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The Counterattack of Reason
American Thinker ^ | 14 May, 2023 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 05/14/2023 4:40:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber

This week marked the beginning of the end for some nutty thinking and policies.

For some time, optimists like me have had to work hard to keep believing that reason will prevail. I now think, as reality sets in, my faith in reason, though too long delayed, is not unwarranted. This week is, I think, the beginning of the end for some nutty thinking and policies.

Climate Change

I’ve always believed that destroying the world’s economies and impoverishing poor people around the globe in a narcissistic belief that man can control the climate was lunacy. More research revealed every week justifies my belief that this war on reliable, plentiful fossil fuels has been pure hokum. This week, the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) took a major hit to its credibility.

The credibility of the disaster-addicted Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been dealt a damaging blow with recently-published research showing that 42% of its climate scenarios rely on improbable rises in future temperature that even the UN-funded body believes are of “low likelihood”. The research notes the IPCC admission of improbability is “deeply buried” in the full Sixth Assessment Reports (AR6), and is “unlikely to be read by the policy makers”. The authors note that significant and important sections of the full IPCC work emphasise these improbable claims, “potentially invalidating those sections of the report”.

Climate and emissions outline SSP5-8.5 assumes a rise of around 5°C by the end of the century. It was always somewhat detached from reality and has long been dealt a death blow, given that global warming ran out of steam about 25 years ago. [snip] Leaving aside the small natural boost from a very powerful EL Niño oscillation around 2016, warming is little more than 0.1°C over two decades...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal

1 posted on 05/14/2023 4:40:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: upchuck

Clarice ping...


2 posted on 05/14/2023 4:40:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m think of the movie “Idiocracy” in which one person speaks English correctly, and everyone just says he sounds like a fag.

Our population today largely seems to operate on some sort of “magical thinking” level and if you try to use “reason and logic” then you must be some sort of fag (or racist, or whatever term of insult is allowed these days).


3 posted on 05/14/2023 4:47:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: MtnClimber

Great column.


4 posted on 05/14/2023 5:11:17 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: MtnClimber

There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel


5 posted on 05/14/2023 5:20:54 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: MtnClimber
Reason? In the third decade of the twenty-first century, you expect reason? In a world where you can be any sex you want? In a world where you can be any race you want? Or species?
In a world where ‘they’ can predict a 1 degree of temperature change 100 years from now, but cannot say with certainty whether it will rain tomorrow, you expect reason?
6 posted on 05/14/2023 5:22:13 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That movie is coming true piece by piece. Yesterday I noticed a new quarter dollar coin design. Washington’s profile was made softer. The opposite side has some flashy irreverent design that looked like the Idiocracy ten trillion dollar bill: “haulin ass, gettin paid!”


7 posted on 05/14/2023 5:23:02 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: joe fonebone

However, there are a lot of fossil fools...like FJB


8 posted on 05/14/2023 5:23:35 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: MtnClimber

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9 posted on 05/14/2023 5:28:05 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Rural_Michigan

“America...Run by fossil fuels and fossil fools!” Yeah...we’re sharing the credit.


10 posted on 05/14/2023 5:35:37 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Qwapisking

I actually can’t take any for myself. Adam Curry came up with the “fossil fools” on the No Agenda show. Great stuff.


11 posted on 05/14/2023 6:35:08 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: MtnClimber; 5th MEB; Albion Wilde; American in Israel; bitt; BlackAdderess; bobfeland; burghguy; ...
Thanks for the ping MtnClimber.


Clarice Feldman ping.

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12 posted on 05/14/2023 7:15:46 AM PDT by upchuck (Never iron a four leaf clover. You don't want to press your luck! )
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To: joe fonebone

Gotta link for that?


13 posted on 05/14/2023 8:54:06 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

A link for what


14 posted on 05/14/2023 1:26:27 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

“There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel”


15 posted on 05/14/2023 8:34:12 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

There is no link.
I have mathematically proven that it is impossible for dead dinosaurs to have provided enough oil to fill our currently known oil reserves.
You can do that too.
This is why math is racist


16 posted on 05/15/2023 6:10:29 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

Alright Einstein..... let’s see the equations. Gonna hafta do it on the down low cause, you know, math is raciss.


17 posted on 05/15/2023 6:41:16 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

WOW...
You’re an a$$hole...
FOAD....
richardhead


18 posted on 05/15/2023 9:01:27 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

Puuleeeze..... if your that easily offended then later tator and I’ll have you know that I highly resemble that remark ;^)


19 posted on 05/16/2023 6:32:25 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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