{"id":307605,"date":"2024-03-13T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=307605"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:13:40","slug":"now-scientists-worry-about-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=307605","title":{"rendered":"Now Scientists Worry About the Impact of Climate Change on Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"307612\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=307612\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?fit=1862%2C1048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1862,1048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0alien-climate-change\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?resize=1536%2C865&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?w=1862&amp;ssl=1 1862w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0alien-climate-change.webp?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/03\/12\/the-scientists-who-worry-about-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-alien-life\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/steven-tucker\/\">STEVEN TUCKER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"490\" data-attachment-id=\"307607\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=307607\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240%C3%971240.jpeg?fit=935%2C634&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"935,634\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240\u00d71240\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240%C3%971240.jpeg?fit=723%2C490&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240%C3%971240.jpeg?resize=723%2C490&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240%C3%971240.jpeg?w=935&amp;ssl=1 935w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240%C3%971240.jpeg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02024-03-11-22_49_46-170207-aliens-rhk-1646p.jpg-1240%C3%971240.jpeg?resize=768%2C521&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you believe in UFOs? If so, be careful, you might be a dangerous Right-wing radical without even knowing the fact! A new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-68515515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pentagon report<\/a>&nbsp;released last week made the dismissive claim that historical spikes in sightings of such things back in the 1950s and 1960s were largely just the result of paranoid members of the general public innocently mistaking top-secret U.S. military craft of the era for those of extraterrestrial beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report was issued on behalf of the Pentagon\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office<\/a>&nbsp;(AARO), headed up until last December by a physicist and former CIA man named&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sean_M._Kirkpatrick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sean Kirkpatrick<\/a>. Kirkpatrick was the man habitually known by the media as \u2018the Pentagon\u2019s UFO chief\u2019, in the limited sense that, whenever a journalist wanted to ask the U.S. Government whether there was any definite proof aliens had landed on Planet Earth yet, it was his job to say \u201cNo, please stop asking us\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, the term UFO means just that \u2013&nbsp;<em>Unidentified<\/em>&nbsp;Flying Object, and there have certainly been plenty of those buzzing American airspace of late, although whether they are actually extraterrestrial in nature, or simply invasive drone-like tech from an enemy nation like China or wherever is a moot point, as Kirkpatrick himself has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alien Worldviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, besides making such perfectly reasonable apolitical points, Kitkpatrick also appears to possess a certain fondness for making a few rather less reasonable overtly politicised ones too. In early February, Kirkpatrick gave an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/06\/former-ufo-boss-pentagon-kirkpatrick-00139880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;to politics website&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em>, expressing his grave expert opinion that the authorities should be much more forthcoming in revealing details about such mysterious phenomena to the general public: hence the release of the Pentagon\u2019s new debunking report, I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His reasons for advising this course of future action were rather interesting. Noting it was AARO\u2019s job to investigate potential military or terrorist threats to U.S. airspace, not \u201cto go and find extraterrestrials\u201d, Kirkpatrick argued that \u201cIf there is a void in the information space, it will be filled with the imagination of the public Right and [their] conspiracies\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, that\u2019s right: only conservatives ever subscribe to mad conspiracy theories of any kind. A rash of media stories in recent years have tried to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/why-is-the-american-right-obsessed-with-ufos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a>&nbsp;(in fact wholly unrepresentative) Right-wing American movements like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-qanon-ufo-voter-fraud-b1853802.