Extreme blasts of cold weather hitting Europe and the USA are NOT caused by a warming Arctic changing the way the jet stream moves

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 14:16 EST, 19 February 2020 | Ryan Morrison

[MarkL]

There are 2 problems when it comes to “Global Warming” or “Climate Change.”

#1) WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE!!!!!!!!

#2) Over time, it has been shown that the models being used to predict “climate change” have not been accurate. Normally, that would mean that scientists discard their hypotheses, The problem here is that governments, which on the whole WANT to increase their power and control over the people they govern, are the ones paying for the research, and the “scientists,” who want to keep their jobs, are going to continue to try to make their employers happy.

What I find very funny, in a tragic way, is that there are so many people who demonize the research put forward by “Big Oil,” because “they’re only in it for profit” will claim that government only wants to “protect them from ‘Big Oil,” and don’t realize that there will be a huge government windfall in taxes, but far worse, is increased control over EVERY aspect of life. If the government has control over energy (more than it already has,) there simply isn’t any aspect of life that they won’t be able to control.

They don’t understand the mindset of too many government workers, where power IS their goal, because they believe themselves to be “the anointed.” A perfect example of this is Bloomberg’s statement that taxing the poor is a good thing, because the poor aren’t living their lives they way HE knows they should. By increasing the taxes on the poor, he’s giving them the incentive to live according to his decrees. To quote CS Lewis:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

Mark

[MarkL]

There are far too many who have proposed the silencing, or even criminal penalties, for “climate change deniers.”

I don’t believe that anyone doesn’t believe that climate changes. Otherwise there would be woolly mammoths and saber tooth tigers trying to avoid The Great Kansas Sea.

But given the fact that a single volcano eruption will put out more “greenhouse gas” than a full year of human activity, that there natural sources of those gasses that also contribute greatly to the total gasses, and finally that the total greenhouse gas percentage of the air is actually lower than it’s been in pre-human history, then you need to closely look at those trying to spread hysteria about destroying economies and increasing government control over every aspect of our lives.

Mark

[SunkenCiv]

This has been, thus far, the easiest winter I've ever spent here, at home, in Michigan. Next up, a peer-reviewed, consensus-driven article on why the winter was warmer than any on record. :^) .