More “holy shitoli” admission from the climate apocalypse crusade, Wendell Krossa (a new springboard for commentary)
See Watts below on the IPCC using a “weasel word” for “impossible” and admitting the end of another apocalyptic crusade.
While there are varied good studies on the social psychology level of what drives modern apocalyptic “madness of crowds” crusades (i.e. Arthur Herman’s “The Idea of Decline in Western History”, Kristian Niemietz’s “Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”, etc.), this site focuses on the archetypal level as a critical factor in solving General Nagata’s concern that we have to defeat the “idea” behind violent apocalyptic crusades like Islamic theocracy.
“Archetypal level”? As in the deeply embedded factors in human subconscious that have long been shaped by primitive mythological themes like “lost paradise, life declining to a worse state, toward apocalyptic ending, demand for salvation through sacrifice and a purging of impurity from the world, promise of salvation in a restored paradise or new utopia, etc.”. These archetypal themes (and the impulses they validate) subtly influence moderns to continue embracing narratives with the same themes, whether religious or ideological. They grant people “emotional satisfaction” in the embrace of familiar themes/beliefs/ideas. No matter the harmful outcomes to themselves or their societies. Leading examples- socialist collectivism, environmental alarmism, theocratic crusades.
Moving along… The Watts article further below (“A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future”) illustrates my repeated argument here that the environmental alarmism movement has always been a “profoundly religious crusade” driven more by apocalyptic mythology than by rational science. So also, the same mythology has driven Marxist revolutions (despite claims to “scientific materialism/history”), just as it drove Nazism and other apocalyptic crusades across history.
Apocalyptic is still the same old mental deformity we’ve inherited from our Zoroastrian past despite masquerading as rational science. Its part of the complex of mythical themes- “salvation through necessary total destruction to save some allegedly threatened thing” (i.e. “civilization, the world”, etc.). Evil cloaked as good.
How do we build a preventative guard in our own minds against the repeated eruptions of such apocalyptic madness in our societies?
My suggestion: Read Julian Simon’s “Ultimate Resource” and then become a reflexive skeptic in response to every alarmist story proclaimed in public, whether some purported natural disaster, episode/period of climate change (often a weather event mislabelled as “climate”), threatened disease outbreak, etc.
Yes, hear them out, but watch for the exaggerated apocalyptic-scale element commonly used to frame such reports, knowing that media are committed to panic-mongering exaggeration because “Creating Fear: News and the construction of crisis” is their bread-and-butter formula for reporting on many things.
So also, politicians too often operate by H. L. Mencken’s practical politics “to keep the populace alarmed with an endless series of hobgoblins” that render people susceptible and clamoring for the salvation schemes offered by panic-mongering politicians.
Simon’s basic principles help to build evidence-based hope into the foundations and structure of our worldviews as we are assisted to do basic good science by looking at the complete big picture on any thing (countering confirmation bias by including all evidence), and by observing the longest-term trends associated with issues in our world. Yes, there are still problems everywhere to be solved but overall humanity is doing well and the evidence shows that on net we are “more creators than destroyers”. And hence, the main indicators on the true state of our world show ongoing improvement over the long-term. This evidence is a sound basis for hope in the future.
Note the patterns followed by the many apocalyptic scares thrown into public. The end-of-world proclamations usually do not materialize (i.e. the 100% historical failure rate). And later, when good follow-up research is published showing the true non-apocalyptic state of things, few are paying attention as the alarmists have already moved on to manufacture and propagandize the next big alarm. And they (i.e. media and politicians) take no responsibility for past frauds, offer no apologies, and continue their commitment to stir public hysteria.
We should heed the historians who have told us that Paul’s apocalyptic Christ myth has been the most dominant myth that has shaped Western civilization and narratives across the past two millennia. Paul embraced the pre-BC Zoroastrian version of apocalyptic that had also shaped Judaism before shaping Paul’s Christ-ianity.
