The unfortunate reality is that none—absolutely none—of our extensive climate actions to date have had any measurable impact on reducing atmospheric levels of carbon or methane.
When an advocacy group shifts its message to imply the use of force, it signals a weakness in its core argument. This was a crucial lesson we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. The resort to force and coercion suggests that traditional methods—such as reasoned debate, rhetoric, and even propaganda—are no longer producing the desired outcomes.
Note: I have been told that this article is banned by FaceBook (and probably other venues) as ‘spam.’
My family and I enjoy watching YouTube videos as part of our evening routine before retiring for the night. Recently, however, we’ve been bombarded with irritating advertisements from an advocacy group called Science Moms. The commercial features scenes of families and children enjoying nature and the outdoors, accompanied by a narrative voice that asks the question, “If you knew this was your last best chance to protect all the places you love… what would you do?” The ad concludes with the taglines, “Climate change is taking the places we love. Stop unnatural disasters.”
Bombarding viewers with the same advertisement three or more times in one sitting surely must be an expensive way to promote a message. It’s not that I disagree with the goal of reducing mankind’s carbon and methane emissions—I agree wholeheartedly and have incorporated this ethic into my work for decades. However, this doesn’t mean I’ve allied myself with every advocacy group that uses this message as a front. So, I decided to take a closer look at who is behind this persistent propaganda.
When activist groups co-opt the name of science to assert that their opinions are superior to all others, it undermines both the credibility of scientific institutions and public confidence in them.
Brainless Karen Porn Employed for Marxist Goals
When you’ve reached the point of blaming the weather on those you don’t like, you’ve drifted into absurdity and lost the right to be taken seriously.
The species of question posed by Science Moms inside this advertisement is a form of rhetorical coercion called erotesis.
Erotesis – a rhetorical question posed to drive a point by stimulating a deep, instinctual response, often through limbic activation. One invoking visceral reactions or emotions like fear, sexual stimulation, envy, or protectiveness, while carrying an implied extreme or extremist answer.
The root Greek word used in this term is érōs (ἔρως), the same root from which we derive the word ‘erotic.’ In other words, this promotion constitutes a form of ‘Karen Porn.’ Erotesis is distinct within a group of rhetorical devices known in philosophy as hypophora. Hypophora encompasses various petitio principii question-and-answer structures designed to manipulate the audience. These include anthypophora (a question followed by a direct answer), antipophora (a hypophora framed in the negative), erotesis (a question evoking a visceral or implied extreme response), epiplexis (a question intended to evoke shame), and epitimesis (a question used to reprimand through comparison). All these forms of rhetoric involve posing a question, then providing the answer for the listener.1 However, in the specific case of erotesis, there is an implied encouragement toward extreme measures.
This broaches the question therefore, who is the advocacy behind this encouragement to ‘extreme measures?’ Science Moms cites that it consists of “nonpartisan climate scientists and mothers,” funded through “grassroots and private donations.”2
As it turns out, the organization Science Moms is funded through the Potential Energy Coalition, which itself is tied to the Windward Fund and a consultancy called Arabella Advisors. The Potential Energy Coalition was initially a project under the Windward Fund, which is part of the Arabella Advisors’ network—a consulting firm known for managing a large amount of “dark money” for various left-leaning initiatives.3 The funding for Science Moms includes contributions from prominent foundations such as the $9.7 billion endowment William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which supports goals of wealth redistribution, capital economy disruption, and global justice,4 as well as George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
The way this funding is structured allows Science Moms to falsely present itself as a grassroots, nonpartisan group, though its financial backing is deeply rooted in well-coordinated global Marxism advocacy networks. Their goal is the overthrow of your form of economics and governance, and relegation of your home and family to be subject to third world hegemony.
So, Science Moms misrepresented the truth. They are both partisan and clearly not grassroots-funded in the slightest.
They are part of a useless, high revenue/low value, siphoning of taxpayer hard work. A network I call the Climate Clown List (see below). They seek to convert blame into a fungible cryptocurrency. Greed in action.
Serving The Dark Pentad
The unfortunate reality is that none—absolutely none—of our extensive climate actions to date have had any measurable impact on reducing atmospheric levels of carbon or methane. The science behind the reasons why can be found in this article.5
An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence.
As we observed in our study of carbon emissions during the Covid-19 lockdowns in the West, a time where record levels of carbon emissions were released,6 China and India constitute likely 85% of total impact in terms of both carbon and volatile organic compound emissions globally—yet, absolutely zero funding flows into similar activist organizations in those countries. There is a reason for this. Their goal is the demise of those institutions and persons whom they hate, a set which includes you and your family. They operate upon the following principle, which was the first trick used on mankind.
Nothing is more damaging to the human spirit than the idea that one is a burden or offense to the world.
We learned inside a series of articles published earlier in The Ethical Skeptic, how the skilled employment of such artifices as Original Sin, Cataclysmic Mirage Theory (CMT), ontological blame, weaponized ignorance and knowledge embargo, along with the derivation of sustenance in the form of human suffering called loosh constitute a pentad of habitual dark spiritual practices on the part of the illegitimate rulers who hide from and abuse mankind.
Today, climate activism has ironically become one of the greatest threats to the integrity of climate science. It stands as a stark example of how well-intentioned efforts can veer into dangerous territory, while dark forces exploit these good intentions to advance their own agendas.
