We can expect this to be a banner year in the battle over "Climate Change", formerly called 'Global Warming' until the public became confused every time the temperature dropped!
Why this year?
The difference between this year and others is that President Donald Trump has publicly been a skeptic, affectionately called a 'denier', even accusing all the concern is about enriching those in the 'green industry', not to end the supposed damage man is doing to the planet.
Today, as most countries have turned the tide from thoughtless pollution to thoughtful
efforts to minimize the environmental impacts, the 'sky is falling' crowd is telling us the
worst is yet to come. We are have been told the end is near for a planet which has been
spinning around the Sun for almost five billion years.
If the Earth only "knew"the end is so near, it might consider going out of orbit on its own
and get it over with...NOW!
But, all the factual evidence which provides a contradictory assessment of the state of the environment has led 'deniers' like President Trump to question what is being spewed by politicians, media, environmentalists, 'green energy' corporations and a consensus of climate experts.
To bring to light when the "experts" warned us off more than forty years ago, which have
not occurred. For this I'll refer to a column written by George Will in 2009.
Mr. Will reminds us of the warnings if the problems contributing to Global Warming were
not immediately addressed.
Why this year?
The difference between this year and others is that President Donald Trump has publicly been a skeptic, affectionately called a 'denier', even accusing all the concern is about enriching those in the 'green industry', not to end the supposed damage man is doing to the planet.
Today, as most countries have turned the tide from thoughtless pollution to thoughtful
efforts to minimize the environmental impacts, the 'sky is falling' crowd is telling us the
worst is yet to come. We are have been told the end is near for a planet which has been
spinning around the Sun for almost five billion years.
If the Earth only "knew"the end is so near, it might consider going out of orbit on its own
and get it over with...NOW!
But, all the factual evidence which provides a contradictory assessment of the state of the environment has led 'deniers' like President Trump to question what is being spewed by politicians, media, environmentalists, 'green energy' corporations and a consensus of climate experts.
To bring to light when the "experts" warned us off more than forty years ago, which have
not occurred. For this I'll refer to a column written by George Will in 2009.
Mr. Will reminds us of the warnings if the problems contributing to Global Warming were
not immediately addressed.
"Things are worse than they can possibly be." former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, an atomic physicist. Chu also stated "global warming might melt 90 percent of California's snowpack, which stores much of the water needed for agriculture, meaning no more agriculture in California," Chu added : "I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going."
Chu also predicted "Nine decades hence, our great-great-grandchildren will add the disappearance of California artichokes to the list of predicted planetary, none of these calamities happened. Now, global cooling recently joined Chu's lengthening list."
Gregg Easterbrook's "Law of Doomsaying": Predict catastrophe no sooner than five years hence but no later than 10 years away. Convention time frames, soon enough to terrify but distant enough that people will forget if you are wrong.
Chu also predicted "Nine decades hence, our great-great-grandchildren will add the disappearance of California artichokes to the list of predicted planetary, none of these calamities happened. Now, global cooling recently joined Chu's lengthening list."
Gregg Easterbrook's "Law of Doomsaying": Predict catastrophe no sooner than five years hence but no later than 10 years away. Convention time frames, soon enough to terrify but distant enough that people will forget if you are wrong.
But before there was a concern about warming, the threat was cooling.
In the 1970s, "a major cooling of the planet" was "widely considered inevitable" because it was "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950" (New York Times, May 21, 1975).
Although some disputed that the "cooling trend" could result in "a return to another ice age" (the Times, Sept. 14, 1975), others anticipated "a full-blown 10,000-year ice age" involving "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation" (Science News, March 1, 1975, and Science magazine, Dec. 10, 1976, respectively).
The "continued rapid cooling of the Earth" (Global Ecology, 1971) meant that "a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery" (International Wildlife, July 1975).
"The world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age" (Science Digest, February 1973).
Because of "ominous signs" that "the Earth's climate seems to be cooling down," meteorologists were "almost unanimous" that "the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century," perhaps triggering catastrophic famines (Newsweek cover story, "The Cooling World," April 28, 1975).
Armadillos were fleeing south from Nebraska, heat-seeking snails were retreating from Central European forests, the North Atlantic was "cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool," glaciers had "begun to advance" and "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" (Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 27, 1974).
As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming.
Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, either up or down, since 1979, when satellite record-keeping began. According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
A recent Pew Research Center poll asked which of 20 issues should be the government's top priorities. Climate change ranked 20th.
Real calamities take our minds off hypothetical ones. Besides, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more
than a decade, or one-third of the span since the global cooling scare.
So, here we are fifty years later and we still don't know for sure if there is a problem, or
what can we do to address it.
As President Trump addresses the issue of climate I am certain he will not defer to any
opinion without the clarity factual evidence provides.
The "sky is not falling", only the integrity of those who believe they can sell anything to
the public.
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