Re: UNH Hockey: Treading Water or Trending Upward
Glad you are smart enough to ask all those hard questions to figure out the 98% of scientists are full of it. Please share your thoughtful analysis.
'Watcher, I'll make an assumption that you're roughly my age, give or take.
Remember the 1970's "global cooling" scare, complete with "next Ice Age imminent" warnings? I do.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/01/global-cooling-compilation/
As it turned out, that never happened.
Miami and NYC also aren't underwater already, as predicted. Not even close, actually.
I'm also old enough where I can remember most of these epic fails with doomsday predictions …
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/top-10-climate-change-predictions-gone-spectacularly-wrong
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
The whole "98%" thing is also a half-truth, unless you believe that only a hand-picked total of 77 scientists are qualified enough to carry the day at the expense of the rest of the scientific community. Notwithstanding the fact there are at least 31,000 others on the record stating this is all pretty much BS ...
https://soontrending.buzz/2017/11/1...-gore-liar-climate-change-complete-hoax-scam/
I don't know if you're a scientist or not - I know I'm not - but does the liberal, dismissive use of the term "settled science" sit well with you? I've worked with dozens of scientists in my career as part of what I do - even a few meteorologists - and have had a chance to ask them about the term. Try it sometime, if you get a chance. I suspect you'll find their reactions enlightening.
Lastly, I've been blessed to live near the coastline most of my life. Erosion happens. Does climate "change"? Yeah, it does. We just went 12 years without a major hurricane making landfall in the US. That wasn't going to last forever, either. But what I can say is, based on my life experience, reading and talking with others who know more than I do, I don't buy the scenario that there will be catastrophic climate change on a consistent worldwide level anytime soon. I also have serious doubts whether any (minor) changes would be man-made or well beyond our control (sunspot activity, etc.). If it was man-made … pray tell why the folks in charge aren't beating a path to China or India, which are the two biggest "offenders" on the CO2 front, by a BIG margin? Also, is CO2 the key, and what to make of CO2 as being responsible for the greening of the planet? Keep in mind, historic temperatures peaked at around 1,100-1,000 BC, and also spiked (and then fell back) during the Roman Empire and the so-called "Medieval Warming Period" - ALL of these happening well before the advent of fossil fuels.
Hopefully this response is sufficiently "thoughtful", mon ami.
