The assertion that carbon dioxide is a “pollutant” has been the centerpiece of public policy on climate for the developed world in recent years.
Demonizing CO2 has impacted virtually every aspect of modern Western civilization. It condemns the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, the use of combustion engines for transportation, and the employment of carbon fuels for virtually everything supporting modern civilization – even down to the kind of washing machines and kitchen stoves that are deemed acceptable. It forms the basis for the most grotesque of all the alarmist shibboleths – the “social cost of carbon”.
The theory that CO2 is malevolent was enshrined in the so-called “Endangerment Finding” issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009, which held that carbon dioxide is a “pollutant” that “threatens public health and safety”.
CO2 radicalism rests on one main assumption – that increases in atmospheric CO2 will cause a linear and dangerous increase in global temperature. The belief that more CO2 emitted equals significantly more heat and higher temperature is a cornerstone of the ruling scientific paradigm.
But what if this assumption – the most ubiquitous of all modern conventional wisdoms – turns out to be mistaken?
This conventional wisdom has been questioned over the last decade by impeccably credentialed scientists who have undertaken actual science – not political science – to contradict this primary assumption underlying the AGW belief system.
Case in point is the peer-reviewed analysis completed in June, 2020 by eminent physicists William Happer and William van Wijngaarden. Mr. Happer is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and van Wijngaarden is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York University in Toronto, Both men are accomplished and renowned physicists with over 500 published papers to their credit. Mr. Happer is best known as the brilliant scientist whose insight into the physics of the atmosphere empowered the success of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
They applied highly detailed mathematical analytics to the physics of CO2 in the atmosphere and raised serious doubts about CO2’s ability to absorb heat after becoming “saturated” at current levels of 400 parts per million, and therefore unable to absorb significanty more heat from the Sun. Thus, any further increases in atmospheric CO2 – even doubling that amount to 800 parts per million – would only result in minimal increases in atmospheric temperature of 0.5C, or 1degree Fahrenheit.
This mathematically rigorous finding was validated through a controlled laboratory experiment conducted by a team of seven Viennese researchers in 2024. They measured the back infrared radiation of CO2 in a test chamber with increasing CO2 concentrations emulating realistic atmospheric conditions. They concluded that doubling CO2 from pre-industrial levels from 400 to 800 ppm “shows no measurable increase in infrared radiation absorption, and thus can lead to just 0.5C warming increase at most”.
This conclusion illustrates the reason why climate alarmists have never been able to explain the reason why the Earth has never experienced runaway warming in the past when CO2 levels were 5-10 times more concentrated than today, nor why the UN climate models based on linear warming theory have been proven to be so terribly wrong.
If the CO2 concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere is well beyond the level where increases are causing additional radiation to be absorbed, then all the government policies intended to reduce or eliminate CO2 emissions in order to stop climate change are just as effective as King Canute’s efforts to control the tides.
In short, these saturation analyses thoroughly refute the conventional wisdom that increasing levels of CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming.
And they are not alone.
For example, in 2020 German chemist Michael Schnell published his study “Experimental Verification of the CO2 Greenhouse Effect” which also confirmed that the saturation effect of CO2 results in minimal warming. In addition, Franz-Karl Reinhardt, a professor with the leading Swiss research facility EPF, undertook another study in 2017 which demonstrated that a doubling of the current level of atmospheric CO2 from 400ppm to 800ppm would produce only be one quarter of 1 degree Celsius – too small to even be accurately measured.
The impact of all these recent studies – and there are many more than just the ones mentioned above – is clear: the conventional wisdom regarding CO2 warming is unraveling. The demonization of CO2 – one of the greatest popular delusions in modern human history – may finally be coming to an end.
It may well not be not true that an increase in CO2 causes a linear and catastrophic increase in atmospheric temperature.
The implication of CO2 saturation is a game changer, and should provide the Trump Administration with a substantial line of questioning of EPA’s Endangerment Finding.
Posted originally on Jan 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: On Friday, the UK FTSE and DAX closed at new all-time highs, so clearly money is flowing into these indices yet euros and Pounds seem to be flying out the door as they prepare for lower lows and thus this seem confusing. Added to the confusion is that Europe is where the sovereign debt crisis SDC) is likely to begin, so why is capital flowing into these markets? I suppose better to hold UK or German equities vs. their sovereign debt and thus will those equity markets continue to rally during the SDC?
