The Week That Was 2019-09-28 - UN Children's Climate Circus (SEPP) USofA

The Week That Was: 2019-09-28 (September 28, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP www.sepp.org The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) PLEASE NOTE: The complete TWTW can be downloaded in an easily printable form at this web site: http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm...

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Quote of the Week "Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance.

And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.” — Frantz Fanon, French West Indian psychiatrist, political philosopher, revolutionary, [H/t William Readdy] Number of the Week: 30% fewer labor hours THIS WEEK:

By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) UN Children’s Climate Circus: The conditions for most of the world’s population are improving significantly. Although wars are ongoing, there is no major world war, killing millions. There are no major famines, other than those created by government policies. World grain reserves are full, and production is increasing greatly in tropical countries, which were once considered too hot, with too thin, too acidic soils to be major grain producers. There is still much to do, particularly in Africa, South America and Asia, but, based on the World Bank. the numbers of people living in extreme poverty are declining significantly, with major reductions in Asia. So based on mathematical computer models, the UN and many

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international organizations are declaring we are in a “climate crisis” – based on projections of the future that are not validated by physical evidence today.

This week, the UN hosted a circus, celebrating fears of carbon dioxide (CO2)caused climate change featuring children and the fears and horrors their parents and teachers have taught them. Fears of monsters lurking in the dark have been used for generations to control the behavior of children. For example, Inuit artists carved the monsters their parents claimed would await them, if they wandered too far from the camp and the safety of the fire. Particularly, in the winter the fears were real, but the monsters were not. Similarly, Grimm’s Fairy Tales were a collection of folk tales told to children to have them behave.

Given that carbon-based fuels are vital for modern civilization, it is unfortunate that these tales are told to and taken seriously by children. That children believe them, is not a surprise. Children are very gullible to well told stories evoking fears.

The tragedy is that the grown-ups believe the children who have been repeatedly told the tale of “climate crisis.”

According to the University of Rochester Medical Center, over the past 25 years great progress has been made in understanding the development of the human brain as one matures. Functional MRIs measuring blood flow in the brain have demonstrated the changes in the way information is processed in the brain as one matures in adolescence, from teenage, to adult. The center of thinking slowly changes from the amygdala, center of instinctive reaction, emotion, to the prefrontal cortex, the center for reasoned judgement with full change about the age of 25. Many parents have been frustrated when they asked their teenager why the teenager did something stupid and heard the reply “it seemed like a good idea at the time”. This is common and has little to do with one’s intelligence. It has to do with mental maturity. The size of the prefrontal cortex is the major distinction between the human brain and that of other primates. It is sad to witness “climate crisis” advocates manipulating children, who naturally respond to fear and cannot yet resist reasonably, for their purposes.

As tragic as some of the child pronouncements were, it is disappointing to realize that the UN and the “climate crisis” promoters must stoop so low to mobilize 2

support for their weakly supported ideas. On this subject, the popular press has lost all reasoned judgement. According to reports, the poster child of the movement and 15 others filed a formal complaint to the UN that Brazil, Germany, France and others had violated the Convention on the Rights of the Child by failing to take sufficiently bold measures to reduce carbon emissions. Germany and France have been among the most ardent promoters of the “climate crisis.” The formal complaint angered representatives of these governments. Did the handlers of the children go too far?

In reviewing some of the documents on the Convention, TWTW found no reference to the right to a stable climate. But this is just another example of the farce the UN’s insistence on a “climate crisis” has become. See links under Communicating Better to the Public – Use Propaganda on Children and Communicating Better to the Public – Use Children for Propaganda Photos below of children hating fossil fuels added by John Shanahan

American child protesting fossil fuels that brought the world tremendous benefits.

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Greta Thunberg, Sweden creating school strikes worldwide, Fridays for Future

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