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.
Here's my proposal -- let's do absolutely nothing for the next 12 years. After the time has elapsed, we can look around and see if the world is still here. If the world hasn't ended, we will know that the climate scare stuff is all BS. Then we can forget all about it.
Well. if by "serious" you mean, we know where all the ice went and the Sunda Shelf used to be dry land, OK.
But all ACTUALLY serious people also know it was hotter in the 1930s and that there ae major problems with the 1970-2019 data sets, EVEN WITHOUT the known fraud.
So, as always, it comes down to knowing what the meaning of "is" is.
The climate mongers have been preaching this crap ever since the 30’s and nothing has changed........................
I have an even better proposal:
Every single democrat, lib, enviropsycho, etc., - all of them - Collectively hold your breath for two hours. That’s right - take the Carbon Reduction Eco Challenge, and don’t breathe for two hours.
That will reduce the “carbon footprint” big-time AND reduce the “population time bomb” as well.
BE the change!! MAKE a Difference!! GIVE back to Greta her stolen dreams.
But if the world has ended, then it won't make a difference anyhow because we'll all be dead.
Easy peasy solution. Great proposal.
We were stationed at Fort Reilly in the 1970 when we had the big ice storm in 1973.
Don’t forget ozone depletion.
Oh, and truckers by the thousands throwing liter bottles of urine out of their windows while driving down the interstates.
“The climate mongers have been preaching this crap ever since the 30’s and nothing has changed.....................…”
A while back I watched an episode of “Bachelor Father” a sitcom from the late 50s and early 60s where Kelly’s boyfriend informed his date’s family that the polar ice caps were melting. As far as I know the polar ice caps are still there. Whatever is going on with the earth is a cyclical occurrence and there is not a freaking thing we can do about it.
They just had to wait for the Internet to make the Millennial generation believe their garbage...............
The brat isn’t talking TO the United Nations. She is accusing the USA of being the cause of the world’s problems.
She is being sponsored. Do we know who is paying for her travel and upkeep? Did she get a book deal? Will she get free college tuition? All paid for by people who work for a living, and who use petroleum products to produce products and to travel.
When the left takes control, they’ll blame all of their failures on the need to save humanity from climate change. Poverty and mass starvation will be sold as the price that must be paid for mankind’s salvation. But the elites will continue to live in comfort and luxury.
“If the world hasn’t ended, we will know that the climate scare stuff is all BS. Then we can forget all about it.”
Let’s make it interesting. If the world is still here, in year 13, we exterminate leading alarmists, since they expected to die anyway, no loss.
I'm sorry. But in the face of such hubris...I must post;
We’re so self-important, so self-important. Everybody’s gonna save something now: “Save the trees! Save the bees! Save the whales! Save those snails!” and the greatest arrogance of all: “Save the planet!” What?! Are these people kidding me?! Save the planet?! We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned how to care for one another and we’re gonna save the planet?! I’m getting tired of that crap! I’m tired of Earth Day! I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths! People trying to make the world safe for their Volvo’s! Besides, environmentalists don’t give a crap about the planet. They don’t care about the planet; not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live; their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. the people are screwed! Compared to the people, THE PLANET IS DOING GREAT: Been here four and a half billion years!
The planet isn’t going anywhere...we are! We’re going away! Pack your s*** folks! The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.
- - George Carlin
We’ve been on the edge of extinction within ten years for the last 50+ years.
First it was global cooling and a new ice age,
then it was acid rain,
then it was the ozone hole,
then it was global warming,
which morphed to climate change,
which has morphed to climate emergency.
EVERY SINGLE PREDICTION of the environmental movement since the FIRST Earth day has been WRONG!
Yet still the public swallow the enviro-nuts’ gloom and doom predictions unquestioningly, thanks to a complacent and colluding press.
Leaders of both fascism and nazism believed that the masses needed to be fed myths to get them to obey. They knew that the myths did not need to be true, sane, or right. They only needed to be effective.
I have quite a few links to climate prophecies of the past. In going to some of them I am finding ERROR 404 or Cannot Find That Page.
They appear to be scrubbing the internet clean of their past failures.
As most sentient beings are aware; the climate changes at times. It has always done so and will always do so.
To blame it on cow farts or some such nonsense to force action so governments can get more control when they already have too much is the height of insanity.
Ergo climate change activists are mentally deranged so they should be treated like the mentally ill people they are. Some might only need close supervision and medication, like high doses of Thorazine and others might need a padded room. We are a compassionate society so we can find the right level of treatment for all of them.
We “dare” not do any less...
"Now, why pray have sulfur dioxide levels been falling? Because the Clean Air Act was enacted. Yes, regulations have reduced sulfur dioxide in order to supposedly fight the dreaded acid rain. But now the UN report says that less sulfur dioxide has had the unintended effect of actually reducing particles in the air which help deflect the sun's rays".
"So, in other words, we've got more global warming because we're burning less coal. So, the environmental UN is actually blaming global warming on environmental wacko's."
Research it kiddos....
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