Posted on 12/11/2024 4:17:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
The magic words “global warming” are surrounded by left-wing mythology. We’ve all heard apocalyptic predictions about what will happen if we don’t start walking everywhere we go and heating our homes by burning dried animal manure.
It’s time to discuss how that mythology arose and why it needs to be replaced with the truth.
On any given topic, most people won’t listen to you unless you flash some credentials. I have two degrees, in statistical analysis and political science.
Statistical analysis can be used to demolish left-wing mythology, masquerading as “science” in several areas — notably transgender ideology and climate change. The underpinning of all science is statistical analysis.
All science is the collection of data, followed by analysis of that data. Statistical analysis can be applied to see how cherry-picked data points are used to terrify us into abandoning fossil fuels.
So I’m at least as qualified as Al Gore (B.A., journalism), John Kerry (B.A., political science), or Greta Thunberg (high school student) to discuss the data behind climate change hysteria.
The focus by the lunatic left-wing fringe is on the past 150 years of carbon dioxide (CO2) increases, correlated increases in global mean temperature (GMT), and “what to do about it.” This focus is exemplified by the following graph:
Notice the alarming shades of red, orange, and burgundy. These are selected to scare the hell out of us. Climate Central might be a left-wing hysteria factory, pretending to be a nonpartisan teller of unbiased, inconvenient truths. (Such practices are extremely common on the left.)
This 150-year focus is best described as myopia, or tunnel vision. If we expand our scope of study to the past 800,000 years, the graph becomes far less alarming, as this one from Wikimedia Commons illustrates.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The truth is not “useful” to the left, thus they avoid it like the plague.
bfl
Excellent contrast of data portrayal!
One graph constructed to provoke an emotional response.
The other graph constructed to allow and foster an intellectual analysis for those willing to consider it and smart enough to understand its implications.
And here I sit in the middle of the Great Lakes where the Laurentide ice sheet was a mile thick and was thawing only 100 great grandmothers ago. Shuts the libtards right up as they believe the Earth is static, and oh astronomy hasn't changed.
At the start of the hiking trail, there was a placard with a map that showed the extent of the glacier, marked with the year that it extended to various points. I noticed that the most rapid recession of the glacier shown on the map occurred between 1910 and 1942. I remarked to our guide that I didn't realize there were so many SUVs around back then. He just gave me a blank look.
Its gets better and bigger but the left, MSM, grifters, liars, grant recipients and so forth cover up any news worth reposting. I like the recent stories about buying Greenland, I’d move there in a second but in the meantime the rare stories that trickle out that explorers are finding grape plantings, parts of wheels, stone foundations etc. that are being found from the Viking era as part of the glacial ice is melting. Idiots.
Furthermore, all the weather recording now uses land stations because they’re easier to manipulate. One station over blacktop in Nome, Alaska representing hundreds of thousands of square miles of backwoods? Works perfectly for them.
And it’s corrupt. The UK has over a hundred stations that are non-functional but are still on the daily record. They can enter whatever temp they want.
This all started with Michael Mann and Climategate.
In the supplied temperature vs carbon dioxide chart it’s important to note that carbon dioxide changes FOLLOW temperature changes by 800 years. Carbon dioxide changes CAN’T cause the observed temperature changes.
What’s the cause of the observed changes in both temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide? The distance between the sun and the southern oceans in southern summers. Changes in solar radiation striking earth’s southern oceans cause greater and lesser ocean absorption rates of atmospheric carbon. As the writer points out, the process is governed by earth’s 105,000 year orbital precession cycle included in the Milankovitch cycle.
But...but...but....
It’s “settled science”!
Follow “the science”!
Global warming!
I mean.... Climate change!
Me too. Land of the drop stones!
I’ll accept manmade warming is real if China India and other countries besides the west change their ways. Along with that if the super connected stop buying waterfront property.
Bookmark.
But, but climate change is true! Back in July and August it was over 100 degrees but it froze here last night.
People who think they can CHANGE THE CLIMATE are NOTHING BUT GOD HATERS!!
I remember the 1970s when we were constantly bombarded with “The Coming Ice Age” from all news and science sources. There was even a plan to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spread it on the Ice caps to absorb more heat to prevent the New Ice Age!
Now they are trying to “scrub” all mention of it from 1970s new sources so they can say “We never said that!”
But they did.
“On any given topic, most people won’t listen to you unless you flash some credentials.”
People should listen to WHAT is said. Too many people listen to WHO said what.
They want a shortcut:
This EXPERT said X, so that’s what I think.
For starters, that is an unreliable shortcut. Secondly, repeating someone else’s opinion does not constitute thinking. Thinking is a personal action. Like urinating, it cannot be delegated.
Back in 1942, MGM produced a Traveltalks short on the Glacier and Waterton National parks. They said the glaciers have been receding since the last Ice Age 12 thousand years ago, “And if there is NO CLIMATIC CHANGE, they would be gone in a thousand years..”
So, no matter what Puny Man does to stop it the melt will continue.
I grew up in Orchard Park, NY(home to the Buffalo Bills).
I was 14 when the Blizzard of January 1977 basically shut the whole WNY area down.
What caused it was not Lake Effect snow. It was the fact that it was the earliest freeze over of Lake Erie in like a hundred years. So, there had been all this snow piling up on the ice of the lake west of Buffalo.
When the winds picked up to 75 mph it blew all that south east into WNY. We had 3’ of snow in our yard. The crazy thing there were drifts of snow over 10’ high. I remember riding on the back of my buddies snowmobile. Driving right down the middle of a four lane road hitting a bump and realizing we had just gone right over a car. School was closed for week.
Then a couple months later we got an ice storm. Where everything was coated in a 1/4” or more of ice. Everyone lost power for a week. Broken trees and downed power lines everywhere. Again, school was closed for a week. We ended up going to school until almost July that year because of all the snow days we had that previous winter.
The year after that was the Blizzard of 78 that hit Boston. Where all the cars got stuck on Rt 128/I95. Everyone up here in New England still talks about that storm. Where they were. What the impact was.
I also remember Time magazine having on their cover Are we going into another Ice Age?
Not that the world ought not to turn to clean energy sources, but make good choices. Nuclear energy is clean and almost limitless. There simply isn’t enough land to support the windmills or solar farms needed to support any significant part of our electric needs let alone provide reliable electric power. EVs might have a place in urban areas but efficient ICE vehicles will still be necessary for large parts of the country and for heavy uses like trucks. Unfortunately climate change is a cult religion and has an unquestionable dogma.
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