In other words, for the benefit of those who might even now still harbour some hope of having the Anthropocene officially recognised as a new geological epoch to end the Holocene, it is dead beyond all doubt, in fact it is this dead:
I’m sure the Royal Society will continue to carry the torch. Much like “long Covid” more of this nonsense is coming apart. But why does it take so long and cost so much?
I would say that enough of the head honchos of the ‘International Union of Geological Sciences’ must have realised that the long-term scientific credibility of their organisation would be at stake if they officially adopted the grossly dishonest quasi-religious nomenclature of the catastrophic anthropogenic climate change cultists.
The attempt to proclaim the ‘Anthropocene’ as infallible dogma has been mooted for a few years now. It is the handiwork of the cult’s propaganda High Priests - the Climate Change $cientists – most of whom are suspected of being heavily funded from Beijing, with the objective of further undermining the economic capabilities of the West.
I had to laugh though, because when the notification for your Substack article came in a short while ago, I was watching a video interview on the Substack page of ‘The Corbett Report’, where James Corbett was interviewing a lady by the name of Irina Slav about her analysis on how much climate cultist money now dominates Hollywood - insofar that movie after movie now being spewed out of the Hollywood cesspit is full of climate change FEAR, FEAR, FEAR - pushed by the actors and directors to fit the ‘imminent destruction’ meme of the climate change cultist juggernaut.
What James Corbett and Irina were laughing about most was that they wouldn’t have minded so much if these films had any real cinematic or artistic value, but apparently they don’t - they are just B-Grade Hollywood crapola. The Substack article is titled ‘Burn, Hollywood, Burn – with Irina Slav’. It is worth a look - link:
It's not going at all well for the climate (or Covid) cultists at the moment, so they're now calling for climate heretics to be de-platformed and even arrested and thrown in jail. Monty Python got it right again - you don't expect the Spanish Inquisition, but you SHOULD expect the Spanish Inquisition. The fanatics are that desperate now. Worryingly, Substack and Stripe are attempting to demonetise Robert Malone's account by demanding to see all his bank transactions. They will come for the 'climate deniers' soon enough.
The climate loons aren't really crazy. Their status and grant money have been mightily boosted since the 1980s by a campaign of guilt and fear. It's paid so well to preach to school children that their very existence is a big negative, that the food they eat comes at the expense of more noble creatures (chickens, for example), that the gasoline burnt to get them to school is frying The Planet™️, that Dear Gaia™️ is sorry she spawned them. No wonder there's so much depression and pill consumption. And all to make sure a pathetic bunch of dweebs who couldn't change the oil in their own cars, sit on Mt Olympus and tell people who build things they ought to die.
When I worked at a NASA base (as an electro-optical engineer/applied physicist) I saw these losers in their natural habitat. Pasty, humorless and unimaginative for the most part, capable of writing the computer code to crank out whatever results they wanted. And I had the privilege to work with the only real man among them, who decided he'd be better off working somewhere else when he ran afoul of one of these critters for a non-PC comment he made.
It's going to be fun watching their money dry up, kind of like watching the Wizard have the curtain yanked away and his backside exposed. But they're going to be doing a lot of crying and snarling. Bring ear plugs.
I read Robert Malone’s article yesterday about his problem with Stripe and then tried to make a small donation towards his legal expenses to fight it, but I couldn’t get his donation page to process beyond the initial details. I was unable to advise him of the problem because I am not a paying subscriber and therefore unable to post comments.
With regard to you’re recent Substack post about the lack of enough paying subscribers – I suggest that you consider providing a donation link at the bottom of your posts in the manner that some other Substackers have done. One is called ‘Buy me a Kofi’. Like many people, I am overcommitted (both in outgoings and in time available), and therefore not in a position to take out a paying subscription to all but a couple of Substacks, but I am happy to make a small occasional donation from time to time – like buying a magazine in a news agency. A donation link would only provide a trickle of income, but it is better than nothing. I have come to the conclusion that there is probably something of a science to understanding how Substack readers make their support decisions – but it is not well understood – not even by the people who run Substack. The long-term objective should be to gradually build numbers of readers in the hope that enough will eventually be prepared to pay. In that regard I suspect that having access to at least reading other reader’s comments is probably important in order to optimise reader engagement. Some Substack authors won’t do that and deny access to non-payers – possibly to block harassment – but it has a downside. Others just post the first paragraph of an article and block the rest of it to non-payers. That is the Kiss of Death!
