tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post7322836991822370256..comments2024-03-28T18:56:40.762-04:00Comments on Waddy Is Right: Climate Change EschatologyNicholas Waddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-77437536662204271602022-02-22T19:32:02.711-05:002022-02-22T19:32:02.711-05:00Interesting take, Jack! I suppose higher oil pric...Interesting take, Jack! I suppose higher oil prices could also be an excuse for even more radical efforts to promote green energy...Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-18233086544511345442022-02-21T18:26:34.269-05:002022-02-21T18:26:34.269-05:00Dr.Waddy from Jack:Ya know, this Ukraine thing is ...Dr.Waddy from Jack:Ya know, this Ukraine thing is beginning to fit very neatly into the environmental far left's plan, though I do not think they foresaw this potential windfall. Possible events in Ukraine could result in a cutoff of Russian resources to Europe. That could result in scarcity, rationing and attendant disorder, like unto the 73 - 74 Arab Oil Embargo!. Now, sans a doctrinally fossil fuel despising American administration, America might well, using the infrastructure unforgiveably built after '74, help out. But no, our White House esconsed radicals have seento the suppression of our politically incorrect fossil fuel industry. What then? What more? Would we send our Strategic Reserve to an energy starved<br /> Europe? How our radicals would celebrate the diminution of this last of America's self sufficiency!<br /><br />ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-89409710553337525262022-02-20T22:43:31.836-05:002022-02-20T22:43:31.836-05:00Ray, if climate change really does "pan out&q...Ray, if climate change really does "pan out" for the Left, and half of humanity is broiled alive, then I suppose Greta will look like a prophet. If not, they'll just tweak their narrative and find some other chimera to terrorize us with. As usual, there's no danger that they'll admit fault.<br /><br />I could easily see us morphing into a dictatorship. Whether it will be "Marxist" is another matter. Whether even the Soviet Union was "Marxist" in any meaningful sense is up for debate! Seems to me all dictatorships are ultimately run for the convenience of the elite. In that sense, we may notice very little change when democracy finally dies, since it's been hollowed out and somewhat illusory for a while now.<br /><br />You're welcome, Jack! I'm no climate scientist, of course, nor am I a scientist of any type -- not even a "social scientist", since the term has always struck me as self-important and profoundly inaccurate. Be that as it may, I possess a modicum of common sense, and so the idea that a planet a couple degrees hotter MUST be a planet virtually unlivable has always struck me as highly suspect.<br /><br />Jack, believe it or not, I've never heard the teenage High Priestess of Climate Doom speak. I assume she's insufferable. Or maybe she's very bright and charming? In either case, all that proves zilch about "the climate". She's a "front man", if you will, for a secular religion/cult. That doesn't make her right. In fact, it makes her presumptively wrong. Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-26316529852598946552022-02-20T17:29:59.633-05:002022-02-20T17:29:59.633-05:00Dr.Waddy frm Jack: Do you think that petulant youn...Dr.Waddy frm Jack: Do you think that petulant young cub could define the term Eschatology? Probably not and perhaps that reflects upon her ability to focus intellectually creditable criticism on any vital issue. As a 1960s + survivor I have seen much youthful presumption given far too much regard, due simply to its generation's entomologically multitudinous power. The present far left cannot quite claim this advantage, no, but it seeks to assume moral verities "established" by those boomers who bustled in the casually '60s generated reflexive anarchic antipathy to order.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-79465207179740805282022-02-20T16:43:04.066-05:002022-02-20T16:43:04.066-05:00Dr.Waddy from Jack: The far left (and its merely l...Dr.Waddy from Jack: The far left (and its merely left followers) wants whatever it wants at any given time. Its standard? Whatever it embraces at any moment;it is by definition infallible and subject to change ONLY by their unchallengeable fiat! Need I reprise the subhuman history of far leftist regimes in China, Russia, N.Korea etc.? So, whatever floats the American far left boat, why that is their intention. Any election situation favoring their goals would be forcefully and intolerably advanced. And this in their captured minds would continue should they achieve their almost 60 year + goal of totalitarian rule. Then there would be no dissent, no opposition, no doubt. Why, it "vould be strictly verboten, harrumphh!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-42593817432095378472022-02-20T16:21:28.870-05:002022-02-20T16:21:28.870-05:00Dr.Waddy from Jack: I think it probable that some ...Dr.Waddy from Jack: I think it probable that some climatic change is occuring but I have no faith in the typically dictatorial assertion by the infallible left that it is human generated. Since the American scientific establishment is much afraid of leftist commanded professional ruination for heresy, I assume they are loath to run that risk and I can't blame them. Getting a physical sciences PHD must be an ordeal! Thank you Doc, for your characteristically insolent expression and citation of very plausible views on warming contrary to those of the irrefutable far left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-13735063087470288102022-02-20T13:12:04.758-05:002022-02-20T13:12:04.758-05:00One thing for sure, if "Democrats" conti...One thing for sure, if "Democrats" continue to run the country in the foreseeable future, freedom as we have known it in The United States of America will fade away and disappear. We will then morph into an assortment of continual Marxist dictatorships, and become a third world country in the bargain. As it is, we are already in the early stages of that national terminal cancer. Raynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-41740483398059511072022-02-20T13:05:28.143-05:002022-02-20T13:05:28.143-05:00Looking at that pouting face of Greta Thunberg (wi...Looking at that pouting face of Greta Thunberg (without any degrees in climate science or anything connected to it), begs the question of who will remember her 50 years from now? <br /><br />Does anyone remember the singer Janis Joplin who die of a heroin overdose in 1970? <br />Raynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-86016360756652276172022-02-19T22:56:44.940-05:002022-02-19T22:56:44.940-05:00Oh, absolutely, Ray, and I think the oddsmakers ar...Oh, absolutely, Ray, and I think the oddsmakers are taking account of that possibility. If I had to bet on the Dem nominee -- Biden, Kam Kam, or "Other" -- I'd bet on "Other". On the GOP side, I'd bet on Trump, but I would not be shocked to see someone other than Trump or DeSantis as the nominee. The process is brutal, which often means that, by the time people begin to cast votes, the original frontrunners have long since been cast aside.Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-79396710651257184532022-02-19T16:56:46.678-05:002022-02-19T16:56:46.678-05:00There is always the possibility, even as late as 2...There is always the possibility, even as late as 2024, that some truly outstanding people no one has ever heard of, will appear almost like magic on the presidential campaign stage.<br /><br /> Such people could be either true traditional Democrats or Republicans. Yes, the chances are slim, but we can always hope for miracles.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Raynoreply@blogger.com