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Three Climate Change Questions Answered: All it takes is a few simple Google searches
American Thinker ^ | 06/04/2018 | Wallace Manheimer

Posted on 06/04/2018 9:08:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A claimed nearly unanimous scientific consensus on fear of climate change has caused a push to substantially reduce or even eliminate the use of fossil fuel in favor of solar and wind.  But three crucial questions are:

1) is the scientific community really united?,
2) can solar and wind take over any time soon to provide the required vital energy for the maintenance of modern civilization in today's world of 7 billion people?, and
3) has CO2 caused any harm yet?  The answer to all three questions is no.

A major theme of this essay is that many assertions can easily be checked out by a simple Google search.

One of the most persistent false impressions, which the mainstream media have ingrained in us, is that 97% of scientists agree that CO2 is indeed doing irreparable harm.  However, this figure was obtained not by a respected, impartial polling organization, but by believers for their own purposes.

Exactly what do the 97% agree on?  Had the question been "Do you believe that the Earth's climate is changing, and does mankind have an effect on the climate?," the response would not have been 97%, but 100%.  But had the question been "Is burning fossil fuel such a threat that there should be a major effort to stop?," who knows?  Probably less than 50%.  That question was never asked on a large-scale survey, done by a respected polling organization and documented in a place easily available to the public.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environmentalism

1 posted on 06/04/2018 9:08:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

All weather is local.


2 posted on 06/04/2018 9:13:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: SeekAndFind

About that “the science is settled” thing:

Science uses the scientific method, which requires controlled experiments with reproducible results.

It is impossible to conduct controlled climate experiments, much less obtain reproducible results, therefore climate “science” is not science.


3 posted on 06/04/2018 9:19:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: SeekAndFind

On question one....is the science community united? There’s odd thing. Do you really care what a astrophysicist thinks on the topic? Or how about a 60 year old PhD guy who has only studied bats his entire life? Or how about a guy who is a veterinary science expert?

You see an awful lot of weather science folks who don’t agree with the climate change business, and that crowd would be central to the whole discussion.


4 posted on 06/04/2018 9:20:20 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d add a fourth crucial question:

Climate change is a topic in science. And all topics in science must be open to debate, continual debate. So why aren’t climate change skeptics free to debate this issue? Why have they all been bullied into silence?


5 posted on 06/04/2018 9:20:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

[[3) has CO2 caused any harm yet? The answer to all three questions is no.]]

The left falsely claim it has caused harm:

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extinctions

human , civilisation , logic , Colony Collapse Disorder (Bees dying) , Inuit , smallest butterfly , cod , ladybirds , pikas , polar bears , make polar bears eat their cubs , possums , walrus , toads , plants , salmon , trout , wild flowers , woodlice , a million species , half of all animal and plant species , mountain species , not polar bears , barrier reef , leaches , salamanders , tropical insects)

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moose dying , more bad air days , more research needed , mortality increased , mountain (Everest) shrinking , mountaineers fears , mountains break up , mountains green and flowering , mountains taller , mortality lower , murder higher , Mutate humans , Myanmar cyclone , narwhals at risk , National security implications , native wildlife overwhelmed , natural disasters quadruple , new islands , next ice age , NFL threatened , Nile delta damaged , noctilucent clouds , no effect in India , Northwest Passage opened , nuclear plants bloom , oaks dying , oaks move north , ocean acidification , ocean acidification faster , ocean dead zones unleashed , ocean deserts expand , ocean waves speed up , oceans noisier , opera house to be destroyed , outdoor hockey threatened , ozone repair slowed , ozone rise , Pacific dead zone , penguin chicks frozen , personal carbon rationing , pest outbreaks , pests increase , phenology shifts , plankton blooms , plankton destabilised , plants lose protein , 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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html


6 posted on 06/04/2018 9:22:26 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

The 4th question

If recent global temperatures are “too hot” - what should they be?


7 posted on 06/04/2018 9:23:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

The the answer to the question

“Do you believe that X is changing, and does mankind have an effect on X?”

where X is just about any phenomenon in the world, is “yes”. If you add the words “significantly” and “significant”, the answer in most cases is “no”.


8 posted on 06/04/2018 9:23:52 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: SeekAndFind

The earth’s climax is not a fixed, permanent state - the earth is a living, breathing, evolving planet. Continents shift. Rivers change their courses. Magnetic poles reverse. Ice ages come and go. A single hurricane is no more predictive of global climate than a cow fart.


9 posted on 06/04/2018 9:28:40 AM PDT by MartinBlank (seek and ye shall find)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
> About that “the science is settled” thing <

Here are just a few previous examples of "settled science":

The Earth is flat.
The Earth is the center of the solar system.
Heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.
Atoms are solid and indestructible.


10 posted on 06/04/2018 9:29:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: MartinBlank

now we have clear examples of volcanic activity which the “warmists” cannot counter.


11 posted on 06/04/2018 9:29:35 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well put.

I find it almost comical that many in the church of AGW use the word, “science” almost as a Christian would use the word, Jesus. Science is, at the end of the day, a methodology used to test theories. And the results of those tests can be used to understand how things work as well as allow us to make things like steam engines and flat screen TV’s. But it is not science that gives us those things. Rather, it is what we learn from scientific experimentation that allows us the understanding necessary to conceive and build such things. Science is not really all that romantic. It’s fairly boring work.


12 posted on 06/04/2018 9:31:59 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Great, three Google searches that wont work anymore by tomorrow.


13 posted on 06/04/2018 9:59:33 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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To: Leaning Right

Meteorites are caused by lightning acting on dust. Barringer Crater must be volcanic. Stones do not fall from the sky.


14 posted on 06/04/2018 11:30:30 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: PGR88

PGR88 wrote:
The 4th question

If recent global temperatures are “too hot” - what should they be?

I usually go with - “What caused the heat and humidity of the time of the dinosaurs to end with an ice age? What caused the ice age to end?, since there was little CO2 from SUV’s and pickups at the time?”


15 posted on 06/04/2018 1:41:53 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: SeekAndFind
"Three Climate Change Questions Answered: All it takes is a few simple Google searches"

Google is probably working to fixing that. Small oversight.

16 posted on 06/05/2018 7:07:07 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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