Still Believe in Global Warming? Jan. 19th, 2012 Was the Coldest Day Globally Since 2002

Man Made Global Warming is a scam? It always was a scam? There is one thing that we can all take as a lesson in life and society and politics: When the government says that there is some problem and to fix that problem they need to tax "We the People" more, you'd better run as fast as you can the other way.


Like the war on terrorism, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on whatever you want; they are all scams and failures. Think about it: Is there anyone of us who thinks the government is competent? Is there anyone who thinks the government can fix even a pothole in the road without being over budget and way past deadline? No, right? Why does anyone think that the government could increase our taxes and fix the weather? 

The government of Florida wasted $78,000 dollars on, get this; buying Super-Hero capes for unemployed people. The Japanese government wasted $78 billion on Global Warming research. 

It's nonsense. The weather reports can't even predict correctly the weather next week, it is astounding that "scientists" and government claim they can predict the weather over the next twenty to one hundred years!   


In early 2006, when the Man-Made Global Warming panic was just getting into full swing, I was the producer of an early morning drive time FM radio show in Tokyo. That show was what we in this business call a "Wide Show." A Wide Show is a variety program that also has news, weather, sports and the like. Our show also had music and bits of comedy dispersed here and there. It was lots of fun and a great experience.


One day, we had a Monty Python-esque comedy skit on the show whereby we parodied the great BBC program. The skit was "The Great Global Warming Debate." In that debate, we had on two "professors" with opposite opinions and asked them to argue the question of "Is there or is there not a problem with Man-made global warming?" 


The build up to the skit was tremendous. We made it sound like the definitive argument was going to take place on our show. When the host asked the first professor, "Is there man-made global warming?" and that professor answered, "Yes!" then the host asked the next professor the same thing and he answered, "No!" That was the end of the debate and we ended the program. After all that fanfare and build up, it was a comedic anti-climax. We thought it was hilarious. One listener didn't think it was funny at all.

Writer's rendition of listener who "Didn't 'get' it."

Soon after the skit ended, the office telephone began ringing. It was unusual for that line to ring as it was early in the morning before office hours so I thought it might be an emergency so I answered. It was an extremely irate man on the other side. He was furious. He insisted that making light and fun of such a serious catastrophe as Man-made Global Warming was blasphemy and that the people responsible should be fired immediately. I told him it was and is a comedy skit and that he shouldn't mind about it.


He'd have none of that. He then demanded that I put the station manager on the line. Little did he know that I was the station manager. I told him to hold the line and then I composed myself and calmed down. I picked up the phone again and told him that I was the station manager. He reiterated his claims and I repeated mine. Finally, after he started cursing and threatening me, I told him that, "I'm sorry you are unhappy listening to the content of our station. If you really don't like it, there are other stations that you can listen to." Oh! That really set him off (I hate people who want to use censorship). It finally got so bad that he threatened to come down to the radio station and, get this, are you sitting down? He threatened to come down to the radio station and set it on fire!


I can never figure out how these Greens and earth and nature lovers can be so peaceful and at one with the universe and nature on the one hand and so militant and ready to kill people on the other. 


After he threatened to burn the station down and kill us all with it, I told him that he was welcomed to try and that we'd be waiting for him with the police and fire department when he comes. Since his phone number was registered on the call list at the telephone company I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find him. I also promised to visit him in prison. I never heard from him again after that.


That was 6 years ago. At that time, I had predicted on air and to many friends and people who would listen that this Man Made Global Warming business was all a scam.  I knew it was a scam because, even from the start, it was government's of the world claiming that they needed to increase taxes and payments from the people to finance the fight against this new global terror. As a person who has been keeping track of this sort of thing and the current financial calamity that is upon us (and has been building up for 20 years) it was obvious to me that, if you followed the money trail, there was something awfully suspicious about the government's claim of Man-Made Global Warming.

Anything to sell magazines, right? The fiction of Climate Science 1977.

Throw on top of that, my own personal experience of writing a 120 page thesis for my senior year in high school science class of "The Coming Ice Age" that we were lead to believe that was coming in 1975 ~ 1978 or so.


I predicted that this entire facade of Man Made Global Warming would collapse within 5 years. Just now, I was bragging to my wife about it and she said, "No one is talking about Man Made Global Warming anymore are they?"


Nope. Not in Japan, they aren't. That's why Japan is dropping out of the Kyoto Protocol this year. That's why any other countries, like Canada, have already quit. 

"What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it." 

Like my wife said, "No one is talking about Man Made Global Warming anymore, are they?" Well, honey, they aren't in Japan. But, unfortunately, some people overseas still are. 


Yes, that's right, Mr. Martini, there is an Easter Bunny!


Well now, here comes some more information that's just going to bunch up the underwear of some believers in the polemic of Man Made Global Warming. It seems that Jan. 19, 2012 was the coldest day globally in 10 years.


Real Science Reports it: 

Global temperatures are plummeting, and the temperature recorded by AMSU satellite of 251.858K on January 19 was the coldest of any day since at least 2002.

