Thursday, December 28, 2017

Saving Face


It is becoming increasingly clear that, not only is global warming not the bugbear that many have made it out to be, but that we may in fact be entering a period of global cooling ... see: The End to the End of Winter. Virtually every dire forecast that was made by the climate alarmists has failed to transpire ... even many years after they were supposed to occur. Their computer models are so far off the mark that they are worthless ... perhaps because the data they used was fudged to try to make their point. The result is that their drum beating is increasingly being ignored by the people of the world. The support for the Paris Accord came mainly from those countries which were destined to garner financial benefit from this wealth distribution red herring.

Even the semantic shift to "climate change" and "extreme weather" has not convinced many that we are on the brink of a carbon dioxide Armageddon. So what is to happen to all the Chicken Littles who  have been trying to panic the rest of us into massive environmental and economic adjustments ... will they be shamed into the shadows? Perhaps we should find a way of allowing them.... Al Gore, Hillary, many in the British royal family, BHO, Angela Merkel, Emanuel Macron, tree huggers around the world, most of the U.N., and 97% of climate scientists ... to save face? Should we allow them to back away gracefully from many of their outlandish claims?

Nah!

8 comments:

George W. Potts said...

He also believes in many other things ... like we have to populate other planets soon or die out. Do you want Saturn?

DEN said...

At's part of the same belief, that the global warming is approaching a point of no return and we will be like Venus within the next 100 years! Yes I want to get off, but I'm staying away from Uranus.

ChillFin said...

Here is what I believe. Fossil fuels produce emissions and waste, require extracting and processing of resources, are limited to certain geographies, and are finite. Renewable resources produce no emissions and waste, require no feeding of fuel, are virtually global, and will be available for the next billion years. Despite hopes for coal and opening parklands to oil extractions, solar and wind are gaining market share of energy rapidly.

George W. Potts said...

Thank Allah!

George W. Potts said...

Two points:
1) Solar and wind will never supply more than 10% of world's energy needs. Nuclear is the only effective long-term renewable.
2) Carbon dioxide is a good gas and once was 10 times higher in the atmosphere than it is now ... and the world didn't end. It is essential for life on Earth to continue.

ChillFin said...

Renewables are expanding exponentially worldwide. Here is some fresh data: https://www.iea.org/publications/renewables2017/.

Nuclear is long term alright. Look at Fukashima and Chernobyl. Anyway, while some people moan about solar and wind farms in their neighborhood, try locating a new nuclear power plant.

I never said anything about CO2 although it is an unused byproduct of burning fossil fuels. Can't say that the Brazilians burning the rainforest are getting it to grow faster.

George W. Potts said...

CO2 is hardly unused ... plants can't grow without it ... and animals can't live without plants. QED

George W. Potts said...

BTW, ?Chernobyl was a very old style graphite weapons reactor ... and Fukashima had poorly designed back-up generators. Three mile island gave everyone around it the equivalent of a dental X-ray. Nuclear subs and ships have been operating for 59 years without incident ...