This primitive mythology of apocalyptic has long structured the archetypes of human subconscious from where these archetypes influence succeeding generations to find “emotional satisfaction” in embracing new apocalyptic crusades with the same features of “lost paradise, life declining toward worsening state, the final end is imminent, salvation demands sacrifice and purging of some threatening enemy, and then restored paradise is promised”.
We do well to heed historians like Arthur Mendel who have warned us that apocalyptic has been the most violent and destructive idea in history as evident in its inevitable outcomes of destroyed lives and societies (i.e. the 1856-57 Xhosa massacre of their cattle and resultant destruction of their culture and society is a representative illustration of apocalyptic outcomes).
Apocalyptic continues to frame both religious and secular variants with the notable feature of “Declinism” that Arthur Herman states is the most dominant and influential theme in the modern world (i.e. the decline of life to a worsening state, to eventual collapse and ending is central to apocalyptic mythology).
Public consequences of panic-mongering
Apocalyptic deforms human minds and personalities and incites people to violence. We saw an example of how this pathology manifested in the young man who was recently arrested for plotting to kill an AI CEO.
Insert: I posted this example previously in a section below to illustrate the deforming potency of apocalyptic, how it energizes some to violence, believing they are heroically saving something under existential threat.
Quote:
“The young man in the incident below illustrates how apocalyptic alarmism generates ‘dynamis’ to engage violence at personal level (from Free Press, April 16, 2026):
https://www.thefp.com/p/i-spoke-to-the-man-accused-of-trying
“19-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama, a part-time community college student from Texas, was charged with attempting to kill Open AI CEO Sam Altman.
“He had been discovered by podcasters for posting online in ‘support of violence to stop the technology from triggering the extinction of mankind. As Moreno-Gama put it, he was interested in “Luigi-ing some tech CEOs”’.
“He was worried about AI, and what he saw as the impending extinction of humanity… he believed that the time had come to use violence to stop AGI.”
(End of insert quote)
As the climate apocalypse alarm now appears to be in an “agonal breathing” stage, apocalyptic prophets/alarmists are trying to frame AI as next great threat that will bring on the apocalyptic end of humanity.
Many have warned that the irresponsible use of excessively harsh language/terms to describe political opponents in public can function to incite fringe types to violence (i.e. demonizing opponents as apocalyptic-scale threats). Think of the hysterical demonizing by political parties of their opponents as “Nazis, fascists, dictators, bringing the end of US democracy, racists,” etc. That incites individuals to take violent action “to save their world” that is portrayed to them as under “existential” threat.
Nothing is more dangerous for inciting personal and large-scale violence than apocalyptic itself. It has been revealed as a significant contributing factor driving Marxist mass-violence, as it drove Nazi industrial-scale murder, and now drives the environmentalist ruin of entire societies. It is also a central factor driving the theocracy violence of the Iranian death-cult- the “idea” General Nagata stated that we have to defeat if we are to properly solve such crusades of exterminatory violence.
Apocalyptic is the historically well-proven “most violent and destructive of all ideas” to be irresponsibly promoted in public.
Note in the article below how it has ruined a generation of children by devastating their hope in the future. That is child abuse of worst kind. Julian Simon said in “Ultimate Resource” that environmental “doomsaying” had left children of his era with a view of the world as a dangerous place.
Yet many continue to embrace new apocalyptic narratives and crusades as unquestionable truth, as new righteous/noble causes, as overdue social justice crusades, as new opportunities to virtue signal to like-minded communities that they are the righteous and heroic warriors against evil. This primeval mental deformity of apocalyptic continues to emerge in ever-new robes to present new generations that are seeking meaning and purpose with new grandiose battles for salvation.
The high-priests and prophets of apocalyptic have long learned to masterfully cloak their narratives and crusades as good, even as divinely authorized.
But no one has approached the skilful pre-eminence of Paul in cloaking the evil mythology of apocalyptic as the ultimate Good as he did in his Christ myth. That became history’s ultimate embodiment of evil masqueraded as transcendent Good.
