Posted on 07/23/2025 8:09:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The climate alarmists regularly seize on weather events they believe will help them exploit their narrative. Naturally, they ignore contradictory information. So we see it as our duty to fill in the gaps from time to time. Following are a few examples that show why the global warming story is less scientific theory than conjecture in the service of a political agenda.
- Let’s begin in the West Arctic, where the Northwest Passage is experiencing its third-highest level of sea ice extent in the last two decades. In 2009, Al Gore said, with his usual galling listen-to-me certainty, the Arctic polar ice cap could be gone during summer within five to seven years.
- There has been “marked cooling since the early 2010s … which is likely linked to a documented slowdown in Greenland’s warming and ice loss,” say a pair of South Korean researchers.
- Efforts to attribute the deadly Texas flood, in which the Guadalupe River rose by 37.5 feet, to human carbon dioxide emissions have been debunked (as has every other attempt to tie man’s CO2 to harsh weather). Our friend Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com points out that “much worse flooding had occurred more than a century earlier in July when the Guadalupe River had risen by a whopping 42.3 feet.”
- Summer heat is always blamed on man’s fossil fuel use. This year, more than 160 million people in the Midwest, the South, and on the East Coast endured temperatures around the 100-degree mark. But nothing has happened to indicate that man is responsible. Have a look at the data.
- Last month, H. Sterling Burnett of the Heartland Institute noted that polar ice has refused to follow the climate crisis narrative. “Having examined the data and history, I knew Antarctica has not been following the climate crisis script since the alarm was first raised with James Hansen’s theatrically staged 1988 congressional testimony in which he claimed the Earth was dangerously warming due to human activity.”
- Last month, a Tampa, Fla., meteorologist blamed “climate change,” and we don’t assume he’s talking about natural variations that have always existed, for 90-degree days having doubled in the city. He was fact-checked by the Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow: “Tampa does not represent the rest of Florida. The average number of days reaching 95°F (35°C) or higher in Florida has not increased since 1895,” according to federal data. “Tampa’s temperature data has been contaminated with urban heat island effects, which have led to an artificial rise in the number of extremely hot days.”
- The New York Times wants readers to believe that the June Air India crash that killed 241 is a curtain-raiser for future air crashes caused by climate change. Milloy had the best response: “No other plane crashed because of global warming. Just that one.”
If the climate tale were undeniably true, the activists in and out of the media would not have to exaggerate, disinform, and make connections that don’t exist. The fact that they feel they have to provides a clear insight into their duplicitous nature.
“I could never understand why the plant science people didn’t step up with information.”
Maybe because the term “scientist” as now equated with the word “journalist”. Too many of them have lied to us.
Oh some have tried. We’re examples.
We have an open forum here. But most don’t.
Try teaching real science in primary or even secondary education - you’re a racist. Been there done that. Yup was called a racist for teaching basic history and math. I don’t have back down in me and the administration backed me. But this was in Texas. In CA or NY I’d have lost. Still would have fought but would have lost - shouted down or booted by those using this hoax for power and profit.
Actually got an inner city kid up to speed on basic algebra. Her Mom showed up and called me a racist for teaching her daughter “white male suppression stuff.” (Only a few people here know my real background but yeah I volunteered in the inner city in Dallas.)
Oh BTW I’m not a plant scientist. As you can see from my probably over-long post I’m a mathematician/engineer/physicist. Interestingly those overlap with really understanding how plants work.
. Interestingly those overlap with really understanding how plants work.
I can find no evidence of lawyers though.....................
LOL!!!
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