If I had been alive in 1850, and was somehow granted the power to adjust Earth's climate for the benefit of mankind, I would have:
(1) Added CO2 to the air to stimulate green plant growth, and
(2) Increased the average temperature by a few degrees.
Guess what?
That's what actually happened between 1850 and 2015 !
And that's why Earth's climate in 2015 is BETTER than the climate was in 1850:
(1) Green plants are growing faster, and
(2) The cold northern half of the Northern Hemisphere is somewhat warmer.
When I look at world history since 1850, I can't identify ANY bad news caused by more CO2 in the air, or the slight warming.
1850 to 2015 was the most prosperous and healthy 165-year period for humans and green plants in thousands of years !
The huge reduction in poverty since 1850 was based on:
(1) The use of cheap, dense energy sources:
Coal, natural gas, and oil, and
(2) Inventions spurred by free-market economics.
Free-market economics is an economic system where smart people are rewarded for developing products and services that people want to buy, and entrepreneurs can earn larger financial rewards by pleasing their customers more !
THE GOOD NEWS:
(1) More CO2 in the air (good for plants)
(2) Slight warming since 1850 (good for humans)
THE BAD NEWS:
Leftists are using a bogus claim of a coming climate change catastrophe as a boogeyman to scare people.
The boogeyman is a political tool, being used primarily since 2009 by government bureaucrats, for gaining more control over the private sector of the US economy.
When people are scared of a boogeyman, they don't fight back when politicians declare the government must act now to "save the Earth" ( under Obama, bureaucrats just seize power through new regulations implemented by the EPA, which are like new laws that bypass Congress ).
The sad, but expected, result of these anti-economic growth regulations, has been slower economic growth, with poverty no longer declining.
Do you remember these prior "crises" ?:
- The DDT "crisis" ?
- The hole in the ozone layer "crisis" ?
- The acid rain "crisis" ?
All three were false boogeymen created by "environmentalists" to get attention, scare people, and "earn" them government grants for further study.
When a phony "crisis", such as the hole in the ozone layer, stops scaring people, which was its only goal, it is immediately forgotten, and then a new "crisis" is invented to replace it.
This has been going on since the 1960s.
Politicians lead the way with glorious "we must save the Earth" speeches, and they hire a bunch of nerdy-looking "scientists", who frown and look serious all the time, as their props.
Those PhD "useful idiots", such as "climate scientist" Michael Mann, are merely props for a climate change tragedy "play".
The climate modelers get lots of attention, and get paid well, to make scary predictions about a future climate catastrophe after they are dead … so they can never be proven wrong while they are still alive !
That's a clever scam -- climate modelers get paid well to play computer games all day and make scary predictions.
The coming climate change catastrophe is a false scare used by Democrats and other socialists to gain political power, and steer money to crony 'green' businessmen, who contribute lots of money to get them elected.
For the "climate crisis" fantasy, honest science is irrelevant, and that's why :
- Surface temperature data are frequently "adjusted",
"re-adjusted", and "re-re-re-adjusted", to show more and more "warming",
- Satellite temperature data are ignored,
- Over 75% of raw CO2 measurements in Hawaii since 1959 have been thrown out to make an artificially smoothed CO2 curve on a chart,
- Over 90,000 chemical CO2 measurements made between the early 1800's and 1960 are ignored, and proxy measurements from ice cores drilled in recent decades are used for CO2 estimates, which are then shown with a suspiciously smooth curve on a chart,
- Climate data from geologists, and other scientists, from their climate proxy studies, is generally ignored, or carefully cherry-picked to avoid contradicting the climate models, and
- Bogus surveys are done, with responses "edited" and "adjusted" to make the false claim that 97% of scientists agree, when in fact there is no consensus at all on a coming climate change catastrophe.
Of course a "consensus" on what is going to happen in the future does not predict the future better than flipping a coin, and science is not based on a vote.
In the history of science, a scientific consensus has often been a good leading indicator that a scientific theory was wrong, or would be significantly revised in the future !
Most Important facts to remember about climate change:
(1) Climate modelers embrace any data that seem to support their "CO2 is the climate controller" theory, and ignore all contrary data !
The smarmy climate modelers are inconsistent too: They use ice core data for inaccurate estimates of historical CO2 levels … yet they IGNORE average temperature data from the SAME ice cores, that show hundreds of mild warming / cooling cycles in the past one million years, where temperature peaks were FOLLOWED by CO2 peaks, just the OPPOSITE of their beloved greenhouse gas theory.
(2) Computer game predictions of the future climate are not science at all -- they are nothing more than climate astrology.
Climate models have no predictive ability -- they are used to create a fictional FUTURE "crisis" intended to scare people TODAY, and allow smarmy left-wing politicians to seize more power TODAY.
A climate crisis does not exist today, even after forty-years of wild guess predictions that a crisis is coming.
The alleged coming climate change catastrophe is 99% left-wing politics and 1% science -- a hoax that has seriously damaged the credibility of all scientists.
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(3) The climate in 2015 is better than it has been for at least 165 years, since 1850.
Climate data before 1850 are limited to anecdotes and studies of non-global climate proxies, such as ice cores … but it is likely the 2015 climate is better for humans and plants than Earth's climate has been for over 1,000 years.