Posted on 04/05/2022 7:43:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
I guess you could mark me down as a "climate change skeptic." I'm not a climate scientist, so I have no expertise on what is happening with the planet's temperature or severe weather events that can wreak havoc on life and property.
I am skeptical that "collective action" through governmental policies will make planet Earth a more hospitable place. Is this the same government that can't balance its budget, control its borders, stop the crime spree across America and has allowed a 10% inflation tax, among other foibles?
Now, these same politicians will, like Moses, stop the oceans from rising? Fat chance. And they accuse the United States of being religious zealots.
But I do have faith in free markets and the technological advances that for thousands of years have moved us away from the Hobbesian nightmare of humans living in dank caves with life on Earth being "nasty, brutish, and short."
Deaths from hurricanes, landslides, tornadoes, earthquakes, droughts, floods, food and energy shortages, severe heat and cold and other disruptions from Mother Earth have fallen sharply over the past century. The property damage from acts of nature as a share of our GDP continues to drop yearly.
For example, more accurate weather reporting prepares people for deadly weather events. Building technologies make mankind smarter about weather- and earthquake-proofing homes, buildings, bridges and other structures to protect against collapse and rubble. The real "green revolution" on agriculture output has dropped rates of famine and hunger to all-time lows. My mentor, the late, great economist Julian Simon, taught us that the "ultimate resource" to save us from Armageddon is the human mind.
Hence, I was thrilled when CNN reported that scientists had invented a new technology that flies planes into clouds and injects them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow.
The technology could be a cost-effective way to alleviate severe droughts, which have afflicted the western U.S. in recent years.
If you're a green climate change activist or scientist, you have to be thrilled, right?
It turns out the climate change industrial complex isn't ecstatic. As CNN notes, some climate scientists complain that the technology could be "getting in the way of nature." Read that sentence again because it is so rich with irony. Isn't the entire climate change movement about altering Mother Nature?
This reaction also makes one wonder whether something is going on here in the climate change industrial complex beyond stopping the warming of the planet. Climate change has rapidly evolved into a multitrillion-dollar global industry.
Inexpensive and non-life-altering solutions aren't part of the plan, just as the folks who said that we were running out of oil attacked the shale revolution, which proved them so tragically wrong.
There are thousands of other examples of new technologies beyond the rainmaking breakthroughs just mentioned. They have already invented or will invent in the years and decades ahead technologies to make our planet warmer, colder, drier, wetter, sunnier or in whatever direction we want to turn the dial. None of these require draconian laws and mandates to destroy our modern-day energy sector and replace our power supply with 19th-century windmills
We have the supposed greatest minds in the world who have allegedly come to a solution to save the planet dramatically by hitting a "reset" button on energy by turning to some of the most inefficient sources. That's the best they've got?
I was struck by this disdainful comment by UCLA climate scientist Donald Swain regarding the rainmaking machine: "Resources are much better invested in climate solutions already guaranteed to make significant and equitable impacts."
The professor seems to be saying that it makes far more sense to eliminate 80% of the world's cheap and abundant energy sources than to bring power to the world's poorest regions and institute an inexpensive and promising technology that could cut the number of droughts by half or more.
It almost seems they don't want these innovative and nonintrusive solutions to work. Free markets and technology may help save the world from doomsday, but they won't overturn a century of progress in human welfare and won't make the green energy lobby rich.
Real Climate Doomsday arrives when a super volcano erupts or a swarm of mile-wide or better comet debris hits earth, like last time in 10,800 BC. Not before.
“...CNN reported that scientists had invented a new technology that flies planes into clouds and injects them with silver iodide...”
CNN was around in the 50s?
There is no ‘climate doomsday’. What’s actually happening is that homo sapiens is devolving back into mindless brutes and will eventually go extinct 100% just like the trilobite.
