I'll have to admit that this article is what I would call an exploratory discussion of a perplexing phenomenon. I had postponed writing this article, perhaps for obvious reasons. The human mammal brain has long been an intense interest of mine. The complexity of human cognition and behavior is so immense it is just astonishing. I am 64 years old so I have been around long enough to know that nothing really surprises me. Not anymore. This time I was taken aback.

It was about 15 years ago that I got an email from a gentleman named Tim Ball. World Affairs Monthly [worldaffairsmonthly.com] has been famous since I launched it in April 2002. I cannot say how famous but probably it is seriously famous. World famous. And now in 2023 I am known all over the world – every corner of the planet. So Tim Ball was approaching me and he was interested in talking to me about the theory that human CO2 emissions is resulting in the “greenhouse effect” in the Earth's atmosphere. The Earth is supposed to be warming – some 1 degree centigrade in a century. Again, this is apparently due to the CO2 we are emitting into the Earth's atmosphere when we do combustion, namely hydrocarbons. Who is Tim Ball?

“Timothy Francis Ball, PhD (November 5, 1938 – September 24, 2022) was a British-born Canadian public speaker and writer who was a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1971 until his retirement in 1996. Ball then became very active in promoting rejection of the scientific consensus on global warming, giving public talks and writing opinion pieces and letters to the editor for Canadian newspapers. He has been a member of energy industry funded lobbying groups. Ball received a bachelor's degree with honors in geography from the University of Winnipeg in 1970, followed by an M.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1971 and a PhD in geography with a specific focus on historical climatology from Queen Mary University of London in England in 1983.[5] Ball became an instructor at the University of Winnipeg in 1971, and a lecturer the following year. He then served in the latter capacity for 10 years. In 1982 he became an assistant professor there, and was promoted to associate professor in 1984 and full professor in 1988. He retired from teaching in 1996.”

I interviewed Mr Ball several times. I did not record them, I will have to check. The old WAM [at old.worldaffairsmonthly.com] has outdated software that cannot easily be defended against hacking attacks so we have disabled it but I will have it up again soon, accessible only to me. All the old WAM content, excellent content, is there.

I am not going to argue that the Earth is warming. I am also not going to argue that CO2 is a potent greenhouse gas. It is understood that some 60 million years ago the Earth's surface temperature was roughly some 13 degrees centigrade warmer than now. The Earth's two poles were not frozen over. It is not plausible that CO2 could be responsible for this. I am obviously not an Earth scientist but I have talked to my son about this issue and he argues that the Earth's temperature is mostly due to two forces: 1) the Sun 2) the density of the matter in the Earth's atmosphere. That seems correct to me. This is another article, it is a complex phenomena and I am uncertain I can adequately summarize it. Here's my attempt at a summary: the presence of 8 billion human mammals on the Earth has little chance of affecting the Earth's climate and atmosphere in any dramatic or appreciable way.

I had frequent talks with Mr Ball. He was determined to explain to the public that warming was not taking place and that CO2 could not be to blame if any warming was taking place. I did not dispute this. He argued that we needed to make the facts known and then the public would respond and the theory would be put to rest. I was doubtful that a presentation of the facts would have the desired effect.

I have been proven correct. The global warming hysteria is still pretty pronounced but I do think it is abating now at a rapid pace. And why is that? I think it is because of something very powerful: it's called “living standards.” Proponents of CO2-induced global warming are suggesting that you must accept lower living standards to save the Earth. Meanwhile the Indians in South Asia and the Chinese in East Asia do not really consider CO2 as harmful. That is about 3 billion human mammals. Most of them are poor and they will only a have a chance to improve their lives and their living standards if they “do combustion of hydrocarbons.”

So the debate is settled, right?

Back to Tim Ball. I recently thought of him and decided I would give him a call. I found his telephone number and called. His wife answered and told me that he was close to death. He was dying. And he did indeed die. This has happened to me before, several times. I wanted to get back in touch and discovered they were dead. I heard for the first time about a book titled Slaying the Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Theory. Published by Stairway Press in 2011. A group of scientists and authors including Tim Ball offer their arguments on the issue of global warming or what is now called climate change.

So now I get to the thesis of this article which as I said is mostly exploratory in nature. I asked the publisher for a review copy and was promptly sent one. Hey thanks! I then ripped through it and got the basic arguments. I decided I would ask the publisher for the email addresses of the 8 authors. A few are dead. Mr Joe Olson is still around and so I heard from him. Also Mr Claes Johnson. I quickly organized an interview with Mr Olson. He's a professional engineer in Houston, Texas. I did two hours of interview. They are published in the left hand column, in the audio column. They were perfectly fine, very impressive. He is undoubtedly brilliant and has proficiency in many areas of knowledge. He is a polymath. He has a great sense of humor, a prodigious memory, very friendly and affable and most important he is articulate. I also sense that he has a high degree of integrity which means he's honest.

This article is getting kind of long. So what is there to criticize about Mr Joe Olson? Not really anything but you will see that in the second interview he puts forward the allegation that the American moon landing was faked. Yes he said this! This is pretty ridiculous and it's silly if not stupid. I was basically flabbergasted. He also argued that 9 11 was an “inside job” and the US government as well as the Israeli government were responsible.

So what's going on? I will argue that paranoia is the critical brain substrate on which science and engineering is developed. I have noticed paranoia and irrational thinking in a few brilliant men. These men are close to me. Very close. I am not tending to be paranoid but I do recall I had a little of it when I was young, in my 20s. If you are oblivious or partially oblivious then you are not paranoid and you are not likely to be highly intelligent. If you are highly intelligent or even considered brilliant then it is likely you will be overwhelmed from time to time by paranoia. This paranoia is manifested in different ways even many different ways. You'll get thinking or thought that is considered fanciful and not based on any sound reasoning and logic and for which evidence is lacking. Scrupulous thought about the world, the phenomena of the world, is going to inevitably include some paranoid thoughts. Funny, isn't it?

On the other hand, it is very clear that conspiracy is very real. The US government did kill John F Kennedy, the president of the United States. It was a conspiracy. A lawyer who works for the United States Department of Justice told me this, that the government killed him. He argued that this is not acknowledged because the repercussions would be too scary – too risky. Hard to argue with that.

There is conspiracy everywhere. It is likely that the Covid-19 lock down in the United States was a conspiracy. What it was is still not appreciated. Jewish Wall Street tycoons and billionaires realized it would be an awesome trade. Sell just before the lock down then wait until the lock down has resulted in its desired effect – driving the stock market down about 40%. A considerable amount. Then buy at the bottom, or just before the lock down is lifted. Then the "public health authorities" say they intend to lift the lock down. Then the stock market rockets back up to where it was before the lock down.

This is a criminal conspiracy. There was no interest in protecting public health. There was an interest in doing the trade and earning billions $$. Virtually no risk! Jewish hedge fund owners conspired to get this going, conspiring with the US government. Secrecy is obviously critical. There was plenty of secrecy in how these decisions were made.

So you can understand Joe Olson might have the mindset he does. He's not very trusting.

As for the origins of the global warming theory, I will argue that it is a conspiracy. An Ashkenazi Jewish conspiracy. By 1984 or so the price of crude oil was falling fast and the Jews realized they might be able to resurrect the greenhouse effect. This time it would be argued that warming is going to harm us, it is going to wipe out our civilization. The first time the greenhouse effect was invoked to allay concerns that an Ice Age would wipe us out or make life pretty difficult.

“In developing a theory to explain the ice ages, Arrhenius, in 1896, was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will increase Earth's surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. These calculations led him to conclude that human-caused CO2 emissions, from fossil-fuel burning and other combustion processes, are large enough to cause global warming.”

Svante Arrhenius was keen to argue that burning coal was in fact good because it would warm the Earth thus making an Ice Age less likely. It was then feared that another Ice Age was inevitable.

The Jews – who rule the United States – want simply to deny income to the Arab oil producing nations. Also to Russia which is one of the largest oil producers in the world. Both the Arabs and Slavs are the enemies of the Ashkenazi Jews. There is a war ongoing now in Ukraine and the Jews are using Ukraine as a "battering ram" against Russia. They want to topple the Russian government and gain access to the huge crude oil reserves. Talk climate change while in reality lusting for the oil. Amusing isn't it? 

 So yes it is a conspiracy. It is pretty harebrained, to be sure. This is what the Ashkenazi Jews do, however. They are criminals, they are crazy. They will not pull it off but they will certainly try.

The human mammal brain is quite capable of defeating this nonsense – in fact any nonsense. That's what we do and that's why we are so powerful.