Then along came balloon deflators Thomas Jefferson and Leo Tolstoy who were strikingly clear on the issue of good and evil in their blunt definition of the contrasting New Testament messages on apocalyptic- i.e. Jesus with non-retaliatory and anti-apocalyptic theology, and Paul as pro-retaliatory deity in apocalyptic violence. They expressed the differences in theology and messages between Jesus and Paul with their bluntly contrasting terms “diamonds and dung”. And the air in Paul’s myth escaped in a “whoosh”.
Their terms illustrate the point that in the anti-apocalyptic theology and message of Jesus we were given a diamond theology to counter the deformity, madness, and destructive outcomes of apocalyptic. Jesus shook up his society by teaching the stunning new theology of a God who did not engage eye for eye retaliation toward enemies, meaning that his God would not engage the ultimate eye for eye retaliation in the punishment and destruction of an apocalypse.
Jesus’ new theology presented a God of unconditional love who did not threaten offenders with punishment and destruction but mercifully gave sun and rain to all, equally. No retaliatory vengeance, no punishment, no threat of violent destruction.
Jesus’ new theology could have functioned as history’s most impactful and fatal body blow to Zoroaster’s dominantly influential theme of cosmic dualism where a punitive and violent God would intervene with overwhelming force to purge and end the corrupted world through the violence of apocalyptic fire as prelude to restoring an imagined lost purity. Salvation through violent destruction. That framework of mythology has subsequently shaped Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and varied “secular/ideological” variants that continue to repeatedly embrace the same framework of themes.
(“Could have functioned as history’s most impactful and fatal body blow to Zoroaster’s dominantly influential theme of cosmic dualism”? Except for its burial in Paul’s apocalyptic Christology that dominates the New Testament.)
“Diamond” is a useful term to define the essence of what this wisdom sage taught. His discovery/insight on unconditional God went to the deeply embedded archetypes of collective human subconscious (Carl Jung’s term) to reject the old threat theology that had dominated the archetypes from the earliest emergence of human consciousness. He replaced the darkening and enslaving mythology/theology with the brilliant and liberating shine of unconditional deity.
That core transformation does more to re-establish hope at the deepest level of the human psyche than anything else ever conceived by human minds. Unconditional love at the core of all reality solidifies hope as nothing else can. Q scholar James Robinson, referencing the negative side of non-retaliatory theology, rightly concluded that Jesus’ stunning new theology was “his greatest contribution to the history of human ideas”. It goes far beyond any temporal hope to promote eternal hope, for all, equally.
The historically singular Jesus’ discovery and insight central goes to the deepest possible foundations roots of human hope, fear, and anxiety and responds to these primal impulses/emotions with a “death/rebirth” transformation. His complete disintegration/reintegration revolution threw out the old and replaced it with the stunning new theology that centered his message.
We cannot uncover anything more profound to human meaning and purpose than the insight that there is transcendent unconditional love at very core of reality and life. That is simply the single greatest discovery in human history, and it is the core of a truly complete TOE (Theory of Everything).
Philosophical materialist versions of TOE cannot grasp the nature of metaphysical reality, and that is fine, as the mandate of physicalist science is to explain the material universe and life, to understand its basic laws as useful for predictive capability etc. Materialist science is limited in its explanatory power and not able to access the underlying Mystery of the actual nature of the creating and sustaining Mind, Consciousness, Self.
Nonetheless, physical science functions well to improve life when it works within its realm and mandate.
Further notes:
A main argument of this site is that the ideas and principles in the basic message of Historical Jesus affirm liberal democracy freedoms and rights.
One critical note to get in the Jesus message is that a God who rejects eye for eye retaliation will not then enact the ultimate eye for eye retaliation that is the apocalyptic punishment and destruction of the world. His new image of a non-retaliatory deity is a rejection of the theme of overwhelming and violent divine intervention to destroy life through an instantaneous purging of the old “corrupt society/civilization” that exists in order to replace that with the immediate installation of a new utopia. He gutted the core of the old threat theology.
