I believe in change change: summer, fall, winter, spring. This
climate is changing and always has been, that's nothing new. It goes
through cycles and extremes. For example, a period of unusually warm
weather from about 800 to 1250 was followed by centuries of extreme
cold, known as the little ice age from 1300 to 1850. In 1816 a volcano
eruption was responsible for a year without a summer that resulted in
major food shortages in the northern hemisphere. The ancient city of
Ephesus was once built on the coastline, but is now is five miles
inland. If there's one thing we can learn from history is that (climate)
change is inevitable.
There are things which affect our climate which we have no control over, such as volcanic eruptions and solar activity. We have only been keeping records for 150 years or so, the last 20-30 being the most reliable, and cannot determine what is normal. But what we have gleamed from the past is that climate has always fluctuated and always had extremes. This has led to mass extinctions in the past as well, all without man's intervention.
True science is never settled. We have observed so-called "crises" in the past: a new ice age, acid rain, ozone layer deterioration. Funny how you never hear about those things anymore. Even the term global warming is outdated in favor of "climate change". But there are people who are using climate to push an agenda. Here's what a Soviet disinformation expert had to say:
"Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack
against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment
may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to
undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to
introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting
communist values. -Natalie Grant Wraga"
One of the co-founders of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, has said as much. He left the group because it had been hijacked by radicals to promote a Communist agenda. Green is very much the new red.
I would add that scientists are not perfect. They are human, and like all humans they can be wrong, and their views can be skewed by agendas, ideologies, and group-think. I'll leave you a really good example of this with a quote by Micheal Crichton:
"This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians, and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
I don’t mean global warming. I’m talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago. Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H.G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California.
These efforts had the support of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council. It was said that if Jesus were alive, he would have supported this effort. They were, of course, supporting eugenics. -From: Why Politicized Science is Dangerous, Michael Crichton, 2004."
There are things which affect our climate which we have no control over, such as volcanic eruptions and solar activity. We have only been keeping records for 150 years or so, the last 20-30 being the most reliable, and cannot determine what is normal. But what we have gleamed from the past is that climate has always fluctuated and always had extremes. This has led to mass extinctions in the past as well, all without man's intervention.
True science is never settled. We have observed so-called "crises" in the past: a new ice age, acid rain, ozone layer deterioration. Funny how you never hear about those things anymore. Even the term global warming is outdated in favor of "climate change". But there are people who are using climate to push an agenda. Here's what a Soviet disinformation expert had to say:
"Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack
against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment
may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to
undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to
introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting
communist values. -Natalie Grant Wraga"
One of the co-founders of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, has said as much. He left the group because it had been hijacked by radicals to promote a Communist agenda. Green is very much the new red.
I would add that scientists are not perfect. They are human, and like all humans they can be wrong, and their views can be skewed by agendas, ideologies, and group-think. I'll leave you a really good example of this with a quote by Micheal Crichton:
"This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians, and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
I don’t mean global warming. I’m talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago. Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H.G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California.
These efforts had the support of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council. It was said that if Jesus were alive, he would have supported this effort. They were, of course, supporting eugenics. -From: Why Politicized Science is Dangerous, Michael Crichton, 2004."
