And Tony Abbott too:
Ignorant, illiterate, anti-free market clowns out to ruin Australians and Australia.
ESSINGTON LEWIS LECTURE, 19th November 2009, Professor Ian Plimer
There is no point in holding back. The only thing the likes of Rudd, Wong, Abbott, Swann, Hunt and Helen Kroger understand is when they are shredded.
Here, we add something which isn’t mentioned in public but also destroys the ‘man causes global warming/climate change’ bunk and points to what carbon taxes can do:
Intense 100 year drought nearly wiped out civilisation entirely, from Greece to the Middle East
During the C12th B.C. to the C10th B.C.
The climates of Europe and the Middle East are inter-related. A shift in the former is matched by a shift in the latter, with a time difference of about 100 years. The physics of weather defy attempts to determine weather patterns. It can’t be determined, which in any case is a contradiction of what the laws of the universe are.
(I am not a physicist but I can say this. Best of all, when I have a question in need of expertise I ask as a layman physicists and when in need of advice I seek their advice. I have an economics question, I don’t go to Leftists, nor IPA, HR Nicholls Society, CIS, Quadrant Magazine. I go to Brookesnews and Mr. Jackson and Dr. Frank Shostak. Occasionally, these days unlike some years ago, I write to genuine free market economists overseas for advice on matters to be raised in items.)
The Orthodoxy Problem
During the late 13th century B.C to the late 11th century BC, Greek and middle eastern civilisation all but collapsed.
Biblical historians believed the record of destruction confirmed the ‘conquest’ narrated in Joshua. The ruination of cities, however, occurred over far too long a period of time and too widespread throughout the Middle East to even weakly support the notion of Joshua and Israel, quite apart from other historical objections, to be the sacker of cities, as also other suggestions such as marauding tribes did the dirty deed.
Marxist historians asserted the destruction demonstrates class warfare occurred back then and on a scale that, if true, was staggering. This is a pile of dung. The IPA and CIS would impose their own pile of dung in asserting that it is evidence of ‘neo-classical’ economic ‘creative destruction’. They must, to be consistent.
Greek and Middle Eastern scholars, Biblical Scholars and Marxists were studying the same oddities independent of each other with no hypothesis robust enough to explain what had happened.
The Rhys Carpenter Hypothesis (1960’s) is theory
The evidence supports a singular conclusion. It is the true explanation and so can no longer be treated as an hypothesis only. It is theory, is my contention.
In the 1960’s, Rhys Carpenter put the hypothesis a climactic shift had occurred which induced a severe, general drought enduring many years, resulting in catastrophic famine. Such an event would have been sufficient to induce civil mayhem, violence and depopulation matching the archaeological record, accompanied by the destruction of cities.
The obstacle to accepting the explanation was that there was insufficient evidence in the 60’s and, consequently, it was rejected. By the 1980’s, however, things had changed. Palaeontology and geology had thrown up data which pointed to what Carpenter had postulated. Archaeological evidence threw up telling agreements.
Briefly:
1. European lakes, began to decline c.1400, reaching their lowest levels in the late 11th century to mid-10th.
2. Peat bogs dried out from c.1400 until the 10th century, becoming bogs again around 900 B.C.
3. Glaciers retreated - Swiss Alps, Himalayas and Mt. Kenya, 1160-mid C8th B.C.
4. From pollen samples, Kashmir’s annual monsoon rainfall had fallen by 70% from C15th/14th to C13th/12th B.C. and began recovering thereafter.
5. Monsoon rains feed Lake Victoria, which feeds the Nile River. Lake Victoria’s levels began falling after 1300 B.C., shown by the geological strata.
6 Tigris-Euphrates river flows reduced quickly after 1300, and by very large amounts, not recovering until from the mid 10th century
7. Of the Nile, the Pleusioi branch of the Nile completely silted up, resulting in the abandonment of the city Per Ramses in 1070, while the lower Nubia of the Nile dried out completely.
8. The C12th is the end of Hittite and Ugarit records. Claude F.A. Schaeffer uncovered at Ugarit a strata of white powdery soil, evidence of a very long period of intense heat and no rain.
9. Evidence throughout Cisjordan and Transjordan is consistent with the inference, a drought occurred of incomprehensible severity and duration. A century anthropomorphically is a very long age, though not in physics.
10. The soil strata for the period, from Egypt to the Indus Valley, ranges from conditions typifying Saharan soils to thoroughly desiccated. Intense heat of long duration causes this.
