Al Gore’s claim, drawn from climate “science,” that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013 stands as a glowing symbol of the absurdity of climate change. Is there any other scientific discipline that makes false predictions 99% of the time?..
Just asking....
When this deception started it was called 'Global Warming'. We were all going to be dead by the year 2000. Cities would be flooded. But then the world temperatures stopped rising.
That is when they decided to rename the crisis as 'Climate Change'. Since the climate is always changing, they wouldn't have to suffer any more embarrassment.
The goal posts move and move and move. It is always said that the 'tipping point' is 10 years away. If we don't drastically change our lifestyle within 10 years, it won't matter what we do. It will be too late.
Then after 10 years go by, they move the tipping point 10 years further forward.
Before Global Warming, it was all about 'renewable resources'. That was the theory that we are running out of fossil fuels. Everybody was thinking that one day would come when all the oil fields would dry up, and then everybody was going to die because farms couldn't run their tractors or transport their food.
Scientific American ran an article that speculated that 50% of the Earth's oil was already used up. And at the ever-accelerating rates of usage as China's economy powered up, we were all doomed because of our insatiable greed.
Well of course, that was bunk. Of course we pump out all the easiest oil first. As those easy oil fields run try, we go after the next-hardest one. The price rises gradually. As the price goes up, eventually people start looking at alternatives.
But now back to Global Warming or Climate Change. If 50% of the world's oil was gone in the 1980's, then there is an upper limit to how much carbon we can put in the air, isn't there? Shouldn't we be running out by now?
Or maybe it is all pure horseshit.
Sorry, fren, but you're wrong about that. You didn't go back far enough. I'm old enough to remember when it began as Global Cooling back in the early 1970s. As a kid, we were warned about the coming ice age. It wasn't until the actual data didn't pan out that it flipped to Global Warming. When people started to catch on that the data for Global Warming wasn't panning out, either, then they flipped to the more neutral Climate Change moniker, which was a smart plan on their part. With the term "Climate Change," you've got all of the bases covered and can claim anything you want at that point.
From there they created "Climate Change Deniers" in which I guess I'm included. Not because I don't believe in climate change, but because I don't believe the lie that man is the biggest contributor to it.