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NATO is really into climate change - they issued a report about it, and they also want to have deniers silenced! https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_227571.htm Silly me. I thought they were busy protecting us from threats of war. BTW, here's what Russia thought about the Kyoto Protocol back in the day. Seems like they (and China) are capitalizing on the West's green lunacy. https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2020/09/04/retrospective-the-kyoto-protocol-an-assault-on-economic-growth-environment-public-safety-science-and-human-civilization-itself/?highlight=russia%20kyoto PS - I love your work, Irina.

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Pretty sure China is behind the West's green lunacy. Oh sure, it probably sprang up "organically" from some hippie professor who had too much THC with breakfast one morning, but there is little to no doubt that China noticed the burgeoning trend and has found myriad ways to boost it over the decades.

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SO much $$$ being made by SO many people. Government subsidy’s are a wonderful thing! Except it is OUR money they are blowing on really, really stupid ‘green’ stuff.

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It’s worse than that. We’re borrowing trillions and throwing it into a fireplace.

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Obviously you’ve never had THC in the morning. It helps you see through the BS, not come up with it.

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Obviously you have ...

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Thank you, Michelle!

Illarionov is not wrong and that report was done in 2004...

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

https://youtu.be/aXJhDltzYVQ?si=mJvuXSJ6H_rLRmXK

"Dearly beloved

We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life" - Prince

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The climate cult is truly insane. The climatocatastrophists are truly insane. The apathy standing up against this insanity and pushing back only allows the insanity to become a deeper entrenchment. Thoughtful addressing of what really matters would be to raise the issue of pollution and conversation, but those are fact based issues and not dominated by emotionally immature people.

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Facts have become the equivalent of a bug spray to the emotionally challenged among us. It is really a tragedy.

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Just reading your 'stack before resigning for the day and crashing the swede and you displayed a degree of ruthlessness which caused me to experience an abundance of bothersome feelings. And I was expecting something from your Edith Piaf repertoire. Good stuff Slav!

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Me? Ruthless? Well, I never! :D Thanks, Biker!

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

I never say that "all things Climate these days are a Trojan horse for the Malthusian Marxist Death Cult to enslave and then eliminate all we free thinkers" lightly. I arrived at this because all during my youth I could never comprehend that once "normal" citizens became the executioners of Totalitarian atrocities, literally. I am not making any excuses, but I simply couldn't believe that indoctrination could ever get to such levels of evil. Unfortunately, we are getting there again and fast. Thank you for being on the Avant Guard of we free thinkers.

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Some are in a veritable rush to get there, at least in the West. Could be a natural process, could be an extra stimulated natural process but I do believe it is in origin, a natural process because I hold natural human stupidity in very high esteem. :D

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

Irina you are a national treasure but I am not sure which nation. I have long followed your excellent posts on Oilprice and it is a joy to see you doing opinion blogs because I value your intelligent opinions. More of us need to rant against the rampant willful idiocy of this delaminating civilization. Keep it coming!

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Thank you, Hugh, you're very kind. Yes, more need to speak out, otherwise we get drowned by the climate choir.

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Thank you Irina. Having reached the age of endlessly repeating things I apologise if I've noted this already on your substack, but quite a few years ago I heard a scientist say (and not in the context of climate), that scientists are cool, logical, analytical and objective thinkers: but for the other 98% of the time they's just like the rest of us.

Another statistician (but it applies elsewhere) noted that statisticians share a weakness with portrait artists - a tendency to fall in love with their models.

As you imply, scientists, however loaded with emotion, should push their unique selling proposition - their skill at finding and presenting evidence. If they don't, likely no-one else will, and propaganda-space is now vast.

Finally, I believe something generally lost on the public, is that scientists may legitimately conclude that action needs to be taken, but that action always in the end falls to engineers, and the need and the practical doing can be well-separated, or as parents (used to) admonish their offspring; "Want doesn't get".

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We are all human and we don't take kindly to being proven wrong. Scientists are probably no exception, which, I imagine, is why scientific training takes time -- you have got to learn to accept being wrong on some hypothesis or other. Clearly, climate scientists disagree and they have the means to manipulate their work so their hypotheses get proven. With modelling. It beggars belief.

