Comments on: A Bit of A Change in the Weather is Blowing http://propagandatactics.com/a-bit-of-a-change-in-the-weather-is-blowing/ The Science of Critical Thinking Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:14:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Allen http://propagandatactics.com/a-bit-of-a-change-in-the-weather-is-blowing/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Allen Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:23:20 +0000 http://allenweber.com/a-bit-of-a-change-in-the-weather-is-blowing/#comment-8 Yes, it seems the idea is to scare people into some gloom and doom scenario to herd them like cattle into doing some entities bidding. The key is to always, always follow the money. Then decide if the action they want you to take is right for you or not. Yes, it seems the idea is to scare people into some gloom and doom scenario to herd them like cattle into doing some entities bidding.

The key is to always, always follow the money. Then decide if the action they want you to take is right for you or not.

]]> By: AdamG http://propagandatactics.com/a-bit-of-a-change-in-the-weather-is-blowing/comment-page-1/#comment-7 AdamG Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:20:19 +0000 http://allenweber.com/a-bit-of-a-change-in-the-weather-is-blowing/#comment-7 We, and I mean people generally, go through these mass hysterias at times. And there are none so devout as the converted. In previous times it when the media was less pervasive than it is now conversion was less wide spread. In my youth (the 1950s), the weather was a funny thing. We had wet winters and wet summers. The rivers flooded at times but the country was green. And every variation was blamed on "The Bomb". Testing of atomic bombs was prevalent as they were in the development stage. Of course the bomb was not around in the 1920s when my father was a boy, and he was able to step across the Murray River, the largest in Australia. Funnily enough the weather we are having right now in Australia is very similar to that I grew up with in the '50s. But now it is not the bomb, but 'global warming'. Another funnily enough - in those same 1950s Australia's pre-eminent long range forecaster, Inigo Jones, forecast that Australia's drought of the early 2000s would end on November 24, 2007. It must have been co-incidence that the current rains started on November 27, 2007. Moving away from weather the Club of Rome in the early 1960s convinced many people that the world would run out of food before the 1990s. I'll put down my knife and fork to think about that. And then there was the greenhouse effect in the 1970s. All this manmade activity was going to cause the world to be covered in clouds, and we would freeze to death in the dark. I really must prepare myself for......whatever comes next. AdamG We, and I mean people generally, go through these mass hysterias at times. And there are none so devout as the converted. In previous times it when the media was less pervasive than it is now conversion was less wide spread.

In my youth (the 1950s), the weather was a funny thing. We had wet winters and wet summers. The rivers flooded at times but the country was green. And every variation was blamed on “The Bomb”. Testing of atomic bombs was prevalent as they were in the development stage.

Of course the bomb was not around in the 1920s when my father was a boy, and he was able to step across the Murray River, the largest in Australia.

Funnily enough the weather we are having right now in Australia is very similar to that I grew up with in the ’50s. But now it is not the bomb, but ‘global warming’.

Another funnily enough – in those same 1950s Australia’s pre-eminent long range forecaster, Inigo Jones, forecast that Australia’s drought of the early 2000s would end on November 24, 2007. It must have been co-incidence that the current rains started on November 27, 2007.

Moving away from weather the Club of Rome in the early 1960s convinced many people that the world would run out of food before the 1990s. I’ll put down my knife and fork to think about that.

And then there was the greenhouse effect in the 1970s. All this manmade activity was going to cause the world to be covered in clouds, and we would freeze to death in the dark.

I really must prepare myself for……whatever comes next.

AdamG

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