Climate Watch: Causes of Climate Change

I hope that your spring is delightful, but are you worried about approaching summer heat? Do you plan to turn on air conditioning?

Many localities are pressing on with costly “green” initiatives, based on the alleged certainty of impending man-made warming crisis. The experts are claiming, with great confidence, a sudden increase in our understanding of climate, as the graph shows.

Climate change is not new, but has occurred throughout earth’s history, with dramatic changes in recorded history that had profound effects on human civilization. The graph shows reconstructions from a Greenland ice sheet. Of course, this is from just one location.

Al Gore and others present graphs of temperature together with carbon dioxide concentrations. They both go up and down. If we assume that a CO2 increase caused a temperature rise, an obvious question is: What caused the change in CO2? All the “don’t knows” could apply to that question. What we DO know is that it was NOT from burning coal or driving gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles before the Industrial Revolution.

It is a fact that more CO2 dissolves in cold water than warm water. Watch your carbonated beverage outgas as it warms. The changes in CO2 observed from ice cores agree with the amount expected from calculations of ocean outgassing with warming. Also, the rise in temperature comes BEFORE the increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. Hence, the causal connection is that increasing temperature leads to increasing CO2, not the other way around.

What caused the rise in temperature in Greenland? Don’t know.

Have the natural forces (solar irradiance, orbital changes, ocean currents, etc.) that caused past warming become irrelevant, so that changing the human-caused CO2 emissions thermostat will be the only decisive factor? I don’t think so, and neither do 32,000 other scientists.

Do you know what will happen to global temperatures and hurricanes and other weather events if you refrain from using A/C or driving your ICE (internal combustion engine)? Exactly nothing. What would happen if everybody in the world lived as virtuously as UN Agenda 2030 demands? Don’t know? Or exactly nothing? It is a purely hypothetical question.

We DO know what the Green agenda would bring: mass poverty and starvation. That is not hypothetical.

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COVID-19  POST-MORTEM

DDP Newsletter Vol. XL, No. 1

After a disaster, it is critical to do a “post-mortem” analysis for lessons learned—or the equivalent of an M&M (Mortality and Morbidity) conference for surgical outcomes.

The COVID-19 emergency is officially over, although one sees occasional masks, and “booster” shots are constantly recommended. Already there is talk of “Disease X,” which might be “20 times worse.”

The first lesson might be the need for post-mortems (autopsies) of early deaths. After a delay of many months, a dozen autopsies revealed the importance of inflammation and blood clots. Thousands of deaths might have been caused by rigid hospital protocols, with overly aggressive sedation and ventilation, and failure to use anti-inflammatories, such as steroids, and anticoagulants in the second and later phases of disease (see McCullough Protocol, as at https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/).

Discussion of these issues and many others was prevented by unprecedented censorship of anything that disagreed with the lavishly funded fear campaign. The common sense of intelligent lay people occasionally overcame it.

YouTuber Gonzalo Lira said that at first he was very afraid, and wondered whether he should buy a couple of ventilators, in case his family should need them in a medically impoverished country (Ukraine). But while traveling in Amsterdam, he conversed with homeless (but not unintelligent or uneducated) junkies, and noticed that this vulnerable population was not dying. When the vaccines were released, he recalled that when he was 5 years old he had seen children with flaps for limbs, because of “safe and effective”—but inadequately tested—thalidomide. He decided to wait to see whether girls born to vaccinated mothers had normal fertility (http://tinyurl.com/apczmedt, 21 min.).

Lira, an American citizen, got the harshest form of censorship—imprisonment, torture, and death due to refusal of medical treatment in a Ukrainian prison. The U.S. Department of State did nothing while he languished without trial for 7 months.

(Lira’s offense involved posting YouTube videos from an apartment in Kharkov, with incisive commentary about the war in Ukraine, Western culture, and world affairs, with many interesting interviews. He clearly was not a “Russian asset,” but was very critical of U.S. policy. The most intolerable posting might have been his commentary on U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and her role in the Russia-Ukraine war (tinyurl.com/mvv7vt36). Postings by and about Lira can still be found by searching X.com, including Tucker Carlson’s interview of his father (http://tinyurl.com/a5ey72hm). Like Carlson, Lira asserted that Ukraine was not winning the war.)

Censorship of scientists and physicians who disagree with the official narrative on pandemic control measures or treatment protocols has so far been limited to attacks on their livelihood. Yet as with “climate deniers,” “COVID deniers” or “vaccine deniers” have faced public demands to exclude them from participation in life, or even to imprison or to “gas” them (http://tinyurl.com/59xmx28a).

