Reference: Non-water flushing, Bangkok Post My Home Magazine, April 22, 2010

It has been a long and bitterly cold winter in the Himalayas with record snowfall; and so I was surprised to read in the Bangkok Post that the Mekong River is drying up because "the amount of ice and snow in the Himalayas this winter is less than usual, and much of it melted in January and February" due to global warming (Non-water flushing, Bangkok Post My Home Magazine, April 22, 2010). Has the global warming juggernaut reached such momentum that even actual weather data don't matter?

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Book Reviews, Bangkok Post, April 23, 2010

The reference to the New World natives as Injuns or Indians certainly derives from "los indigenas", the Spanish term for native people. The popular folklore that the term has something to do with India is fanciful speculation.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Less ice less pups, Bangkok Post, April 19, 2010

Changing wind patterns in the Arctic Oscillation cycle - not temperature - had caused an extensive summer melt of Arctic sea ice in 2007 and a low Arctic ice extent in October of that year. Nevertheless, global warming activists seized on this melt data as the leading indicator of climate change Armageddon with headlines saying that the Arctic "is screaming", that it is the "canary in the coal mine", and that polar bears and other creatures in the Arctic are dying off and facing imminent extinction. They said that melting sea ice had set up a positive feedback system that would cause the summer melts in subsequent years to be greater and greater until the Arctic became ice free in the summer of 2012 unless we acted immediately to cut carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Press releases and "research papers" in this vein continue to this day even though the trend in the summer melt extent has been going in exactly the opposite direction and even though Arctic ice has made a complete recovery from its 2007 melt and even though no actual empirical study of animal populations has shown that their numbers are diminishing.

The 2007 ice data have given such momentum to global warming advocacy that even now, in 2010, in the face of overwhelming data to the contrary, we find find two articles in the Bangkok Post still screaming about Arctic creatures endangered by global warming. Clearly, there are still too many scientists out there whose livelihood depends on publishing papers that support the war against carbon dioxide.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes, April 17, 2010

Global warming scientists have come up with the bizarre idea that carbon dioxide causes volcanic eruptions in Iceland. The argument goes that carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming, global warming in turn causes glaciers in Iceland to melt, and melting glaciers lighten the weight of the ice cap on volcanoes and thereby trigger eruptions (Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes, April 17, 2010).

It is clearly a sinister attempt to ride the media wave created by the volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier and to use that fear factor to sell their war against carbon dioxide. The reality is of course very different. Melting glaciers do not cause volcanic eruptions. Volcanic eruptions cause melting glaciers.

We now know that much of the glacier melt that the global warming people tried to pin on carbon dioxide was actually caused by geothermal activity under the ice not just in Iceland but also in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and in Greenland. They have not learned from their prior errors committed while dishonestly overselling the global warming hype and are about to commit VolcanoGate right in the heels of HimalayaGate and dozens of other humiliating retractions.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Forecasters predict good monsoon season, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010

For about two years now the global warming people have been warning us that our carbon dioxide emissions will weaken and delay the monsoon in South Asia with devastating results that were to include drought, crop failure, and and hunger (Climate change to delay monsoon in South Asia, Bangkok Post, March 20, 2009). Yet, the 2009 monsoon came right on time not at all delayed or weakened and whatever devastation it may have caused came as floods and not as drought (Flash floods from heavy monsoon rains, Bangkok Post, July 21, 2009); and the 2010 monsoon is expected to do the same (Forecasters predict good monsoon season, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010). Those who make policy decisions based on the long term forecasts of the IPCC that cannot be checked against data may wish to consider that all - every one - of their shorter term forecasts that can be checked against ensuing data have been proven false.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: 800 flee eruption, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010

In the heydays of the global warming movement glacial advances were ignored and glacial retreats exaggerated and ascribed to carbon dioxide emissions. Geothermal effects were not considered even after it became known that the melt data on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were taken from a region with volcanic activity under the ice (The fire below, Bangkok Post, April 28, 2008). Now that the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull has erupted and broken through the ice for all to see, can we expect yet another retraction from the IPCC with respect to retreating glaciers in Iceland along the lines of their retraction of the state of impending catastrophe about retreating glaciers in the Himalayas?

