For those of us living
in the Detroit metropolitan
area, in the 1990s,
we knew our area
was covered by thick ice
20,000 years earlier,
it was obvious that
global warming had been
in progress for 20,000
years, and when it would
finally end, was unknown.
At the time, in
the late 1990s,
it took no talent,
or insight, to predict
more global warming
in the future,
by simply assuming
the 20,000 year-old
warming trend
was still in progress,
and would not
suddenly end
the moment after
anyone made
a climate prediction !
However,
a study of real climate
science -- not the fairy tales
published in the mainstream
media -- showed that ice core
studies had identified
a very important
100,000-year temperature cycle
in the past 800,000 years,
most likely explained by
planetary geometry.
Ice core data was available
for studying 800,000 years,
from Antarctica,
and over 100,000 years,
from Greenland.
Each 100,000-year cycle
consisted of roughly
90,000 cold years,
and a mild period
of roughly 10,000-years,
called an "interglacial".
( Tell that to a climate alarmist you know,
and watch their eyes glaze over at
the mention of real climate science! )
We are currently living
in an interglacial,
called "The Holocene",
and it is about
10,000 years old.
The ONLY climate change
some of us need to fear
is the end of the interglacial.
I say "some of us"
to point out
that people like me,
who are living in
Bingham Farms,
Michigan, and
whose knees
don't like
cold weather,
don't want to be
covered with
ice glaciers again !
Outside of that
multi-millennial
climate change
( "Milankovitch forcing",
based on changes in
planetary geometry ),
every other climate trend
has reverted to the mean,
after a few centuries.
In plain English,
that just means
our planet has had
many mild warming cycles,
and each one was followed
by a mild cooling cycle,
during past 10,000-year
interglacials, per Antarctica
ice core studies.
The small, harmless
temperature variations
of a degree or two C.,
spread over a century
or two,
or two,
are NOT important.
They have NOT hurt anyone.
They CAN'T hurt anyone.
No one would even notice
a +1 degree C. change
spread over 100 years
if not for the braying leftists
"crying wolf" about
"climate change" !
Harmless, slow warming
doesn't matter to anyone
... except leftist politicians
who use "climate change"
as a boogeyman,
to scare people
into demanding
their government
do something !
Leftists,
who ALWAYS want a
more powerful
central government,
created a false excuse
for big government
( the truth is they
want to micromanage
our lives, because they
are smarter than us ! )
-- their false excuse
for more government power
is "to save the planet".
It's an effective lie
to "sell socialism",
which promises
a slower rate of
economic growth,
and a higher
unemployment rate,
when compared with
free markets.
The false claim of
"saving the planet"
allows constant
virtue signaling
by the leftists.
The false claim
also makes
climate change
seem so "important",
that character attacks
on EVERYONE
who questions
climate junk science,
are "justified".
And then the
character-attacked
climate change skeptics,
are deemed to be fools,
unworthy of any debate.
So there is no debate !