The Story Beneath the Climate Story

"A Half-Truth Is the Worst of All Lies Because It Can Be Defended in Partiality."

Sep 07, 2024

The idea that "carbon dioxide is the control knob on the climate" is a colossal public deception. In reality, what drives climate on both short- and long-term timeframes is a dizzyingly complex and dynamic mix of forces: solar cycles, ocean currents, water vapour, wobbles in our planet's orbit, cyclical changes in cloud cover, continental drift, cosmic radiation, and so on... Carbon dioxide is all but irrelevant within that dynamic mix but what sets it apart is that, unlike all these other forces, shining a big spotlight on CO2 made it politically useful. -

Joel Smalley

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Most of the lies hollowing out our world contain some distorted kernel of truth — they often only become lies as they are stripped of their broader context and bent to fit a dominant narrative. As ancient Greek philosopher Solon once said, “A half truth is the worst of all lies because it can be defended in partiality.”

There's no better example of this than the nonsensical climate propaganda that has been relentlessly pushed onto society by our academic institutions, by the media, and by our political elite. In this article I am going to share a few heretical examples from my new book (Plunderers of the Earth) to illustrate how cartoonish oversimplifications about our ever-changing climate are not only wholly wrong despite containing kernels of truth, but that by flooding the world with this false narrative we have become blind to a much larger and much more complex story unfolding right beneath our feet, with profound implications for the future of our civilization.

Let's start with some of the easy stuff on our way towards the bigger underlying story.

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Julius Ruechel

The Story Beneath the Climate Story

"A Half-Truth Is the Worst of All Lies Because It Can Be Defended in Partiality."