Woo, here we go. I have a valuable little rant, prompted by this very episode, one that might change your life, if you're one of those hysterical and gullible types.
...Oh noes the world is going to end we only have 3 years to live, and when we're still alive in 3 years we'll only have just 4 more! and then 2, and then the ice will be gone, and once it regrows THAT will be our fault too!
Same lie as in the real world, similar dumb-shit politicians pushing it. Whether they believe their bullshit or not, they're a direct threat to modern technological advancement and our current society - causing a large enough portion of the hysteria, that it causes that same crowd to commit extreme violence once they're whipped up into enough of a frenzy that they feel their doom is imminent. Did anyone find it strange that it's pretty much the same group of people involved in these incidents for so many different reasons / motivations? they're all excuses for this behavior to most people, because their standards go out the window when they FEEL like they're under attack or in danger. Even if it's not true, and the real danger is uh, themselves.
It's interesting that Toaru hits on such a controversial reality, though I wouldn't be surprised if they give it some kind of activist SJW ending, considering how popular that bleeding heart lying and nonsense is with the extremely uninformed and gullible mob of anime fans I meet on most websites. I'm not making any assumptions about anyone here - just stating a very real and clear trend.
I only have three very basic points to make to those among us who DO buy into this and like to go around attacking people for not spending their life savings on "green" energy which costs more to make and maintain than the coal / oil we currently run much of the world off of, which are all you should have to hear to second-guess the narrative. This seems like the perfect place for it, since this episode got me started.
One, they've been telling us the world is about to end, "run-away global warming" (because of CO2 of all things - laughable. They are pouring / spraying FAR worse things into the atmosphere intentionally right now, with effects they have not even imagined, in the name of geo-engineering, right as we sit here and panic over this hysterical nonsense. This crap does not age well - partly because they're stupid enough to give a time-frame for a totally unproven whack-job theory and when that date comes, they just move the goal post. Again... and again... and again... and again. This has happened multiple times in my life already, and I'm sure it won't be the last, because you lot are so easily manipulated it's disgusting.
Two, the ice core samples they've been taking and analyzing from the antarctic show us beyond ANY DOUBT that we're at the TAIL END of a warming period. That means we have the opposite problem from global warming. They were saying this decades ago, until the climate Stazi started going around trying to halt all technological advancement over something they have not bothered to inform themselves on at all. It used to be a LOT hotter - "something" happened around 18,000 to 20,000 years ago, that ended the ice age virtually over night, and vaporized 2 miles of ice over north America in a very short amount of time - causing wide-spread global flooding and blocking out the sun for years, causing a second mini-ice age - followed by a drastically warmer period - the one we're in now. That's right - even the ice at the poles melting, it's been going on a lot longer than we've been alive and been releasing such "dangerous" carbon emissions.
...and three, if you look at the actual mean (average) GLOBAL temperature it has not even risen a single degree since they started this charade. There will always be highs and lows, records in one direction or the other, over long spans of time. It's natural. It has always been this way as far as we have evidence on earth. We are in a cycle - a cycle whose theory was established several hundred years ago, that has increasingly shorter lesser cycles within it, often tied to things like solar cycle and rotation / axis tilt - and cemented in the last few decades, beyond any doubt - until politicians realized that making YOU panic was their ticket to total authoritarian control and big $$$ ...
(...that's right, their ticket to becoming filthy rich and powerful beyond imagining and simultaneously lording over you and holding you down - the dream of all would-be dictators, it's a communists wet dream, and that's why we see this narrative coming largely from THAT crowd too ;) To get their ideal, they need to hamper your ability to be anything and advance. This is why communist regimes are NEVER at the forefront of technological development without stealing or bartering for the technology. I could talk about this subject all day and night, but this is already more than long enough - and I doubt most of the people in question who routinely panic over this stuff have the motivation to read this in the first place... usually the case anyway)
See, temperature records are kept the world over - just because a government agency (who call themselves civilian, obviously not true) NASA and some made-for-TV documentaries SAY the temperature is rising, they are not taking into consideration the GLOBAL AVERAGE, nor are they taking into consideration the time-spans we're talking. If we're in a 20,000 year or longer cycle of warming and cooling, and they show you literally a 20 year wide cut and say "we're all going to die" you should punch them in the face for being dishonest, and if you bought into it you should punch yourself in the face for no-doubt attacking everyone around you in a fit if hysteria over the fact that they drive an automobile. We have not been recording that temperature variation globally long enough to even have the data points needed to prove such a theory - and all the evidence we DO have disproves it.
When someone shows you a graph that has maybe 2 to 4 decades, ask how long the warming (or cooling) has been going on. Odds are they either do not know, or will not want to tell you. That data IS out there, and it says the opposite of what you're told, which seems to be a common theme in the last 20 years or whatever.
Feel free to verify what I've said, I'd honestly prefer you did so I don't stumble across so much of this asinine crap on every anime website forum that allows talk of non-anime related topics and current events. I love conversations like that, when it takes place among coherent adults... (or children who have actually searched beyond politically motivated websites and propaganda journals to do their research, which is exceedingly rare... then again it's not so common in adults either)
As far as Toaru - I guess we'll see what THEIR conclusion to this situation is. I expect one tailored to their audience, but ...we'll see, I suppose. Who knows? maybe they'll have accelerator massacre every last one of them for lying. One always has hope for the future.
I hope this has been educational, and please, if you're one of the people who get dragged into this stuff to the point they get depressed and even suicidal, do yourself a huge favor - look into some of what I've said, the only way you're going to not hear lies is if you seek the information on your own. That's often the case with everything in our modern times, when transfer of information is instantaneous.
For more information on ice core samples and the last ice age, and how it ended (called the "Younger Dryas impact hypothesis"), I recommend listening to Randall Carlson (he did a few eye opening Joe Rogan podcasts in the last few years, if that's your style) - Randall does a great job laying out these theories and then offering supporting evidence for them, some of which he personally gathered, others that have been documented from long ago. It's hella interesting, and at the very least it will provide you with some very good questions to ask the next climate activist (terrorist) who threatens you over owning a car and all that other crap they make into real issues. |