Looking around on YouTube over the weekend for videos illustrating Michael Nesmith’s career in music, I came across Steve Hayward’s 2014 Hillsdale College lecture titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming.”
Video of the lecture was posted here on YouTube (embedded below).
Steve adapted the title of his lecture from the musical that introduced the comic Roman playwright Plautus to Broadway with a little help from Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart as well as songs by Stephen Sondheim.
An alternative title for Steve’s lecture might take off from the Nick Lowe song made famous by Elvis Costello — “(What’s So Funny ’bout) Peace, Love, and Global Warming?”
Steve’s lecture has now gone over 1,000,000 views. Congratulations are in order. Perhaps even more surprising, it is still available on YouTube, although the authorities have imposed a UN Climate Action link on it.
The points Steve made in 2014 seem to me mostly to apply even more so now. Yesterday I asked Steve if the point he made about the falsification of climate models near the top of his lecture is still accurate.
He responded that his point is “still basically accurate. There have been a few developments since that lecture, but they all tend in the same direction of concluding the climatistas continue to overestimate the future.”
He has promised to append a comment to this post explaining a few of the recent developments.
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The truth is still the same. There is no observed anomalous climate change, when compared to natural cycles seen in the records throughout this interglacial. Which are most detailed this century but were know to science and human history well before that. Ice cores, corals, glacier movements, all confirm the rate, scale and period of natural change well. No significant anomaly is observed in the current cycle. So it isn’t happening. How hard can it be to understand this?
Except each cycle is getting slightly cooler than the last, while the period, range and scale are similar. But these are only the facts of observation, that are now called denial, because we must believe the predictions of modellers based on guesses, assertions that are observably false, but must be believed. This is the “science” that must be followed. Really?