Over many years I have come to the conclusion that the psychology surrounding how and why customers of intellectual content in the form of written works (e.g. books) make their purchase decisions is not at all well understood by most publishers. Many major publishing houses seem incompetent in this respect – with academic publishers being the worst. Their marketing thinking is stuck somewhere around the year 1890. If you are interested in developing this theme (privately) then let me know.
I have always been clear that I will not restrict comments or articles to paying subscribers, so in my case, anyone who paid a subscription was getting nothing in return; all they were doing is basically expressing their support for my writing by making a financial contribution. Perhaps that was the problem. So perhaps the voluntary, ad hoc 'buy me a coffee' button is the answer, though I don't drink coffee, so I'm wondering if you can amend the wording to 'buy me a cup of tea'!
I've registered with Buy Me A Coffee now so future posts will include a donate button, which I think is a better idea, because then people can donate after reading a specific post which they may especially enjoy reading or approve of.
What causes irrational beliefs to wither and die is an interesting and unanswered(?) question. It seems that contradictory evidence (Karl Popper's falsification) is not enough. It appears to need a good deal of time for the message to sink in.
As far as climate change ideology is concerned, that particular cult will maybe rumble on for a generation or two. We can only hope that we don't do something really stupid in trying to combat it in the meantime (like, for example, injecting people with a preparation that causes the production of a toxic protein).
"...who renamed it, rather aptly and somewhat amusingly, the Narcisscene."
Love it!
Sums it up perfectly.
That’s just sad. But it’s not unusual these days for scientists to push personal agenda over scientific reality
I’m sure the Royal Society will continue to carry the torch. Much like “long Covid” more of this nonsense is coming apart. But why does it take so long and cost so much?
Maybe that's the point.
I would say that enough of the head honchos of the ‘International Union of Geological Sciences’ must have realised that the long-term scientific credibility of their organisation would be at stake if they officially adopted the grossly dishonest quasi-religious nomenclature of the catastrophic anthropogenic climate change cultists.
The attempt to proclaim the ‘Anthropocene’ as infallible dogma has been mooted for a few years now. It is the handiwork of the cult’s propaganda High Priests - the Climate Change $cientists – most of whom are suspected of being heavily funded from Beijing, with the objective of further undermining the economic capabilities of the West.
I had to laugh though, because when the notification for your Substack article came in a short while ago, I was watching a video interview on the Substack page of ‘The Corbett Report’, where James Corbett was interviewing a lady by the name of Irina Slav about her analysis on how much climate cultist money now dominates Hollywood - insofar that movie after movie now being spewed out of the Hollywood cesspit is full of climate change FEAR, FEAR, FEAR - pushed by the actors and directors to fit the ‘imminent destruction’ meme of the climate change cultist juggernaut.
What James Corbett and Irina were laughing about most was that they wouldn’t have minded so much if these films had any real cinematic or artistic value, but apparently they don’t - they are just B-Grade Hollywood crapola. The Substack article is titled ‘Burn, Hollywood, Burn – with Irina Slav’. It is worth a look - link:
https://open.substack.com/pub/corbettreport/p/burn-hollywood-burn-with-irina-slav?r=4x8w8&utm_medium=ios
It's not going at all well for the climate (or Covid) cultists at the moment, so they're now calling for climate heretics to be de-platformed and even arrested and thrown in jail. Monty Python got it right again - you don't expect the Spanish Inquisition, but you SHOULD expect the Spanish Inquisition. The fanatics are that desperate now. Worryingly, Substack and Stripe are attempting to demonetise Robert Malone's account by demanding to see all his bank transactions. They will come for the 'climate deniers' soon enough.
