Researchers - not data - change

The historical ("primary") documents that fuel this blog don't change - can't change - frozen in time from the Manhattan of 75 years ago.

But my contemporary understanding of them continues to change, evolve, regress, whatever.

For a long time I saw today's bad climate change deniers as the best single contemporary example of the once widespread pre-war belief that denied any limits to Man's ability to control Mother Nature.

But these sort of deniers were actually the weak case.

I have here in my hand a list of names : rogue Boomers who deny climate change

I don't - yet - have 205 or 81 or 57 names or whatever alcohol-induced fantasy number Senator Joe came up with in the end.

But I'm working on it.

9.5 Theses about climate DENIERS

It is hard to nail something up , on the internet , but here it goes anyway :

(1) I believe - as a percentage - more Protestants than Catholics deny human climate change and that they do so more vehemently.

"Climate Hubrists" : deniers of any limits to human ability to control reality

I separate Holocaust deniers from Climate Change deniers, I really do.

Most Holocaust deniers deny that the event ever happened - and continue to deny that, even in their heart of hearts.

But Climate Change deniers only pretend in public that they believe human-originated harmful Climate Change isn't happening and won't happen.

What they really and not so secretly believe - in their particular heart of hearts - is that Man can easily solve any bad climate change, or indeed any other global disaster that might happen, as fast and as easily as any comic book Super Hero might.



The denier/hubrists don't really read the bible and they don't really read many books.

Climate 'hubrists' a more accurate term than 'deniers'

But if you do the arithmetic, you will see that all active "climate change deniers" (I prefer to call them "Climate Hubrists") under the age of eighty-five had to grow up reading super hero comic books.

Those super hero ideas and conceits (along with Fox TV News, Talk Radio and the commentators on the sports channels) have in practise become the common intellectual currency of our age for people of an anti-intellectual cast, replacing things like the Sears Roebuck catalogue and the King James Bible.

Why else would Googling Climate Change and Manhattan Project produce 1.5 million results ?

A new Manhattan Project can't stop any global environmental crisis : in fact the old one produced - via worldwide strontium 90 fallout from local testing - the very first man-made global environmental disaster we ever knew.

But millions - and probably ultimately billions of people world wide - still take it as a comforting solution to our current climate change crisis.

It is a pity then that the names Robert Jewett , John Sheldon Lawrence and H Bruce Franklin are not better known among those combating the climate deniers/hubrists.

I recommend to all of us who are wondering why we are losing the public battle of opinion over the existence (or not) of harmful human climate change to spend some time reading , in combination, Jewett's & Lawrence's many books and articles on the "American (superhero) Monomyth", together with Franklin's classic "War Stars", about the enduring belief in a single superweapon ending all wars.

(Geo-engineering, in this context, might be regarded as the latest high tech superweapon - this time against incoming weather rather than incoming aliens.)

Instead of looking to wartime Manhattan's nuclear Project, we need rather to look to wartime Manhattan's (natural) penicillin Project for a pathway showing how when we work with Mother Nature, enduring good things happen.

Work with Nature instead of against her  ? Unimaginable to denier/hubrists.

Because the only thing the deniers ever really deny is any limits to the human ability to control physical reality --- and that reads as Hubris in my book....

'Rogue Boomers' : Running our world ; ruining our planet

When one thinks of Rogue Boomers, one immediately thinks of people like prime ministers Stephen Harper (born 1959) and Tony Abbott (born 1957) --- and not just because they are currently leading the charge (from the rear) against doing anything substantial about man-made climate disaster.

Rather it is something so unexpected about the vivid contrast between their still-baby faces and their totally Old School ways of thinking that humans can control the natural world - thinking we'd might expect more from their grandfathers, let alone their fathers.

Yes, those I call Noir's Children , the most vocal (and regrettably the smallest) segment of the Boomer kids got it, successfully absorbed the dire lessons (on all sides) from WWII , and adjusted their thinking.

But the Rogue Boomers ( the silent majority of my Boomer generation) carried right on as if nothing had changed, still believing in the simplistic old pre-war ways , despite Science (reluctantly) revealing an ever more complicated world.

It was as if they were to be frozen in aspic, forever locked into a time warp with the first generation of comic book super heroes.

Entombed forever within WWII's golden age of superheroes, superpowers, super-weapons and super-easy solutions to controlling unpleasant reality....

AKA Modernity : the era of parsimonious plenticide , 1875-1965

The art of denial is not a new 21st century thing.

Denying human caused climate disaster, denying the Holocaust, Stalin's crimes, the existence of rape culture --- they are all but a few of the sub-sets of one way 'to deal' with 'overwhelming' dynamic complexity.

While to most of us , choice is good and more choice is better, many of us direct our entire existence around dealing with feelings of being overwhelmed by plentitude.

Why they feel so excessively this way (because we all feel overwhelmed by plentitude at times) is a mystery.

It may be due to a combination of unique body chemistry that handles stress badly and their parents (with similar body chemistry) being obsessed with dirt and order.

One of the most satisfying intellectual ways for them to deal with 'overwhelming' plentitude is to deny its very existence.

Its real - substantive - existence.

'Oh yes, the surface complexity is there all right - we shan't deny that.'

'But most of it is rubbish, useless, worthless, dirty, dangerous - and to claim that all of it is valuable is a form of false consciousness.'

'Once you properly separate out what is valuable, worthy , clean and stable and discard - eliminate/liquidate - the rest , life becomes much simpler and happier.'

Or so the plenticidial modernists claimed.

Modernity then was a great era for classification & then binning.

To its proponents, parsimonious plenticide was the best intellectual way to deal with the abundant scientific evidence that reality was much much more complex, older, wider, deeper than anyone had ever previously thought.

