Many "progressive" politicians
(socialists) claim huge changes
in public policy are needed
to reduce global carbon emissions,
or we face an impending
world-wide climate-related
catastrophe.
This is self-serving nonsense,
of course, because we have
78 years of experience with
adding manmade CO2 to the air --
the global warming since then
has been +0.6 degrees C.
-- only +0.077 degrees per decade.
And no one knows if ANY of that
global warming was caused by CO2 !
But, if ALL the warming was caused
by CO2, as a worst case assumption,
we can expect less than +0.1 degree C.
of warming in the next ten years
( I'm completely ignoring the fact
that there has been no warming
in the past 15 years, from 2003
through 2018 ).
+0.1 degree C. warming in the next
ten years is far too small for
any human to notice, not even
a minor problem.
Certainly not an "existential threat" !
Dire prognostications get attention,
and government grants / salaries,
for people with science degrees.
Al Gore's 2006 documentary
"An Inconvenient Truth"
argued that the world
would come to an end,
in as little as ten years,
due to global warming.
That was thirteen years ago.
The average temperature increased
about +0.1 degree C. since then
-- much less than an honest
margin of error
in the measurements.
Ho hum !
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
( Ms. "Occasionally Coherent" )
recently said climate change
would "destroy the planet"
in 12 years, if people did not
address the issue immediately,
no matter the cost.
The main function of this
“secular apocalypticism,”
is to convince voters
and taxpayers to accept
ever-higher taxes
to combat climate change.
This climate scaremongering
has nothing to do with real
climate science.
The past 300 years
of global warming
have been good news
all the way !
But never mind reality !