Recently, environmental journalist Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas “functionally extinct.” The group Extinction Rebellion said “Billions will die” and “Life on Earth is dying.” Vice claimed the “collapse of civilization may have already begun.”
Apocalyptic statements like these are having an effect on young people. In September, a group of British psychologists said children are increasingly suffering from anxiety from the frightening discourse around climate change. An XR co-founder said a genocide like the Holocaust was “happening again, on a far greater scale, and in plain sight” from climate change.
For many of us, who have spent a lifetime fighting for cleaner air and water, fighting sprawl, advocates of open space and intelligent communities, find that many in the climate change advocacy are not being entirely honest about climate change is worrisome.
This doomsday scenario keeps us from focusing on actual problems we have the ability to fix.
No credible scientific body has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization much less the extinction of the human species. “‘Our children are going to die in the next 10 to 20 years.’ What’s the scientific basis for these claims?” BBC’s Andrew Neil asked a visibly uncomfortable climate change spokesperson last month.
“But most scientists don’t agree with this,” said Neil. “I looked through IPCC reports and see no reference to billions of people going to die, or children in 20 years. How would they die?”
What we are seeing is climate activists grossly misrepresenting the science in order to raise more money, and create headlines. “There is robust evidence of disasters displacing people worldwide,” notes IPCC, “but limited evidence that climate change or sea-level rise is the direct cause”
Economic development has made us less vulnerable to changes in the climate, which is why there was a 99.7% decline in the death toll from natural disasters since its peak in 1931.
In 1931, 3.7 million people died from natural disasters. In 2018, just 11,000 did. And that decline occurred over a period when the global population quadrupled.
What about sea level rise? IPCC estimates sea level could rise two feet (0.6 meters) by 2100. Somehow that doesn’t seem unmanageable.
One-third of the Netherlands is below sea level, and some areas are seven meters below sea level. They adapted to living below sea level 400 years ago. Technology has improved a bit since then.
What about claims of crop failure, famine, and mass death? Humans today produce enough food for 10 billion people, or 25% more than we need, and scientific bodies predict increases in that share, not declines.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecasts crop yields increasing 30% by 2050. And the poorest parts of the world, like sub-Saharan Africa, are expected to see increases of 80 to 90%.
Even if climate change were to negatively impact crop yields, still, wheat yields increased 100 to 300% around the world since the 1960s, while a study of 30 models found that yields would decline by 6% for every one degree Celsius increase in temperature.
Rates of future yield growth depend far more on whether poor nations get access to tractors, irrigation, and fertilizer than on climate change, says FAO.
All of this helps explain why IPCC anticipates climate change will have a modest impact on economic growth. By 2100, IPCC projects the global economy will be 300 to 500% larger than it is today. Both IPCC and the Nobel-winning Yale economist, William Nordhaus, predict that warming of 2.5°C and 4°C would reduce gross domestic product (GDP) by 2% and 5% over that same period.
However, this does not mean we should go on a pollution rampage. As designers and engineers, coming up with cleaner and more efficient means of energy production should still be a priority. We still share the planet with other creatures, and we need to be aware of what we do to the habitat. Creating the most power, with the smallest physical footprint should be the main goal. Priority should be given to reinvesting in small nuclear instead of trashing the landscape with ineffective passive tech like solar and wind.
And exaggerating the risk, and suggesting climate change is more important than things like habitat destruction, are counterproductive.
For example, Australia’s fires are not driving koalas extinct, as Bill McKibben suggested. The main scientific body that tracks the species, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, labels the koala “vulnerable,” which is one level less threatened than “endangered,” two levels less than “critically endangered,” and three less than “extinct” in the wild.
Koalas face far bigger threats such as the destruction of habitat, disease, bushfires, and invasive species.
The climate could change dramatically — and we could still save koalas. Conversely, the climate could change only modestly — and koalas could still go extinct.
Too much focus on just climate distracts our attention from other threats to endangered species and opportunities for protecting them, like protecting and expanding their habitat.