SR
ANSWER: A number of questions have been coming in about the European markets. Keep in mind that we are in the throes of geopolitical and political upheavals, not to mention the entry of Trump and his old-school nonsense about lowering the dollar to sell more stuff overseas and imposing tariffs. Those ideas I have dealt with constantly over the course of the past few decades. It is confusing without question. The press does not understand currency, not even those in government. Absolutely everything has an international value, and this has led to the overwhelming majority getting things wrong. Many ask why mainstream media will not interview me on such important topics as this. The reason is simply – it is too confusing for them as well.
I have told the story at conferences about my Ferarri Trade and how I bought a 308 Ferrari when I lived in London in 1985 when the British pound fell to $1.03. The Italians were getting $60,000 for the car in the States back then. It was still priced in pounds when the pound used to be $2.40. I bought the car for about $35,000 when converted. The Italians could no longer sell these Ferarris for such a price in London. Hence, they doubled the price in British pounds based on $1.03.
Over the course of the next couple of years, the pound rallied and went to $1.90 again by 1988. I drove the car for 2 years, sold it used for £40,000, and virtually doubled my money. Then, people were buying Ferraris as an investment, thinking it was the car that appreciated when, in fact, it was just a currency play. If you did not look at the currency, you missed the whole point.
In fact, I was buying German cars throughout the 1970s as the dollar was declining. A Porsche was $8,600 in 1970, and by 1980, it was $27,700. I would drive the cars for 2 years and then trade them in and get my money back, so cars never cost me a dime throughout the 1970s. I understood it was all just currency – not the cars themselves. My father took the family to Europe for the summer of 1964, which taught me about currency as we traveled from Sweden to Italy and all around. We had to change currency every time we crossed a border. I learned that CURRENCY was actually a mental language. I would listen to the price in Italian lira and convert that back to dollars in my mind to asses if the value was a fair price.
I was really the only true foreign exchange analyst. I was dealing in billions in the early 1980s. Clients would even put me on a speak in the middle of an OPEC meeting. I was being called in around the world all on currency crises. That’s how I became friends with Margaret Thatcher. I was being touted as the highest-paid analyst in the world, all for currency. When I was opening an office in Geneva in 1985, I was going to use some European names to blend in. I went to lunch with the head of one of the top main banks in Switzerland, who was a client and asked his opinion of what European name to use. He asked me to name one European FOREX analyst. I was embarrassed for I could not. He then explained why everyone was using my firm. He said there were no European analysts because they each would tout their own currency because it was a political issue. He explained everyone was using my firm because I did not care if the dollar went down or up. I said it was just a trade.
By 1985, I was summoned to the US. They were arguing to force the dollar down by 40% to reduce the trade deficit as that theory today is espoused by Trump. That was the Plaza Accord, and I wrote to President Reagan and warned that they would cause a crash within two years, and that became the 1987 Crash. The Presidential Commission then called me in for that one. They just do not teach this stuff in school and that seems to be the problem.
In 1997, Robert Rubin, former head of Goldman Sachs, was also trying to talk the dollar down for trade. Again, he did not really understand currency and its impact on markets. The Asian currency Crisis unfolded weeks later. He may have been at Goldman, but that was more related to debt. To one person, a stock rally can look like a bull market, and to another, a bear market. When you get into currency swings of 10%-40%, it alters the perception of value because they still do not teach this stuff in school. We are clinging to old theories like Keynesian economics from the period of fixed exchange rates. Politicians are making the wrong decisions and investors are confused because these concepts are never taught.
As the greenback rallies, then the European share prices will appear cheap, just as Ferarri did in 1985 when the pound fell to $1.03. You will have domestic movement away from public assets as we have seen corporate rates move below that of government rates in France. Here is the FTSE in pounds and then in dollars. While you see new highs in pounds, the FTSE has not made new highs in dollars and has backed off, showing that the rally in the FTSE is not keeping pace with the decline in the pound.
01:56This is why, in Socrates, you can plot any instrument in a host of various currencies. The definition of a bull market is something that rallies in terms of all the key currencies. When it is rising only in terms of the local currency, it is simply a domestic shift and not international.
We do NOT see a major Crash on the horizon in shares, commodities, gold, silver, etc.