The climate loons aren't really crazy. Their status and grant money have been mightily boosted since the 1980s by a campaign of guilt and fear. It's paid so well to preach to school children that their very existence is a big negative, that the food they eat comes at the expense of more noble creatures (chickens, for example), that the gasoline burnt to get them to school is frying The Planet™️, that Dear Gaia™️ is sorry she spawned them. No wonder there's so much depression and pill consumption. And all to make sure a pathetic bunch of dweebs who couldn't change the oil in their own cars, sit on Mt Olympus and tell people who build things they ought to die.
When I worked at a NASA base (as an electro-optical engineer/applied physicist) I saw these losers in their natural habitat. Pasty, humorless and unimaginative for the most part, capable of writing the computer code to crank out whatever results they wanted. And I had the privilege to work with the only real man among them, who decided he'd be better off working somewhere else when he ran afoul of one of these critters for a non-PC comment he made.
It's going to be fun watching their money dry up, kind of like watching the Wizard have the curtain yanked away and his backside exposed. But they're going to be doing a lot of crying and snarling. Bring ear plugs.
I read Robert Malone’s article yesterday about his problem with Stripe and then tried to make a small donation towards his legal expenses to fight it, but I couldn’t get his donation page to process beyond the initial details. I was unable to advise him of the problem because I am not a paying subscriber and therefore unable to post comments.
With regard to you’re recent Substack post about the lack of enough paying subscribers – I suggest that you consider providing a donation link at the bottom of your posts in the manner that some other Substackers have done. One is called ‘Buy me a Kofi’. Like many people, I am overcommitted (both in outgoings and in time available), and therefore not in a position to take out a paying subscription to all but a couple of Substacks, but I am happy to make a small occasional donation from time to time – like buying a magazine in a news agency. A donation link would only provide a trickle of income, but it is better than nothing. I have come to the conclusion that there is probably something of a science to understanding how Substack readers make their support decisions – but it is not well understood – not even by the people who run Substack. The long-term objective should be to gradually build numbers of readers in the hope that enough will eventually be prepared to pay. In that regard I suspect that having access to at least reading other reader’s comments is probably important in order to optimise reader engagement. Some Substack authors won’t do that and deny access to non-payers – possibly to block harassment – but it has a downside. Others just post the first paragraph of an article and block the rest of it to non-payers. That is the Kiss of Death!
Over many years I have come to the conclusion that the psychology surrounding how and why customers of intellectual content in the form of written works (e.g. books) make their purchase decisions is not at all well understood by most publishers. Many major publishing houses seem incompetent in this respect – with academic publishers being the worst. Their marketing thinking is stuck somewhere around the year 1890. If you are interested in developing this theme (privately) then let me know.
I have always been clear that I will not restrict comments or articles to paying subscribers, so in my case, anyone who paid a subscription was getting nothing in return; all they were doing is basically expressing their support for my writing by making a financial contribution. Perhaps that was the problem. So perhaps the voluntary, ad hoc 'buy me a coffee' button is the answer, though I don't drink coffee, so I'm wondering if you can amend the wording to 'buy me a cup of tea'!
You are wrong to say that those who were paying subscribers were getting nothing in return. I used to get a warm glow.
I've registered with Buy Me A Coffee now so future posts will include a donate button, which I think is a better idea, because then people can donate after reading a specific post which they may especially enjoy reading or approve of.
I'll support your tea habit.
Look out for 'Buy me a cuppa' on future posts!
What causes irrational beliefs to wither and die is an interesting and unanswered(?) question. It seems that contradictory evidence (Karl Popper's falsification) is not enough. It appears to need a good deal of time for the message to sink in.
As far as climate change ideology is concerned, that particular cult will maybe rumble on for a generation or two. We can only hope that we don't do something really stupid in trying to combat it in the meantime (like, for example, injecting people with a preparation that causes the production of a toxic protein).