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Destroying the Climate Change Myth
American Thinker ^ | 11 Dec, 2024 | Jim Davis

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.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: hoax; marxism
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To: woodbutcher1963

***the Blizzard of January 1977 ***

I remember that! Brutal cold in 1976-1977. The entire Continental US had cloud cover all of January and every state got snow!
Came down with pneumonia that winter.
Used as Proof we were entering THE COMING ICE AGE!


21 posted on 12/11/2024 9:15:54 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MtnClimber

Good article, well worth reading.


22 posted on 12/11/2024 11:17:18 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: nagant

“carbon dioxide changes FOLLOW temperature changes by 800 years.”

Thanks for posting, as that is very important. Effects follow causes. The temporal succession suggests that warmer temperatures cause an increase in airborne CO2. Boyle’s law? It’s my understanding that the oceans breathe. Cold waters from the poles travel to the warm equator and exhale CO2. As those waters travel back towards the poles, they cool and inhale CO2. If the planer were to warm, the oceans would release CO2 into the atmosphere.


23 posted on 12/11/2024 5:31:09 PM PST by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: bgill

Proves that the climate changes with the seasons as it has for a long time. Doesn’t prove that the change requires spending all our money to make it happen.


24 posted on 12/12/2024 5:07:43 AM PST by oldtech
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