I want to thank the mainstream media for making this blog necessary!
The mainstream media have provided over three decades of biased, anti-science climate alarmism. They never mention the past 325 years of intermittent global warming, since the late 1600s, that have been pleasant and harmless all the way. People living from 1650 to 1750 thought it was too cold ! But who cares about them? We are told the global average temperature and the CO2 concentration were 'perfect' in 1750, and if you question that 'official' assertion, then you are a 'climate denier'. I hate anything 'official'.
Climate alarmists promote two bizarre concepts:
(1)
The climate was "perfect" in the mid-1700s, in spite of the people living then who thought it was too cold. And any change from the mid-1700s is bad news. We only have very rough estimates of the global average temperature, and CO2 level, in the mid-1700s, but never mind that. And never mind the other 4.5 billion years of Earth's climate. Because the climate was "perfect" in the mid-1700s, and the proof of that is: "We're big shot government bureaucrats with science degrees, and we say so!"
(2)
After 4.5 billion years of only natural causes of climate change, sometime during the 20th century it is claimed that man made CO2 magically became the "climate controller". And natural causes of climate change were suddenly declared too small to care about. There's no evidence that really happened. And no explanation of why it would happen. The claim is just asserted without proof, but asserted with great confidence. Skeptics were then ridiculed as "science deniers", or "climate deniers", to silence them, and prevent any debate.
We've heard 50 years of scary, but always wrong, predictions of a coming climate crisis ... that I suspect will be followed by another 50 years of scary, but always wrong, predictions of a climate crisis. The climate crisis consists of nothing more than predictions ... made by people who have no ability to predict the climate next year, much less in 100 years.
Historical temperatures are frequently "adjusted", and "readjusted" to show more global warming, and better "match" the predictions. Most of the surface temperature "data" are contaminated with made up numbers, never verified with measurements. That's called infilling -- I call it wild guessing. Satellite data is from the troposphere where the greenhouse effect occurs. Satellites require very little infilling, just for the area over both poles. You don't hear about satellite temperature data because they show less global warming than surface temperature data.
Unusually wet or dry weather, is blamed on "climate change". Unusually warm weather is blamed on "climate change" too. But unusually cold weather is just "weather". That's climate alarmism.
With no skepticism, the mass media publish wild guess, always wrong, but always confident, predictions of a coming climate crisis. An imaginary crisis that we have been patiently waiting to happen for 50 years! Debate is prevented with ridicule, character attacks, and online censorship.
Meanwhile, our current climate is the best it has been, for humans, animals and plants, in hundreds of years, since the Little Ice Age centuries. Our planet is 'greening' from more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Our climate is getting better decade after decade. But for some people, real climate changes since the 1970s, such as warmer winter nights in Alaska, are an existential climate threat. Beware -- people who try to scare you with wild speculation about the future climate, also want to control you.
I retired at the unusually young age of 51, in January 2005. I wanted to contribute more to society, guided by a Benjamin Franklin quote: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing (about) "
That's why I write three blogs now, and this is my most popular blog. Thank you for reading. My writing here is guided by my favorite philosopher, Lawrence "YogI" Berra, who once said: "I really didn't say everything I said."
Richard Greene,
since 1953
what I think I see in the bathroom mirror:
actual recent photo taken by the wife:
Audiophile,
since 1965
My favorite song
this week:
Gil Scott-Heron
"Racetrack In France"
Libertarian,
since 1973
BS,
State University
of New York,
at Albany,
1975
MBA,
Stern School
of Business,
at New York
University,
1977
Editor of
a finance
newsletter,
from 1977 to
June 2020
( "ECONOMIC
LOGIC" )
Married to a
wonderful wife
since 1983
Living in
Bingham Farms,
Michigan,
since 1987
Retired, lazy bum,
since January 2005
Editor of the
Economic Logic Blog,
since 2008, now at:
www.EL2017.Blogspot.com
Editor of this
Honest Global
Warming Chart Blog,
since 2014
Editor of the
Election Circus
politics blog,
since 2016
www.ElectionCircus.Blogspot.com
Very disappointed
that global warming
appears to have
skipped Michigan !
“Politics is the art
of looking for trouble,
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the
wrong remedies.”
Groucho Marx