" It is very hard to engage in “evidence-based decision-making” when alarmists define climate change as the mere possibility of bad events, or deal with failed predictions of disaster by asserting that they did happen.
... Meanwhile, the polar icecaps melt, sea levels rise, hundreds of thousands of species may go extinct, fires rage, hurricanes boil, people continue to suffer and die.”
Hurricanes boil?
Really?
Sometimes alarmists respond to failed predictions of disaster with apocalyptic vagueness.
... the latest UN hysterics that
“Climate change is the defining crisis of our time and it is happening even more quickly than we feared…. No corner of the globe is immune from the devastating consequences of climate change. Rising temperatures are fueling environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and water insecurity, economic disruption, conflict, and terrorism. Sea levels are rising, the Arctic is melting, coral reefs are dying, oceans are acidifying, and forests are burning…. As the infinite cost of climate change reaches irreversible highs, now is the time for bold collective action.”
“Across the world, climate change is causing extreme and erratic weather. This, in turn, is exacerbating land degradation and desertification, with the most severe impacts affecting people already in situations of poverty and vulnerability, especially women and Indigenous people.”
Notice anything missing in all these rants?
We did: actual facts.
As in numbers and data, not just anecdotes and slogans.
Of the many we could cite, the most important is that the impact of natural disasters on human beings is far smaller than it used to be.
This whole business about continents reeling from mass destruction is simply untrue.
... yes, sea levels are rising.
But no faster, it seems, than they were in 1873.
Real-world data show fewer hurricanes (and they are not more intense either) while even the unusually active North Atlantic basin did not in fact see a record season in 2020.
Wildfires aren’t increasing either ... "