LLL
The Ethical Skeptic, “Climate Activism: Climate Science’s Worst Enemy”; The Ethical Skeptic, WordPress, 9 Aug 2024; Web, https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/08/09/climate-activism-climate-sciences-worst-enemy/
- Wikipedia: Hypophora; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypophora
- Science Moms: Who We Are; https://sciencemoms.com/climate-scientists/
- Capital Research Center: The Global Warming Guys—and “Dark Money”—Behind “Science Moms”; https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-global-warming-guys-and-dark-money-behind-science-moms/
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: About US; https://hewlett.org/about-us/
- Exhibit 2A from The Ethical Skeptic, “The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)”; The Ethical Skeptic, WordPress, 16 Feb 2020; Web, https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
- Exhibits 1C and 1D from The Ethical Skeptic, “The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)”; The Ethical Skeptic, WordPress, 16 Feb 2020; Web, https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
Many years ago I would have been one that was convinced that mankind is the primary cause. To be honest I really was not even interested in politics until the last 10 years or so. My Dad had been a WW2 combat vet in the North African and Italian campaigns. He came out of it with a deep bitterness toward Republicans and I had let his opinion influence my voting habits until the start of that 10 years. To those wondering where this ties in with the climate please give me a few moments to get there. In High School… Read more »
“Recently, however, we’ve been bombarded with irritating advertisements”
Use brave browser if you don’t want any advertisements shown watching YouTube. Brave is based on Chromium (Chrome browser) and is primarily a privacy respecting browser.
Am I a horrible person for believing all of this boils down to ‘people are horrible?’ Cause that’s where I’m at.
We become students of evil. Wise-eyed discerning of darkness pretending to be light. Far tougher than any academic curriculum.
The greatest threat to our ecosystem, our democracy, our national security, our public health and the average physical attractiveness of our species is this band of inbred, entitled elite vermin who have subverted our constitutional republic and every other sovereign nation on Earth. Full stop. The clownworld self-sterilized NPCs, the legions of pale androgynous golem who staff its captive intelligence agencies, violent imports and cognitively-compromised politician/puppets are simply symptoms of this ancient and easily rectified disease. Ignore the fluff and do not deviate your righteous, accusative stare from the worlds oldest and most corrupt corporation. It sings and dances as… Read more »
If you knew that you would die tomorrow, what would you do today?
Would you get tired of that if you kept knowing you would die tomorrow?
CO2 is a greenhouse gas in such a narrow spectrum that the spectrum is all greenhoused in already.
It needs methane to help, and water vapor, lots of water vapor, but I’m actually worried more about sociopaths, post-peak-oil, nukes, and then space weather a little later.
Gotta’ pace myself for all those tomorrows…
I would save lives through critical analysis of untested-vaccine risks, and identify the harm they have caused, to their at-risk constituents.
I would solve the mystery of the Khufu pyramid and the risk we bear in terms of climate and Earth’s core.
I would provide for my disabled kids.
I would never tire of it, and nothing which happened to me afterwards could ever serve to remove the smile from my face.
:-) <---- smilin' TES
But all that’s what you are already doing! :-o
;-}
Check out An Enigma Solved by Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris that argues that the ancient Egyptians used concrete to build the pyramids, rather than moving massive stones. Also Chris Dunn’s Giza Power Plant. both still available. Khufu didn’t build it Imhotep did, as well as Sakkara and the manmade lake that still bears his Hebrew name Joseph, as well as the irrigation system that was repaired in 1969 and works today to make the desert bloom. The original Suez canal. See the “Sakkara bird” and the airport in Peru’s Nazca lines(Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds) , the Gold Museum’s curious… Read more »
Delia, I have engineered over 100 very large concrete, cast, and CMU structures of various construction types. I also have concepted, designed, and operated energy plants. I disagree professionally on both counts. 1. The stones were not ‘poured concrete,’ 100% certain. You still have to fabricate the mix, lift the mix, and not only the mix, but additional weight in water as well, and then wait for each stone to cure, and purposely devise stones of chaotic sizing (to their loading disadvantage), for no reason other than to make it appear to be cut stone. This would quadruple the work… Read more »
Joseph Davidovits discovered contaminants hair, fiber in the stones. The fossils in the stone are not water laid, they are mixed up. Archeologists remarked on it with curiosity decades ago. Moving water and mix, mixing in place, would be much easier take less workers than moving a one ton stone, let alone many of them and many weighing more. The book makes a compelling case. What article?
Here is the article: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2023/12/18/hidden-in-plain-sight/
If you have ever set engineered work method standards, you know that forming chaotic concrete shapes, without pumps and machinery, is a LABORIOUS task. It is far more work content heavy than moving stones. The book’s author has never been in this industry, never done this work, and does not know a PF&D from a rate derivation regression. I do.
By the burden of proof on induction suggesting falsification, you cannot use anecdotes, but rather must prove that all stones are a mix.
I just stumbled across your site and glad I did. Having worked with concrete for a couple of decades (now retired) on both industrial and domestic projects I did give some serious thought to the possibility of the pyramids being poured, as well as being very much older than claimed. My mind wandered onto the complexity of that: sourcing the massive amounts of limestone and other raw materials, transporting same, mixing and judging strength (MPA) for the various levels, and so on. They were massive projects and would have needed some awesome infrastructure to produce that concrete. I still have… Read more »
Well stated, Jacob. I like it.
TES
There is now a peer reviewed and published study that found CO2 is not driving temperature. Interesting read. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/19/causality-analysis-finds-temperature-changes-have-determined-co2-changes-since-the-phanerozoic/?
I saw that! Thanks Dale.
TES