Actually, Spark....well over 90% of scientists schooled in Climate Science agree that climate change is accelerating at an alarming pace. (FACT)
But you don't have any kids, so WTF do you care?
The climate change people have adopted the alarmist method of getting what they want, as pioneered by Paul Erlich in the book
"The Population Bomb". Absolutely every single thing predicted in this book - like 100's of millions to billions of people starving to death by the mid-70's, widespread revolutions and strife over food, and the eventual depopulation of the earth to a "sustainable" level - was absurdly wrong. This was predicted to be *mathematically certain*, proven to metaphysical certitude, and "unavoidable", with extensive math to "prove" it.
I am sure you recall all of that happening, right?
The fact that it was bullshit from start to finish didn't stop the guy from making lots of money, going on Johnny Carson, selling millions of copies of his book, and becoming a celebrity. Of course, the solution, when it was over, was a all-powerful world governement to manage our limited resources, and the aforementioned "breeding like rabbits", which is as clear as it could possibly get about how it was to make sure the "right" people were allowed to reproduce and the "wrong" people should be controlled. The Nazis just *whispered* about that level of racist/eugenics, this was a best-selling book about it, in the United States of America, in 1969!
So, the predictions and the "proven facts" from
The Population Bomb were utterly worthless. The death rate due to starvation was cut in half over the time (1969 to 1977) he had predicted a billion people dying and widespread revolution, and continues to fall. The issue of starvation is a political issue - we can produce enough to feed the world 10 times over, but some benighted areas refuse or cannot permit this from being distributed, or are intentionally starving out political rivals. It has been noted that where there was a democracy and a free press, there has never been a case where widespread starvation occurred.
But the tactics of hysteria were very successful - and later adopted by the "environmental movement", basically a bunch of know-nothing hippies and bored housewives with absolutely no knowledge of any scientific topic, the less educated/more stupid you are, the more violently activist. This was adopted by the "global ice age" people, to the point that some fringe environmental groups were caught trying to develop a pathogen that killed only human beings, in order to save the planet from the human scourge.
Of course, this all works perfectly for leftists/globalists/socialists/communists, because if you can convince people that "world action" is required, it takes very little extra effort to convince them to adopt a world government to enforce these policies on all those teeming masses that don't know what is good for them.
Now you have the global warming crew, who have adopted the alarmist philosophy to the hilt for political purposes. Al Gore is a failed politician with absolutely no knowledge or training in any technical topic, but comes up with one dire prediction of doom after another, each one even more extreme, as he notes that no real action towards a world government is being taken. He flies around in his private jets, spewing CO2, Nitrogen Dioxide, etc, into the atmosphere to lecture people on how they need to make severe sacrifices to their lifestyles to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, and has enlisted a legion of dimwitted celebrities (like Leonardo DiCaprio, who is by all acounts a moron even by Hollywood standards, which are very low to begin with) to do the same. And dimwitted politicians like AOC, for whom no hysterical prediction is too far-fetched. We are all dead in 12 years, I heard, better spend my retirement money quick. And now Rich Peabody.
The same failed predictions have happened over and over, and - just like Erlich continues to do today - they never admit to them. Now, they go "adjust" the models, until they can "retro-predict" what actually happened, but never examine why it failed, because they cannot admit it was failed at all. This is called refining their models to better predict the impending doom. They have been caught time and again "adjusting" the data itself, causing some of the actual scientists to say enough is enough, but the "true believers" to reject any contrary information as "denialism" and suggest that anyone that doesn't go along be put in jail. Quite the scientific method, there, huh?
Note that no matter what the dire crisis might be, the solution is to redistribute wealth from the rich countries to the poor, lower the average standard of living as a "sacrifice" to the cause, and to create a all-pervasive and powerful central government, run by elite masterminds, to exert iron-fisted control on the mass of the world population. None of that actually has any useful effect on reducing CO2 emissions, as a matter of fact, all of the "international agreements" imposes draconian restrictions on the Western world that was already working effectively on the issue of pollution in general, and leaves the "developing world" completely unaffected.
It's all a very transparent scam that has been adopted and vehemently defended because is serve the ends of totalitarianism.
Bottom line is that there is nothing more fundamentally unscientific than saying "the science is settled" an attempting to shout down any further discussion. But it *is* a very fundamental feature to leftist activism - scream at people, dismiss them while calling them names, and shout them down until you get your way.
Brett
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