Some Inconvenient Truths

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I have been interested in man’s interaction with nature, and by extension the natural world my entire life.  In the book – A Flash in Time – I propose an inadvertent action that could end the earth in a flash.  Fiction, I hope!  Let’s look with a skeptical eye toward something always in the news.

Before we drive an anchor into the granite and then chain ourselves to a position, perhaps we should be sure the anchor is placed in a good place.  The anchor in this case is the “settled science” of climate change.

Look folks, anyone who says the climate is not changing is clearly a moron.  The geological records as far back as can be traced show that the climate is always changing.  Always has, and always will.  In these few pages I’d like to present a few ideas that may challenge the ‘settled science.’  On another point, I try not to base my opinions on screeching teenagers or aging hippies blocking the freeway who have never had an original thought, much less a proper education.

1. First and I think foremost, what is the best overall temperature for this rock we call Earth, the temperature that’s the best and most useful for plants and animals riding around on it? The Earth has clearly been warmer, when ferns were 100 feet tall, animals were bigger too.  With higher temps more rain falls, and more rivers provide more fish, and more chance for irrigation of food crops.  Just sayin’ – warmer might be better.  Would the band of warmth where people could live be wider?  Less heat needed in winter?  More animals surviving the cold?
2. What about that evil CO₂ ? Did you know that plants need at least 200 PPM (parts per million) of CO₂  to grow, and at that rate are barely making it?  The current Paris climate goals are pinned to no new CO₂  or net -0- by 2050, so better get your canned green beans well before, ‘cause might not be any after.  Corn for ethanol?  Don’t think so.  Just kidding, China, India, and the rest of the world don’t have a CO₂ suicide pact like we do.  They will continue to produce CO₂ in numbers similar or greater than now.  We (the USA) are the ones taking it in the neck with carbon offsets and closing clean-coal power plants (which China are opening one a week over there).

Also, did you know, based on gas bubbles in 800,000 year old ice that the CO₂  was 113 times higher than now, and O₂  which we need to breathe was 8 times higher?  Yes, they are not exclusive, we can have both.

3. “Climate Science” is not science. The basis of science is to propose a thesis, test it, correct it, and then re-test it.  It becomes a fact when anyone can test the theory and come up with the same result.  So far not one of the now over 455 predictions of climate doom have come true.  There is more Antarctic ice than in the last 5 decades (when reasonable measurements started).  There are not more hurricanes than average.  There is no lack of snow where snow happens, and no lack of rain in the aggerate.  Yes, some years places have no rain, and some have too much snow – we call it weather.
4. There is still no plausible explanation for the Ice Age – a few milli-seconds ago on the Earth’s clock – 14,000 years or so and began winding down 10,000 years ago or so. Where did enough water come from to produce, as noted on a plaque I saw on a tree in Michigan, “If you were standing here 10,000 years ago you would be under 2 ½ miles of ice.”  13,200 feet of frozen water on an ice sheet that nearly reached Tennessee!  England and most of Europe covered as well, as were the oceans all around.  Until a reasonable explanation is brought forward I don’t think I’ll be believing climate hysteria.  Think about it, could it happen again?  Time magazine and climate ‘scientists’ said so in 1970…and yes, they were wrong again.

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In conclusion, we all need to be cognizant of our impact on this Earth.  We should not pollute if we can help it, should not spoil our rivers and lakes.  That said, consider that in my view that God put us here, we have a right to exist, implicant in that is that we have a duty to protect the Earth.

There WILL be another mass extinction event.  It WILL happen.  But the Earth will be here, maybe some will survive, maybe not.  Let’s hope for any survivors it’s a clean place to start over.

Finally, we should never – ever – trust anyone using the phrase “Settled Science.”