.”

Like some primitive pagan societies, groveling in fear before the forces of nature, pagan greens believe that some individuals need to be sacrificed for life to go on. Thus, the founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, favored banning DDT because the ban would, “get rid of some of them” (in Ebenezer Scrooge’s words, “decrease the surplus population”) via insect-borne malaria and insect-caused crop destruction. Indeed, the human death toll from banning rather than moderating the use of DDT has exceeded the death toll from communism, making environmentalism the most lethal leftist ideology in history. That shouldn’t be surprising, for communists at least paid lip service (however dishonestly) to “the good of the people,” while pagan greens regard human life as no better than a pestilential germ.

The anti-human animus of pagan greens even gave rise to a pejorative term: “speciesism” – i.e., the belief that humans are superior to other species. Well, in pagan green cosmology, humans may not be superior to other species, but in the real world, we are. Forget about us being at the top of the food chain. Think moon-landings, movie magic, Mozart and McCartney. Humans are unique. Every other species pursues its self-interest without a thought for the long-term survival of other species. Only humans have enough foresight to take deliberate steps to try to conserve other species. Only humans could feel regret and grieve if a beloved species goes extinct. Only humans are clever enough to discover or invent 57 different genders. Sorry, animal kingdom, but it’s no contest – humans are superior.

The contrary belief to speciesism is that all species are equal. That belief can be harmful to humans. About 30 years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency blocked the cleanup of sewage in the Tijuana River Basin on the grounds that the cleanup would endanger the survival of the life forms that dwelled in that toxic (to humans) brew. Yes, federal bureaucrats placed the survival of various bacteria above the health of human beings. That’s pagan!

Another manifestation of anti-human green paganism is their preference for anti-growth agendas. The deadliest environment for a human being is poverty, yet greens work to thwart economic development in developing countries by trying to deny them access to the very fossil fuels that enabled the people in developed countries to climb out of poverty and live thriving, healthy lives. You can read details of these tragic and genocidal policies in Paul Driessen’s superb book, Eco-Imperialism. We need an environmentalism as if people mattered. (As a counterpoise to Friends of the Earth, we could use an environmental advocacy group called “Friends of people who live on Earth.)

Green icon Paul Ehrlich once asserted, “Economic growth is not the solution it’s the problem.” He is 180 degrees off-target. Growth is the solution. If it were true that the more economic development there is, the more polluted our environment would be, then our goose would be cooked. We could conceivably get so prosperous that we’d pollute ourselves to death. But the world doesn’t work that way.

Instead, there is a well-known pattern known as the Kuznets curve (named after the late economist Simon Kuznets who explained the pattern). What happens is that when societies begin to develop and climb out of poverty, pollution rises. But once development gets to the point where basic needs are met and discretionary income rises, people are willing and able to spend money on both pollution remediation and pollution prevention. Consequently, affluent (developed) societies are less polluted than developing societies.

Contemporary green paganism is an atavistic, anti-life fetish. Cloaked in mystical ignorance and wildly misanthropic, contemporary green pagans are as much of a threat to their fellow humans as their primitive forbears ever were.

Authors

• CFACT Ed

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• Mark Hendrickson

  Mark Hendrickson, Ph.D., is an economist who has analyzed the global warming story for 30 years.

 

A tale of two great, must read books—Parts One and Two

By Dr. Jay Lehr June 6th, 2022 Books, Technology 35 Comments

 

If you have time to read two books in the coming year make them The Cloud Revolution, and  Fossil Future.. The first is reviewed below and the other review will appear next week here at CFACT.org.  Fossil Future. will arm you for life with the information to discuss the human caused climate change FRAUD with neutral friends who will listen. The Cloud Revolution, will disabuse you of lingering pessimism resulting from the present world takeover of truly communist factions hoping to destroy capitalism. You will become the most popular among your friends as you succeed in raising their hopes for the future. As a sidebar to my readers who think I am being too strident mentioning Communism, let me quote Alexander Trachtenberg, the head of the American Communist Party at a rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City in 1944.

“ When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take you under the label of Communism. We will not take you under the label of Socialism…We will take the United States under labels we have made very lovable, we will take it under Liberalism, under Progressivism, under Democracy. But take it we will.”

