Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Phantom Time

Can the calendar be wrong?  If it is, why?

Ace has a post that discusses the Year Without Summer.  He also mentions how the media isn't discussing a similar event in Europe these days.  We sure seem to see our share of media blackouts of newsworthy events.  No doubt that if they don't want you to know something, they will keep it away from you.

The media is in lockstep with the political left in this country.

I mention this in connection with the post that was critical of the LFTR.  The author claimed that the advocates of Thorium Energy don't want you to see his post.  Not so.  I think it is the other way around.  I get the impression that they are trying to scare people, not to reason with them.  Reasoning requires a higher order faculty that isn't available to us when we are scared.

I think the same people who push for carbon taxes and solar and wind are just Luddites and Malthusians.  They are Luddites in the sense that they don't trust technological progress.  They are Malthusians because they believe that we can't supply our own needs with improvements in technology.  I have noted that on this blog.  But we have been keeping ahead of starvation for centuries since Malthus came up with his theory.  And technological progress improved the lot of mankind even if certain industries were made obsolete.

Otherwise, when the left isn't interested in these scare tactics, they are just interested in the taxes and the power that it gives them to do social engineering.

The idea that carbon dioxide can be beneficial is just not acceptable to them.  Their narrative can't support it.

My view is that we don't have to add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere if we don't have to.  With the LFTR, we won't have to.  If you believe that carbon dioxide is harmful, this can be a cure for that problem.  Even if you don't believe it, it can solve other problems that we have.  Like our economy and energy security.