On the element of “instantaneous and overwhelmingly violent purging” in apocalyptic
Arthur Mendel in his excellent “Vision and Violence” deals with these contrasting approaches to “salvation”. The mythology of apocalyptic has long validated “instantaneous purification” approaches- i.e. overwhelming power to solve problems/disagreements among differing groups as contrasted with the “gradualism” of liberal democracy that respects the freedom and rights of differing people. Gradualism in human progress is an approach that has emerged out of liberal democracy principles and institutions.
The anti-apocalyptic theology of Jesus is a counter blow to the apocalyptic millennial themes that have driven Marxist revolutions with their advocacy for violent interventions to overthrow through “instantaneous purging” of the “corrupt capitalist” societies that exist in order to immediately install an imagined lost utopia of primitive communalism society (i.e. restore the “lost” existence of primitive humanity as “noble savages”).
The same counter-blow of Jesus applies to the fallacy of “instantaneous purging” that environmental alarmism advocates- i.e. the demand for the immediate overthrow of “corrupt industrial civilization” based on fossil fuels, again with the emphasis on “instantaneous” due to the urgency of their claims of “always imminent” climate apocalypse. Note how climate alarmism prophets have repeatedly set looming dates for the end-of-days, often just a few decades or years up ahead to emphasize their demand for overwhelming immediacy of action.
The totalitarian spirit is always impatient for totalizing revolution. Liberal democracy processes are too slow and inclusive with their respect for the rights and freedoms of all citizens and processes of open debate and disagreement that requires compromises.
The central themes of the Jesus message as set forth in, for example, Matthew 5:38-48 and the better version in Luke 6:27-36 serve to overall validate the fundamental principles of liberal democracy. His inclusion of all persons equally (i.e. “sun and rain given generously to both good and bad people/enemies”) affirms the principle of protection of the freedom and rights of all people, equally. Further, Jesus’ advocacy that we should “not lord over others but should serve others” affirms the liberal democracy principle of state institutions oriented to serving citizens, not functioning as vehicles for elite and bureaucratic domination/control of populations.
Another note:
Further, on the gradualism of democratic processes. Yes, as someone recently commented- liberal democracy institutions have imperfections. But the answer then is not to overthrow them entirely, to opt for annihilation of what exists as per Marxist violent revolution and environmentalist overturning of civilization, but to monitor for outcomes and then continue to improve the institutions that exist (i.e. eliminating some if irreversibly corrupted or beyond useful due dates). Human society and civilization improves gradually through democratic processes. Our task is to ensure that institutions function to protect the rights and freedoms of all equally, that they constrain the authority of elites and bureaucrats, ensuring that they serve citizens and do not permit the few to lord over and control all others.
Now to the Watts point on using a “weasel word” for what is actually “impossible”, and the IPCC admitting that the end is nigh for their apocalyptic crusade (i.e. the apocalypse of an apocalypse?).
Here is the article on “a generation of children without hope in their future”. As Jimmy Dore once said in regard to dominant media narratives (I would state climate apocalypse as the primary example here) that “we are the most propagandized and lied to people on earth”.
The article below gives more detail on the recent IPCC announcement that its worst-case scenarios on climate change are “implausible”. Anthony Watts is correct in concluding- “That’s a weasel word for ‘Impossible’.” And this means that the IPCC reports over past decades that were embraced by contemporary apocalyptic prophets to fuel public hysteria that the climate apocalypse was nigh are now being rejected by that body that has long claimed to represent “climate science”. It is an admission that the apocalypse is over. It was all a grand lie, a great fraud.
Finally, this admission that the climate crisis was an impossible lie, after ruining the hopes and lives of, notably, a generation of children. Add here the general ruin of once prosperous societies like modern Germany (e.g. note the government minister in Germany who recently stated that the Net Zero policies are ruining their country. So also, the same destructive outcomes apply to Britain’s zealous commitment to Net Zero, Canada’s lost decade under Liberal climate cultism, along with other countries/regions.).