In the United States they are doing this under the guidance of billionaires, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and most of the jet setters who just attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. There they continued their plot to change the world into a system they can rule. You see, many if not most, mega-rich people are sure they can run your life and the world better than you, or us, because they so cleverly made tons of money. Surprisingly, they have nothing, tangibly, to look forward to in the future, having all that money can buy, other than Increased Power. They know that only Communism, by whatever its name they choose, can achieve this for them. Capitalism with all its faults can not readily become a Tyranny, though the current US administration is doing its best to make it so. 

These two books I am recommending, if not insisting you read in the coming months, will arm you to be a great warrior on behalf of liberty, both to fight the climate change, anti-fossil fuel fraud, while lifting yourself and your friends out of the pessimism gripping our nation. Both are extremely well written comprehensive texts, but both are 400 page books. Few will be able to look forward to a quick read. I strongly recommend my own 10 pages a day reading plan for great books. That way you you become energized daily with new, often exciting information, that whets your appetite for the next days read.

So now on to Mark Mills’ masterpiece, The Cloud Revolution.  

When I review books, I always calculate the number of references and notes as it is a quick indicator of how comprehensive the author went about his work. Mark’s Cloud Revolution has 823 of them which puts it in the top 10 of all books I have reviewed over the years (which is about 500). This is a result of my having had a book review column in the journal of Groundwater for 25 years.

I was particularly interested in Mark’s detailed acknowledgements in order to learn of all the folks who helped him. Hillary would not have been a total idiot when she said, “it takes a village”, had she been talking about outstanding books.

The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong, argues Mark Mills in his book The Cloud Revolution, who lays out a very different and hugely optimistic vision of our future. The mainstream forecasts, which you should try and avoid, fall into three very wrong scenarios, all quite pessimistic: the new normal getting food from a motorcycle driver and buying a car with a Bitcoin is as good as it gets; a dystopian future with jobs destroyed by robots and the digital world leveling business; 3- a technically ignorant world where wind, solar power and electric cars reign.

According to Mills, a convergence of technologies will drive an economic boom over the coming decade (editors note: when we get rid of the power in the hands of this administration, which we surely will). Not a single invention will make this so, but a convergence of new knowledge in three primary domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines.

Microprocessors are increasingly embedded in everything. Materials from which everything is built are emerging with near magical qualities, and machines are undergoing a complimentary transformation. Accelerating and enabling all of this is the Cloud, history’s biggest infrastructure which is itself based on the building.

Blocks of next generation microprocessors and artificial intelligence (AI). On this term (AI) he writes how exaggerated its malevolence is. Happily Mills explains its terminology to have been a big mistake offering false fears.

In doing so he explained the similarities of the technologies that first brought forth the Roaring 20’s where information (telephones), materials (plastics and pharmaceuticals ), and machines (cars and power plants) launched a great century—in spite of the wars that held us back as wokism is doing today.

The world of techno-pessimists leads to demands for more government control, socialized medicine, more mandates to achieve preferred social outcomes and far bigger safety nets. Very different actions are called for if you believe instead that a new boom is imminent, and that unbridled capitalism (there are no true fee markets, only freer ones) is the only mechanism that can unlock the complex and intertwined dynamic of markets that leads to a new mass flourishing. (Editors note: I do not usually write notes in my reviews but both authors Mills and Epstein in their books mentioned the unusual word “flourishing” so you will find the definition below. It is a must for Epstein’s book as it uses it more than 3 dozen times).

The new normalists don’t see anything on the horizon with potential economic or social impacts equivalent to the dawn of electrification or plumbing. To counter these folks who may make up a majority, its not enough to explain that progress has always happened. Its also not enough to just list amazing inventions because inventions and services yet to emerge won’t be on any such list. We need hard evidence to counter the new normal claim. This is clearly the purpose of Mark Mills’ wonderful book in which he succeeds beyond what I thought possible.

This time at the center of the information journey we find not a single tool like the radio or telephone or the smart phone. We instead find the microprocessor, a general purpose information tool whose sizes range from a spec in one’s eye, to a dinner plate, all with capabilities ranging from simple counting to a main-frame of old on a single chip. They are the building blocks of The Cloud.