Australian climate scientist Tom Wigley notes, “It really does bother me because it’s wrong…All these young people have been misinformed. And partly it’s Greta Thunberg’s fault. Not deliberately. But she’s wrong.”
Climate activists, in their zeal to go zero-carbon, are placing demands that poor nations be denied the cheap sources of energy they need to develop.
“If you want to minimize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2070 you might want to accelerate the burning of coal in India today…It doesn’t sound like it makes sense. Coal is terrible for carbon. But it’s by burning a lot of coal that they make themselves wealthier, and by making themselves wealthier they have fewer children, and you don’t have as many people burning carbon, you might be better off in 2070.” — MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel.
Paul Plante says
What an excellent article, and finally, there is a publication here in the United States of America that has the courage to stand up to this “climate crisis” bull**** coming at us from little Greta and the Democrats and their screeching ilk.
I too have read through this IPCC crap and nowhere does it support the idea of a “climate crisis,” or “climate chaos,” or “carbon pollution,” because those are stupid terms.
As to HYSTERIA MONGERING by the “global climate crisis” crowd, this as it is down around zero Fahrenheit this morning to the north of you, which has people up this way wondering how come we’re not getting our fait share of global warming, let’s go to an article in something called Teen Vogue entitled “My Home Is Already Being Destroyed by Climate Change” by Kaylah Brathwaite on 9/20/2019, where we have this following hysteria, to wit:
I have spent my entire life on a dying planet.
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To which I have to reply that that is total BULL****, since the planet is hardly dying, nor is there any credible evidence that the planet is dying.
Is the planet changing?
Yes, because it is a globe spinning through space, and as a result, it is in a constant state of change, which is HIGH SCHOOL earth science – no Pile-It-High-and-Deeper (PhD) required.
Getting back to the hysteria mongering:
We know that climate change not only puts the future of our earth in peril, but that it is frontline youth — those of us who live on islands, in rural areas, and along the coast — who will experience its most severe consequences.
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Again, more horse****, because climate change on the earth is a natural function of the earth, just as breathing is a natural process of being human.
And what are “frontline youth?”
As to experiencing its most severe consequences, perhaps, because people for thousands of years have been subjected to quite severe consequences, far worse than these children have experienced in their short lifetimes, to wit:
* The river floods and subsequent disease in China in 1332–3 are said to have taken seven million human lives, with long-lasting devastation in parts of the country and destruction of many settlements;
* Many similar disasters were recorded on the low-lying coastlands around the North Sea in the Middle Ages and after, particularly on the continental side, with estimated death tolls from 100,000 to 400,000 – their non-occurrence in recent times is a tribute to the effectiveness of the sea defences that have been built over the last three hundred years.
* The particularly deadly time in West Africa in the 1860s and 1870s, which earned the region the name of ‘the White Mans Grave’, when the average expectation of life of a European going there was six months, seems to have been a period when the equatorial rains were peculiarly active over Africa and the lakes were rising strongly.
And that list goes on and on and on, and again, people, we are talking either grade school level or high school level stuff here, so why are these children of today so stupid, and here I place little Greta Thunberg right up at the top of that list, which takes us back to that Teen Vogue article, to wit:
Before I even knew about the science of climate change, I was already familiar with climate anxiety and existential dread.
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Climate anxiety?
Ah, yes, the head shrinkers out there love that term, because of all the new patients it gives them access to, which is good for their bottom line; look at Greta, for example, with her personal laundry list of all the whatevers it is she suffers from, so from their perspective, keep the climate anxiety and existential dread coming because the wife wants a new en suite and the kids need to go to the best colleges, and of course, there are the payments on the Mercedes-Benz for him and the BMW for her, and so that game will go on for some time.
Getting back to that Teen Vogue hysteria-mongering:
I didn’t know anything about climate change in elementary school, and I’m sure some of my premature existential dread was influenced by Christianity.
But no child has apocalyptic thoughts without reason.
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So who really is writing those words, people, with that talk about “apocalyptic thoughts?”
