Posted on 05/02/2020 6:58:48 AM PDT by lowbuck
We can mourn the deaths of those who died in the Wuhan Flu pandemic, and we can celebrate the coming death of the global warming scam. The scientists’ models failed, utterly and completely, to adequately predict the course of the virus, and our leaders wrecked our economies based on those predictions. After this fiasco, who is going to trust the accuracy of apocalyptic models guessing at the average temperature a century hence?
The whole climate scam was always ridiculous. In the 1970s, we were assured that the only way to prevent a frosty Armageddon was to cede our power and property to the people sounding the alarm. Remarkably, all the prescriptions allegedly necessary to beat back the ice came off the left-wing wish list of policies the Marxists could never hope to pass in normal times. Well, with the ice floes looming, there’s no time to think, no time to debate. If we don’t go all-in on socialism today, we’re all going to freeze tomorrow.
Except the glaciers never came. Nor did the population bomb detonate, nor the ozone hole engulf us, nor the acid rain melt us. One might think that the prophets of doom might find some room for a bit of well-deserved humility after their string of failures, but no. If the planet wouldn’t cooperate by getting colder, they would sound the klaxon about the Earth getting hotter. By the end of the 1980s, with no acknowledgement of error and while presenting the same façade of absolute certainty, we got the global warming scam.
In a stunning development that should stun absolutely no one, the only way to solve the crisis of the temperature going up was also the only way to solve the crisis of the temperature going down. Imagine your luck if you stumbled onto a crisis where the only way out was to eschew debate and deliberation and simply give you everything you ever wanted.
Over time, global warming morphed into “climate change,” because once again our planet refused to conform to the fevered prognostications of the same coterie of climate Cassandras who had struck out on the Ice Age gambit. It refused to get hotter, so in a stroke of brilliance that would make any trial lawyer proud, they managed to define any change at all as proof positive of looming disaster.
Said looming disaster required that we destroy our economy – sound familiar? – unless we wished to see the earth fry in some ever-changing number of years in the future. That deadline after last-ditch deadline passed and the polar bears still stubbornly refused to melt meant nothing. "Science" demanded obedience. Of course, this was a new kind of science that required you disregard objective findings in favor of firm and unyielding adherence to the initial hypothesis. The only use for science was as a concept to be deployed to bludgeon dissent via the threat of being labeled a “science denier” for insisting that the science be scientific.
Just add bats!
The election of Donald Trump temporarily routed the steady advances of meteorological Marxism, and the weather cultists were getting desperate. Then nature – aided and abetted by the bizarre bat-focused gastronomic obsessions of the Chinese communists – delivered them another body blow in the form of the Wuhan Flu.
One thing the pandemic has taught us is that human nature does not cease when you throw on a white lab coat. Chinese scientists, at best, obediently covered up the disease just as their ChiCom cadres commanded. Whether this was because of Peking-tilted patriotism, or simply because they did not want their names added to an involuntary organ donor list, is irrelevant. Human beings don’t stop being human beings simply because they get a STEM degree. If these biologists are susceptible to outside influence, might not the climatologists?
Then there were the models. America was supposed to suffer 2 million dead, yet as of this writing we are at less than 3% of that number. How ironic – the scientists are about 97% off, with 97% being (coincidentally) the number of scientists who we keep hearing are supposedly all aboard with the radical climate scam agenda.
We destroyed our economy by listening to these people, and one would imagine we might see some humility in light of their devastating failure. Instead, we got zero apologies and infinite arrogance directed at people begging to be allowed to go back to work for the selfish purpose of feeding their families.
We've just lived through the Bud Light version of the economic disaster that they demand we submit to in order to tweak the weather a century hence. It’s one thing to virtue signal a willingness to accept economic sacrifices to the goddess Gaia that, at some level, no one really believes these people would ever actually impose upon us. It’s another thing to be trapped in your house without a paycheck.
No sacrifice is too great for Mother Gaia.
We have seen that their models are a joke. They can’t predict tomorrow’s flu tally, and yet we should blindly accept their models about the weather in a hundred years? That’s a hard sell.
The Chinese coronavirus has opened our eyes. “Denying science” is not the denial of the concept of science, but the denial of science as revealed truth and political blunt instrument. Science is a method, not a sacrament, and we’ve seen that scientists are subject to human foibles like fear, corruption and incompetence. They can and do get it wrong. So, when it comes to the climate in the year 2120, well, we’ll roll the dice.
CO2 was never a dangerous pollutant.
The Sun is what determines the temperature of Earth.
From an old POPULAR SCIENCE magazine...
POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
It’s not a casualty, they don’t need it anymore. Getting people to panic over a virus does everything they wanted climate to do.
Science doesn’t matter to climate hoaxers. They will continue to pursue their red communist agenda wrapped in a green garment.
As usual, Kurt nails the leftist issue to the wall.
Last response was to the headline. Article says the same thing I did, LOL.
We are now 20% thru the 100 year concern of climate change.
After hyperventilating over horrors a hundred years hence, we’ve seen a 20 year rise of ...
0.5°C & 0.5”.
That’s it.
Statistical noise, changes we see in minutes daily.
“Imagine your luck if you stumbled onto a crisis where the only way out was to eschew debate and deliberation and simply give you everything you ever wanted.“
Folks will never ever abandon climate change hysteria. Erroneous covid19 models aren’t going to sway the faithful.
In high school biology class (1960’s) we were taught that CO2 was the essential ingredient for life on earth. I’m guessing that they don’t teach that anymore.
Yup -agree, Our sun seems left out of the discussion. Has it been overlooked?
Do the models adjust for Solar cycles? Do we even know with any accuracy what past solar radiation levels were? Either total energy or intensity of ionizing radiation patterns?
I guess we have to get old Sol to sign the Paris treaty, too
There are many groups that like the virus and its shut down. Climate people are one such group. The list of pro lock down evangelists include:
Climate evangelists say that as long as we stay in our houses there is less pollution caused by cars, planes and factories.
Vegans and Peta are hoping for the meat supply to be limited by few workers or workers with the virus. They also like that Horse racing, and other animal related industries are closed.
Naturalists love that beeches and parks are closed. The fact that people are trapped in their homes. While parks and camp grounds are closed to supposedly help nature.
Government workers who are often not working or working from home. But still get their paychecks.
Government pensioners who get their annuity checks regardless of the stock market.
Politicians who pray on people of color. People of color politicians love that the virus effects them more so they can pound on the government. Even though the reasons change depending on the group. Africans in Chicago and Detroit seem to have ignored the shut down and go out to visit continually. Chinese communities spread the virus first because of their connections to China. And Hispanics typically live in group homes, with large multi generational families. Poverty does not seem to have any affect on the virus. Many wealthy neighborhoods got the virus first because of the travel, commutes and students. But wealthy communities have locked down better.
My favorite scam was ‘peak oil’... mother earf would be out of oil by 2000... I fell for that one for a while.
The weak link is not with scientist or science in general. It is with those who popularize a super simple version of science in order to promote their agenda—and the pseudo scientists that such people promote as the face of science.
My dad was so worried that he pulled the 6 out of his Malibu and put a 396 in!
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