The cure for
the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L.
Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
The intent of the
blog post this week was to focus on the nature of what is driving the current
policy debate on ‘climate change’. The discussion was going to center upon the
fact that a UN report on the scientific data behind global warming released in
September indicated that global surface temperatures have not increased for the
past 15 years, but scientists who believe climate change due to man is occurring
say it has merely paused because of several factors and will soon resume.
In other words, what
was once called global warming has been changed by political necessity to the
new term ‘climate change’, so that any negative weather event can be ascribed
to mans’ damaging of the planet.
However, an
intriguing event this past week has necessitated a change in the blogs’ focus.
Dr. Patrick Moore,
who was a co-founder of Greenpeace testified this week in Washington on the
fact that there is indeed no true science in what the Obama administration is
now terming the greatest weapon of mass destruction, the aforementioned
‘climate change’.
Dr. Moore left
Greenpeace when, as he describes, the organization made the conscious decision
to move to the political left in an attempt to help drive its own agenda.
The Madison
Conservative herein presents an abbreviated list of comments made by Dr. Moore
during his appearance before the Senate committee.
There is a link at he
bottom of the post for those who wish to read the entire presentation. It is
fascinating reading.
Selected Highlights
of Dr. Patrick Moore’s Feb. 25, 2014 testimony before the Senate Environment
and Public Works Committee
“Today,
we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is
no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for
humans and the majority of other species. There is ample reason to believe that
a sharp cooling of the climate would bring disastrous results for human
civilization.
Humans are a tropical species. We
evolved at the equator in a climate where freezing weather did not exist. The
only reasons we can survive these cold climates are fire, clothing, and
housing…It is “extremely likely” that a warmer temperature than today’s would be
far better than a cooler one.
Earth’s Geologic
History Fails CO2 Fears: ‘When modern life evolved over 500 million years ago, CO2
was more than 10 times higher than today, yet life flourished at this time.
Then an Ice Age occurred 450 million years ago when CO2 was 10 times
higher than today. There is some correlation, but little evidence, to
support a direct causal relationship between CO2 and global temperature through
the millennia. The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at
a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today
fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the
main cause of global warming.’
On UN IPCC’s 95% confidence in man-made
global warming: ‘Extremely likely’ is not a scientific term but rather a
judgment, as in a court of law. The IPCC defines “extremely likely” as a
“95-100% probability”. But upon further examination it is clear that these
numbers are not the result of any mathematical calculation or statistical analysis.
They have been “invented” as a construct within the IPCC report to express
“expert judgment”, as determined by the IPCC contributors.
Why does the IPCC believe that a
virtually identical increase in temperature after 1950 is caused mainly by
“human influence”, when it has no explanation for the nearly identical increase
from 1910-1940?
What we do know with “extreme
certainty” is that the climate is always changing, between pauses, and that we
are not capable, with our limited knowledge, of predicting which way it will go
next.”
It is a rather lengthy read, but for
those concerned about the farce that is this administration’s policies on
‘climate change’, here is the link to the entirety of Dr. Moore’s testimony:
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