Less aware to the average citizen is the fact that today instead of relying on a fixed catalogue of available materials or undergoing trial and error attempts to come up with new ones, engineers can turn algorithms running in super computers to design unique materials, based on a “material genome” with properties tailored to a specific need.

This book is, in effect, a survey of the patterns, evidence, and implications of revolutions in technology’s three spheres which are, microprocessors, materials and machines. Mills does not attempt to catalogue every consequential innovation, instead he focuses on key innovations that either instigate or typify foundational changes. He builds on the famous business philosopher Peter Drucker who believed that the future is built on the past. Mills says “Our near future was invented in the recent past.” You may be amazed by how many great inventors were actually building on the work of past folks with less ability to promote their genius.

While in the exploration of the recent past, Mills does mention specific companies and individuals but he makes clear that he does not wish to pick winners or losers. Of course, its the entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders who literally capitalize on and thus socialize the benefits of revolutionary innovations. His purpose, however, is to reveal the overall scope and depth of the epoch-shifting innovations now coming.

Mills divides his book into four parts: explaining how many things can be forecast; describing the nature of the Cloud that so few understand; focusing on the revolutions occurring in information, materials and machines; and speculates on how these things will impact activities, business, work, travel, health, safety and entertainment.

Of course anything that purports to be a forecast faces the familiar aphorism that has been attributed to everyone from Nostradamus and Mark Twain to Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if its about the future.”

Buy The Cloud Revolution, read it a little at a time and you will thank me. You are welcome.

Note 1- Human Flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her such efforts.

Note 2: Portions of this article were excerpted from the book THE CLOUD REVOLUTION: How The Convergence of NEW TECHNOLOGIES Will Unleash The Next ECONOMIC BOOM and a ROARING 2020s with permission of the author Mark Mills and the publisher Encounter Books. I strongly recommend this book to everyone fighting for the preservation of life in America. It has been made possible by our abundance of fossil fuels. Now the leftist, liberal, progressives and yes communists are attempting to limit the well being of human-kind.

PART II

By Dr. Jay Lehr June 13th, 2022 | Books, Energy | 48 Comments 

If you have time to read two books in the coming year make them The Cloud Revolution, and the Fossil Future.  The latter is reviewed below and Cloud Revolution appeared last week at CFACT.org.

Fossil Future will arm you for life with the information to discuss human-caused climate change exaggerations with neutral friends who will listen.  The Cloud Revolution will disabuse you of lingering pessimism resulting from the present world takeover of truly communist factions hoping to destroy capitalism. The human caused climate change fraud is a path to the destruction of capitalism and the installation of communism. Yes, you read that correctly. It is time to tell it as it is.

If you think I am being too strident mentioning communism let me quote Alexander Trachtenberg, the head of the American communist party at a rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City in 1944.

When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take you under the label of Communism. We will not take you under the label of Socialism…We will take the United States under labels we have made very lovable, we will take it under Liberalism, under Progressivism, under Democracy. But take it we will.”

In the United States they are doing this under the guidance of Billionaires, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and most of the jet setters who just attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland. There they continued their plot to change the world into a system they can rule. You see, many if not most, mega-rich people are sure they can run your life and the world better than you, or us, because they so cleverly made tons of money. Surprisingly, they have nothing, tangibly, to look forward to in the future, having all that money can buy, other than Increased Power. They know that only Communism, by whatever its name they choose, can achieve this for them. Capitalism with all its faults can not readily become a Tyranny though the current US administration is doing its best to make it so.

These two books I am recommending, if not insisting you read in the coming months, will arm you to be a great warrior on behalf of liberty, both to fight the climate change, anti-fossil fuel fraud, while lifting yourself and your friends out of the pessimism gripping our nation. Both are extremely well written comprehensive texts but both are 400 page books. Few will be able to look forward to a quick read. I strongly recommend my own 10 pages a day reading plan for great books. That way you become energized daily with new information that whets your appetite for the next days read.

Alex Epstein is a trained philosopher and indeed this text is a philosophy book aimed at presenting a complete view of a scientific discipline, rarely fully understood by anyone. He captured the knowledge he sought beginning in 2007, in his initial 2014 book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuel. He hits the high points of that book in this book’s introduction. Thus, those who read that book will know where he is beginning this new project. His goal with every section, paragraph and sentence is to arm the reader with the intent of utilizing fossil fuels to maximize “human flourishing” of the world’s population.