Yep. That's it. One sentence. Facts, ma'am. Just facts. 


I wonder if this will make some nature lovers want to set people's houses on fire? After all, that is a brilliant counter argument, isn't it?

White Cultural Superiority Complex

The title of this article could very easily have been the saying, "People in glass houses should not throw stones." That is a very old saying and everyone knows it, but people do it all the time. Especially when it comes to foreigners criticizing Japan.


This is a post that will piss off a very many people, though it is not intended that way. This is just an observation that someone like me can make.

OMD - ENOLA GAY

First off, the title of this post is very racy. Let me state for the record that I am half-white and half-Asian. To white people, I look 100% white. To Japanese, some can tell that I am half. To half-Japanese / Americans, we all can recognize each other within seconds. There's a sort of "brotherhood" to being half.


I have lived on both sides of the fence of being white or Asian. I have even sat on top of the fence as a half when it was expedient (of course, whenever it benefited me to be "Japanese" I became one, If it benefited me to be white, I did that).


I found this magical transition to be very useful when I was, say, a high school student in California in a school that was populated by Hispanics, Whites and a few Asians. Unfortunately, and with often violent results, the racial tensions were often ripe between the Hispanics and Whites. 


I do understand being proud of ones heritage and think that it is healthy to do so, but to the point of fisticuffs? Well, that's another question. I suppose it is a question of tribes and savagery.

Take a look at those

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man! Look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars? 

- David Bowie "Life on Mars"

I played the field. I'd do anything to prevent myself from getting pounded or trodden upon by some savage regardless of the color of their skin. I was a wimpy white guy when it served me; I was a wimpy half-white half Hispanic when it served me; I was an extremely wimpy half-Japanese American when it served me well.


Being able to make these transitions like Spider-man was helpful in keeping a total woos kid like me from getting my ass kicked at school with regularity.


I did this for years. I still do it. This blog is a good case in point. I can attack Japan when I think something is wrong and I can attack the USA when there is something wrong. I think I have the right to do that.


Since this blog targets an native English speaking audience, it seems to also attract many people who have a dim view of Japan and her people. Many times it's because of a confused view of history. Though, I admit that Japan did a very many bad things in the past; I cannot say that Japan has done anything worse than the USA does.


In fact, no country in the world, today, is worse than the USA for being the Nazi Germany of the new century. Yes, I mean that the USA bombs, maims and kills brown-skinned little children and old men and women around the world everyday 24/7. 


Hitler wasn't as bad as that. Hitler only killed for 12 years. The USA has been bombing and attacking and invading countries on and off since 1840 or so.  The atrocities have  gotten much worse over these last 60 years. The USA averages bombing one country a year, every year, since 1945. 


But this blog is not about US atrocities. It is about what is going on in Japan. Specifically, what I mean is that, if I write an article or a blog post defending Japan's position - or attacking the views of someone who attacks Japan, invariably confused westerners will much too often write the nonsense knee jerk reaction "But the Japanese get what they deserve as they have never apologized for attacking China" (or some such nonsense or comment to that effect).


It also doesn't have to be a retort to an article that I've written. I also get many comments (that I always delete) from racists and fools who, for example, in response to the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident write nonsense things like, "Japan gets what it deserves...." (using the absurd rationale of not apologizing for China, etc., above).  


I've gotten lots of those kind of nonsense comments from people with western names. I never get them from people of the so-called third world. Specifically speaking, I have never once, in my life, ever gotten these kinds of racist comments from people with names of the so-called "colored" persuasion... Nope. Never. Of course, it is racist of me to judge that a person whose name is, say, Sallamadin, is not white, just as it is racist for me to judge that a person named Williams is white....


But that is not the issue here.


I've never ever received a letter criticizing Japanese xenophobia from a person named  Muhammed or Sabahi or Ali. That's just a fact.


Don't even bring up American apologists for dropping the two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that I have to deal with at the end of every summer of every year... You see, Japanese old men, women and children deserved to be incinerated by the atomic bomb because of:


a) They attacked Pearl Harbor first
b) The Japanese attacked China
c) The Japanese were savages and the bombing was the only way to stop the war


Of course, all three reasons are not an excuse to commit genocide and wipe out innocent women and children.

Yeah, we could nuke this lady and her 2-year-old (and 200,000 just like them) because 

she personally invaded China and the Japanese kill dolphins, right?

Recently, in a post entitled,"Critical and Analytical Thinking are Lost Arts Amongst Many of Today's Adult Population


 In an article I wrote last year that was published in several international online sites, Japan's Bans the Cove and Other Atrocities I had suspicions on the motivations of that film's producers. The producers of that film claimed that their motivations were pure and sincere. They said something to the effect of "If the Japanese people could see the movie, then they'd rise up and stop the senseless killing of these dolphins." (I'm paraphrasing here.)