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">QAnon<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/06\/21\/why-tucker-carlson-loves-ufos-jason-colavito-on-the-hidden-links-between-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January 6th rioters<\/a>&nbsp;to belief in UFO-related conspiracies, often with the self-evident aim of smearing anyone non-Lefty as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/tucker-carlson-shadow-statesman-or-david-icke-conspiracist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Icke-style<\/a>, lizard-loving loon (which rather ignores the fact Mr. Icke was once in the U.K&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/general-election-2015\/11534749\/Natalie-Bennett-may-be-bad-at-interviews-but-at-least-she-doesnt-think-shes-Jesus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Green Party<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As someone who has written&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Saucer-Swastika-Dark-Myth-Nazi\/dp\/1398105384\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nazi-UFOs-Legends-Hitlers-Saucers\/dp\/1399071564\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">books<\/a>&nbsp;exposing the fake contemporary online legend of Nazi UFOs, I would fully admit that the subject can indeed occasionally be used as a front for fascism or a handy far-Right recruitment tool. But, on the other hand, as someone who has also written&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Space-Oddities-Strange-Attempts-Universe\/dp\/1445662620\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another book<\/a>&nbsp;substantially dealing with how the subject can equally sometimes be used as a front for far-Left Marxist recruitment purposes too, I can see how an honest accusation of this nature could actually go both ways. Honest accusations, however, are no longer terribly in fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, with their God-given contemporary right to define precisely what counts as \u2018misinformation\u2019 in the public sphere, today\u2019s all-wise and all-knowing Leftists hold a total and complete monopoly upon objective truth, and would never stoop so low as to begin making bizarre politically motivated claims about what are popularly dismissed as disreputable fringe topics like UFOs and alien beings. Or would they\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Dry Canals on Mars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the media back in 2011, Venezuela\u2019s former quasi-Marxist Dictator, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, was very firmly of the opinion that, many years ago, there used to be life on Mars, now an utterly barren and dead globe, but that native Martian forms of capitalism had killed it off wholesale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have always heard that it would not be strange that there had been civilisation on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived, and finished off the planet,\u201d Ch\u00e1vez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE72L61D\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a speech to mark World Water Day in March 2011, whilst himself ostentatiously sipping from a glass of H<sub>2<\/sub>O as if to mock the tragically dehydrated Martian dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCareful!\u201d Hugo added. \u201cHere on planet Earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts.\u201d And why? All because of climate change, caused by rapacious Western capitalism,&nbsp;<em>El Presidente<\/em>&nbsp;cautioned. (Awkward note: Venezuela is a principal member of OPEC, has the world\u2019s largest proven oil reserves and fossil fuels provide the backbone of its entire economy \u2013 or at least they did until Ch\u00e1vistas began wrecking it all like Mars with their blessed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2013\/03\/06\/venezuelas-hugo-chavez-on-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">planet-loving<\/a>&nbsp;socialism.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That sounds uncannily like a Left-wing ET-related conspiracy to me. But then, Ch\u00e1vez always was a noted nut. Maybe he was just an unfortunate, unrepresentative progressive one-off? Sadly not. I have written before in the&nbsp;<em>Daily Sceptic<\/em>&nbsp;about Left-wing astronomers trying to contact PC ETs (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/01\/09\/is-e-t-pc-the-scientists-attempting-to-contact-woke-aliens\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/01\/12\/seti-has-been-taken-over-by-woke-ideologues-more-interested-in-debating-transphobia-and-whiteness-than-searching-the-stars\/\">here<\/a>), and in my regular&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/e-t-phone-homo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Takimag<\/em>&nbsp;column<\/a>&nbsp;this week have detailed some barely believable current attempts of queer activists to contact races of homosexual \u2018gayliens\u2019. But the rival Left-wing trope of trying to spuriously relate extraterrestrial life and flying saucers to climate change is even more surprisingly widespread in today\u2019s wokery-ridden academic and media worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Guardian<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Readers of the Universe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2019, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;(America\u2019s rough equivalent of the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>, but even worse) ran a thought-experiment by op-ed columnist Farhad Manjoo entitled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/13\/opinion\/aliens-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pretend It\u2019s Aliens<\/a>\u2019. Here, Manjoo spoke of how, as Westerners today lived in a world of absurd Right-wing illusions conjured by wicked populist politicians \u2013 specifically, \u201cfull-grown adults who maintain, against all evidence, that immigration poses an existential threat to the United States\u201d, no less \u2013 why shouldn\u2019t Leftists like him just \u201cperform the same sleight of hand\u201d with causes close to their own bleeding hearts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some sceptics may argue they have done so already, with their hyperbolically exaggerated talk about \u2018global boiling\u2019 