Fear rakes in big money. In 2013 a study found that alarmist environmental groups were worth an average of $1.5M each. That’s more than $20B total.
Nichols, N. 2013, “the tax exemption rip-off.” Townhall (website). October 1, 2013.
Beryl is not the strongest hurricane on record in June. NHC downgraded Audrey from a 4 to a 3, but Audrey had a lower pressure at 947 MB. we have to be objective and if one argues that 958 MB by recon means 130mph winds, same kind of recon scrutiny at 947 could have done it too
I have never accepted that the storm 60 years later deserved a downgrade and at the time I opined such a move would leave us open for what we are seeing now with claims Beryl is stronger.
Some of the top climate modelers have admitted that they adjust their models to provide predictions that fit the mainstream climate narrative for popularity and grant funding.
.@pewresearch says Americans are souring on wind and solar, despite the federal government artificially boosting them to the detriment of reliable power sources. https://t.co/88BI3xDaQv
If CO2 is driving temperatures higher then why was their a pause in warming between 1998 and 2012? Even the IPCC admits that the temperatures didn’t rise in that period.
When asked directly, a majority of scientists admit that most warming the earth has seen since the little ice age is natural.
Kummer, L. 2015. “The 97% consensus of climate scientists is only 47%.” Fabius Maximus (website). https://t.co/6P9zIv8Tpv.
@tmallard@Worsel66@GeraldKutney A doubling of atmospheric CO2 would change the ocean’s pH level less than its natural variability already is. It’s not a major concern. The current CO2 levels are below the historic average for the planet.
@GeraldKutney How about a real perspective? The amount of confirmed natural CO2 is more than 33X that. Total CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere and manmade CO2 .00012%. An additional note of importance is that CO2 levels are currently below earth’s average. Historically they’ve been much higher
Voosen, P. 2016 “ClimateScientists Open Up Their Black Boxes to Scrutiny” Science 354: 401-2
Hourdin et al. 2017 “The Art of Science and Climate Model Tuning” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (3): 589-602
@GeraldKutney How many must Malthusians cultists be allowed to kill before the media realizes that decarbonization is just their latest tool to reduce what they deem to be undesirable populations.
Alarmists assert that higher CO2 levels will melt the polar ice caps. But did you know that there was a period in Earth’s history with widespread glaciation with CO2 levels were 15X higher than today? CO2 has a weak greenhouse effect.
Graph curtesy of https://t.co/vUdw5lMbK7
This was doubled down in in the Fifth Assessment Report which which increased the range of potential temperature changes to the same level they were using in 1979, in other words no advancements in the predictive science has been made in all the decades since then.
The alarmists regularly claim that their screams of climate crisis is “settled science.” The reality is even the IPCC Third Assessment Report acknowledges “long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”