CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROVERSY

HOW TO VIEW CLIMATE CHANGE

If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you. Friedrick Nietzsche

I'm not sure specifically what Nietzsche had in mind with this quote, but for me, it suggests that if we focus on something we perceive to be a problem, which may or may not exist, we will make it real for ourselves as it gazes back up at us. Such is the phenomenon of projection. So, if we're looking for a fatalistic crisis, it will soon find us, giving us all the rationalisations we need to believe in it, sometimes with religious ferocity. 

Having said that, we need to remain vigilant stewards of the Earth, taking action against problems such as pollution and resource exploitation by taking a balanced and rational approach that doesn't descend into fear, hubris, hopelessness and hysteria. Such are the domains of the ego, not science. 

In Elysium's Passage: The Return, there is a scene where James, the protagonist, challenges his environmentalist friend, Carl, on the topic of Climate Change. He remains sceptical about how it has been misrepresented as being a global cataclysmic problem when it is not. 

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‘You say, Carl, that we must cut our carbon emissions. Most environmentalists say that, although I’ve never understood why that’s necessary, considering carbon is plant food as essential to plants as oxygen is to us. Further to that, as Dr Patrick Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, has observed, the planet has substantially greened over the last century, so there isn’t a carbon surplus like we’ve been told; in fact, there’s a carbon deficit.

‘I’d also like to point out how predictions of climate catastrophe over the last forty years have proven entirely false.[1] Contrary to what we’ve often been told, the polar ice caps are not melting, the sea is not rising, and we might soon be headed into another cycle of global cooling in harmony with the sun’s radiant cycles.

‘They say the science is settled; well, that’s about the most anti-scientific statement anyone could make, and yet they all parrot this. In reality, it’s never settled, determined or fixed; how can anything be scientific if it’s not open to new and contrary information? Is that not how science advanced to Newton and then beyond Newton?

‘Most of all, don’t trust the government-funded computer models rigged to prove whatever results the programmers and activists wish to advance. I could go on with about a thousand other propaganda items designed to create fear. And we know what fear is for; it’s to control the masses for political ends.’

‘It appears,’ Carl said, ‘you’re prepared to ignore the science and be a conspiracy theorist.’

‘Yes, there is a conspiracy; however, it’s not a theory; look at the interests that contrive climate hysteria and what they stand to gain by promoting their agenda of guilt. As for following the science… yes, why don’t we do that for once, and why not follow the money while we’re at it? That will tell you all you need to know.’

‘So are you saying I’ve been duped and am a pawn in all this?’

‘Only if you believe the claptrap. Carl, there are so many worthy things environmentalists need to pursue in cleaning the oceans, rivers and earth to make things more habitable for plants, animals and humans. It’s a noble discipline you have chosen, and I wish you well, but I advise you not to allow yourself to get taken in by the activists in the climate industry. They will ruin everything, and they won’t care as long as their interests retain control.’

‘I could go on for days supporting my case; however, I can see this conversation is not going to be edifying for either of us, so let’s leave it there.’

He didn’t say anything for some time. I suspected he hadn’t heard of these challenges to the climate narrative before. To his credit, he didn’t react; rather, he said, ‘Let’s agree to disagree; meanwhile, I’ll follow up on some of the claims you are making to debunk this science.’

Perhaps Carl didn’t get too defensive because he respected my PhD in philosophy and how I was prepared to back my claims with research supporting my views, such as those proffered by many respected scientists unafraid to challenge the alarmists.

[1] A few explicit examples I recited to him regarding global cooling and global warming over the last sixty years included James Hanson, Paul Erlich, Al Gore, Prince Charles, the New York Times and The Guardian. Unfortunately, there were hundreds if not thousands of other apocalyptic predictions by scientists, all proving to be completely wrong, and still, they persist in advancing their agenda of fear. Either the world would be under a blanket of ice, or the oceans cover the world’s coastal cities from melted ice caps. Much of this was to happen by 2000.

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Carbon, an essential component of human life, is not what the alarmists make it out to be. It is not toxic. Not only is it as essential for life as oxygen, it is plant food, making the planet greener. In fact, according to some top-rung scientists in the field of carbon, we need more carbon in the atmosphere, not less. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, PhD in Ecology, states this, as does Dr William Happer, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton, the world's foremost expert on carbon. Check out their arguments for this on YouTube. In scientific reality (not political fantasy), carbon has nothing to do with climate change or global warming, only taxes. An unproven hypothesis. Besides, climate is always changing and goes in cycles of warm and cold over the centuries. If there is no government grant conjuring manipulated, fudged, selective "permeated computer model data, there's nothing to Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW), i.e. It's all our fault.

Perhaps, this excerpt doesn't change your mind; all I wish to reveal are views contrary to what are often promulgated. For those interested in this topic, it is advisable to do your research. You may wish to start with the Climate Depot website.

I recommend this excellent presentation by Dr William Happy, a highly regarded scientist.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1zUW4uOSw 

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE SERIES

 
This Elysium's Passage narrations are about a young British philosopher named James Phillips, who finds himself living in an altered state of reality while still remaining on Earth.  

After experiencing a near-fatal fall while climbing to the summit of a remote mountain in the Andes, James awakens in a new dimension. He soon encounters two mysterious beings who provide him with a very different perspective on the nature of his existence. Over the next year, before his body recovers from the coma, he is challenged to re-examine his understanding of life’s meaning and purpose far beyond anything he previously believed or could believe.

An engaging and sometimes surreal adventure with intimations of impending romance, the narrative explores the most important questions about life, death, reality and our ultimate destiny. 

