This article caught my attention because of the NASA tag. It is interesting, aggravating, and all-too-typical of such stories propagated by our “news” media:
NASA: Pacific Islands Face Unstoppable Sea Rise, Regardless of Emissions
Among other things, the article asserts:
“This increase is expected to occur regardless of changes in greenhouse gas emissions during this period.”
Wait a minute. You mean that after all these years/decades of pouring money into the EPA, environmental regulation, and latter-day trillion-dollar boondoggles like the Green New Deal (oops, excuse me, the Inflation Reduction Act), we have accomplished… nothing of consequence that will actually improve or even influence the whims of global climate dynamics? That’s definitely interesting, even if not particularly surprising.
Then the aggravating part, as there is a noticeable shift from fact-based reporting, to an emotional appeal, to an irrational conclusion:
“Climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is about justice, survival for nations like Tuvalu, and global responsibility.”
Horse puckey. Newsweek ostensibly has the ability to gather facts and report them. They should just do that. It’s not that I believe sentiments like those expressed here are invalid, necessarily, but they should be balanced with the other side of the story, with a different perspective, with countering opinions, facts, and even feelings.
But no, Newsweek won’t do that. After all, to report objectively or with fairness on climate change would be blasphemy against the orthodoxy of the high priests of Holy Climatology. Does Newsweek know that they are members of a cult? I’m not sure, but their ongoing promotion of unscientific “science” and anti-reason “reasoning” makes me think they do. After all, cult members typically deny that their Blessed Organization is a cult in the first place.
The only thing you can say for sure about our response(s) to Global Cooling (1970s), Global Warming (1990s), and Climate Change (current) is that they have been utterly ineffective. Not all efforts have been fruitless; I think it’s a good thing that we have reduced greenhouse gas emissions, cleaned up some of our dirtier technologies, and made the environment safer and cleaner than it otherwise would have been. Should we continue to try to improve upon adverse impacts of the modern world on the environment? Of course.
But mitigating climate change? Nope, hasn’t happened to any measurable extent, and if you’ve paid attention to climate science and ignored the religious aspects of it, to no one’s surprise. There has never been any evidence suggesting that mankind can affect global climate. There are forces of extraordinary scale at play that we are only starting to understand. There are things we do know to a reasonable degree of certainty:
- The Earth’s climate is driven primarily by temperature and water (from vapor to liquid, and to a small extent, solid/ice)
- Fluctuations in the sun’s energy output affect the Earth’s overall temperature, which in turn impacts the temperature of the oceans
- As the oceans absorb more heat from the sun, changes in water density and circulation patterns occur
You can’t change such things with philosophies, laws, and spending programs. You could remove all of humanity from the face of the Earth, and still, the climate will change, and not in a predictable way. The climate is going to change regardless of legislation, and regardless of billions upon billions of dollars being spent on efforts that have no real intention of fixing any climate “problems.”
If a politician is championing it, don’t fall for it. These initiatives have gone far beyond stewardship and care of the environment and have instead become bald-faced money and power grabs by power-addicted leader who should — and I presume do — know better.
Do not support them or their wasteful, corrupt endeavors, or the news media that are acolytes in their self-aggrandizing church. They want your money, and they want control of your life to further their own greedy self-interests. They do not have our country’s, or our citizenry’s rational best interests in mind. They claim to offer us salvation, but they deliver only a broken system rife with corruption.
The Best Response to Climate Change is… NOTHING involving Politicians. Or Newsweek.
This article caught my attention because of the NASA tag. It is interesting, aggravating, and all-too-typical of such stories propagated by our “news” media:
NASA: Pacific Islands Face Unstoppable Sea Rise, Regardless of Emissions
Among other things, the article asserts:
“This increase is expected to occur regardless of changes in greenhouse gas emissions during this period.”
Wait a minute. You mean that after all these years/decades of pouring money into the EPA, environmental regulation, and latter-day trillion-dollar boondoggles like the Green New Deal (oops, excuse me, the Inflation Reduction Act), we have accomplished… nothing of consequence that will actually improve or even influence the whims of global climate dynamics? That’s definitely interesting, even if not particularly surprising.
Then the aggravating part, as there is a noticeable shift from fact-based reporting, to an emotional appeal, to an irrational conclusion:
“Climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is about justice, survival for nations like Tuvalu, and global responsibility.”
Horse puckey. Newsweek ostensibly has the ability to gather facts and report them. They should just do that. It’s not that I believe sentiments like those expressed here are invalid, necessarily, but they should be balanced with the other side of the story, with a different perspective, with countering opinions, facts, and even feelings.
But no, Newsweek won’t do that. After all, to report objectively or with fairness on climate change would be blasphemy against the orthodoxy of the high priests of Holy Climatology. Does Newsweek know that they are members of a cult? I’m not sure, but their ongoing promotion of unscientific “science” and anti-reason “reasoning” makes me think they do. After all, cult members typically deny that their Blessed Organization is a cult in the first place.
The only thing you can say for sure about our response(s) to Global Cooling (1970s), Global Warming (1990s), and Climate Change (current) is that they have been utterly ineffective. Not all efforts have been fruitless; I think it’s a good thing that we have reduced greenhouse gas emissions, cleaned up some of our dirtier technologies, and made the environment safer and cleaner than it otherwise would have been. Should we continue to try to improve upon adverse impacts of the modern world on the environment? Of course.
But mitigating climate change? Nope, hasn’t happened to any measurable extent, and if you’ve paid attention to climate science and ignored the religious aspects of it, to no one’s surprise. There has never been any evidence suggesting that mankind can affect global climate. There are forces of extraordinary scale at play that we are only starting to understand. There are things we do know to a reasonable degree of certainty:
You can’t change such things with philosophies, laws, and spending programs. You could remove all of humanity from the face of the Earth, and still, the climate will change, and not in a predictable way. The climate is going to change regardless of legislation, and regardless of billions upon billions of dollars being spent on efforts that have no real intention of fixing any climate “problems.”
If a politician is championing it, don’t fall for it. These initiatives have gone far beyond stewardship and care of the environment and have instead become bald-faced money and power grabs by power-addicted leader who should — and I presume do — know better.
Do not support them or their wasteful, corrupt endeavors, or the news media that are acolytes in their self-aggrandizing church. They want your money, and they want control of your life to further their own greedy self-interests. They do not have our country’s, or our citizenry’s rational best interests in mind. They claim to offer us salvation, but they deliver only a broken system rife with corruption.