“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.” - Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten

Corporation In Focus: ICTS – providing enhanced airline security services for over 200 carriers at over 65 European locations.

Flashback: 20th March 2000 – Climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia – Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

This new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning move, and surely a blow to warmists everywhere, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out. Originally found here (Google Translation).

Lord Monckton was kind enough to assist me in deciphering the meaning of the ruling and writes:

In France, if at least 60 Deputies of the House and 60 Senators appeal to the Constitutional Council, it has the power to pronounce on the constitutionality of a proposed law – in the present case, the 2010 national budget of France, which contained enabling provisions (loi deferee) for a carbon levy. The Council found that these enabling provisions were unconstitutional on two grounds: that the exemptions contained within the provisions for a carbon levy vitiated the primary declared purpose of the levy, to combat carbon emissions and hence “global warming”; and that the exemptions would cause the levy to fall disproportionately on gasoline and heating oils and not on other carbon emissions, thereby breaching the principle that taxation should be evenly and fairly borne.

The Press release from the French Constitutional Council is here in English (Google Translated) and in original French

Here’s a Deustch-Welle news article on the reversal.

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The council said the tax had too many exemptions

France’s Constitutional Council says the country’s proposed carbon tax is illegal. This is a severe blow to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to fight climate change.

France’s Constitutional Council has struck down a carbon tax that was planned to take effect on January 1st. The council, which ensures the constitutionality of French legislation, said too many polluters were exempted in the measure and the tax burden was not fairly distributed.

It was estimated that 93 percent of industrial emissions outside of fuel use, including the emissions of more than 1,000 of France’s top polluting industrial sites, would be exempt from the tax, which would have charged 17 euros per ton of emitted carbon dioxide.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has argued the tax is necessary to combat climate change and reduce the country’s dependence on oil.

However, the council’s ruling is a severe blow to both Sarkozy’s environmental plan as well as France’s budget for 2010. The government now has to find a way to come up with about 4.1 billion euros in revenue that was expected from the tax.

Source: 29/12/09 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/29/french-revolution-carbon-tax-ruled-unconstitutional-just-two-days-before-taking-effect/

Proved: There is no climate crisis:

Major paper shows CO2’s effect on temperature was overstated 500-2000%

WASHINGTON (7-15-08) - Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis” appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 46,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports.

Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement
of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.

Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered [http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/index.cfm] demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F.

Lord Monckton concludes –
“… Perhaps real-world climate sensitivity is very much below the IPCC’s estimates. Perhaps, therefore, there is no ‘climate crisis’ at all. … The correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing.”
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chair (2004) of the New England Section of the American Physical Society (APS), has been studying climate-change science for four years. He said:
“I was impressed by an hour-long academic lecture which criticized claims about ‘global warming’ and explained the implications of the physics of radiative transfer for climate change. I was pleased that the audience responded to the informative presentation with a prolonged, standing ovation. That is what happened when, at the invitation of the President of our University, Christopher Monckton lectured here in Hartford this spring. I am delighted that Physics and Society, an APS journal, has published his detailed paper refining and reporting his important and revealing results.
“To me the value of this paper lies in its dispassionate but ruthlessly clear exposition – or, rather, exposé – of the IPCC’s method of evaluating climate sensitivity. The detailed arguments in this paper, and, indeed, in a large number of other scientific papers, point up extensive errors, including numerous projection errors of climate models, as well as misleading statements by the IPCC. Consequently, there are no rational grounds for believing either the IPCC or any other claims of dangerous anthropogenic ‘global warming’.”

Lord Monckton’s paper reveals that –

* The IPCC’s 2007 climate summary overstated CO2’s impact on temperature by 500-2000%;
* CO2 enrichment will add little more than 1 °F (0.6 °C) to global mean surface temperature by 2100;
* Not one of the three key variables whose product is climate sensitivity can be measured directly;
* The IPCC’s values for these key variables are taken from only four published papers, not 2,500;
* The IPCC’s values for each of the three variables, and hence for climate sensitivity, are overstated;
“Global warming” halted ten years ago, and surface temperature has been falling for seven years;
* Not one of the computer models relied upon by the IPCC predicted so long and rapid a cooling;
* The IPCC inserted a table into the scientists’ draft, overstating the effect of ice-melt by 1000%;
* It was proved 50 years ago that predicting climate more than two weeks ahead is impossible;
* Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth warmed;
* In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years.

Contact: Robert Ferguson, Science and Public Policy Institute www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org
202-288-5699 bferguson@sppinstitute.org

Hey everyone,

Since the website went live around the same time last year we’ve had a number of bands from all over Australia contact us about getting involved with TMA or simply offering us support.

Drew Goddard is the lead guitarist of a band called Karnivool, a band which has sored to incredibly heights over the past 5 years and is now recieving worldwide attention in the form of international gigs and interviews.