etc., but Mr. Manjoo proposed extending such lies even further by proposing the idea that evil extraterrestrials were actually behind our planet\u2019s imminent eco-doom, by spreading ludicrous tweets like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"216\" data-attachment-id=\"307609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=307609\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-146.png?fit=636%2C216&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"636,216\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-146\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-146.png?fit=636%2C216&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-146.png?resize=636%2C216&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307609\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-146.png?w=636&amp;ssl=1 636w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-146.png?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manjoo\u2019s logic, such as it is, ran as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This [combatting climate change] will be a long-term existential battle that will require remaking every part of society\u2026 that may involve costly and politically unpopular changes to our way of life for years to come, and will necessarily make some people [but not Manjoo himself, probably] worse off than if we did nothing. But that will be justified, because we understand the stakes: we are fighting murderous aliens\u2026 If the aliens attacked, we\u2019d do better. I\u2019m sure of it. We would understand the stakes in the battle ahead. We would apprehend the necessity of sacrifice and perseverance. We would be able to perceive what is happening to our planet and our species as what it plainly is: a war for survival.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manjoo meant the public should be brainwashed to adopt this millenarian mindset as a dramatic internal motivational tool, rather than as a literal belief, much as an Olympic runner might be able to sprint faster by imagining he is being chased by an endangered Bengal Tiger. Yet there are other people out there who apparently believe such things rather more literally. And some of them, unlike humble&nbsp;<em>NYT<\/em>&nbsp;columnists, are actual scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Goonhilly Goon Show<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know if you happen somehow to have missed it \u2013 and really,&nbsp;<em>how could you?<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 but October 2022 saw the advent of something annual called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldspaceweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Space Week<\/a>\u2019, the theme of which for that particular year was \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldspaceweek.org\/world-space-week-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space and Sustainability<\/a>\u2019 (this year\u2019s is \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldspaceweek.org\/news\/world-space-week-2024-theme-space-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space and Climate Change<\/a>\u2019; I can see a pattern developing here). Considering that, as far back as 1852, Lord Kelvin had already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heat_death_of_the_universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theorised<\/a>&nbsp;the ultimate heat-death of the universe, it could be argued that, in the long-run, even outer space itself is not actually fully sustainable at all, but never mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the whole pointless shindig, astronomers from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meti.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">METI International<\/a>&nbsp;(METI = Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) based at Cornwall\u2019s Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, planned to beam out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/climate-change-message-to-aliens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a message<\/a>&nbsp;towards the far-distant star-system of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRAPPIST-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trappist-1<\/a>, which is deemed a likely spot for potentially inhabited Earth-like planets to be located. And what would this radio-signal say? Naturally, it would tell the ETs all about our planet\u2019s currently ongoing climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe great challenge of interstellar communication is to establish a common ground for understanding\u201d between humans and aliens, the men from METI explained. Traditionally, this may have meant sending them signals based upon mathematics, reasonably guessed to be a universal language all across the cosmos, as two plus two equals four even on Alpha Centauri (although certain lettuce-headed Left-wing U.S. academics like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2023\/11\/03\/in-woke-mathematics-there-is-no-wrong-answer\/\">Rochelle Gutierrez<\/a>&nbsp;might disagree). METI preferred to send the aliens transcripts of the Periodic Table, however, hoping this may prove the initial basis for interstellar symposia about how industrialised capitalism would cause severe and damaging chemical changes in&nbsp;<em>any<\/em>&nbsp;planet\u2019s atmosphere and environment, not just Earth\u2019s own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hope was that the ETs would be a much older civilisation than ours; if so, they would surely have long passed through their foolish planet-polluting phase aeons ago, and thus have worked out how to solve the catastrophe of global warming entirely. Otherwise, how would they still be here to talk to mankind? Wouldn\u2019t they all just have been burned to a crisp? Once the Trappist-1 aliens realised we comparatively primitive