Reply #32: Neither

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I'm referring to the politicization of the subject.

I'll take a wild guess and say I'm significantly older than you are; I remember when "science" had "proved" that we would all die as a result of "global cooling".

Then, after a lull in the hysteria, many years later it was "global warming" that would kill us all. Not "climate change", but "global warming".

The political change of terminology from one to the other does not extend back to the establishment of the IPCC in 1989 (not 1988, check your facts). It is no less recent than 2004, when the accumulation of evidence that the planet was no longer warming had made the more clever among the global warming advocates realize that reality was destroying the basis of the political agenda.

So many claims that have been made by proponents of this agenda have been proven false, that it amazes me that anyone is still foolish enough to believe it. If the initial claims were true we would never have made it to the year 2000, the world was scheduled to end well before then. Was it so long ago that the predictions of increasing hurricane activity, made in the wake of Katrina, went silent as several quiet hurricane seasons passed?

And I have to wonder, how is a person like Michael Mann even still employed, with his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hockey_stick_chart_ipcc_large.jpg>infamous hockey stick fraud that disappeared the Medieval Warm Period because it was terribly inconvenient to what he set out to prove? What kind of credibility does an organization who employs him have? Do you remember - and this is quite recent - how the science of global warming was supposed to be settled, that those who disagreed with those unsound conclusions were "deniers", compared to Holocaust deniers with a straight face? That chart and those claims are pretty embarrassing today, now that we know that global temperature is flat since 1998, aren't they?

You needn't go back very far to see hysterical prediction after hysterical prediction, that the world should already have ended many times over if these "scientists" (who were actually political agitators and not scientists at all) were correct.


Now, I haven't time to thoroughly lay out right here the extensive record of falsified claims and outright fraud by the advocates of this agenda, but if you have interest in truth rather than seeking to confirm your beliefs you will have no trouble finding more documentation on the subject than you could reasonably review in a lifetime. But really, the whole thing has become an exercise in inventing even more and more fantastic stories - I can imagine the authors giggling over the fact that people actually believe things like this, or the now-orthodox-but-still-incredibly-silly suggestion that human beings breathing creates pollution.


Back in the day when I was just a small child, I read a fairy tale called Chicken Little. "The sky is falling!" "The sky is falling!"

My friend, the sky is not falling. Climate change is perfectly natural and has gone on since the earth formed from protoplanetary mass, and that change is driven by the sun, something we can do nothing about. Global warming is a complete and total fraud. One day the sun will obliterate our planet, but that will not come within your lifetime or the lifetime of anyone a hundred thousand generations hence. It is only the extreme comfort in which we live today that even gives us the luxury to fret over these things.

If you really want to save the world from man-made destruction, your attention is far better given to the subjects of money and war and the connections between the two; things that are real, within the control of human beings, and are something you might actually be able to do something about. While it's easier to worry over fake problems than real ones, only by facing up to the latter will you truly be able to make a difference in bringing humanity closer to a state of peace, justice, and prosperity. It's a lot more fulfilling than wasting your life pursuing complete nonsense.

Even if you're not prepared to change your opinion on what I have to say, at least have the humility to admit that the great number of claims that have been proven false provides every reason necessary to allow that the latest theories, like the past ones, may also be incorrect.