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Despite the «science is settled» and «consensus» claims of the
global -
warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science
as by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.
So the
alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report»
Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read,
as «Getting
Warmer.»
Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of
global warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers by coming across
as alarmist.
However, when people use the term «catastrophic anthropogenic
global warming» they are not referring to any real science but are attempting to paint anyone who talks about the science
as an
alarmist.
As for the
global warming alarmist....
If science advocacy has to include statements such
as «Alas,
as with most over-simplified
global warming claptrap, more thought goes into coming up with the
alarmist concept than in actually looking into whether or not it is true», then I don't think it belongs in the discussion.
CO2 Science misrepresents Doran's study
as a «major blow to the CO2 - induced
global warming hypothesis... many a climate
alarmist jumped on the
global warming bandwagon... however, the bottom began to fall out of the poorly constructed bandwagon,
as the evidentiary glue that held it together began to weaken.»
He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on
global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described
as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the
global warming debate.
We need to not be
alarmist about the potential of this alarm, but realize that it is something to be alarmed about if we let this «little»
global warming thing go too far... on top of the other reasonably alarming things that are already going on, such
as hitting thermal limits for crops, etc..
Even
as many promoting the
global -
warming theory have moderated their language in the interest of restoring credibility, others on the same side of the table have actually employed more
alarmist language,
as if to compensate for the lack of climatic temperature increase by turning up the verbal heat.
The Little Ice Age is troublesome for
global -
warming alarmists, since historical evidence suggests the period had extremely low
global temperatures, which began recovering only
as recently
as the mid-19th century.
IMO,
global warming alarmists (
as well
as GMO and nuclear
alarmists) are a subset of people who either haven't looked at the issue because they assume someone else has, or haven't scrutinized it because they don't want it scrutinized.
In other words, «Forecast the Facts» was originally conceived
as a front group controlled by far - left advocacy groups to hide behind while attacking meteorologists, who surveys show tend to be very skeptical of the claims of
global warming alarmists.
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change has been vigorously attacked by some environmentalists and
global warming alarmists who view it
as a threat to their claim of a «consensus» in favor of their extreme views.
The reason it disappeared wasn't due to rising sea - levels from
global warming as the «
alarmists» would like you to believe.
As a result,
global warming alarmists get a pass on claiming to be helping the poor by fighting
global warming.
The fraudulent data is then fed to the sycophant,
global warming alarmist mainstream media, published
as gospel, and voilà — the «Climate Change Crisis» is born!
The bad news is that
as more is understood about
global warming, and
as we compare what has happened to what was predicted by the average models (from the actual science, not from popular sensationalized media), the earlier scientific predictions have turned out to be too conservative, not
as you say «too
alarmist».
As usual the
global warming alarmists / leftists only look at the tip of the ice berg (pun intended) and neglect the rest of the facts that actually trashes their argument.
All or part of what passes among
Alarmists as «
global warming» could be the result of interactions among myriad phenomena that redistribute temperatures.
Global warming alarmists (many of them the same who predicted a New Ice Age in the 1970s) ignore, or evade, such awkward facts as the greatly increased CO2 production worldwide for 30 years after 1941, when heavy industry increased immensely for armaments in WWII, and for rebuilding and consumer goods like cars in the postwar boom in the Americas, Europe and Asia — while global temperatures simultaneously
Global warming alarmists (many of them the same who predicted a New Ice Age in the 1970s) ignore, or evade, such awkward facts
as the greatly increased CO2 production worldwide for 30 years after 1941, when heavy industry increased immensely for armaments in WWII, and for rebuilding and consumer goods like cars in the postwar boom in the Americas, Europe and Asia — while
global temperatures simultaneously
global temperatures simultaneously fell.
WHEN you are a man - made
global warming alarmist prosecuting your case
as «unprecedented», you need to make sure that no recent climate era was
as warm or
warmer than the present, even if that means having to rewrite the past to fit your theory.
«I've seen Al Gore's film twice, but I've also read Michael Crichton's State of Fear, which makes a compelling case on the other side,» says Hug, referring to the controversial 2004 novel in which Crichton — using scientific arguments that were hotly challenged by critics — ridiculed the
global -
warming consensus
as the work of conspiratorial
alarmists.
The man - made
global warming narrative remained intact in the media in spite of various IPCC's
alarmist claims being proven
as false.
«We should be growing more trees and using more wood,» says Moore, but the
global warming alarmists refer to the forests
as «carbon stocks» that must not be used.
The National Center for Science Education has adopted
as part of its mission the task of attacking researchers and commentators who question the biased and
alarmist position on
global warming staked out by the Obama administration and environmental advocacy groups, so Steven Newton's highly critical essay comes
as no surprise.