11. Inscriptions from the reigns of:
Ramses X, 1126-1108: ‘we are weak and hungry’
Ramses XI.,1098-70, declares: “(this year was) the year of hyenas, when men starved”. That’s saying something, viz the death toll from starvation and murderous violence.
12. Enna Epic, Babylon: Enna means ’scorched earth’.
The Enna Epic relates, besides Enna, Ishun (’fiery sun’) and Sibitti demons (’plagues’).
13 Correspondence:
An Assyrian text, 1090, complains of no rain and crop failures. In 1082, another writer commented in shock, ‘people are at one another’s flesh’ ( because of famine)
Hittite King Suppiluluimas II requested from his vassal of Ugarit a shipment of grain, as they faced starvation, but the king of Ugarit did not comply for the same reason.
14. In the late 12th century, the exchange rate of gold for grain had risen to 24x that prior to the drought, and continued spiralling thereafter - gold could no longer buy a grain of wheat, there was none to buy.
15. Pottery, the make of ewers changes from elegant and decorated to coarse and of great size. Volume, capacity and not aesthetics, is prized.
16. It is the first time water bores, cisterns, are sunk into rock.
17. “Mutiny on the Bounty”. For the first time in history the totally trustworthy, scrupulous river-boat crews steal cargoes of grain.
18. Pyramids and tomb are plundered for gold to buy brain. It had never been done before then.
19. Pyramid and tomb builders were among the highest paid labourers in Egypt. So highly paid that, to relate their pay rates in today’s terms, it is they who would own the homes of Toorak and South Yarra. Des Moore and Hugh Morgan would be slumming it in the outer urbs of Melbourne. They were paid in grain, which they traded.
For the first time immemorial the unheard of happened. They went on strike. The reason is, they had not been paid in months and were never paid again.
In sum
A severe, prolonged drought of 100 years duration, marked by intense heat, with the Nile and Tigress-Euphrates reduced to muddy bogs splitting a land completely dry.
Effects:
1. During the 100 years, sporadic depopulation of regions and cities due to:
Death from starvation, whole family clans in villages died; with abandonment of cities and regions.
2. Other times: civil revolts and murderous violence by citizens desperate for food.
3. Invasions by peoples to take lands
4. The above agrees with evidence for Greek and Hellenic cities and villages, which show the same patterns. I suggest it is the motive for the Greek invasion of Troy, observing the Hittites were in no position to aid Troy due to famine.
5. Hattuses, Troy, Miletus, Tarsus, Carchemish, Qodesh, Ugarit, and other Hittite strongholds were all destroyed, completely wiped out.
Poetic account of the disaster
Yam is the god ‘Sea’. Yam is a violent usurper of the Canaanite pantheon. The name, “Red Sea”, picks up a notable feature of the ancient Greeks, their hair.
“Sea People”: first used of a coalition in 1175 defeated by Ramses III:
Hatti, Koda (Cicilia), Carchemish Alashija, Anzawa Pleset, Tjerker, Skelesh Denye(n) and Wesesh.
The invasion route was through Asia Minor to Syria, taking the coastal route to Egypt by land and a naval force direct to the Nile Delta, a pincer movement. It wasn’t simply soldiers and sailors. It was all, their women and children, live-stock and chattels. They wanted to take the land because they were desperate. After both coalition forces had been defeated by Ramses III they settled along the coastal plain of Canaan.
The Peleset were the ‘Philisitines’, from Caphtor
Akawasha, also called Keftiu , most likely Crete. Their dress was as depicted in cartouches, Mycenaean. The Old Testament, for example, in a very early unit, Samuel II 8:18, has the name for Cretans, Cherethites.
A coalition of Libyans, Shardana, Shelesh, Akawasha, Lukka, Tursha invaded Egypt in 1178 through Libya. Pharaoh Merneptah defeated them in c.1178, in two desperate battles, sea and land. They are “Sea Peoples” and again of another a coalition defeated by Ramses III in 1178, of Libyans, Peleset, and Tjerker.
The whole period is behind legends in Exodus to Book of Kings I, and the Greek epics on Troy, dear old Homer.
The Ugaritic myth is in records which cease when Ugarit ceased.
Yammu nearly succeeds in claiming and retaining the throne of the Canaanite pantheon installed by Il. The Southern form of Il is El. Yes, the El behind the Old Testament El. Il is finally overthrown, as the priest mythographer relates:
[—-]nn[.]nrt[.]ilm[.]sps.
tsu.ghwtsh
sm .m
lyt tr tril.abk
l.pn .t. pt .n hr
ik al.ysm k.tr il adbk.
lys.alt. t btk
[Shapash the luminary of the gods
she lifted up her voice
Hear, I beseech you
the bull El your father will cause the table
to be set
before prince Yam,
before judge Nahar
shall the bull El your father hear you?
