There was evidence, he insisted, “that the Earth is warming by an amount which is too large to be a chance fluctuation and the similarity of the warming to that expected from the greenhouse effect represents a very strong case.”
And yet 38 years later, there’s been no climate catastrophe.
Reality hasn’t slowed the flood of lies, though. Let’s take a look at a few.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee reflexively blamed his state’s wildfires on climate change. Soon thereafter, a man was arrested in connection with one of the three fires burning through Spokane County and has been questioned in arson investigations into other fires. And as our friends at Power Line have noted, wildfire damage in terms of acres burned peaked nearly a century ago and, in fact, is down more than 80%.
NPR wants Americans to believe “climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break,” which has become “increasingly dangerous through heat, wildfire smoke, floods, and storms.” Retired meteorologist Anthony Watts says “the premise is false, ridiculous even,” with NPR relying “almost entirely on anecdotes rather than evidence.”
“What has changed is not that summer suddenly became dangerous. What has changed is the media’s insistence on framing ordinary weather challenges as catastrophic symptoms of dangerous climate change.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who is responsible for the migrant invasion from Morocco, swears that “climate change kills.” And not just people, but also “our ecosystem, our biodiversity” as well as “the things we as a society hold dear – our houses, our businesses, our livestock.” And where is the evidence? He offered none because there isn’t any. Why do voters in Western nations keep putting loons in office?
The BBC, yes, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation, reported last fall that Australia’s “Great Barrier Reef is headed for a ‘grim future‘ and could suffer a ‘rapid coral decline’ by 2050″ due to global warming. The statistics, however, show that the experts have been telling “us a fairy tale.” Over the more than 20 million years it has existed, the Great Barrier Reef has endured much warmer and far colder temperatures than today.
In a story about a report that should have been ignored, the BBC has also screeched that “climate change is slowing Earth’s spin – and there’s nothing quite like it in 3.6 million years.” We’re supposed to believe that water from polar ice sheet and glacier melting caused by human-caused global warming flows into the oceans and spreads toward the equator, shifting “mass away from Earth’s poles,” slowing the rotation.
“Sounds pretty bad, right?” asks meteorologist Chris Martz. “Well, it’s only by 1.33 milliseconds per century (and the article mentions that if you read beyond the headline), but Earth’s rotation speed has never been constant. In fact, it has steadily been gradually slowing for over 4 billion years because of frictional effects between the Earth and moon.
“For the planet’s rotation to slow by one whole second, it would take more than 75,000 years. So, this is just noise. It is biologically and technologically insignificant on time scales relevant to us.”
The above is a light sampling of the nonsense that the warming ideologues continue to yak up. Eventually we’ll be able to ignore their quackery as more and more realize they can’t be trusted. Until then, we’ll have to keep pointing out their whoppers.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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