Incalculable losses include ruptured family ties and friendships; grief, anxiety, and depression because of separation from dying family members or cancelation of important events such as graduations; cognitive losses owing to school closures, masking, and other measures; trauma from overzealous law enforcement; and loss of freedom.

THE $16 TRILLION VIRUS

JAMA estimated the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic at $16 trillion in the Oct 20, 2020, issue. That is 90% of the U.S. GDP, more than twice the cost of all wars the U.S. has fought since 2001, and four times the lost output in the Great Recession. Since the onset of COVID-19 in March, 60 million claims for unemployment had been filed, greater than 1 million per week. The prior record was 695,000 in the week of Oct 2, 1982.

A survey of 10,000 persons in May 2020 showed that about half reported losses of income and wealth, an average of about $5,000 and $33,000, respectively (http://tinyurl.com/bdfny6dd). Federal spending meant to mitigate lockdown effects led to the “hockey stick” pattern of federal debt (http://tinyurl.com/mw3a7n2k). This is on top of what Prof. Peter St Onge calls the “greatest credit bubble in history,” which “despite bank failures and commercial real estate collapse has not yet begun to pop” (http://tinyurl.com/trehpjdu).

Based on modeling and numerous assumptions, some calculated a cost of $90 million per life saved by measures such as “social distancing” and lockdowns (http://tinyurl.com/34vaswht). (It is now being admitted that the 6-ft distancing was based on nothing.)  

In the COVID response, “we have reached the bottom of human baseness,” write Tom Jefferson and Carl Henegan (“The Rule of Terror and Empty Vessels,” http://tinyurl.com/msycusrc). The government “managers” and the media lured the populace into a state of panic, in order achieve control. Vital records have systematically been erased to cover corporate backs and avoid the nuisance of Freedom of Information requests. “The unedifying…show among politicians and their cliques continues, laid bare by the WhatsApp messages surviving the nightly cull. In archaeology, they would be known as ‘residual deposits surviving later disturbance,’ meaning what’s left of documentable and verifiable evidence after thieves, robbers and demolition squads have taken their toll.” Because of their stance, they write, “we have been subject to personal attacks, University investigations, spying, ostracism and loss of jobs.”

The public-health control measures were supposed to be a stopgap until we had the miraculous vaccine, but control was relinquished reluctantly, if at all. Many vaccinated persons had so little confidence in vaccine protection that they continued to mask. Indeed, protection was partial and quickly waned, and was never shown to interrupt transmission. Adverse effects, if acknowledged at all, were said to be “rare” (tinyurl.com/yeymnfxc).

At least 9 million Americans probably lost their jobs (tinyurl.com/4p8akxp5)—likely including many of our most skilled, experienced, and irreplaceable workers—for refusing the shot. How many young, apparently healthy working people died unexpectedly from adverse reactions? Cancers seemingly are increased in frequency and aggressiveness (http://tinyurl.com/59zn9hxx). Disability claims are up 33% after the vaccine rollout (http://tinyurl.com/yc8s56va). Delayed adverse effects may take years to manifest. The final tally might show the worst public health disaster in history.

42nd ANNUAL MEETING

Our annual meeting w ill be held in El Paso, TX, on July 5-7th. A group outing to the world’s largest inland water desalination plant will be held on Friday, July 5. Watch www.ddponline.org for agenda and on-line registration.

Climate Watch: Why Not Wind and Solar Now?

I hope you are not experiencing a power blackout during Arctic cold.

Such circumstances are chilling public support for an energy transition.

Climate-change policy advocates may claim that “renewables” (wind and solar) are not only clean but great for the economy. The only thing lacking, they say, is the “political will” to oppose the “fossil fuel” lobby.

Actually, there is a huge dollars-and-cents issue, as the figure shows.

Solar panels for your house or in decentralized applications might be affordable, and the fuel is free. But when the cost of integration into a centralized system is taken into account, wind costs between 7 and 14 times more than hydrocarbons, and solar between 10 and 44 times more, according to economist Peter St Onge.

Then there’s the effect of weather on weather-dependent systems, at times of increased demand.

On Jan 14, 93.6% of Alberta’s energy was produced by hydrocarbons (“fossils”) and 0% by wind or solar. To replace Alberta’s hydrocarbon generating capacity would require 11,043 wind turbines 727,615 acres of solar panels.