This fact was materially thrust in their faces every day by the effects of co-current globalization cum modernization - seemingly the planet and all its beings were daily arriving at the customs and immigration gates of their country.

So : normal vs deviant , normal vs degenerated, normal vs deformed, normal vs unfit , normal vs dirty - on and on the classifying and destruction went.

No gene pool was ever shallow enough for them - any and every gene pool could always do with a little more draining.

The surface rubbish was complex but the solution wasn't : a little quick painless culling by some super heroes (and super nations) dressed up in capes and tights and it would all be resolved.

One might think evolution and progress as having been invented expressly to allow a moral mechanism for killing off one's new neighbours with a clear conscience.

Yes the world is a plentitude , but of mostly also rans and a few winners and the also rans will be quietly liquidated after the results of the marathon have been announced.

Reductionism as parsimonious plenticide

In the physical sciences , reductionism was the parsimonious plenticide equivalent : claiming all reality could be reduced to the reliable and predictable assembling and re-assembling of a handful of atoms of a handful of elements , all obeying a handful of  knowable, simple, eternal and universal laws.

For this was the great age of Erector and Meccano sets - vividly expressing how parents and grandparents thought their young should view the world.

But Modernity's big problem would not go away - because reality is really and truly complex and dynamic - and everything science has discovered since 1875 renders this more not less so.

In our new era of global commensality we (most of we , anyhow) see the interconnectedness of everything on Earth : many ,many things and events all interacting with each other is some direct, some distantly indirect ways.

But many of us don't, still in denial that the era of modernity was wrong or that it has ended.

And this attitude is fueling - petro fueling - the destruction of this planet.

For on all of the world's Wall Streets, the Alpha Male 'Masters of the Universe' lead the way in denying that we can't really master the universe ....

Australia's best known climate denier,Jo Nova, sees "banksters" behind every climate change warning

Jo Nova

The husband and wife denier team of Jo Nova and Dave Evans are superstars of the climate denying demi-world, not just in their native Australia but everywhere in the world where the pure Anglo Saxon tongue is still celebrated.

Dave is as blunt as Galileo Movement manager Malcolm Roberts : climate change is a conspiracy put up by  Jewish banking families like the Rothschilds.

Dear Jo, the distaff denier, is of the gentler sex and settles on just blaming it on the banksters (ethnicity and religion of which is left undefined) and upon "fiat" money, that brand of money made famous by Ron Paul and his ilk.

Its an intellectual and emotional tussle as old as the modern banking system.

The fight is between those citizens who see paper money as merely a more compact versions of regular legal contracts such as their own mortgage and those who see paper money as flim-flamery and financial alchemy : "fiat money".

Most of us intuitively sense that the words on the back of old money stating "X will pay bearer $20 in gold on demand" was some sort of contract between the issuer of the note and anyone who accepted it.

As if when an Albanian teenager freely offered to buy your copy of the first Beatles album in Albanian currency at the official artificially high government-set exchange rate, you were equally free to decline to accept her offer but counter-offer the suggestion she pay you $10 in  good old American greenbacks instead.

Yes the Albanian government did issue its bank notes and set an "official" exchange rate by "fiat", but most of us can see we are equally free to reject the fiat and refuse to do business on those terms.

We sense that it takes two to have a meeting of minds and to form a contract:  an Albanian and you.

But a significant percentage of us, all throughout history, and in every nation, has refused to see money that way.

They represent, even in peaceful and prosperous times, about 15% of the voting population.

The fact that they are paranoid and suspicious about banks and money is really incidental : they are paranoid and suspicious about nearly everything and everyone . Always have been, always will be.

Two paranoias for the price of one : climate change and banksters

The same 15% is also highly suspicious about reports of global warming and man-made climate change, so it was only a matter of time before they happily put two of their favourite paranoias together.

True they could have blamed immigrants, refugees, blacks, aboriginals or homo-sex-uals for climate change but frankly this seemed , well, too global for these people to pull off .

"Let's blame stick to blaming them for non-white collar crime and rising drug use in schools."

No, only one tiny minority ethnic group has traditionally been regarded as having the moxie to pull this sort of global conspiracy off : Jews. In particular , Jewish banking families.

International banking firms are actually quite new; we have all seen those American movies where every small town has its own banker, who owns and operates a tiny one branch bank - by law.

Voters never wanted or trusted big banks and tried hard to limit their operation to one tiny geography or perhaps just one part of the overall banking industry.

But today some giant banks can and do operate all over the world : truly international. But unfortunately these various big banks aren't owned by any one somebody : rather a few million people own their shares : directly or through pension or mutual funds.

Bit hard to keep secret a plot by three million shareholders who don't know each other from Adam.

But in the old days, families of bankers did neatly sidestep the rules that restricted banks to one nation or one activity.

Brother X in Germany did investment banking inside Germany, his cousin Y did the same in England while uncle Z did retail banking in Australia and so on.

And yes, many of these real-life closely-knit banking families were Jewish.

But they weren't in fact tremendously powerful, partly because there was widespread suspicion of them, both as Jews and as international bankers .

The truly powerful cabals in the pre-war era were world-wide industrial cartels run by WASPS , but even there there were always cartel members tempted to go off the range, so to speak.

The paranoid 15%, a competitive and entrepreneurial lot, can't get along with each other but somehow they can't accept that other people at least as competitive and as entrepreneurial as themselves, mightn't stay united in a cabal for very long either.

Climate change acceptors should never be reduced to discussing or debating science with these 15 percenters ,  they should be dissecting the deniers' free-floating paranoia instead .

Turn over their stones and you'll find an endless list of objects for their year-round "HATE WEEK"  : climate change is but one of many......