The Climate Alarmists Have Won

Andrew Atkin:

30 years is a long time to beat a drum - hard. And when you hammer people long enough, hard enough, they start to crack. Now, apparently, most of us believe in the idea of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, in spite of the serious opposition to the alarmist position that most people have hardly even heard - or forgotten.

We are now at a point where it's all downwind sailing for the alarmist machine. They really can't go too wrong from here on in. They've created an entire generation of youth who take the scare seriously and believe their days on earth might be numbered. The global cult is born.

But anyway, I will say some basic things that most people will never hear about or ever independently ponder.

1. Climate always changes - like the wind, it's in a constant state of change.

The climate not changing is what would be freaky. Hence, pointing to any given point of climatic change proves nothing but business as usual, in itself. But of course the alarmist machine does not want people thinking like that. They want people to see any observed climate change as evidence of the encroaching apocalypse.

Well done to them. Most have bought it.

2. There is a 97% consensus that scientists agree that human caused CO2 emissions drives warming.

There has never been disagreement on the idea that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and putting more of it in the atmosphere will induce at least some increase in warming. The real question, is whether or not it will be positive, negative, or too trivial to be of concern.

There is no evidence that CO2 is a concerning forcer of global warming. Though there is irrefutable evidence that CO2 has promoted about 20% more plant growth, and higher agrarian yields.

CO2 is plant food - not pollution.

But, you assumed that the scientific consensus was on the idea of a warming apocalypse, right? So did I, once upon a time. Well done again to the alarmist machine. They win.

3. Science is based on measurement - and reason. Predicting the climatic future demands that we develop accurate models of the future climate. It's the only way we can make predictions with any credibility.

All our climate models have thus far failed. So we do not have the measuring stick (yet) to discern the far-reaching impact of CO2 emissions.

Never fear. Just go back to the [extremely dodgy] 97% consensus. End of conversation, right? I mean who are you to question the thousands of scientists on their demonstrated inability to make the most basic measurements on our future climate?

4. A skeptic is not a cynic. A skeptic is a person who has an agenda to objectively test an assertion. A cynic is a person who has an agenda to discredit it. In a perfect world we should all be skeptics. Open-minded, impartial, curious and steadfastly objective.

The alarmist machine has done everything it can to demonise skeptics, to effectively make them look like childish cynics.

Well done. The demonisation programme has largely worked. Many intelligent men and woman are now quite afraid to express the "wrong" opinion on climate change. The alarmist machine has won the culture war. And indeed, that is when you know it's pretty much game over. Even New Zealand's get-to-the-facts ACT party is afraid of questioning climate alarmism now.

5. We have steadily grown a world of political and commercial interests that lean on 'fighting climate change' to signal virtue and sell products. The commercial world is now a powerful and devout ally. They will push the alarmist line when it suits them, and they will not even care if it's real or not. Money--and only money--talks in business.

The greatest beneficiaries to climate alarmism are the oil and gas industries. Their first choice is not to dig up more hydrocarbons to sell, but to restrict the supply and then sell existing stock at sky-high prices, and then reinvest their returns in...whatever (it doesn't matter). The oil and gas industries are in fact the alarmist-machine's greatest unholy ally.

And you thought the oil industry was the enemy, right? You forgot the supply / demand / price function.

Conclusion:

It really is sad to suppress CO2 emissions. It's been doing so much good for a planet on a starvation-diet of CO2, as compared to historic times. In fact, we need about 4x the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from what we have now, to give the optimum for plant growth.

The alarmists have won. CO2 output will go down, fuel will become terribly expensive, economic development will be hampered, and it's a tragedy. It all happened because the media--I call them "the ministry of truth and virtue"--is loaded with an in-group of new-age Alarmists and Leftists of limited intelligence and curiously, though desperate for a purpose. They found that purpose in saving the world.

The facts don't matter now. The fact that there has been no real sea rise, that polar bears are doing well, that there's been no appreciable global warming at all, the fact that the plants haven't been happier in a long time, and the fact that the climate models still don't work....well, it all doesn't matter. Perception is politics and the mainstream media has got that base covered. The alarmists have won.

Video below: Further argument for evil bigots and Nazi's. Apparently it's a hoax? The problem is some of us don't just accept science - we understand it. That is why we are concerned. We know what a real hoax looks like.

If the only thing the powers-that-be need to do is cry "Consensus!" to win over public opinion, then we are in a very dangerous place.