I've been reading
about climate science
since 1997, as a hobby.
about climate science
since 1997, as a hobby.
The first thing I noticed
was two different subjects:
(1)
Real climate science,
and
(2)
Junk climate science,
called "climate change":
in the mainstream media.
Real climate science
studies the past climate,
and tried to explain
exactly what caused
past climate changes.
They do have
a good theory
to explain the
very important
100,000 year cycles,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
but no one seems
to care about those
huge climate changes.
Everyone seems focused
on harmless, minor
climate changes,
of one or two degrees C.
spread over a century or two.
Why anyone would care
about climate changes
so small that no one would
even notice them ...
( if not for braying leftists
bellowing that we are doomed )
... is a mystery to me !
Real climate science
covers the sun, clouds,
oceans, glaciers,
greenhouse gases, etc.
There are many questions
still needing answers !
still needing answers !
No one knows what
the climate will be like
in the next 15 years,
but everyone knows
it has barely changed
in the past 15 years.
Everyone knows that
global warming in the
past 20,000 years, starting
when Chicago and Detroit
were covered with glaciers,
was 100% good news.
Almost all articles in the
mainstream media
are on "climate change",
not climate science.
"Climate change"
is focused on
the future climate,
( as if anyone really knows
what the future will bring. )
"Climate change"
jumps to
many conclusions:
(1)
Humans control
the climate, almost
entirely through
one variable:
carbon dioxide,
emitted from
burning fossil fuels !,
and
(2)
The belief that
the future climate,
( as if anyone really knows
what the future will bring. )
"Climate change"
jumps to
many conclusions:
(1)
Humans control
the climate, almost
entirely through
one variable:
carbon dioxide,
emitted from
burning fossil fuels !,
and
(2)
The belief that
future climate change
will only be global warming,
will only be global warming,
which will be 100% bad news !
And the proof"
of those two beliefs is ...
well, there is no proof,
but a lot of leftist scientists
of those two beliefs is ...
well, there is no proof,
but a lot of leftist scientists
say so, and they have been
saying so every year
since the 1970's,
so "because we say so"
is the proof !
so "because we say so"
is the proof !
Our planet did get
a few tenths of a degree
warmer from 1975
to 2003, but the average
temperature has barely
changed since 2003.
The mild global warming,
measured by satellites
since 1979, has been mainly
in the northern half of the
Northern Hemisphere,
mainly at night, and mainly
in the six coldest months
of the year.
Slightly warmer
winter nights
winter nights
are good news,
for the few people
for the few people
who live there,
not bad news !
not bad news !
"Climate change"
ignores the
big climate changes,
big climate changes,
such as melting of glaciers
that covered Chicago
and Detroit 20,000 years ago.
that covered Chicago
and Detroit 20,000 years ago.
"Climate change"
does start with a little
real science, but then
quickly degenerates into
wild guess assumptions,
and scary speculation.
The real science
is lab experiments,
is lab experiments,
proving CO2 is
a greenhouse gas,
that may cause
mild, harmless
global warming
in the atmosphere.
Almost everything
else said about
"climate change"
is speculation,
not real science.
The speculation
is that man made CO2
will cause dangerous
global warming
in the future.
We've been hearing that
warning for thirty years,
but "in the future"
are the three words
that never change !
That scary speculation
is that man made CO2
will cause dangerous
global warming
in the future.
We've been hearing that
warning for thirty years,
but "in the future"
are the three words
that never change !
That scary speculation
has been contradicted
by actual temperature
measurements since 1940,
of mild, harmless,
intermittent warming,
as CO2 levels rose,
as CO2 levels rose,
not to mention the
lab experiments
had predicted
had predicted
mild, harmless
warming too !
warming too !
What's wrong with
mild, harmless warming,
mainly at night ?
Absolutely nothing.
"Climate change"
adds up to a fake"crisis",
created by leftists
to scare people,
who are then told
only their government
can solve the "crisis".
The leftist goal
for "climate change"
is to use their fake "crisis"
to gain more political power,
moving toward to socialism.
Real science is not used,
because it sees
CO2 as harmless,
CO2 as harmless,
based on actual
temperature measurements,
temperature measurements,
and laboratory experiments.
"Climate change"
is mainly junk science,
and has been
for three decades.
for three decades.
Based on real science,
adding CO2 to the air
is beneficial for our planet.
CO2 is significantly 'greening'
our planet: +15% in the
satellite age, so far.
It's a reasonable
assumption,
assumption,
but not a proven fact,
that rising CO2 levels
should cause some amount
of mild global warming,
But be aware that
global warming
global warming
has actually
been in progress
been in progress
for 20,000 years.
And very little,
if any,
of the warming
was caused
if any,
of the warming
was caused
by man made CO2 !
Enough glaciers have melted
to raise sea level by 400 feet
in the past 20,000 years !
It is possible,
but not proven,
that the last +0.5 foot
of the +400 foot sea level rise,
may have been caused
by warming from CO2.
No one knows for sure !
