Posted on 06/08/2022 3:58:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Why do we have every appearance that there is no actual climate crisis, while seeing growing evidence of where the actual disinformation is found in this issue?
When John Kerry, President Biden's special envoy for climate, lamented that the Ukraine war situation would distract the public from the 'climate crisis' and then doubled down later on how 'climate change refugees will outnumber Ukrainian refugees, he seemed to have no awareness of how ludicrous his statement was. NPR and CNBC have both trumpeted the same theme about the war distracting the public from the "true crisis." Then there's Biden's Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, who reacted the following way to Rep. Ben Cline's "distraction" that the proposed 2023 budget "doesn't really help families put food on the table or clothes on the back."
"...we believe climate change is an existential threat so, you know, children won't -- [shrugs, pauses]. Forget about clothes on their back. They're not going to be able to have a life if we don't deal with climate change."
Add Navy secretary Carlos Del Toro saying climate change -- not hostile foreign adversaries -- is an existential threat to America.
It's as though Kerry, Raimondo and Del Toro are so assured of their own importance that they actually believe they can sell global warming to Eskimos.
That's a paraphrase of a line from the sales industry; a guy's sales talk skills are so good that "he can sell refrigerators to Eskimos." Many arrogant salespeople describe themselves this way, oblivious to how big the backlash might be if purchasers realize that they've been conned into buying something they absolutely don't need. Sell Eskimos refrigerators and you risk being vilified so thoroughly that you'll never be allowed to set foot in their territory again.
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But...but,,,the polar bears.
Nothing has changed.
My parents were born in 1917. Though they have both passed, they said nothing changed for them either.
What is....is. The idea that we're going to change the climate is absurd.
War is the most distracting occurrence that takes place on this planet. Yet for some reason, humanity keeps turning to this distraction again and again.
Peace is such a tedious thing. It must be constantly interrupted, lest the tranquility should make people restless and intractable. And start thinking about the most inconsequential of aspirations.
Like global warming (or cooling, whatever). Something for fertile imaginations to fret about, but the greatest amount of worry cannot, in any way, shape, form, or manner, change the outcome.
My extremely lefty lawyer SIL BELIEVES in “Climate Change.”
She called me “closed minded” because I don’t.
You can’t discuss stuff like this with a lefty - they just call you names and resort to ad hominems.
True. We live about 25 minutes north of Syracuse
Some winters there is not huge amounts of snow. Some a lot
Some dry summers. Some wet
It is what it is.
Everyone knows the recent severest flooding was caused by manipulating the Lake Levels. Shorelines fluctuate. That's the way it is.
I have a map from the 1800s showing the level of Lake Ontario to be within a half a foot of what it is right now.
Climate change is real enough. It’s been getting warmer off and on since the Little Ice Age. My grandfather was a teenager in the Civil War. He told my mother in about 1920 that the weather was getting warmer since his youth. It was probably warmer than now during the Medieval Warm Period when surplus harvests paid for the magnificent cathedrals. Increased C02 is probably a result rather than a cause.
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