Once again the high priests of the Philistine's religion are screaming about the end of the world again. This time we're being told that the world's resources are almost all used up and...
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!
A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure.
Omigod! We're getting the news from 1,360 scientists!
What? Wait! Only 1,360? Why not 1,500 or 1,745?
Here's this from AP:
Growing populations and expanding economic activity have strained the planet's ecosystems over the past half century, a trend that threatens international efforts to combat poverty and disease, a U.N.-sponsored study of the Earth's health warned on Wednesday.
Wrong. The UN's own friggin population surveys show a significant slowing of the world's population growth. In certain parts of the world, populations are actually in decline. I wish all 1, 360 scientists had actually done, you know, research.
The four-year, $24 million study — the largest-ever to show how people are changing their environment — found that humans had depleted 60 percent of the world's grasslands, forests, farmlands, rivers and lakes.
24 mil...for this crap? Couldn't the kleptocrats have stolen this money rather than the money that was supposed to feed the Iraqi children? And look at all that stuff that "humans" use: farmlands and rivers. How dare humans use farmlands, when farmlands are really there for...farm animals! And rivers, too. It must be all those boats. They sort of suck up all the water and then it evaporates and then the clouds rain and then the water goes back..into the rivers. Whatever.
Unless nations adopt more eco-friendly policies, increased human demands for food, clean water and fuels could speed the disappearance of forests, fish and fresh water reserves and lead to more frequent disease outbreaks over the next 50 years, it said.
Unless nations start shopping at Whole Foods, forests and fish could disappear.
"This report is essentially an audit of nature's economy and the audit shows that we have driven most of the accounts into the red, if you drive the economy into the red ultimately there are significant consequences for our capacity to achieve our dreams in terms of poverty reduction and prosperity," Jonathan Lash, a member of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment board, said in London.
Audit of nature's economy? What? That makes no sense. What are they doing? Counting the number of trees in the rain forest and saying, "Well, there were more trees yesterday than there are today. That must mean...it's the end of the world."
Sure enough, check this out:
The study was compiled by 1,360 scientists from 95 nations who pored over 16,000 satellite photos from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and analyzed reams of statistics and scientific journals.
No they didn't. This is did not happen. There were computer programs that "looked" at the image intelligence and extrapolated data, data that can be easily manipulated. The statistics and scientific journals data were "read" by software programs pushed through other programs that do meta analyses. The "results" of this analysis were probably sent to a bunch of scientists and the rest signed off on it.
What clued me in on this charade is the reference to NASA image intelligence (what's called IMINT). That sort of information can be extremely subjective. Unless you are trained you can look at thousands of satellite images and you still wouldn't know what you're looking at.
Are the satellite images leaf on or leaf off?
There were probably 1500 scientists on the project and only 1, 360 could agreed on what they were looking at. Using extremely subject sources of data is not serious science. This is political policy wrapped up in a $24 million dress.
Philistines will believe anything their scientists tell them.
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Here's a test: What are you looking at?
