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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

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Trump administration to end climate panel

The Trump administration has decided to not renew a pro-global warming climate panel set to expire this week.

The panel is part of the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping officials and policy makers integrate the US Government’s climate change analysis into their long-term planning. A mandate for the 15-member Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment is set to expire on Sunday, and will not be renewed.

The press will paint this panel as an objective collection of climate scientists put together to provide the president with good advice on the climate. In truth, it is a part of the propaganda machine for the global warming part of the climate science community, designed to push their conclusions while excluding any skeptical input.

Once again it appears that while Trump might be wishy-washy on many issues, on climate he is serious about dismantling the corruption that has worked its way into that field while eliminating the over-regulation that this corruption has imposed on American society.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

7 comments

  • JWing

    When this fraud is finally exposed and falls apart by it’s own weight, my only thought is what is the next scam that presumably they are already preparing to push their anti-capitalist, pro cultural Marxist addenda.

  • Edward

    For long-term planning purposes, has the National Climate Assessment group decided which climate is the correct one to have? Today’s climate or Gore’s 2006 climate? The Kyoto Agreement’s 1992 climate or Time Magazine’s (coming ice age) 1974 climate (I had a teacher who told us about the coming ice age in 1968)? How about the 1930s Dust Bowl climate or the mid 19th century pre-Hockey-Stick warming period climate?

    Maybe the correct climate should be the Little Ice Age climate, so that London can resume its River Thames Frost Fairs. Or maybe the climate of before the Little Ice Age, when England was able to grow wine grapes.

    My choice, though, would be a glacial-period type of climate, which seems from the ice-core records to be long lasting, therefore the most common global climate during the past few million years. This interglacial period is only a periodic anomaly from the normal colder temperatures.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial

  • wodun

    My choice, though, would be a glacial-period type of climate, which seems from the ice-core records to be long lasting, therefore the most common global climate during the past few million years.

    It would be so horrible though. Humans didn’t exactly thrive during glaciation. This makes the current alarmism so dismaying. We live in a climate optimum and warmer temperatures could very well be even more optimum but the alternative of glaciation would be pretty bad.

  • Joe From Houston

    Since most of the whistle blowers in-the-know know the jig is up, their whistling is causing the tide of exposed corruption to once again, as history repeats, slowly recede from shore, reorganize, rename, and re-emerge as a new and improved propaganda machine. Looking at it from a top level perspective that controls the influential power over the masses, it makes perfect sense to continue this cycle throughout history.

    Kind of like what an established talcum powder product company is likely to do in the face of multi-million dollar lawsuits that claims it causes ovarian cancer.

  • Edward

    wodun wrote: “It would be so horrible though. Humans didn’t exactly thrive during glaciation.

    But, isn’t glaciation the most natural condition of the Earth’s climate? Isn’t the current interglacial warm period just an anomaly that is just as bad as the current anthropogenic global warming climate change catastrophe thingy?

    The climate is optimal for whom? Surely not the polar bears; Al Gore tells us that they are drowning. Surely not for lap dogs; one of the alarmist videos told us that London’s dogs will drown if the seas rise any farther.

    Once the poles are again completely covered in two miles of ice, there will never again be a drowned polar bear or drowned English lap dog. Isn’t the saving of nature and our pets worth a little loss of prosperity for our posterity?

    I mean, it isn’t as though nature can adapt to changing conditions, such as when the Earth has the occasional anomolic (if I may make up an adjective) interglacial warm period. After all, during this current one, polar bears drowned and Woolly Mammoths went extinct when the ice caps receded and the oceans rose; no adaptation seen from those two poor species.

    It isn’t as though the Earth’s temperature is still rising due to the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA), even though, just before the LIA, the Earth’s temperature was even higher than it is now.

    Just imagine how many species went extinct due to the cooling during the LIA and how many are going extinct because it is warming again. Can the Earth ever recover and heal after such a hiccough in its climate?

    The Earth has a fever, and Al Gore thinks we have to get that feverish temperature down. I say that we bring it down to the normal Earth temperature, the glacial period temperature. The sooner the better, and forget about the species (plural) that thrived during the fever. They were probably the disease, anyway.

    This should make Al Gore very happy. Especially if he and Leonardo DiCaprio get to continue flying in their private jets and live in their ample, well lit mansions while the rest of us freeze in our winter coats.

  • Rene Borbon

    Good.

  • Max

    Uncle Sam needs you!
    To pay more taxes, to do your part. Congress cannot pass a bill to demand that the earth stop warming without your money! Don’t you want to be able to tell your children that you sold their future to save the world?
    “WE DID IT FOR THE CHILDREN”

    (beware of people with good intentions, hell is not far behind…)
    Trump is serious, therefore I have hope.

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