Earlier this month,
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono
of Hawaii urged people
at a prayer breakfast to:
“believe in climate change
as though it’s a religion,
it’s not a science.”
I'm not sure what
Senator Hirono
intended to say
... but she
accidentally
told the truth
about the
secular climate
change religion.
Climate change
is a religion built
on a foundation
of 99% politics and
1% real science.
The 1% real science
is lab experiments
that suggest,
but don't prove,
adding CO2
to the atmosphere
is likely to cause
a small amount
of global warming.
Warming so gradual,
and so slow, that
no one would have
noticed.
The warming would
be accompanied by a
'greening' of our planet,
as greenhouse owners
already know.
What actually happens
in the atmosphere
can't be determined
from a lab experiment,
but scientists do agree
that each additional
+100 ppm of CO2
added to the atmosphere
will have a smaller
global warming effect
than the prior +100 ppm
increase of CO2.
The amount of warming
actually caused by CO2
is unknown, no matter
how many people
claim to "know".
The amount of CO2
level growth is roughly
half of the CO2 increase
caused by humans --
meaning CO2 does not
stay in the atmosphere
for long, since half
the annual increase
seems to be instantly
absorbed by the oceans
and biosphere.
The correlation
between CO2
levels and the
global average
temperature
has repeatedly
changed:
For 4.5 billion years:
CO2 levels up to 10x
higher than today.
Carbon dioxide
formerly in the air
is now sequestered
underground
as the carbon
in oil, gas and coal,
and in rocks too.
Burning oil, gas and coal
actually "recycles" CO2
back into the atmosphere,
from underground !
The past 800,000 years:
(expected to apply to the the past 4.5 billion years too)
Natural changes in
global temperature
resulted in similar
changes to CO2 levels,
hundreds of year later.
Warming oceans
released CO2, and
cooling oceans
absorbed CO2.
Past 110 years:
1910 to 1940:
Global warming
with very small
CO2 increase
1940 to 1975:
Global cooling with
CO2 increase
1975 to 2005:
Global warming with
CO2 increase
2005 to mid-2015:
Flat temperature trend
with CO2 increase
The above examples
show the correlation
between CO2 levels,
and the
global average
temperature,
has repeatedly
changed,
especially in
the past
110 years!
People claiming
CO2 is the climate
"control knob",
must ignore
4.5 billion years
of climate history,
and focus on
1975 to 2005
-- only 30 years !
The gullible
believers think
the coming
climate change
"crisis" prediction
is 100% based
on science !
I consider global
warming to be
good news, so
the more CO2
we add to the air,
the better I like it,
along with
the green plants,
that would prefer
at least 1,000 ppm.
of CO2, versus
about 415 ppm
in the air today.
That's why
greenhouse
owners prefer
to have at least
1,000 ppm CO2
inside their
greenhouses,
so they add CO2,
by using CO2
enrichment
systems inside
their greenhouses
-- to get a profitable
"greenhouse effect" !
If CO2 is added
to the atmosphere
by burning
fossil fuels
WITHOUT using
modern pollution
controls, then
the resulting
air pollution
is worse than
the benefits of
more CO2.
Air pollution
can be seen in
many Asian cities.
And that's a real
environmental
problem.
Climate change
is a religion:
-- A new religion
that requires blind
faith in wild guess
predictions of the
future climate,
ignoring that
past predictions
have been wrong
for 50 years, and
-- A religion that requires
the ability to completely
ignore the past 325 years
of intermittent, harmless
global warming, of at least
+2 degrees C. since the
cold 1690s, which was
very good news for people
living on our planet.
The climate
change flock
must also believe
+ 2 degrees C.
of global warming
after 1750,
(another +1 degrees C.
warmer than today)
assuming it happens,
which could take
100 years
... would NOT be
good news at all -
meaning it would be
completely different
than the past
global warming,
and such bad news
that it would be an
"existential crisis" !
That takes a lot of believing !
The climate change religion
attracts leftist anti-capitalists,
arrogant leftist academics,
and leftist authoritarians,
who all have a strong need
to tell others how to live.
These virtue-signalers
imagine they have
moral superiority, and
therefore are obligated
to teach (hector) others,
and then scold them
when they don't "believe
and act correctly."
True believers think
it is their life's mission
to “educate the inferiors".
But they have a hard time
"educating" (brainwashing)
others, because they know
almost nothing about
real climate science,
which studies the past
and present climate
on our planet ... and
has NOT determined
the exact causes of
climate change.
Climate religion members
are science deniers.
We have over 100 years
of experience with adding
CO2 to the atmosphere.
They say:
Never mind that !
The next 100 years
of adding CO2
to the atmosphere
will be completely
different, they claim
( "because we say so,
and we have been
saying so for 50 years" )
The climate change
religion is based on
"Because we say so
junk science".
My summary of
the popular
climate change
religion
(coming from
an atheist's
point of view):
The Sin
= burning fossil fuels
The Punishment
= going to hell,
but no travel is required,
because if you wait here,
the earth will turn into
a global warming "hell"
Absolution
= carbon offsets
Evangelism
= hectoring
and lecturing
others
Prophecy
= computer game
predictions that we have
12 years before it is too late
to stop runaway warming
Salvation
= believing every
scary climate prediction,
repeating them to others
like a trained parrot,
recycling everything,
favoring wind and solar power,
and driving an electric car,
or at least a hybrid car.
The Church
= The United Nations
The Bible
= The IPCC summary
Report for Policymakers
("policymakers" = politicians)
The Choir
= Government bureaucrats,
who happen to have advanced
science degrees, all singing
the same tune, nonstop,
for 50 years!
Old Priest =
Mr. Albert "The Climate Blimp" Gore
New Minister =
Ms. Alexandria Occasionally Coherent
Guest Shrieker =
Ms. Greta Thunderberg
Excommunicated =
A partial list is below:
Vincent Gray,
with a physical chemistry PhD
from Cambridge University,
who had been an expert reviewer
of IPCC, told Forbes the IPCC
" ... found that the public will believe
almost anything that is represented
as being agreed by ‘scientists,’
provided that you have enough
of them and they are backed up
by the requisite number of
celebrities and public figures.”
Therefore it’s necessary
for the IPCC to “use spin,
distortion, deception and even
fabrication to cover up
this absence of evidence.”
Chris Landsea,
who specializes in
hurricane studies,
quit the IPCC
because it was too
“politicized.”,
using
“the media to push
an unsupported
agenda
that recent
hurricane activity
has been due to
global warming.”
Richard Tol,
a climate economist
from Sussex University,
who co-authored a
chapter in the IPCC
Fifth Assessment,
found:
“the summary focused
on ‘scare stories’
and suggestions
the world faced
‘the four horsemen
of the apocalypse,'”
He
“did not want his name
associated with it
because he felt
‘uncomfortable’ with
the way the summary
exaggerated the
economic impact
of global warming.”
CONCLUSION:
Climate change zealots
can’t convert everyone
to their religion.
And they don't want to.
It's hard to feel superior,
without the existence
of "inferiors".
Climate alarmists
want to have some
skeptics around
to ridicule, and
character attack,
after which they will
claim those "climate
denying yahoos"
are obviously
not worthy of any
climate change
debate.
Leftists love
to ridicule and
character attack
-- they think that's
a legitimate form
of "debate".
Skeptics of a coming
climate crisis, like me,
are "devils" in disguise.
So maybe
I should change
the name
of this blog
from
"The Honest
Global Warming
Chart Blog"
to
"The Devil's
Global Burning
Chart Blog" ?
Just a random thought.
November 24, 2019
Richard Greene
Bingham Farms, Michigan