The greatest risk of a crash will be in government debt.
Posted originally on the CTH on December 3, 2024 | Sundance
Hillsborough County Sherrif Chad Chronister, a COVID-19 mandate enforcer, has withdrawn his name from nomination as head of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chronister announces via Twitter:
Many people are wondering who recommended him to President-elect Donald Trump (possible hint below). No one is certain, but the withdrawal is a positive sign. This guy was one of the worst sheriffs in Florida for COVID-19 enforcement, and leans left under the mask of leaning right.
For President Trump this withdrawal is a slight hiccup, and he will likely not be happy with the person who recommended the nomination.
“Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration. There is more work to be done for the citizens of Hillsborough County and a lot of initiatives I am committed to fulfilling. I sincerely appreciate the nomination, outpouring of support by the American people, and look forward to continuing my service as Sheriff of Hillsborough County.”
Our country is fortunate to have @PamBondi as President @realDonaldTrump nominee for US Attorney General. She is such a selfless servant who will be tireless in keeping us all safe. pic.twitter.com/i9bF3SCHAP
We must do everything possible to avoid this war as it has the strong potential to go nuclear. If so, if we can’t stop it, the best scenario we could et would be a limited use of nuclear missiles that take out some of the major cities in the EU, North America and China.
However, depending how many, this could result in a collapse of the various governments therein taking us back to the technology levels of the last quarter of the 19th century. The reason being that there will be little to no electricity generation or transmission and gasoline will be very hard to get. Further, the fallout of radioactive particles and the lack of food or water will probably kill a billion people. But worse is the lack of the internet and cell phones. Without the web how can we communicate? or know wht is going on So, why would any politicians. in his/her right mind. let this happen, since the potential is so devastating?
The answer can be found in The World Economic Forum (WEF) created by Klaus Schwab in 1972 and the US neocons who have wanted to destroy Russia after the USSR dissolved in 1991.We also have Bill Gates who desperately wants to reduce the world’s population and George Soros who developed the open border concept and President Biden authored it on day one of his 2021 four year term. The WEF is run by Klaus Schwab and he is the master mind of the redo of Western Society into a one world government. He sells it as “The Great Reset & Build Back better” assuming that there is not a nuclear war The result of this change will probably be a world much like George Orwell’s 1984. If you want to know what is coming read that book
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The core of the problem is uncontrolled human nature. Which manifests itself mostly in some men that have the mistaken idea that they can rule the world? That tendency was restrained by Christianity, the Ten Commandments and the US constitution but starting in the late 1940’s a movement was started to eliminate religion from our country and by the end of the 20th century that has been accomplished. Now for all practical [purposes there are no checks on the power being concentrated in Washing DC. The administrative state and the neocons now rule the country. However, those that want the power the most are have come from the training of the World Economics Form training program and here is a partial listing of the players.
Currently we have the following: Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, George Soros and the us neocons (for example: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, John Bolton, Kimberly Kegan, Lindsey Graham, Robert Kagan, Vitoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Blinken) to name a few. These dozen people along with many others like Anthony Fauci that do what that power and they want are seeking to rule us. By starting a war between Ukraine and Russia.There are trying to egg on Russia to make to first move and then they will destroy Russia.
The conversion process of our Republic into a tyranny is now in the final stages. But it was a long road that started with Darwin and his The Origin of the Species in 1859 then Karl Marx and his Das Kapital Volume I in 1867, and then with the creation of the Income Tax in 1913 with the 16th amendment to the Constitution. FDR continued the work starting social programs like Social security. Just for the record, the collected payroll funds initially went into a government fund so it was like putting the money into a govermet bank. But that didn’t last long as President Johnson wanted to spend that money so he took it and put an IOU in its place. That means that if current payroll taxes do not cover current payout then the IOUs in the fund need to be cashed in to cover payments.
All the countries in western society are now trapped, by the social welfare programs they created, as they will no longer be able to support current payments and no one will buy any more government bonds. When that happens and we are, right on the edge now, so when the governments can’t make any payments they disappear. Much like what happened to Rome.
What the WEF is trying to do is to start a major war, not nuclear, and then cancel all they debt. Ideally, they will switch to all digital money, no cash, or coins that will give them total control of the population; just like China.
