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Contact: wkrossa@shaw.ca While this site is copyrighted material, feel free to copy and share. Important climate fact: 20 times more people die every year from cold than die from warmth. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.htm) And you are afraid of more warming? A couple … Continue reading →

Topics below: Summary list of ‘Old Story Themes, New Story Alternatives’ (full version in sections further below) Main points of the climate debate- evidence versus alarm (Conclusion: There is no “climate crisis”) Meat creating mind? How? And evidence, please. The … Continue reading →

Section topics: Notes on theology; Love as ultimate reality, ultimate meaning; Climate updates; An anti-fear project; Old Story Themes, New Story Alternatives, and more… A further explanation on humanizing deity theories: Just a note on why I include the feature … Continue reading →

Section topics: Speculation on death; Monstrous ideas; Two basic approaches to organizing human societies (collectivism and the individual approach); Pushback against panic-porn; The profound contradiction between Jesus and Paul’s Christ myth; Why I reject panic over rising CO2 levels; and … Continue reading →

“Apocalyptic mythology has always made fools of normally bright people”. Fascinating report on the possible origin of Covid: https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 Note: Martin Seligman in ‘Learned Optimism’ noted the post-WW2 reaction in US academia to “Boosterism”- the enthusiastic promotion of something. Academics … Continue reading →

Section topics: The two fundamental narratives of life- old and new; The true state of life on Earth (main indicators); Celebrating CO2; Messing with politics, again; Messing with religion, again; Patterns in alarmism movements; Short list of Old Narrative Themes, … Continue reading →

Section topics: Science and theology (climate alarmism and the Green movement in general are “profoundly religious movements” and must be responded to at that level); Climate complexity; Panic-porn; Excerpts on the radiative influence of CO2; Good fear, bad fear; Patrick … Continue reading →

Topics below: Climate basics; Courage in the face of crowd madness; Secular? Scientific? (the basic themes of primitive apocalyptic have been embraced in contemporary environmental alarmism); Analyzing an issue, solving a problem- more on the primitive apocalyptic mythology behind Green … Continue reading →

Same old patterns: There is a direct line from correlated causal factors to related responses. Apocalyptic-scale alarms incite survival fear in populations. Exaggerated fear leads to irrational acceptance of mythical apocalyptic scenarios and embrace of related harmful salvation schemes. The … Continue reading →

My own definition: Alarmism exaggerates legitimate problems out to apocalyptic scale with ‘end-of-days’ scenarios (i.e. apocalypse), speculating far beyond credible evidence, thereby distorting the true state of things. From Wikipedia: “Alarmism is excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or … Continue reading →

The 4 most important essays on this site: (1) Old Story Themes, New Story Alternatives (18 alternatives to the primitive mythical ideas that continue to dominate most human narratives today, whether religious or “secular”); (2) Buried under the Christ myth- … Continue reading →

Section topics: Going Green is going to hurt… a lot; Justin messing up grade school science; Alarmist exaggeration and hysteria; David Altheide on Creating Fear: News and the construction of crisis; Richard Lindzen on the “saturation” of the CO2 warming … Continue reading →