Real Climate Science

Who could want to endure another summer like last, with drought-stricken crops, fish kills and ozone alerts? Some environmentalists, that’s who. They hope it will ”galvanize political opinion” and make Congress pass legislation to combat the greenhouse warming of the earth’s atmosphere.

One trouble with this calculation is its false premise. Even another sweltering summer won’t mean the greenhouse warming has begun. Droughts are part of the climate’s natural variability. The danger in asserting they prove greenhouse warming has arrived is obvious. Come the next cool August, Congress will assume that neither the greenhouse effect nor its proponents need be taken seriously. A plan to avert the greenhouse effect needs a firmer basis than the state of the weather. It requires persuading Washington to act on uncertain information.

James Hansen of NASA is the only climatologist to have told Congress that the greenhouse effect is already here. He is a respected scientist but on this point very few of his colleagues agree with him, as Richard Kerr noted recently in Science. The Office of Management and Budget drew criticism when it heavy-handedly made Mr. Hansen qualify testimony to Congress last month. But its caveat, that his warnings ”should be viewed as estimates from evolving computer models and not as reliable predictions,” was scientifically impeccable. The computer models of the greenhouse effect are indeed ”evolving” -they’re somewhere around the amoeba stage.

Environmental lobbyists are tempted to emphasize the threat of the greenhouse effect because it reinforces so much of their other agenda.

Crying wolf on greenhouse warming will not work.

But since the remedies will be far more costly, the case for preventive action needs to be argued with care and precision. Congress won’t be rolled by a summer’s heat wave. The case for preventive steps against the greenhouse warming, uncertain though it still is, can better be made with the cold facts.

Opinion | The Editorial Notebook; Crying Wolf in the Greenhouse – The New York Times

In 1989, the United Nations said we only have ten years to save the planet from global warming.

U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

Now they say we only have ten months.

U.N. Report: World Has Ten Months To Take Action on Climate | Time

And the New York Times says it is time to panic.

NYT Opinion on Twitter: “Panic might seem counterproductive,

In 1989, the Canberra Times said the Ozone Hole threatened Northern Australia

Dr Robert Edwards, said the risk of increased ultra violet rays was lower in southern Australia than in the north

30 Jul 1989 – Ozone hole to threaten Australia – Trove

According to NASA, the largest Ozone hole occurred in 2000, and it didn’t get anywhere near Australia.

Largest-ever Ozone Hole over Antarctica

Two weeks later, the Canberra Times said that the Ozone Hole was going to make cars larger and less fuel efficient.

11 Aug 1989 – WEEKEND MOTORING Ozone hole will affect car design – Trove

The previous year they said that Maldives would drown by the year 2018.

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

And they said there was 90% certainty sea level would rise 1-4 meters by the years 2030 unless the world adopted global communism.

26 Jan 1989 – Call for anti-greenhouse action – Trove

But none of this is important, because Paul Ehrlich said overpopulation would kill us by 1989.

20 Aug 1969, Page 6 – The Index-Journal at Newspapers.com

Joe Biden’s climate adviser, John Kerry became famous by selling out his country to North Vietnam.

Today, the New York Times casually mentioned that Kerry gave away military secrets to Iran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies – The New York Times

Seventeen years ago, the New York Times defended Kerry after a group of veterans “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” accused him of lying about his military record in Vietnam.

Opinion | Politics as Usual – The New York Times

Congressional climate expert Alexandria Cortez and The Washington Post say the planet will burn up in 3,558 days.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden healed the planet 13 years ago, and Joe Biden says he is going to do it again. But none of insane theater playing out in Washington DC has anything to do with climate.

Climate alarmism is absurd, and the belief in it requires a complete lack of understanding of both science and history.

The belief in warming is indeed caused by human activity – i.e. data tampering and propaganda from government agencies.

Fifty years ago, NASA’s leading climatologists knew that a runaway greenhouse effect was not possible.

The main conclusion of this part of the study is that even an order of magnitude increase of CO2 in the atmosphere by human activities, which at the present rate of input is not expected within the next several thousand years, may not be sufficient to produce a runaway greenhouse effect on Earth.

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