Indeed, he will pull up ….]
thm ym blkm
adnkm tpt nhr
tn ilm dtqh
dtqynh hmlt
tn bl wnnh
bn dgn artm pzh
[The message of Yam your lord,
of your sire judge Nahar (is):
Yield, gods, him whom you protect,
him whom you protect, O multitude,
Give up Baal and his lackeys,
the son of Dagan, that I may possess his gold.]
wyn. tr.adh.il
dbk bl yymm
bdk.bl ynrhm
bn.dgn.askrm
[The Bull El his father answered:
Baal is your slave, O Yam,
Baal is your slave, O Nahar,
the son of Dagan is your prisoner.]
Comment:
Yammu regards and treats the other gods with contempt. He bows not to them. He asserts his kingship. Enfeebled El is no more the warrior. Yet, even as Yam strides to claim the throne, outraged Baal/Hadad would rise up and in fury smite Yam/Nahar.
The myth of Shachar and Shalim has what might be said a pornographic tinge to it, but that was then and it was a time of riot. Death pursued the living with relentless fury.
Yammu is revered and feared. A destroyer god. Fierce, his sword is bloody with the gore of the slain and it rests not. His earthly host is the Greek based coalitions.
The mythographer depicts the pantheon in crisis and in it Yam threatens to conquer. It is the rise of the Sea People. Their God has come.
Another indication is the God Ba’lu= Haddu = Adad(os) = (Greek) Zeus identification. Zeus was worshipped in Syria until the mid 9th century as the head of the Pantheon, and also in the early Aramaean pantheon.
In the OT eitiology of Yam, Sea People and Red Sea are completely detached, lost, from the name. The defeat of the Sea is a miracle performed by Yahweh, his act of rescue. Hence, the failure to identify the famous ‘Red Sea Crossing’ from geography, let alone archaeological evidence.
In the crisis, an axis of the Israelites-Judahites, the people of Yahweh, withstood the violence. The legend of Moses has history behind it. What is this history?
The “rescue”, Moses and the Israelites pass through the sea and Pharaoh and his army are slain by the sea, has historical foundations. There was, on very good probabilities rooted in material, a ‘Moses’ who did come down from a very high ‘mountain’. In an age of drought, invasion, death and destruction, the Holy One delivered his people and ‘Moses’ led them through the ‘wilderness’.
(We’ll write it up for an item.)
Conclusion
What occurred during the 13th to 10th centuries was two shifts in climate, the first being that resulting in a century long period of drought, the second ending the drought by a shift back to colder and wet climates. These two shifts alone ocurred over very long periods (hence the long time recovery took) with a century of no mere drought between them.
They cannot be explained by ‘man made global warming’ pseudo-physics. They contradict outright the ‘hockey stick’ and ‘climate model’ . The physics involved is too intricate to admit of an explanation, the subject of Professor Stott’s letters.
All that can be gainsaid is, they are consistent with physics.
‘Natural’, even though the notions ‘nature’ and ‘natural’ are nonsensical. Nothing is “natural”. Nature, and its forms is merely a linguistic convenience, though a regular word.
Civilisation in the balance - What carbon taxes can cause
The consequences for civilisation were near catastrophic on the one hand and, on the other hand, changed history.
Mass starvation and death, large scale migrations as also by attempted military conquests of lands in the quest for water and arable land. Depopulations of regions.
The overthrow of Hittite empire and destruction of its cities. The end of Ugarit. Greek settlements in the coastal plain.
The first water bores dug down through rock. The nearly achieved conquest of Eygypt by the Greeks - a tantalising prospect. Imagine the revolution in history had they succeeded.
It was a topsy turvy time, which has left its echoes in theistic beliefs and literature, traces which endure today, even in the Middle East.
That was then. This is now.
It is pertinent to point out some major differences between then and now.
Due to commerce, science, engineering and technology, we are not reliant on whatever ‘nature’ dishes out. Capitalism is the miracle that brought this about and changed life so immensely for the better. Carbon taxation will drag us back to the days of starvation, death and unceasing violence in which no man is safe.