As such,
alarmists aren't just questioning the value of continuing the
global warming debate; their approach also calls into question the scientific method, which has been used successfully in its current form since the Enlightenment.
I could only laugh
as ridiculous CO2
alarmists who metamorphosed a local disaster, brought about by ignorance of natural coastal changes, into a
global warming «crystal ball».
From New Zealand comes another example of climate
alarmists «adjusting» temperatures upward to claim
global warming that isn't, in fact, occurring,
as shown by Joanne Nova «s excellent blog.
Global warming science facts from new research indicates that ENSO will not become a permanent feature
as speculated by the IPCC's resident AGW
alarmists - the massive climate phenomenon will remain variable
You can be the biggest, most risible assclown in the history of junk statistics and pseudoscience but so long
as you can somehow cobble together a half - way plausible paper, no matter how inept your methodology, which helps prop up the vast man - made
global warming industry then you have it made: the President of the USA will Tweet you; your University will back you to the hilt; your colleagues will rally round you; you will get a very favourable write - up in the Guardian (and myriad other
alarmist publications); your critics will be sidelined and ignored.
The litany of failed,
alarmist predictions is why scientific organisations, such
as the BoM, have — tragically — become almost the last places to hear the truth about
global warming climate change.
Some actions by the President of the United States can have far - reaching international consequences, including something so trivial
as how he reacts to a particular
global warming alarmist book.
«December 2017:
Warming / Climate Doomsdayer
Alarmist Rhetoric Heats Up
As Globe Freezes Main Review: 2017 Empirical Evidence of Catastrophic
Global Warming Per The Gold - Standard Science»
I was very skeptical of Catastrophic Anthropogenic
Global Warming (though not the possibility of some AGW) from the moment I heard about it
as a major political movement, because it «smelled» to much like the
Alarmist «Population Bomb» and «Peek Oil» movements, and was being pushed by many of the same kind of people.
As can be seen, the satellite empirical evidence after 30 + years does not readily support the climate -
alarmist AGW theory, nor the doomsday predictions of
global warming hell.
Like many other conference speakers and attendees, Secretary - General Ban cited the recent droughts, floods, and Tropical Storm Sandy
as proof of the dire consequences of man - made
global warming, even though many studies and scientists (including scientists who usually fall into the climate
alarmist category) have stated that there is no evidence to support claims that «extreme weather» has been increasing in frequency and / or magnitude in recent years, or that extreme events (hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, etc.) have anything to do with increased CO2 levels.
Since the «runaway» and «accelerating» scenarios have been ginormous scientific failures,
as previously discussed, AGW scientists and
alarmists / advocates are having to seriously re-think the basic assumptions of catastrophic
global warming.
The
alarmists at the IPCC and «Big Green» like to point to the gigantic icebergs produced by Antarctica
as proof that
global warming is directly melting the polar continent with high temperatures.
Moreover,
as I've argued here previously, the emphasis, or hope that science can conclusively answer the debate about
global warming almost concedes to the
alarmist / precautionary perspective that, if «climate change is happening», then so the policies are justified.
The «hockey stick» graph was touted by
global warming alarmists as evidence of rapidly rising temperatures and
as justification for government action to curb carbon dioxide emissions.
As a consequence of the towering example AGW True Believers bring to high science of approximating reality let us enumerate a sufficient example of their inability and fundamental inadequacy on the numerous occasions afforded them from the inception of their undertaking to effectuate an adequate understanding of the issues to be ascertained: The
Global Warming Alarmists Still Don't Get It: It's The Sun, Stupid.
The UN's IPCC and associated climate
alarmist scientists predicted that severe weather would increase globally
as a result of human - caused
global warming.
Climate change
alarmists, many of whom write for professional climate tabloids where
global warming fiction reigns, often speak to the detrimental
global warming impact on species such
as the polar bear and the caribou.
But yet the language of the
global warming alarmist, is to accuse anyone who does not believe in man - made climate change
as a «denier», a heretic, a blasphemer.
As the actual climate truths and realities are finally being reported by the world's press (Der Spiegel, The Financial Times, etc.), the UN's
global warming chief
alarmist continues with delusional denial.
I've come to the conclusion that the paper acts
as an excellent carrot, which when combined with the terrible example of Mann's floundering to defend the indefensible (
as the stick) may tempt some people to row back from some silly
alarmist positions they've taken on
global warming.
To date, the electric utility industry has aided and abetted the climate
alarmist cause, if not by actually lobbying for
global warming regulation, then at least by its willingness to entertain such regulation
as public policy worthy of serious consideration.
His critique was, however, widely misrepresented by climate deniers
as proving that the IPCC's scientific verdict about the dangers of
global warming are too
alarmist.