Posted on 01/12/2018 10:47:23 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
As record lows gripped many parts of the U.S. and Canada, the global warming elitists scrambled to announce to the world that climate change was the driving force behind the freezing weather.
Inevitably, their claims have exposed the hypocrisy of the global warming cult that has instilled fear among the public.
Temperatures in many parts of the Atlantic U.S. went down drastically last week. Canada was not an exception, with record lows registered in many provinces since November last year.
While some forecasts in December predicted a colder than usual winter due to the polar vortex inversion, the drop in mercury was more severe than expected.
Extreme cold and extremely hot weather patterns can occur at any point in history, regardless of whether the earth is on a long-term warming trend or not.
For example, the Earth went through a mini ice age during the 16th century. Soon after the end of the mini ice age in the 17th century global temperatures began rising, and have been on a warming trend since then.
Despite this overall warming trend, countries like the U.S. experienced several severe winters during the 19th and 20th century. This can be attributed to many reasons such as the inversion of the Polar Vortex, a decrease in solar activity, and other natural cyclic phenomenon.
These extremely cold temperatures do not provide sufficient reasons to conclude whether the global warming hypothesis is right or wrong. However, they expose the flawed predictions of the global warming alarmists, thus falsifying their climate-doom propaganda.
The global warming alarmists face two major problems here. One—their claim of carbon dioxide emission from human activity is the primary driver of temperature increase in the 20th century, and two—their claim that global warming is responsible for the ongoing extreme winter in the U.S. and Canada.
Temperature reconstructions from the past show us that carbon dioxide has not been the primary driver of global temperature levels. The same is true today—global temperature levels failed to display any linear relationship with the increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the past 20 years.
This truth even prompted several of the staunchest climate alarmists to acknowledge the blatant errors in the temperature forecasts of the computer climate models used by the United Nations to inform global energy and developmental policies.
In fact, hundreds of scientific papers in the past two years have repudiated the claims of climate alarmists. Besides categorically denying the catastrophic increase in temperatures, they also dismiss any notion of carbon dioxide being the primary driver of global temperatures.
The hypocrisy of the climate alarmists reached a new low last week when Al Gore—one of the chief proponents of climate alarmism, suggested that the current extreme winter that we are experiencing is because of climate change.
Al Gore, quoting the opinion of another alarmist—Michael Mann, said the record lows were extreme weather events caused by climate change. If taken at face value, this signals a monumental yet unintelligible shift in the narrative of the climate alarmists.
Almost all of the climate change-related mitigation policies are based on the assumption that temperatures are increasing globally. The recent claim by Al Gore renders all of these policies meaningless.
Going by the alarmist logic, if reductions in carbon dioxide emissions are to be justified based on the claims that they could control the increase of global temperatures, then the very same emission reductions could be attributed to the current severe winters in the U.S. and Canada.
The alarmist logic thus falls flat on its face.
By blaming climate change for the record lows, the alarmists have dug their own grave. They now face an unavoidable conundrum of choosing between warming and cooling, and either way, they will depart far from the actual science of climate change.
I remember an extremely warm winter back around 1998. The jonquels were coming up in the first week of January, and they usually would not poke their heads out of the ground till mid February. We began to have a series of sometimes warm winters.
About that time the glo-bull warming nonsense was beginning. Now think of all those children born beginning around 1991, and think of what they went through in schools teaching glo-bull warming. Their world WAS warming!
Now we are seeing a return to what we oldsters consider NORMAL COLD WINTERS and the young, who have not experienced it cannot comprehend it.
Reminds me of years ago when a young person, raised in South Florida, moved north and experienced their FIRST snow fall. He swore it was THE END OF THE WORLD!
Same with our liberal neighbor, it is rage. It is not normal behavior by any means. If you question or counter any of their core beliefs- even slightly they react with rage. They refuse to listen to anything that does not agree with their thought process to a T. I call it cult behavior or brainwashing but whatever it is, it has been effective in turning them into robots. I cannot explain it, truly makes me question how it is accomplished. I swear it is not normal, not at all. I am about to become a conspiracy person and think there is something in the water or something that many of us are immune to. No way does it make sense to me.
Even deciding to not talk about things they are brainwashed about or politics of any sort does not work. They delight in bringing things up, then verbally attacking if you don’t agree with them. If you don’t talk to them at all about issues they assume you absolutely agree with them. Some call it insanity, it appears to be. No explanation for the group insanity that I know of though. It has sucked in distant relatives that were not even interested in politics- friends that should know better. I tell you there is something behind all this craziness. Has to be.
In the 1920’s-40’s large rivers in Oregon froze...Willamette and Columbia
I’d say inspiring.
Everything all right in the critic section?
It rained so hard the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot
I froze to death
Susannah don’t you cry
The current cold weather may actually be the result of climate change, the problem is that the left uses the term not to mean what it really means but as if it meant one specific thing MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING. That is an absurdity in itself but to claim that man made global warming AKA climate change is causing an extremely cold winter is just too much. Oh, Susannah indeed.
Only a critic as in “art critic”; I was highlighting your useful Grateful Dead snippet with another lyrical snippet in the same vein. All smiles, FRiend!
Cool!
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