Same here. I lived through the '70's when the pushed global cooling. And WND did an article detailing there were 4 periods in the 20th century were the media pushed either warming or cooling with the common denominator being the new age Original Sin of preferring prosperity over poverty. No matter what the weather is doing, it's man's fault!
"The science is settled," is a political claim that a politician made and is anti-science. I recall in the early 2,000's discussing with an alarmist the fact that since 1998 global temperatures were COOLING and asked what model predicted that? The answer is none. And 2 important implications emerge that are both good news.
- The models used to predict end of life in a century are wrong.
- The evidence doesn't support the conclusion that manmade activity, high life styles, will cause catastrophic global change.
The alarmist's commitment to the cause remained profound, dropping any pretense of scientific approach and resorting to pure scare tactics .... it could still be true and we should still change the basis of the economy. I laughed in his face saying that is politics not science. No response. In my career, I was an expert in modeling and I asked the modeling question no alarmist had the faintest clue on how to answer.
How do you determine the proportion of causal agents? Fact is, the Earth is coming out of one of the lowest CO2 levels over the last 400M years. Of course CO2 levels are rising and history shows when they were the highest and Earth was the warmest during the age of dinosaurs, life was more successful on the planet.
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Later I came across an article that posted the statistics of AGW predictions.
97.8% were wrong. And again, this reveals it is not science for the power in science is its predictive capability. Debunking manmade global warming become one of my hobbies and I gave presentations in different countries about it. Seems the watermelons have moved on to cultural marxism, advocating for uncontrolled mass migration.