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It's like the US stock market - just when you think sanity will show up, it defies all logic and common sense. Years ago my colleagues and I laughed when our marketing team unveiled the new colour scheme for our PowerPoints for the new year. Now I cower in fear of what the marketeers will come up with next. Their siren songs and annoying popup ads have taken over the plant's consciousness. Big Tech is charging us to be our virtual landfill and using up our 'cheap' electricity to do it, they say. Attempts at sanity and adult communications are dismissed as "doomer porn". Well, porn is one of the mainstays of the virtual world so I guess there are worse epithets to be flung!

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Doomer porn, good grief! Marketeers shouldn't be allowed to run anything, let alone a whole business.

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Nov 1Liked by Irina Slav

You could make the argument that advertisers rule the world. If necessary, PR or Propaganda can be used in place of advertisers.

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Sadly, you're quite right.

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"Everywhere is getting warmer than everywhere else..." reminded me of the rock band Deep Purple wanting everything louder than everything else, I think it was from their Montreux recording, you made me smile - even though I'm so depressed about climate change - not! I don't think it will ever dawn on the climate change catastophists that their solutions to climate change are catastophically worse than climate change itself. If indeed the climate is changing let's just spend our time, money, resource, ingenuity and creativity on adapting to it.

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Hear, hear! But adaptation is boring, you see. It doesn't involve nearly as much suffering as fixing the climate.

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

Thank you for being you. God bless us all who are blessed/cursed with the reason gene.

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I tried being someone else when I was younger and it didn't take, so I'm stuck with me. :) Reason seems to be the new wisdom, the one that brings sorrow as some wise man or other said a long time ago.

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

The fact that the polar regions north of 66.33 N warm faster than temperate zones has pretty well been documented. ( by my own observations over 20 years also). However, there are no restrictions on who and where scientists can conduct research in the Arctic aside from locations established as part of an existing nation such as Greenland & Svalbard. One of the important values of science is to enable recognizing true threats and risk assessment that are meaningful.

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

Loved this article..... you do make it so much fun while provoking thought~

Ah feelings...... and those pesky little feelings give rise to our rights, our rights give rise to our right to have them and then inflict them on everyone else!

The feeling that renewables and living without will save us from our overabundant needs, those needs that may make us feel good, therefore pursue the wrong path towards damnation, will indeed damn us all, as far as my fragile emotions and irresponsible thoughts go!

Responsibility and objectivity need to return, we are not "islands in the stream", (following the musical theme), but all connected. So when one gets off balance - we all end up suffering! And lord helps us we are all suffering from this ridiculous climate nonsense.

Even those like Al Gore, and his ilk, who are making millions, are suffering - they are far from happy, because enough is never enough, so lets inflict that on the rest of us. At the same time lets give you a tiny implant and move you to a 15 minute city so you know we are looking out for your best interests and keeping you safe. So many will love this idea, but not us free thinkers here!

My feelings are getting angry now as renewables more closer to my doorstep and have made me become a NIMBY. They are not my favorite people, because many of them feel that other people should do the work for them and won't take responsibility.

So back to responsibility..... clear head, clear eyes, clear intentions. If everyone, including our scientists became responsible for themselves, just like your dad taught you, like my parents taught me, then we would be in a better place.

Blame game stops with us! Guilt has no place (if you are wrong, admit it and move on) and respect for all is paramount (even those dummies on facebook)!

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This is an excellent point, about the crusade leaders -- they are likely very unhappy that things are not going their way, not fast enough, not far enough, not anything anywhere near enough. This has now given me some strong positive feelings and I thank you for them!

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Oct 31Liked by Irina Slav

The thought that people with nuclear weapons (NATO) are in thrall to the Climate Cult is worse than frightening.

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Oxymoron alert 🔔 🚨 ‼️ “Green Intellectual”.

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Nov 1Liked by Irina Slav

“State of Fear”

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Nov 1Liked by Irina Slav

I suspect in the near future, climate modeling done by the bobbleheads will include multiple instances of an "Emotional Constant." The insertion of this completely subjective & lunatic constant into the models, will at the end of the day, matter little. The models are a house of cards on their best day. Somehow, the non-bobblehead crowd needs to be in charge of the grant money. I hope the upcoming election is a step in that direction. Irina, I thoroughly enjoyed this LONG post! Keep 'em coming. 🤘😎🤘

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