At a time when government, education and financial institutions are attacking fossil fuels, Alex provides the ammunition to fight the myths and presents common sense solutions that advance the cause for reliable sources of energy. He identifies “human flourishing” as the standard by which we should evaluate any climate policy and attitude toward sources of energy.

This term appears in the book’s sub-title and is repeated constantly throughout the text so I will define it here. Human Flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals. Each then has the right to pursue his or her such efforts. It conjures thoughts in my mind of our Declaration of Independence where Thomas Jefferson said each of us has an inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. The climate scare has to be considered the biggest obstacle to that pursuit in decades.

In his first book as well as this one he makes the controversial prediction that fossil fuel use would grow, not shrink. The benefits of increasing fossil fuel use far outweigh any conceivable negative impacts. If the book has any weakness in my opinion, it would be his open mind toward the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on the Earth’s temperature though he does convey the fact that if there is any impact, it is completely insignificant.

Epstein’s prediction of increasing fossil fuel is based on his conviction that it will have a unique ability to provide low-cost reliable energy in a world where far more energy will be needed for the billions of people who still use almost no energy. He explains how low-cost reliable energy empowers us to use machines to improve our lives, our environment and our health.

In an interview with conservative billionaire (almost an oxymoron) Peter Thiel, developer of PayPal, during the launch of this book, the author referred to the infamous initials ESG (environment, social and governance) as important to connect with the initials CCP (Chinese Communist Party). Scoring their population on their conduct is really where ESG began. He also made a brilliant comment that threads through this entire book that “technology is trying to make more with less” while everything connected to the fossil fuel fraud is trying to make less with more and thus impoverishing a population.

All through Fossil Future, Epstein successfully takes on the insanity we have been exposed to by calmly replacing it with a philosophic point of view from which all lies fall away. I so admire this approach as my own 60-year history in the energy field has prevented me from going about this debate without losing my cool and walking away.

Understand that Epstein tells us that the countries most avidly embracing fossil fuel elimination are the world’s freest countries. Contrast this with unfree China whose goal is to rule the world, uses 85% fossil fuel and uses it to manufacture most of the solar panels and wind turbines beginning to stifle our ability to maintain our standard of living.

While the world is now universally told how bad carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels is, Epstein explains in details how they result in higher environmental quality and human flourishing. In contrast he details the apocalyptic consequences of eliminating fossil fuels promoted he says by The New York Times, The Washington Post, financial institutions such as Blackrock, corporations such as Apple and of course the United Nations.

As a trained philosopher the author has studied the history of ideas extensively and admits to being haunted by the fact that some of the worst ideas in history such as slavery, racism and eugenics were successfully spread as the consensus of experts. It turns out that it is not that the research experts perform to produce these ideas are so in error but rather it is because the system we rely on to tell us what the experts think is significantly distorting what the experts think. In climate science this is further complicated by the fact in complex sciences there is hardly anyone actually expert in every phase of the discipline.

The fundamental principle of the human flourishing framework is that it should be the primary moral goal of our evaluations. It is a long term and wide ranging goal that thinks generations ahead. The anti-human goal of eliminating fossil fuel is immoral.

There will be a few days in your life when you do not read or hear now some of the many lies about fossil fuels and carbon dioxide, our molecule of life. Don’t even consider sitting down to read this book in a single sitting. It can’t be done. But if you want to do your part in saving our way of life, our standard of living, our capitalist political system AND THE LIVES OF THE LESS FORTUNATE ALL OVER THE WORLD, get a 10-page dose of Alex Epstein’s philosophical approach to this subject each and every day.

Note 1- Human Flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her such efforts.

Note 2: Portions of this article were excerpted from the book FOSSIL FUTURE: Why Global Human lourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas-Not Less, with permission of the author Alex Epstein and the publisher Portfolio/Penquin. I strongly recommend this book to everyone fighting for the preservation of life in America which has been made possible by our abundance of fossil fuels before the leftist, liberal, progressives and yes communists have attempted to limit the well being of human-kind.

Author

• Dr. Jay Lehr

  CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon.