No, no Atlas Summit or Summer Seminar as held in the past. In 2017 The Atlas Society will have a bigger presence in FreedomFest as such, but that won't add up to many sessions. There may be a course for students about Objectivism at the start of FreedomFest.

It is obvious this is the case, but it is great to see so many quotes where they are being honest about it. As they admit they feel justified to lie about it most of the time. Thanks for posting it.

This is a very interesting video on the fundamental science of Global Warming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bwa...

Does anyone know why these people apparently hate people? Why would the earth be "better" so sparsely populated by humans? Are these individuals ready to stand in the front of the "to be eradicated" line? Why is it somehow better to live in abject poverty in a "third world" cesspool? It seems the natural and logical consequences these folks envision (a planet depleted of all resources) would lead to exactly what they claim to want -- I don't get it. At least these folks -- imbued with gravitas by the movement -- admit they are lying sacks of .....
The earth (the galaxy or the universe for that matter) is a giant recycling machine. There is only so much matter that is constantly being recycled into other forms of matter and energy. The earth is a giant carbon fuel producing machine.

Hi Will,

Is there going to be an Atlas Summit this year?

Some people can't tell the difference between climate science and climate politics. Scientists view climate change as something to be studied and understood while politicians view it as an opportunity to gain political power. To the scientist it is a puzzle to be solved to the politician it is a tool to be exploited. The political class is always looking for tools that will enhance their power. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." H. L. Menkin

Looks like proof they are stupid too.

Green is the new Red and has been since the wall came down. These people are just communists underground. Their aim is power and there's no way they could control a population in the billions. So, a reduction of the "surface population" is necessary. Their followers, like the "kids" of Silicon Valley, are just virtue signaling. But, if they have problems learning and growing, because of their monetary wealth, they will become the communist leaders with the same power agenda.

Thanks, Dale.

The environmentalists have been saying it. And they mean it: http://atlassociety.org/commentary/co...

The leaders define the direction of the movement. It is always dangerous to suggest that the leaders are outliers.

Great article, db. Thanks.

-- Spoken for truth --

The evil is embellished by straight-faced hypocrisy.
Some celebrity pop-singer (Will E Am?) speaks at a green gathering condemning carbon, he arrived by helicopter.
B.Streisand is discovered to have air-conditioned stables on her property.
D.Suzuki has fathered a large family and commutes to a private island off Vancouver.
They make speeches about the danger of rising sea levels while buying and living in expensive ocean front homes.

Airlines, private jets, limos and SUVs carry and ferry looters to and around climate change conferences to condemn carbon.
Celebrities make passionate pleas against carbon, high on emotional display but devoid of fact.
Temperature records are faked by 'homogenizing' data but details of what computations were made and why are not revealed.
Dissenters from the green religion have been hounded out of office, work, and academia, this has happened even to 'believers' who express doubts about aspects of the orthodoxy.

Amazing and frightening. These aren't loons standing on a street corner. These are people in powerful and influential positions. Thanks for posting this Db.

The agenda is sacrifice of humanity to nature regarded as a superior intrinsic religious value, imposed by ecological fascism. Eugenics is only one variety and means of collectivism, and the wealthy supporters are only the means of funding it. The funding is important as a means of imposing policy but it is not fundamental to the ideology driving it.

The agenda is eugenics, what is confounding is the funds provided come from the aged ultra rich The Soros 86 ,Turner78 ,Bloomberg 74 ,Rockefeller101, ,Buffett86 ,and Gates the baby at 62 , most are near the end of their life.US male life expectancy is 78.25 in 2012.

The contradictions come first; they aren't normally caused by mental problems. The more contradictions they entrench in their minds the more difficult it becomes for them to straighten out their own thinking, which is why it is often so hopeless to reason with them. You don't have to convince them in order to stop the spreading their vile philosophy, but you do have to be able to counter the content of what they say and be able to explain what is right. That can't be done by dismissing them as psychos and nothing else. The worst of them may be dismissed that way by people of common sense, but it isn't enough to defend a correct philosophy and refute the bad. You can't refute or discuss philosophy in terms of psychological motives for believing it.

That is the ends justifies the unjustified ends of zealots trying to put over an evil philosophy they are already committed to.

Cognitive dissonance is a result of repetitive contradictions.

The lies are right out in the open these days and it has no effect on the liars. This sounds like the wet nurse in AS.
.”We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
Lead author of many IPCC reports

Their lack of attention span is a cognitive problem, but not the explanation for the destructive ideas being spread. Cognitive problems with conceptual thought only make it more difficult to counter.

It isn't just fools with dysfunctional brains. They are spreading an evil, misanthropic philosophy attributing intrinsic value to nature, to be regarded as superior to man. That is much worse than just being fools. It's deliberate. To imply that they have poorly functioning brains lets them off the hook for responsibility for what they are doing. Cognitive determinism is not causing this.

More brainwashed graduates every June, like clock work! The new batch coming up have parents whose faces have been stuck in video games and iPhones. No communication skills , but shorthand texts. They react, their is no evaluation
or examination. Oh, and soon they will be producing little greenbots kids. All legislatively vaccinated to beat the band. But also some young Galts ,Reardon's ,
Taggerts ,d'Anconia's.

They don't want to set an example and leave because most of them are too busy being hypocrites, riding around in their gas driven cars, flying in their private jets, which use, oh, my gosh...fuel, and secretly eating red meat.

It sure would.

Yes that would show some real commitment.