Don’t try to tell me about climate change! I’ve experienced it, up close and personal.
One year I was working in Boston, where the temperature was 18 degrees below freezing—frigid.
I got on a plane to leave and, several hours later, got off in Los Angeles, where the temperature was 72 degrees. Now, that’s climate change—a warming of 58 degrees!
On another occasion, I was vacationing in Florida in January. The temperature was regularly in the 70s and I packed clothing suitable for the warm weather. Unfortunately, the trip was interrupted when I was called upon to handle an emergency: in Cleveland, Ohio of all places. When I arrived in Ohio, it was 10 degrees below freezing and snowing. I didn’t have any kind of winter clothes, only short-sleeved shirts.
Now, that is climate change!
A climate change of a few degrees over the next 100 years? Yawn.
What do you think?
Carl B. Barney
October 22, 2023
Global average temperatures have increased 0.1 degrees Celsius from 2000 to 2020. That means that we are on track for a temperature increase of half a degree Celsius throughout this entire century. It also means that global warming has dramatically slowed down compared to last century, where we sustained an increase of 1.1 degrees Celcius from 1900 to 2000.
It’s all a big whoop when you look at the numbers. Just like the pandemic was a big whoop when you looked at the numbers, and really only affected fat unhealthy people.
Unfortunately, most Americans are barely sentient, so the strategy to save ourselves is to get second residencies and passports in countries that have less of a powerful state apparatus that is incapable of controlling us to the same degree as the US government, and putting our wealth into alternative currencies that can’t be tracked and are decentralized enough to evade state level attacks.
The earth’s climate has been in a 100,000 year cycle through many iterations. We are currently near the 50,000 year interval from the past “deep freeze.” At some point the earth’s climate will “swing” to the cooling phase. In the mean time it will “hunt” for its peak in the cycle. Human activity will likely have very little impact on this basic fact. (Indeed if, (and it’s a big if) “anthropogenic” global warming has any real impact, it is likely to delay the onset of the next cooling period slightly.) After 30 years of Malthusian drama, the claim that increasing CO2 is “causing global warming” is very far from proven. (I recommend viewing the Junkscience.com website for a considerable discussion on this topic, as to the “science” behind the claims.) While I’m, personally, not a scientist, in my business education I studied multiple lineal regression techniques for the study of various (mostly economic) analysis. One key element of a predictive regression calculation is that it give a reasonable reflection of past known measurements. The famous “hockey stick” curve from the IPCC clearly has NEVER given a reasonably close calculation of past known temperatures (e.g. the middle age cold and warm periods). More recent data referenced on the JunkScience web site clearly indicates that the “one to one” relationship between CO2 emissions and global temperature changes does not hold up (as claimed). What Steve Milloy, the owner of JunkScience.com, has noted is that there is a relationship between “global warming” and the ocean currents known as “El Nino” and “La Nina” that involve fluctuations in Pacific Ocean water temperatures that are (1) not well understood by climate scientists and (2) have not been thoroughly studied. (The statistical rule that correlation is not causation also applies to all of this material.) Finally, Alex Epstein in his book, Fossil Future, makes excellent points about the focus of the “problem.” That is, it is not that humans are “ruining” the “pristine” Earth, but rather, humans need to make a hostile environment more suitable for human flourishing.
“Climate change” is mysticism disguised as science.