Government bureaucrats
claim a mere +1 degree C.
of global warming
since 1880,
since 1880,
although that number
is based on
too few measurements
is based on
too few measurements
before World War II.
Has +1 degree C. harmed anyone?
No !
So, why should anyone care?
No one should care !
The ever changing climate
of our planet includes
a 100,000-year cycle,
of about 90,000 cold years,
followed by 10,000 warm
years, called interglacials.
We are currently about
10,000 years into the
Holocene interglacial.
When our interglacial ends,
which could be tomorrow,
or 1,000 years from now,
expect Chicago and Detroit
to eventually be under
mile thick ice glaciers again,
just as they were 20,000
years ago.
Those 100,000-year cycles
have nothing to do
with burning fossil fuels,
and carbon dioxide emissions
... and everything to do
with planetary geometry.
Other climate variations,
such as the minor
temperature trends
within the interglacials
-- plus or minus one or two
degrees C., over 100 to 200
years -- are not important,
but that's all the leftists focus on !
Real climate science
is many questions,
and not enough answers:
(1)
The causes of global warming
are unproven guesses,
(2)
CO2 levels do not 'control'
the average temperature
of our planet:
Since 1940, CO2 levels
increased in every decade,
yet the average temperature
had three different trends:
Down from 1940 to 1975,
up from 1975 to 2003,
and sideways since 2003 !
(3)
The future climate
is impossible to predict.
We already have 30 years
of very wrong
computer model predictions,
of very wrong
computer model predictions,
averaging triple the warming
that actually happened !
Yet smarmy computer modelers
seem to keep using
the same 'CO2 formula',
the same 'CO2 formula',
from the 1970s,
with no revisions,
with no revisions,
as if their real goal
is to keep predicting
is to keep predicting
triple the global warming
that actually happens !
For leftist politicians,
scary predictions
are the primary goal of
"climate change",
are the primary goal of
"climate change",
not good science !
Climate scaremongers
ignore the pleasant
current climate,
to focus on writing
scary fairy tales about
the FUTURE climate,
as if they really knew
the future climate !
"Climate change"
resembles a religion.
Extrapolating the
actual global warming rate,
from 1940 through 2018,
into the future,
and blaming
all the warming
on carbon dioxide,
and blaming
all the warming
on carbon dioxide,
would give us
only +1 degree C.
only +1 degree C.
of harmless
global warming
global warming
in the next 200 years !
( assuming CO2 levels continue to rise 2ppm per year )
( assuming CO2 levels continue to rise 2ppm per year )
So why do leftists
demonize CO2 ?
Because they
have created
an imaginary
environmental
“crisis”.
They want all leftists
to virtue signal
that they are trying
to fight the "crisis",
to fight the "crisis",
'to save the world
for the children'.
In leftist minds,
any "crisis",
whether real ,
or imaginary,
or imaginary,
is a great opportunity
to expand
government powers.
government powers.
"Climate change"
is the latest
in a series of
fake environmental
crises, since the 1960s.
When people stopped
paying attention to one
fake crisis, another
fake crisis was promoted
to replace it:
- DDT,
- Acid rain,
- Hole in the ozone layer,
- Global cooling, and now
- Global cooling, and now
- Global warming.
Unlike real science,
where theories
are supported by data,
and can be "falsified",
( proven false )
"climate change"
is beliefs, based on faith,
is beliefs, based on faith,
so can never be refuted
with facts, data and logic.
Leftists are demonizing
very beneficial CO2,
for selfish political
and financial gains.
Meanwhile, smart
greenhouse owners
buy CO2 enrichment
systems, and use them
to accelerate the growth
of their plants !
to accelerate the growth
of their plants !
Leftists demonize CO2
to gain political power,
and get government subsidies
to keep their alternative energy
industry alive.
Leftists always want
more political power !
"Climate change"
helps them get
more power !
more power !
"Climate change"
is the use of junk science
in the pursuit of money
and political power.
-- The future climate is claimed
to be known with great confidence,
... in spite of the fact that
"climate change" believers
have made
wrong climate predictions
for the past thirty years,
using their computer games !
"climate change" believers
have made
wrong climate predictions
for the past thirty years,
using their computer games !
-- Man made CO2 is claimed
to control our planet's temperature,
...in spite of the fact that
there have been three different
correlation relationships between
there have been three different
correlation relationships between
CO2 and temperature since 1940 !
Real climate science
is the pursuit of knowledge
about our planet's climate.
-- The future climate is unknown,
and the causes of climate change
are just a long list of suspects,
with many unanswered questions.
Yes, real climate science is boring,
with so many unanswered questions.
with so many unanswered questions.
"Climate change"
is more exciting, with its
'scary campfire fairy tales'
of a coming climate "crisis" ,
stated with great certainty
... that we've been patiently
waiting for since the 1970s !
is more exciting, with its
'scary campfire fairy tales'
of a coming climate "crisis" ,
stated with great certainty
... that we've been patiently
waiting for since the 1970s !
People seeking knowledge,
study climate science.
People seeking great
entertainment, and excitement
entertainment, and excitement
study "climate change".