Advocates of “global warming” love to point at thousands of scientific papers that demonstrate “global warming.”
I have read countless scientific papers. Usually, when global warming (or climate change) is mentioned, it is in this context: “We observed X, Y, and Z, which is happening because of global warming.” Wait a minute. The authors of the paper discussed how they collected samples and analyzed them. They described the local conditions where they found the samples. They formed various hypotheses about the samples. But not once in their research did they do any sort of analysis or experiment that would establish “global warming” as a cause.
The latest example of this is the local transmission of leishmaniasis, mostly in Texas. It’s because of global warming. Really? And opening borders so that anyone from areas where leishmaniasis is endemic can freely enter the country has NOTHING to do with the importation of infected sand flies into Texas?
A lot of times, global warming is thrown out as an explanation for whatever the topic of the research is. It’s lazy. Claiming that global warming causes everything means that researchers don’t have to look any further for the root causes. Bat colonies in the northeast are dying of white-nose fungus? Global warming! Frogs and toads are dying from nematode infections? Global warming! Cases of local malaria transmission in the US? Global warming! Bad hurricane season? Global warming! Lack of hurricanes? Global warming! Sudden beehive death syndrome? Global warming!
Lest we forget, life on earth is based on carbon. The attempts to remove carbon dioxide from the air are, in fact, shrinking the capacity of the earth to support life. Ironically, if those attempts are successful enough to have an impact on atmospheric CO2 concentration, the effect will be to heat up the earth. This is because plants will be the first to die off. Bare ground is always hotter than vegetation covered ground. Plants absorb a LOT of solar energy which otherwise would be converted to heat. Of course, once plants start dying off, animals will die off, too. Plants convert CO2 to sugars, proteins, nucleic acids, and fats that are consumed by animals. Literally, all of the carbon in any organism’s body originated as CO2. Also, because plant metabolism of CO2 causes oxygen to be released into the air, O2 levels will drop proportionally to the drop in CO2 levels.
It's about getting "research" grant money. Mention GW, and you get your own line in the budget.
Globull warming gave me the crabs. And now I have to worry about sand fleas?