There Is No Climate Crisis As Religious Zealots Claim
“If enough people like, share or choose to believe something, others will accept it as true,” - Richard Baron, American Board of Internal Medicine
Let's put a few facts on the table:
Fact: Fossil fuels have given us a high standard of living for the past 100 years, which we take for granted.
Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant energy source worldwide, growing fast.
Fact: So-called renewables are leading to higher electricity prices and increased blackouts.
Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
Fact: Whatever warming has occurred during the past century, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows, thanks to fossils.
Fact: The climate started to warm in the mid-1800s after the 'Little Ice Age'.
Fact: In the previous millennia, the earth has been much warmer than today.
Fact: Human agriculture and advancements flourish during warm periods.
The claims of imminent climate disasters are irrational and dangerous. It has led so-called experts to make erroneous predictions about what will result from 'climate change. We have green energy hucksters, World Economic Forum elites, movie stars and politicians who will buy into anything to be with the 'in crowd'. A good example is Barack Obama.
Obama installs massive propane tank at Martha Vineyard mansion
Propane is a fossil fuel. But hey, one rule for thee, another for me.
We know about all the elitists like John Kerry, climate czar and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, flying in their private jets to the climate change conferences and to Davos. We have Joe Biden, who in 2016 was on Jay Leno's Garage program with his Chevy Corvette, burning rubber. Now that vehicle was a 1960s model, burning lots of gas. It seems he wasn't too concerned then about burning fossil fuels.
Today, the epitome of hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is when Biden rants about eliminating fossil fuels due to climate change. At the same time, he is off to Saudi Arabia to ask the Saudis to pump more oil. Lately, he has condemned the oil companies for not lowering prices and pumping more oil. How dumb can you be?
It's one thing to reason; it's another thing to go into hysterics which is what we saw with Greta Thunberg, the poster girl for climate change. Cleaning the environment is always good; however, destroying the most essential of human activities––the energy industry––has devastating results.
We can't take the doomsayers seriously because most predictions have not happened. If they're wrong, they habitually push things another few years down the track. It's a silly game they play. Here are just a few predictions that didn't eventuate.
In January 2006, Al Gore predicted that we had ten years left before the earth burned.
A 2008 report on ABC News predicted that New York City would be 2015.
In 1970, ecologist Kenneth E.F. Watt predicted that "If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder by the year 2000; this is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age."
On June 30, 1989, a UN official, the director of the United Nations Environment Program, claimed that "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000."
In 2008, Al Gore predicted a 75% chance that the north polar ice cap would completely melt within 5-7 years.
On May 13 2014, France's foreign minister said that we only have 500 days to stop "climate chaos."
In 2009, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center head James Wassen warned that Obama only had four years to save the earth.
And another Earth Day prediction from Kenneth Watt: "At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere, and none of our lands will be usable."
Noel Brown, an environmentalist, said that "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000".
Notice how often these people use the word "could" to hedge their bets?
'I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.'— John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The other thing we are told is that because of climate change, we are having more severe, devastating storms. This is simply not true.
One of my hobbies is storm chasing. I have been on the plains of "tornado alley" in America many times. Tornadoes can be both deadly yet beautiful simultaneously; however, the data shows they are not increasing in frequency. In fact, in the past 20 years, they have been lower in numbers.
What about hurricanes? Similarly, while the media plays up disasters, and today everyone has a mobile phone with a camera, there is no evidence that hurricanes or cyclones are worsening.
For hurricanes and tornadoes, the population is much larger than 50 years ago, and with an instant live streaming video, we get immediate awareness of these storms. Also another indicator relating to severity is the proportion of damage to GDP. As you can see, it has gone down over the years.
So is the earth warming, and if so, is it caused by humanity, and how significant is it?
Danish professor Jørgen Peder Steffensen has done ice core sampling in Greenland, and as he says, while global temperatures rose in the 20th century, it's hard to prove that it is due to humanity. Watch:
The reality is that the earth's climate is controlled by so many factors. Carbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas, making up only 0.04% of the atmospheric gases. Water vapour makes up much more. Other manufactured gases have a greenhouse effect as well. These gases allow heat in but trap some of the gases, causing a warming effect. There is also the Albedo Effect, where clouds reflect heat back out into space.
Then there are the Milankovitch Cycles discovered by Serbian Milutin Milankovitch. Three orbital considerations affect the climate.
The precession of the earth. Precession is the wobble of the rotating earth, much like the wobble of a spinning top.
The angle of the plane of the earth's orbit.
The elliptical nature of the earth's orbit. Sometimes it's closer to the sun (perihelion), sometimes farther (aphelion).
Volcanoes emit CO2 into the atmosphere, but volcanic eruptions can cool the earth due to the ash particles in the atmosphere that block out some of the sun's rays. This happened dramatically in 1991 with Mt Pinatubo in the Philippines. In this big eruption, dust and ash, including 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide, were injected into the upper atmosphere. This gas dispersed around the globe, which caused global cooling for two years.
The other reality is that we have dramatically cleaned up the environment in the west with cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and cleaner power plants, including coal. Unfortunately, countries like Australia refuse to consider nuclear energy, which is the least polluting of all.
Meanwhile, if we increase plant life and reduce the concrete jungles of our cities, this will have a positive impact because plants need CO2 to thrive.
IF we genuinely try to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030, society will be in a dire state with power outages, destruction of manufacturing and food shortages. This would be the real crisis.
Global warming....er ah.....climate change is such a colossal lie. It reminds me of the book Animal Farm. All the global warming elites flying around in jets while lecturing us about carbon footprint. Most of the people who are rabid about this topic are making money from it, either directly or indirectly.
Well if you can get hold of people like climatologist and atmospheric physicist like Richard Lindzen.
Or Astrophysicist, Garth Paltridge, who was Chief research scientist at the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies. I actually sat next to him on a flight to the U.S. a few years ago when he was retiring. He said that he would not dare speak out until he retired. He was actually going to a Climate Skeptics conference in Chicago.
Then there is geologist, Professor Ian Plimer who has been on the media a lot and has written a number of books on the subject. Plimer will definitely take on anyone. He is a very sharp and articulate fellow.