I was a child living in an old farmhouse with no insulation and no central heat other than wood stoves, in a place where the temperature records will show it down to 30 below the Faherenheit zero, so I have a feel for what it is like to freeze, and I didn’t end up with apocalyptic thoughts, or climate anxiety or existential dread, nor did I know anyone who suffered from any of those things when I was young, and having experienced both, I’ll take the heat as opposed to the cold, because of the two, the cold will kill you quicker, which takes us back to the hysteria-mongering, as follows:
More powerful countries are responsible for letting the climate crisis become so extreme, yet they’ve also left vulnerable communities squabbling for habitable land.
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So, now we are over into the politics, and what this is really all about, as follows:
Strikes and mass mobilization are instrumental to acquiring climate justice.
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CLIMATE JUSTICE, people!
We people here in the United States of America OWE these children in other countries the climate they would like to have, not too hot, not too cold, but everything just right, and because we are greedy, they are getting the cast-o9ff climate we don’t want, while we take the best climate for ourselves, this as I look out the window at two feet of snow on the ground out there.
So where is our climate justice?
How come we don’t get to have the same balmy climate all year round that the people in Burbank, California, and Miami Beach, Florida and Cape Charles, Virginia get to have?
How totally unfair is that?
And back to Teen Vogue we go for more horse****, as follows:
There is little more valuable than listening to the voices and stories of those experiencing a crisis firsthand.
There is a different sense of urgency for those of us whose whose homes are being destroyed right now.
We understand that revolutionary action is required.
We must call upon our representatives to take the climate crisis as seriously as it deserves.
We strike out of fear and to show unity against systems that seek to destroy us.
We know that individuals are weak against powerful injustices, but that mass strikes can challenge and undermine a status quo that prioritizes profit over the well-being of our homes and planet.
Our dependency on a capitalist system that is actively contributing to our demise isn’t our only choice.
I strike for those working in the fossil fuel industry just as much as I strike for my fellow activists.
We need a just transition that ensures that workers who contribute to the climate crisis don’t lose their sources of income after we’ve made the revolutionary switch to renewable sources of energy.
Climate justice is liberation.
And I want to be liberated.
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
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Add the Cape Charles Mirror to that list as the one news outlet in America that is countering the horse**** and hog**** and pure bull**** being put out by the bushel basket-full by those more than 250 news outlets that are hysteria-mongering for profit!
Paul Plante says
And speaking of HYSTERIA MONGERING and little Greta, who sounds more and more like an ignorant fool the more she runs her little mouth, which is plenty, she was over in Madrid today speaking at the Global Climate Summit, and this is the horsecrap little Greta had to say, to wit:
Hi.
A year and a half ago, I didn’t speak to anyone unless I really had to, but then I found a reason to speak.
Since then, I’ve given many speeches and learned that when you talk in public, you start with something personal or emotional to get everyone’s attention.
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And right there, with that “emotional” crap is where she loses me, because as a RESONSIBLE ADULT, something little Greta obviously lacks in her life, I don’t get all emotional and fearful and scared and unable to think clearly and rationally because some little rich girl from Sweden has serious emotional problems.
Getting back to little Greta:
Say things like, our house is on fire, I wanted to panic or how dare you.
But today I will not do that because then those phrases are all that people focus on.
They don’t remember the facts, the very reason why I say those things in the first place, we no longer have time to leave out the science.
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And see what I am sayin g when I say that the mo9re she speaks, the more stupid she sounds, because the phrase “we no longer have time to leave out the science” is nothing more than meaningless gibberish.
“SCIENCE” is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Science is the study of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them.
And the aim of science is to build true and accurate knowledge about how the world works, and it is people like little Greta who are leaving out the “science” with all of their hysterical emoting about the world is going to end and we are going to set off all kinds of chain reactions and all of that horse**** little Greta is selling, which is as follows:
For about a year I have been constantly talking about our rapidly declining carbon budgets over and over again.
But since that is still being ignored, I will just keep repeating it.
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However, while little Greta is running her mouth about things she knows nothing about, the real science, which is found in WORLDS IN THE MAKING – THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE BY SVANTE ARRHENIUS, DIRECTOR OF THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL NOBEL INSTITUTE, STOCKHOLM, TRANSLATED BY DR. H. BORNS published March, 1908, concerning this “carbon budget” is as follows:
Volcanism is the natural process by which the greatest amount of carbonic acid is supplied to the air.
