Climate fantasies are dreams of the future climate.
Climate fantasies have been published in newspapers for at least 100 years.
All the predictions seem to have the same ending -- a climate catastrophe that will end life on Earth as we know it, either from cooling or warming.
No one ever sees a normal climate in the future -- at least not the people who get their names into the newspapers!
Real science is based on data.
Climate science is real science based on data.
Climate fantasies are not real science -- they are not based on data -- they are just wild guesses about the future climate.
It's human nature, especially among men, to avoid saying “I don’t know” in response to a question.
For questions about the future climate, the only logical answer is: “I don’t know”.
But if you want attention, and government grants to study the climate, you'll be better off saying: "A climate change catastrophe is coming".
Climate Talking Points
- Earth's climate has been changing for 4.5 billion years.
- The ONLY consensus among scientists is on a slight increase of the average temperature since 1850 (a harmless +1 to +2 degrees F., much of which could be measurement errors).
- That slight warming is good news because several centuries prior to 1850 were unusually cool, based on written anecdotal evidence.
- The future climate is always unknown.
- Climate computer games can't predict the future climate -- they are just wild guesses made by the people who programmed the computers.
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels do not correlate with the average temperature.
- More CO2 in the air accelerates green plant growth, with little or no change to the temperature -- that's good news.
- Claims of a coming climate disaster have been used by some scientists to get attention and government grant money -- scientist Roger Revelle invented this clever strategy in the 1960s.
- Politicians are willing to pay scientists for scary predictions because they like the general public to be fearful of a coming crisis.
- Politicians are experts at using a crisis, even an imaginary crisis like global warming, to increase their power.
- The best possible "crisis" for politicians to use is one where they can claim they need more power to 'save the Earth'.
- The coming climate change catastrophe is a hoax.
- The Earth does not need saving.
- No one knows if it will be warmer or colder in future decades, and there is no logical reason to make wild guess predictions of the future climate, and then want to shut down economic growth based on those wild guesses.
- The climate change hoax is similar to false claims of coming catastrophes from DDT, acid rain, a hole in the ozone layer, and many other false boogeymen -- all of them are now forgotten because they stopped scaring people … and that's all they were ever intended to do.