I was working in product
development for an
American automotive
manufacturer when I began
using the internet in 1996.
In 1997 I discovered a
website (www.SEPP.org)
with a weekly list
("The Week That Was")
of URLs for recommended
climate science articles
and papers.
The subject was interesting
for those of us in the auto
industry, although predictions
of the climate 100 years
into the future were
very hard to believe.
I never believed them.
We had no idea in 1997 that
1998 would be an unusually
warm year ... but the average
temperature in 2018 would be
almost the same as in 1998 !
Since we lived and worked
in southeastern Michigan,
we knew our properties
had been under a mile of ice
just 20,000 years ago ...
and we knew CO2 emissions
from our company's cars
and trucks did not cause
those glaciers to melt !
In 2007, I wrote my first
global warming article
for my economics
newsletter ( a hobby ) .
I started this climate
science blog in 2014
to update my second
"global warming" article,
for my subscribers.
The main change,
from my 2007 article,
to my 2014 article,
was a large increase
of scary predictions,
( of various, imaginary,
coming climate change /
environmental catastrophes ).
This blog exists
because I object to
scary fairy tales
about the
future climate,
future climate,
written as if they
were real science !
were real science !
Our current president,
who rated himself an A+ (?),
doesn't trust predictions
of a climate catastrophe,
because he has
very good intuition,
but he appears to know
next to nothing about
climate science,
so he's unable to refute
smarmy CO2 scaremongers.
This blog relies on
real science,
where there are
many unknowns,
and the future climate
can't be predicted.
At best,
we can "assume"
another roughly
100,000-year
glacial cycle,
caused by
planetary
geometry,
with significant
global cooling
as the next
important trend.
The +1 degree C.
of global warming,
claimed since 1880,
based on haphazard
measurements,
is a minor variation
not worth mentioning.
Unfortunately, smarmy
leftists have created a
huge CO2 is Evil cult,
led by politicians,
and based on that
harmless warming !
Modern climate
"science"
is junk science,
featured in the
mainstream media,
falsely pretending
to "know"
the future climate
with great certainty.
At the same time,
"knowing"
the past climate
is very difficult
for Cult members,
for two reasons:
(1)
The CO2 is Evil
cult members ignore
weather satellite
temperature data,
available since 1979,
with near global coverage,
measured in a very
consistent environment
-- instead,
they use surface
measurements,
with less than
50% coverage,
( meaning over 50%
of our planet has to
have "temperatures"
guessed by government
bureaucrats ),
along with warming
caused by economic
growth near existing
thermometers ...
so it's no surprise
surface temperatures
reflect more global
warming than
satellite temperature
data! , and
(2)
Government
bureaucrats
repeatedly
"adjust" historical
temperature data,
to show more
global warming !
Government bureaucrats
with science degrees
have been predicting
a lot of global warming
since the 1970s,
and they want
their predictions
to be correct,
so they repeatedly
"adjust" historical
temperature data
to make their
old predictions
look better !
I'm proud to be skeptical
of all anti-science claims
based on faith, whether
they are the claims
of traditional religions,
or claims made by
the near-religious
"CO2 is Evil" cult.
I'm proud to recognize
that anti-science
statements, such as:
“the science is settled”,
and
“the debate is over”,
are strong evidence
of junk science.
Especially when
followed by the usual
character attacks
( " climate denier ! " )
on everyone
who disagrees,
to stifle debate!
Modern 'government'
climate "science"
is 99% dishonest
junk science.
It is intended to
scare people
into giving
their government
a lot more power,
to control and tax
energy use.
The false claim
that adding
"man made CO2"
to the air
is dangerous,
is the biggest hoax
of our lifetime.
It makes the "weapons
of mass destruction"
in Iraq hoax look like
a little white lie !
Based on real science,
adding CO2 to the air
is beneficial for our planet,
for the same reason that
greenhouse owners use
CO2 enrichment systems
inside their greenhouses !
And that's why I write this
climate science blog !
Richard Greene,
since 1953
Audiophile,
since 1965
Libertarian,
since 1973
BS,
State University of New York,
at Albany, 1975
MBA,
Stern School of Business,
at New York University, 1977
Editor of an
economics
newsletter,
since 1977
Married to
wonderful wife,
since 1983
Living in
Bingham Farms,
Michigan,
since 1987
Retired, lazy bum,
since January 2005
Editor of the
Economic Logic Blog,
since 2008
Editor of this
Honest Global
Warming Chart Blog,
since 2014
Editor of the
Election Circus
politics blog,
since 2016
Disappointed
that global warming
appears to have
skipped Michigan !
Author of many bad jokes.