Posted on 12/09/2022 9:12:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Those who oppose economically destructive “climate” policies – like those promoted by the Biden administration and at the recent United Nations COP27 conference – will continue to fail to stop the advance of these policies so long as they continue to accept the false claim that warming of the planet and carbon dioxide emissions are harmful.
They are not. On balance, global warming and CO2 emission are beneficial.
Before getting to why that is, however, it is crucial to understand why accepting the false climate claim is so harmful.
When the destructiveness of climate policies is shown, the response is that the policies nevertheless are necessary to address what President Biden refers to as the “existential threat” of global warming and increased CO2 emissions.
When it is noted that these climate policies will at most microscopically and insignificantly reduce temperatures and CO2 emissions, climate policy mandarins push for even more draconian policies.
The result has been that since the 1990s, climate policies have become increasingly destructive and wasteful. Even worse, their continued intensification appears unlikely to be stopped until the public and policymakers are persuaded that global warming and CO2 emissions are not harmful. As Margaret Thatcher famously said: “First you win the argument, then you win the vote.”
To win this argument, it is necessary to focus on the scientific facts.
A warming planet saves lives. Analyses of millions of deaths in recent decades in numerous countries, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, show that cooler temperatures killed nine times (July 2021 study) to seventeen times (In May 2015 study) more people than warmer temperatures. The planet’s recent modest warming (by 1.00 degree Celsius on average since 1880, as calculated by NASA) thus has been saving millions of lives.
CO2 emissions do not pollute and instead are environmentally beneficial. In 2017, over 300 scientists, including Richard Lindzen of MIT and William Happer of Princeton, signed a statement that made this point: “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. To the contrary, there is clear evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful to food crops and other plants that nourish all life. It is plant food, not poison.” Every one of us, indeed, also exhales carbon dioxide with every breath.
Since 1920, deaths each year from natural disasters have decreased by over 90 percent. And this happened, data from EM-DAT - The International Disaster Database presented by The University of Oxford show, not only as the planet has warmed, but as world population has quadrupled.
Global warming has not increased hurricanes. A NOAA report, updated on November 28, 2022, states that “there is essentially no long-term trend in hurricane counts. The evidence for an upward trend is even weaker if we look at U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which even show a slight negative trend beginning from 1900 or from the late 1800s.”
The same report sums it up in bold: “We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes.”
Global warming also does not increase land burned by fires. As environmental statistician Bjorn Lomberg has shown using data from the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Earth’s Future, the percentage of global land burned per year in 1905-2021 has been declining.
Sea levels are rising – but only by a small fraction of an inch each year. An EPA report updated on August 1, 2022, states: “When averaged over all of the world’s oceans, absolute sea level has risen at an average rate of 0.06 inches per year from 1880 to 2013,” including a slightly increased rate since 1993 of “0.12 to 0.14 inches per year.”
The UN climate models that President Biden, John Kerry, and other climate doomsters use to predict future global temperatures are so speculative and unreliable that they have been unable even to reproduce the 20th century’s temperature changes. This is a key point in the must-read book by Obama Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Steven Koonin, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.
These kinds of facts should persuade the public and policymakers to stop accepting the false claim that global warming and CO2 emissions are harmful.
When this false claim is no longer widely accepted, policymakers will stop imposing climate policies that particularly impoverish the world’s poor.
They will stop holding international boondoggles like COP27 and that demand vast climate-related foreign aid programs.
They will stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars on domestic climate sinkholes.
And they will stop using purported “social cost of carbon” factors (even though the true social cost of carbon is zero) to regulatorily restrict domestic fossil fuel production, transportation, and use.
‘Interview 1769 - The Climate Change Gambit on The Last American Vagabond’
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1769-the-climate-change-gambit-on-the-last-american-vagabond/
It’s no fun when I agree with an article, but one minor point. I don’t find the minuscule amount of sea level rise credible. Exactly how does one accurately measure such a small change in something so large? That is a very difficult problem. Statistically it’s possible, but there would be a confidence interval. Furthermore, the number of samples taken would be many to have a high degree of confidence. How is that done with changing tides, wind, coastal construction, and other factors? (Especially when the change is so small) Just take a look at maps from every city on both US coasts. Nearly all cities have grown into the sea using landfill or they have shrunk due to erosion not caused by sea level rise. If I recall correctly, Miami has some of that happening. Lastly, I can almost guarantee that proxy measurements are used for older dates. No one was measuring sea level rise before all these climate frauds started getting grants. Proxy measurements are notoriously inaccurate and should not be compared to current measurements as different measurements methods makes it virtually impossible to perform statistical analysis. (The same is true when measuring ice sheets and glaciers.
At sea level water boils at approximately 212 degrees. Get the pan boiling, then turn up the heat. The water boils faster but at 212 degrees. The earth is 2/3’s to 3/4’s covered in water. The sun and natural occurrences dictate global temps. Mankind is a pissant compared to nature. Climate change is real due to natural causes not due to cow farts or mankind pissants. The greenies are morons and they’re screwing up our younger people’s minds. PERIOD! IMO.
climate control
they pretend to control the climate in order to control us
The only solution to all of the Earths ills, is the complete and systematic genocide of all liberals.
True.
>>Before getting to why that is, however, it is crucial to understand why accepting the false climate claim is so harmful.<<
All part of the overall globalization movement to destroy the First World.
It only benefits the communist world and the Biden Crime Syndicate.
We need an America First Movement.
That is close enough for me.
Ping
This is just a warming cycle. If you check the earth temperatures for the last 500,000 years through ice core samples, it is obvious. Step back and see the big picture…
The green agenda in a nutshell. The only problem, it will get rid of conservatives in the process.
Climate Change is a doomsday cult religion that is based on an unquestionable dogma and has an active Inquisition to stamp out any questioning of the dogma. We are not talking about hysteria, but religious zeal hell bent on converting the world to their way of thinking.
The demonization of CO2 is the problem, not “global warming” or “climate change”.
Good report looks like woke just got flushed for what it is.
Its what climmunists do.
bkmk
#3 In a documentary I saw, the Professor thought the island was sinking but found out later after much panic that someone named Gilligan was taking his measuring stick and moving it to deeper water...
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