Warmunism Characteristic 4: The Precautionary Principle

"Global warmunism"

has four 
main characteristics:

(1) 

A hatred of capitalism,

including a 
science-free attack 

on its foundation: 
Inexpensive

fossil fuel energy, 

(2) 

Demonization of CO2,

using a bizarre, 
made up theory

of runaway global warming,

based on no science at all,

(3) 

Claiming the "science" 

is settled, by the use of 

bogus "97%" surveys, 

with character attacks

on all skeptics,

because, 
as is common

among leftists,
on every subject:

No debate is allowed.

(4) 

The "Precautionary Principal":

Even if the science 

is not settled,

we can't wait --

we must act now,

before it is too late,
or the planet will die !

Of course (4) 
contradicts (3),

but with leftists,

logic is not required,

just raw emotions!

(1) through (4)

are leftist nonsense,

because the current

climate is wonderful,

has been improving

for hundreds of years, 

and there are 

no developing problems,

except for air, land and water

pollution in China and India.

The global warmunist phrase 

"precautionary principle" 

tends to confuse people.

For 20 years I used to

laugh at it.

The warmunists say

do as we say, because

the science is settled.

Of course real science

is never settled,

and a real scientist

would never say that.

Then the warmunists say, 

do as we say even if 

the science is not settled.

I suppose this adds up to

do what we say 

without questions,
no matter what we say !

Some people think 

the phrase / idea of a 

"precautionary principle" 

comes from an old platitude:  

“better safe than sorry,” 

or “look before you leap,”  

or even: “first, do no harm.”

I'm not sure 

where the phrase 

came from.

It has been turned 

into nonsense by leftists, 

but let's assume it once had

a meaning that made sense.

It's not unusual for leftists 

to take a sensible / useful 

phrase or concept, 

and turn it into garbage, 

For example, 

leftists have taken 

the useful concept 

of a minimum wage, 

which could protect young, 

not very bright, employees 

from getting taken advantage of 

by much smarter, but devious, 

employers.

Unfortunately, 

this is still being done 

by employers getting 

white collar work 

for free, from unpaid 

college student interns

 -- and one example 

was a devious boss 

named Bill Clinton, 

who had an unpaid intern 

named Monica Lewinsky!  

He got the free work, 

and other free services too !

The leftists recently turned 

the useful minimum wage

concept into garbage, 

by promoting a $15 an hour

minimum wage.

$15 an hour would keep many

young not very bright, people 

away from devious bosses, 

... by making it very difficult
to find any job !

I'm going to guess 

the precautionary principle 

may have evolved 

from one of my

12 Rules of Thumb,

that I think of as a kind of

precautionary principle: 

Number (10) is:

"Think twice, act once

 -- measure twice, cut once."

But the leftist climate change cult 

does not seem to follow 

that useful advice:

They believe thinking once 
is enough thinking,

(CO2 controls the climate,

because we say so)

and measuring once 

is enough measuring,

(surface temperature 

measurements only,
because they show
more warming than
the two other 
methodologies)

to extrapolate a coming

climate catastrophe

(because we say so),

that requires action now !

That's their backwards version

of the precautionary principle.

Of course leftists 

are not very bright,

because if they took 

more time to think, 

and considered 

temperatures measured

with other methodologies 

( weather satellites 

and weather balloons ), 

they would realize 

adding CO2 to the air 

is harmless ...

... in fact adding CO2 

was the best thing

humans have ever done, 

although inadvertently, 

to improve our planet,

by making nights 

slightly warmer 

in the colder latitudes, 

from "greenhouse warming",

and greening 
our planet too. 

With a correct understanding 

of CO2, based on real science, 

rather than completely unproven, 

made up runaway warming theories, 

and wild guess computer game

temperature forecasts,

that have been far off the mark
for three decades so far, 

the precautionary principle 

would direct us to 

NOT slow down

the addition of CO2 

to the atmosphere

(as long as fossil fuels are 

burned as cleanly as possible) 

because adding CO2 

is beneficial for an atmosphere 

that contains too little CO2, 

for the optimum growth,

of the C3 plants used for food 

by humans and animals.

Earth's climate 

has been getting better

for over 400 years, 

at least since the cold

"Maunder Minimum" 

low solar energy period 

in the late 1600's, 

... and only a fool, 

or a leftist 

(I repeat myself) 

would want the climate, 

to stop improving!

Our current climate 

is wonderful thanks

to more CO2 in the air.

Only a fool 
would want 

to "fix" that.

The precautionary principle,

should never be applied to

IMAGINARY problems, 

that have hurt no one,

and are based on 

nothing more than 

wild guesses fairy tales,

of a coming climate change 

catastrophe.

I'm going to redefine 

the precautionary principle,

in two common sense ways,

to address REAL problems.

If you notice a real problem,

    such as having a car tire 

       with low air pressure:

  Precautionary Principle (1):

           It won't fix itself,

             and is likely 

              to get worse,

               so you must fix it now!

If you don't notice a real problem:   

   

         Precautionary Principle (2):

                 If it ain't broken, 

                   then don't try 

                     to "fix" it.

PS:

My 12 Rules of Thumb

      For a Better Life

LIFE:

(1)  
The Golden Rule

(2)  
Who said life was fair?

(3)  
Don't talk with a full mouth, 

  or an empty head.

(4)  
When in doubt, 

  tell the truth.

(5)  
If you wouldn't write it,

  and sign it, 

    then don't say it.

(6)  
Character is what you do 

  when no one is watching.

(7)  
A wise man changes his mind; 

  a fool, never.

(8)  
Don't believe predictions, 

  of the future. 

WORK:

 (9)  
Perfection is the enemy, 
 of getting a job done on time.

(10)  
Think twice, act once --

measure twice, cut once.

(11)  
Without data, 

 all you have 

  is an opinion.

(12) 
If it was fun, 

 they wouldn't have 

  to pay you

   to do it.