Scientists Against Science

by Bernie Lewin
Climate Change: The Facts
September 11, 2019

https://www.steynonline.com/9708/scientists-against-science

Yesterday's episode of the series opened up Bernie Lewin's chapter about the background of the IPCC and also the history of the gross power imbalance held by third world countries at the United Nations, in particular with climate issues.

Today, in episode 25 of our Climate Change: The Facts serialization, Lewin tells of the 1990 revolt in Sweden that cemented this reality.

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Tarquin Wombat-Carruthers • Sep 12, 2019 at 04:21

I wonder how many of the East- and West-coasters bother to look out of the aircraft's windows when flying over the states that separate them - you know, "flyover country"? Where do they imagine their food comes from? I am totally sick of listening to the gripes of the blitherati bed-wetters and their ignorant dismissal of people forced to exist in the real world!

P. Gao

Tarquin Wombat-Carruthers • Sep 12, 2019 at 11:11

That's so true, many haven't a clue - always everything in a package nice and neat, without a thought as to the combined efforts required to get it that way. In Africa, children still are sent to the towns and cities or boarding schools for school, but the schools break at planting, weeding and harvest times - and they go back to help the family farms, then back to school. So, of course they know where their food comes from. In the U.S., this exact same lifestyle was up through the 1940s and 1950s the norm for most communities - only instead of two or three growing seasons, school closed for the one - mid-spring through summer. With mass-mechanized farming and mass importation of food replacing the family farms, to support agriculture-free suburban developments, the summer vacation has become idle time, not work time, so most children aren't growing up in the U.S. with that rich experience. It's a been real loss for the younger generations - not just learning and work experience, but it also helped make them physically fit in the key growing years.

P. Gao • Sep 12, 2019 at 00:58

Wow. Did not expect at all that Fred Soper vs the League of Nations in 1940 on the value of 'rural people' would be so relevent in these topics today, including this two-part chapter essay of Climate Change The Facts. That's quite a revelation in this chapter by Bernie Lewin that the IPCC's calculations depended on deliberately and arrogantly ranking humans by completely made up categories of numeric value worth - two tiers of humanity, one full credit, the others of fraction value - the 'poor'.

Wonder where they got that idea... The Special Committee on Malaria, of the League of Nations (1938)

"As for the reluctance and criticism from a fear of incomplete success, we would like again to stress the point that in dealing with rural malaria, speed and perfection are costly out of all proportion to their worth..."

(Hackett, et al 1938, Soper, Anopheles gambiae in Brazil 1930 to1940)

The message in 1938 was clear: 'rural people are not worth the money to rid their communities of malaria.'

No wonder the appellation 'deplorables' in 2015-2016 resonated with the sneering clique.