CONSENSUS ISN’T SCIENCE

Why We Have to Look at the Issue of Climate Change Again

Years back, a full-page ad highlighted the names of over 1000 “climate scientists” talking about the peril we faced if WE DIDN’T DO SOMETHING NOW.  To ensure they got everyone’s attention, they dragged out children to say that their imminent future was threatened.  Al Gore and Greta Thunberg aren’t scientists and given their track record, nearly everything they predicted has failed to come through.  (Al Gore’s Nobel wasn’t for science, after all).

What we really need isn’t for everyone to agree.  We’d be back in the Dark Ages trying to understand why rats and the Black Death were related.  We need argument, dissension and critical evaluation of the data.  That time may finally be coming, courtesy of brave scientists who refuse to toe the political line.

CLINTEL (Not the Clintons)

The Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) has just released a World Climate Declaration, signed by 1,609 international scientists and professionals.  It dismisses the climate emergency and insists that carbon dioxide is good for the planet.  (I’ve blogged about this before).  A key point is that for too long, the subject of climate change (Ice Age, global warming, etc.) has been almost purely political, with a bit of color to make it appear to be true.  The goal is to challenge the current thinking worldwide and focus on looking at the real costs vs the purported benefits prior to making poor people even poorer and everyone else (except climate activists and the very rich) take a real hit in the quality of their lives.

Take a look at the history of our planet and see how the climate changes moving from warmer to colder.  The Little Ice Age ended around 1850.  It makes sense that we might be warming now.  The models predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are completely flawed and ignore the benefit of CO2 and overstate the impact of greenhouse gases.  CO2 is essential to life on our planet, especially if you like eating, enjoy trees and flowers and like to dive.  Even the purported increase in natural disasters doesn’t track at all with the data given by the IPCC.

Religion , Not Science

When you have a belief about something that isn’t supported by the science, and you make up rules for everyone around your belief, that’s a religion.  And that’s what is going on here.  In science, we argue, we propose theories and test them.  We get challenged, not cancelled for doing this.  The climate models, flawed and broken, are like holy books predicting Armageddon for the believers.  Unfortunately, climate “religious leaders” have increased the size of their flock over time, counting on their followers not to question the science. 

Politicians?  They have their own reasons for joining in, mostly to increase their power and wealth.  Al Gore wasn’t particularly well off until he became a “climate guru.”  Follow the money.  CLINTEL urges focusing on adaptation rather than remediation, as adapting to climate change works no matter what causes it.

In a July 13 post on X, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that climate change “is being used to control us through fear.” 

“Freedom and free markets are a much better way to stop pollution. Polluters make themselves rich by making the public pay for the damage they do," he said.

During the first 2024 GOP presidential debate, candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called climate change a “hoax.”  “The reality is, the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. And so, the reality is, more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change,” he said.

Ways to Make Adaptation Work

We’ve always had trespass laws that hold companies accountable for pollution.  Unfortunately, too often, the public pays the price, not those responsible.  We could work to ensure those who pollute, including the company executives, pay the price.

Free markets work too.  I have an interesting bottle of sparkling wine from Great Britain.  Current warming has made the channel coast a new wine region.  Where the combination of over-fishing, coral-destroying fish and warming have killed coral, those who want fish can contribute to restoring coral, a success story. 

Data shows that cold has killed more people than heat, and, in fact, 1936 was FAR hotter across our country than our current temperatures in 2023.  When I traveled to Samana, Dominican Republic, I saw a lot of poverty.  But food grew abundantly due to the heat and no one died of cold, even if they had to sleep outside sometimes. 

The cycles keep moving on, no matter what we do. We simply must adapt.  But we can’t cave into the Left’s costly, disastrous energy policies.  Despite rebates, electric cars aren’t popular.  Even Toyota won’t make pure electric cars, understanding the issues.  We were energy-exporters in Trump’s term and prices were more reasonable. We can get there again, and ensure that poor people can afford to get to jobs.  We can stop making laws that force people to replace appliances they love (and can afford), and make us all more uncomfortable and less happy.

Vote for your climate freedom.  Vote only for people and policies focused on adaptation to weather changes, not for unsustainable policies that will net us nothing.  It’s your choice, but remember.  If you support all this nonsense, you’re adopting a religion, not science.  Is that who you are?