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Nuclear dead end, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010

All energy consultants who are Green activists are motivated primarily by their Green agenda and in this instance that agenda happens to be to oppose nuclear power production (Nuclear dead end, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010). Although their opinions need to be heard and balanced with those of the nuclear power industry, it is necessary for policy makers to remain objective as they weigh these extreme and biased viewpoints.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Kingdom sees big struggle to remain carbon neutral, Bangkok Post, April 14, 2010

Bhutan is currently carbon negative, not carbon neutral (Kingdom sees big struggle to remain carbon neutral, Bangkok Post, April 14, 2010), and a struggle if any, not to remain but to achieve carbon neutrality, would require a massive increase, not a decrease, in energy consumption by this tiny country whose main feature is extreme poverty in isolated valleys among towering and uninhabitable mountains. Although Bhutan is often mentioned in the context of global warming, it's energy consumption and carbon neutrality are really quite irrelevant when one considers that the USA alone consumes more energy in a few minutes than what Bhutan consumes in a year. Nor is Bhutan a model for other countries to emulate unless things like poverty, illiteracy, and poor medical and infrastructure services are worth emulating.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: America will be just fine, Bangkok Post, April 7, 2010

On the one hand, Western pundits warn us about the dangers of an impending "population bomb" brought about by overpopulation. We are told that the planet is being overwhelmed by the sheer number of people on it and will soon be unable to supply us with sufficient food, water, shelter, and energy and so we must do everything we can to control the population growth rate.

On the other hand, we find that the Western nations themselves are scrambling for population growth to the point that the United States is now counting on a vigorous fertility rate to boost its population to 400 million by the year 2050 as a way of gaining economic advantage over nations with more stable populations (America will be just fine, Bangkok Post, April 7, 2010).

We thus find that the same nations that fund anti-fertility programs to limit population growth in Asia and Africa are, at the same time, gloating about their ability to increase fertility and growth rate of their own populations.

These contradictions raise serious questions. Is population growth good or bad? Is the population bomb a global problem or a localized one? To protect the planet from the population bomb should the population growth in some areas be restricted while that in others encouraged?

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Droughts, floods sped up Angkor's demise, Bangkok Post, March 31, 2010

Scientists studying the Angkor ruins in Cambodia have found that the city died in the 15th century from extreme weather events in the form of alternating periods of floods and drought. Climate scientists may wish to take note of these findings so that they may become aware that extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are not unique to a post-industrial world subjected to the carbon footprint of human activity. Thereby they would be spared the extraordinary effort they make to link every instance of extreme weather to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Green economy could save the planet, Bangkok Post, March 31, 2010

I have good news and bad news for those who believe that the earth is "overheated, under-resourced, and out of time"and that "reducing greenhouse gases" will "save the planet" (Green economy could save the planet, Bangkok Post, March 31, 2010). The bad news is that if the planet were in danger there is nothing we could do about it because humankind does not possess the ways and means to save it. "Reducing greenhouse gases" would not do it. The good news is that the planet is not overheated, under-resourced, or out of time and it does not need saving.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Rising sea levels sinks New Moore Island in Bangladesh, AP, March 24, 2010

Bangladesh is the world's largest delta with over 80% of its land described as a flood plain. Deltas are formed by sedimentation. They are not static but ever changing with a dynamic interplay between land erosion and new land formation.

The rivers that drain into Bangladesh deposit more than 500 million tonnes of sediment each year. Many islands do disappear but new ones form. In the net, more land is gained than lost. In this context, the formation of a single island in the 1970s and its disappearance 30 or so years later are not remarkable and do not have any implications with respect to the supposedly catastrophic effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

Only a measurable trend in a reduction of the total land area of Bangladesh over a period of many years could be presented as evidence of such a global event. These data have not been presented possibly because the delta is actually growing - not shrinking. The rate of growth is estimated to be over 12 square miles per year. These data are not consistent with the idea that a rising sea level caused by carbon dioxide emissions is inundating Bangladesh.

In any event, the claim in the article that the sea level is set to rise by one meter by the year 2050 is at odds with more recent press releases by the IPCC in which even the modest forecast of a rise of 59 cm by the year 2100 has been withdrawn along with a slew of retractions after flaws in their science became widely publicized.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

The unwinding of the climate change hype

The once feared hype about catastrophe from carbon dioxide emissions is in ruins. The failure of the warmists to make their case at the Copenhagen summit came on the heels of leaked emails from climate scientists that exposed a conspiracy to defraud. Even as the IPCC was in damage control mode to defend itself from these charges, there were further even more damaging revelations of scientific fraud and incompetence.

It is now known that scores of their claims about devastation from carbon dioxide emissions including their claim that hurricane Katrina was caused by carbon dioxide emissions, that the Amazon forest will be turned into a savanna, that Africa's agriculture and coral reefs worldwide would be devastated, that the Himalayan glaciers are melting and will be gone in 25 years, that the sea level is rising and inundating atolls in the Pacific, and that the Arctic will be ice free in 15 years, that that glaciers in the Alps and the Andes are in accelerated and alarming decline; are lies.

