Posted on 11/20/2019 6:27:39 AM PST by Kaslin
"How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!" insisted teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction!"
Many people say that we're destroying the Earth.
It all sounds so scary.
But I've been a consumer reporter for years, and I've covered so many scares: plague, famine, overpopulation, SARS, West Nile virus, bird flu, radiation from cellphones, flesh-eating bacteria, killer bees, etc. The list of terrible things that were going to get us is very long.
Yet we live longer than ever.
Now I'm told global warming is different.
The Earth's average temperature is rising. It's risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. The U.N. predicts it will rise another 2 to 5 degrees this century. If that happens, that will create problems.
But does that justify what's being said?
"We have 12 years to act!" says Joe Biden.
"The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change!" adds Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Twelve years? That's the new slogan.
The Heartland Institute invited some climate alarmists to explain the "12 years" and other frightening statements they keep making.
The alarmists didn't even show up. They never do. They make speeches and preach to gullible reporters, but they won't debate anyone who is skeptical.
Over the years, I repeatedly invited Al Gore to come on my TV shows. His staff always said he was "too busy."
At a Heartland Institute event I moderated, climatologist Pat Michaels put the 12-year claim in perspective by saying, "It's warmed up around 1 degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy doubled in the industrialized democracies! Yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree and the entire system crashes? That's the most absurd belief!"
Astrophysicist Willie Soon added, "It's all about hand-waving, emotion, sending out kids in protest. It has nothing to do with the science."
Is that true? I wish the alarmists would show up and debate.
Alarmists say, "Miami will soon be underwater!"
Few serious people deny that the Earth has warmed and that sea levels are rising. But Michaels points out that even if the warming increases, humans can adjust.
For example, much of Holland is below sea level. "They said," Michaels recounts, "we're going to adapt to the fact that we're a low-lying country; we're going to build these dikes. Are you telling me that people in Miami are so dumb that they're just going to sit there and drown?"
Climatology professor David Legates added a point the climate alarmists never make: "The water has been rising for approximately 20,000 years and probably will continue."
But aren't sudden climate changes happening now? Aren't hurricanes suddenly far more violent?
"No they aren't!" responded Michaels. "You can take a look at all the hurricanes around the planet. We can see them since 1970, because we've got global satellite coverage. We can measure their power... There is no significant increase whatsoever -- no relationship between hurricane activity and the surface temperature of the planet!"
He's right. That's what government data shows.
Nevertheless, activists and politicians demand the United States move toward zero carbon emissions. That would "put you back in the Stone Age," says Michaels.
Another myth is that carbon dioxide, the prime creator of greenhouse gases, threatens the food supply.
But carbon dioxide helps plants grow. "There are places on Earth where it is greening up like crazy," says Michaels.
But if the crisis isn't real, why do governments race to respond to it with regulations and big spending projects? Why is the U.N.'s Panel on Climate (IPCC) so alarmed?
Well, IPCC does stand for Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change.
Legates says, "Governments want to keep control... Carbon dioxide becomes that molecule by which (they) can take control of your lives."
Government is the real crisis.
“They just had to wait for the Internet to make the Millennial generation believe their garbage”.
My husband is an 73 year old fart and a Luddite who does not use the computer. He is thoroughly brainwashed and actually believes that twaddle. In fact just last week he asked me if I was a “climate change denier”. As Bugs Bunny would say, “what a maroon”.
President Trump passed an EO to scrub all federal websites and databases of the term “climate change”.
Says the guy/gal posting something on the, wait for it, INTERNET!
The unintentional irony of the Boomer generation never ceases to amuse me.
Millennial by chance, FReeper by choice.
We had to invent it for you to use........................
You use it too so what’s your point? The Internet wasn’t invented for the purpose of Millennials or Boomers or anyone else to enjoy. Like every other invention it was made to make money for its creator.
Nope.
I was using what would become ‘The Internet’ in the late 80’s early 90’s. It was originally a system to be used by the Universities and military to be able to communicate information and knowledge about certain things, THEN some guy named Al Gore decided to open it up for commercial use...............
If the Earth is indeed warming, why were the propagandists forced to change their mantra to "climate change"? (crickets)
Ask him, “When in, the last 12,000 years or so, since the Ice Ages, has the climate NOT been ‘changing ‘?” ...............
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I can be very serious; and, I happen to be a scientist.
The earth has warmed? Since what year? I suspect that warming is minor and cyclic and dependent (mostly) upon solar energy fluctuation.
Sea levels rising?
Really?
The sea level "canaries in the coal mines" are the Maldives with an average above sea level elevation of 1.5 meters above sea level. They happen to be doing just fine.
The whole warming mythology is mainly dependent upon computer modeling; and, there are so very, very many, many unknowns within the models that are addressed with assumptions that the model results are driven by the assumptions. This is the opposite of science and the opposite of the scientific method.
I could go on.
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Thank you for your post on this September, 2019 thread.
You said you are a scientist and yet you do not believe the “Global warming” myth.
I agree with you that what is passing as the “science” that proves Global warming is a fact and that the dire predictions of global disaster in 12 years are true and should dictate drastic action by our governments -are not in fact based on REAL science.
Do you have any articles by scientists who agree with you and me? And please don’t use Tony Heller as your source.
Thank you for any help you can give on this issue.
Something like 93%(?) of the “greenhouse” effect is due to water vapor. And 99% of water vapor is natural.
There is a TV ad that comes on during the football games. I think it is some bank employees that joint a couple of guys in their boat to help clean up the river. (Showing how “woke” the bank is.)
They are fishing out plastic bottles using nets. There’s maybe 50 bottles in the john boat and another 200 scattered in the water as they are scooping and chatting.
At the end of the commercial it shows them heading up the river into the sunset using a shot from overhead - with a mile or more of river free of garbage.
I’ve been in, worked near or lived by numerous rivers in my life. Other than the one in WV that had just been hit by a flood and had wrecked homes and appliances and cars along it’s banks, they all have been pretty free of debris.
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