From being a person who works in Marketing, the mass media and is intimately familiar with hype, I smelled a rat. I wrote:

"...if the makers of The Cove were truly sincere about their motivations in protecting the whales and dolphins, and how, if they truly believed that if the Japanese saw the movie, they'd demand the end of this whaling and dolphin killing, then they'd make the entire movie free on Youtube. Other people with a message have made theirs free, why doesn't the makers of The Cove do the same? Trust that Youtube has hundreds of millions more viewers than the movie theaters in Japan ever could hope to have. But, you know what? The Cove is not available on Youtube; only trailers for sales promotion are available. There goes their credibility.

And don't tell me that they can't give the movie away for free because then they won't make any money; just look at Google. Google gives away almost everything for free and they are one of the biggest money making companies in the world.

So just keep that in mind when you think about this problem and are bursting veins in your neck screaming about how evil these Japanese fishermen are." 


This post brought out the usual peanut gallery of abuse. People (with western names) came up with their usual litany of profanity and other intelligent logical discourse... They also kept up with the "Japan never apologized for China bit too."


The "Japan never apologized for China" notion is completely false. In an article that appeared on Lew Rockwell.com in Feb. of 2006 entitled, "Japan, Atrocities, Apologies and Atonement" I showed proof of all post-war deals and reparations that Japan paid (the article is filled with links and documentation check it yourself and see) and those agreements were negotiated and signed - with the blessing of the victorious western powers - by the respective, then-recognized governments of the Asian nations  that Japan had victimized. At the end of the article I posed a question:


In the case of the Korean victims, deals made by the former military government of Korea with Japan let Japan off the hook for non-state claims from those who suffered. The South Korean government received money from Japan, yet didn't compensate its own suffering people, and then suppressed claims by its own nationals against Japan. Why is Japan the only defendant in cases that involve financial retribution and demands for compensation? Why does Japan have to take all the criticism? Why don't these people sue their own governments and the United States too?

When Chinese sue the Japanese government for damages over the Nanjing massacre, or chemical and biological warfare injuries suffered, why do they sue only the Japanese government? Remember, Chiang Kai-shek forgave and dismissed all personal claims against Japan in return for financial help to fight the communists. Why don't they sue their own government in Taiwan? Why not sue the US government that prevented claims of this sort being heard during the Tokyo war crimes trials? 


But I digress....


The point of this post is hypocritical westerners who are hopelessly trapped in what I call White Cultural Superiority Complex when the complain about Japan yet fail to see their own disgraceful actions. They want to criticize Japan for, say, killing a non-endangered species of dolphins as featured in the movie the Cove, but they fail to recognize and address war crimes and atrocities that are being committed by their very own governments at this very moment. Hypocrites! Many of these people are self-professed Christians too. The bible talks about them:


Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye. (NRSV, Matthew 7:1-5)  


Then, when I take them to task, they knee-jerk the nonsense about World War II and Japanese invasion of Asia.


Yes. The Japanese invasion of Asia was a very bad thing. Japan committed war crimes in the past. If your countries are a part of NATO, you are committing war crimes right now.

Right! And some jerks are worried about dolphins?

Are you kidding me?

But let's say your country is or was not a partner in crime over the bombing of Afghanistan or the invasion of Iraq... How about history, then?


Japan apologized in the 1950's for World War II. How about the west's genocide of native peoples, killing millions of them?  


Canada? It took them 200 years to apologize for:


"...one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologised on Wednesday for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were sexually and physically abused." - Reuters


The Americans? Still hasn't apologized for killing an estimated 12 million native American Indians since the 15th century.... Maybe they get around to it in the next millennium. One of the most recent atrocities against native Americans was about 100 years ago in December of 1890 at Wounded Knee when US troops gunned down 150 men women and children.

But! But! We did give them a decent burial and, you can't 

deny that the Japanese do kill dolphins!

Australia? No apology for genocide against Aboriginal peoples wiping them out into near extinction.


New Zealand? Extermination of 85% of the Maori population and the so-called Land Wars.


Do I even need to mention any European country? No? I didn't think so.... I think I already mentioned something about NATO killing kids daily.


With all this past history and the wars and killing still going on today, people from these countries sure have the nerve to complain about Japan killing several hundred non-endangered species of dolphins, when they are bombing brown-skinned children in the Middle East?


It's much more difficult to look into the mirror and see just how grotesque and ugly one's face is. It's much easier to look over the fence and complain about your neighbors yard... For many westerners, I reckon looking in the mirror is far far too much to bear.


So, because dolphins are cute and more intelligent than dogs Japan is the target?


Pardon me if I scoff.


Note: Of course not all Caucasians are guilty of this error in thinking. Usually intelligent people with common sense do not - or can control themselves so they don't exhibit these behaviors. But, alas, even one person being a racist like this is one too many.


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This article was inspired by a correspondence with Jen Freespirit S. I'm sorry that I initially took your queries as an attack on my views on the Cove. Hopefully, as I get older, I become more patient and wiser. Also good luck and chin up to Allison Sane.