The IPCC is now busy retracting one scary claim after another apparently in secret as the media that once hyped them have gone silent on the retractions. Even so, the warmists' credibility and its fear factor are both gone. The global warming house of cards is falling apart.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Meeting Copenhagen's challenge, Bangkok Post, January 22, 2010

Such is the wily power of bureaucratic double-speak that it can paint the failed climate meeting in Copenhagen as a great success; and a document called an "Accord" only because no signatory would accept the word "Treaty", as a positive outcome (Meeting Copenhagen's challenge, Bangkok Post, January 22, 2010). The global warming movement and the whole of the allegedly scientific case against carbon dioxide are based on exactly this kind of word magic that always leads to the same conclusions whatever the data.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Refereence: Coal remains king in China despite climate change vow, Bangkok Post, January 20, 2010 The inability of the envornmentalists to separate pollution issues from global warming will surely adversely affect their effectiveness.

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Posted by: chaamjamal on: January 2, 2022

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THIS POST IS A STUDY OF THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THE SACREDNESS OF BEING INDIGENOUS

WHEN THE EUROPEANS DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY FOR CELESTIAL NAVIGATION AND OCEAN CROSSING SHIPS AND BEGAN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD THEY FOUND AND SETTLED PRIMITIVE UNDEVELOPED REGIONS WITH SPARSE POPULATIONS SUCH AS THE AMERICAS. THE PEOPLE THEY FOUND THERE ARE DESCRIBED AS “THE PEOPLE THAT WE FOUND HERE WHEN WE ARRIVED” OR IN SPANISH “INDIGENOUS”, PRONOUNCED {IN THEE HAY NUSS}.

OVER THE YEARS, IN A WEIRD TWIST OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND RACISM THE WORD INDIGENOUS HAS BECOME SACRED AND SOME KIND OF RELIGION WHERE THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS ARE NOW IN CHARGE NOT OF HELPING THESE PEOPLE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE LINE OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BUT OF PRESERVING THE PRIMITIVE CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE OF THESE PEOPLE.

OF THE MANY CONTRADICTIONS IN THIS SACREDNESS THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST IS THAT THOUGH THE ADVANCED EUROPEAN RACES ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLES OF OTHER COUNTRIES {SEE LIST AND MAP BELOW}, TO ENLIGHTEN AND ENRICH THEM WITH EUROPEAN METHODS AND TECHNOLOGY, THAT KIND OF ASSISTANCE IS NOT POSSIBLE IF THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE ARE THE ONES THE EUROPEANS FOUND IN THE NEW LANDS THAT THEY SETTLED. THE SPANISH WORD “INDIGENOUS” HAS TAKEN ON SUCH AN AURA OF SACREDNESS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM THAT IT PREVENTS THE EUROPEANS FROM PROVIDING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE SAME WAY THAT THEY PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO PRIMITIVE PEOPLE ELSEWHERE.

BELOW WE PROVIDE A LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH PRIMITIVE PEOPLE WHOM THE EUROPEANS HAVE HELPED OR ARE CURRENTLY HELPING TO RISE UP TO THE EUROPEAN STANDARD OF LIVING BY PROVIDING THEM WITH DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ALONG WITH EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY AND VALUES AS WELL AS THINGS LIKE EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITIES. MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES WITH INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY THE GLOBAL NORTH. FOR EXAMPLE, BANGLADESH, ONCE A COUNTRY OF RICE FIELDS AND PRIMITIVE FISHERMEN ON ROW BOATS IS NOW A SIGNIFICANT MANUFACTURER OF SHIPS.

Burundi, Somalia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Liberia, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bangladesh AND SO ON SHOWN IN THE MAP BELOW WHERE THE REDDER THE COUNTRY THE RICHER IT IS AND THE DARKER THE COUNTRY THE POORER IT IS.

THE PHRASE “WE FOUND THEM HERE WHEN WE ARRIVED” TAKES ON SACRED ENVIRONMENTALISM AND RACISM VALUES WHEN IT IS TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH AND THIS RELIGION OBLIGATES THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS TO KEEP THESE PROPLE PRIMITIVE SO THEY CAN WORSHIP THEIR PRIMITIVENESS.

I SHOULD ADD THAT THE EUROPEANS TOO ARE INDIGENOUS. THEY ARE INDIGENOUS TO EUROPE. EVERYONE ON EARTH IS INDIGENOUS TO SOMEWHERE – THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE BORN AND RFAISED. BUT FOR SETTLERS OF NEW LANDS, THE WORD HAS MAGICAL POWERS.

WE MUST KEEP THEM PRIMITIVE SO WE CAN WORSHIP THEIR PRIMITIVENESS

THIS RACIST CONTRADICTION IS ALSO FOUND IN TRADITIONAL MAINLINE SEEMINGLY ANTI RACIST MOVEMENTS THAT ARE THEMSELVES MORE RACIST THAN THE RACISM THEY APPEAR TO BE OPPOSE. AS FOR EXAMPLE, THE NOW FAMOUS SONG THAT “THE ANSWER MY FRIEND IS BLOWING IN THE WIND, THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND.