Large quantities of gases originating in the interior of the earth are ejected through the craters of the volcanoes.
These gases consist mostly of steam and of carbon dioxide, which have been liberated during the slow cooling of the silicates in the interior of the earth.
The volcanic phenomena have been of very unequal intensity in the different phases of the history of the earth, and we have reason to surmise that the percentage of carbon dioxide in the air was considerably greater during periods of strong volcanic activity than it is now, and smaller in quieter periods.
Professor Freeh, of Breslau, has attempted to demonstrate that this would be in accordance with geological experience, because strongly volcanic periods are distinguished by warm climates, and periods of feeble volcanic intensity by cold climates.
The ice age in particular was characterized by a nearly complete cessation of volcanism, and the two periods at the commencement and at the middle of the Tertiary age (Eocene and Miocene) which showed high temperatures were also marked by an extraordinarily developed volcanic activity.
This parallelism can be traced back into more remote epochs.
It may possibly be a matter of surprise that the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should not constantly be increased, since volcanism is always pouring out more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.
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But search as you might through this IPCC horse**** that is little Greta Thunberg’s HOLY BIBLE, you will find no reference whatsoever to that “real science,” nor will you find reference to this from that same source, to wit:
Where the volcanic activity gradually lessens or ceases, we can still trace it by the exhalations of gas and the springs of warm water which we find in many districts where, during the Tertiary age, powerful volcanoes were ejecting their streams of lava.
To this class belong the famous geysers of Iceland, of Yellowstone Park (Fig. 6), and of New Zealand; also the hot springs of Bohemia, so highly valued therapeutically (i.e., the Karlsbad Sprudel); the Fumaroli of Italy, Greece, and other countries, exhaling water vapor; the Mofettse, with their exhalations of carbonic acid (of frequent occurrence in the district of the Eifel and on both sides of the middle Rhine, in the Dogs Grotto near Naples, and in the Valley of Death in Java); the Solf atara, exhaling vapors of Sulphur sulphuretted hydrogen and sulphur dioxide (they are found near Naples on the Phlegrsean Fields and in Greece); as well as many of the so-called mud volcanoes, which eject mud, salt water, and gases (as a rule, carbonic acid and hydrocarbons) for example, the mud volcanoes near Parma and Modena, in Italy, and those near Kronstadt, in Transylvania.
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And for the record, when Arrhenius talks of carbonic acid, he is referring to carbon dioxide.
Getting back to poor confused and hysterical Greta at the UN meeting:
In chapter two, on page 108 in the SR 1.5 IPCC report that came out last year, it says that if we ought to have a 6% to 7% chance of limiting the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, we had on January 1, 2018, 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit in that budget.
And of course that number is much lower today as we emit about 42 gigatons of CO2 every year including land use.
With today’s emissions levels, that remaining budget will be gone within about eight years.
These numbers aren’t anyone’s opinions or political views.
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And sorry, little Greta, but that is exactly what they are – those numbers ARE someone’s opinions and political views and that is all they are, and nothing more.
And then Greta comes out with this gem:
This is the current best available science.
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No, Greta, that is not the “current best available science,” precisely because those numbers are mere political opinions unsupported by facts.
And speaking of “political”:
These are the ones that have been accepted through the IPCC, and please note that these figures are global and therefore do not say anything about the aspect of equity, which is absolutely essential to make the Paris Agreement to work on a global scale.
That means that richer countries need to do their fair share and get down to real zero emissions much faster and then help poorer countries do the same, so people in less fortunate parts of the world can raise their living standards.
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Ah, yes, wealth transfer and GUILT!
Because we in the United States of America get up in the morning and go to work, and support our families and provide for our children, we are GULITY of making other people, poor, so to give them their chance to be rich, it is we here in the United States of America who must be reduced to a caveman existence, or less, which is what “zero emissions” will result in, mass death here in the United States of America, and as an adult, I am not willing my grandchildren such a barren world to satisfy Greta Thunberg, which takes us back to more horse**** from Greta, because this time she was on a real spew, to wit:
Why is it so important to stay below 1.5 degrees?
