Scientific Reality: Climate Change means our planet's climate is always changing. With 100% natural causes of climate change for 4.5 billion years. CO2 is a mild greenhouse gas that should inhibit Earth's ability to cool itself, by a small, unknown amount. The exact effect of CO2 is unknown because there are too many causes of climate change to determine what each variable does. There is no doubt that the effect of CO2 has been harmless. There is strong evidence that increasing CO2 levels in the troposphere have improved Earth's climate, and boosted plant growth, greening our planet. Whatever the cause, the global warming since the cold 1690s has been at least +2 degrees C., and has significantly improved our climate. As a result: WE
ARE CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE BEST CLIMATE FOR HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND ESPECIALLY
PLANTS, SINCE THE HOLOCENE CLIMATE OPTIMUM, 5,000 to 9,000 YEARS AGO.
... AND THAT'S A FACT, NOT A COMPUTER GAME PREDICTION.
Political Fantasy: Climate Change means a prediction of a coming climate crisis, that began in late 1950s science papers. The prediction had numbers attached in the 1970s -- wild guessed numbers for the effect of CO2 on the climate. The "coming" climate crisis has not shown up during the past 65 years of scary predictions. The predictions are a fantasy, not reality. Humans have no ability to predict the future climate. We have no idea if the climate will be warmer or colder in 100 years. This paragraph described what I call "Climate Alarmism".
Climate Realism here at this blog,
not Climate Alarmism.
Richard Greene, since 1953
Bingham Farms, Michigan, since 1987
BS State University of New York, at Albany
MBA Stern School of Business, at New York University
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Ye Editor's Only Climate Prediction, from 1997
"The Climate will get warmer, unless it gets colder."