The Plains of Elysium (Champs-Élysées) was described by Homer, Hesiod, Virgil and many other poets as the paradisiac afterlife realm reserved for heroes. As the title suggests, this is about a journey through a passage that leads towards Elysium’s exciting realm of existence.

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ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES
 

THE ASCENT: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

THE SUMMIT: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

QUANTUM LEAPS: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

SURREAL ADVENTURES: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

MYSTICAL ROMANCE: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

THE ELIXIR: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

THE RETURN: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

 

1. The Ascent is the first novel in the Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage that’s foundational to everything that happens in the following narratives that embark on an adventure that will surprise and delight the reader like no other book.

It all begins with an extreme adventure of climbing a remote and challenging mountain somewhere in the Andean Mountains. Just as James, the protagonist, is about to reach the mountain summit, he falls into an abyss that leaves him in a coma for almost a year.

After being airlifted by a forestry helicopter and flown back to London, where his body remains for almost a year. Eventually, he learns it was not him but his body that was rescued. Several days later, without understanding what happened, he continues to climb to the summit in an alternate dimension of higher consciousness.

Fortuitously, he meets two adventurers on the summit ridge who are no longer of this world. After that, his surreal life leads him to several new adventures in the subsequent chronicles that include a rich mix of adventure, romance, and fantasy, along with profound discussions of philosophy, spirituality and the afterlife.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

2. The Summit, the second novel in the Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage, carries on where James, the narrator and protagonist, is taught more about a multidimensional reality that he finds difficult to comprehend.

Not only does he find he’s not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to comprehend since their teachings are contrary to his limited understanding of non-material reality.

After being tricked into teleporting off a ledge where he was trapped, James becomes aware of the new reality that makes him capable of far more adventures than could have ever been experienced previously in his physical body back home.

Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing.

Warning: This book may also open the reader’s eyes to a much vaster reality than most might be aware. As with the other Chronicles, there are discussions of philosophy, the spiritual afterlife and what might seem like fantasy.

3. Quantum Leaps is the third novel in Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage, where James, the philosopher-protagonist, teleports back to London to visit his body and make contact with the special nurse taking care of it in his absence. Immediately, he feels an inexplicable spiritual bond with her for reasons he remains unaware of.

Now aroused by a renewed interest in matters of love, the beginnings of a relationship begin to emerge as he attempts to reach across the chasm of their worlds. But it’s not until the fifth novel, Mystical Romance, that he encounters her in a way that he finds difficult to believe.

However, before that can happen, there is much about his failed relationships that must be resolved before he is ready to move forward in his new life in Elysium’s Passage. It is during this time he christens his comatose body as the fall guy since it took the fall for him down the abyss so he could learn the lessons he’s now learning.

That will be the next focus of his life, where in his next Surreal Adventures, he is given virtual lessons to release many of his past beliefs about life.

4. Surreal Adventures is the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage, which finds James, the protagonist and narrator, escorted by his companions to a remote South Pacific Island, where he is left to reflect on what he’s learned.

During the next forty days, he battles the demons of his past as he works through some rather painful issues from his early youth. Here, in a tropical storm, he encounters an eery suspended spectre of the one he loved yet still resents for abandoning him as a child.

After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn’t get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient ‘ghost’ ship onto the beach. Together, they sail off on a mystical ocean voyage to a couple of virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons.

Near the end, these encounters help prepare him for a new challenge within the interior of a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excaliber, he continues on to where his life is about to be transformed in the following chronicle, Mystical Romance. 

5. Mystical Romance is the fifth chronicle in Elysium’s Passage, which will surprise the reader with a romantic twist of how love is expressed in higher realms. From this lofty perspective, everything about intimacy is understood as within, so without.

After escaping his tomb, James, the narrator and protagonist, makes his way through a maze of tunnels until he arrives at a large oak door, which he opens with the golden key he had been given. There, he steps into Elysium’s Passage’s Great Hall, where his life and recent achievements are celebrated now that his eyes have been opened to perceive a fascinating interior world of wonderment… and romance.

To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body’s existence. 

6. The Elixir is the sixth chronicle of the Elysium’s Passage series that prepares James, the narrator-protagonist, to awaken and return to his body in London. Before that can happen, however, his off-worlder friend presents a mysterious equation enshrouded with a light code frequency that will stimulate multidimensional DNA strands within him.

Much of this narration is centred in London, where his nurse unknowingly becomes involved in how the Elixir’s equation finds its way from a taxi cab driver to higher echelons of science. There are many twists in how she unwittingly brings the Elixir to the attention of mathematicians and physicists, after which they eventually discover how to code the equation into a laser ray to stimulate his fall-guy body into full consciousness.

Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is filled with intrigue, as is his shocking return to his earthly body.

 
­­­­­7. The Return is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium’s Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events experienced in the previous novels are tied together in an exciting, fast-moving, action-packed narrative over several countries.

 At first, it seems all memories have been lost, with his fall guy’s brain not being aware of what happened to him while in his coma. As a consequence, it takes a while for him to be convinced he had been out of his earthly body for almost a year.

Through some rather unexpected events and evidence, along with his girlfriend’s urging, he is brought to an awareness of much of what occurred. It takes a while for his mind to catch up with the changes made in his heart during his stay in the alternate realm. But after experiencing several harsh realities, he discovers what he became within while out of his body. Gradually, he comes to understand the many challenges that lie ahead for him in fulfilling his future mission on Earth.

This book is filled with adventure, romance and personal intrigue, that ties together all six previous narratives of the Elysium’s Passage series.

For a limited time, the first half of The Return is posted on this blog site at: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/The-Rerurn