IN ALL SUCH CASES, THE ESSENCE OF THE HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THE WHITE MAN IS THE CARETAKER OF THE LESSER HUMANS. IT IS THE RACISM OF THE RACISM OF THE RACISM BUT IT SOUNDS GOOD BECAUSE THE WHITE MAN SAYS HE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE LESSER HUMANS.

Reference: Maldive state of mind, Bangkok Post, January 17, 2010

World leaders went to the climate meeting in Copenhagen to "negotiate" not to discuss "the laws of physics" (Maldive state of mind, Bangkok Post, January 17, 2010). The language of these negotiations was cloaked in pretensions of lofty environmental goals but there was really only one item being negotiated and that item was and is money not physics.

At one level, the money negotiations had to do with the chicanery of the rich countries willing to pay billions to developing countries to stop developing; and at a more seedy and greedy level there were the so called "vulnerable countries" like the Maldives. An extreme form of greed had set in among them when it seemed that they had won the global warming lottery because they apparently stood to collect an immense fortune as reparations from the rich countries. Thereafter, climate negotiations quickly devolved into money negotiations - how much, when, by whom, and to whom. In poker terms, the poor countries called the bluff of the rich and that caused the meeting to end in disarray.

Although much maligned by Thai journalists, Thailand's position in these talks - that it recognizes the Kyoto Protocol as the only international agreement on climate change - has been singularly clear and consistent from beginning to end without a greed component that might have required a media circus like holding a cabinet meeting under water.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Saving forests promises vast societal gains, Bangkok Post, January 14, 2010

Reference: Vanishing ice and political fire, Bangkok Post, January 13, 2010
Reference: Early climate change victim: Andes water, Bangkok Post, December 18, 2007

The Andes around La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia is a semi-arid region with a well known and well documented water supply problem that has periodically gone through crisis situations for all of recorded history. The fragility of the water supply derives from the impermanence of the evanescent glaciers that make up the principal source of water. The history of the region has been shaped by changes in this source of water. The water supply situation there was as bad back in the time of Simon Bolivar as it is today. It is not possible to relate this feature of the Bolivian Andes to carbon dioxide emissions nor to moderate the problem by reducing emissions as repeatedly suggested in the media (Vanishing ice and political fire, Bangkok Post, January 13, 2010; and Early climate change victim: Andes water, Bangkok Post, December 18, 2007)

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Walruses suffer losses as sea ice erodes, Bangkok Post, January 11, 2010

It is a fanciful idea that carbon dioxide emissions are causing polar bears and walruses to die out (Walruses suffer losses as sea ice erodes, Bangkok Post, January 11, 2010) as the data show that their numbers are growing, not diminishing.The only threat to these creatures has been over hunting, not carbon dioxide. They have seen a lot worse than the 2007 summer melt and they are still around and thriving. Subsequent summer melts and winter recoveries in the Arctic after 2007 did not get progressively worse as predicted by the warmists but did exactly the opposite. It is possibly because they have been thus spurned by the ice data that the warmists are now playing the Bambi card with the spurious claim that our carbon dioxide emissions are harming cute and cuddly creatures.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Cold snap not end of global warming, Bangkok Post, January 8, 2010

It is strange irony to see the warmists acknowledge the natural variability of climate (Cold snap not end of global warming, Bangkok Post, January 8, 2010) stating that the coldest northern winter in 40 years " does not disprove global warming" because the bitter winter weather is simply a short term "blip" and a manifestation of "the natural variability of climate". Of course, had it been the warmest winter in 40 years they would be singing a different tune.

That tune is the one they sang for the 2003 heat wave in Europe and the 2007 summer melt of Arctic ice; as well as for Hurricane Katrina, Cyclones Sidr and Aila, recent floods and droughts in China, and droughts in southern Africa, and Australia. In all of these cases, short term weather events and the effects of known regional weather patterns were presented not as "blips" nor as "the natural variability of climate" but as the consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

In the very same article they slip back to this old tune and present the deceptive statistic that "2009 will rank among the 10 warmest years since 1880" implying that these data indicate a warming trend even though the cited statistic could be produced by the natural variability of climate without a warming trend. In any case, the issue is not the alleged warming trend itself but whether it represents a natural variation or whether it is caused by fossil fuels.

The science of the warmists depends on the unscientific notion that data that support their hypothesis are good data and should be retained while those that do not are blips and outliers that must be discarded; as well as the attitude that they already know the answer and need data only to convince the masses. That attitude renders research methods into propaganda methods and encourages climate scientists to use statistics only as a marketing tool.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand