Thursday, October 08, 2020

Boldly Stating Lies As Fact

 No, I didn't watch the "debate" last night. I flipped over to see what was being said and was greeted with Harris pushing the Russia collusion hoax. Given that the recently revealed and declassified documents have proven beyond any reasonable doubt, that the Russia hoax was made up by team Clinton for the purposes of smearing Trump. That Brenan knew it was made up. That the Obama admin, including Biden set up Flynn and the entire thing became a coup attempt, anyone mentioning Russia at this point is revealing themselves as ignorant or a total partisan willing to say anything to "win".

So I went back to my reading and soon went to bed.

This AM I ran across a video by Tony Heller in regards to another piece of misinformation bandied about during the "debate"; that wildfires and hurricanes are more prevalent now due to "climate change"


In case of one of two things:

1) YouTube takes down the video because it "contradicts experts".

2) You don't have the time right now to watch the video

Here are three screenshots to underscore the boldness of the lie.


Landfalling hurricanes have been declining since 1800s


1886 was the most active hurricane season in recorded US history (emphasis on recorded since the Earth is a 4.5 billion years old and the US has been around for about 200 of those years. And even if you were a young earth creationist who believes the earth is about 5000 years old, America still hasn't been around all that long.



Lastly, from the NYT:


Person and a spark eh? 



4 arrested eh?

And this doesn't even touch the subject of poor land management.

Like I said, I had better things to do than watch misinformation. You're being lied to by "climate scientists" and you're being lied to by "COVID scientists". They know that the vast majority of you will not have the time or inclination to seek out the data. They know that most of you cannot understand the papers they refer to (not a knock on the general public, the general public shouldn't HAVE TO) in order to see how the information in those papers are either being misrepresented or simply don't say what the personality claims it says.  And when all else fails, they will simply bar people from posting facts onto social media platforms or ban the poster outright.