In June, the “hail-proof” solar panels at a multi-million dollar, 5.2 megawatt solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska were mostly destroyed by baseball-sized hail moving at 100 to 150 miles per hour. The region has some of the highest frequencies of hailstorms in the country, averaging seven to nine hailstorms per year. Yet, the area is still building solar plants, driven by federal and state incentives to deploy renewable energy.

Political candidates and climate activist groups should be asked specific questions about costs, weather damage, environmental impacts, and waste disposal.

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American Response to Nuclear Testing

Vol. XXXIX, No. 5

A color photograph of “the  awesome fireball” from a test of a hydrogen bomb (what Edward Teller called “the Super”) appeared on the cover of the Apr 19, 1954, issue of Life magazine (20 cents). It resembles photos of the sun.

The first page of the article quotes President Dwight D. Eisenhower, concerning fears raised by the threatening aspects of the world, including the H-bomb. “The greater these apprehensions, the greater is the need that we look at them clearly, face to face, without fear, like honest, straightforward Americans….”

The editorial is titled “The Christian Hope” with subtitle “It will not save civilization except by saving the soul of the individual.” It stated that there was little evidence of desperation. The suicide rate showed no meaningful trend. “The general fear of annihilation by H bomb is not desperate; it takes the form of barking for action, as you would expect of any healthy animals whose instinct of self-preservation is unimpaired.”

It noted that “the doctrine of automatic progress, which so warped the 19th Century’s picture of itself, has all but vanished.” It quoted St. Paul’s admonition that “For when they shall say Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh.”

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Economic Health Watch: Utility Costs

Have you noticed an increase in your utility bills?

Hopefully, you are not in the position of having to choose whether to heat or eat, as so many are, especially in Europe.

Part of the increased bill is the deteriorating value of the dollar (inflation). But there is an increasing component from replacing abundant, affordable energy with supposedly clean, green “renewables,” as shown in the graph.

How can this be? Aren’t sunbeams and breezes free? Of course, they are, but the technology needed to collect the energy and transmit it where it is needed is very costly. Promises to save money and create good jobs were false. The initial low costs depended on government (taxpayer) subsidies. Promoters such as Al Gore have gotten very rich. But when the subsidies run out, companies go bankrupt. Solyndra is only one example.

Solar panel start-up Solyndra was the first company to get government-backed loans from the 2009 stimulus bill—the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), collecting $535 million and receiving a $25 million tax break from California’s agency for alternative energy, according to Forbes. Auditors at OpentheBooks.com compiled a list of many others.

New York offshore wind projects are being scrapped, and Siemens, the world’s second-largest turbine manufacturer has been declared “uninvestible,” according to NetZero Watch. The idea of 66,000 MW of offshore wind capacity in the US and UK by 2030 has been called “an expensive fantasy.”

Medical organizations need to include the increased costs of energy in the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH).

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Medical News Discussion December 2023

From the meeting of the public health committee of the Pima County Medical Foundation:

Update on COVID-19 vaccines:

  • DNA contamination of COVID vaccines is discussed in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (https://jpands.org/vol28no4/orient.pdf).
  • Dr. Steven Hatfill’s article on the need for accountability concerning the U.S. pandemic response appears in the same issue (https://jpands.org/vol28no4/hatfill.pdf). Dr. Hatfill just spoke at the COVID summit in Bucharest, Romania. He viewed Dr. Ryan Cole’s pathology slides showing severe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease post-vaccination, and he fears that prion disease may turn out to be a late complication of COVID vaccines.
  • Dr. James Gruhl reported on recent articles about frameshifting in protein synthesis owing to the pseudouridine in vaccine mRNA (for which the Nobel Prize was recently awarded). The consequences are unknown, but could occur late.

Update on nuclear war:

  • The December issue of Scientific American concerns updating the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
  • The effects of low-dose radiation are greatly overstated.
  • Proposed “Sacrifice Zones”—using upgraded land-based missiles as a “sponge” to absorb a Russian strike is an obsolete, likely impossible idea—the most credible threat is bombs planted by terrorists in key Western cities as a deterrent to retaliation.
  • Casualties could be minimized by knowledge and preparedness and maximized by panic and disinformation.
  • See https://www.ddponline.org/2024/01/04/nuclear-scaremongering/#more-1139 for references and further information.