Because even at one degree people are dying from the climate crisis.
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PROVE IT, Greta!
PROVE THERE IS A CLIMATE CRISIS!
And she can’t do it, because there is no scientific proof of a “climate crisis,” because a crisis is an emotional term, not a scientific term, and the so-called “climate crisis” of Greta Thunberg is an in vented emotional term, not a term of science.
And then we get to here with little Greta’s emotional outburst at the UN meeting, to wit:
So please tell me, how do you react to these numbers without feeling at least some level of panic?
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As for me, Greta, who am a thinking adult, I don’t feel panic because as an engineer, I know those numbers of yours are nothing but horse**** to scare emotional little girls like you with, and nothing more.
And then this question comes forth from little Greta, who has the art of the temper tantrum down pat with years of experience manipulating her child-like parents, to wit:
How do you respond to the fact that basically nothing is being done about this without feeling the slightest bit of anger?
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I respond by saying that the earth’s climate has been changing constantly for millennia, and with respect to global warming, we are actually in a cooling period, and according to the real science, not the contrived and manufactured horse**** “science” of the political IPCC, our historical era was preceded by a period in which the mean temperature was by 2 degrees C. (3.6 F.) higher than at present and this epoch was preceded by a warmer age, in which the temperature, to judge from fossilized plants of those days, must at times have been by 8 or 9 degrees C. (14 or 16 F.) higher than at present, and, moreover, much more uniformly distributed over the whole earth (Eocene).
Which brings us to this:
And how do you communicate this without sounding alarmist?
I would really like to know.
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And maybe when you grow up and actually learn something about the world the rest of us live in, as opposed to the fantasy world in your head, that answer will finally become apparent to you!
MJM says
Well, Thank God, if I’m allowed to say that…….Dear Sweet Greta has been named Person of The Year. Now I know Time Magazine and Nancy Pelosi will save the planet from us all. Of course, not until after they fail to impeach The President with all their years of lies. But I still have faith in the press to move mountains, and glaciers, and sea walls, all with Nancy’s help of course.
Paul Plante says
Hitler was Time’s Person of the Year in 1938, which makes for an interesting parallel with little Greta, who speaks to people in the imperious voice of a Gloriana, a skill no doubt taught to her by her famous child actor and now-producer and multi-millionaire father Svante Thunberg, especially with regard to Hitler’s famous adage of keep telling the same lies over and over and people will accept them as the truth, which interestingly brings me to my early education as an American citizen right after WWII when we American children were introduced to the concept of the “GOOD GERMAN,” the tens of millions of Germans who never questi0ned Hitler, but blindly obeyed, which is the opposite of what an American citizen should be, not a bovine-like follower who never questions, just obeys, but someone who lives the adage that the price of liberty in America is eternal vigilance.
The question for us is why do the Democrats in our House of Representatives treat this confused little girl as if she is some kind of royalty?
As to little Greta spewing ignorant, non-sensical gibberish to this UN global climate crisis crowd meeting in Madrid, we have this gem from her speech yesterday, to wit:
These numbers also don’t include most feedback loops, nonlinear tipping points, or additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution.
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Now, that is ignorant bull****, and it is straight out of the bigger collection of IPCC bull**** that Greta presented the Democrats in our House of Representatives with, by their invitation, in September of this year, and the Democrats in our House of Representatives are in turn treating that ignorant gibberish as if it actually had some type of rational meaning, which is a real statement in turn about just how ignorant the Democrats in our House of Representatives are that they would accept this ignorant gibberish as having some kind of meaning, which gives us a very good idea as to just how precarious our future as a nation is, when such pathetic benighted ignorance pervades the majority in the House of Representatives, which in turn is a grave reflection on those who voted to install such abject ignorance in the House of Representatives as exists in there now.
