Posted on 11/22/2019 8:06:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“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 former Vice President Joe Biden.
“The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change!” adds Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
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!”
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70 years ago Greta would have had a sandwich board “The Earth will end tomorrow.”
~6 months ago, I bought a Season Pass to a NW USA Ski Area.
So far the Forest Service SnoTel on the mountain indicates that this season is going to be off to a GREAT Start.
YMMV...
Greta NEEDS a freaking sandwich...with some meat in it.
She’s 16 but looks 12 because her abusive parents raised her as a Vegan.
It's for the children we have been told since the BJ Bill Clinton had a Lewinsky with another know-nothing in the Oval Office.So we should elevate all 16 year olds to cabinet positions? These little clowns cannot even vote, yet their views are more important than voting age adults? What a joke, an evil joke on all of humanity. Never let the turth get in the way of the agenda.
“% of POR Median: 116%”
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Alarmists to me means a person who is well versed on the sciences of it, logical, intelligent and has no agenda. These people are radical activists on a mission
I say we give everyone who says this a shovel, and tell them to go level out the Badlands so that it looks like a parking lot. Then tell me how easy it would be to "destroy the earth".
Not just that, but deaths from weather of any kind are about 1/10 of what they were in 1900. Deaths from yellow fever, malaria and other "tropical" diseases are now nonexistent, down from 1000's every year.
In the economy, the economic damage from weather has dropped from a percent or more of GDP to about 0.2% of GDP more recently, worldwide. Here in the US,the most economically expensive hurricane of all time by far is Miami 1926. The most expensive floods of all time were in Kansas 1951. Probably exceeded by 1844 but there was not much of an economy then.
To Greta Thunberg: How dare you! You have ruined the image of how I think young ladies should think & act!
From the article:
“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction!”
An older stastic:
In 2015, there were approximately 141 million births. In the same year, around 57 million people died. The world population therefore increased by 84 million in that year (that is an increase of 1.14%).
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