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   From: suckers@greenpeace.org   
      
   On 01 Nov 2021, Bad Biden  posted some   
   news:slq034$d2f$101@news.dns-netz.com:   
      
   > Siri Cruise wrote   
   >   
   >> Democrats are all stupid and fall for bullshit.   
      
   JACKSON — A hoax is a humorous or malicious deception. A scam is a   
   dishonest scheme or swindle. It’s a hoax for profit. Hoaxes have made   
   fools of the unwary, and scams have taken unwitting victims for a long   
   time. How do you avoid getting taken?   
      
   Cicero asked, “Cui bono?” (Who benefits?) Today you should ask: What’s the   
   hustle and who’s the mark? If you are in a rigged game and don’t know who   
   the mark is, it’s probably you. But what if you are in a rigged game and   
   don’t know it’s rigged?   
      
   Say the hustle is there’s an imminent global catastrophe and you have to   
   do something or stop doing something (such as using fossil fuels) for the   
   good of humanity. Beautiful people, experts, the media, politicians and   
   other shills are virtue signaling for it. You might think they know   
   something you don’t.   
      
   But you see the sky isn’t falling. And they aren’t doing what they want   
   you to do. So you wonder, Is global warming a hoax? A scam? Looks like   
   both.   
      
   Global warming, aka climate change, is the idea that the earth’s climate   
   is warming or changing unnaturally due to human activities — specifically   
   the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).   
      
      
   The argument is that burning fossil fuel creates carbon dioxide or CO2   
   (true). And that as this gas increases in the atmosphere it increases a   
   greenhouse effect that reduces outgoing energy radiation to space (true),   
   and the “trapped energy” causes the earth’s temperature to rise   
   (theoretically true). And that the rate of increase is unnatural (too   
   fast) and the higher temperature is undesirable.   
      
   This implies that there is a natural slower rate of temperature increase   
   (untrue) and an optimum earth temperature that all can agree on   
   (doubtful). And that humans can control it (untrue).   
      
   The temperature increase attributable to increased CO2 is small, hard to   
   measure and impossible to isolate from changes due to other variables.   
   That’s because CO2 is only .04% of the atmosphere, and there are many   
   other natural causes of temperature and climate changes.   
      
   Geologic records show wide variations in climate and temperature. Recorded   
   temperature measurements show wider natural variations than recent   
   increases that have alarmed global warmers. And those increases have   
   slowed. So alarmists now hype climate change and equate it with weather   
   events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, rainfall, droughts, heat waves, cold   
   spells, and with natural disasters such as locust swarms, plagues and   
   contagions, real or hyped.   
      
   Former Vice President Al Gore is one of the loudest shills for the   
   greenhouse effect. In 2006, he produced “An Inconvenient Truth” video,   
   which correlated CO2 in ancient ice cores with temperature and showed that   
   temperature was higher when CO2 was higher. He therefore said: Higher CO2   
   causes higher temperatures. And started the global warming catastrophe   
   industry for profit. Cui bono? Professional Chicken Littles.   
      
      
   It didn’t matter that the ice cores showed that the rise in temperature   
   preceded the rise in CO2 by hundreds of years. So careful observers say:   
   Higher temperatures cause higher CO2. The former VP ignored this   
   inconvenient truth and made sky-will-fall predictions. Icebergs would   
   melt, sea levels would rise, coastal cities would flood unless governments   
   acted to reduce CO2 emissions. Cui bono? Big government in partnership   
   with green energy.   
      
   Others joined in to promote the scam and to share the profits from   
   government-mandated solutions to imaginary problems. There are lots of   
   scammers in federal and state agencies. Also in Congress and in state   
   legislatures, which create, fund and abdicate their legislative   
   responsibilities to those agencies (which become law into themselves).   
   Also in presidents and governors who appoint global warming and green   
   energy zealots to run the agencies. And who promote projects like Kemper   
   to make the oceans stop rising and to spin straw into gold — or lignite   
   into natural gas.   
      
   And to enrich their political supporters and corporate cronies. Cui bono?   
   Politicians and their supporters.   
      
      
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