There is one more issue to address and that is free speech. China has already solved that problem with tracking everything a person does or says, especially on line. The reason we have 5g is to handle that volume of the business traffic from the cell phones (no cash). Then if the AL software sees anything that you have done or said and if what you said or did was not permitted you are given a black mark in your social score and if your social score passes a target amount you can be blocked from traveling or lose your job and worse you would be put in jail. This is as if you are living in the world of the book 1984 except it would be 2025 if Kamala becomes president.
There is a quick summary, of my background, which can be found at the end of this paper, In four paragraphs. It’s there only to show I have the background necessary to make the claims in this post. Now continuing the discusion we have a short summary of a paper I wrote on this subject about a month ago. It’s long with a lot of detail, so rather than copy it here there is a link to it at the end of this blog post you are reading.
Prior to Darwin it was generally accepted that there was a God who had created the earth and humans. In particular in christianity and explained in the Ten Commandments. Believing in God and the hereafter put a partial brake on power and it was a key element in writing the US Constitution with the Bill of Rights. The combination and Bill of rights made it difficult to create a powerful central government but they did work at it especially after the civil war.
Dwain’s theory was that random changes can explain how we evolved from the simple first bit of life that developed millions of years ago. Darwin’s theory was wrong but that wouldn’t be proved until the next century. There is another link at the end of this paper to a post here where I prove the existence of God.
Continuing, next we had Karl Marx and his theories which were also wrong but that was not to be proved until later. Marx also did not belie there was a God. His theories are false and do not work but again that is a discussion for another time. However from that late 19th century through present times the politicians that love and crave power bought into Darwin and Marx theories since the combination (if believed) was that there were no limits to power as there were no consequences since there was no GOD and no after life. Adolf Hitler Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong are prime examples of what that unlimited power will bring. They killed somewhere between 136 million to 167 million; including military, civilians and the conversion to Marxism from 1918 to 1991 when the USSR collapsed.
While that was going on there was also a similar movement going on in America to convert to Marxism. During President Wilson presidency, he started the process by supporting the 16th Amendment allowing the federal government to tax the people which was not allowed in the Constitution, for good reason. There was one other Amendment that was also bad and it was the 17th Amendment. This changed that a senator was no longer appointed by the state government but elected by the people, This was also a bad idea as it took power away from the states and created unlimited terms for the senator which also proved to be very bad.
One must also keep in mind that prior to the US civil war there was one large political unit and other small ones. The large one was the Democratic Republican party. Slavery in the South had always been a problem and the Democratic Republican party split in two which was mostly the North and the South. The Republican North believed in the Constitution and small central government. And they were against Slavery. The South believed in big government and was for slavery. They were diametrically opposed to te republicans. After the South lost the war they never gave up there need for power and did what they could to hold down the former slaves with The Ku Klux Clan, Jim Crow, poll taxes and separate facilities for the former slaves.
Actually, slavery was going to disappear anyway as we were now in the industrial revolution and picking cotton was now done by machines. We studied that in my econ courses. President Eisenhower started the process of breaking up the discrimination of the former slaves by outlawing segregation in the schools in the south with the Civil Rights act of 1967. He sent the army to Little Rock to enforce that act. He also started the interstate highway system and warned us of the military industrial complex. That is a major problem today,
During this period of time, from the Great depression the Democrats never gave up their lust for power and now with the ability to Tax the people they did so in incresing levels until today. The problem with the taxes being used for benefits (Freebees) is it also takes away from the economy growing by the people buying things. If you take money away for the people then have to spend less. The government is actually a drag on the economy. Margaret Thatcher told us in November 3 2023 “The Problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” and you can’t Brower any more from anyone.
The New Green Deal passed in the Biden administration is a massive amount of spending with Bowered money estimated at 93 trillion over 10 years. No government program as ever cost les and many times a lot more. The US debt is presently over $35 trillion and it was about $25 trillion four years ago. The spending problem starts in 2008 when it was only 5 Trillion.
The Treasury Department reported that the U.S. government, for the first time, has spent more than $1 trillion this year on interest payments for its $35.3 trillion national debt.
The chart below is for 2023 showing income funds and outlays. 2024 will be worse
If kamala becomes President on January 20, 2025 it will be a very short period until the country runs out of money and collapses as no one will buy government bonds and we would be forced to default on what we owe. many countries are see that and already getting rid of the US Bonds they own They can do this by using the bonds to buying land and companies in the US.