In Australia, during drought, afflicted land is shut down on a basic maintenance program until recovery. Commercial production is ramped up in other areas. Internationally, free trade entails that no people need be reliant on domestic production. No one need suffer famine during periods of severe drought.
The reasons for mass starvation in some countries today are genuinely man made. The culprits were savage regimes only. The numbers of ruthless thugs have been increased. Western politicians, bureaucrats and conmen running the ethanol scam have destroyed tremendous agricultural production. Spiralling food prices, riots, starvation and death have been visited on the peaceful.
Western politicians, bureaucrats and conmen running the ethanol scam are guilty of these hideous crimes and their excuse? The excuse is the lie of Stalinists, of whom the Greens Party is only one front, the lie that ‘man causes global warming/climate change’.
We Australians are fortunate. We have not, as yet, been subjected to the full impact of this anti-free market policy dictating death and destruction through the deliberate destruction of food production. Bob Katter, National Party, stood up in Parliament today and declared:
“Ethanol should be mandated and be produced (on immense scale).”
This way, Katter continued, sugar cane growers will be made wealthy. Andrew Bolt uses his column to promote this horrendous fraud. That the current scheme is still a capital destroying, impoverishing fraud escapes the likes of Katter and Bolt. I committed a typo yesterday:
I called Andrew Bolt “Mr. Ethanol Man”.
I apologise to Andrew Bolt, because, Andrew Bolt, you are “The Ethanol Kid”.
Kid: child/juvenile goat. Type of kid, an a-nueronal delinquent.
Darn, my mistake, Bob Katter is an Independent MP. A reasonable mistake. (1)
Ethanol has a time honoured name, Moonshine
For a swig of moonshine, politicians, conmen and Andrew “The Ethanol Kid” Bolt would destroy food production in Australia. Andrew Bolt is “on the same page” as Greg lindsay and his CIS and the vested interests on whose behalf Lindsay and his cranks filled CIS are lobbying for carbon taxes.
Moreover, on the rule of comparative advantage, there is no necessary reason for reliance on domestic production. In other words, what happened in ancient history cannot occur to day, due to civilised progress, which is capitalism. But this is what the politicians will reverse.
Water everywhere and not a ruddy drop to drink
It’s not only vital for life. Production is impossible without water in tremendous, low cost volumes.
The only reason why states such as Victoria are still ‘drought afflicted’ is because our rotten, corrupt, absolutism bent politicians did not get out of the way and let entrepreneurs in free markets build massive dams in the Otways and on the Mitchell River. Their Green policies means they can murder many Australians. They have already done so using Green policies.
The Victorian Parliament outlawed investment in cheap, efficient coal based energy. This is the smoking gun with which Victorians were murdered last summer. The politicians, Federal and State, murdered more Victorians by turning land into fire-storms. More is awaiting detonation.
As for carbon taxes, they will not simply destroy energy, capital, and immiserate Australians. It also entails the real danger of the brutal savagery that tore apart the civilised world in C12th BC to C10th B.C. as men, women and children became desperate.
Anyone who pretends this cannot happen and that Australians are incapable of this is a liar.
Desperation and the desire to survive can render even the kindest the most brutal. Kevin Rudd is a liar, his Cabinet are liars and what sits opposite them are liars.
Liars, and butchers in the making. All the best qualities of totalitarian thugs already present in these vicious, parasitical bastards.
Footnote
(1) It is easy to assume the real problem is Katter is annoyed the National Party won’t let him decide their anti-free market ‘economic policies’. It is not at all clear whether there is any real disgreement. They seem to infest the same mosquito infested swamp. Katter is a land Nat.
I could be mistaken. I’ll take correction. It could be another Right real vapid battle on the twiddly winks carpet. There are only two truly ferocious, bloody games in the entire world, lawn bowls and twiddly winks.
We have something to unload about National Party leader Warren Truss’ time as a minister in the Howard Cabinet. The guy is as vacant as Tony Abbott and Helen Kroger and, man, he doesn’t let a bloke down. He was at his vapid best today in Parliament.
Any more vapidity and, taken with Helen Kroger’s and Abbott’s and Greg Hunt’s gas, I’m going to set up a bottling factory banging down $20 on the knocker, grab $60 million in subsidies, sell the gas to “government”, send the $260 millions into a spanking new Swiss bank account, obtain citizenship, and in Luxembourg, Isle of Man, Barbados and piss on off out of here. Dr. Ken Henry, hard Leftist and Uber Green cult adherent, will spit the dentures, plug them back in, only to swallow the whole damned set and lose ‘em down the crapper in little tiny pieces.