The article:
“A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why”, Anthony Watts.
Watts opens with,
“For nearly two decades, a single climate model scenario haunted virtually every apocalyptic headline you read about our planet’s future. Vanishing coastlines, catastrophic droughts, mass extinctions, cities underwater — almost all of it was built on a scenario called RCP 8.5. And now, in a development that climate scientist Roger Pielke Jr. is calling the ‘most significant development in climate research in decades,’ the international committee responsible for producing the official scenarios that feed into IPCC climate assessments has formally eliminated RCP 8.5 — and its successor SSP5-8.5 — from the new framework, classifying them as ‘implausible’.
“Let that sink in for a moment. ‘Implausible’. That’s a weasel word for ‘Impossible’. That’s the word the scientists themselves are now using to describe the scenario that dominated two full IPCC assessment cycles, generated tens of thousands of research papers, and provided the raw material for an estimated ‘hundreds of thousands’ of media stories that told the public — and their children — that the world as we know it was coming to an end.
“It’s a good day for science. It’s a terrible indictment of what was done in science’s name.”
He continues, explaining “RCP 8.5” as “Representative Concentration Pathway… as one of a family of scenarios developed to give climate modelers a range of possible futures to work with”.
He then notes dominant influence that the worst-case IPCC scenario had as scientists more oriented to apocalyptic mythology than to actual rational science, and in the grip of their own confirmation bias, lapped up the RCP scenario and published tens of thousands of academic papers/reports based on that unproven worst-case scenario.
As Watts notes, the academic papers were then taken up by science “journalism” that in turn amplified them in “news articles, television segments, radio reports, social media posts, and classroom curricula.” He says that conservative estimates are that the media articles worldwide based on the RCP 8.5 projections ran into “the hundreds of thousands, possibly approaching a million pieces of content over the scenario’s two-decade lifespan. Every one of them carried some version of the same message: this is where we are headed.”
Worse, governments and international organizations, according to Watts, then used the “implausible” scenarios to form policies and regulations that have and continue to “ruin” the economies of countries like Germany, Britain, Canada, and elsewhere. All “built on a foundation of sand”, says Watts (quoting Roger Pielke).
Watts continues,
“The policy consequences of that foundation of sand cannot be overstated. RCP 8.5 provided the scientific cover for policies that, by any honest description, amount to government seizure of the energy economy — the kind of top-down control over production, consumption, and individual choice that previous generations would have recognized as socialism by another name. Mandated vehicle eliminations, forced retirement of power plants, prohibitions on gas appliances, trillion-dollar ‘transition’ spending programs — all of it justified, ultimately, by impact studies running a scenario the scientific community has now declared impossible.”
Watts then moves to the point that he wants emphasized- how a generation of children were robbed of hope in their future. All (my point) due to unthinking and irresponsible adults possessed by the lunacy of apocalyptic mythology.
Watts states that the damage to children troubles him the most and this damage is not acknowledged in the recent IPCC retraction and admission of implausibility. We have repeatedly seen this post-alarm refusal to acknowledge any responsibility for lying to entire populations following a diversity of exaggerated alarms thrown into the public arena, again and again. Anyone remember Covid 19 alarmism and lockdowns and the still remaining damage from that? Who has admitted to the intentional lying that drove that mass hysteria? What about the intentional lying behind the Russiagate madness, intentional lying recently exposed by Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Benz, and many others.
Watts notes the varied studies and reports on the “eco-anxiety” harm to children across the world. Children told by teachers and others that the world was ending and nothing could be done. He notes, for example, a Lancet study of children across many countries that revealed many were frightened and hopeless about their future, believing the world would end before they reached adulthood.
As he says, “a very significant portion of (the eco-anxiety) was seeded not by the observed climate record, but by projections derived from a scenario that the scientific establishment has now officially declared to be implausible.” The outcome, says Watts, is “a generation of young people grew up believing they had been handed a dying world.”
The “madness of crowds” climate alarmism crusade has influenced many young people’s choices about whether to have children or not, along with other major life decisions.