In my opinion there is only one person in the county that can mitigate what the Biden admiration has done to the country. And I do have the education and experience to make that statement.
What follows Next are some related posts and videos
This one give a way for the US Government to blame Russia for the bridge destruction and allows them to declare war against Russia when is what the neocons want.
There is a lot more I could add here but most of it is also in the above posts. The bottom line here is we will be at war very soon and we need to be prepared for what is coming. I hope tp God the aTrump wins and gets into office as even if he can’t stop what already started it should be able to midagate what was already started. He is our only Hope!
My Related Background
How can I say what I put in the title of this post? Well for starters, I have a undergrad in Business Administration and I had a major in Economics taking every course they had at OU and got an A in all of them except one in history. As I thought what did those old guys know. Much, later I realized that I was very wrong and the new system that just came out at the beginning of WW II in a book written by John Maynard Keynes ” The Greneral Theory of Enployment, interest, and money” which would decades later be one of the downfalls of the country.
After collage, I joined the Army in the summer of 1965 and became an officer and then a Green Beret which gave me another set of skills which back then was how to undermine a government. In this, case Russia, by learning how to take over a country with guerrilla warfare. The focus was Russia that had turned to Marxism after the end of WW I. The Green Berets were sent Vietnam in 1962 on a counter guerrilla mission. I got there in September 1967, as a first Lieutenant, and was wounded in December 1967. I did stay in the army for a total of 4 years and made Captain before I completed my enlistment.
After the Army I worked mostly as an engineer as almost all the men on both sides of my family were either degreed engineers or in the skilled trades. In my dad’s case he taught himself electrical engineering mostly in electronics and he taught me how to design and build things one of which was a Radio controlled robot that won 1st place in the Cleveland Science fair in 1959.
In the early 1980’s, I started a tech company by raising almost a million dollars and as part of that, I went to CASE and got a master’s degree in tech marketing in 1986. I was also put in the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. The company was on the path to a product, in what would be the commuter/phone industry, to support that market (That did not yet exist) I wrote up some patens which were issued. However, some of the investors didn’t think that would ever be and so they wanted to drop that line to work on other items. I knew they were wrong and so I sold my shares and went on my own until I retired a few years after 9/11. I was right and the market ended up being a multibillion dollar one making other companies that bought the tech from my company.very rich
As an aside during the 90’s and into the 00’s and because of my background I started to see patterns that seemed to be what “we” would do in Special forces to take over a government and create a different political system. For us back then it was to get rid of Communism.
From the early 1990 until around 2005 I started to read every book I could find on forms of government, warfare, phycology, Climate, Religion, and anything I could find on current events. In total I acquired several hundred books that I added to the hundreds of books I had going back to college. And in addition, what my mom and dad had as they were both gone by the 90’s. Now I haveclose to a thousand books on all kind of subjects.
One of the most interesting was a book titled The Fourth Turning written by Strauss and Howe in 1997 which showed that there was a cycle to war and society that was around 80 years. The book indicated that the time we are in now would be a major war. By 2005 I could see that there predictions were very accurate.
Around 2012 I created a blog where I reposted and/or wrote on the subject of where the US was gonging. The more I read and found on the web the more I could see that we were not headed in the right direction. An example in 2020 when COVID was let lose by Fauci and Trump created a team so they could help stop it. During the period there were many doctors that were treating COVID with Hydoxychloroquine and/or Ivermectin and Fauci went nuts claming it was a poison and neither one didn’t work with COVID. Well as a Vietnam vet who took Hydoxychloroquine to prevent malaria, so it wasn’t harmfull. And it was used all over the world for that purpose. So I knew Fauci was a criminal as millions died by not taking it ealy when the siymptoms first came out. The reason Fauci did this was that when a new treatment comes out it can’t be used without permission if there are other treatment avilable. Fauci made a lot of money by forcing doctors to only use the mRNA experimental gene treatment. They even changed the definision of a vacine since it is not a conventional vacine. As a consequence the US had one of the worse results from the COVID pandemic.
Lasrly, somewhere in this period, I found “sondance CTH” who has incredable sources and another blogger Martin Armstrong that had created an AI program in the 1970’s that is increasable accurate in prediction the future. I have followed him ever since. And his AI program is never wrong.
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