Global warming 1-2-3

Scientists first started writing about global warming in the 1850s. More than a century ago, others explored the possibility of human-caused climate change. And yet in 2018, a lot of people still lack a basic scientific understanding of the concept, so argues Boulder-based astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett.

“There’s nothing really controversial in terms of the basic science,” he says.

Outside of textbooks, Bennett first wrote about global warming in his 2012 kids’ book The Wizard who Saved the World.

“I felt like we needed to have a way to get kids to understand the topic without scaring them; make them feel like there is something they can do and build a better future with it,” he says. “The same thing that kids need, I think adults need, too.”

Bennett seeks to lay out the science and consequences of climate change in a matter-of-fact way that answers the most common questions about the issue, and examines possible solutions. He systematically addresses (and debunks) the case against climate change, while providing a way for supporters to speak intelligently about it. Bennett’s goal is simple: equip as many people, both children and adults, with a basic and rational understanding of global warming so that even the most hard-hearted skeptics will become believers.

“You’re dealing with an increasingly small number of people who are for some reason hardened against this,” Bennett says.

In another 2017 poll, more than six in 10 Americans want the government to do something about climate change. Hopefully, with a basic scientific understanding such as the one laid out in the Primer, the consensus will just keep growing. Regardless, Bennett believes we all can agree: “Everybody wants a better world for their kids and grandkids,” he says. “I like to believe that even the Scott Pruitts of the world are reachable.”

He systematically addresses (and debunks) the case against climate change,

Let's see it. Bet it doesn't stand up to impartial, scientific scrutiny.

The fact is, the climate has gone up by 1 and a half degree in the past 100 years. Yet this climate change "science" isn't about the past (with trends) or the present (evidence) but based on the FUTURE (computer models).

There is ALWAYS this catch when mentioning the 1.5 C degree change:

"It's GOING TO happen," they say "Just you wait and see. If we don't destroy the Earth human economy today, we'll pay in the future."

Nope. Not science.

January 10, 1871: Pall Mall Gazette – “Imaginary Change of Climate”
“…a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-
instructed meteorologists…We have often noticed…every season is sure to be
‘extraordinary,’ almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest
or hottest ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to
exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.”
1902: Los Angeles Times
Glaciers are undergoing ‘their final annihilation’ due to warming.
1923: Chicago Tribune (Front page)
“Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada”
May 15, 1932: New York Times (Special supplement May)
Continuing end of the last ice age, not human activity cause of warming trend.
Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents
May 23, 1969: New York Times
“Worrying About a New Ice Age.”
April 22, 1970 (Lenin’s birthday): First Earth Day event presentation
George Wald, Harvard Biologist –
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against
problems facing mankind.”
1970’s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
Global cooling – ice age.
June 24, 1974: Time
“Another Ice Age?”
June 30, 1989: San Jose Mercury News
Noel Brown, senior UN environment official –
Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if
global warming is not reversed by 2000.
1997:
U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the U.S. should not sign on to the Kyoto protocols.
2006:
Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] –
10 years to solve the global-warming problem.
2007:
Chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –
“If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late.”
December 2008:
Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] tells German audience –
“…the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”
January 19, 2009:
James Hansen, [alleged] climate expert and past head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies –
President Obama has only four years to save the Earth.
December 2009:
Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] @ Copenhagen UN climate summit –
75% chance Arctic Ocean ice-free in several years.
November 10, 2013: Mother Jones article –
“Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming ‘hiatus’ [17 years without warming].”
Note: In the article below, the IPCC omits this fact!
April 13, 2014:USA Today
(IPCC states), “…global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels…”

But, here is reality!!

Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year

Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling

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