humans were facing a climate crisis too, they would surely be able to help, METI hoped, beaming us back down advice on what to do next in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if the ETs replied to say: \u201cIgnore the whole thing \u2013 it\u2019s a total mad alarmist cult movement, just put gags on George Monbiot and Swampy and you\u2019ll all be quite, quite fine\u201d? I would guess, in that alarming eventuality, METI might conveniently \u2018forget\u2019 to pass the unwanted message in question on to mankind at large, or else \u2018accidentally\u2019 wipe it from their recording systems. Appropriately enough, the cult-busting ETs from Trappist-1 would be forced to remain every bit as silent as their monkish human counterparts traditionally are down here on&nbsp;<em>terra firma<\/em>. Either that, or Michael Mann would just sue them, like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/02\/11\/the-travesty-of-mark-steyns-libel-loss-to-hockey-stick-climate-chart-creator-michael-mann\/\">he did<\/a>&nbsp;with Mark Steyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Little Green Men<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what happens if the aliens turn out not to be quite as benign as METI might hope? Anyone who has read Chinese sci-fi author Cixin Liu\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2023\/07\/crouching-tiger-hidden-subtext-science-fiction-as-a-guide-to-chinas-military-future-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Three-Body Trilogy<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;series of books will know it makes perfect military sense for any alien civilisation to immediately wipe out any other currently less-advanced intelligent societies elsewhere in the galaxy as soon as they become aware of them, lest their far-off interplanetary rivals one day grow strong enough to do the same to them, a bit like if the US had nuked Moscow back in 1945 to prevent the entire Cold War ever taking place at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2011 report from a group of NASA-affiliated scientists from Pennsylvania State University, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1104.4462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis<\/a>\u2019, argued that just such a situation really could occur, should any alien intellects \u201cvast and cool and unsympathetic\u201d, as H.G. Wells once&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/etexts\/www\/warworlds\/b1c1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it<\/a>, detect that Earth was currently undergoing climate change due to rapid post-WWII-era industrialisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the ever-onwards expansion of borderless international capitalism uncaringly pushes other disposable species like rhinos, polar bears and white people to looming extinction here on Earth, so wary ET military scouts might fear the same fate being imposed upon the flora and fauna of other innocent planets, should the evil imperialist Earthlings ever advance far enough to begin colonising them too. In this case, the aliens could just blow our entire planet up with death-rays, to nip the danger in the bud, like a time-traveller killing Hitler at birth to avert his future invasion of Poland. Alternatively, they may be a race of exoplanetary Chris Packhams from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/02\/23\/do-pokemon-beetles-and-rocking-horses-really-have-a-right-to-privacy\/\">Planet PETA<\/a>&nbsp;and decide to land on Earth and just destroy all the nasty naked ape humans, thereby to save the trees, whales and great crested newts, whose lives they may deem to be innately more significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report\u2019s distinctly doom-mongering authors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilisational expansion could be detected by an ET because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions\u2026 These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, the full written assessment as a whole did consider a range of possible other scenarios, and did specifically deem the above detailed outcomes to be rather unlikely \u2013 but guess which specific possibility the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;picked out when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2011\/aug\/18\/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporting<\/a>&nbsp;on the paper? That\u2019s right: its chosen headline was \u2018Rising greenhouse gas emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report\u2019. The&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>\u2019s story was bylined as being by someone named Ian Sample, but given its basic methodology and outlook, it may as well have been written by Farhad Manjoo of the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this is daft enough, but it gets much worse. In part two of this short series, we shall see how clever scientists have now also managed to model the basic path of climate catastrophes endured by other planets \u2013 other planets that do not even exist. Why was the entire world in&nbsp;<em>Dune<\/em>&nbsp;nothing more than one gigantic, globe-spanning desert? Hugo Ch\u00e1vez knew. And so, it would seem, do his contemporary academic counterparts: the answer is capitalism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Steven Tucker&nbsp;is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Hitlers-Stalins-Misuse-Science-Fiction\/dp\/139907315X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hitler\u2019s &amp; Stalin\u2019s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets<\/a><em>&nbsp;(Pen &amp; Sword\/Frontline), which is out now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe in UFOs? If so, be careful, you might be a dangerous Right-wing radical without even knowing the fact! 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