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Drew on a US website called Frantik Mag, to read the full interview click here.

Interview excerpt:

“Set Fire To the Hive” has been out for some time now and it has definitely seeped into my skin like an infection and I love it! What sparked the creative fire inside of you guys this time
around and what influenced the overall production of the recording?

‘Set Fire to the Hive’ was born through sheer frustration at the state of humanity, particularly in the western world. We’re being sold a fictitious reality through the mainstream media, and it’s become quite apparent that we’re having a little bit of trouble letting go of it. Relax! Everything will be taken care of by the same trustworthy folks that so thoughtfully manufactured the problems in the first place. We’re up in arms about Britney Spears miming and Tiger Woods’ infidelities while a Tyrannical Global Government and a world extremely reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984 is literally on our doorstep. Pure madness. It’s time that we open our eyes, free our hearts and minds from the shackles placed on us not only from ‘the powers that be’ but more importantly from our fellow humans, and really start thinking for ourselves. It’s a call to arms to unite as one world and one consciousness, remembering who and why we are, and evolving out of the mire. Or maybe it’s just about a beekeeper who forgot to put his ciggie butt out then got stung on the arse by a swarm of angry bees? Whatever you make of it really.

Did the economical state of things in the world have any impact on the writing and recording of this album by any chance?

The ecomomical state of the world is one aspect to the overall elephant in the room that emerged for me personally during the creative process but definitely not a focus in itself. The “Hegelian Dialectic” and “Problem-Reaction-Solution” which the economic situation falls neatly into however, did have a significant impact on my creative outlet.

Let’s shake it up right now. H1N1. Take the vaccine or skip it or take it when necessary?

I’m definitely not taking that shit. No one is forcing me to either. People should do their homework before taking a jab. Just another case of “problem-reaction-solution” in my opinion.

With the year 2012 closely approaching, do you guys think the Mayans are correct about the end of days closing in or what do you guys think will happen in 2012?

I don’t know if anyone can say for sure. This is a point of contention amongst our band members. For me personally, even if I had never heard anything about the Mayan Prophecies and their Calendar, I would still think we are in for a huge change soon. In my humble opinion everything that is happening around us at the moment including all the pain and suffering is providing us with a choice. For anyone that has clued on to the NWO agenda, I like to the think that the ‘powers that be’ are only doing us a favour by closing the walls in us. It’s only giving us the catalyst and the tools to change and evolve. It’s all a part of that cosmic power struggle between ‘us and them’ in order to show us that maybe there actually really is no such thing as ‘us and them’ or ‘good and evil’ or ‘black and white’. Maybe it’s both, maybe it’s neither? Or maybe it’s both and neither at the same time? I say THANK YOU to the power hungry elite for holding a mirror up to humanity. I just think that there’s things we can’t be taught, but we have to learn it for ourselves if we are to take the next step. Science and spirituality and other so called paradigms are currently converging in a beautiful alchemy and we are beginning to realize some fundamental truths about the nature of reality and our place within the cosmos. This world that we experience with our 5 senses is just a tiny, minute fraction of what is really out there. I don’t know what’s going to happen, I reckon it’s gonna be a bumpy ride, but regardless, it’s an amazing time to be alive.

And I thought your earlier sentiment was deep. This one takes the cake! You actually have some real interesting views on that subject and I totally agree, something is going to happen. Just don’t know how big of a scale it would be but it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Great choices! What would you guys love to see happen in the year 2010?

The first international magic mushroom day.. where the whole world stops to get really fucking high for just one day. Yeah right!

Going to start the petition for that now. Everyone needs to eat magic mushrooms at least once in their boring lives to get a glimpse of the other side or have a life changing epiphany! How do you guys feel about people’s addictive obsession with networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace?

Like everything there’s positives and negatives. It has shown that there is an inherent need for people to connect to one another and to share information and opinions. It is bringing us closer together and new information has the ability to go viral, which can only be a good thing, I think. Some see the internet as the beginnings of a collective intelligence or a supermind. But as we all know the internet is a showcase for both extremes.. human stupidity and human endeavour. At least we’re learning more about ourselves and each other, even if it is Joe from Springton broadcasting to the world that he’s just soiled himself in his computer chair. I like to think that truly great ideas stick, while trivial rubbish fades into the ether. But maybe I’m just being idealistic? We’ll see.

What’s next for Karnivool?

We’ve just finished another Australian Tour which was amazing. We’re gonna shack up in our home town of Perth for a month in our new jam room and get busy on album #3. Come mid January 2010, we’re off on the Big Day Out Tour which travels around Australia and Auckland NZ. Our record “Sound Awake” is coming out in the USA and Canada February 16 and then in a bunch of European countries – Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherland and Ireland on March 5. We’ll be following this up with tours through these territories, while continuing to work on album #3.

Click here to visit Karnivools official website.

Truth On,

Adam Davis