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Monday, February 17, 2020

The Climate Wars -- Part 2 -- Where are we going?

Scientific work on the 
UN's IPCC’s Sixth 
Assessment Report, 
for 2022, appears to
be breaking with
past over-predictions
of global warming.

Not improving the
climate predictions,
making them worse,
to fully embrace
the climate hysteria 
in the past two years.

There are dozens 
of climate models, 
and since the 1970s 
they’ve agreed,
on average, that 
each CO2 doubling.
would heat the planet 
by about +3° Celsius
        +/- 50% !

In reality, +3° Celsius
over predicts actual 
warming by 2x to 3x.

And of course
the cause 
of the actual 
global warming
is unknown 
-- so it is 
   merely
ASSUMED 
that rising 
CO2 levels 
are the cause.

Last year, 
some of the 
"revised" 
climate models, 
for the next
IPCC report 
in 2022,
started running 
even hotter 
-- with some 
predicting
in excess 
of +5°C. 
global warming
per CO2 doubling !

The model 
run by NCAR, 
which is one
of Americas
main climate
science 
institutions, 
claimed that 
a CO2 doubling 
would lead to 
a +5.3°C world.

The U.K.’s main 
research group, 
claimed +5.5°C 
global warming. 

A team at the U.S. 
Department of Energy 
claimed +5.3°C.

The Canadian model 
claimed +5.6°C. 

France’s National 
Center for 
Meteorological 
Research 
claimed +4.9°C.

Please remember:
Models are just
personal opinions,
not scientific facts
... that have never 
made good global
average temperature
predictions in the
past.

The similarity of the
numbers suggests
collusion !



Moving back to
'reality-land":
A Pew Research 
2019 survey reported 
that “Climate Change” 
ranked in 17th place, 
out of all 18 
“important issues”, 
in a poll of Americans. 

The issue has ranked 
second-to-last 
going back to 2014.



Climate alarmists
now want to move 
into 'full speed ahead
implementation', 
after marginalizing 
all opponents.

In 2018,
we found out 
the U.S. Green 
New Deal goal
was mainly 
implementing
US socialism,
plus ending 
the use of 
fossil fuels 
in a decade !

It was hard to tell 
what the main 
objective was,
because most 
of the spending
was proposed for
implementing new
welfare and social
programs, not
CO2 emissions

There is no doubt 
that the media debate 
has been decisively won 
by the climate alarmists. 

But the scientific debate 
never happened. 

The cimate alarmists 
refuse to debate.

So, climate alarmists
may have won 
the war of words.

And they did create
hysteria in the media.

Such as TIME 
magazine rewarding
climate science
ignoramus
Ms. Greta Thunberg, 
with Person of the Year.

"Thundering Thunberg"
angrily berates adults 
about using fossil fuels.

What a charming
teenage high school
dropout !

Adults in the room 
nod their heads
in "agreement", 
but do not 
DO anything, 
except to vote
for non-binding 
resolutions 
that don’t require 
big CO2 emitters 
( China and India ) 
to do anything.

In the real world, 
not that much 
has happened. 

India, China, Africa, 
and most of the rest 
of the Third World, 
are expanding 
electrification,
mainly with new
coal power plants. 

The only ones 
making noise:
Europe, 
Australia, 
and Canada, 
have CO2
emissions 
reduction goals 
that will be 
offset by Asia !


We’ll see 
who "wins" 
AFTER the
people find out
just how much 
they must pay 
for their "share"
of a Green Deal.

Voters have 
not yet felt 
much of 
an effect
on their own
quality of life. 

The backlash 
will only start 
after costs rise, 
taxes rise,
freedoms 
diminish, 
and choices 
disappear.

Perhaps a good leading 
indicator will the most 
important U.S. "poll": 

The U.S. presidential 
election in early
November 2020.