I'm a long-term optimist,
based on real climate
science.
The alarmists'
real problem
is that they
are all lying
about a coming
climate crisis !
We’ll do just fine
in a warmer world.
The warming since
the 1690s, of roughly
+2 degrees C.,
has been wonderful.
Scientists
did not call
previous warm
climate periods,
all warmer
than today,
“climate
OPTIMUMS”
for nothing.
Since 1975,
the coldest
high latitude
places, at the
coldest times
of the year,
have warmed
the most,
similar to the
Holocene
Climate
OPTIMUM,
from 9,000
to 5,000
years ago.
Only a COLDER world,
would be a REAL cause
for concern.
In 2020, far
too many people
seem to believe
that optimism
is a mental illness.
The true mental illness
is long-term pessimism,
the mark of leftists,
with their latest
secular religion:
"Climate Emergency".
And for the true
leftist wackos,
the "Extinction
Rebellion".
Leftists are
truly "happy",
only when they are
genuinely miserable
about the present,
and future !
There's no doubt
climate alarmists
have the support
of governments
around the world.
Because those
governments
get political
benefits
from having a
climate change
boogeyman.
Smarmy
politicians
will never let
a "crisis" go to
waste, whether
the crisis is real
( the 9/11 attack)
or fake
( coming climate
change crisis )
The alleged
"solution",
for EVERY crisis,
even a
non-existent
climate crisis,
is a more
powerful
government.
The climate change
boogeyman allows
politicians to claim
they are trying
to save the planet !
"Overheard"
at an imaginary
cocktail party:
Doctor:
" What do you do for a living ? "
Politician:
" I'm a politician "
Doctor:
" So, you lie for a living ? "
Politician:
" Sir, perhaps
YOU lie for a living,
but I am working
to save the planet
from climate change ! "
Inexpensive,
and consistent
supplies of energy
are the foundation
of the private sector.
"Saving the planet"
allegedly
requires much
greater control
of energy use,
which is indirect
control of the
private sector
... and a great
opportunity for
crony capitalism,
by businesses
that can survive
only with
government
mandates and
subsidies.
Businesses
that will donate
a lot of money
to the politicians,
who keep them alive.
People with an interest
in real climate science,
deemed "skeptics" by the
coming climate crisis cult,
have tried to debate
real climate science
for three decades.
Real climate science
means realizing how little
is known about the causes
of past, and especially
future, climate change.
Junk science means
simple theories that
ignore observations,
such as claiming
that CO2 levels are
"the control knob"
of our planet's global
average temperature.
And a single
global average
temperature
statistic is a
"perfect" way
to summarize all
regional and local
climates ?
These simple,
and wrong,
climate theories
lead to repeated,
scary predictions
of the
future climate,
once again
ignoring the
observations
( actual global
temperature
measurements ).
A simple theory,
even with repeated
scary predictions,
stated with very
high confidence,
is not enough.
Almost no one
can actually feel
a few tenths
of a degree C.
of global warming,
since 1975.
Perhaps some people,
who live near the Arctic,
may have noticed
warmer winter nights.
But the difference
between EXTREMElY
cold nights in Alaska,
and VERY cold nights
in Alaska, is not easy
to feel, especially
while you are sleeping
indoors at night !
So climate
alarmists
attract attention
by continually
ramping up their
warnings, while
cutting off debate.
Skeptics are
locked out of
the mainstream
news media,
government
science staffs,
and government
grants.
Real climate science
no longer matters.
All extreme
weather events
happen with,
or without,
climate change.
Merely blaming
climate change
for a specific
extreme weather
event, does not
make it so.
The one-
sided "debate"
has moved way
beyond science,
to the fictional
computer game
backed "Extinction
Rebellion".
Climate cultists
attack opponents,
using vicious
lies and smears
to discredit
every opponent,
even people
who are
real scientists.
They act
just like
thoroughly
brainwashed
people act,
when they
do not have
facts, data,
evidence
and logic
on their side.
Unfortunately,
real climate science
has been hijacked,
to support a leftist
political agenda,
on a global scale.
Leftist politics
has always been
more important
to the climate cult,
than real science !
Unfortunately,
the era of most
climate crisis
skeptics saying,
"Let’s win this
climate debate
with real science” ,
ended long ago.
Real science
did NOT create
the false belief that
the future climate
can be predicted,
and a
climate change
crisis is coming.
So real science
can NOT reverse
that false belief !
But I don’t believe
climate alarmists
have won yet.
Their increasingly
radical proposals
are not feasible,
and can not be
implemented.
But, people do
like their cars,
trucks, keeping
homes warm
in the winter,
and affordable
electric power
to run their
washers,
dryers,
dishwashers,
refrigerators,
microwaves,
computers,
smart phones,
etc.
People don’t want
their taxes hiked.
People
don't want
expensive
electricity,
causing some
to have to live
like the Amish.
So it makes
no sense to shut
down an energy
system that
produces cheap,
reliable, consistent
electricity from
fossil fuels.
And then replace it with
expensive, unreliable,
intermittent sources
of power, such as
solar and wind.
Since it makes
no sense, let's
encourage that !
Funded by new taxes
on gasoline, and/or
a new "carbon tax".
Let's encourage
proposals that are
not feasible, and
deadlines that are
unreasonable.
Only after people
FEEL the cost of
"decarbonization"
in their wallets,
monthly electric
bills, and each time
they buy gasoline,
will they start to
ask questions.
Such as:
"Why are we
doing this?"
and
"Why are China, India,
and the rest of Asia,
laughing at us?"
We skeptics should
encourage climate
alarmists to become
even more radical,
and even more
intolerant of dissent.
That will turn off
the general public !