I was going to post this as a comment in yesterday’s classic rant, but I think it deserves an entry of its own:
The thing is, there is climate change happening, and it is almost
certainly man-made, and it almost certainly will have repercussions, and
these repercussions will need to be dealt with. But the fucking stupid
thing is when people take certain ecological activists (who are
increasingly being proven wrong, by the way) as being Irrefutable
Prophets, and then try to push extreme and radical agendas based on
their warnings of doom.
This only leads to most people either becoming actively opposed to
the whole notion of doing things about climate change, conservationism
etc because they see it as a threat(which indeed, if people like the
ones in my article were allowed to set policy, it certainly WOULD be a
threat to most people’s lives), or become hopeless and apathetic, not
bothering to do anything because “those ‘scientists’ said that in 2
years 89% of all the world’s species will die, so what does it matter if
I waste electricity.. its too late anyways”
They’re doing more harm than good on every level. And they’ve been
wrong over and over again; its not that the science is wrong, about
there being climate change, but the predictions made by these
eco-radicals have been consistently wrong. Let’s look at a few:
In 1995, Ross Gelbspan predicted that by 2010 there would be 200
million “Climate refugees”, forces to abandon their homes due to global
warming.
About 10 years later, the UN made a slightly less extreme
claim of 50 million climate refugees by 2010, and then when that
prediction didn’t come true they
tried to erase the evidence that they’d ever made it.
Back in 1997, Al Gore predicted (with his usual smugness) that there
would be a massive increase of storm activity and more severe winds
from “El Nino” which was going out of control because of climate change.
He was wrong. The El Nino of 97/98 turned out to be the strongest to
date.
In 1999, you might recall that Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of Queensland
University claimed that due to global warming the Great Barrier Reef
would die within as short a time as a few months! He repeated the claim
in 2006, and then again in 2007, each time stating that it could be as
little as a few months before the reef died. In fact, the Global Coral
Reef Monitoring Network has stated that global warming has done no
damage to the reef, and its still very much alive in 2012.
In 2000, british environmentalist Dr. David Viners claimed that by
2010 English schoolchildren “aren’t going to know what snow is”
firsthand as subzero winter snows would cease in the UK. The last few
years have in fact produce bitterly cold winters in the UK and most of
europe, with plenty of snow.
In his Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claimed that within the next
decade from the film there would be a huge increase in hurricane
activity. While its true that there have been changes to hurricane
activity in the last few years, including some strong hurricanes, there
has been no actual increase in the overall volume of hurricane activity.
Overall global hurricane energy is actually at its lowest level since
the 1970s.
In 2004 the WWF (world wildlife fund) claimed that by 2012 polar
bears would have ceased to reproduce in the Hudson Bay area. That hasn’t
happened, they’re still going at it up there.
In 2007 professional climate alarmist David Jones claimed that
Australia was doomed to permanent drought and that every single
Australian city was about to run out of water, and that the
Murray-Darling basin (Australia’s largest irrigation system) would go
dry in a matter of years; Tim Flannery repeated the claim stating that
Adelaide would be completely out of water by 2009, and that Perth would
have to be completely abandoned very shortly. As of last year, not a
single major Australian city is in any danger of running out of water,
there were ample floods in 2011, and the basin is operating at about 87%
capacity.
In april 2008, Canadian climate-activists (including Dr. David
Barber, and quoted by famous Professional Climate Activist David Suzuki)
claimed that that same summer the North Pole would completely melt. In
fact, in 2008 the arctic ice cover increased somewhat since 2007. When
it proved not to happen, Barber amended his prediction to state that
the north pole would be ice-free by no later than 2014. While it is
incontrovertibly true that climate change has affected the ice of the
north pole, there hasn’t been a single ice-free year in the north pole
between then and now and it seems extremely unlikely that there will be
this year or next.
An innumerable legion of climate change lobbyists have claimed that
“this year will be the hottest year on record” in 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. They have
been wrong every time, as the current record for global temperature
continues to be held by 1998.
So again, I don’t think Climate Change is a “myth”; I do think its
absolutely being hijacked (and ironically leading to a public rejection
of the very notion) by a group of radicals with a Back to the Cave
agenda of fake “sustainability” who have no qualms whatsoever about
masking their ridiculous and very unscientific predictions in the
respectable facade of science in order to try to get their agendas
through, in the effort to sabotage the notion that we can look at things
rationally and apply solutions that involve innovation and
scientific/technological development to dealing with the difficulties of
climate change, rather than carbon-footprint ponzi-schemes and
repressive social engineering.
RPGPundit
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(originally posted January 18, 2013; on the old blog)