Watts concludes that the “science journals” that unthinkingly embraced the RCP apocalyptic scenario need to acknowledge how they failed science. Media and educators should also acknowledge their role in the generation of that madness. Good luck with that hope of alarmists taking responsibility for their roles. Many have already moved on to the next apocalyptic alarm- i.e. AI as Terminator.
“Anthony Watts is the founder and editor of WattsUpWithThat.com, the world’s most viewed website on climate, and a Senior Fellow for Environment and Climate at The Heartland Institute.”
And this link to counter the emerging crusade of apocalyptic cultists to label AI as the next “apocalypse”
“Don’t Listen to the Skeptics, Ai Will Change Your Life for the Better | Joe Lonsdale” The Rubin Report with Joe Lonsdale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFFAchIuakI
More climb off the sinking ship.
Charles Mackay said that while “people go mad in herds, they only recover their senses slowly, one by one” (see his book “Madness of Crowds”). Other historians researching apocalyptic madness crusades (i.e. Richard Landes) note that the zealots of these cults will “double down” as their crusade appears to be failing and may even shift, out of desperation, to the dangerous phase of “exterminate or be exterminated” (violent actions). So be on guard, this madness is not over yet.
And some are already shifting to AI as the new apocalypse. Their cultic zealotry is boundless. Such is the powerful impulse of the messianic complex embraced by those longing for heroic status as warriors in Zoroaster’s cosmic battle of Good against some demonized Evil. All a deformity of the basic human impulse for meaning and purpose that should be informed by the wisdom of sages like the anti-apocalyptic Historical Jesus, entirely opposite to Paul’s apocalyptic Christ.
“New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax: A New York Times op-ed argues voters are turned off by climate messaging after decades of failed predictions”, David Marcus, May 10, 2026
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-new-york-times-announces-end-climate-change-hoax
Marcus opens, stating that for almost the entire time of his half century on earth “experts, teachers, politicians and activists” have hectored him about climate change destroying the planet. But now another alarmist voice has cooled down, he says, and it is the New York Times, “The Grey Lady” whose hair has been on fire over climate change apocalypse for decades.
Marcus is right that climate alarmism has been “the single most expensive lie in human history.” Some $20 trillion wasted so far, and still counting.
He says that in high school they were told that global warming was minutes from ending humanity, and as an adult, after the warming alarm failed, alarmists shifted to “climate change” as the inevitable apocalypse. Apocalyptic zealots like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prophesied (2018) that there were just 12 years to solve the climate issue or all would die.
Marcus notes the huge cost of this madness that blocked fossil fuel development and rendered everything more expensive as a result (i.e. some 6000 important products in modern society are “fossil fuel derivatives”).
He adds that entire generations of young people have been terrorized into thinking that they would be the last humans to live on earth. Consequently, numbers of young people chose not to have children due to expecting the world to end.
He notes other apocalyptic hoaxes and concludes that climate alarmism was a uniquely insane apocalyptic hoax and crusade. He says that, “nothing compared to the decades of pure insanity that we have lived through thanks to Al Gore’s unhinged predictions.”
He adds a comment on the moral tone of this crusade, that “If you failed to join in the hysteria, then you were a bad person.”
With a growing number of similar voices, Marcus says that it is “time for this madness to end. We do not need to saddle our children with the emotional and economic damage of make-believe climate disasters… the end is not nigh.”
And this…
“Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections”, Eric Worrall
Though citizens of Australia and Britain appear to be rejecting climate alarmism, as evident in recent electoral wins, Worral cautions,
“The radicals we are facing in some cases truly seem to believe they are the saviours of the planet, that the climate skeptics and populists who are soaring in the polls and tearing away formerly safe elected seats are agents of ruin, people who threaten the survival of the human race. History teaches us that kind of desperate messianic thinking can lead to dangerous consequences. At the very least I expect an uptick in globalist propaganda, and more vigorous attempts to censor populist online influences in Australia and Britain.”