Where The Sun Don’t Shine: Climate Alarmists’ Thinking
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/08/20/where-the-sun-dont-shine-climate-alarmists-thinking/
We’re building,” reads the headline of an op-ed written by Sen. Bernie Sanders for the British Guardian, “Congress’ strongest-ever climate bill.” Why? “Because the planet is in peril.” If so, it’s not because of human greenhouse gas production, says one group of researchers.
But scientific findings are no deterrent to predatory politicians. Backed by nothing more than a bloated certitude, the Vermont socialist declares “the planet will face enormous and irreversible damage” if “the United States, China and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively to cut carbon emissions.”
Man-made carbon dioxide emissions – the political left’s go-to whipping boy. Human CO2 emissions, in the febrile minds of Sanders and other members of the climate doomsday cult, is responsible for a nearly uncountable number of ills: hotter temperatures, more potent storms, wildfires, melting ice caps and glaciers, armed conflict, migration, poverty, famine, drought, floods, species extinction, weeds, pests … and a host of conditions and events so absurd no half-rational person would ever think of them.
Virulent though it might be, Trump Derangement Syndrome is hardly the mental health menace that Carbon Obsession Disorder has been for decades
Occasionally alarmists will point out that methane is a greenhouse gas. Yet their fixation has long been on CO2. But let’s be clear: Other factors impact climate and temperature, and few can match the power of the sun (which Democrats should be confident in, since they worship at the altar of the solar panel). According to the researchers who recently published a peer-reviewed paper in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, whose value we’ve assessed, “is grounded in narrow and incomplete data about the sun’s total solar irradiance.”
Using different datasets than those cited by the IPCC – which chooses its datasets based on their potential to ratchet up fear – the authors concluded “that the global temperature changes since the mid-19th century have been mostly due to natural cycles, chiefly long-term changes in the energy emitted by the sun.”
One of the authors, Richard C. Willson, a NASA science team leader, says straight out that our “climate is determined primarily by the radiation” produced by the sun. He also clears up some of the misconceptions the alarmists have been spreading.
“Contrary to the findings of the IPCC,” he says, “scientific observations in recent decades have demonstrated that there is no ‘climate change crisis.’ The concept that’s devolved into the failed CO2 anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) hypothesis is based on the flawed predictions of imprecise 1980s vintage global circulation models that have failed to match observational data both since and prior to their fabrication.”
Of course we’ve seen the claims that the sun can’t possibly be causing the planet to warm because the solar energy that’s been reaching us has been less intense over recent decades. So who is correct? The carbon-phobes? Or the scientists who believe the sun continues to affect our climate and are no less reliable than the IPCC researchers ?
The conclusion we can’t escape is that climate science, like all other science, is not settled, and to argue it is is downright unscientific. But as Ronan Connolly, the study’s lead author, says, “having a consensus view” that man’s CO2 emissions are causing harm “makes things easier for politicians.”
Which is why the Green New Dealers can disgorge “Congress’ strongest-ever climate bill,” and never have to pay politically or personally for the damage they do to the economy and our fought-for liberty. Until more Westerners catch on to the left’s “science” game, Sanders and his axis of alarmists will keep taking us down their dark road.
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