I’m posting later than I planned this morning. Overnight, the Norfolk police, on the advice of the US department of justice, raided Tallbloke, who was instrumental in breaking the emails that discussed Micheal Mann and his crew deliberately subverting peer review, and have becume known as climategate. They have also asked that his wordpress.com account be frozen. He is now being libelled. His account is here.
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I do not understand this. Carbon credits are dead. Dodo dead. For China and India… exempt from the Kyoto accords, produce more carbon than the west. For the West is rich. We can afford expensive and green kinds of energy.
But this kind of clumsy thuggishness is becoming a pattern for the US administration — in everything from chasing people who use bittorrent (Yes, I do. Great for downloading the next version of Fedora. And Hulu won’t let me watch some TV programmes — yet my pay TV company is quite happy for me to use a DVR), to the war against drugs (Don Brash does not go far enough. I would legalise and regulate drugs. It worked for the Victorians… if you were addicted you could buy your heroin and kit from a chemist. Yes Heroin. One of my friends is the son of rural UK GPs and recalls diamorph (Herion) being in the fridge — along with the antibiotics and insulin — in case of emergencies (or childbirth, where until recently in the UK it was the pain relief of choice).
I’m not sure how this links to the day’s reading… except that the seals of secrecy will all be blown asunder. Destruction will come in the end of the days, and there is not very much we can do to stop this.
Or the climate changing. The greeks had a term for that conciet. Hubris.
1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
What are we to do? We have a duty, as citizens to stand up. We should not in any way have the delusion that the big government agenda and the green agenda that is being pushed is in our interests. (Global warming? Meh. It is supposed to be summer and I am sitting in the house with the heat pump on because it si in the low teens celsius. It should be ten or so degrees warmer at this time of year).
But the duty we do have is to do good to those around us. The homeless, the poor, the needy, those oppressed and those in prison. For that is what Jesus himself states will be the test on the last day.
31″When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. 34Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ 37Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 39And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ 40And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.
God does not care about Gaia. God cares about people. And the enviromentalists want us to work together in joyous union. For which there is an old name. Fascism.