Paul Plante says
As a caring grandfather, let me say how much I personally appreciate the fact that the Cape Charles Mirror is stepping up to the plate here to challenge this irresponsible and reckless exploitation and manipulation of children for political gain with this “global climate crisis” bull**** that is being thrown in our faces seemingly every day now by the HYSTERIA MONGERING of the main-stream media which is in turn being fed and stoked by this IPCC “global climate crisis” crowd meeting in Madid and shamefully, our own NOAA, as we can see in an article in the Brit publication The Guardian entitled ‘We won’t stop striking’: the New York 13 year-old taking a stand over climate change” by Oliver Milman in New York @olliemilman on 19 Sep 2019, as follows:
Alexandria Villasenor looks a slightly incongruous figure to stage a lengthy protest over the perils of catastrophic global warming.
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OMG!
CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING!
NO!
SAY IT ISN’T SO!
And of course, it isn’t as we can clearly see by going to the authority on global climate entitled “CLIMATE, HISTORY AND THE MODERN WORLD,” Second Edition by H.H. Lamb, as follows:
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the end-product of the burning not only of wood but of all fossil fuels — coal, gas, oil, etc.
It is a very minor constituent of the atmosphere, only about 350 parts per million (ppm) by volume, but it is important because of its effects on the radiation passing through the atmosphere.
This applies particularly to the radiant energy going out from the Earth, because CO2 is not transparent to radiation at some of the long wavelengths most strongly represented in the emission from bodies at the temperatures prevailing at the Earth’s surface and in the atmosphere.
Hence, this radiation is absorbed on its way upward from the Earth by the CO2 in the atmosphere and re-radiated in all directions, so partly back to the Earth.
As a result of this, and the similar action of the water vapour in the atmosphere on radiation at a range of wave-lengths partly overlapping those which CO2 absorbs, the Earth’s surface climate is some 35–40°C warmer than would be expected on a planet at this distance from the sun.
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Said another way, without that carbon dioxide in our earth’s atmosphere, life for us human beings on earth would not be possible, which brings us to this from that same source, to wit:
There is no doubt, from actual measurements, that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing and that, with the increased rate of burning of fossil fuels,the rate of increase has become greater.
In 1880–90 the CO2 seems to have been around 290 ppm in the atmosphere.
Some who have studied the subject believe that before the massive clearing of forests for agriculture in the nineteenth century, the proportion (owing to assimilation of carbon from atmospheric CO2 by the vegetation) may have been as low as 270 ppm.
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In fact, it was well known back in 1900, well over a hundred years ago, that global carbon dioxide was on the rise.
On that, there is no argument, nor can there be.
Where there is an argument, and it is a legitimate one, it is with respect to what any of that might mean, as we can see from the following, again from that source, to wit:
It has been calculated that this carbon-enriched atmosphere may have contributed to richer crop yields to the extent of a few per cent.
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Yes, people, without carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there would be no green plant life on earth, and since green plants breathe carbon dioxide as a fuel to keep them not only alive, but thriving, the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not surprisingly, the better the green plants do, which is to our benefit, not our detriment, but you would never know that from reading The Guardian, to wit:
The 13-year-old, wrapped in a coat and a woolen hat, has spent every Friday since December seated on a frigid bench outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City with signs warning of climate change’s dire consequences.
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Now, note the complete absurdity of that picture – this poor confused and frightened little girl is sitting outside in freezing weather in New York City to protest global warming, which takes us back to that article for this:
Most passersby, probably hardened to confronting New York street scenes, scurry past, eyes diverted downwards.
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What understatement!
Most passersby in New York City seeing some little fool sitting in freezing weather on a park bench in New York City to protest global warming are going to be convinced that they are in the presence of a dangerous lunatic, so of course they are going scurry by and not make eye contact, because when confronted with a lunatic in New York City, the last thing you want to do is make eye contact which will only draw them in.
As to blatant and shameless media manipulation of this little girl out in the freezing cold, we have this from The Guardian, to wit:
There is media interest, too.
On a recent Friday protest stint, a microphone was being pinned to a shivering Villasenor by an NBC crew.
“I stayed out there for four hours and I lost circulation in my toes for the first time,” she said afterwards.
