People are attracted
to like-minded groups.
Once a member
of such a group,
formally or informally,
people tend to believe
things they see or hear
that support the group's
existing beliefs.
The "climate wars"
are one example.
Climate alarmists
claim unusually bad
weather events have
been increasing.
Every dangerous
weather event
is blamed on
"climate change".
But when shown
government data,
for over a century,
that contradict their
claims, alarmists
ignore the data.
Some climate skeptics
claim that there's
no such thing as the
greenhouse effect.
They reject lab
experiments
showing CO2 is
a greenhouse gas,
in lab experiments,
that date back to
the late 1800s.
Although the lab
experiments don't
tell us exactly
what happens
in the atmosphere,
the experiments
do tell us something
about CO2.
Climate alarmists will
believe annual predictions
of a coming climate crisis,
with no doubt.
They either don't know,
or don't care,
that prior forecasts
have been wrong
for the past 50 years!
My thoughts on the
root causes of the
"climate wars",
where leftists claim
they follow science,
but the science they
follow is mainly
junk science:
-- Leftists, who tend
to reject conventional
religions, will accept
the climate change
"religion".
-- Students are taught
what to think in school,
rather than how to think.
-- Leftists are taught
that fellow leftists
with PhDs can predict
the future climate,
as if their 50 years
of very inaccurate
predictions don't
matter at all !
-- Far too much science
is funded by governments,
where the politicians
in charge just love
to have a crisis
-- every crisis is their
opportunity to create
new programs, and
spend more money.
That works even if
the "crisis" is fake,
as long as most people
believe in it.
The coming climate crisis
is a fake crisis, "coming",
for the past 50 year,
but it never shows up.
The coming climate crisis
is completely invisible.
The global average
temperature is whatever
government bureaucrats
tell you it is !
The global warming
that they claim is too
small, and too slow,
for people to notice
on their own.
And not one person
actually lives in the
average temperature.
After about 325 years
of intermittent global
warming, there have
been no victims !
In fact, the climate of our
planet is near the best
it has ever been for
humans, and those
animals who live
outdoors.
People are not
told the truth about
real climate science.
Real climate science
studies the current
and past climate,
and does not make
always wrong, wild
guess predictions
of the future climate.
Real climate science
contradicts the narrative
of a dangerous coming
climate crisis.
Which leads to the
ultimate leftist goal:
Create a "crisis"
and tell the world
the only "solution",
is to elect Democrats
and other socialists,
because those
Republicans and
conservatives are
"science deniers".
That's what the
climate change
propaganda
machine,
led by the UN,
tells us.
And the UN
has been
a very effective
propaganda
machine.
I have no idea why
anyone would trust
the UN, an organization
that seems to consider
Israel to be the worst
nation on Earth !
Fortunately,
the UN has
no control
over the climate.
People who have lived
in the same area for
a decade, or more,
should be able to judge
for themselves if there
REALLY has been
a change in their
climate
And if they
have REALLY
noticed warming,
was that warming
good news or
bad news?
We don't need
"authorities"
to tell us exactly
what to believe
about the climate
we live in.
We don't need
some government
bureaucrat to claim
that one year was
a few hundredths
of a degree C. warmer
than the prior year
-- their measurements
are not even close
to having such
great precision !