Nuclear Scaremongering

DDP Newsletter, Vol. XXXIX, No. 6

The radiation terror campaign continues in the December 2023 issue of Scientific American on “The New Nuclear Age” (http://tinyurl.com/5exwpywd). As has become typical with this once excellent magazine, beautiful illustrations and some fascinating articles are mixed in with politicized commentaries, and certain assumptions are not to be questioned: safe-and-effective vaccines, nonexistence of an intelligent designer, and catastrophic human-caused climate change. Doubts or skepticism (“denialism”) are “conspiracy theories” and “antiscience ideology.” And nuclear weapons are an existential threat, a nuclear attack is nonsurvivable, and tiny radiation doses are deadly.

“The U.S. is beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks.”

A major part of the $1.5 trillion program to build up the U.S. nuclear arsenal is to refurbish the land-based part of the “strategic triad.” Upgraded missiles are to be planted in hundreds of silos across five states, “to serve as a ‘great sponge’ to soak up enemy missiles,” states the article on “Sacrifice Zones.” During the Cold War, “the air force used the vulnerability of the land-based missiles to argue for their necessity.” The enemy would use up resources that could otherwise be used to attack military targets, infrastructure, or cities. It is claimed that such an attack would “annihilate all life in the surrounding regions,” cause several million fatalities across the U.S. from acute radiation exposure if people had advance warning and adequate shelter for four days, and twice as many if they did not (they don’t).

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Climate Watch: Are Post-industrial CO2 Levels at Historic Highs?

I hope you are able to afford travel, good meals, and warm indoor temperatures over the Christmas holiday.

Such joys may soon be too expensive for most—in large part from regulations to “fight climate change.”

The climate change hypothesis depends on the statement that atmospheric CO2 levels, as measured at Mauna Loa, are constantly increasing, whereas they fluctuated around 280 ppm from 1800 until around 1957. However, more than 90,000 direct measurements of CO2 by textbook chemical methods, described in 380 technical publications, were made between 1812 and 1961. Maxima occurred around 1825, 1857, and 1942, as shown in the graph, with 1942 being around 400 ppm.

As Ernst-Georg Beck wrote in 2007, these early direct measurements have been criticized, except for the ones that agree with the climate-change narrative, and the IPCC now relies exclusively on indirect measures from air trapped in ice cores for values prior to 1957. From his detailed analyses, Beck concludes that: “It is indeed surprising that the quality and accuracy of these historic CO2 measurements has escaped the attention of other researchers.”

Beck observes that the close relationship between CO2 and temperature is consistent with a cause-effect relationship, but does not indicate which is the cause and which the effect. Ice-core data showing that changes in temperature precede the change in CO2 concentration argues that temperature forcing controls the CO2.

The climate-change Grinch aims to control everything, not just Christmas.

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Climate Watch: Most Rapid Warming in 120,000 Years?

Even if the earth is not the hottest ever, should we not worry about the recent rate of change? Should we not follow the agreement from the Conference of Parties for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP 28?

For a longer-term perspective, see the graph below:

We can see that increases this rapid and sharp occurred long before humanity existed, and that they generally did not continue. Nor is there evidence that current warming has been harmful. Fewer people die from excess warmth than from excess cold, plants grow better when they are warm, and there have not been more climate-disaster-related deaths.

There is also no evidence that reducing carbon dioxide emissions would affect the trend. That is a hypothesis based on models, which so far have failed.

Over the past 30 years, trillions have been spent on wind and solar, and the world’s dependence on hydrocarbon fuels has only decreased from 87% to 82%.

At the recent COP 28 in Dubai, chaired by Sultan al-Jaber, the chairman said that phasing out fossil fuels would send humanity back into caves. Nevertheless 100 countries promised to do it.

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Climate Watch: How Is the Campaign to Replace ‘Fossil Fuels’ Going?

We hear about deadlines for replacing gas stoves, cars with an ICE (internal combustion engine), and coal-fired electricity.  Campaigns are becoming more aggressive. The EU has an end-of-life vehicles directive that calls for seizing your car and scrapping it if it cannot meet climate directives. But global use of coal, oil, and natural gas is still increasing:

One problem for the greens is that wind and solar producers are struggling or going bankrupt. Another is NIMBY-type resistance from citizens. An insurmountable barrier is the requirement for metals vs. production capacity, as shown in the table below. In the U.S., it takes years to get a permit to open a copper mine because of environmental issues. There is only one rare-earths mine in the U.S. Ask your political candidates or Net-Zero advocates in your local government what they suggest doing about this.

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