[[Does she even have to be told that her answer does not agree with the views of our forefathers and ALL subsequent generations]]
You are also,not a good researcher apparentlythere is plnety of scientific evidence showingmthst man is not capable of changing the climate because we cant produce even a fractio. Of the amount of co2,to affect global climates.. a quick sea4ch Will also reveal that no, storms are not more frequent and more deadly. You don’t have to,be an expert to learn these facts easily
There is no “Solution” to climate change, period. There was absoltuep6,nothing man could,have done to stop the miles thick ice from melting across, globe and In the us,, and there is nothing man can do but,ride it out now.
I swear, if we had 60,years of cooling, every year, the left would,be still screaming that man is causing it. Climates change, always- that’s how live works. Man’s co2 amounts to just 0.00136% of e atmosphere- nowhere near enough to blanket the earth trapping in massive heat.
Also co2 has been far far higher than it is today, and life thrived- infact, every species around today survived it- witn no terminal effects.
Ice core samples also prove that temperatures always climb first, then co2 rises, proving thst co2 does not drive temperature but rather temp regulates co2 In Atmosphere.
[[Now, these same politicians will, like Moses, stop the oceans from rising?]]
Hey moore- go online for a mere 10 minutes and you will find photos of oceans many many years ago where the beach line is the exact same level today as it was back then. For crying g out loud man do,a little research!
Meh murder hornets will eat us all before then
His hobgoblins are weather (he ignores weather history), urgency (he ignores the lack of trends in extreme rain, extreme heat, tornadoes, etc), and "equity" (which means white guilt even though we have the lowest birth rates, the highest energy efficiency, and we invented all the semiconductor-based renewable technology). Sea level rises of an inch per decade, mostly from ocean warming and expansion, are a pretty good match to natural rates and a non-issue. Anything higher is local subsidence. Judy Curry has great writeups on sea level variability around islands.
The total of 0.042% is up from about 0.028% before 1800. Part of that rise was natural as the Little Ice Age ended. The rest was fossil fuel burning and deforestation. But as many point out, the rises have helped agriculture. On that note, the 0.018% during the last full glaciation represents CO2 starvation. At about 0.015% most life on earth will die.
The cure for climate doomsday is to stop listening to the “experts”, relax and have a beer.
Right, I question the basic premise that warming is bad. To me it seems like there may be more upside than downside.
No, the way to end climate dooms day is to wipe out the progressive climate change minority faction
Until they are gone, they will be an existential threat to America
There can be no coexistence
Meh murder hornets will eat us all before then
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Nah - they are tasty when fried in butter sauce ...
Ugh I’d rather eat broccoli eyuck!
He’s a global warming alarmist but he honestly documented all the hardships when the weather got colder worldwide during the Little Ice Age.
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That is interesting. I wonder how he managed to document the problems that come with global cooling yet still promotes an ideology that would tend to lead in that direction.
Ugh I’d rather eat broccoli eyuck!
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I like both broccoli an Lima beans! Saving my share of Murder Hornets for you, ok?
Truth is the Cure to Climate Doomsday - and it's free.
Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured a 500-year cold snap -- The Little Ice Age -- that lasted roughly from A.D. 1300 until 1850. The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today's global warming. With its basis in cutting-edge science, The Little Ice Age offers a new perspective on familiar events. Renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan shows how the increasing cold affected Norse exploration; how changing sea temperatures caused English and Basque fishermen to follow vast shoals of cod all the way to the New World; how a generations-long subsistence crisis in France contributed to social disintegration and ultimately revolution; and how English efforts to improve farm productivity in the face of a deteriorating climate helped pave the way for the Industrial Revolution and hence for global warming. This is a fascinating, original book for anyone interested in history, climate, or the new subject of how they interact.
The book is over 20 years old. Since he wrote it, the alarmists have pushed the view that the Little Ice Age was only northern hemisphere or mainly Europe or whatever. So he has essentially been "discredited" by the new "science". Don't know where he ended up, probably purgatory.
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