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If it will kill alot people environmentalist are all for it. Greenpeace mission to ban chlorine lead to thousands dead from cholera, Rachel Carsons “Silent Spring” leading to the ban if DDT lead to holocaust levels of death from malaria, and green initiatives have made cheap fuel considerably more expensive leading to deaths from exposure to cold. While on the surface environmentalism sounds the virtuous thing to do, it has been co opted by Marxist misanthropes.

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The CO2 Coalition gets NO funding from oil companies. That rumor is a lie.

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devils advocate says what the glo baal ists think and say " well we tried being nice with you plebs ,scum , the vulgar and profane , the dumbed down poisoned to be not capable of critical thinking ... but you are being awoken from our spell so ... simply we return to our tried and true stratagies of getting every body killing everybody no exceptions expect us the lucifer baal satan worshiper only elite... the rest of you that serve us we despise most because you sold your immortal soul for a few temporal pleasures.... .... my commentary is 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. if the spiritual realm exists .... these highly intelligent astute elites are being decieved and lead to believe they are doing their gods " baal " work and will be rewarded in their next incarnation or go to paradise... this is what their priests tell bthem that its their duty to god to subjugate the half human beasts " and now due to the gene altered humans " vvaxxed" dont qualify as humans made in Good Gods image and likeness anymore they may do whatever they please with us vaxxed " no more human rights " just as we treat the animals , they may now treat us . they are lead to believe they can escape karma " as you sow so shall you reap " their evil mastermind intelligence "{ satan ] is orders of magnitude more evil intelligent than they " satan " the nature of is sado machocistic pshycopath who hates everything the good God created including himself and wishes the complete destruction of everything including life itself, non existance //.... we are instructed by the existance of goodness to pray for their salvation from evil ,,, praying and wishing them to return to goodness and truth, and everyone too... ps what good is owning the whole world " temporal" and loseing our eternal soul ??? its the worst dumbest idiotic imbisilic " deal " in all eternity and in the known and unknown universe

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Funny, eh, that as soon as John Clauser, an experimental physicist with a Nobel Prize but no peer-reviewed published climate change research to his name, became involved with the CO2 Coalition (a fossil fuel-funded climate change denial organization), he suddenly became an expert on climate change.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/16/john-clauser-nobel-climate-denial/

Wouldn't it just feel better to take your climate science from climate experts?

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Bravo Mr. Desmet. You nailed it. It isn’t that there aren’t really problems that need to be addressed. It is the magnification of them to force actions that may not be necessary or optimal. It is the deceitful way in which certain issues are harnessed for altering motives. You wrote a very eye opening piece that I have shared on my Facebook page. I only wish I had greater reach to circulate it more broadly. Thank you! —Matthew Duczman

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I agree with Don. Well balanced and what journalism should be!

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So right, Desmet, science has been corporate captured just like every industry, including the media, and most governments. This is due to the unjust "consensus" that allows private banks to create all our money as interest-bearing debt for profit. If all money is created as debt how does one pay off debt? You can't, so here we are with a 303 trillion dollar world debt with a money supply of only 82 trillion. Has humankind forgotten debt is slavery and control? Money is the governing factor. It is what determines our public policy. As director Chan of the WHO recently admitted, “those who fund the WHO decide what it will do. “ This is true of every government and institution in the world and while it should be obvious it apparently is not. Any scientific consensus motivated by profit and money is a fraud. "...it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair

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Some also justify the global warming argument in a sort of Pascal's wager: If there is even a 1 in 1,000 chance climate change turns out badly, we must act. But, even if there is a 1 in 1,000 chance of disaster, what are the potential harms of the "cure"? Are there other risks with a greater than 1 in 1,000 chance? Is it plausible we can even say the risk is 1 in 1,000 or is this just hand waving argument without any rational basis? Is it achievable to get worldwide compliance, and can global warming risks be mitigated with less harm through other measures? Is it plausible it can really be known how much warming will occur, if any, over a given period of time and what the effects of that warming will be? Is it possible the fear framing - disaster - is driving irrational behavior both in science, the media, and the public where we are irrationally driven to feel that we "must" act out of an "abundance of caution"?

I don't have much confidence in "the science" on this issue due to the complexity of the problem, because it is now a politically correct issue that has become politically useful to some, and given other conflicts of interests, including financial, that stand to profit substantially.

I agree with Mattias. I think the answer is to always seek truth: a dedication to honesty and thorough critical thinking is the way. Also, don't panic.

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Dr Desmet, you are one of the sane voices that has helped me psychologically. Thank you. Write more!!

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I've come across commentators who resort to the argument of "you're not an expert in this, stay in your lane," a refrain we vividly recall from the COVID vaccination campaigns. However I find this argument to be weak, primarily because I've undertaken the endeavor myself, and have uncovered noteworthy flaws in the climate narrative, which I've detailed in my own substack articles. They significantly challenge the dominant narrative, and I encourage others to embark on a similar investigation. It's not particularly daunting, on the contrary it's surprisingly easy.

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Impressive article written by an impressive man whose book is almost a spiritual inspiration to me. However, ending the article by the gained insight on the steppe in Africa, reached by long haul air traffic available to the rich only including a relatively impressive ecological impact, sort of made the plea implode almost entirely to me...

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"the climate narrative is a dangerous corruption of science"

This statement coming from a respected scientist confirms that what we once held as absolute truth has been subverted. We have also learned in the last 3 years that medicine and the medical establishment cannot be trusted. If we go through all disciplines of our civilization, including human sciences, art and music, we also see that subversion and corruption are omnipresent.

The globalist agenda is an open book and its reality is unfolding every day into our lives. The scope of their project is no longer hidden from us and we know now that, for them, any means justify the end.

The climate narrative, like all globalist narratives, especially those derived from Marxism, are also designed to keep us divided. While we keep arguing on technicalities, many people are still unaware that "technocracy" is only the tree hiding the "messianic" forest of their project. One of its main goals is to impose a global religion, to whose laws we will be subject and that includes the death penalty.

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As for trusting experts:

We have just learned the hard way, over a period of three years, that it is not wise to trust medical experts who are funded by BigPharma.

Now, are we to believe climate experts who are funded by BigOil and other consumption-oriented growth forever corporations?

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What threatens the world economy?

Doing something substantial about climate change. That's why BigOil and other International Corporations fund scientists like Clauser and all the other BigNames at CO2 Coalition - which seems to be an offshoot of Heartland Institute (BigOil, Koch Bros. et al.)

Here's the threat:

https://peterwebster.substack.com/p/its-been-twenty-years

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I dont have money to upgrade

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hello there, I am hungry for arguments against tha the present fascist pressure against the truth, but I just dont have the means to spend extra-money for the support of decent, not corrupted science because the greed and cynicism of our opponents makes it already difficult to live decently . Heinz Brettschneider

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