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Now, is that cruel exploitation of an ignorant and confused and scared child by NBC News, or what, people?
Getting back to that story:
After bouncing around a few youth-led climate groups, Villasenor struck up a rapport with fellow students Isra Hirsi, in Minnesota, and Haven Coleman, from Colorado.
The trio set about creating Youth Climate Strike US, the first major American response to the recent mass school walkouts by European students frustrated by adults’ sluggish response to climate change.
“My generation knows that climate change will be the biggest problem we’ll have to face,” Villasenor said.
“It’s upsetting that my generation has to push these leaders to take action.”
“We aren’t going to stop striking until some more laws are passed.”
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Actually, if she would bother to do some homework before talking like a witless fool, she would notice that we already have all the laws we need to deal with environmental issues in the United State, of America, so we don’t need any more, when the ones we have especially here in the corrupt Democrat-controlled third-world ****hole of New York state are routinely ignored by the Democrat governor and his Department of Environmental Conservation, and frankly, I don’t care if she and the rest of her little friends never go back to school.
Let them cultivate mindless ignorance in themselves if they choose that course in life – it is America, afterall.
And here comes Greta into the picture, as follows:
The American students preparing to join a global wave of school strikes on 15 March have been spurred by the actions of Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old Swede who started taking every Friday off school to call for more rapid action by her country’s leaders.
In a gently excoriating speech, Thunberg told governments at UN climate talks in December that “You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.”
Those under 20 years old have never known a world where the climate isn’t rapidly heating, ensuring that their lifetimes will be spent in average temperatures never before experienced by humans.
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And what totally irresponsible hog**** that last statement is, as we see from Lamb, as follows:
The CO2 warming thesis has always had a specially strong appeal to physical meteorologists as one element in the complex problems of atmospheric science which should be entirely predictable, since the effects of CO2 on radiation are clearly demonstrable and well understood in theory.
Nevertheless little was heard about the thesis in the 1960s, when it was discovered that world temperature was falling despite the more rapid increase of CO2 in the atmosphere than ever before.
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As to the stupid statement that “(T)hose under 20 years old have never known a world where the climate isn’t rapidly heating, ensuring that their lifetimes will be spent in average temperatures never before experienced by humans,” it is a well-known fact from basic high school science that the Medieval Warm Period, a time when humans not only were alive, but thriving, was warmer than it is now, to wit:
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of warm climate from about 900–1300 AD, when global temperatures were somewhat warmer than at present.
Temperatures in the GISP2 ice core were about 2°F (1°C) warmer than modern temperatures (Fig. 8.14).
The effects of the warm period were particularly evident in Europe, where grain crops flourished, alpine tree lines rose, many new cities arose, and the population more than doubled.
The Vikings took advantage of the climatic amelioration to colonize southern Greenland in 985 AD, when milder climates allowed favorable open-ocean conditions for navigation and fishing.
This was close to the maximum Medieval warming recorded in the GISP2 ice core at 975 AD (Stuiver et al., 1995).
Erik the Red explored Greenland from Iceland and gave it its name.
He claimed land in southern Greenland and became a chieftain about 985 AD.
The first Greenlanders brought grain seed, probably barley, oats, and rye, horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
The southern coastal area was forested at the time.
Greenland settlements lasted about 500 years before cooling during the Little Ice Age ended the settlements.
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So ask yourselves, people, why are we being fed this ignorant horse**** from Greta Thunberg and The Guardian, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
For someone getting their first taste of politics it can be hard to digest that precious little has been done to avert a future of disastrous droughts, floods and storms since James Hansen, then of Nasa, delivered his landmark warning on climate change to Congress 30 years ago.
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Anyone who has done even a cursory study of this subject knows that the history of the earth is one of disastrous droughts, floods and storms, and actually right now, we are lucky to be living in rather benign period of the earth’s history in that regard.
As to not only cultivating ignorance in children, but encouraging it, as well, we finish with this from The Guardian, to wit:
“My parents are very supportive, they understand my beliefs,” said Villasenor, as she repositioned her placards for the cameras.
“If we’re not going to have a future, then school won’t matter any more.”