60 MINUTES MAKES FAKE NEWS ABOUT HUMANS RUINING EARTH:

Chalk this up as 60 Minutes hosting the worst peddler of false knowledge since Dan Rather left the set.

CBS kicked off 2023 by touting “mass extinction” blather by Paul Ehrlich, the guy who’s been peddling radical and misanthropic eco-garbage since his book The Population Bomb in 1968.

That screed began: “The battle to feed all humanity is over. In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines–hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”

This may qualify as the drop-dead dumbest announcement of the Sixties and should have disqualified him from the status of Expert by the end of the 1970s. But the left-wing media never tire of him. They can’t get enough of this ecological self-loathing. The human race is always a pestilence on the planet.

Pelley led off the show with Ehrlich warning that “I and the vast majority of my colleagues think we’ve had it; that the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”

Something that Ehrlich has been shouting for over 50 years: 60 Minutes Promotes Paul Ehrlich’s Failed Doomsaying One More Time. The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.

And curiously, someone who has long wished to implement socialism nationally sees National Socialists under every bed:

America’s Newspaper of Record suggests an alternate guest for the show: 60 Minutes Interviews Population Control Expert Thanos.

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Well, you know, you can pay yourself a salary out of campaign funds when you’re a candidate, you can travel to places you want to go, people will treat you like you’re important even if you hardly have a shot, and it boosts cable news bookings, book sales, etc.

Hey, maybe I should run. I’ve got as good a chance as John Bolton.

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OLD AND BUSTED: “It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”*

The new hotness? It’s necessary to increase pollution in order to fight global warming: A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate.

A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.

Geoengineering refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming.

It’s not technically difficult to release such compounds into the stratosphere. But scientists have mostly (though not entirely) refrained from carrying out even small-scale outdoor experiments. And it’s not clear that any have yet injected materials into that specific layer of the atmosphere in the context of geoengineering-related research.

That’s in part because it’s highly controversial. Little is known about the real-world effect of such deliberate interventions at large scales, but they could have dangerous side effects. The impacts could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts.

Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets, appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It’s already attempting to sell “cooling credits” for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads.

To be fair, it’s an idea that’s Obama administration approved:

But why is Make Sunset thinking on such a small scale? Go for the big time! Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming?’

* Flashback: Peter Arnett: Whose Man in Baghdad? “Remember the phrase ‘We had to destroy the village in order to save it’? It has become totemic. Arnett was the originator of the phrase. The trouble is, as first B.G. Burkett and then I discovered after a little investigation, the report was wrong. It wasn’t the U.S. that destroyed Ben Tre, (a town, not a village) but the Vietcong. And the soldier Arnett was most likely quoting remembers saying ‘It was a shame the town was destroyed,’ not the fatuity Arnett made famous.”

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YESTERDAY WAS A VERY IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY, JIM TREACHER WRITES:

January 6 is a day that will live in infamy. On this date, a brutal crime was committed. A miscarriage of justice. A blot on our nation’s history.

That’s right, I’m talking about this:

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