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Monday, March 22, 2021

My third climate rap in one day -- a new personal record

Quite a few skeptics (aka lukewarmers) believe climate change is a serious problem but does not require disrupting western civilization and spending many trillions of dollars in the next 10 or 15 years. 

I find "lukewarmers" to be almost as bad as climate alarmists. Both completely ignore reality.

Reality is all of us have been living with sea level rise for ALL of our lives. No acceleration of the sea level rise, per tide gauges = no danger to anyone.

Reality is all of us have been living with actual global warming for up to 45 years, since the 1970s, and it has been pleasant.  Mainly affecting the colder, higher latitudes, where warming is good news. With most warming in the coldest six months of the year, and most warming at night, which is even better news. How can warmer winter nights in Siberia be bad news? That's good news!

Reality is all of us have been living with rising levels of atmospheric  carbon dioxide for all of our lives. Viewing our planet from satellites, the Leaf Area Index shows our planet is greening. That's good news too.

So we have the pleasant reality of ACTUAL sea level rise, mild warming, and rising CO2 levels ... versus an apocalyptic green religion that has visions of a future climate that is entirely different than the past and current climate (reality). Those visions exist entirely in their minds.
 

A real climate change debate MUST be between past and present climate reality, versus the apocalyptic green vision of the future. "Lukewarmers" will never do that. Many skeptics will not do that.

The problem that most skeptics have is they never realize that real climate science, data and logic will NOT change the apocalyptic climate vision, because that vision was NEVER created from real science, data and logic in the first place. It is like a religious belief.

There is absolutely no evidence the next 45 years of global warming will be different than the past, very pleasant 45 years of global warming. 

And climate science is so uncertain that the next 45 years could be global cooling, rather than global warming. Not that any scientist would ever say "we don't know what the future climate will be".